2008 World Series of Poker
Event 8 - $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event
Day: 1
Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
192
Level
23
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 192
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Josh Arieh was all in for his last 900 against Max Pescatori.
Arieh:
Pescatori:
The flop was
and everything looked good for Arieh...until the 
came on the turn and the 
fell on the river, making Pescatori a runner-runner straight and sending Arieh to the rail.
A late-position player raises to 800, Ram Vaswani calls on the button, and Barry Greenstein reraises to 8,000 from the big blind, inducing folds from both his opponents.
"Just like that, Barry?" quipped Phil Hellmuth as Greenstein raked in the pot.
Here is the complete payout schedule:
1. $ 483,688
2. $ 297,792
3. $ 184,992
4. $ 139,872
5. $ 108,288
6. $ 85,728
7. $ 67,680
8. $ 54,144
9-10. $ 45,120
11-12. $ 36,096
13-14. $ 27,072 -
15-16. $ 18,048
17-24. $ 16,243
Michael DeMichele:
Jan von Halle:
Both players began with aces are their door cards, with DeMichele leading the action the entire way. Von Halle called DeMichele's bet on every street, even when he paired his ace.
On seventh street, DeMichele checked instead of betting and von Halle bit by betting. He wasn't happy to see DeMichele check-raise him and unhappily called.
DeMichele turned over his hand and held
to take the pot with a seven-six low. He now has 40,000.
John Hennigan bet out 850 into the pot on a board of
. Steve Billirakis raised and then Hennigan reraised all in. Billirakis called.Hennigan:
Billirakis:
Hennigan was in a world of hurt and after the turn and river fell the
then the , Billirakis was able to double through to 13,000.
Brandon Adams and an opponent made it to seventh street to receive their third and final down card each. The opponent checked to Adams, who bet out showing
. His opponent called with the upcards . Adams turned over three more clubs, 
for the winning flush and has increased to 29,500.
Ralph Perry:
Jennifer Harman:
Harman check-called Perry's bets on every street until the river, when she led out for 1,000. Perry went into the tank for quite a while and made the fold, shipping the pot Harman's way.
After the hand, Jen was up to 29,600 while Perry was down to 20,900.
