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

06-04-2009 14:25 UTC-12

We're Playing Poker

Dinner's over. Back to business. 42 left of the original 105. We need to eliminate 36 more players before the day is done.

06-04-2009 13:26 UTC-12

One Hour Dinner Break

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42 players will return in one hour where we will play down to a final table of six.

06-04-2009 13:22 UTC-12

A disastrous hour for Jeremiah Smith has ended with his elimination. He opened from under the gun for 6,200. Action folded to Jason Melnick on the button, who re-raised to 21,600. Smith shipped in his whole stack with {6-Diamonds}

and was snap-called by Melnick's {K-Hearts}

. No help for either player on the board; a disgusted Smith left the tournament area without even receiving his payout slip.

Tags: Jason Melnick Jeremiah Smith

06-04-2009 13:09 UTC-12

Adios Awada

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Joe Awada's tournament is over. He moved all in for 38,000 over the top of an open-raise to 6,100 by Allan Brown. Brown snap-called with {A-Hearts}

; Awada had to grimace as he turned over {10-Diamonds}

. There was no help for him anywhere on a board of {2-Diamonds}

. Awada's out; Brown is up to 120,000.

Tags: Allan Brown Joe Awada

06-04-2009 13:06 UTC-12

Short Stack Death Battle

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The two short stacks at the table, Doug Lee and Jerimiah Smith, have just gone toe-to-toe over two hands that ended up with one of them on the floor (not literally).

Round one went to Lee after his UTG all in for 11,600 was called by Smith in the BB. Lee tabled {A-Spades}

to Smith's {Q-Spades}

. The board ran {3-Diamonds}

to see Lee back to his corner with 28,000. Smith is a little bruised and battered but still in this with 30,000.

Round two saw Smith throw the first punch by moving all-in with {K-Hearts}

but Lee countered with a call all in with {A-?}

. The killer board of {Q-?}

saw Lee knocked clean out but he went down fighting.

Smith patched up now and ready for more battle with 78,000.

06-04-2009 12:53 UTC-12

Bob Busts Dick

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Robert Lipkin has just eliminated Richard Richard Freire after a preflop all in encounter. Lipkin held {9-Spades}

to Freire's {K-Diamonds}

. The board came {8-Diamonds}

.

06-04-2009 12:51 UTC-12

Reinforce the Legs on Table 66!

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Orange 66 is threatening to collapse under all the chips that have accumulated on that table. Bobby Firestone has 278,000; Bryce Yockey has 220,000; and a third player *had* 250,000.

We say *had* because he just doubled up Justin Young. It was a four-way raised pot with a flop that came down {7-Clubs}

. Action checked to Young, who bet 16,5000, about a third of his stack. Young's opponent asked how much Young was playing behind, then raised to 50,000.

"Ahhhh, I thought I had a plan for this hand," lamented Young once everyone else had folded. He hemmed and hawed a minute more before moving all in with {10-Diamonds}

. He was called by {k-Clubs}

, a hand that was drawing once the {6-Clubs}

hit the turn. Young needed to avoid a river club to win the pot and did so when the {7-Spades}

fell. He doubled up to about 120,000.

06-04-2009 12:38 UTC-12

Rod v Rob

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Three players saw a {J-Diamonds}

flop before Robert Toye moved all-in for 29,000. Rod Brown then reraised all in to isolate and it worked as the third player involved folded.

Toye showed {J-Spades}