Event 29 - $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2008 World Series of Poker

Event 29 - $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Day 2 Completed

06-17-2008 04:09 UTC-7

Official End of Day 2 Chip Counts Released

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Matt Vengrin leads the way to the final table

The WSOP has now released the official chip counts for the nine final-table qualifiers in Event 29, $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em. Matt Vengrin holds the lead going into Tuesday's final, which is set for a 2pm PDT restart. The leaderboard:

Matt Vengrin 1,007,500
Johnny Neckar 796,000
David Singer 534,000
Stewart Newman 398,000
John Phan 396,500
Thuy Doan 369,500
David Singer 334,000
Tony Dunst 333,000
Sebastian Segovia 128,500

Tags: Matt Vengrin

06-17-2008 01:02 UTC-7

Day 2 Concludes - Final Table Starts at 2 P.M.

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With the elimination of Alex Zaslavsky, we now have our final table. Nine players, including David Singer and John Phan will return tomorrow to play for $ 434,789 and a gold bracelet. Final chip counts should be released later tonight.

All the action of the final table will start at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Join us here for all the action as we crown the champion of this $3,000 No Limit Event.

06-17-2008 01:01 UTC-7

Alex Zaslavsky Eliminated in 10th Place ($24,702)

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Alex Zaslavsky opened with a raise from under-the-gun to 45,000 and the action folded around to Matt Vengrin in the small blind who announced a raise of 100,000.

Zaslavsky thought for a few moments and declared he was all in. Vengrin went into the tank with a huge decision, before eventually cutting down the chips and making the call.

Zaslavsky: {A-Hearts}

Vengrin:

The board ran out {4-Spades}

and Vengrin's pocket tens hold to eliminate Alex Zaslavsky in 10th place for $24,702.

Tags: Alex Zaslavsky Matt Vengrin

06-17-2008 00:53 UTC-7

Nothing to Update

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The reason for the lack of updates the last few minutes is very simple. There is nothing to update. As tends to be the case late in No Limit tournament, this tournament has come down to a slow grind. There are a lot of raise and take it pots with very few flops shown. The flops that are shown are usually bet and taken down immediately.

We still need to lose one before we are to our final table. The over-under is set at 1 1/2 levels.

06-17-2008 00:38 UTC-7

Players Have Returned

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Players have returned from break.

Level: 19

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 2,000

06-17-2008 00:25 UTC-7

Players on Break

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Players are on a 20 minute break.

06-17-2008 00:24 UTC-7

Dunst Picks Up a Few Chips

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Preflop, Tony Dunst raised to 46,000 and David Singer made the call after tanking for a couple of minutes. On a flop of {A-Hearts}

, Dunst bet out and after tanking for about five minutes, Singer folded. Dunst picked up a 100,000 chip pot.

Tags: Tony Dunst

06-17-2008 00:16 UTC-7

Bolotin Spikes Set; Doubles Through Singer!

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Alex Bolotin opened the action with a raise from middle position to 35,000. David Singer was next to speak and flat called. The rest of the players folded and the two players took a flop.

The flop arrived {8-Clubs}

and Bolotin led out with a bet of 40,000. Singer asked Bolotin for a count of his remaining chips and thought for several minutes before announcing that he was all in. Before the words had left Singer's mouth, Bolotin announced a call and flipped over {8-Diamonds}