Event 8 - $2,500 No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 100

06-02-2009 18:50 UTC-12

MMA Talk

donpeters

The buzz around this tournament seems to be away from the felt and geared towards MMA fighting. Robert Mizrachi, Erick Lindgren, Gavin Smith, Gavin Griffin, Howard Lederer, and Erik Seidel are all in on the debate even though they are seated at three different tables.

06-02-2009 18:53 UTC-12

Tracey Rockin' and Rollin'

donpeters

An early-position player raised to 850 and Tracey "xTraCey" Nguyen called from the button. The big blind called as well.

The big blind drew one, the preflop raiser drew two, and then Nguyen drew one. After the draw, action checked to Nguyen and she fired 2,000 into the middle. The big blind folded, but the other player called.

Tracey showed {8-?}

to scoop the pot and move up to 13,000 chips.

Tags: "xTraCey"Nguyen Tracey

06-02-2009 18:59 UTC-12

Hellmuth Making Some Moves

donpeters

Three people were in on the action for a 600-chip raise pre-draw. Hellmuth was first to act and drew two cards. The next player drew one and the final player drew two. After the draw, Hellmuth fired 600 and the second player to act made the call. The other player mucked.

Hellmuth showed {K-?}

and his opponent held {A-?}

. Hellmuth won the hand and moved up to 4,000 chips.

Shortly thereafter, Hellmuth moved all in after a raise and a call occurred in front of him. Everyone folded and the pot was good enough to put Hellmuth up to nearly 8,000 chips.

Tags: Phil Hellmuth

06-02-2009 19:28 UTC-12

Rheem and Raymer Bust

donpeters

David "Chino" Rheem and Greg Raymer were just recently eliminated. Raymer was drawing dead against his opponent's {7-?}

, despite making his eight-six low on the draw.

Chino on the other hand, went out in somewhat of an unlucky fashion. After he was all in and drawing two cards against one single opponent, the dealer slid two cards back over to Rheem. Before Chino could pick up the cards, the dealer grabbed one of them back and swept it into the muck. The floor was called over and it was ruled that Chino could keep the four cards in his hand. For his fifth card, the entire deck would be shuffled and he would be given another draw card.

"So, I'm could get one of their muck cards?" Chino asked, to which the floor nodded his head.

Chino was then dealt a card, but checked to see what the other card was that he drew. With his opponent holding a seven low, Chino knew he was dead when the draw card was a jack. He mucked his hand and walked to the rail.

Tags: "Chino"David Rheem Greg Raymer

06-02-2009 19:31 UTC-12

Flack Loses Some of His Stack; The Other Mizrachi Busts

donpeters

From middle position, Layne Flack raised to 1,350. The button reraised to 4,000 and Layne made the call. Flack drew one, as did his opponent.

After the draw, Flack checked and his opponent bet 4,000. Flack made the call and then mucked when his opponent showed {8-?}

. Flack dropped to 14,500.

Robert Mizrachi was eliminated on another table around the same time.

Tags: Layne Flack Robert MIzrachi

06-02-2009 19:34 UTC-12

Not So Tiny Danzer

donpeters

The player under the gun made it 800 and George Danzer called from late position. The first player drew one while Danzer stood pat. Both players then checked after the draw.

Danzer revealed {J-?}

and beat his opponent's {7-?}

to move up to 33,000 chips.

Tags: George Danzer

06-02-2009 19:38 UTC-12

Ahmadian Climbing

donpeters

Elia Ahmadian just eliminated an opponent with a nine-six low to move up to 20,000 chips. He is seated with Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, and John Juanda at table #250.

Tags: Elia Ahmadian

06-02-2009 19:48 UTC-12

Chip Counts

donpeters

Here are some more chip counts as we approach the final break of the night.

Barry Greenstein - 43,000
Mike "The Mouth" Matusow - 42,000
George Danzer - 34,000
John Monnette - 32,000
Phil Ivey - 24,000
Michael Binger - 23,000
Archie Karas - 23,000
Layne Flack - 22,000
Nam Le - 22,000
Erick Lindgren - 21,000
Freddy Deeb - 19,000
Gavin Smith - 19,000
Tony G - 19,000
Phil Hellmuth - 17,000
Kelly Kim - 16,000
David Grey 16,000
Dutch Boyd - 12,000
Erik Seidel - 12,000
Tracey "xTraCey" Nguyen - 10,000
Dick Carson - 10,000
Tom Schneider - 10,000
John Juanda - 9,000
Michael Binger - 8,000
Jon "PearlJammed" Turner - 8,000
Brett Jungblut - 8,000
Gavin Smith - 7,000
Gavin Griffin - 5,500
John "Johnny World" Hennigan - 4,000
Eli Elezra - 2,000

06-02-2009 19:50 UTC-12

The Final Break

donpeters

The players are all on their final break of the night. The break will last 20 minutes and then we'll be back to finish out the remaining two levels before we call it quits.