WSOP 2008
After being moved to his third table in as many levels, Shaun Deeb finally found himself surrounded by relatively unfamiliar faces. The other players also appeared to be actively rooting against him when he got involved with the only female at the table. With the blinds at 150/300, Deeb raised to 750 in early position and the woman in the small blind reraised to 2.1K total and Shaun made the call. The flop came down 5
4
3
and she led out for 3.5K. Deeb thought for a good minute before raising enough to put the other player all-in for her remaining 11K. His opponent thought for a moment herself before calling with K
K
while Shaun showed 2
2
. The T
on the turn brought even more outs for Deeb and the J
on the river made his flush and won him the large pot. That brought his chip stack up to 42K. He appears to have taken a few hits since then though and has 26K headed into the dinner break.
Deeb and 908 other players will be on break for the next 90 minutes. Stay tuned for more updates from the final two levels of today when play resumes at 8:30pm PST. In the meantime, here are some pre-dinner chip counts to satiate your poker appettite:
Patrik Antonius (the unofficial chip leader) - 90K
Mike “SirWatts” Watson (pictured at right)- 74K
Paul “comeonphish” Lieu - 43K
Todd “nsxt2″ Arnold - 42.5K
Stuart “zpaceman” Taylor - 39.5K
Mark “sideshowgil” Gilbert - 39K
Mike “Schneids” Schneider - 36K
Jeff “YoungSupremacy” Hakim - 35K
Derek “arodss3″ Buonano - 35K
Steve “gboro780″ Gross - 28K
Blair Rodman - 20K
Brian “Wing-n-prayer” Reingold - 18K
Theo “pittrounder” Tran - 16K
Jeff “jeffboski” Sluzinski - 10K
Stu “thedonator” Paterson - 10K
Peter “Nordberg” Feldman - 8.5K
- July 5, 2008 -- Viva Las Main Event
- July 5, 2008 -- SirWatts’ Tourney Future Bright
- July 9, 2008 -- Lost & Found
- July 4, 2008 -- Luck of the Draw

