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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
Phil Hellmuth just cashed for the 71st time at the World Series of Poker–but it’s been an up-and-down day. The big dip came right before the money bubble burst, as Phil doubled up Alex Kravchenko when Phil ran pocket Queens into Kravchenko’s pocket Aces. Losing that hand left Phil with just 30,000, but just a few minutes later we began hand-for-hand play and Phil survived the next bustout to record cash #71.
He then moved from survive to thrive when he won a big pot on the first hand after play resumed. After Scott Dorch limped and the Marcel Vonk called in the small blind called Phil checked his option in the big blind. The flop came Qs-7s-3h, Vonk and Hellmuth checked, and Dorch bet 2,500. Vonk called and then Phil said, “I was gonna smooth call, now I gotta raise it up.” He popped it to 12,000, Dorch folded and Vonk thought a bit before announcing he was all-in. Phil snap-called and turned over Kd-Qd for top pair to Vonk’s As-Js and nut flush draw. The Jh on the river gave Vonk two more outs but the river brought the 4h, which sent Vonk to the rail and a big pile of chips to Phil to assimilate into his stack.
That boosted Phil stack back up to 65,000, but as I returned to write up that hand PokerNews reported that Phil lost a big confrontation with Benjamin Scholl that sent him back down to 25,000. So it looks like it’s gonna be one of those roller-coaster days, though hopefully a long one.
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June 17th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
PH just took another pot ,,,,cashin regardless .Looks like things are indeed hoting up. Nice build up to the big event.