2009 World Series of Poker

Event 24 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
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Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♥5♣
Prize
$607,256
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,420,690
Entries
2,506
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
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Here's Something You Don't See Very Often

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Poker players like to complain about dealers -- they've flipped a card, they're too slow, they bring players bad luck or the players plain don't like how they do things.

So it was enormously refreshing to hear one of the players approach one of the floormen for no other reason than to praise the dealer at his table, a gentleman named Arron. "He doesn't make a mistake, his motions are crisp..." the gent was saying. The floorman was clearly taken aback as, like I said, that's not usually what players want to talk to floormen about. How very refreshing.

No Cigar for Edler

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Bill Edler open-shoved for 6,500 in mid position with a rather optimistic {3-Clubs} {4-Hearts} and got looked up by Anthony Magallon in the cutoff holding a rather more traditional {8-Spades} {8-Diamonds}. A bit of excitement on the flop, but ultimately no tournament cigar for Edler and he busts out while Magallon is up to 26,000.

Board: {J-Clubs} {6-Hearts} {5-Hearts} {A-Spades} {Q-Spades}

Tags: Bill Edler

Enormous Hand Alert

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An enormous hand and a frankly upsetting outdraw has sent Alain Roy to the rail.

In a blind-on-blind confrontation, we caught up with the action on the turn of the {4-Clubs} {5-Clubs} {2-Diamonds} {3-Diamonds} board, when small blind Emmett Hickey (incidentally my Awesome Name Of The Day, and he's wearing a Panama hat to boot) bet out 10,000 with a pretty hefty amount already in the pot. Alain Roy in the big blind moved all in for another 18,000, and Hickey was left with a big decision. He stood up and dwelled for a while, then sat down and continued to dwell until the clock was called -- and Hickey called too.

Roy: {A-Clubs} {K-Hearts}
Hickey: {A-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds}

River: here comes the outdraw bit...

...

...

{J-Diamonds}

Ouch. Roy is bust, and Hickey is up to more than 75,000.

Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

Hellmuth Getting Desperate

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Phil Hellmuth is in a spot of bother -- he's down to just 3,000 or so and just now had to fold his big blind to a raise that would have covered him. "Nice hand, buddy," said the uncharacteristically quiet Hellmuth, the Poker Brat apparently silenced by his short stack status.

Tags: Phil Hellmuth

Big Stack Watch

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Ooh, and they're some big uns...

Tommy Ly: 87,000
Mike Linn: 70,000
Neel O'Donnell: 88,000
David Goldklang: 72,000
Glen McCaffrey: 110,000
Emmett Hickey: 101,000
Yuri Thomas: 76,000
Dean Hamrick: 68,000
Archie Vanhorn: 92,000
Randy Haddox:75,000
Aditya Agarwal: 73,000
Darryll Fish: 98,000
Allen Kim: 82,000
Allan Jeffrey: 82,000
Anthony Yeh: 83,000

Meyer Leads the Field

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All those big stacks below pale next to the new chip-leading stack in the possession of one Marcus Meyer. Our eagle-eyed field reporter caught up with the hand that did it on the {4-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} {10-Spades} flop, when Meyer check-called an 8,200 bet, and Meyer and his opponent proceeded to the {3-Spades} turn. Meyer checked and this time his opponent bet 12,000 -- only for Meyer to go over the top for 55,000. His opponent gave it some thought, and eventually called all in for 48,000 total.

Meyer: {Q-Clubs} {Q-Hearts}
Soon-to-be-busted opponent: {A-Spades} {J-Spades}

A bricky {2-Clubs} on the river, and Meyer was up to 135,000.

Tags: Marcus Meyer

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