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2008 WSOP Day 20: Phan-ing the tournament flames

June 18, 2008

Two more professional poker players won their very first World Series of Poker bracelets on Tuesday as John Phan took down Event 29 and Rob Hollink brought one home for the Netherlands in Event 30.

Event 29

The Razor lived up to his nickname on Tuesday as he sliced through the final table of the $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em event to take home a gold bracelet and a $434,789 top prize.

This was John Phan’s first WSOP bracelet win, though he’s had several cashes in past events including two runner-up finishes, one in 2006 and one in 2007, and a fourth-place finish in 2005. This time he made his way through 716 entrants to ascend to the very top of the heap.

Plus, he had to get through a final table that included Alex Bolotin and David Singer to get there. Singer won his first WSOP bracelet earlier in the Series and is on a hot streak coming into this final table, with two other cashes in 2008 events already as well.

However, Johnny Neckar, a 22-year-old from Madison, Wis., proved to be Phan’s biggest competition. When it came down to the two of them, they ended up playing heads-up for more than six hours before Phan was finally able to take him down.

After six hours of play, the two players started to just go all-in blindly, gambling for a little while before returning to serious play about even in chips. Then a few hands later, Phan finally got his win.

Phan raised from the button and Neckar pushed all-in from the big blind. Phan made the call and flipped up A

2008 WSOP Day 20: Phan-ing the tournament flames

9

2008 WSOP Day 20: Phan-ing the tournament flames

to Neckar’s J

2008 WSOP Day 20: Phan-ing the tournament flames

Q

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. The board came K

2008 WSOP Day 20: Phan-ing the tournament flames

8

2008 WSOP Day 20: Phan-ing the tournament flames

7

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4

2008 WSOP Day 20: Phan-ing the tournament flames

A

2008 WSOP Day 20: Phan-ing the tournament flames

to give Phan the win.

The final-table results were:

PlaceNamePrize1stJohn Phan$434,7892ndJohnny Neckar$277,4523rdMatt Vengrin$167,9734thAlex Bolotin$137,3435thDavid Singer$112,6416thStewart Newman$88,9277thThuyen Doan$69,1658thGeorge Dunst$54,3449thSebastian Segovia$39,523

To read more about the action, visit the Event 29 live updates, or check out Phan’s post-game interview.

Event 30

Holland’s first WSOP bracelet winner was crowned on Tuesday as Rob Hollink took down the $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold’em event.

2008 WSOP Day 20: Phan-ing the tournament flames

Rob Hollink is no longer unlucky in the WSOP.

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