Once the cards went in the air, though, the intensity went up a few notches, while the decibel level dropped proportionately. In wandering around the room, generally the only conversation we hear from the tables involves the hand in progress or the one that just finished. Gone are the laughing and joking about life outside the Amazon Room. These guys are here to play cards and make money today.
2008 World Series of Poker
39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
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Once the cards went in the air, though, the intensity went up a few notches, while the decibel level dropped proportionately. In wandering around the room, generally the only conversation we hear from the tables involves the hand in progress or the one that just finished. Gone are the laughing and joking about life outside the Amazon Room. These guys are here to play cards and make money today.
, Boeken got action from Mark Hurst and his
.The board helped neither player as it came
and Boeken doubled to just over 32,000.
to
.The board ran out
and Golser is up to 94,000.
and found a caller with
.The board
missed Woolen and he's yet another faller in the first level of the day.
, Brown bet 2,500. Dicken quickly raised to 7,500, and Brown made the call.The turn fell
. Brown checked, then called when Dicken bet 12,000. Both players checked the
river. Dicken opened his hand to show
, a hand that was declared the winner after Brown mucked.Brown has 100,000 chips. Dicken has 90,000 and asked us to say hi to his mom for him.
with about 10,000 in the pot. Brian Anderson and Perry Friedman went to the turn and saw the
come down. Anderson moved all in for 13,000 and Friedman made the call. The river is dealt the
and Anderson turned over
.Friedman's hand was quickly mucked by the dealer and he is down to 12,000. Friedman was left just shaking his head.
A few moments later he held pocket eights to crack his opponent's pocket jacks on a board of 8-6-2-3-K
Churchill is now up to 133,000 chips.
and his opponent in the cutoff looked him up. The cutoff showed
and Glantz mucked. He's still healthy, though with 77,000 in chips.
and his opponent held
. The board flopped a straight for Hennigan when it came
to double him up to about 13,500.
Gabriel Thaler moved all in on the turn and was called by Linda Lee. Linda turned over
for an ace-high flush draw while Thaler turned over
for the other flush draw.The river was the
, giving neither player a flush or a pair. Lee's ace-high was good enough to take it down and Thaler was eliminated.