held up nicely against her opponent's 
down an exciting but ultimately no-cigar sort of 
board.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 11 - $2,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$2,000
Prize Pool
$2,995,720
Entries
1,646
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 1,646
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held up nicely against her opponent's down an exciting but ultimately no-cigar sort of board.
against Eric Neal's 
-- already drawing thin, and drawing dead come the flushalicious 
flop. The Seabeast swims away none the richer.
Liya Gerasimova is our latest casualty, getting her chips in most confidently with
but finding herself up against some rather unexpected pocket aces. A queen-free board later, and we are down one Russian.
Mercier:
Other Player:
Board:
With the average stack at around 23,500, though, 40,000 still constitutes a very healthy stack and he won't be going anywhere for a while.
A few breaktime chip counts...
T.J. Cloutier: 32,000
Thanh Chau: 112,500 and still our chip leader
Phil Hellmuth: 28,000
Captain Tom Franklin: 22,000
Tommy Pope: 85,000
William Martin: 22,000
Tom McEvoy: 12,500
Kathy Liebert: 9,100
Maridu Mayrinck: 27,000
We'll be back in 20 to play ouy the last two levels of the night.
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Friedman:
Cutoff: a rather optimistic
Button:
Board: an unbelievably exciting
to give Mr Cutoff a flush, taking the main pot, and Mr Button a straight to take the sizable side pot."WOO!" declared Mr Button. "WOO! WOO!" and banged his fist on the table in a rather ungentlemanly manner. It was loud and brash enough for one of the floormen to upbraid him: "Sir, there is no need to beat the furniture."
Friedman is down to 23,000.
absolutely no good against pocket when the board came down 
.
