Stemper Finds Aces
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2009 World Series of Poker
Event 24 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,420,690
Entries
2,506
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
Yeh But, No But
No, just kidding, he's taken a couple small hits but they've barely dented his enormous stack.
First off a gent pushed for just 1,775 in early position and Yeh called from the big blind without even looking at his cards. The short stack was dominating with
against Yeh's 
and failed to hit, and the short stack doubled.A little later Yeh raised to 1,050 under the gun and the cutoff called, only for the small blind to push for 4,225. Yeh went over the top for 21,150, the cutoff folded and they were on their backs.
Yeh:
Small blind:
Board: a most fortunate-for-the-short-stack
Nevertheless, Yeh is still on 69,000 and we have yet to find a stack bigger than his.
Fricke Likes the Flop
flop. It checked to Fricke who bet 4,000, and both players passed, leaving him to pick up the pot. Fricke's up to 24,000. McEvoy, by the by, has 7,200.
Hellmuth Likes Ladies
, failed to improve, and his chips are now the property of Mr. Hellmuth. He's now on around 10,800.
It's a No for Yeh
With the gent on the button all in preflop, Yeh checked the
flop and called a 9,000 bet from the other gentleman in the hand. They proceeded to the 
turn and Yeh checked again, but undeterred, his opponent bet 10,000. Yeh reluctantly laid down his hand and the all-in player and the aggressive bettor flipped their hands over.Mr. All In Preflop:
Mr. Aggressive: a very esoteric
River:
The short stack doubled, Mr. Aggressive won the very chunky side pot, and Yeh is fuming.
Assorted Chip Counts
Alex Jacob: 5,800
Anna Wroblewski: 25,000
Marc Naalden: 44,000
Humberto Brenes: 14,000
Graham Wheldon: 12,500
Kevin O'Leary: 25,000
Maridu Does Something Gross
"I just tripled up in the most grotesque way." Oh yes? "No, I can't tell you, it's too gross."
It wasn't actually all that disgusting, a mere desperate shove from the small blind to a early position raise. Maridu's
offsuit was, admittedly, in pretty terrible shape against her opponent's 
(I believe it may have actually been 
and two hearts on the flop, but it also may not have been), but a friendly jack on the turn kept her in the game."It was horrible, I'm not proud of it," she announced. Then to the gent who'd had the
: "Sorry."
Eric No Liu-ser
Other Counts of Interest
Karl Mahrenholz: 35,000
David Chicotsky: 27,000
Tom McEvoy: busto
J.C. Tran: also zilch and heading for the door