2009 World Series of Poker
Event 17 - $1,000 Ladies World Championship
Day: 2
Players Left 1 / 1,060
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Monica Champa raised to 20,000 and Morelli just flatted from the small blind; they proceeded to a ten-high flop. All the chips went in, and Champa turned over her
to discover that she was drawing pretty thin against Morelli's pocket aces, and drawing dead when another ace came on the turn. Down to mere shrapnel, Morelli knocked out the hapless Champa a hand or two later.
Blair:
Hapless, now-busted opponent:
Board:
versus pocket queens, and then attempted to go all in as soon as her cards were dealt to her -- but was informed that she was in the big blind. "Oh s***, did I just kill my own action?" she sighed. But Angel Pedroza woke up with
and raised; Mayrinck, making the inevitable call, was holding
and was coinflipping, but witness the sickest of sick boards...Board:
Ouch. Mayrinck is out, and the Pedroza stack continues to grow.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
Pierce:
Pedroza:
"Oh no! You're not going to beat me twice in a row!" wailed Pierce, but oh yes she was...
Board: an ace-free
Pierce is out, and Pedroza is up to a comfortable 98,000.
Hillis:
Houle:
Board:
With a heartfelt, "Thank you," to Hillis, Houle doubled to around 35,000.
coming good against Patti Zarosky's
on a
board.However, still firmly in the danger zone after that double up, she came a cropper a few hands later when she found herself all in with
and up against another player's
. No help at all from the
board and Burkhead is out of here.