39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event Day 5 | 2008 World Series of Poker

07-12-2008 15:32 UTC-8

Don't Betts on Him

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Robert Betts is out of the Main Event after failing to win a race. He put in the third raise, all in for 260,000, after Jeremy Joseph had opened the pot for 45,000 and David Saab had reraised to 125,000. Joseph folded to Saab, who started talking out loud, saying that he thought he might need to call and try to suck out on Betts due to all of the dead money in the pot. He did eventually make the call.

Saab: {A-Clubs}

Betts:

While the ESPN cameras came over to the table, Betts explained that he shoved against Saab because he felt Saab had been making some strange moves today. It didn't matter what this thinking was when the board ran out {3-Clubs}

to make two pair, queens and threes, for Saab against Betts' smaller two pair.

Mark Vos had wandered over to the table to watch the hand. As he was leaving, Saab stood up and yelled, "Vos, I'm coming for you!" Saab has 1,750,000 in chips.

07-12-2008 15:30 UTC-8

Brent Sheirbon Eliminated

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Brent Sheirbon pushed in his last 174,000 before the flop and Alexander Kostritsyn made the call. His {A-Diamonds}

held the lead over Sheirbon's {J-Clubs}

and when the board ran out {3-Hearts}

Sheribon saw his tournament come to an end. Kostritsyn is now back up to 1.74 million.

07-12-2008 15:30 UTC-8

Montgomery Moving Up

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With a board showing {10-Clubs}

, Scott Montgomery fired out a bet of 150,000 into a pot of roughly 200,000. Jens Klaning thought for a while, then made the call.

Montgomery turned over {J-Diamonds}

for two pair, and Klaning mucked. Montgomery has moved up past the two million mark, while Klaning is now down to 272,000.

Tags: Jens Klaning Scott Montgomery

07-12-2008 15:26 UTC-8

Khosravi Busts with Aces

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Pontus Khosravi can say he got his money in with the best of it. After Toni Judet opened the pot with a raise to 40,000, Khosravi reraised from late position to 110,000. Action folded back to Judet, who thought briefly before moving all in. Khosravi, who had fewer chips than Judet, almost beat him into the pot when he called with {A-Hearts}

. Judet had been making a move with {J-Spades}

, but was rewarded when the flop came down {J-Clubs}

. Khosravi couldn't come up with anything better than a single pair when the board bricked out {2-Spades}

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"Sorry," said Judet. "I'm ashamed to show that hand." Shame or not, he moves over the two-million-chip mark.

07-12-2008 15:26 UTC-8

Karen Manfrede Eliminated

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Before the flop Karen Manfrede moved in for her last 100,000 and Matthew Jensen called from the cutoff and Scott Montgomery from the small blind. After the {8-Diamonds}

flop Jense bet out and Montgomery folded, and that's when Manfrede saw that her {A-Hearts}

had been well and truly crushed by Jensen's {J-Spades}

and flopped full house. The {Q-Hearts}

did not bring the required miracle and Manfrede was out.

07-12-2008 15:21 UTC-8

Hellmuth Rakes in Another Pot

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An unusually quiet hand for Phil Hellmuth. Sitting in the small blind, he called a raise to 30,000 from the player with the button, Cort Kibler-Melby. Both players checked the {3-Spades}

flop. On the turn {A-Hearts}

, Hellmuth took a stab with a bet of 62,000, but Kibler-Melby raised him to 124,000. Hellmuth called.

On the river {9-Spades}

, Hellmuth fired again for 200,000. Kibler-Melby made a crying call to see Hellmuth turn over {3-Hearts}

for a full house, threes full of nines. His chip stack has increased to about 1,140,000.

07-12-2008 15:20 UTC-8

Sylvain Coeur Has Been Eliminated

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With the board reading {9-Hearts}

Sylvain Coeur moved all in for 220,000 with his {A-Hearts}

and flush draw. But Will Brewin had turned trips holding {9-Diamonds}

and when the river brought the {4-Clubs}

Coeur was eliminated.

07-12-2008 15:18 UTC-8

When Being a Millionaire Becomes Less Special

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With 136 players remaining, the average chip stack is now just slightly over one million.

07-12-2008 15:18 UTC-8

Kido Pham Recovers

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Kido Pham opened with a preflop raise to 50,000 from the cutoff and Tiffany Michelle defended with a call in the big blind.

They took a flop of {A-Clubs}

and Michelle led out for 75,000 with Pham making the call. The turn was the {K-Hearts}

and both players checked. The river landed the {4-Clubs}

and Michelle fired out 125,000. Pham then moved all in for 234,000 but Michelle tossed away her cards.

Pham is up to 550,000 with Michelle still in good shape with 1.6 million.

Tags: Kido Pham Tiffany Michelle

07-12-2008 15:14 UTC-8

A Game of Chicken

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Jeremy Joseph just shipped 275,000 chips to David Saab without taking a flop. Joseph raised to 40,000 from the cutoff before Saab reraised from the button to 120,000. Action folded back to an undeterred Joseph, who put in the third raise to 275,000. That didn't faze Saab in the slightest -- he moved all in for about 830,000. Joseph was finally the player to blink first when he mucked his hand.