2008 World Series of Poker

Event 21 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
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Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
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Level: 4

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 25

Jesus Has Left the Building

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John Murphy led out for 600 preflop and James Hart called from middle position. Chris "Jesus" Ferguson made it 2,600 to go and Murphy folded. Hart raised to 6,600 and Ferguson moved all in. Murphy called and showed pocket kings while Ferguson showed A-K. Ferguson failed to improve against the pocket pair and was eliminated.

Tags: Chris FergusonJesus

Alvarado Eliminated

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J.C. Alvarado was eliminated after a flop of {Q-Diamonds} {3-Spades} {3-Hearts}. All his chips went into the middle with K-Q only to see his opponent turn over A-Q. Alvarado failed to improve and was eliminated.

Antonio Esfandiari vs. Jennifer Tilly

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Antonio Esfandiari
Antonio Esfandiari
Esfandiari and Tilly have been mixing it up quite a lot thus far in the tournament, with Antonio winning this round. He raised Jennifer's big blind and when she called they saw a {J-Diamonds} {8-Spades} {6-Clubs} flop. Jennifer check-called when Antonio bet 1,100 and she did the same when Esfandiari bet 2,200 after the {Q-Spades} turned. When the {K-Spades} fell on the river Tilly checked then folded to Esfandiari's 4,200 bet. He's now up to 18,000 while Tilly fell to 9,000.

Tags: Antonio EsfandiariJennifer Tilly

Double Up Huck

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Seven players saw a flop of {8-Diamonds} {4-Spades} {3-Clubs}. All seven players, including Huck Seed and Men 'The Master' Nguyen, checked the flop. The turn brought the {6-Diamonds} and Huck Seed, from the small blind, made it 1,100 to go. Action folded around to Men who raised to 2,800. Everyone folded around to Huck, who called and saw the {10-Hearts} on the river. Huck shoved all in for 6,295 and Men instantly called, turning over {2-Hearts} {5-Hearts} for the bottom end of the straight.

Huck turned over the high end, {7-Hearts} {9-Clubs}, and doubled up to 24,000 while Men dropped to 2,200.

Tags: Huck SeedMen NguyenThe Master

Eli Dodges Kings

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Eli Elezra raised preflop from late position and the player in the cutoff called. Mark Newhouse, from the button made it 10,000 to go. Eli moved all in, the cutoff got out of the way, and Newhouse called.

When the player in the cutoff folded his cards into the muck, he announced he was folding kings. Eli, not believing him, grabbed the cards out of the muck and turned them over. Sure enough, he had folded kings.

Newhouse turned over pocket sevens to see Eli's pocket jacks.

"What are you doing?" Eli asked the player in the cutoff after the hand.

"I wonder how you can fold that," Newhouse chimed in.

The board failed to help Newhouse and after the hand he is down to 17,800. Interestingly enough, the pocket kings would have taken the hand down.

Tags: Eli ElezraMark Newhouse

Bax Beat By River

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Cliff 'JohnnyBax' Josephy and his opponent were all-in preflop with Cliff holding pocket sixes against his opponents pocket fours. The flop came {8-Diamonds} {3-Spades} {6-Spades} and Cliff was in great shape.

However, the turn brought the {2-Clubs} and the {5-Clubs} dropped on the river to give his opponent a straight, eliminating Cliff from the tournament.
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