39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event Day 3 | 2008 World Series of Poker

07-10-2008 15:43 UTC-8

Schaefted

Brandon Schaefer's stack has been getting smaller and smaller all day. Just before the break, his final move was to call all in with {K-?}

after he was reraised. Unfortunately for him, his foe had {Q-?}

that stood up to knock out Schaefer.

Tags: Brandon Schaefer

07-10-2008 15:39 UTC-8

Break Time

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Players are on a 20-minute break. There are 857 remaining, so we're fewer than 200 from the money.

07-10-2008 15:38 UTC-8

From under the gun, Paul Renaud comes in raising to 6,000. Larry Wright puts in a reraise all in, enough to cover his man. Renaud makes the call for a total of 40,000, and it is showdown time:

Renaud: {3-?}

Wright:

The board comes out {6-?}

, and Wright's full house beats that of Renaud. Wright chips up to 240,000, knocking out a player in the process.

07-10-2008 15:38 UTC-8

Victor Ramdin Takes a Big Hit

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Victor Ramdin raised to 6,000 from under the gun and action folded around to Yde van Deutekom in the cutoff and he reraised to 18,000. When action got back to Ramdin, he instantly made it 63,000 to play and van Deutekom went into the tank.

After about four minutes, the clock was called and van Deutekom made the call. The flop came {8-Spades}

and Ramdin checked. Van Deutekom bet 45,000 and Ramdin called.

The turn fell the {2-Diamonds}

and Ramdin moved all in. He had van Deutekom well covered and the bet put van Deutekom into the tank once more. After about five minutes, another clock was called by the same player who called for it earlier in the hand. Van Deutekom made what seemed to be a call out of frustration and the players showed:

Van Deutekom: {K-Clubs}

Ramdin:

The turn fell the {6-Spades}

which missed Ramdin's flush and straight draws. He lost the hand and was left with 291,000 while van Deutekom doubled up to just over 400,000

07-10-2008 15:33 UTC-8

Marked Man

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Markus Golser was heads-up with Cedric Kolstad and the flop was out as {4-Diamonds}

. A series of bets and raises saw all the chips in the middle.

Golser was confident with {8-Diamonds}

, but Kolstad revealed a monstrous {10-Diamonds}

. The turn and river blanked, sending Golser's stack back down to 76,000.

Tags: Markus Golser

07-10-2008 15:30 UTC-8

Kirill Gerasimov Has to Lay it Down

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Preflop, Team PokerNews player Kirill Gerasimov raises to 5,200 and Ronald Adams reraises to 12,000. Kirill calls. The flop is {4-Hearts}

and Adams bets 20,000. Kirill lays it down and now has 140,000.

07-10-2008 15:30 UTC-8

Break Time....Not So Fast

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With around seven minutes left in the level, our clock decided it was time to go to break and jumped straight to the break. The whole room came alive with chatter as everyone was trying to figure out if it was break time or not. The floor staff were quick to jump on the issue and let everyone know that this wasn't a break, just that the clock had skipped.

The clock is tired, it wanted an early break. Now it will have to wait a few more minutes.

07-10-2008 15:26 UTC-8

Not Easy to do

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Jani Vilmunen faced a raise to 13,000 that he reraised another 32,400. His opponent then raised another 70,000 on top and that caused Vilmunen to go in to the tank. He sat there for nearly ten minutes thinking over his decision then folded {K-?}

face-up.

He asked his opponent not to reveal his hand and he didn't. The rest of the table seemed to agree it was a good lay-down though.

Tags: Jani Vilmunen

07-10-2008 15:25 UTC-8

They're TRYING to Bust Him!

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Phil Hellmuth just stood up from his chair and searched the rail for his lovely wife. When he found her a few tables away, he also found a listening ear:

"Honey. Honey, they dealt me ace-king and they dealt him aces. I mean, c'mon..." He turned to walk away, then looked over his shoulder to add, "I got away immediately, but it cost me twenty thousand."

Tags: Phil Hellmuth

07-10-2008 15:24 UTC-8