He can't seem to get into a pot and is struggling to get any momentum going today. He is now down to about 41,000 chips.
2008 World Series of Poker
39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
Day: 2a
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He can't seem to get into a pot and is struggling to get any momentum going today. He is now down to about 41,000 chips.
The flop came
and both players checked. The 
on the turn had the middle-position player betting and Fohrenbach raising all in. His opponent called and the players showed:Fohrenbach:
Opponent:
The river fell the
and Fohrenbach doubled to just over 47,000.
to his opponent's . The flop, though came down 
, leaving Stolzmann drawing extremely thin. The turn was the 
, the river was the , and Stolzmann's stack fell to 44,000"The best hand never wins here," muttered Stolzmann as his opponent dragged the pot.
It brought
. The raiser continued out with a bet of 3,600. Smith plucked the calling chips off his big stack and flicked them into the pot.Fourth street came the
. Again, the early-position player kept the heat on, putting out 6,500 chips. Smith took a moment this time, shuffling a stack of chips and gazing down at the board. After a moment, he did make the call.River:
. With four to the straight on board, the raiser gazed through the felt, furrowed his eyebrows, and checked the action. Smith saw his opportunity, grabbed four orange T5,000 chips and splashed them into the pot. His opponent paused for a moment, let out a slight sigh, and said, "I call." As he put the chips into the pot, Smith turned over 
for the flush. It was good, and his opponent took one last look at his hand before pushing it into the muck."I had ace-queen," he said. "You needed runner-runner."
Smith looked up from stacking his chips. "It's always funner to go runner-runner," he said with a smile. With that pot, Smith moves farther up the leaderboard, sitting pretty with 235,000 chips.
He tanked for three or four minutes before finally, reluctantly, folding his hand. Then the middle-position player surprised the whole table by calling all in for a total of 18,000 and opening
! Adams showed , infuriating Lindgren. The board ran out 
to make two pair for the middle-position player. Adams still has plenty of chips.
Chris Chambers then pushed it up to 16,000 from the small blind. Norton decided enough was enough and shoved his entire stack of 85,000 in. Mattsson folded, as did Chambers.
Norton now has 107,000.
Most recently, Deeb was all in preflop with pocket jacks against a player holding pocket kings. The flop ran
, giving Deeb a flush and straight draw. The on the turn gave Deeb the best of both worlds, a straight flush.
and checked it through. The turn brought the and Klecz opened with a bet of 3,500 from the big blind. The button called, while Tahtouh stepped aside.The river was the
, and Klecz fired out another 5,000, forcing a fold from her opponent.Another player who wasn't involved in the hand piped up, saying, "I think that's the first hand you've played! I may lay down quads there!"
Klecz and her tight image are now up to 31,000 chips.
, with all the money getting in the middle and with Gray holding pocket nines. On the hand immediately after, Gray held pocket nines again and flopped quads against an opponent who flushed on the turn. After the eliminations, Gray is up to 150,000.
