Event 11 - $2,000 No Limit Hold'em | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-06-2009 13:48 UTC-12

Chip Counts, Six-Handed

Peter Rho: 3,800,000
Anthony Harb: 1,700,000
Jonathan McGowan: 1,400,000
Jim Geary: 1,150,000
Adam Adler: 1,000,000
Adrian Dresel-Velasquez: 830,000

06-06-2009 13:56 UTC-12

Jack Link's Beef Jerky In the House!

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A waitress has appeared at final table with a platter of Official Jerky Of The WSOP, Jack Link's, for all the final tablers, and one very happy blogger. Hurrah! "Jack it up," as said Robbie the TD...

06-06-2009 13:59 UTC-12

Yeah! Woo!

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Adam Adler raised in early position, but Jonathan McGowan made it 320,000 from the small blind. To cries of, "Yeah! Woo!" from McGowan's friends at the rail, Adler folded and McGowan won the pot.

06-06-2009 14:03 UTC-12

Incidentally, it turns out that Jim Geary is not just bored -- he is actually a renowned crossword champion, and is clearly keen not to let that skill slide just because he's gone very very deep in a poker tournament. Every time he finds that no decision is required of him, he goes back to his crossword on a side table. Marvellous.

06-06-2009 14:04 UTC-12

Three Minute Pause

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It's the ESPN ad break; level up in just a moment.

Level: 26

Blinds: 25,000/50,000

Ante: 5,000

06-06-2009 14:10 UTC-12

Back at the Table

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Products have been successfully advertised, and they're back at the table. Except for Jonathan McGowan, who's still in the bathroom. No matter, cards are in the air.

...And McGowan has now sprinted back in, just in time for the second hand -- he got a walk. By the by first hand Geary moved all in from the small blind, but big blind Adrian Dresel-Velasquez wasn't interested.

06-06-2009 14:16 UTC-12

Rho Still Chip Monster

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Peter Rho has picked up another pot, this time his {Q-?}

coming good against Jonathan McGowan's pocket nines on a {7-Spades}

board. The stacks are hard to see form the press corner, but it looks as though he's over 4,000,000 now -- nearly half the chips in play.

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06-06-2009 14:23 UTC-12

Adrian Dresel-Velasquez Eliminated in 6th Place ($92,867)

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Dresel-Velasquez - no more CTRL V for this blogger

Short-stacked Adrian Dresel-Velasquez announced all in -- and in the big blind, Adam Adler called.

A showdown!

Dresel-Velasquez: {Q-Spades}

Adler:

Board:

Raucous drunken cheering from Adler's rail buddies, and a thoroughly gentlemanly Dresel-Velasquez smiled, shook hands and went on his merry 6th-place way.

Tags: Adrian Dresel-Velasquez

06-06-2009 14:27 UTC-12