Event 7 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Completed
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 7 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$2,000
Entries
1,592
Level
24
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 1,592
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Theo Tran 145,800
Nick Romano 126,500
Scott Montgomery 117,100
John Myung 106,800
Rocco Pace 106,000
Thong Tran 105,800
Pawel Andrzejewski 98,100
JC Tran 93,200
Robert Morgan 90,700
Christopher Wiggins 89,700
Action in Event #7 resumes on Tuesday afternoon at 2 pm.
Theo Tran is the presumed overnight chip leader with 145,800 in chips. Official chip counts will be released shortly, and we'll post them for you as soon as we can.
Thanks for tuning in today. We'll be back at 2:00 pm PDT Thursday for Day 2. When the players return, they will have new seat assignments, and will be playing nine-handed for the duration of the event. By this time tomorrow, we should have our final table. Until then!
From early position, she puts in a preflop raise to 3,500. Action folds around to the big blind, Claudio Fonseca, who reraises it to 8,900. Bilney makes the call.
The flop comes
. Fonseca bets out all in, and Bilney goes into the tank. After several minutes, she does indeed make the call, putting her tournament life at risk with 
. Fonseca tables the 
, and is behind.The turn rags off,
, but the river card is not what Bilney was looking for. The 
fills the gutshot straight for Fonseca and sends Bilney packing.Because we were hand for hand, and two players were eliminated, Sarah Bilney and Christian Iacobellis will share the prize money for 153rd place, $3,476.
One hand before busting out No. 154, Iacobellis was challenging his tablemates to a heads-up match online.
Iacobellis, who plays online as "da_professional," called and was all in for 3,900 on the big blind with
after Kevin O'Boyle raised on the button to 5,000.O'Boyle showed
and the board of 
was no help to Iacobellis."I'm gonna go play high stakes on Full Tilt to get my money back," Iacobellis said.
Because another player was eliminated at a different table on the same hand, Iacobellis will split $3,476 with that player — bubble girl Sarah Bilney.
Who will be the bubble boy?
J.C. Tran pauses for several minutes, mutters, "Pocket pair," and tosses his cards into the muck. The hands are shown down, with Phan's
way out in front of the at-risk player's 
.The board improves Phan further when it comes
, making him the nut flush and sending another player out to the rail early.From the adjacent table, Theo Tran gets involved in the post-hand action: "Hey J, what you got?" he asks.
"Kings..." replies J.C. Tran, with a smirk.
Theo sarcastically quips, "You're so good!"
, Alex Bolotin moved all in over the top of his opponent with . His opponent had top two pair, but the turn brought the 
and the river was the 
and Bolotin raked in the pot of almost 35,000 to move to 48,000.
