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Ly: (
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)Kostritsyn made a straight to eliminate Ly after a courageous tournament effort in 4th place for a collect of $118,816.
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 14 - $10,000 Seven-Card Stud World Championship
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$1,485,200
Entries
158
Level
24
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
Ly: (
) ()Kostritsyn: (
) ()Kostritsyn made a straight to eliminate Ly after a courageous tournament effort in 4th place for a collect of $118,816.
On seventh, Kostritsyn bet blind showing
. Wong made the call showing 
. Kostritsyn looked underneath and shook his head and Wong asked, "You missed your draw?" Kostritsyn shook his head and the crowd cheered as Wong flipped over (
) for a pair of aces. Kostritsyn starts complaining to the rail about how Wong called him down with just aces and three spades.
After the hand, Wong is sitting with 1,400,000 in chips
but was raised by Kostritsyn with 
. In a decision that was virtually for his tournament life Ly folded his hand and saved his last 90,000.He was able to recover some chips back in the next hand against Eric Brooks. Brooks completed with the
and Ly raised with the 
. Brooks made the call.On 4th Ly spiked a repeat
while Brooks hit the . Ly put his last 22,000 chips into the middle, and although Brooks was getting a discount, Ly's hand looked too big and Brooks laid it down.Ly is now back to about 160,000 but will still need some more help to get back into contention for the title.
Level: 23
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 0
and Kostritsyn showed 
but before 6th street was dealt Kostritsyn fired out a bet.Ly then caught a
to pair up as Kostritsyn found the . Ly's pair was the best hand so he was first to act, resulting in Kostritsyn's bet being a bet out of turn - his second time on this final table.Ly decided to bet out which meant that Kostritsyn was given the option to take back his bet since the action in front of him had changed. After some discussion with the tournament director and other players Kostritsyn laid down his hand, to give Ly the pot as he moves to about 275,000 chips.
before Minh Ly raised it up showing the . Seidel made the call. Minh Ly bet each street with Seidel putting the last of his chips in on 6th street. The boards ran out:Seidel: (
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)Ly: (
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()Ly had the ace in the hole for a pair of aces as Seidel squeezed his last card but couldn't find any help. Seidel misses his 9th bracelet, eliminated from the tournament in 5th place for $92,825.
Ly: (
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Kostritsyn missed his flush and Ly hit his straight on the river to double him up to around 260,000. Kostritsyn is down to 725,000.
Kostritsyn made aces-up with a board of (
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against Seidel who mucked with .A few moments later Kostritsyn forced Seidel out of another hand with a check-raise on 5th street.
Of course this is not the first time these two have battled it out at a major international final table. They went heads up at the 2008 Aussie Millions in January this year. In that contest it was Kostritsyn who came out of top and took down the title, with Seidel finishing runner-up. These two are building quite a rivalry, and at the moment it looks like today's battle may go the same way as the Aussie Millions, unless Seidel can make yet another comeback sometime soon. He is now down to about 200,000 chips.
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Kostritsyn: (
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Seidel's aces up were good to double up Seidel to 400,000