2009 World Series of Poker

Event 24 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
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Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a5
Prize
$607,256
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,420,690
Total Entries
2,506
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 2,506
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Super-Mega-Hyper-Fast

The call of "Winner on table insert-number-here!"is echoing around the cardroom so fast that the floorman is having trouble keeping up with handing out the little red payout slips.

Latest to go is Michael Herra -- his pocket nines were no good against Damon Sita's {A-?} {Q-?} when an ace came on the river, and he patiently sat in his seat, cheerfully waiting for his prize money.

Mizrachi Hijacked

A player in the hijack position raised to 2,300, was called in the next seat before Robert Mizrachi moved all in from the button. Only the cut off called with {A-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} and Mizrachi would need to catch up with his {K-Spades} {Q-Hearts}.

All the way to the river {8-Diamonds} {5-Spades} {Q-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} {7-Diamonds}. A good start for Mizrachi but the running diamonds took it away from him.

Tags: Robert Mizrachi

Humberto Humbug

Humberto's going to keeeeeeellll you
Humberto's going to keeeeeeellll you
With the absolute maximum of fuss, noise and entertainment value, Humberto Brenes has busted out.

Down to just 15,000 he open-shoved in mid-position and it looks and it folded around to Douglas Faulkner in the small blind who reraised all in to isolate. The big blind wasn't interested, and they were heads up.

"Show me ace-king!" shouted Brenes, flipping {J-Clubs} {J-Hearts}, and there was some ooh-ing when Faulkner did indeed turn over {A-Clubs} {K-Clubs}.

Board: {2-Spades} {K-Spades} {7-Clubs} {7-Spades} {7-Hearts}

"Im go-eeng to keeeel you!" shouted Brenes good-naturedly at the dealer, before wishing his whole table good luck and sauntering off to the payout desk.

Tags: Humberto Brenes

De Korver Carved Up Early Doors

Incidentally it looks as though EPT Grand Final winner Pieter de Korver busted out in the first hand. One player raised with pocket eights and de Korver pushed with {A-?} {J-?}; a third player called all in behind with {K-?} {J-?} and the initial raiser called too.

Eights held up and de Korver technically busted out in 269th, but for some reason received the payout slip for 270th.

Tags: Pieter de Korver

Liu-ser

Eric Liu
Eric Liu
Andy "BKiCe" Seth raised from mid position to 2,800 before Eric Liu three-bet to 13,700. Seth then raised enough to put put Liu all in and he called with {A-Diamonds} {J-Spades}. Seth tabled {K-Hearts} {Q-Clubs} before the dealer brought us {5-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} {3-Clubs} {8-Spades} {Q-Diamonds}.

A killer river for pro Liu puts an end to any bracelet dreams in this event.

Tags: Eric Liu

Tournament Death for Dylewski

With 5,000 in the pot by the {8-Hearts} {4-Clubs} {3-Hearts} flop, Jakub Dylewski snap-shoved fromt he cutoff, and got himself a snap-call all in for 26,000 from Guillaume Patry on the button. What monstrous holdings could these two have?

Dylewski: er, {K-Clubs} {9-Spades}
Patry: ummm, {A-Clubs} {3-Diamonds}

Turn: {6-Hearts}
River: {2-Clubs}

Patry doubled to 74,000, while Dylewski was down to just 17,000.

The very next hand Dylewski moved in, and he'd picked up a real hand in the shape of two ladies -- but Daniel Austin had picked up aces, and that was the end of Mr Dylewski.

Shark Dentist

It didn't take long for Humberto to re-grow those shark teeth as a triple up and double up later sees him up to 23,000.

In the first hand he pushed his last 3,300 in from the button and was called by both blinds who checked it all the way down on a {A-Diamonds} {K-Clubs} {8-Spades} {K-Diamonds} {10-Clubs} board. Brenes' {Q-?} {J-?} came up pretty strong on that board!

The next hand saw Brenes wake up with {K-Spades} {K-Diamonds} no less and found a customer in Woofae Min again holding {9-Clubs} {9-Diamonds}. The board ran {J-Diamonds} {10-Spades} {Q-Spades} {A-Spades} {7-Spades}.

Eventful start for the Costa Rican.

Level: 12

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

Monstrous Hand Alert

Meanwhile it looks as though we have a new chip leader.

I only caught the very end of the hand, but the board was queen-high, Panayote "Pete" Vilandos was holding aces, and Seth Montgomery was handing all but 10,000 of his chips over to Vilandos and looking like he might throw up. Indeed, Montgomery busted a hand or two later, and Vilandos is up to around 230,000.