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2008 World Series of Poker
Event 31 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six-handed
Day: 2
Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$2,327,600
Total Entries
1,012
Level
25
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 1,012
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In a battle of the blinds encounter, Filtz check-raised Lucas's 6,000 bet to 40,000 on a
flop only for Lucas to repop all in for a total of 75,000. Filtz made the call.Filtz =
Lucas =
Turn =
River =
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Filtz:
Jefferson:
Board:
Jefferson is out, and it looks as though Filtz is now our new chip leader on 285,000.
on an ensuing 
board.
and Todd Terry (not, incidentally, the legendary producer of the same name) is holding 
. The board reads 
, 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:
Bentham:
Board:
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.
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.
, it was of no surprise to see all the chips fly in with Alex Michaels' 
looking to avoid just the odd out against Bruno Fitoussi's drawtastic 
.Although the
bricked out, the river wasn't as obliging, a 
giving Fitoussi the straight and thus the pot.Fitoussi -- 145,000
Michaels -- 20,000
Nguyen made it 8,000 from the small blind, and Zakheim, who'd limped in UTG, called.
Flop:
Nguyen bet 7,000, and Zakheim called.
Turn:
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:
Nguyen:
River:
Zakheim is down to just 35,000.
