Jerry Yang Doubles Up
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Yang:
Opponent:
The board came
, giving Yang the higher boat to double up to 4,300.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 57 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1a
Yang:
Opponent:
The board came
, giving Yang the higher boat to double up to 4,300.
Dragan Galic Takes an Early Lead
and catches an opponet bluffing into him with only ace-high. He felts that player and moves up to 120,000.
Jelassi Folds to Pressure
. After the initial preflop aggressor folded, Jelassi raised to 4,000. His opponent called.The turn fell
and again the big blind led out. He tossed an orange chip into the middle and declared a bet of 5,000."What happened?" Jelassi asked, taking his ear buds out of his ear. The dealer explained that there was a bet of 5,000. Jelassi frowned and folded.
Ike Can't Fade Kings
for Haxton against 
, the board running out 
to double his opponent up and leave Haxton with 10,200 in chips.
Gracz Gaining Ground
, Michael Gracz was first to speak, and he put out a bet of 2,500. His lone opponent was in position, and he came along to the turn with the call.It was the
, and Gracz fired again, this time 4,900. His opponent was sitting with his hand over his mouth, and he reached with his free hand to grab the calling chips and toss them in.The last card off was the
. Gracz loaded another bullet and fired 11,000 more at the pot. After some mental gymnastics, his opponent made the call. Gracz turned over 
for the flopped full house, and that was the winner. He's up to is up to 63,000 now.
Enter the Dragan
We scurried over to find Dragan Galic raking in a huge pot, holding
for a straight on a 
board against his opponent's 
. The pot took Galic's stack up to the lofty heights of 88,000.
Moorman Heads for the Rail
In this hand, Moorman was in the big blind and got all his chips in the middle against his opponent in the small blind.
Small Blind:
Moorman:
The race didn't last long as the board came
, ending Moorman's Main Event run.
Vos Busto
On his last hand, Vos picked up
. He opened for 700, then reraised all in to 8,450 after Hedlund made it 3,000 to go. Hedlund called with and hit his ace on the turn to knock out Vos and climb to 60,000.
Wooka Walks
Steve Paul-Ambrose made the call from the big blind, and when Kim checked the
flop, he fired out 900.Kim then made it 3,000 to go before Paul-Ambrose instantly made it 10,000 to put Kim all in. Kim obliged by sliding her last ten yellow 1,000-denomination chips into the pot and the cards were tabled.
Kim:
Paul-Ambrose:
With Paul-Ambrose in bad shape to only a king, or running straight or flush cards, he would hit gin on the turn when it landed the
.Now needing to catch her two-outer to stay alive, Kim would unfortunately only see the
land on the river, and a hasty exit follow.
Moorman Lays Down a Set
and had two players move all in behind him. Moorman went into the tank and, eventually, the clock was called.Moorman started counting out chips as his time was running out, and then mucked his hand instead of calling. His opponent's showed
for top set and 
for a flush draw. When the river brought a brick, the nines held and Moorman told the table that he laid down pocket threes.