2009 World Series of Poker

Event 22 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k5
Prize
$313,673
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,363,635
Entries
1,000
Level Info
Level
8
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000

Jared Hamby Eliminated

Jared Hamby
Jared Hamby
Jared Hamby was behind when he got all his chips in against Chris Klodnicki before the flop and could never catch up.

Hamby: {K-Spades}{Q-Clubs}
Klodnicki: {A-Hearts}{J-Hearts}

A flop of {3-Diamonds}{A-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds} secured Klodnicki's lead in the hand, and the {8-Hearts} and {2-Spades} on the turn and river ensured that Hamby would not be advancing to Day 3.

JC Finds No Salvation

JC Alvarado - Out
JC Alvarado - Out
We pick up a heads-up pot on the flop as the board shows {A-Spades} {10-Hearts} {3-Diamonds}. JC Alvarado is first to act, and he checks over to his lone opponent. Ralph Shannon moved all in, having Alvarado covered, and the pro would take several minutes to make his decision. Deep in the tank, he counted and re-counted his own chip stack, shooting the occasional glance across the table. Finally, he did indeed make the call, putting his tournament life at risk.

Showdown
Alvarado: {A-Diamonds} {J-Spades}
Shannon: {A-Clubs} {10-Clubs}

Alvarado had started with the dominating hand, but Shannon's two pair had pulled him into the lead. The turn {3-Hearts} gave Alvarado a couple extra outs, but the {K-Clubs} that hit the river was a blank. Failing to come back from behind, JC Alvarado has been eliminated.

Tags: JC AlvaradoRalph Shannon

Victor Ramdin Gets Knocked Out

Victor Ramdin
Victor Ramdin
We got the details of this hand after it happened, but the story is a pretty common one. Victor Ramdin was getting short stacked and pushed all in with ace-jack. He got called by Jan Skampa holding aces.

The aces held up and Ramdin went to the rail.

***Hand Update***

Ramdin was holding {A-Hearts}{J-Clubs} while his Skampa held {A-Spades}{A-Diamonds}. The final board ran out {6-Spades}{6-Clubs}{7-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}, giving Skampa a full house of sixes and aces.

Heads-Up!

We finally have our first heads-up table of Round 2. At Table 60 in the corner of the room, the two remaining players are sitting at opposite ends of the table, setting up a stare-down heads-up match. Ralph Shannon has a slight lead over Nick Binger, sitting with 250,000 to Binger's 200,000.

Tags: Nick BingerRalph Shannon

Level: 6

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300

Keith Block Gets Flushed

Keith Block got his stack into the middle from the small blind and got a call from the late arriving Marco Liesy on the button.

Block: {10-Spades}{J-Spades}
Liesy: {A-Clubs}{10-Hearts}

The flop of {J-Clubs}{2-Diamonds}{K-Clubs} solidified Block's lead, but gave Liesy a back-door flush draw which he hit with the {4-Clubs} on the turn and the {2-Clubs} on the river.

Kicker Problems Eliminate Cousineau

Tony Cousineau pushed his short stack in preflop with {A-Clubs}{4-Spades} and got called by Nathan Tuthill holding {A-Hearts}{Q-Spades}.

When the board came {3-Spades}{2-Clubs}{6-Hearts}, Cousineau flopped a gut-shot straight draw, but couldn't complete as the turn and river brought the {10-Diamonds}{6-Clubs}.

Tough Table

Table 65 is still going strong with five players, the most of any table remaining. Look at how this tough table is laid out right now:

Tim Kahlmeyer - 77,000
Marco Liesy - 93,000
Theo Tran - 90,000
Eugene Katchalov - 166,000
Dan Hirleman - 24,000

Howard Boyd Goes Bust

In another hand where a player moved in a with a weak kicker, Howard Boyd's short-stack shove with {Q-Clubs}{4-Spades} didn't work the way he wanted when he got called by Ronnie Chin who held {A-Diamonds}{Q-Hearts}.

When neither player improved on a board of {5-Spades}{9-Clubs}{3-Spades}{7-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}, Chin's kicker played and Boyd was bounced from the event.