Miles Fails to Go the Distance
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against Sarvesh Pershad's 
. He failed to hit the 
(although Pershad found it rather pleasing) and busted out.
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 17 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day: 1
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
against Sarvesh Pershad's . He failed to hit the (although Pershad found it rather pleasing) and busted out.
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Babyar Eliminated
, but Veldhuis' 
held up, leaving him on 121,000 and leaving Babyar with a ticket out of the Amazon Room.
Just One Table Down
Dalhuijsen Doesn't Get Lucky
on a 
flop, got called by Marcus Moulton holding 
, failed to improve, and hit the rail.Moulton and Tom West are now heads up.
Ortiz and O'Connor Out
Also gone is Pat O'Connor, pocket eights into Garret Beckman's pocket kings with no real excitement on the board.
Two More Exits
(2) Jesper Hornekaer. All in on a
board after checking the flop. Hornekaer's 
no good against Kurt Younghouse's 
. 
on river.
Rybachenko Advances to Final Table
on a 
board. Rybachenko was holding , called, and no miracle straight for Slifka on the river and Rybachenko was heads up with Paul Ferner.With just 60,000 or so to Rybachenko's 240,000, it didn't take long for Ferner to get his chips in. All in with
on a 
flop, Rybachenko was ahead with the 
and stayed ahead through the turn and river to knock out Ferner and be the first player to be assured a place at the final table tomorrow.
Double Dutch
Hand 1: The two players get their chips in preflop, West slightly ahead with
versus 
, the 
teasing a cheeky straight draw, but the turn and river drawing blanks.Hand 2: Dalhuijsen finds K-K, West A-Q, all in preflop, ace on turn. Mammoth pot goes to West, whilst Dahluijsen drops to 19,000.
If Dalhuijsen wasn't speaking double dutch after hand one, he is now.
More Chip Counts
Ali Eslami: 140,000
Alon Sahar: 23,000
John Strzemp III: 105,000
Craig Gray: 30,000