Illingworth held pocket kings and avoided any mischief as the board bricked out against the short-stacked Kevin Boudreau's
.Boudreau departs in 39th place and will collect $14,192 for his efforts as Illingworth now sits with 820,000 chips.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 15 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$3,078,500
Entries
655
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Players Left 1 / 655
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Illingworth held pocket kings and avoided any mischief as the board bricked out against the short-stacked Kevin Boudreau's
.Boudreau departs in 39th place and will collect $14,192 for his efforts as Illingworth now sits with 820,000 chips.
The flop was
and action checked to Benefield, who fired 23,000 with Lacay the only caller.The turn was a repeat
and Lacay checked to Benefield who made a bet of 32,000, which was enough to take it down. He's now up to 210,000 chips.
Level: 18
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
We caught the action on the turn with the board spread
. Medic checked to Illingworth who fired 31,500. Medic made the call, and then check-called the 63,500 chip bet of Illingworth on the 
river.The unstoppable Illingworth revealed
for trips to take it down.Illingworth now has a massive 945,000 chips spread out over approximately 40 stacks of chips across the table.
Interestingly, the other big stack of the field, Billy Kopp has just been moved to this table which is now very heavily stacked with chips.
The board was spread
and Lemke collects a nice pot and sends Rios to the rail.
.The race ended quickly with a flop of
, and the 
on the turn and river didn't change anything.Atkins now has 130,000.
and decided to open-shove for around 120,000. Only problem was that Mike Sowers woke up with 
in the small blind and made an insta-call.The flop was
, giving the players a sweat as Braband had picked up a pair and chop outs with the straight draw. The turn was a brick with the , however the "ooooohs" from the rail gave away that the river was a cruel 
, giving Braband trips to crack the aces of Sowers.Braband wipes the sweat from his brow and sits back down behind 260,000 chips.
Boyd:
Kopp:
The flop was a good one for Boyd as it landed
, but the on the turn wasn't quite what he wanted. The bricked the river and Boyd was sent to the exit as Kopp moves up to 720,000.
ran into the of Isaac Baron.The chips were in the middle preflop and the board bricked to end the tournament for Holt. Baron sits with 600,000 chips.
Lemke showed pocket fours and trailed Neu's pocket eightss, but a four in the window changed things as the flop came
. When Neu bricked with the on the turn and 
on the river, Lemke doubled to 310,000.
