2008 World Series of Poker

39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
Day: 2b
Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
6,844
Players Left
9
Next Payout
Place 9
$900,670
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000
Players Left 9 / 6,844
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Quads Pay Off For Billirakis

The flop was {Q-Clubs} {J-Hearts} {J-Clubs} and two players checked to Steve Billirakis. Billirakis bet 2,800 and one player called. The turn was the {J-Diamonds} and both Billirakis and his opponent checked. The river was the {5-Hearts} and the player bet 3,000 into Billirakis.

After some thought, Billirakis made it 28,500. The player called and mucked his hand when Billirakis showed {A-?} {J-Spades}.

Billirakis is up to 184,000 now.

Tags: Steve Billirakis

Necessary Evelyn

Evelyn in Day 1
Evelyn in Day 1
On a flop of {K-Hearts}{A-Diamonds}{5-Hearts}, the small blind checks and Evelyn Ng in the big blind bets 3,400. The small blind calls.

The turn is {3-Clubs} and the small blind checks. Evelyn bets 6,000 and the small blind calls.

The river is {4-Spades} and the small blind checks. Evelyn bets 10,000 and the small blind calls. Evelyn shows {A-Spades}{4-Hearts} and the small blind mucks. Evelyn has 136,000.

Doug Johnson Doubles Up

On the turn of {A-Spades} {K-Hearts} {8-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds}, Doug Johnson moved all in against Rayan Nathan. Nathan made the call.

Johnson: {A-Clubs} {J-Hearts}
Nathan: {Q-Spades} {10-Hearts}

Nathan had turned the nut straight. Only an ace or jack would save Johnson. Then, as fate would have it, the {A-Hearts} fell on the river to make aces full and double up Johnson to 44,000.

Tags: Doug Johnson

Anjela Brunson Moves Up

Anjela Brunson from day 1c
Anjela Brunson from day 1c
Simon Christensen raised to 2,500 in early position. Anjela Brunson made the call from the cutoff and the big blind also called.

The flop came {Q-Spades} {10-Hearts} {7-Spades} and the big blind checked. Christensen checked as well and then Brunson bet 3,100. The big blind folded and Christensen called.

The turn was the {2-Spades} and it was checked to Brunson again and she bet 4,500. Christensen called.

The river was the {J-Diamonds} and both Christensen and Brunson checked. Brunson showed {K-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds} and Christensen showed {K-Spades} {J-Clubs}. Brunson's pair of queens won the pot and she is now up to 113,000.

Tags: Anjela BrunsonSimon Christensen

Chip Jett Passes 100K

Ship it to Chip
Ship it to Chip
A middle-position player limped in, the cutoff raised to 2,400, Chip Jett called from the big blind and the MP player called. The flop was {A-Clubs} {10-Hearts} {4-Diamonds} and the action was checked around. The turn was the {2-Spades}. Jett led out for 3,000, the MP player called, the cutoff raised to 10,500, Jett called and the MP player folded. The river was the {2-Clubs}. Jett checked and the cutoff checked behind.

Jett showed {A-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds} and the cutoff mucked. Jett is now up to 105,000.

Tags: Chip Jett

Bowling for Sklansky Dollars

Matt Ross and David Sklansky were all in preflop. Sklansky tabled {10-Diamonds} {10-Clubs} and was in bad shape against Ross's {A-Hearts} {A-Diamonds}. But the flop changed the whole tenor of the hand when it came down {8-Clubs} {10-Spades} {9-Hearts} to make a set of tens for Sklansky. The turn and river couldn't save Ross from losing the hand -- they were the {K-Hearts} and the {6-Diamonds}.

As Sklansky raked in a pot worth 26,000, someone in the crowd shouted out, "Wow, that dude just won Sklansky Dollars off of Sklansky."

Sklansky Dollars (a phrase not actually coined by David Sklansky) is a sarcastic concept used to imply what a player's theoretical profit would be over the long-term if he got his money in "good" in a given situation every time -- for example, when he has a 4.5:1 edge with pocket aces over a smaller pocket pair. If the pot is worth 26,000 chips, the player holding aces has roughly 21,000 chips worth of equity in the pot. Of course, if his opponent makes a set, he gets zero of the pot. But in Sklansky Dollars, he's up 21,000.

Ross heard the comment and ran with it. "You owe me a lot of Sklansky Dollars for that one, David. Which book is that play outlined in?"

Sklansky had no comment.

HotChips Hangs On

Tiffany "HotChips" Michelle has seen a reversal of fortune ever since her aces were cracked by Tony Antonious. Down to her last 8,000, Michelle pushed all in preflop with {A-Diamonds} {Q-Clubs} and was called by an opponent holding {K-Spades} {J-Hearts}. Michelle hit an ace on the turn to cinch the win, but is still in bad shape with just 16,000.

Dolan's Dollars

Charles Dolan just got into a preflop raising war from the big blind after a player had raised from the cutoff and all the chips ended up in the middle. Dolan held {J-Clubs} {J-Spades} to his opponent's {A-Clubs} {9-Clubs}.

The board came {7-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds} {6-Hearts} {K-Diamonds} {J-Hearts}. A set at the end ensured the chips went Dolan's way, putting him up to 175,000. His opponent, on the other hand, is out.

Tags: Charles Dolan

When One Out is All You Need

Brett Richey and Jimmy Wong got all the money in before the flop with Richey's {J-Spades} {J-Hearts} in trouble against Wong's {Q-Clubs} {Q-Spades}. But Richey was in the direst of straits after the {2-Clubs} {K-Clubs} {4-Clubs} flop. His best chance to win was to spike a single card, the {J-Diamonds}. If the board didn't pair and the {J-Diamonds} didn't come on the turn or river, he'd lose the hand. That was the only card that could save the day all by itself, the {J-Diamonds}. Have I made my point, or am I being too subtle?

Anyway, I'm sure you'll be shocked, shocked, to learn that on the turn Richey did indeed catch the {J-Diamonds}. Wong still had outs to reverse that brutal suckout but instead it was the {8-Diamonds} that fell on the river, and he was eliminated. Richey is now up to 165,000.

Barisch Gets a Break, But Still Can't Capitalize

Carl Restifo raised first-in, making it 2,500 to go. Action passed to Martin Barisch, and he moved all in for about 17,000. Restifo made the call, but the dealer apparently mistook the action, thinking the hand had finished. She grabbed the already-mucked cards from the rest of the table and added them to the deck in her hands. The floor was called over, and the remaining deck had to be reshuffled before the board could be dealt out. While this was happening, the players who still had cards showed them down:

Restifo: {K-Clubs} {K-Spades}
Barisch: {A-Hearts} {Q-Clubs}

Interestingly, three players said that they folded an ace before the dealer moved them from the muck back in to the active deck. Barisch was at risk of elimination, and his best hope was to catch one of those second-chance aces.

No such luck for him though. The dealer spread the community cards: {9-Clubs} {6-Hearts} {4-Clubs} {7-Diamonds} {3-Clubs}, and Barisch headed for the door.