Level: 29
Blinds: 80,000/160,000
Ante: 20,000
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 2 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 3
Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$5,363,085
Entries
3,929
Level
29
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 3929
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Grant Hinkle - 5,050,000
James Akenhead has taken the chip lead and at the start of this level, each player will have 42 and 32 big blinds respectively. We'll see how this affects their strategies. Despite the rising blinds and antes, there is still plenty of room left for post-flop play, and given the way this tournament has gone up to this point, we may see the action in round 29 resemble that of round 28.
Neither player seems willing to take much risk, although James Akenhead has definitely been applying more pressure on Grant Hinkle than the other way around. The crowd is starting to lose interest, with several spectators yawning and rubbing their eyes.
Interestingly, we are off the structure chart that Harrah's provided to all players at the start of the tournament. That chart (optimistically?) had only 28 levels. We are now starting Level 29, blinds of 80,000 / 160,000 with an ante of 20,000.
flop. Hinkle checks and Akenhead bets 500,000. Hinkle makes the call. The turn brings the 
. Hinkle checks again, and Akenhead checks behind. The river card is the 
. Hinkle checks and Akenhead bets 1,000,000. Hinkle calls. Akenhead shows 
and wins the pot with two pair.
