Event 38 - $2,000 Limit Hold'em | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-21-2009 12:30 UTC-12

No Stopping Naalden

[user46392]

Could Tommy soon be Hanging up his sunglasses?

No better luck for Tommy Hang -- he's down to 119,000 with the rest of his stack going to, you've guessed it, Marc Naalden.

Naalden made up the small blind and Hang checked; they saw a {4-Spades}

flop. Naalden bet out but Hang raised; he called and they saw a {5-Diamonds}

turn.

Naalden now check-raised and Hang called him, and then Naalden bet out on the {A-Spades}

river. Hang called, but couldn't beat Naalden's {A-Clubs}

.

Naalden is up to 1.7 million.

Tags: Marc Naalden Tommy Hang

Level: 23

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 0

06-21-2009 12:36 UTC-12

Keating's Turn to Hand His Chips to Naalden

[user46392]

Naalden's taken a chunk out of Keating this time, calling Keating's button raise with {5-Spades}

in the big blind and then finding that Keating couldn't beat it after they checked down the {J-Diamonds}

board.

Keating: down to 130,000
Naalden: "runnning over the table" doesn't even begin to describe it

06-21-2009 12:40 UTC-12

Hanging On for Dear Life

[user46392]

Marc Naalden raised his small blind and Tommy Hang called from the big. Naalden bet out on the {J-Spades}

flop and then reraised to Hang's raise. Hang called all in, and promptly doubled up.

Hang: {J-Diamonds}

Naalden:

Turn:

River:

06-21-2009 12:42 UTC-12

Alex Keating Eliminated in 5th Place ($39,977)

[user46392]

No seating for Keating at this final table no more

Marc Naalden raised under the gun and called Keating's feeble 55,000 all in from the small blind.

Naalden: {5-Clubs}

Keating:

Board:

To chants of "Needle needle needle needle king!" from the now rather tipsy Dutch rail, Keating is busto.

Tags: Alex Keating Marc Naalden

06-21-2009 12:47 UTC-12

Chip Counts, Four-Way

[user46392]

This almost seems unfair now.

Ian Johns: 170,000
Tommy Hang: 190,000
Steven Cowley: 350,000
Marc Naalden: 1.94 million

06-21-2009 12:51 UTC-12

Hang Up

[user46392]

A bit of a recovery for Tommy Hang.

He called Marc Naalden's small blind raise from the big blind, and Naalden check-called Hang's bets all the way down the {4-Clubs}

board before mucking when Hang turned over {6-Hearts}

.

Hang up to 335,000.

06-21-2009 12:58 UTC-12

And now, as though he's suddenly decided to give someone else a chance, Marc Naalden has boosted Steven Cowley's stack to 625,000.

Naalden raised his button and both Tommy Hang in the small blind and Steven Cowley in the big blind called.

The {7-Hearts}