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Sunday, November 8, 2009 2:05 AM Local Time
Gloria Balding caught up with Steve Begleiter after he busted out of the tournament after Darvin Moon cracked his queens on the river.
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Sunday, November 8, 2009 2:03 AM Local Time
Joe Cada has the button. Everyone clears out in front Antoine Saout's small blind. Like Moon, Saout is a guy who looks exhausted. He limps in from the small blind, giving Jeff Shulman a chance to pop it up to 2.8 million. Saout musters up the energy to pitch his cards into the muck.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 2:01 AM Local Time
Eric Buchman has the button. In the small blind, Joe Cada opens to 2.1 million, and Antoine Saout comes along with a call from the big. The flop shows up
, and Cada taps the felt. Saout takes the opportunity to stick in a bet of 3 million, and Cada waves the white flag.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:55 AM Local Time
Darvin Moon has the button. After two folds, he makes it 2.0 million to go. Both blinds fold.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:55 AM Local Time
Jeff Shulman has the button. Antoine Saout makes it 1,925 million from the cutoff, and he wins another free round of play.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:54 AM Local Time
Antoine Saout has the button. Joe Cada is in the cutoff and raises to 2.0 million. There are no callers.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:53 AM Local Time
Joe Cada has the button. He starts the action with a 2,000,000-chip wager, and Antoine Saout quickly folds his small blind. Jeff Shulman isn't going anywhere from his big blind though. He puts his hands behind his stacks of chips and just begins to nudge them into the betting area with an all-in move. Before the chips have even traveled a couple inches forward, Cada's cards are already in the muck.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:53 AM Local Time
Nolan Dalla, noted poker author was one of the only members of the media to talk to Phil Ivey after his elimination. Dalla was kind enough to share the transcript with PokerNews and you can read it in it's entirety [url=http://www.pokernews.com/news/2009/11/the-world-series-of-poker-phil-ivey-eliminated-in-7th-place-7507.htm]here[/url].
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:51 AM Local Time
Eric Buchman has the button. Jeff Shulman is first to speak and decides his course of action is to open-shove. Unlike the last time he did that, nobody calls here.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:49 AM Local Time
Darvin Moon has the button. The table passes around to the blinds, and Eric Buchman raises to 2 million from the small. Joe Cada quickly folds away his big blind, and Buchman stacks it up plus the antes.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:47 AM Local Time
Jeff Shulman has the button. Action passes to Antoine Saout, who makes it 1.925 million to go. Small blind Darvin Moon is reaching for chips. He chooses to call, and after Eric Buchman folds Moon and Saout are heads-up to the flop.
Moon is looking very, very tired out there. We heard he was playing table games at 7am this morning. It doesn't stop him from leading into Saout for 2.5 million here on a flop of
. Saout announces a raise and ships 9.0 million into the middle of the table.
"6.5 million if Darvin wants to call," the supervisor on the mic informs the crowd. It turns out that Moon does not want to call. He folds.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:43 AM Local Time
Antoine Saout has the button. He comes into the pot with 1.95 million chips, and he finds no action from the blinds.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:42 AM Local Time
Joe Cada has the button. Eric Buchman opens to 1.75 million and is called by big blind Jeff Shulman. The flop is a rainbow
. There's been a bunch of noise in the theater but things get very quiet as it seems like a big hand may be in progress. The theater is wrong. Shulman checks and then folds to a bet of 1.6 million from Buchman.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:40 AM Local Time
Eric Buchman has the button. Jeff Shulman grabs his remaining 6,250,000 chips and slides them forward. He watches the rest of the table fold in turn until the action comes to big blind Antoine Saout.
[u]Showdown[/u]
Shulman:
Saout:
With Shulman looking rather relaxed, the dealer ran out a clean flop of
. The turn was a blank too, the
. The
that filled out the board locked up the double for the man they call "Happy". Shulman is back in the ball game with 13,175,000 after that pot.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:34 AM Local Time
Antoine Saout - 54,350,000
Eric Buchman - 49,425
Joe Cada - 45,225,000
Darvin Moon - 39,450
Jeff Shulman - 6,325,000
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:32 AM Local Time
Darvin Moon has the button. He opens the pot to 2.0 million, causing small blind Eric Buchman to pitch his cards into the muck. Joe Cada is the big blind. He re-raises to 5.6 million; Moon turbo four-bets all in and Cada snap-calls. What is going on here!
Well, it's obvious what Cada has. He turns over a very unsurprising
. Moon? He shows down
.
The flop is
, bringing a loud groan from more than one spectator on the stage. Moon has flopped top pair, giving everyone in the theater a sweat. Could he lay another bad beat?
Not on the turn, at least. It comes
. Cada needs to fade one last river to double up (again!). He fades it when the river repeats
.
Cada - 45.225 million
Moon - 39.45 million
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:27 AM Local Time
Jeff Shulman has the button. Eric Buchman gets a free pass in the big blind.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:26 AM Local Time
Antoine Saout has the button. He raises first in to 1.625 million. That raise takes down the pot.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:26 AM Local Time
Joe Cada has the button. Eric Buchman is first to enter the pot from the middle seat, and he raises to 1.5 million. Antoine Saout quickly sticks in a three-bet to 5.025 million, and Buchman doesn't waste any time folding.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 1:22 AM Local Time
Eric Buchman has the button. Jeff Shulman is under the gun and comes into the pot with a raise to 1.75 million. Action passes to the small blind, Joe Cada, who moves all in for 10.8 million. Shulman calls inside of ten seconds, and with good reason -- he has
. Cada turns over
. He has the worst hand and is the one at risk of elimination.
Wow. Run good one time, Joe Cada. It's a trey in the window.
Yep, the flop is
. The turn
doesn't help Shulman. He needs a jack, and only a jack, on the river to send Cada packing. Cada can't stand to watch the river, instead putting his head in Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy's chest. (Josephy's wearing one of the yellow "CADA" t-shirts.) The river is paint, but it's the
. That's no help for Shulman and the worst hand wins again.
New counts:
Shulman - 7.525 million
Cada - 22.575 million