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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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Leave it to a pro to take something like a simple chip count and turn it around to use it as a psychological weapon.
up against the 
of his opponent. The money went in preflop, and despite the flop of 
, Griffin emerged victorious when he made aces full on the turn. Griffin is now up to approximately 4,300 chips.
. The blinds checked the action to a player in middle position, who fired out 600. Corkins made the call as did the small blind, while the big blind stepped aside.The turn brought the
to complete the rainbow on board, as the small blind this time led out at the pot with a bet of 850. The middle-position player folded before Corkins announced raise, tossing out a confusion of chips. It appeared to be short of a valid raise, and the dealer ruled it as a min-raise to 1,700.Again there was confusion as the small blind seem perplexed by this bet amount, and, after a very strange betting sequence in this hand, the small blind eventually laid down his holding to ship the pot to Corkins.
Corkins moves to over 7,000 in chips.
. When the 
fell on the turn, the small blind bet 600 and Brunson was the only caller. The river was the 
and Brunson folded to the small blind's bet of 1,000. Despite losing a few chips on this hand, Brunson's stack remains healthy at 5,750.
