2008 World Series of Poker

Event 3 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
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Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q♠4♠
Prize
$214,131
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
713
Level Info
Level
23
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
0
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Flock of Spegals

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Defending champion Mike Spegal is jumping for joy with a healthy stack of 5,200 after grabbing a small slice of luck that all players will need if they are to win this event. On their backs, Mike was in spot of bother with queens against those American Airlines, but a flopped queen later and Mike was as happy as Larry, whoever Larry might be (King, perhaps?).

In the aftermath, 'Fossilman' Greg Raymer quipped, "So that's how you win this tournament." Belly laughs aplenty ensued.

Tags: Greg Fossilman RaymerGreg RaymerMike Segal

Piece of Cake

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Many observers claim they would be rather intimidated if they were sitting at Table 5, the line-up including Beth Shak, Michael Mizrachi, Jimmy Tran and poker legend and former football player TJ Cloutier, but I think that would be a walk in the park... maybe... gulp, okay, okay, I'd be scared too!!!

Also striking their opponents with fear are Rafe Furst and Eric 'Rizen' Lynch on Table 47 as well as Brandon Cantu and Humberto Brenes on Table 50, the latter of whom would frighten anyone with his plastic, but oh so menacing entourage of sharks.

Tags: Humberto Brenes

Doug Lee Doubles Up

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Well, the title does what it says on the tin, to quote a famous advert that I hope isn't exclusive to Britain. Sitting pretty with Queens, Doug is now up to the dizzy nosebleed-inducing heights of 5,500.

Tags: Doug Lee

Some Famous Faces

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Michael Mizrachi
Michael Mizrachi
The big-name pros haven't turned their noses up at this relatively low buy-in event - among those so far spotted are Erik Seidel, JC Tran, Justin Bonomo, and Scott Clements sharing a table with David Sklansky.

More notables, most helpfully delivered to me on a bit of paper:

Mickey Appleman
William Baxter
John Cernuto
Scott Epstein
Zachary Hyman
David Singer
Victor Ramdin
Ron "Grumpy" Ware
Serial shirt and visor co-ordinator Dan Alspach
Mary Jones
Tad Jurgens
Allen Kessler
Alex "Teddy KGB" Kravchenko
Jason Mercier
Michael Mizrachi
Christopher Moore
Men "The Master" Nguyen
Patrick Poels
Greg Raymer
Dewey Tomko
An Van Tran
EPT Copenhagen champion Tim Vance
Lee Watkinson
Roy Winston

Tags: Michael Mizrachi

More Coffee Please

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oopsy daisy
oopsy daisy
Yes indeed , Dana's reports of an early mishap are true...

The World Series is becoming renowned for what, to your average poker player, is an early 12pm start, and it would appear as though poker hottie (OK, I confess, I have a soft spot) is an early sufferer.

Happily seated at Orange Table 7, Seat 2, Kristy was swiftly informed that she had got her colours mixed up and ought to be across the other side of the room at, yes, you guessed it... 'Blue' Table 7, Seat 2. Fortunately for her disgruntled substitute, she had only lost the small and big blind, but the tournament director made what I believe to be the fairest decision and replenished his stack as Kristy trundled over to her correct seat.

Tags: Kristy Gazes

Oops

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An unusual incident - apparently Kristy Gazes and an unknown player both showed up at the same table, holding the same ticket for the same event. Yikes. The floor guy is currently checking it out, but for the moment Kristy is sitting down playing and the unknown unfortunate is standing and staring worriedly into space...

Seething

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As expected, the room has been hit by a massive influx of your everyday baseball caps, cowboy hats, sunglasses, massive headphones - in short, poker players. Current field stands at 657 on 70 tables - not quite record-breaking yet, but there's still time.

Getting It Started

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As seems to be the norm here at the Amazon Room, today's players are greeted with the dulcet tones of those cool dudes from the Black Eyed Peas. I haven't spotted the likes of poker veterans Doyle Brunson yet but I'm sure he leapt off his Brunsonmobile to bust a move as soon as the hip hop beat kicked in. And what about the likes of Cloutier, Stupak or maybe even Sklansky, I wonder if they swung those John Travolta hips when the Black Eyed Peas encouraged us to "get it started"?

If anyone is heeding that advice, then it's the tournament director, as he has just announced that we're off and underway.
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