39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
Day 2b Completed
2008 World Series of Poker
39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
Day: 2b
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Peter Biebel 531,000
Alex Outhred 486,800
Raja Kattamuri 411,100
Steven Goosen 362,100
Reagan Silber 355,500
Paul Snead 335,500
Rafael Caiaffa 334,500
Cornel Pazai 328,100
Matthew Calhoun 325,800
Terry Lade 315,000
Complete chip counts for all but a few of the surviving Day 2b players have now been posted.
Today started with 2,379 players looking to chip up for a deep run, though we only have about 855 of them left when all is said and done. Alex Outhred appears to be our Day 2b chip leader, finishing up with 486,800 in chips. Some of the notable names that will not be with us tomorrow: Michael DeMichele, Brian Townsend, Amnon Filipi, Eric Lynch, John Juanda, Clonie Gowen, Shannon Elizabeth, Carlos Mortensen, Phil Laak, Joe Hachem, and defending champion Jerry Yang.
A number of big names are still alive though, and will be here tomorrow to do some more work. Among them are Victor Ramdin, Nenad Medic, Phil Hellmuth, Jean-Robert Bellande, Jeff Madsen, John D'Agostino, Phil Gordon, Shawn Sheikhan, Gus Hansen, and Mike Matusow.
Play will begin with right around 1,300 players tomorrow at 12:00pm on the dot. That means we have about 650 players to lose before we hit the money, and there's a chance we'll be there by this time tomorrow. We hope you'll join us then for Day 3 of the 2008 Main Event!
on the turn, Steven Chung checked, Steve Goosen made a pot-sized bet of 50,000 and Chung called. The river was the 
. Chung checked, Goosen bet 60,000 and Chung callled. Chung showed
for a set, but Goosen had turned a higher set with 
. Goosen raked in the monster pot, increasing his stack to 363,000. Chung was down to 206,000.
for flopped trips while Irish turned over pocket queens. The fours held for Cantu and Irish was eliminated.
We just had almost the same situation play out on Table 1. The flop came
and Asher Derei, holding pocket fives, called his opponent's bet. He did the same when another five fell on the turn. When his opponent bet again on the river Derei moved all in and got the call. His opponent turned over pocket sixes and as players from other tables rushed over to see the carnage one player saw his Main Event come to a cruel end and Derei saw his stack rise to 181,000.
and 25,000 already in the pot, a middle-position player raised to 5,000, and Bobby Law reraised all in behind for 34,200 total. Law's opponent called and showed . Law turned over his 
. The turn was the
and the river the 
, and Law is now up to 95,000.
and was called by an opponent holding 
for top pair top kicker. However, his opponent was drawing dead as Hevad held pocket threes for quads. Hevad is up to 90,000 after the hand.
SB:
Michelle:
The
came right in the door, but the other two flop cards were 
, giving Tiffany a set of queens. The turn and river came and 
respectively, and she earns the pot, sending a player packing in the process.Tiffany Michelle started the day off on the right foot, but she took a tumble after suffering a bad beat and was down to 8,000 at one point. She has been clawing back all night though, and she finds herself back up to a healthy 120,000 chips.