Saab slowly raised his hand up, revealing to the table one of his cards -- the
-- before dragging the pot. "I was tired of being blinded out," said Saab. He's still sitting with a little over two million.
2008 World Series of Poker
39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
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Saab slowly raised his hand up, revealing to the table one of his cards -- the
-- before dragging the pot. "I was tired of being blinded out," said Saab. He's still sitting with a little over two million.
. We believe Nguyen fired out a bet of around 100,000 before Dragomir made it roughly 300,000 to go. Nguyen moved all in and sent Dragomir into the tank. He eventually laid it down and Nguyen collected a nice pot to move to about 1.7 million chips.
Phil Hellmuth and Mike Matusow were joking around with Aaron Keay; Hellmuth started a brief argument with David Rheem; meanwhile Matusow broke into a third conversation with Sean Davis. Everyone seemed to be doing the talking and with the TD announcing the action over the microphone, it made it impossible for us to decipher what exactly was being said. Then we heard another player bluntly comment, “Guys, there’s a hand going on here!” which quickly put the conversations to rest.
. Klodnicki made a continuation bet of 100,000, and Kim called.The turn brought the
. This time Klodnicki bet 225,000. Kim called again.The river was the
. Klodnicki checked. "Oh my God," said Kim. "How ridiculous was that river? I check. You got aces?""Threes," answered Klodnicki, showing his
. "Wow," said Kim, grateful that his
was good.Kim now has 3.4 million, while Klodnicki has just a little over one million.
The flop came
. Kolstad checked and Neff moved all in. Kolstad was the shorter stack and called all in for his tournament life. The players showed:Neff:
Kolstad:
The turn sealed the deal as it fell the
. The on the river was a mere formality. Kolstad was eliminated and Neff chipped up to just over 1,000,000.
Both opponents folded as Pham exclaimed, "Kids, don't try this at home!" as he flashed
!
and when Kostritsyn checked, Beckman bet 90,000. Alex counted out his chips, arrived at 395,000, and moved all in. Beckman spent about four minutes chewing it over before making the call, and found that his
were ahead of Kostritsyn's 
. Beckman still had to sweat the turn and river but when the came 
he took down the pot. Kostritsyn shook everyone's hand, wished them all good luck, and walked away from the table.
against Carroll's .The board of
gave Outhred a pair of queens to double to 664,000 chips.
and both players checked. The turn was the 
. Lanini bet 100,000 and Scott called. The river was the . Lanini check-called another 100,000. Scott showed
for a turned set and Lanini mucked. Scott was up to 1,720,000 after the hand while Lanini fell to 750,000.
The board of
was checked through until the river when Pham fired out about 100,000.After some table talk, Pham coaxed Loecke into making the call with pocket eights, but Pham flipped
for top pair to add to his stack.
