2008 World Series of Poker

Event 31 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six-handed
Day: 2
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Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
qq
Prize
$528,418
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$2,327,600
Total Entries
1,012
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 1,012
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Soares Flies Away

Sebastian Soares is OUT -- he reraised all in from the big blind to an UTG raise from from Matt Hawrilenko, got a call, and found himself dominated.

Soares: {K-Spades} {J-Clubs}
Hawrilenko: {A-Clubs} {K-Diamonds}

Board: {9-Spades} {5-Diamonds} {8-Spades} {10-Diamonds} {3-Spades}

Roux Rues Move

Winamax representative Anthony Roux is ruing making a raise from the button, finding his {8-Clubs}{8-Hearts} in deep trouble against the big blind's {Q-Clubs}{Q-Diamonds}. The {A-Clubs}{A-Spades}{5-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}{10-Clubs} board was close but no cigar, and Roux is left with 35,000.

Tags: Anthony Roux

Scott on Scott Action

Scotty Nguyen is up to 180,000 after crippling Scott Zakheim.

Nguyen made it 8,000 from the small blind, and Zakheim, who'd limped in UTG, called.

Flop: {A-Clubs} {2-Diamonds} {J-Spades}

Nguyen bet 7,000, and Zakheim called.

Turn: {8-Clubs}

Now Nguyen checked, and Zakheim bet 10,000, only for Nguyen to make it 25,000. Zakheim went into to the tank for a little while, before going all in. Nguyen called instantly.

Zakheim: {A-Hearts} {Q-Spades}
Nguyen: {J-Clubs} {J-Diamonds}

River: {10-Spades}

Zakheim is down to just 35,000.

Tags: Scott ZakheimScotty Nguyen

Fitoussi Makes Monster Draw

With the flop reading {9-Hearts}{10-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}, it was of no surprise to see all the chips fly in with Alex Michaels' {10-Clubs}{9-Clubs} looking to avoid just the odd out against Bruno Fitoussi's drawtastic {Q-Hearts}{7-Hearts}.

Although the {4-Diamonds} bricked out, the river wasn't as obliging, a {6-Spades} giving Fitoussi the straight and thus the pot.

Fitoussi -- 145,000
Michaels -- 20,000

Tags: Alex MichaelsBruno Fitoussi

Minieri Receives "Sick Beat";Chrysanthopoulos Eliminated

Dario Minieri
Dario Minieri
On the very next hand, Michael Chrysanthopoulos found himself all in for just 500 and in need of a miracle. Fortunately, on this occasion, Minieiri opted to raise it up to 8,000 with 3-4, ultimately dominated by Chrysanthopoulos's J-4.

A 5-5-3 flop looked to be the end of Chrysanthopoulos, but running kings handed him a lifeline and kept him in the event.

"That's a sick beat, sick, sick," bemoaned the Italian, hopefully tongue in cheek.

However, the miracle comeback didn't occur, Chrysanthopoulos eliminated shortly after when he ran Q-J into the A-J of Cory Albertson with an emphatic A-J-2-8-4 board.

Tags: Cory AlbertsonDario MinieriMichael Chrysanthopoulous

Tom Bentham Eliminated... Eventually

Tom Bentham is holding {A-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} and Todd Terry (not, incidentally, the legendary producer of the same name) is holding {A-Hearts} {5-Hearts}. The board reads {A-Clubs} {5-Diamonds} {2-Spades} {3-Spades} {10-Hearts}, and one of them is all in. However, there seems to be some confusion over which one of them it is.

Eventually, after some counting and re-counting of stacks, it is determined that Terry does not have Bentham covered, and he is left with just 3,800, including his small blind for the next hand, all of which he sticks in after an UTG raise from Bill Chen and a call from another player. Chen bet the flop and the other player folded.

Chen: {4-?} {4-?}
Bentham: {Q-?} {9-?}

Board: {J-?} {2-?} {3-?} {10-?} {8-?}

Bentham makes a straight to triple up.

However, it couldn't last -- he was all in again the next hand, and this time his luck ran out and he busted out in 57th place for $5,586.

Tags: Tom Bentham

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300