Level: 5
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 5,000
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 17 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
1,000
Level
10
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Updated Chip Counts
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Jason Young -- 5,000,000
Mike Schwartz -- 2,400,000
Rory Monahan -- 1,400,000
John Strzemp III -- 1,200,000
Matthew Giannetti Eliminated in Fifth Place ($40,267)
And when Giannetti raises the next hand, he finds a caller in Michael Schwartz. They see a
flop, and Schwartz announces all in. Giannetti dwells up, asks Schwartz whether he has hit a nine (no answer) and then calls.Schwartz:
Giannetti:
Turn:
River:
Schwartz has made a full house, and Giannetti is OUT.
Matt Giannetti Doubles Up
Giannetti:
Schwartz:
Board:
Kyle Bowker Elliminated in Sixth Place ($23,887)
Sergey Rybachenko Elliminated in Seventh Place ($15,697)
After Kyle Bowker had raised to 100,000 preflop, both John Strzemp and Mike Schwartz called from the cutoff and button respectively only for Sergey Rybachenko to push all in from the small blind for what appeared to be circa 300,000.
Back round to Bowker, and after a brief pause, he also announced all in, sliding 673,000 over the line!
Guess what?! After asking for a count of Bowker's stack, Mike Schwartz also shoved his chips into the pot, meaning we had ourselves a gargantuan three-way pot!
Rybachenko =
Bowker =
Schwartz =
Flop =
Turn =
Drum roll please, maestro...
River =
Schwartz takes the lot and eliminates two players in one fell swoop!
It would happen online.
The Fall & Fall of Rybachenko
The biggest hit came courtesy of neighbour Jason Young. With the board reading
, Rybachenko check-raised Young's 55,000 bet to a total of 125,000. Young smooth called.On the
turn, Rybachenko bet out 250,000 and Young insta-called.Then, on the
river, Rybachenko blasted out a 600-700,000 bet which, again, Young insta-called. Rybachenko mucked before even looking at Young's
.Several hands later and it got even worse for the Russian, Mike Schwartz raising it up to 126,000 preflop, Rybachenko calling and Rory Monahan bumping it up to 326,000.
Although tempted, Schwartz eventually folded, only for Rybachenko to make a surprise call.
On the
, the chips couldn't hit the middle fast enough, Rybachenko's top pair with 
in deep trouble against the dominant pocket rockets of Monahan. An ace on the flop, followed by a non-Broadway blank on the river meant that Monahan had received a much-need double through, whilst Rybachenko had seen his stack slip even further.
Paint It Black
Firstly, he limp-called a preflop raise of 40,000 from Sergey Rybachenko before pushing all in on the
flop to take the pot. Then a couple of hands later, he limped under the gun, called a raise from small blinder Kyle Bowker before reraising his continuation bet all in on a
. A frustrated Bowker folded to give Schwartz his second uncontested pot in quick succession.
Bowker Doubles Up
He is behind with
to Giannetti's 
, but the board is a lucky one for Bowker: 
-- and he doubles up to stay in the game.
Thomas West Eliminated in Eighth Place ($12,421)
against the of now-monster-stack Jason Young.Board: an uneventful
Handshakes and sighs, and West takes his leave, probably gone to have a nap if he's sensible.
Once West has departed and the cards are being shuffled again, a delighted Young looks down at his 3 million or so stack, and laughs, "Well screw you guys now! I tried to be nice before!"