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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Raja Kattamuri Breaks a Million

Raja Kattamuri opened for 16,000 from the cutoff, Phidias Georgio reraised to 50,500 from the big blind, Kattamuri three-bet to 150,000, Georgio moved all in and Kattamuri called all in for 492,000, creating a million-chip pot as the hole cards were turned over.

Georgio {K-Hearts} {K-Spades}

Kattamuri {A-Clubs} {A-Spades}

The board ran out {10-Diamonds} {9-Spades} {4-Hearts} {Q-Clubs} {9-Hearts} and Kattamuri raked in the pot, increasing his stack to 1,065,000. Georgio was left with only 110,000.

"Four days of play for this!" cried a clearly disappointed Georgio.

"Nice hand" he added a few moments later as he composed himself.

"Sorry if I scared you!" he said to his massage therapist, who tried to coax the cooler out of his shoulders.

Tags: Phidias GeorgioRaja Kattamuri

Blanda's Back in Business

Under the gun, Greg Duros raises to 16,000 and in the big blind, Bill Blanda reraises to 89,000. Duros is all in and Blanda calls.

Blanda: {K-Spades}{8-Spades}
Duros: {Q-Spades}{Q-Hearts}

The board comes {2-Hearts}{2-Spades}{J-Hearts}{K-Clubs}{7-Clubs} and the turned king is good for Blanda.

"Fat boy's back in business, baby!" shouts Blanda.

As he's raking the pot in, he repeats a mantra from yesterday's play: "They should make convicts play this game for punishment."

Blanda now has 200,000 and Duros is down to 140,000.

Scott Sets Up an Elimination

Kara Scott
Kara Scott
Preflop, Kara Scott had made it 17,000 to go when a player on the button moved all in. Scott called and showed pocket kings and was up against her opponent's pocket jacks. Scott flopped a set and her opponent failed to improve, sending him to the rail and bumping Scott's count up to 280,000.

Tschirch Heads for the Cage

Big pairs seem to be holding today with a bit more frequency than we've seen on previous days of the Main Event. Tim Taylor's pocket queens prevailed over Mark Tschirch's pocket sixes on a board of {4-Hearts} {A-Hearts} {9-Clubs} {7-Spades} {K-Spades} after all the money went in preflop. That hand sent Tschirch to the rail and bumped Taylor up to the 500,000 mark.

Russ Silva Eliminated

After two limpers from late position, including Geert Jans from the button, Russ Silva pushed all in from the small blind for his last 13,500. Jans made the call and the players showed:

Silva: {J-Diamonds} {J-Clubs}
Jans: {4-Clubs} {4-Diamonds}

Silva led, but the roles were reversed when flop came {K-Spades} {Q-Hearts} {4-Hearts}. The turn and river were the {8-Spades} and {3-Hearts} respectively and Silva was eliminated.

ElkY Eliminated

ElkY From Day 3
ElkY From Day 3
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier moved in for his last 95,000 before the flop with {K-Clubs} {K-Spades} and Anthony Zinno called with {A-Diamonds} {Q-Spades}. Zinno was looking for an ace and that's just what he found on the {A-Clubs} {8-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} flop. The {10-Clubs} on the turn and {5-Spades} brought ElkY no help and his Main Event came to an end.

From Bad To Worse

Hasan Habib hasn't had things go his way today, and things just got a whole lot worse when he ran his {Q-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds} into the {A-Diamonds}{A-Spades} of Bernie Koerner.

The chips were in preflop with the board panning out {4-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}{K-Spades} to give Koerner the double-up and leave Habib in trouble with only about 30,000 chips left.

Tags: Bernie KoernerHasan Habib

Berda Flies Away

Terry Stewart raised to 16,000 from late position, and Tomer Berda reraised to 46,000 from the big blind. Berda's bet only left him 34,000 behind, so it was clear he was going to be committed to going all of the way with this one. Stewart went ahead and reraised enough to put Berda all in, and Berda made the call.

Berda showed {7-Spades}{7-Clubs}, and Stewart {A-Clubs}{J-Clubs}. The flop was ugly for Berda -- {J-Spades}{J-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}. No sevens or running straight cards came to save him, and Berda is out.

Stewart is up to 960,000.

Tags: Terry StewartTomer Berda