Event 47 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi/Low Day 1 | 2008 World Series of Poker

Level: 6

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

Jun 26, 2008

Hellmuth Gets Rolled

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Bryan Micon: x-x / {3-Diamonds}

Phil Hellmuth: x-x / {4-Spades}

Micon bets and Hellmuth calls.

Fourth street:
Micon: {3-Hearts}

Hellmuth:

Micon bets and Hellmuth calls.

Fifth street:
Micon: {8-Spades}

Hellmuth:

Micon bets and Hellmuth raises. Micon and Hellmuth quickly cap it and are both all in.

Micon: ( {J-Spades}

)

Hellmuth: ( {4-Diamonds}

)

Hellmuth's rolled-up fours is good enough and Micon's low doesn't get there. Hellmuth is up to 4,300 and Micon is down to 8,500.

Jun 26, 2008

Chip Counts Updated

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Bryan Micon is one of the first players to pass the 10,000 mark and sits on 10,400. Barbara Enright is close behind with 9,700, followed by David Singer with 9,300.

Jun 26, 2008

Long Day Getting Longer for Phil Hellmuth

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Phil Hellmuth has been struggling to raise his chip stack above the starting 3,000 all day. Most recently, he completed with the {K-Hearts}

and was called only by Carol Kline and her {8-Hearts}

. On fourth street, Hellmuth caught the {9-Diamonds}

to Kline's {3-Clubs}

. Again he bet, and again she called.

Fifth street brought Hellmuth the {5-Diamonds}

and Kline the {K-Clubs}

. Their boards looked very similar at this point, but Hellmuth's was still better and he still bet. Kline called again. When Hellmuth caught the {A-Clubs}

on sixth and Kline caught the {2-Diamonds}

, Hellmuth checked, then folded when Kline bet.

Hellmuth now has about 2,100 chips, while Kline climbs to 3,400.

Jun 26, 2008

Tony G Gets Caught

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What started out as a five-way limped pot on third and a checked pot on fourth developed into an interesting hand between Tony G and an opponent. Showing a board of x-x / {3-Spades}

, Tony G bet when everyone checked to him. He was called by one person with a board of x-x / {3-Hearts}

. Both players paired on sixth street; Tony G caught the {4-Spades}

, and his opponent caught the {5-Clubs}

. His opponent checked, then called after Tony G bet.

Down the river, Tony G's opponent checked again. He bet, and his opponent called with {7-?}

in the hole. That made him a pair of fives for high, and a seven-six for low. Tony G just smiled, nodded, and mucked his hand.

Jun 26, 2008

The Razor Dulled

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John "The Razor" Phan: x-x / {6-Diamonds}

Opponent 1: x-x / {4-Spades}

Opponent 2: x-x / {8-Hearts}

On fifth street, The Razor bets and two opponents call.

Sixth street:

Razor: {Q-Hearts}

Opponent 1: {6-Hearts}

Opponent 2: {2-Hearts}

Phan bets and the others call.

Seventh street:
Phan checks. The first opponent bets and both call.

Phan: ( {6-Clubs}

)

Opponent 1: {K-Clubs}

Opponent 2: {A-Clubs}

One opponent gets a set of kings for high and the other gets A-2-3-4-8 for low. Phan still has plenty of chips - he's sitting at 7,500.

Jun 26, 2008

It's pretty quiet in the Brasilia Room. There's a low undercurrent of murmured conversation, but by far the loudest thing in the room is the repeated bark of "Cigarettes, candy" from the cigarettes and candy girl.

Jun 26, 2008

Where Phil Goes, Controversy Follows

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It's never a quiet table if Phil Hellmuth is sitting at it. The table in question in this instance is Brasilia #32. We're not sure what prompted it, but some sort of dispute broke out. Hellmuth, as is his wont, suggested to one of the other players at the table that he should, "Stop f*ckin' complaining."

That player was the bring-in for the hand being played, and refused to bring it in. He called for a floor to come over, wanting a penalty to be given for Hellmuth's F-bomb.

A floor was called over. Hellmuth was adamant that he didn't actually drop an F-bomb. Bryan Micon added his own two cents by pointing at the ESPN cameras that scurried over to the table, suggesting that, "If the cameras were over here in the first place, we could rewind the tapes" to determine exactly what Hellmuth said. He also offered Hellmuth a bet as to whether or not Hellmuth let fly the forbidden profanity.

In the end, Hellmuth was given a warning. The floor supervisor decided that even if Hellmuth did say what was alleged, it wasn't excessive enough to warrant a penalty.

Yet.

Jun 26, 2008