Just before the break, Raymond Rahme raises to 400,000 in middle position and Jerry Yang calls. On the flop, Yang checks. Rahme bets 400,000. Yang check-raises to a million and Rahme folds. Yang shows and is up to 4,800,000 while Rahme is down to 2,900,000.
2007 World Series of Poker
Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
Day: 5
Just before the break, Raymond Rahme raises to 400,000 in middle position and Jerry Yang calls. On the flop, Yang checks. Rahme bets 400,000. Yang check-raises to a million and Rahme folds. Yang shows and is up to 4,800,000 while Rahme is down to 2,900,000.
Elson made the call and showed , while Madsen revealed pocket eights. The flop put Elson in the lead and he never looked back, doubling up to 1,900,000 in chips.
The hand left Madsen with a chip stack totaling just over 1,300,000.
Maria Ho raises to 150,000 in the small blind and Kevin Farry reraises to 225,000 in the big blind. Ho is all in for 575,000 more and Farry calls, showing to Ho's . The board comes and Ho is out. Farry has 3,700,000.
Roy Winston raises to 130,000 under the gun and Rep Porter goes all in for his last 15,000 in the cutoff. Tuan Lam calls in the small blind. They check the flop, and then Lam bets 225,000 on the turn. Winston folds and Lam shows to Porter's . The river comes and Porter is eliminated. Lam is up to 3,550,000.
The flop comes and Freeman fires out 250,000. Slezak raises to 550,000 and Freeman moves all in for 1,030,000. Slezak calls, putting himself all in and opens . Freeman has .
The turn and river don't improve Freeman, and Slezak doubles through to just over 2,500,000.
Before the community cards were dealt, Tran said, "I'm like a 2:1 favorite . . . I have two flush draws, he has one!"
The board filled out and the pair chopped the pot.
Spadea:
Kim:
The board filled out and Kim's pair of aces held up. Kim doubled to 1,050,000 on the hand, while Spadea fell to 4,800,000 chips.
2 2 (empty)
2 3 Ray Henson
2 4 Scott Freeman
2 5 Bob Slezak
2 6 Ryan Elson
2 7 Ayaz Mahmood
2 8 Scotty Nguyen
2 9 Jon Kalmar
3 1 Jason Welch
3 2 Paulo Loureiro
3 3 Stefan Mattsson
3 4 (empty)
3 5 William Spadea
3 6 Jeff Bryan
3 7 Kevin Kim
3 8 Christian Togsverd
3 9 Alex Kravchenko
4 1 Kenny Tran
4 2 Rep Porter
4 3 (empty)
4 4 Robin Bergren
4 5 Tuan Lam
4 6 Peter Darvill
4 7 Lee Watkinson
4 8 Roy Winston
4 9 John Armbrust
5 1 (empty)
5 2 Raymond Rahme
5 3 David Tran
5 4 Hevad "Rain" Khan
5 5 Philip Hilm
5 6 Jerry Yang
5 7 Ronald Kluber
5 8 Jason Koshi
5 9 Allan W. King
6 1 Hoa Nguyen
6 2 Steven Garfinkle
6 3 (empty)
6 4 Maria Ho
6 5 Kevin Farry
6 6 Lee Childs
6 7 (empty)
6 8 Daniel Alaei
6 9 Bill Edler
Yeh showed , while Spadea had him on the ropes with .
The flop all but put an end to Yeh's 2007 Main Event, as he was left drawing to running fives or a running straight cards, but the on the turn sealed the deal, and Yeh was eliminated in 40th place.
Spadea improved to 5,200,000 after the hand.