2009 World Series of Poker

Event 15 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 3
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Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a8
Prize
$692,658
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$3,078,500
Entries
655
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Players Left 1 / 655
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Nice Play Sowers

Mike Sowers opened with a raise to 40,000 from the cutoff and action folded to Olivier Busquet in the big blind who announced a raise to 115,000. Sowers thought for only a moment before declaring himself all in for an additional 561,000. Busquet went into the tank.

"I'm going to take my time here..." pondered Busquet as a good five minutes elapsed before he found a fold.

"Nice play," said Busquet. He slips to 675,000 with Sowers now up to 850,000.

Tags: Mike SowersOlivier Busquet

Benefield Doubles Through Inselberg

David Benefield
David Benefield
David Inselberg raised to 46,000 from early position and action folded to David Benefield, who pushed for 221,000 from the big blind. Inselberg made the call and the hands were shown.

Benefield: {A-Clubs}{A-Spades}
Inselberg: {A-Hearts}{Q-Clubs}

Inselberg caught some help on a flop of {Q-Spades}{6-Hearts}{6-Clubs}, but nothing more on the turn and river which came {3-Diamonds} and {K-Clubs}. Benefield now has 460,000.

Lemke Applies Pressure

After just doubling up, David Benefield has tried to put those newly-found chips to work, but found resistance from Brian Lemke.

Lemke raised to 42,000 from the button and Benefield made the call in the small blind.

They saw a flop of {5-Spades}{Q-Diamonds}{Q-Spades} and Benefield led out with a bet of 57,000, and Lemke made the call. The turn was the {J-Diamonds} and Benefield checked to Lemke, who fired 100,000 into the middle. Benefield only had about 360,000 behind and deliberated for a long time before releasing as Lemke flashed {8-Spades}{3-Spades} for the semi-bluff to move up to over 1 million in chips.

Tags: Brian LemkeDavid Benefield

Level: 22

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 3,000

David Benefield Loses His Stack; Eliminated in 14th place ($35,341)

David Benefield
David Benefield
David Benefield suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune that led to his elimination in 14th place.

After doubling up through David Inselberg before the last break, Benefield gave all of the chips back when he pushed all in with {A-Spades}{J-Clubs} and got called by Inselberg's {A-Diamonds}{Q-Spades}

A flop of {2-Diamonds}{J-Diamonds}{10-Clubs} put Benefield in the lead, but the {K-Spades} on the turn gave Inselberg Broadway and the hand. The {4-Diamonds} on the river left Benefield with just 1,000.

Benefield's last chip went to the ante and when Thomas Keller open shoved under-the-gun, the rest of the table folded. Keller showed {6-Diamonds}{6-Clubs} to Benefield's {4-Clubs}{5-Clubs}.

A board of {7-Diamonds}{J-Spades}{4-Spades} provided a little help, but the {7-Clubs} on the turn ended Benefield's day. When the {10-Spades} hit the river, Benefield went home in 14th place with $35,341.