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2008 World Series of Poker
39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
Day: 3
against Johnstone's 
. The flop provided lots of drama, coming down 
, but a turn and river of 
preserved the win for Johnstone. Butler is gone with the wind.
, Toto Leonidas put Petter Karal at risk for his tournament life. Leonidas:
Karal:
The turn of the
and river of the helped neither player and Leonidas moved up to 150,000 in chips.
The floor was called over, and eventually the supervisor, Charlie Cresi had to be summoned. He took a minute to survey the situation before making his ruling.
"It's definitely a dead hand," he said, indicating that it was impossible to retrieve the cards from the muck. "In essence, it's the player's responsibility to protect their cards," he added. The decision was made to save Rinoldi's tournament life though. Cresi ruled that a minimum raise -- 3,200 chips -- had to be taken out of Rinoldi's stack, and the pot was awarded to Chuang. Rinoldi was given a 10,200-chip rebate to use in another spot.
Rinoldi was unhappy with the decision, but he very easily could have lost his whole stack in the incident. "I'm making a ruling in fairness to the game," Cresi said. The dealer apologized profusely, though by the rules, Rinoldi was at-fault for failing to cap his cards to prevent them being prematurely mucked.
Sinclair:
Spee:
Board:
Spee is busted.
Giufre:
Borges:
Board:
Giufre doulbed up to around 110,000 after the hand. Borges moved down to 216,000.
O'Dell:
Macieras:
Board:
O'Dell has 140,000 and Macieras is down to 184,800.
Rousso tabled
and was in good shape against the big blind's 
. The dealer gave us 
.Rousso avoided the ace and has more of a chance now with 61,000.
The flop came
and Djokovic checked. Sexton bet 13,000 and Djokovic called.The turn fell the
and Djokovic checked again. Sexton fired 17,000 this time and Djokovic called.Before the river hit, Djokovic checked dark. The river was the
. Sexton then checked behind.Djokovic showed
and Sexton slam-mucked after the river did him in.Sexton is down to 23,000 now with Djokovic up to 118,000.
."You think that was the best hand?" Smith said, and when Eisenberg offered to bet that he indeed had the best hand Smith first showed the
and then flashed the . Smith said he thought there was a chance Eisenberg would call the all in and said, "If you called with ace-jack...you'd deserve to hit two jacks on the flop."