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and his other opponent's 
. Ivey showed 
and only managed to win the sidepot after two clubs flopped and the river brought a third. After the hand, Ivey is at 6,500 in chips.
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 2 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1a
Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$5,363,085
Total Entries
3,929
Level
29
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 3,929
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and his other opponent's . Ivey showed and only managed to win the sidepot after two clubs flopped and the river brought a third. After the hand, Ivey is at 6,500 in chips.
. The small blind held 
. Shak's opponent spiked a pair of nines on a flop of
. The turn and river came 
, providing no help to Shak and sending him home for the day.
flop and got a single late-position caller. The players showed:Vahedi:
Opponent:
The turn and river came the
and 
respectively, and Vahedi's underpair was second best. He made his way for the exit some 40 minutes into level three.
Almost as soon as Raymer sat down, he told his new table that ever since winning the Main Event in 2004, opponents call him down with anything and everything.
In one recent tournament, he recalled, 12 players remained with nine getting paid. Raymer was first in chips and had his preflop all-in bet called by the second chip leader holding 6-4 offsuit. "The guy said he thought I was on a re-steal," Raymer said. "I told him, 'Even if that's true, how do you call with 6-4 offsuit? God himself would come down from heaven and tell you to fold that if you think I'm stealing.'"
Raymer currently has 5,500 in chips.
They took a flop of
and it was checked to Brunson, who made a continuation bet of 1,100, which was quickly called.The turn brought the
which scared both players to make a check. The river landed the and the middle-position player shoved her remaining tower of chips into the middle in one swift motion. It was close to 2,000 but before the dealer could cut it down, Brunson had conceded defeat and tossed his cards into the muck to slip back to around 5,000 in chips.
against Edler's 
. Unfortunately for Edler, the flop came A-3-9 and Edler was eliminated after he failed to catch up.
got the better of his opponent's 
. Gill's opponent flopped top two pair, but the 
on the river gave Carter the winning three of a kind to take down the pot.
after J.J. Liu led out for 350. The turn brought the , both players checked, and Phan led out for 700 when the fell on the river. Liu made the call and Phan showed 
. Liu was down to just 1,300 after the hand.On the hand immediately after, Phan shoved all in against a preflop raiser who made it 575 to go. The player called and showed A-Q versus Phan's A-J. Phan's opponent flopped a Q and short-stacked Phan down to only 1,230.
Forrest:
Opponent:
The board filled out
and Forrest took it down. As he stacked the chips, he declared "I was pretty sure he had a small pair." Forrest is now a force with just shy of 12,000.
