Event 9 - $1,500 Six-handed No Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-04-2009 15:29 UTC-12

Great Hit for Furst

[user75032]

Things were looking grim for Rafe Furst. He was all in preflop with {A-Diamonds}

against David Fox's {9-Diamonds}

, but a lovely {A-Clubs}

flopped and held up to give Furst the double-up. He's now on about 77,000, while Fox has slipped slightly to 300,000.

Tags: David Fox Rafe Furst

06-04-2009 15:28 UTC-12

Frank Blumlein raised to 8,500 when it was folded to him in the small blind but Carman Cavella was having none of it as he three bet to 25,000. Blumlein then did the four bet all in thing you see a lot of these days but Cavella had a hand and called all in for 161,900.

Cavella tabled {A-Spades}

to Blumlein's {A-Hearts}

. Bit of a cooler in the blinds as went all the way to the river {J-Hearts}

.

Blumhein was crippled after that and was eliminated the very next hand by the same opponent. Cavella up to 345,000 now.

Level: 16

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 500

06-04-2009 15:24 UTC-12

Ansari the Next to Report to the Rail

[user75032]

Stacks are colliding again, and it didn't work out well for Adil Ansari. He ran {A-Clubs}

into Allan Brown's {A-Diamonds}

preflop. The board ran out {7-Diamonds}

-- good for Ansari (a pair), but better for Brown (a flush).

Ansari is our 36th-place finisher.

Tags: Adil Ansari Allan Brown

06-04-2009 15:11 UTC-12

Frenchman's Timing Off

MarcC

Rob Brown raised from the cut off before Ludovic Lacay shoved from the button for a little bit less than 60,000. Nice to get yourself back in it generally. That is unless you have {10-Spades}

in your hand and your opponent is sitting there with {Q-Hearts}

.

Ludovic had to got through the torture of watching the board come {A-Spades}

before he left to collect his winnings.

06-04-2009 15:07 UTC-12

Fuller Can't Fill

[user75032]

Thomas Fuller needed to fill a straight. He was all in on a board of {10-Hearts}

and called by Joe Parille, who turned over {J-Spades}

for two pair. Fuller was drawing at a straight, {J-Hearts}

, and missed two times: on the turn ( {5-Clubs}

) and on the river ( {A-Hearts}

). As a result he's out of the tournament and Parille is up to 128,000.

Tags: Joe Parille Thomas Fuller

06-04-2009 14:57 UTC-12

Steady and Slow

[user75032]

Looks like full bellies have contributed to a slowdown in play. We haven't broken a table yet after dinner despite playing for more than thirty minutes.

Now, as a general rule, eliminations should continue at a steady pace from here to the final table (although collapsing tables causes fewer eliminations per level the closer we get to the final table). But sometimes they get "stuck" -- like shifting tectonic plates under the ground get stuck, eventually resulting in an earthquake. It looks like we're in a "stuck" period right now. We'll see what it takes to shake some of these players loose.

06-04-2009 14:39 UTC-12

Too Young To Continue

MarcC

The turn had been dealt giving us a {5-Diamonds}

board. Justin Young and Allan Brown were the two players involved and Brown only had a few thousand chips separating them. A series of bets and raises had them both all in.

Brown tabled {A-Hearts}

to Young's {K-Diamonds}