Event #29: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Johnny Neckar moved all in on the button for 356,000. Matt Vengrin made the call. Neckar:     Vengrin:     The board missed both players and Neckar doubled up to 712,000.

Thuy Doan moved all in on the button for 260,000. John Phan in the small blind made the call. Doan:     Phan:     The flop put Phan solidly in the lead when the board came       . Only one of the remaining sixes in the deck would help Doan. The turn of the   gave Phan two pair and the river card of the   sent Thuy Doan out of this event in 7th place. Doan was the last woman eliminated from today's event. She proved that she isn't just a good female poker player, but a good overall poker player. It will be interesting to see what she does in future events at this year's World Series.

The relocated final table, in the middle of the green section, has received a lot of traffic with people walking past and lingering around as it's in the middle of one of the other big events. David Singer was unhappy with the amount of people walking behind him so the table has now been roped off on all sides, making life difficult for your faithful reporters to gain easy access to the table. Play continues and we'll do our best to provide regular updates.

The action folded to David Singer on the button, who opened with a raise to 51,000. Thuy Doan then quickly moved all in from the small blind for 278,000. John Phan thought long and hard in the big blind before folding, as did Singer. Doan takes down the pot with a nice 3-bet push to get back to around 340,000 in chips.

Thuy Doan raised from the button for 62,000. John Phan went into the tank for about three minutes before going all in for approximately 180,000 more. Doan instantly mucked her hand. After the hand Phan said, "You're always raising my blind. That's what you get when you keep raising my blind."

John Phan raised his second hand in succession, this time from under the gun, making it 40,000 to go. Matt Vengrin was next to speak and quickly reraised an additional 111,000. The action folded around to Phan who again was forced to a big decision. He deliberated for several minutes before folding    face up. That's the third pocket pair he's folded without seeing a flop at this final table. Phan is now on the short stack and although he's not desperate yet, he's going to have to make a stand sometime soon.

Johnny Neckar has been the quietest at this table so far. He just got involved for the first time when the action folded to him in the cutoff. He raised it to 45,000 and was able to collect the blinds and antes.

Sebastian Segovia raised from middle position to 49,000. It was folded around to John Phan who made a verbal raise to around 130,000, which was enough to put Segovia all in. Before Phan could put his chips in the pot Matt Vengrin pushed a stack of 25,000 chips into the middle to reraise Phan. The raise was 363,000 more than Phan's raise. Segovia called instantly. Phan went into the tank with a smirk on his face. He looked over at Vengrin, shook his head and tapped the table before mucking his cards. Vengrin:     Segovia:     Board:           Segovia becomes our ninth-place finisher. He takes home $39,523 for his efforts. After the hand, Segovia hung around the PokerNews booth for a couple of minutes. He said, "I pretty much had to go there. It was a good pot if I could have won it. What can I do?"

So far the players have been feeling each other out. The first few hands have all been "raise and take it" hands preflop. One item of interest is the fact that we played two hands and then the floor staff decided to do player introductions. John Phan mentioned that another online news site had him listed as David Pham for a long time before making the correction.

The tournament director is also taking this opportunity to color up and race off all of the blue 500 denomination chips from the table.