Event 2 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-02-2008 20:34 UTC-8

Friedman Finds a King

Perry Friedman Demonstrates Our New ID Card System

Perry Friedman just became involved in a pot for his tournament life. He and another player got all their chips into the middle preflop, with Friedman tabling {A-Spades}

against his opponent's {A-Diamonds}

.

The flop was no good for Friedman, as it came {8-Spades}

, giving his opponent top pair and pushing Friedman to the brink. The turn card, {4-Spades}

, was of no help either, but he redrew to the best hand when the river brought the {K-Spades}

.

Friedman doubled up on that hand, and is now up to around 105,000.

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06-02-2008 20:31 UTC-8

Field Update

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126 players remain on 14 tables with an average chip stack 93,548.

06-02-2008 20:12 UTC-8

After Dale Morrow raised to 9,000 from the button, Mark Vos pushed all in for 39,400 from the small blind. Aaron Coulthard called all in from the big blind and Morrow got out of the way. The players showed:

Vos: {A-Clubs}

Coulthard: {7-Hearts}

Despite flopping a wheel draw and turning an open-ender, Vos missed the river and ended up with ace-high. He was left with just 7,800 in chips.

A few hands later, he came up short once more, again holding {A-Hearts}

when he ran into the stronger {A-Spades}

. Again, Vos got no help from the community cards and was sent home.

06-02-2008 20:11 UTC-8

D'Angelo Picks Up Where He Left Off

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We don't have details on the hand, but apparently Ryan D'Angelo has busted another player at Green #1. Before departing in anger, the busted player offered everyone else at the table a $5,000 bounty to take D'Angelo out. That's a rather tough task since D'Angelo has everyone at the table covered (and then some).

Tags: Ryan D'Angelo

Level: 13

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 400

06-02-2008 19:47 UTC-8

Play Resumes

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Players are back from the dinner break.

06-02-2008 18:44 UTC-8

Dinner Break

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Players are on a 60-minute dinner break.

06-02-2008 18:41 UTC-8

A New Leader Emerges

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We arrived at a table where a lot of chips were being pushed around on the flop.

The board showed {K-Clubs}

, and Ginikachukwu Izuogu passed the betting over to Michael Goetsch. Goetsch fired out 10,000, and Izuogu put in a check-raise to 35,000. Instantly, Goetsch jammed it harder, all in for 75,000.

Izuogu dug for information. "Do you have aces? You have aces?"

Goetsch told him, "Call and find out," so Izuogu obliged him and put in the call.

Be careful what you wish for, Goetsch saw he was in trouble with his {4-Spades}

against Izuogu's {K-Spades}

. The last two cards on the board were {7-Spades}

, and Goetsch headed to the rail.

After the hand, we have our first three-hundredaire, as Izuogu sits with 305,000 chips in front of him.

06-02-2008 18:41 UTC-8

Vegas in His Element

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Karim Vegas is hanging tough after taking a tough beat earlier. Preflop, he called an early-position raise from Steve Kolb to 6,000. Kolb made a continuation bet of 6,000 on a flop of {9-Clubs}