2008 World Series of Poker

Event 9 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six-Handed
Day: 2
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kq
Prize
$372,929
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,687,410
Entries
1,236
Level Info
Level
23
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000

Fire Engine to Green #10!

Players on Green #10 may need to be hosed down. Action on their table has been unrelenting, and Matt Matros has been in the center of it all. First Matros and Avery Cardoza dusted it up on a {5-Clubs} {2-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} flop. Matros held {4-Clubs} {3-Clubs} for the open-ended straight draw; Cardoza held pocket kings. Matros missed his draw and slipped to 79,000 chips. Cardoza was up to 165,000.

On the very next hand, Matros got all in on the river after the board came {2-Clubs} {6-Hearts} {K-Diamonds} {J-Hearts} {10-Spades}. He hold pocket tens for the rivered set; the player who called him, Peter Marr, held {K-?} {J-?} for top two pair. After that hand, Matros' stack rebounded to 159,000 while Marr dipped to 75,000.

Just a few hands later, Matros and Marr tangled again. Matros held {K-Hearts} {Q-Hearts}; Marr held {A-Hearts} {J-Clubs}. When the dust settled, the board of {K-Spades} {A-Hearts} {K-Clubs} {A-Spades} {Q-Spades} made aces full of kings for Marr and kings full of aces for Matros. That restored Marr to 152,000 while dropping Matros a second time, to 83,000.

Tags: Avery CardozaMatt MatrosPeter Marr