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

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