Event 9 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six-Handed
Day 1 Completed
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 9 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six-Handed
Day: 1
Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,687,410
Entries
1,236
Level
23
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 1,236
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Here's the top ten in chips from Day 1 action:
Matt Matros 156,600
Rep Porter 137,200
Thomas Fuller 110,200
Peter Marr 104,700
Avery Cardoza 99,300
Zachary Clark 94,000
William Mikolay 87,000
Jonas Danielsson 83,900
Tom Braband 82,700
Dave Zand 82,300
Join us at 2:00 PM Pacific Time when action in Event #7 resumes from the Amazon Room floor.
The rate of eliminations was rapid. The short-handed format had players involved in a lot more pots, finding their edge, and capitalizing on it when they could. Unfortuanately, it didn't always work out for most of them. We said goodbye to 1,164 players today and tomorrow we'll leave behind 63 more.
It appears that Matt Matros is our probable chip leader with about 153,000. Thomas Fuller is not far behind however with roughly 150,000. Official chip counts will be posted when they are made available.
Join us as 2:00 pm PDT as action resumes and the field is narrowed down to the final nine players that will comprise Saturday's final table.
Hamby:
UTG:
He was saved when the board came
to make a seven-high straight. Players were heard to remark, "God, you run so good!" Camby now has 33,000 in chips.
with Matros holding 
and his opponent holding 
. The turn came 
to make Matros a flush. He only had to dodge the remaining two aces and one king on the river, which he did when the river came 
.Matros is up to 153,000.
. He quickly found out he was behind when the cutoff showed 
. The flop came
. Marr, perhaps ashamed to come from behind, said, "I thought you were making a run at it...I'm sorry." To add insult to injury, the 
came off on the turn. The river was meaningless and the eliminated player left with class. Marr chips up to about 86,000.
, dominating the small blind's . Neither player improved on a jack-high board.Porter increased his stack to about 152,000. The small blind was eliminated.
. The big blind made a snap call and tabled 
. A board of 
made two pair for the big blind but also made a flush for Braband. He eliminated the big blind on this hand and is up to about 80,000 in chips.
, Jonas Danielsson raised the 3,500-chip bet of his opponent to 11,000. His opponent moved all in with 
and Danielsson made the call with 
. Danielsson did not improve after the board came 
, dropping him to about 71,000 chips.
