POKER NEWS

03 October 2008

WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Right on cue, Alekhin doubles up.
WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Right on cue, Alekhin doubles up.

Just as we thought Stanislav was going to have to take on Juanda in a pre-flop skirmish, so it proved.

WSOPE Main Event Final Table: One Way Traffic
WSOPE Main Event Final Table: One Way Traffic

How different this is to earlier today when it was Alekhin controlling the table.

WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Juanda Extends His Lead
WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Juanda Extends His Lead

John Juanda is inching closer to the bracelet, winning a pot around 630,000.

WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Chip counts for heads-up play
WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Chip counts for heads-up play

Three-time bracelet winner JohnJuanda has a two to one chip lead on Stanislav Alekhin.

WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Wake up, we lost one!
WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Wake up, we lost one!

Ivan Demidov has been vanquished, finally taken by John Juanda.

WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Juanda Moves All In, Gets A Call....
WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Juanda Moves All In, Gets A Call....

The play really has slowed down here since going three-handed, but there was one hand which got people's attention, Juanda moving all in over the top of a Demidov reraise.

WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Red Rag to the Bull?
WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Red Rag to the Bull?

In a bid to get proceedings moving a little, Ivan Demidov four-bets Juanda preflop, then shows him ten-high. Saucy.

WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Evens-stevens.
WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Evens-stevens.

The jockeying for position continues as Jack Eiffel announces there are only a couple of thousand between first and third.

WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Demidov Doubles Up
WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Demidov Doubles Up

Ivan Demidov's hopes of winning the first half of a historic double are alive and kicking following a double up through John Juanda.

WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Updated Chip Counts
WSOPE Main Event Final Table: Updated Chip Counts

And so it continues. In another key hand, this time with Stanislav Alekhin, Juanda won a bumper pot to take his chip count to 3,530,000.