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Across in the Brasilia Room, Alan Smurfit surrendered some chips after betting out 600 on a board of
. When he got check-raised all in for an additional 1,700, Smurfit laid his hand down, leaving him with just 1,825.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 54 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,846,570
Total Entries
2,818
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 2,818
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Across in the Brasilia Room, Alan Smurfit surrendered some chips after betting out 600 on a board of
. When he got check-raised all in for an additional 1,700, Smurfit laid his hand down, leaving him with just 1,825.
In the transition we lost Jonathan Little and the short-stacked Phil Hellmuth.
Both are assumed to be eliminated, but we'll be keeping an eye out for them!
Hevad Khan - 21,200
Peter Rho - 20,900
Theo Tran 20,100
Kevin O'Donnell - 17,600
Liv Boeree - 17,100
Catherine Calhoun - 15,100
Liya Gerasimova - 11,800
Thomas Keller - 10,400
Men Nguyen - 9,500
Haibo Chu - 9,200
Jason Riesenberg - 7,500
Clark Hamagami - 5,300
Vivek Rajkumar - 6,600
Van Nguyen - 4,500
Mandy Baker - 4,300
Wooka Kim -3,700
Pieter De Korver - 3,400
Teddy Monroe - 3,300
Lauren Kling - 2,900
Neil Channing - 1,600
Level: 5
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
With a limp under the gun, Hellmuth limped as well with the blinds completing.
The flop fell down
and the limper bet out 200. Hellmuth paused for a while before announcing a raise to 450 and tossing in a 500-denomination chip.With the action now on the small blind he raised to 1,400 to force folds round the table. As Hellmuth went to fold, his
flipped up."I had you beat!" he stated to the first preflop aggressor.
"No! I had an Ace" he stated as Hellmuth slipped to 2,000 in chips.
vs. his opponent's 
.When the board ran
, his opponent's hand held and he doubled up. Mercier still has comfortable stack of about 12,000.
As it turns out, Tilly's cards weren't worth much after she called a preflop raise of 600 from the button. When her opponent led out for 500 more on a flop of
, Tilly mucked her hand. She has about 6,000 left in her stack.
