November Nine Final Table Day 1 | 2009 WSOP Main Event - The Final Table

11-07-2009 21:51 UTC-12

Hand #205 - Jeff Shulman

Eric Buchman has the button. Jeff Shulman is first to speak and decides his course of action is to open-shove. Unlike the last time he did that, nobody calls here.

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11-07-2009 21:49 UTC-12

Darvin Moon has the button. The table passes around to the blinds, and Eric Buchman raises to 2 million from the small. Joe Cada quickly folds away his big blind, and Buchman stacks it up plus the antes.

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11-07-2009 21:47 UTC-12

Hand #203 - Antoine Saout

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Jeff Shulman has the button. Action passes to Antoine Saout, who makes it 1.925 million to go. Small blind Darvin Moon is reaching for chips. He chooses to call, and after Eric Buchman folds Moon and Saout are heads-up to the flop.

Moon is looking very, very tired out there. We heard he was playing table games at 7am this morning. It doesn't stop him from leading into Saout for 2.5 million here on a flop of {4-Diamonds}

. Saout announces a raise and ships 9.0 million into the middle of the table.

"6.5 million if Darvin wants to call," the supervisor on the mic informs the crowd. It turns out that Moon does not want to call. He folds.

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11-07-2009 21:43 UTC-12

Hand #202 - Antoine Saout

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Antoine Saout has the button. He comes into the pot with 1.95 million chips, and he finds no action from the blinds.

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11-07-2009 21:42 UTC-12

Hand #201 - Eric Buchman

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Joe Cada has the button. Eric Buchman opens to 1.75 million and is called by big blind Jeff Shulman. The flop is a rainbow {K-Hearts}

. There's been a bunch of noise in the theater but things get very quiet as it seems like a big hand may be in progress. The theater is wrong. Shulman checks and then folds to a bet of 1.6 million from Buchman.

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Level: 38

Blinds: 400,000/800,000

Ante: 100,000

11-07-2009 21:40 UTC-12

Hand #200 - Shulman Finds a Double

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Eric Buchman has the button. Jeff Shulman grabs his remaining 6,250,000 chips and slides them forward. He watches the rest of the table fold in turn until the action comes to big blind Antoine Saout.

Showdown
Shulman: {A-Diamonds}

Saout:

With Shulman looking rather relaxed, the dealer ran out a clean flop of {J-Diamonds}

. The turn was a blank too, the {5-Diamonds}

. The

that filled out the board locked up the double for the man they call "Happy". Shulman is back in the ball game with 13,175,000 after that pot.

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11-07-2009 21:34 UTC-12

A Stacked Table

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Antoine Saout - 54,350,000
Eric Buchman - 49,425
Joe Cada - 45,225,000
Darvin Moon - 39,450
Jeff Shulman - 6,325,000

11-07-2009 21:32 UTC-12

Hand #199 - Cada Doubles Again

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Darvin Moon has the button. He opens the pot to 2.0 million, causing small blind Eric Buchman to pitch his cards into the muck. Joe Cada is the big blind. He re-raises to 5.6 million; Moon turbo four-bets all in and Cada snap-calls. What is going on here!

Well, it's obvious what Cada has. He turns over a very unsurprising {A-Diamonds}

. Moon? He shows down {K-Spades}

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The flop is {6-Spades}

, bringing a loud groan from more than one spectator on the stage. Moon has flopped top pair, giving everyone in the theater a sweat. Could he lay another bad beat?

Not on the turn, at least. It comes {4-Hearts}