2007 World Series of Poker

Event 53 - $1,500 Limit Holdem Shootout
Day: 2
Event Info

2007 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kq
Prize
$217,438
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$982,800
Entries
720
Level Info
Level
7
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
0

Table 1: Sondre Sagstuen Cripples Todd Keikoan

Sondre Sagstuen and Todd Keikoan play a large pot for about 70,000. The board reads 9-7-4-9-5, and Sagstuen shows {6-Spades}{3-Spades} for a rivered seven-high straight. Keikoan shows 9-x for trip nines, and Sagstuen wins the pot.

Keikoan is crippled, and has some serious doubling-up to do in order to come back.

Seat 5 - Sondre Sagstuen - 260,000
Seat 8 - Todd Keikoan - 10,000

Tags: Sondre SagstuenTodd Keikoan

Updated Chip Counts

TABLE 1
Seat 5 - Sondre Sagstuen - 190,000
Seat 8 - Todd Keikoan - 80,000

TABLE 2
Winner: David Mosca

TABLE 3
Seat 4 - Brian Haveson - 150,000
Seat 6 - Anh Nguyen - 120,000

TABLE 4
Winner: David Baker

TABLE 5
Seat 3 - Thomas Tysziewicz - 38,000
Seat 5 - Andy Ward - 170,000
Seat 9 - Bryan Spadaro - 57,000

TABLE 6
Winner: Ram Vaswani

TABLE 7
Seat 2 - Gerald Rhoads - 85,000
Seat 7 - Danny Noam - 75,000
Seat 8 - Raye Puckett - 110,000

TABLE 8
Seat 2 - Ishak Noyan - 180,000
Seat 3 - Victor Ramdin - 90,000

Table 6: Ram Vaswani Advances to the Final Table

Heads-up at table 6, Ram Vaswani raises from the button/small blind to 8,000, Bret Winograd reraises from the big blind to 12,000, and Vaswani calls. The flop comes {J-Clubs}{9-Hearts}{4-Hearts}, and there is unknown action. The turn card is the {5-Hearts}, Winograd bets 8,000, and Vaswani calls. The river card is the {K-Clubs}, Winograd bets 8,000, Vaswani raises, and Winograd folds, leaving himself just 4,000 in chips. (He must have had a pretty weak hand to fold a pot like that to the ultra-aggressive Ram Vaswani.)

The next hand, Winograd is all in preflop with {8-Hearts}{2-Diamonds} against Ram Vaswani's {K-Clubs}{3-Spades}. The board comes {Q-Hearts}{10-Clubs}{5-Spades}{10-Hearts}{7-Hearts}, and Vaswani wins the pot with king high.

Bret Winograd is eliminated in 16th place, earning $6,634.

Ram Vaswani is the third player to advance to tonight's final table, scheduled to begin at 8:00 pm PDT.

Tags: Bret WinogradRam Vaswani

Tommy Hang Eliminated in 17th Place ($6,634)

Tam 'Tommy' Hang is all in preflop for his last 15,000 or so with {10-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds} against David Baker's {Q-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}. Hang takes the lead on a flop of 10-5-2, but the Q on the turn takes it away from him. The river card is an 8, and Tommy Hang is eliminated in 17th place, earning $6,634.

David Baker is the second player to advance to tonight's final table, which is scheduled to begin at 8:00 pm PDT.

Tags: David BakerTommy Hang

Table 1 - Heads Up

With the elimination of Marwan Abdel-Al, Sondre Sangstuen and Todd Keikoan are now playing heads up at Table 1 -- sort of.

The two players decided to take a break, so they did. But since this event is running at multiple tables, the cards must still be dealt. So the floorperson came over and instructed the dealer to continue dealing the hands as they swapped blinds back and forth for as long as the players were on break. The net result will be zero, but the hands must still be dealt.

The important consideration is that the clock continues to run, so if they take an extended break (and aren't brokering a deal), they will have less time to play at this level of blinds.

Here are the current chip counts:

Seat 5 - Sondre Sagstuen - 132,000
Seat 8 - Todd Keikoan - 138,000

Table 4 Update

David Baker has taken a huge chip lead at table 4, and Tam 'Tommy' Hang is in rough shape with the blinds at 2,000-4,000.

Seat 2 - Tam 'Tommy' Hang - 33,000
Seat 7 - David Baker - 237,000

Updated Chip Counts

TABLE 1
Seat 3 - Marwan Abdel Al - 30,000
Seat 5 - Sondre Sagstuen - 150,000
Seat 8 - Todd Keikoan - 90,000

TABLE 2
Winner: David Mosca

TABLE 3
Seat 4 - Brian Haveson - 135,000
Seat 6 - Anh Nguyen - 135,000

TABLE 4
Seat 2 - Tam 'Tommy' Hang - 85,000
Seat 7 - David Baker - 185,000

TABLE 5
Seat 3 - Thomas Tysziewicz - 113,000
Seat 5 - Andy Ward - 61,000
Seat 9 - Bryan Spadaro - 97,000

TABLE 6
Seat 7 - Ram Vaswani - 162,000
Seat 9 - Bret Winograd - 108,000

TABLE 7
Seat 2 - Gerald Rhoads - 91,000
Seat 7 - Danny Noam - 88,000
Seat 8 - Raye Puckett - 91,000

TABLE 8
Seat 2 - Ishak Noyan - 42,000
Seat 3 - Victor Ramdin - 228,000