In a recent hand, Jim laid down 6-6 versus two all-in players on a 6-9-x flop. One player turned over 9-6 and the other turned over 9-9.
2008 World Series of Poker
39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
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In a recent hand, Jim laid down 6-6 versus two all-in players on a 6-9-x flop. One player turned over 9-6 and the other turned over 9-9.
. Action checked to Minieri, who bet 600. Both opponents called.When the
hit the turn, action again checked to Minieri, who bet 1,700. This time each of his opponents folded, allowing Minieri to collect the pot and chip up his diminished stack to about 10,000.Once all of the cards were in the muck, Minieri looked around the table and joked, "I would like to bust before dinner. Who would like to help?"
The slide began a few minutes ago when Ivey had made the nut flush on the turn. His lone opponent checked, and Ivey bet and was called. The river put a pair on the board. Ivey was checked to once again, and he bet enough to put his man all in. The bet was quickly called, and Ivey was shown a full house to knock him all the way back to 10,000.
Following that, he lost a number of small pots and got chipped down to his last couple thousand chips. On his final hand, he called a preflop raise, went all in on the flop, and was called by a player with
. The board ran out without an ace or a king, but Ivey couldn't beat the high cards, and he headed to the rail shortly before dinner break, concluding his 2008 WSOP.
flop. Yang led out for 2,700 before his opponent announced "raise", and tossed out a single 5,000 denomination chip. This was ruled a minimum raise and he was required to put another 400 into the middle. It didn't matter as Yang stood, kissed the photo of his family and slid all of his chips into the middle. His opponent called and tabled
but found himself trailing the 
of Yang.The turn was the
and river the 
and Yang takes it down to the cheers on the rail to move back to higher ground on 36,700 chips.
Frandsen held
, while his first opponent held 
and another player held 
.Board:
Frandsen eliminates two players and moved up to 35,500 in chips.
When he finally found a hand to go with (pocket kings) he had the unfortunate luck to run into an opponent on the big blind holding pocket aces and he's out.
. The first two players checked and then the third player fired out 1,600. Phil Gordon stayed in cruise control and just called and everyone else folded.The turn came the
. It was checked to Gordon and he decided to just keep coasting and checked behind.The river was the
and it was checked to Gordon. Gordon stepped on the gas and bet out 2,500. The player called.Gordon showed
and his opponent showed 
. Gordon's flush was good enough to best his opponent's straight and take the pot. He is now up to 45,000.
. As he folded, Phan told his opponent that Phan was letting go of aces because his opponent held a set of sevens.Phan's opponent tabled
, showing Phan that his read was excellent. But that didn't stop Phan's chips from dwindling to 13,000.
The player from the button turned over pocket kings to see he was up against a wall - both Nigel and Villanueva turned over pocket aces!
The aces held up, which isn't much of a surprise, but it was one heck of a beat story.
