After notching another elimination, Grospellier is all the way up to 340,000, fighting for the top spot on the board now.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 34 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
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After notching another elimination, Grospellier is all the way up to 340,000, fighting for the top spot on the board now.
Hellmuth just made a last longer bet (for $2,000) with Roland de Wolfe -- who currently has 180,000 -- for which de Wolfe gave the Poker Brat 20-to-1.
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
He tabled
to lead his opponent's
. The flop brought another seven for the at-risk player, but it also contained two kings. In the end, the board ran out
to lock up the pot for Souza and send yet another player to the payout desk.Souza's now sitting on a stack of 125,000.

, and unfortunately was up against an opponent holding 
.The board came




, and Martini is out.
As soon as he moved in, Youngblood stood up and started pacing around the table. When Le folded, he moved on to Bansi and began chatting it up as the player was considering his decision. Bansi finally got the message and open-mucked ace-king. When Youngblood got back to his seat, he was kind enough to show the table his
as he adds more than 15,000 chips to his stack. He's up to 85,000.
Leinonen showed

and Mackey 
. The board came 



, and Leinonen doubled up to 130,000. Mackey slips to 155,000.
. From the big blind, Paul Darden moved all in for his remaining 21,000. His opponent, Mark Utterback, went deep into the tank for several minutes. A player across the felt eventually called the clock, trying to hurry along the decision. As the countdown neared zero, Utterback finally made a hero call with
.It turned out to be not very heroic at all as Darden tabled
. The
and
filled out the board to give Darden a courtesy double-up to 43,000. Utterback has fallen to 17,500.