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, and both checked. The turn was the 
. Nguyen checked, his opponent bet 1,300, Nguyen check-raised to 3,200, and his opponent called.The river brought the
. This time Nguyen led for 2,500, and his opponent folded. Nguyen now has 18,500.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 56 - $5,000 Six-handed No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Total Entries
928
Level
28
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 928
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, and both checked. The turn was the . Nguyen checked, his opponent bet 1,300, Nguyen check-raised to 3,200, and his opponent called.The river brought the
. This time Nguyen led for 2,500, and his opponent folded. Nguyen now has 18,500.
On her way out, Tilly checked in on Phil Laak to see how he's doing. He's doing fairly well at the moment, at about 30,000 or twice his starting stack.
Jeff Lisandro was eliminated shortly afterwards. He was holding
and the final board read 
. Unfortunately for him, his opponent held 
. Lisandro's quest for a record fourth WSOP bracelet will continue, then, into the Main Event.
to Boeken's 
.The flop came
, putting Phillips ahead. The turn was the , and now Boeken had one card left to hit one of the remaining sixes. But the river was the 
, and Boeken is out.
. The BB checked, Boyd bet 500, and his opponent called.The turn was the
. The big blind again checked, Boyd bet 1,000, his opponent check-raised all in for 5,900, and Boyd called.Boyd showed
and his opponent . The river was the 
, and Boyd is back down to 13,000.
, two players checked to Antonio Esfandiari who bet 1,400. The first player check-raised, the second folded, and Esfandiari reraised all in for 15,500 total. His opponent -- who had him covered by just 300 chips -- snap-called, showing 
for the flopped straight. Esfandiari showed pocket jacks.The board ran out
, and Esfandiari was eliminated.
J.C. Tran, Mike Leah, David "Devilfish" Ulliott, Jason Gray, and Stewart Scott were all spotted near the end of Level 2. Here at the start of Level 3 we've now seen Mimi Tran, Matt Woodward, Sorel Mizzi, Jeff Lisandro, Tony G, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, and the Mad Genius of Poker, Mike Caro.
On the first, the flop had come
, a short-stacked player pushed all in for 1,500, a second player reraised all in for 16,950, and Graham called with almost all of his chips. The first player showed 
, the second 
(top set), and Graham 
. The turn was the 
and the river the 
, and Graham was down to just 1,100.On the next hand, a player under the gun raised to 400, and it folded around to Graham in the big blind who reraised all in. His opponent called, showing
against Graham's . The flop was terrible for Graham -- 
-- and the on the turn didn't help him. But the came on the river meaning he'd made a better full house. Still, Graham returns to the third level with a short stack of less than 3,000.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
