2008 World Series of Poker

39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
Day: 1c
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
6,844
Players Left
9
Next Payout
Place 9
$900,670
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000

Butler Triples With Flopped Boat

Four limpers were in the pot preflop before Rhett Butler popped it up to 1,600 from the cutoff. Two players made the call.

They took a flop of {9-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}{6-Hearts} and an early-position player led at the pot for 3,000. The middle-position player flat-called before Butler raised it up to 13,000. The EP player then reraised all in for 13,500 in total, and the action was with the MP player. He asked Butler how many chips he had behind and after discovering he had another 7,700 left, he decided to also move all in! Butler quipped "You have quad sixes, huh?" before making the call.

Butler flipped over {9-Hearts}{9-Diamonds} for a flopped boat to hold the lead over the {K-Hearts}{K-Clubs} and {6-Spades}{5-Spades} of his opponents.

The turn was the {5-Hearts} to make the middle-position player a smaller full house, but the {Q-Diamonds} on the river gave Butler a monsterous pot to jump up to 63,000 chips.

Tags: Rhett Butler