2008 World Series of Poker
39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
Day: 2a
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face up.The floor was called and there was plenty of heated discussion. Fricke felt that the player had made a call, but his opponent was adamant that he had only asked for a count.
"If he rolls aces here..." said Fricke, after several minutes of discussion and thought. It was finally ruled that the player had all options open to him, and with Fricke's cards laying face up on the table, he decided to fold.
"Easy game" smirked Fricke as he still battles the short stack with about 8,000 chips.
. Brown checked, then called a bet of 6,000 from his opponent. The turn 
was Brown's gin card. He checked, then quickly called when his opponent moved all in. Brown made top set on the turn with his 
, putting him handily ahead of his opponent's 
. The turn bricked out 
.As Brown's opponent was leaving the table, he splashed all of his chips into the pot, rather than just pass the stacks across the table. The message seemed to be, if you bust out of the Main Event, you can splash the pot all you want.
, Daniel Reisman and Santeri Valikoski checked, and Antonius bet 3,000. Reisman called, then Valikoski raised to 9,500. Antonius called, and Reisman got out of the way.The turn was the
. Valikoski put his last 2,350 in, and Antonius called.Valikoski had
for top pair and the nut flush draw. Antonius had 
for a lower pair and a gutshot. The river was the 
, and Valikoski took the pot.Antonius has slipped to 12,000.
when Bruce Hyde put all his money in the middle. The pot was large enough to entice Stephan Gerin to make the call. "I put in half my stack, there's no way I'm folding now," said Gerin. When the cards were revealed, Gerin was drawing rather slim.Gerin:
Hyde:
The river was the
and Gerin was severely crippled to 3,000. Hyde moved up to 100,000.
They saw a flop of
and Sundbo check-called the 5,000 chip bet of his opponent. The turn brought the 
and this time Sundbo led out for 5,000 and his opponent flat-called.The river landed the
and Sundbo checked to his opponent who fired 10,000. Sundbo snap-called and showed 
. His ace played as his opponent showed pocket sixes, having been counterfeited on the river.Sundbo is now up to 44,000.
and his opponent went all in for 30,000.Hunter went into the tank before eventually calling. His opponent showed pocket kings while Hunter was behind with pocket queens. However, a queen on the turn quickly gave Hunter the hand, with the board bricking on the river. After the hand, Hunter has moved atop our chip counts with over 200,000 in chips.
And if he doesn't bust and finds a way to win the whole thing, we might see a new rush of players showing up to their games in pink goggles.
. The board was .Markholt is back to 14,100.
