Event 24 - $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha Day 2 | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-13-2008 18:24 UTC-7

The Rock of Gibralter Cumbles

donpeters

Omaha -

Jeff Gibralter limped from middle position and David Penly completed from the small blind. The big blind checked his option.

The flop was {8-Hearts}

and a big pot was played when Penly and Gibralter got all in. Penly held {8-Spades}

for top set on the flop. Gibralter showed {A-Hearts}

.

The turn was the {A-Spades}

and the river the {5-Spades}

. Gibralter missed all of his outs and was eliminated by our chip leader Penly.

Tags: David Penly Jeff Gibralter

06-13-2008 18:29 UTC-7

John-Paul Kelly gets things rolling with a raise from the hijack seat. He makes it 3,500 to go, and Zachary Hyman reraises the pot from the small blind. Kelly makes the call, and the two players get to look at a flop.

It comes {Q-Clubs}

. Hyman makes a full-pot bet of 27,000. Kelly cuts out the calling chips and takes a moment to survey the situation. He removes his headphones, turns off his iPod, and glances over at Hyman.

"Good luck," Hyman says, which apparently is the confirmation Kelly needs, as he folds his cards into the muck. He still has 70,000 left, but Hyman has him just edged now with 73,000.

Level: 12

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

06-13-2008 18:33 UTC-7

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie... Ouch, Ouch, Ouch

donpeters

Omaha -

Omaha can be one hell of a game...

On the river, the pot sat at 3,500. The {K-Hearts}

were laid out on the felt and the rest of the deck spread when Joe Hachem bet the pot. Paul Taylor raised the pot and then Hachem moved all in. Taylor quickly called.

Taylor turned over {A-Spades}

for a royal flush. Hachem turned over two cards, the {A-Diamonds}

and the

for kings full of aces before mucking his hand.

After being crippled to only 2,000, Hachem said, "You know what, if I lose, I don't mind losing to that hand."

Tags: Joe Hachem Paul Taylor

06-13-2008 18:37 UTC-7

Hachem Upset With Himself

donpeters

Joe Hachem just said that we should mention here he is kicking himself after that last hand. He went on to say he shouldn't have raised the river and, "I should have just called, but I'm not good enough."

After getting knocked to 2,000, Joe is now back to 6,000.

Tags: Joe Hachem

06-13-2008 18:47 UTC-7

Hachem No Match for Chainsaw

donpeters

Hold'em -

Joe Hachem raised pot under the gun and Allen Kessler put him all in. Hachem made the call.

Hachem: {A-Hearts}

Kessler:

The former Main Event champion couldn't improve when the board came out {Q-Hearts}

and was eliminated just out of the money.

Tags: Allen Kessler Joe Hachem

06-13-2008 18:49 UTC-7

Respect for Mizzi

[user66118]

Sorel Mizzi has just won two reasonably-sized pots in a row, without seeing a flop.

On the first, Dustin Sitar began the action with a raise to 4,500. Howard Lederer made the call from the cutoff seat, and Mizzi reraised them both to 15,300. Sitar quickly folded, but Lederer wasn't so sure. He took a few minutes before finally relinquishing his hand.

On the second, Jonathan Depa came in from under the gun with a raise to 4,200. Hilbert Shirey reraised the full pot, and Mizzi came over the top of two players again, this time all in for approximately 48,000. Both of his opponents tanked hard before they eventually folded their hands in turn.

With those two back-to-back uncontested wins, Mizzi adds a ton of chips to his stack, and now sits with 63,400. Max Pescatori noticed the trend. "Must be nice never showing a hand," he quipped.

06-13-2008 18:54 UTC-7

Crane Eliminated

donpeters

Hold'em -

A bunch of raising occurred back and forth between Ward Crane and Kyle Hegeman preflop before both players found themselves all in. Hegeman had Crane covered with his chip stack and with the cards.

Hegeman: {A-Spades}