Main Event Update
Jul 14, '07
Josh Evans Eliminated 76th
Evans moves all with A
6
and is called by
Pokerstars qualifier Jason Welsh with A
10
. The board comes K
J
8
J
9
, making Welsh the nut flush and sending Evans home in 76th place.
Scott Freeman Wins Huge Pot
Avi Cohen limps from early position and Freeman raises to $100,000. Cohen makes the call and the flop comes K
9
6
. Cohen checks and Freeman bets $175,000. Cohen thinks then makes the call. The turn is the 10
and Cohen leads for $400,000. Freeman reraises all in for around $1,010,000, and Cohen quickly makes the call with 8
7
. Freeman rolls over 8
6
, and is drawing to a backdoor flush to stay alive. As the ESPN cameras crown the table, Freeman mouths, "one time" then looks up into the roof of the Amazon Room. The river brings the 5
, making Freeman's flush and shipping him a pot worth over $2,500,000 in chips.
The Great Dane Doubles Up... Without Showdown
Within one orbit Gus Hansen moved in four times and picked up at least $81,000 each time without even seeing a flop. He moved in from the small blind, the button, the cutoff and later from early position, and increased his stack from around $400,000 to nearly $800,000 in that orbit. When Hansen finally saw a flop from the small blind the board came down A
A
A
and Gus was bet out of the pot. Hansen was still by far ahead of were he started the orbit, and it seems that his putting the pressure on his opponents has so far worked in his favor.
Eliminations
Willie Tann - 77th place ($106,382)
Josh Evans - 76th place ($106,382)
Leonard Pruzanski - 75th place ($106,382)
RIchard Murnick - 74th ($106,382)
Huck Seed - 73rd place ($106,382)
Billy Willis - 72nd place ($130,288)
Warren Karp - 71st Place ($130,288)
Ed De Haas - 70th place ($130,288)
Brandon Adams- 69th place ($130,288)
Adams was short stacked and found himself all-in with 10
6
against an opponent's A
2
. The board came down Q
9
3
7
K
and Adams was eliminated. With Huck Seed's elimination Scotty Nguyen became the only remaining main event champ in the field.
| Scotty Nguyen |
3,000,000 |
| Bill Edler |
1,700,000 |
| Daniel Alaei |
1,250,000 |
| Gus Hansen |
800,000 |
| Kirk Morrison |
755,000 |
Pokerstars Online Qualifiers
| Hevad Khan |
3,300,000 |
| Rep Porter |
2,745,000 |
| Jeff Banghart |
1,900,000 |
| Jason Welch |
1,760,000 |
| Ryan Lawrence |
1,000,000 |
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Player Tags: Scotty Nguyen, Huck Seed, Gus Hansen, Brandon Adams, Josh Evans, Scott Freeman
