2008 World Series of Poker

39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
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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Deep Thoughts With Lon McEachern

Lon McEachern is standing over here chatting with us over near the Blue section and made an observation that holds very true to poker players.

"It's funny how that a fire alarm goes off and nobody moves. Let a clock hit zero, and everyone runs."

When observing a player who is short-stacked he said, "That guy only has about 30,000. He hasn't done anything in awhile."

Another person commented, "Some people play to win and some are money people."

McEachern: "He looks like a money person."

Tags: Lon McEachern

Miracle Chop

A potential bubble player survived here in Amazon Green when his {Q-?}{Q-?} was all in versus {A-?}{A-?} on a board of {6-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{7-Spades}{10-Spades}{9-Clubs}. The straight on the board allowed the short stack to survive with a split pot.

Break Confusion

It was just announced that players are not on break and that they are still hand for hand. A lot of players completed their hands and left the room, assuming they were going on break. If they fail to return, hand for hand will continue without them and they'll miss about 15-20 minutes of play.

Constant Battle

The floor staff need and have requested that players stay in their seats in-between hands, so they can see what's going on and so that cameras can have clear access to any all-in confontations. You'd have more hope of Phil Hellmuth admitting there are better poker players out there than being successful in that task.

All In...

Right now at the PokerNews desk are two representatives of ALL IN Energy Drink and Energy water. They have told us that for this Main Event, over 500,000 bottles of water and cans of energy drink will be consumed.

The representative pointed out a guy at Table 41 and said, "That guy must be bored. He is actually reading the ingredients."

Big Stack Power... With Some Luck

David Peters raised under the gun and action folded to Jeremiah Smith who was still reorganizing his chip stack. Smith stopped talking rubgy with a tablemate and pushed out two tall orange stacks totaling 200,000 from the small blind. The big blind folded and Peters looked at his stack, then to Smith, and then said "I call," and had his last 160,000 on the line.

Smith rolled over {9-Clubs} {6-Clubs} and Peters held {Q-Hearts} {Q-Spades}. Before any action was dealt, the table was swarmed by media and other players, even some railbirds made it into the fray.

"I'm sorry," said Smith. Implying that a beat would be delivered. "It's your standard race situation."

After the camera crew cleared up the preflop action, the flop came {10-Clubs} {8-Diamonds} {7-Clubs}, and Smith flopped the straight right off, with a club redraw.

"Running so good!" yelled Greg Mueller from the edge of the crowd.

The turn brought some outs for Peters with the {10-Hearts} and the crowd took a gasp.

The river was the {A-Spades} and that was it for Peters. He quickly made his exit from the room with the ESPN camera team hot on his trail to get some more shots.

Tags: David PetersJeremiah Smith