2009 World Series of Poker

Event 15 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
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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

Matusow Calms Hellmuth

Mike Matusow was sweating Phil Hellmuth in a hand that we picked up in progress.

Hellmuth bet 2,000 on a board of {10-Spades}{5-Clubs}{K-Hearts}{6-Clubs}, and got check-raised by his opponent. Hellmuth started to boil a little before laying down his pocket queens, complaining to Matusow how his opponent probably called him with "a nothing hand like {K-?} {3-?}".

When his opponent turned over ace-king, Hellmuth settled a little and decided it was a reasonable play. Matusow laughed, told Hellmuth to keep his cool, and went back to sweat Huck Seed, David Chiu and Todd Brunson at the $10K mixed games final table.

Hellmuth has about 8,000 chips after the hand.