2008 World Series of Poker

Event 2 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 3
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
104
Prize
$831,462
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$5,363,085
Entries
3,929
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Hand #90 - Theo Tran

There is a dead button for this hand. Theo Tran is in the small blind, and Chris Ferguson is in the big blind.

Akenhead folds before Hinkle makes it 250,000 to go. Tran pushes all in for about 1.5 million. Tran is out of his chair, drinking a bottle of water, and doing his usual shtick of wandering around the stage. Meanwhile, Ferguson has taken well over a minute to decide what he wants to do in this hand and seems no closer to a decision. Finally, he pushes his own stack into the middle. He has Tran covered. Hinkle folds and here we go again!

Tran: {A-Clubs}{K-Spades}
Ferguson: {8-Spades}{8-Diamonds}

I don't think Ferguson has lost a race in the last two days. The law of averages is going to catch up to him at some point.

The flop comes {3-Diamonds}{J-Clubs}{10-Clubs}, but Tran still has plenty of outs. One of them comes on the turn - the {K-Clubs}. Ferguson can only catch the {8-Hearts} to avoid doubling up Tran. It doesn't happen when the river is the {6-Spades}. Tran wins the hand and goes up to about 3 million; Ferguson is absolutely crippled, retaining only 225,000.