39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event Day 5 | 2008 World Series of Poker

07-12-2008 15:37 UTC-8

Let's Build Us a Nice Little Pot

Matthew Jensen raised to 50,000 from late position and Ivan Demidov reraised to 145,000 from the cutoff. Jensen shoved for his last 318,000 and Demidov called, to find that his {A-Clubs}

was dominated by Jensen's {A-Spades}

. The board ran out {2-Diamonds}

, Jensen doubled to 780,000, and Demidov is down to 2.04 million.

07-12-2008 15:38 UTC-8

Michelle Motors On

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Tiffany Michelle raised to 48,000 from middle position and Lonnie Heimowitz flat-called from the cutoff.

The flop came {Q-Spades}

and both players checked. The turn was the {3-Clubs}

and Michelle fired out 50,000 which was called by Heimowitz. The river landed the {Q-Diamonds}

and Michelle bet out again, this time for 100,000. Heimowitz again made the call as Michelle flipped {K-Spades}

for trip queens to take down the pot.

Michelle is up to 1.78 million, with Heimowitz falling to 250,000 chips.

Tags: Lonnie Heimowitz Tiffany Michelle

07-12-2008 15:39 UTC-8

We missed the early preflop action, but we did see Terry Stewart move in for his all 235,000 of his chips. He found a customer in the big blind, Nicholas Sliwinski, although it's probably one he wished he hadn't found. Stewart showed {A-Diamonds}

against Sliwinski's {K-Spades}

. Stewart couldn't come up with anything that would beat kings on a board of {9-Hearts}

.

07-12-2008 15:42 UTC-8

Deng Dong, the Witc...Deng Dong Has Been Eliminated

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Breaking the heart of every person covering the World Series of Poker, Deng Dong has been knocked out. He was all in for his last handful of chips with {K-Hearts}

and ran into pocket kings. The {10-Diamonds}

board brought him no help and his Main Event came to an end.

07-12-2008 15:43 UTC-8

Girl Power

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There are currently three women remaining in the tournament and they are:

Tiffany Michelle - 1,600,000
Lisa Parsons - 530,000
Kara Scott - 330,000

07-12-2008 15:44 UTC-8

Saab Calls It Right

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After Mauro Lupo limped in from under the gun, action folded to Jeremy Joseph on the button, who raised to 36,000. The small blind called the raise before David Saab, in the big blind, reraised to 75,000. That brought the action back to Lupo, who promptly shoved for 457,000 total. Joseph and the small blind folded, but Saab made the call.

Lupo: {Q-Hearts}

Saab:

The flop came down {K-Clubs}

to bring Lupo a flush draw. He picked up an inside straight draw to go along with it on the {6-Clubs}

turn.

"Here it comes," said Saab. "The suckout."

Lupo had a pretty big draw going into the river, and hit one of his outs when the {A-Hearts}

hit to fill Lupo's flush.

07-12-2008 15:45 UTC-8

Heimowitz Doubles Through Loecke

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Lonnie Heimowitz has doubled up through Tim Loecke after all the chips were in preflop with Heimowitz holding the lead with {K-Hearts}

against the {8-Clubs}

of Loecke.

The board ran out {9-Clubs}

to double Heimowitz up to 390,000. Loecke is back to 750,000.

Tags: Lonnie Heimowitz Tim Loecke

07-12-2008 15:46 UTC-8

Big Stack Defends Big Blind

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Gert Andersen raised to 40,000 from middle position, and it folded around to Nikolay Losev, who called from the big blind.

The flop came {2-Clubs}

. Losev checked, Andersen bet 60,000, and Losev called. The turn was the {Q-Clubs}

. Both checked.

The river brought the {3-Hearts}

. This time Losev pulled out a stack of twenty orange chips and set it out before him -- a bet of 100,000. Andersen immediately let it go.

Losev is up to 2.24 million, while Andersen currently has about 475,000.

Tags: Gert Andersen Nikolay Losev

07-12-2008 15:48 UTC-8

Anderson Flushed by Dragomir

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A short-stacked Jeff Anderson had been waiting patiently all day for a good spot to get the last of his chips into the middle. He eventually made a move with {Q-Diamonds}

but Cristian Dragomir made the call with {A-Diamonds}

.

The board ran out {K-Diamonds}

to give Dragomir a rivered flush to send Anderson to the exit.

Tags: Cristian Dragomir Jeff Anderson

07-12-2008 15:51 UTC-8

Alex Tinsley Eliminated

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Alex Tinsley has been knocked out of the Main Event, but not without a little bit of strange behavior from Albert Kim. Tinsley opened the pot with a raise to 45,000. Kim, sitting in the big blind, announced a raise. Before he could count out how much of a raise he wanted to make, Tinsley reraised all in for 285,000 total.

Kim asked for a floor to be called to the table so he could determine how much was the minimum he had to raise prior to Tinsley's all-in reraise. The floor responded that Kim was obligated to make a minimum raise to 74,000. With that, Kim announced his raise to 74,000 and then added that he was calling Tinsley's reraise as well!

Tinsley: {9-Spades}

Kim:

It was an all-diamond flop of {A-Diamonds}