Event 9 - $1,500 Six-handed No Limit Hold'em | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-05-2009 08:55 UTC-12

Quick Break

The players are being mic'ed up so that this table can be broadcast on the internet. We're on another break as a result.

06-05-2009 08:54 UTC-12

Gould Doubles Up

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We've had our first significant hand of the final table. Charles Furey opened the action from under the gun for 53,000. He was carefully called by big blind Peter Gould for a flop of {8-Hearts}

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Gould checked the action over to Furey, who followed his preflop raise with a bet of 103,000. Gould quietly announced a raise to 303,000. That prompt Furey to move all in; Gould snap-called all in for 627,000 total with {8-Clubs}

, a set of eights. Furey turned over top pair, {Q-Clubs}

, and never improved.

Furey is down to 405,000; Gould is up to about 1.3 million.

Tags: Charles Furey Peter Gould

06-05-2009 08:47 UTC-12

Small Pot To Teach

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Ken Aldridge raised from second position and found callers from Charles Furey on the button and Bryce Yockey in the BB. The flop came {6-Diamonds}

before Aldridge continued with a 78,000 bet that only Furey called. Both players were happy to check the {3-Hearts}

turn and

river. Aldridge's {5-?}

good enough to take the small pot over Furey's {A-?}

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06-05-2009 08:33 UTC-12

Play Resumes

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Ok! We're on the feature table now. Here's the seat draw:

Seat 1: Ken Aldridge
Seat 2: Peter Gould
Seat 3: Charles Furey
Seat 4: Praz Bansi
Seat 5: Bryce Yockey
Seat 6: Carman Cavella
Seat 7: Manny Minaya

06-05-2009 08:26 UTC-12

TV Stage

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As we're down to 7 handed all players have been moved to the feature table where we will play to six-handed before we reach our official WSOP Final Table. There will be a short break while everyone relocates and sets up.

06-05-2009 08:19 UTC-12

Bryn Kenney Eliminated in 8th Place ($42,320)

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Well, that didn't take long. Within the first ten minutes of play, we found our eighth-place finisher. Bryn Kenney opened from the small blind with a raise to 43,000 that Carman Cavella re-raised to 115,000. Kenny quickly put his stack into the middle and Cavella just as quickly called.

Kenney: {A-Spades}

Cavella:

The board rolled out {Q-Clubs}

to end Kenney's day barely before it had begun.

"What could I do man?" asked Cavella as Kenney shook his hand. "I can't fold it." Indeed. With that elimination, the tounament is on a break to re-draw to one seven-handed table and move onto the feature table.

Tags: Bryn Kenney Carman Cavella

Level: 21

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 2,000

06-05-2009 08:07 UTC-12

Shuffle Up and Deal!

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Cards are in the air.

06-05-2009 07:39 UTC-12

Six-Handed Final Set to Begin

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It's Day 3 for eight remaining players in Event #9 - $1,500 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em. Day 2 saw 105 pretenders play down over he course of fourteen hours into eight contenders. Each of them is looking to take home the $428,000 first prize and a WSOP gold bracelet.

When Rule 96 was invoked at 3am last night, play was four-handed on two separate tables and Charles Furey had the chip lead with almost 1.7 million chips. Today we'll play until there's one further elimination, then collapse to a seven-handed final table and redraw for seats.

Action is underway in twenty minutes. We'll have a new bracelet winner a few hours after that. PokerNews will have all the action in between. See you then!