2008 World Series of Poker

Event 40 - $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw
Day: 2
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Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Prize
$151,896
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Total Entries
238
Level Info
Level
24
Blinds
13,000 / 25,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 238
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Maybe You Have A Tell

Steve Sung was just dealt a pat wheel on Brasilia #4. He raised from under the gun, only to see everyone fold.

"Sure, now I get no action," complained Sung. His stack remains somewhat short, given the limits of 5,000 and 10,000.

Tags: Steve Sung

Level: 17

Blinds: 3,000/5,000

Ante: 0

Wattel's Stack Withering

In a hand just before the break, Ben Ponzio raised, Mike Wattel reraised from the small blind, and Ponzio called.

Wattel took one card, and Ponzio two. Wattel bet, and Ponzio called. The second round followed the same pattern: Wattel took one, Ponzio two, and Ponzio called Wattel's bet.

On the third draw, Wattel took one card and Ponzio stood pat. Both checked. Ponzio showed a 10-7-5-4-2, and Wattel mucks.

Wattel has now slipped to 16,000. When we begin the next level, he'll have not even two big bets.

Tags: Mike Wattel

8-6 Takes Sklansky to 86K

David Sklansky
David Sklansky
Mike Wattel raised, and David Sklansky called on the button. Wattel took one card, and Sklansky took two. Wattel bet, and Sklansky called.

Both took one card on the second draw. This time Wattel checked, Sklansky bet, and Wattel called. Wattel took one on the third draw, and Sklansky stood pat. Both checked.

Sklansky showed an 8-6-4-3-2, and Wattel mucked. Sklansky is up to 86,000, and Wattel has slipped to 61,000.

Tags: David Sklansky

Richard Chase Eliminated in 10th Place ($12,317)

Richard Chase
Richard Chase
A short-stacked Richard Chase raised all in from the button, and Gioi Luong called him from the big blind.

Luong took two cards on the first draw, and Chase just one. Both stood pat thereafter.

Luong showed 8-7-6-4-3, and Chase mucked. We're down to nine.

Meanwhile, Luong has won another hand and has leapfrogged to the top of the leaderboard with 240,000.

Tags: Richard Chase

Maybe If You Give Us Odds

Robert Mizrachi, currently seated at Brasilia #4, proposed a bet to anyone at Brasilia #2 that the winner of the tournament will come from the players currently seated at Brasilia #4 -- Mizrachi, Billy Baxter, John Phan, Steve Sung or Shun Uchida. The player taking the other side of the bet would have as his horses Ben Ponzio, Mike Wattel, Gioi Luong, Richard Chase and David Sklansky. Mizrachi couldn't get any takers, even after he dropped his asking price for the bet from $20,000 to $1,000.

"What's the matter, don't have any confidence in yourselves?" Mizrachi shouted from across the room.

Tags: Robert Mizrachi

Phan Fans Against Baxter

John Phan might have thought he could pull one over on Billy Baxter, but you don't win seven bracelets in lowball events without having learned a thing or two along the way. After Baxter raised the button, Phan called from the small blind and drew two. Baxter took three. Seeing that, Phan led out with a bet after the draw, which Baxter called.

On the second draw, Phan drew two to Baxter's one. Phan decided to check, then called after Baxter fired a bet. Both players stood pat on the third draw. Phan checked again, and Baxter fired again. Phan thought it over, then folded.

Tags: Billy BaxterJohn Phan

Greg Raymer Eliminated in 11th Place ($9,580)

Greg Raymer
Greg Raymer
Greg Raymer raised all in before the first draw, and Richard Chase called him. Both took two cards on the first draw. Raymer took two more on the second, but Chase stood pat. Not a good sign for the Fossilman.

Raymer took two more cards on the third draw. Chase showed his 8-5-4-3-2. "I just need to make a seven," said Raymer. He had kept 6-5-2. He turned over the first card -- a seven! Still a chance. Alas, the second card was a deuce, pairing his hand, and Raymer went out in 11th.

Tags: Greg Raymer