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

07-10-2008 23:21 UTC-7

New Hand

[user66118]

We did not lose any players in that last run, so the dealers are flinging out the cards once more.

07-10-2008 23:18 UTC-7

As is probably the case around the room, there is a player at table 41 with a very short stack, doing all he can to make it to the money. Right now he seems content to make the money in the Main Event. He currently has around 15,000 in chips.

The action should be wild and crazy once we reach 666.

07-10-2008 23:15 UTC-7

New Hand

[user66118]

The next hand is being dealt.

07-10-2008 23:14 UTC-7

One Away!

[user38368]

There are 667 players remaining, meaning there is one final bubble boy or girl left to go out! If multiple players go out at once in this situation, all of them will split the last-place prize money.

07-10-2008 23:11 UTC-7

Two Former Champions Remain

[user38368]

The only former WSOP World Champions left in this event are Phil Hellmuth, with 310,000, and Johnny Chan, with 336,000.

07-10-2008 23:10 UTC-7

Why Aces Are Bad Bubble Material

[user66118]

From middle position, a player opened with a raise to 14,000. Shaun Pitt made the call from late position, and the two men went heads up to the flop.

It rolled out {8-Diamonds}

. The raiser checked over to Pitt, who bet out 30,000. His opponent then check-raised all in for his last 80,000, and Pitt made the call. Pitt held {Q-Diamonds}

but he was well behind the {A-Diamonds}

of the at-risk player.

The turn was the {9-Spades}

, and there was just one more card to fade.

River: {Q-Hearts}

The stomach-churning two-outer hit the river for Pitt, and he sends a player to the rail on the bubble, shaking his head in disbelief. The money is now one step closer for those riding their short stack.

07-10-2008 23:08 UTC-7

Big Stack Power... With Some Luck

donpeters

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}

and Peters held {Q-Hearts}

. 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}

, 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 Peters Jeremiah Smith

07-10-2008 23:05 UTC-7

All In...

[user42991]

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."

07-10-2008 22:55 UTC-7

Constant Battle

MarcC

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.

07-10-2008 22:51 UTC-7