Event 53 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8-or-better Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker

Level: 17

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

06-29-2009 19:28 UTC-12

Break Time

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Well, once again I've been proved wrong. One more break at least for us tonight, and it's right now.

06-29-2009 19:26 UTC-12

A Savage Blow

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Tim Vance is still here, and indeed he's just now doubled up to 20,000 through Matt Savage.

Vance got it in on third street, and it was just him, Savage and the deck.

Vance: {5-Spades}

Savage:

Savage is down to 35,000.

06-29-2009 19:19 UTC-12

Beary Bad Luck

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Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri is busto after spending much of today as chip leader.

We couldn't quite catch the hand, but the woeful Sugar Bear wandered off shaking his head, all his sugar turned sour.

Tags: Al Barbieri Sugar Bear

06-29-2009 19:14 UTC-12

Vance Short

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Tim Vance is down to just 9,000 and on official blogger death watch after getting scooped by Christian Toboc.

Vance: {A-Clubs}

for aces and a low draw that never came in
Toboc: {4-Diamonds}

for two pair

Tags: Tim Vance

06-29-2009 19:04 UTC-12

Wow, super-mega-ultra-fast bustouts here.

Before we even had time to draw up the new seating plan for our final three tables and count our remaining runners' chips, the following gentlemen players busted out in quick succession:

- Yotam Rosenthal
- one Mr. Andy Bloch

Tags: Andy Bloch

06-29-2009 18:56 UTC-12

One Good Three Leeds to Another

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Brandon Leeds got his chips in before seventh street, and was thoroughly ahead -- he held queens and sevens to Jose Paz' sixes and threes. To lots of shouting from various folks crowded around the table, Paz' last card came down -- and it was a three to give him a full house and send Leeds to the rail.

Leeds: {Q-Spades}

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Paz:

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We are down to three tables.

06-29-2009 18:47 UTC-12

Rygol Just Bernd Out

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Bernd Rygol, desperately short-stacked for some time, has finally succumbed to the lure of the rail. His assassin Zak Gilbert is on 70,000.

Rygol: {9-Clubs}

Zak Gilbert: {7-Diamonds}

06-29-2009 18:43 UTC-12

To the Max

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Come back to me, my precious little chiplets

Max Stern had all but 10,000 of his stack in the middle by seventh street, at which point he checked. Jose Paz checked too, and it was a lucky escape for Stern -- his pair of threes was good as Paz only had a low and ace-high, and they chopped the pot.

Stern: {3-Hearts}