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2009 World Series of Poker
Event 6 - $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud
Day: 1
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"Did you wash your hands?" Shawn Sheikhan asked.
"Yep! They're all wet," replied Negreanu.
"Prove it to us," Matt Glantz dared him. "Lick your hands."
After the laughs died down, Negreanu completed a
and was called by an older player named Freddie Ellis who had the
. Ellis took over the betting lead the rest of the way, drawing a board of (X-X) /
/ (X). Negreanu's board came (X-X) /
/ (X).At the river, Elllis peeked at his cards, then said, "I'm gonna respect you and check."
"I gotta see what I've got," replied Negreanu.
"Be careful even if you've got something."
Negreanu looked at his own river card, then said, "Well this is probably stupid but I'm gonna bet."
"I call," said Ellis.
"Kings up."
"Kings and jacks," Ellis announced proudly.
"I know," Negreanu replied sheepishly. "That's why it was stupid."
, and bet out. Elezra called with (X-X) /
. At the river, Benyamine bet again. Elezra thought it over and then open-mucked
, a pair of aces. Benyamine opened
in the hole for sixes full of eights!
"What do you got?" asked Zolotow, who was a little impatient for Barbieri's liking. "I don't know. I'm sweating it," he said, as he very slowly squeezed his last card. He needed to pair any of his cards to make a winning full house (or quads), but it appeared he missed as he slapped his cards onto the table face-down.
Barbieri wanted one more look though; he gathered his seven cards into his hands as if playing Rummy, giving them one last long staredown before once again slapping them down on the table and shaking his head.
With his bigger trips, Zolotow raked in the pot worth about 18,000 chips. He has climbed up to 44,000, bumping Sugar Bear down to 28,000.
Level: 7
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 0
against Talebi's (X-X) /
. Each player then checked the river. Brown turned over
for a pair of threes, which just barely edged out Talebi's pair of deuces.
; he found himself against Habib's
. Neither player improved from there.
A recent pot was heads up between David Bach and Greg Raymer. Raymer had the betting lead on every street, but checked to Bach each time. It was finally at the river, with Bach showing (X-X) /
/ (X) to Raymer's (X-X) /
/ (X), that Bach's bet got Raymer off of his hand.