HEARTS AND DOLLARS

There are three great stories in a tournament:

The fight to get into the money.

The struggle to get to the final table

And the climb up the money ladder.

What makes these stories so exciting is that for every winner there is a loser. Like any sporting event, you can keep score. You can root for your favorites and boo those you dislike.

For those who won't get to Binion's Horseshoe for this year's World Series of Poker, we'll try to put you in the front row with us. You can get the results elsewhere, but you can't get the feel of how it happened anywhere else. If you don't peek at the results, you can even feel as if it's all happening in front of your own eyes.

Stay with us every day for the next three weeks. Live the WSOP. Celebrate with the winners and die with the losers. It will be the next best thing to being here.

For each of the events of the World Series of Poker, we will tell the three stories in the order that they happened. Each day we will start with the fight to get into the money. To most players, this is their most reasonable goal. They want their money back! They want to "freeroll" to the Championship bracelet. They want to go on a rush that ends by being surrounded with chips. Stacks and stacks of chips. But first they want their entry fee back.

At 12:25 on Tuesday afternoon a miracle occured. Or something that could pass as a miracle in these post-biblical times. Jack McClelland got on the microphone and said "Dealers, Shuffle Up and Deal" thus launching the first event of the 1998 World Series of Poker--the $2,000 Buy-In Limit Hold 'em.

Soon thereafter a man huffily asked Patty Hughes, "Is it normal for a World Series event to start so late." Unable to contain her laughter, Patty said. "I think it's a World Series record for starting on time." He wasn't amused she said later.

We can now stop all the jokes about "Pacific McClelland Time." In an awesome display of coordination, 581 players (a new record) were seated in their correct seats and started their quest for the over $1 million prize pool and over $400,000 first prize.

In the old days (last year) before the computer was as efficient, 1:30 p.m. was the over/under for a start time. Players often didn't show up to register until after 1 p.m. to avoid the long lines.

Today, walking around at 12:30, it looked like you were in a California casino during a nicotine fit there were so many "walkers". All the tables had empty chairs, some had several. Boy were these people going to be surprised when they saw how much they'd been blinded off.

In preceeding years, the time before the tournament started was used to make deals.

Player 1: Do you want to swap 10%?
Player 2: With you? You have no chance to win. Let's make it 5%.
Player 1: Deal.

In the old days, you never knew who you were running the race with, the horse, the jockey or the trainer.

Now, it seems that everyone is on a more even playing field. There are so many players, nobody knows anybody.

But what good is a "name", a reputation when everyone is starting out with the same amount of chips? It's a zero sum game in a no rebuy tournament. You have to keep doubling up to stay with the blinds and those chips have to come from the other players at your table. Unless someone is busted and new money comes to the table, these players are the ones you have to beat to get into the money.

How good a "name" is Doyle Brunson? He couldn't win a hand for the first hour and was out by the first break, having to go all-in with the 2/3 of clubs.

We'll all know soon who the money winner are, but where did they start when the chips were even? Who did they have to play against to get all the chips we see at the final table?

In the Satellite area:

Scotty Nguyen at Table 1
Mel Judah and Frank Henderson at Table 2
Ray Rumler and Harry Thomas at Table 4
Tom McEvoy at Table 5
Ken Flaton, Barbara Enright and Jesse Jones at Table 6
Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot and Paul Ladyani at Table 7
Mason Malmuth and Danny Newman at Table 10
Ron "Carolina Express" Stanley at Table 11
Jim Meehan and Peter Vilandos at Table 12
Berry Johnston at Table 13
John Cernuto at Table 14

In the Poker Room area:

Jim Bechtel at Table 23
Don Williams at Table 24
Mike Caro at Table 25
Andre Boyer and Paul Rowe at Table 27
Doyle Brunson at Table 29
An "The Boss" Tran at Table 32
Danny Dang at Table 33
Chip Reese at Table 34

In the Super Satellite area:

Chau Chang and Dan Heimiller at Table 35
Max Stern, Ken Buntjer and Don Barton at Table 37
Vasilis Lazarou and Randy Holland at Table 38
TJ Cloutier and Bobby Hoff at Table 41
Paul "Eskimo" Clark at Table 43
Howard Lederer at Table 45
Louis Asmo, Katherine Brown and Mori Eskandani at Table 46
Brent Carter and Pat Fleming at Table 48
Luis Santoni, Todd Brunson and Kevin Song (Last year's winner) at Table 50
Huck Seed, Robert Turner and Mike Sexton at Table 51
John Strzemp at Table 52
Steve Brecher, Rod Peate and JJ Volpe at Table 53
Phil Hellmuth at Table 55
Annie Duke and Men Nguyen at Table 57
Brad Daugherty at Table 61
Johnny Chan, Alex Brenes and Kathy Liebert at Table 63
Marsha Waggoner and Chris Tsiprailidis at Table 64

Just for fun, let's suppose you were here and were lucky enough to win a satellite. You paid your money and got a seat assignment.

Let's see Table 60 Seat 4, that sounds lucky you say to yourself.

You take your seat, not looking around and count your chips. Looking up you notice your table partners for the first time.

Seat 1 Frank Mariani, co-owner of the Los Angeles Lakers
Seat 2 No one you've ever seen before
Seat 3 Eric Seidel
Seat 4 You
Seat 5 Deane Stonier
Seat 6 Mike "Mad Dog" Davis
Seat 7 Mike Laing
Seat 8 John Bonetti
Seat 9 Ted Forrest
Seat 10 Hasn't arrived yet

Is there a chance to get a refund before the tournament starts? How about a forged note from your doctor? Should you just leave and be blinded off to save yourself the embarrassment of playing in front of this murderer's row?

Check, call, raise, reraise or check raise, you will never know "where you are at" with these players.

In front of you, Mariani and Seidel are repeat champions and renowned high stakes players.

Behind you it gets worse. Stonier will trap you in your small blind. In your big blind is "Mad Dog" Davis, a guy who would check raise his grandmother out of her seat in a penny ante home game.

Mike Laing would bluff the Grim Reaper into taking the guy next to him.

John Bonetti would three bet either of those two guys for value with deuce/trey off.

And Ted Forrest is there at the end of the table to clean up the mess the others had made.

What a lucky seat assignment, huh!

Oh, by the way, Table 60 Seat 4 didn't make the first break.

IN THE MONEY

In Event #1 that meant getting to the last three tables ... the top 27 players. If you come in 28th, and somebody would, you beat 553 players for nothing! Worse, you got to pay the Casino $2,070 for the booby prize - one out of the money.

With four tables left, there are several "name" short stacks.

Tom McEvoy
An Tran
David Rabbi
John Juanda
Walter Threadgill
Denny Axel

Equally there are some giant stacks:

Eli Balas
Mimi Tran
Jim Miller
Steve Brecher
Vic Kramer
Sung Hee Chung
Diana Allen

Of the short stacks, the first one out is the only former World Champion left, Tom McEvoy. Tom went from having about $15,000 chips to the rail in the blink of an eye. Tom made a fatal error. He got high carded to Table 48 Seat 5.

As Rudy Lotief, Tournament Assistant tells it, "In every tournament there is an 'Electric Chair'. Whoever sits in that chair is eliminated." The "Electric Chair" for this event was Table 48 Seat 5. No one had survived in that seat for a very good reason, it was right behind Mimi Tran.

Mimi was the hottest player in the event up until then. She played a lot of hands and won eight, nine, ten hands in a row of the ones she played on a couple of occasions. No one could stand up to her, not even former World Champions.

But no one had ever heard of her before. Why wasn't she known if she was such a great player? We asked her boyfriend, Barry, who was sweating her on the rail.

"She doesn't play tournaments," he said. "But no woman in the world has made more money in limit hold 'em in the last three years than Mimi." You wouldn't get an argument from Tom McEvoy or from the next victim who was high carded to her immediate left - John Juanda. Like McEvoy, John had some chips until Mimi saw them, then they were hers.

"She had a Q/10 off," John told us. "She flopped trips."

At other tables, the two shortest stacks were desperate for divine intervention. Who should get it but a Rabbi? David Rabbi.

With four chips left and the big blind coming, David went all-in with the first good hand he'd seen in hours, an A/K off. The big blind called the two extra chips with 5/3 off. And was leading on the turn when a trey fell. Prayer works. Ask David. He got an Ace on the river to stay alive.

Denny Axel, co-owner of Card Player, was sure to fall. He could barely make it through the blinds. Looking down at his hand, an A/10 off seemed to be the best hand he'd see, so he went for it. All-in. For once, the incendiary Mimi Tran didn't win. Her pocket Kings went down when an Ace came.

An Tran, who had been an early chip leader, saw his stack leak chips until they were all gone. Nothing he did could stop it. No hands, no luck, no payday for The Boss. "Baby Doll" is what An Tran says when he's winning. Vietnamese is what he uses when he loses.

Walter Threadgill had been fighting elimination for an hour. He could never get any chips to make him feel comfortable. When he went all-in with A/Q off, the entire tournament area came to watch. If he lost he'd get the booby prize. David Rabbi came yelling from across the room. "Please let this happen! Seven Dimes! ($7,000, the prize for 19th to 27th) Seven Dimes! (We told you, first they want their money back.)

It happened! Walter's opponent flopped up and down with a six and turned a straight when the seven came.

Now there is cheering and hugging and back slapping and even a little crying with relief.

Everyone's In The Money!!! Everyone but Walter Threadgill.

GETTING THERE

The euphoria of making the money quickly dies when you see the stacks at your new table. This is the worst time for your cards to go dead or for your flops to flop. How can you freeroll to the Championship when you can't even pick up a hand?

Suddenly, players who'd been tight, now are loose. You have to call a raise or three bets just to see a flop. David Rabbi (26th) and Denny Axel (22nd) who'd fought so valiantly to get here, couldn't play the new game without ammunition.

Diana Allen who early on had had a mountain of chips asked her dealer, "Did I ever do anything to you, that you can't push me a pot?" She finished 19th. "Are you going to tell them how badly I played and still finished 19th?" she asked us. No, we aren't.

Steve Brecher had maintained a nice stack for ten hours, then all of a sudden the magic went away. Finally, time had run out. He went all-in with pocket 5's only to have Luis Santoni show him pocket Kings. A good run ended in 18th place.

Soon there were 13 players left. Sung Hee Chung had been hot early, but she hadn't even been able to call the big blind for hours. She was almost literally blinded off as she refused to play "garbage" as she called her hands. Sung finished 13th.

Of all the "names" listed yesterday, only two were left in the money. "Miami" John Cernuto and Luis Santoni. As Jack McClelland would say, "See how the extra levels and extended time helped the experienced players?" Of the final 12, only four had ever won money at the WSOP.

Luis Santoni had more experience in this situation than all the rest of his table combined. He was a lock to make the final table, no? He had chips, he had know how. He had some bad luck!

Kings had been very good to Santoni. He's gotten them a few times and they had stood up for big pots. With 12 players left, he got them again. He raised Sooyoung Kim's bet. When the flop came with an Ace he tried to ignore it and bet again. He got raised. On the turn, he bet again. He got raised again. Luis threw the Kings away for a large hit on his stack.

Two more times, Luis tried to regain the momentum he'd had. Both times his opponents drew out on him for straights. Now short stacked he went all-in with A/K off. He was called by a J/9 off. A Jack on the flop sent Luis to the rail in 12th. Only one "pro" left - John Cernuto. What a good idea these extra levels and extended time was, for the ROOKIES.

Aileen Claire, a floorperson at the San Pablo Casino, couldn't steal a hand with a gun. Finally she went all-in with A/K off only to lose to the big blind's 9/6 off. She wanted a ruling!!! Was this fair? As fair as 11th place.

Eli Balas had been chip leader through the first 2/3's of the tournament. Slowly but continuously the chips left his stack. Round after round he threw away his hands on the flop. To his credit he waited until the very end for a good hand. He was all-in for the big blind and didn't show his hand when the board read As 3c 4h Jc 5c. John Foley showed an A/8 of Clubs for the nuts. It didn't seem possible a few hours earlier, but we were going to the Final Table without Eli Balas.

DEALING FOR DOLLARS

At Four O'clock Wednesday afternoon, the first of the "second day" final tables formed. Today the prize was gigantic. 1st place paid a breathtaking $429,940. It made the 9th place money seem like chump change, only $18,592. Somehow, someway the players had to climb the ladder or they would slide down it.

The following are the final table seat assignments, chip counts and hometowns

Seat 1	Mimi Tran	$154,000	Milpitas, CA
Seat 2	Jim Quinn	$20,000	Globe, AZ
Seat 3	John Cernuto	$49,000	Las Vegas, NV
Seat 4	Vic Kramer	$225,000	Sydney, Australia	(Chip Leader)
Seat 5	Ade Boentaran	$120,000	Colton, CA
Seat 6	Fred Bonyadi	$144,000	LA, CA
Seat 7	John Foley	$112,000	Chickasha, OK
Seat 8	Sooyoung Kim	$197,000	Seattle, WA
Seat 9	Paul Scarim	$142,000	Hoffman Estates, IL

John Cernuto had won over $611,000 in WSOP events including two event titles. He had bracelets for both wrists. No one else had any. And only Vic Kramer had ever won any money in the World Series, a 7th last year. So John was sure to move up, right? Wrong! Flop Breath.

John Cernuto was the first one out. Getting stubborn when a Queen hit the flop, John re-popped Vic Kramer. Kramer put Cernuto all-in then showed him the nut straight he'd flopped. John's K/Q off lost to Kramer's A/K off.

After reading all the player's chip count starting from the top, Jack McClelland said at the bottom that Jim Quinn "has all the rest." All the rest was $20,000, not a stack that was going to give anyone pause at this table. Jim was all-in three times and won or split each until his last try with an A/2 off fell to Vic Kramer's 5's. Jim finished 8th and collected $23,240.

Later, John Foley who had luck at the final table, all of it bad, tried to trade raises with Paul Scarim. When the dust cleared, John was all-in. His A/9 was outkicked by Paul's A/J. 7th in chips at the start, 7th in money. No climbing today. Take the $29,050, John It will pay for a lot of lessons at kicker school.

Not learning the lesson John Foley had given, Ade Boentaran three bet chip leader Vic Kramer's raise. When Ade picked up the nut flush draw on the turn he went all-in. Kramer was only two happy to oblige him. The river produced no flush and Ade produced no kicker. His A/9 of Clubs lost to Kramer's A/J off. Ade was sixth, $40,670 richer and mightily disappointed about it.

Sooyoung Kim hadn't been able to pick up a hand at the final table. Starting with the second chip lead wasn't enough to survive a few beats and no cards. Finally, he thought he had the hand that would get him back on track, a King high flush. He went all-in when the flush hit the turn, a 5 of spades. Paul Scarim thought that the 5 was a pretty good card also. It gave him a full house. Sooyoung felt Soo-old as he trudged over to Jack McClelland to get his crummy $52,290 for fifth place.

Mimi Tran had dominated this tournament for over ten hours. Already the players were comparing her to Barbara Enright. We asked Jack if a woman had ever won this event. "No," is all he said.

But Mimi plays a lot of hands and she plays them very aggressively. Is she trap-able? You bet your $429,000. Up and down would go her stack. For much of the time she was a solid second in chips behind Vic Kramer. Then she would pay someone off and have to start over again.

No quitter, Mimi saw a flop she liked against Fred Bonyadi: 10h 3h 3s. She raised and reraised.. She got there on the turn, 7h. and nothing came on the river. She put Fred all-in. She was going to be chip leader. Mimi turned over her flush.

Fred turned over his 10's. He'd flopped a full house and had let Mimi bet it for him. Welcome to tournament play Mimi. We have a feeling we'll be seeing you again.

With the few chips Mimi had left she went all-in against Paul Scarim and had her A/4 outkicked by Paul's A/K. By finishing 4th, in her first WSOP event, Mimi jumped into the 11th spot on the all-time WSOP women's money list. Ironically, she passed Mrs. Jack McClelland (Alma) who had been 11th before today.

Always the joker, Jack told Mimi, "It took my wife 60 tournaments to do what you did today."

The final table had been going for about two hours when something strange started happening. Vic Kramer started losing hands. And once the losing started he couldn't seem to stop it. For a guy who had been able to call whatever miracle card he needed for five or six hours, this was disconcerting. Mostly he gave his chips to Paul Scarim but Fred Bonyadi got quite a few also. Equally, he wasn't the one putting the players out as he had been earlier. It was only a matter of time before one of the towers fell over on his peewee stack and sent him away. In obvious disgust he went to see Jack and pick up third place money. How awful only $110,390.

The Scary and Scarim Show

If you saw Fred Bonyadi on a dark street you'd throw up your hands and say, "Take whatever you want, just don't hurt me."

With his hulking frame, handlebar mustache, shaved head and hooded black sweatshirt. He looks more like a bouncer in a Turkish Bathhouse than a world class poker player. But world class he is.

Paul Scarim, on the other hand, looks like the kid down the block. With a perpetually furrowed brow and a Walkman on, he seemed more concerned with getting the right cassette playing than getting his cards playing. But don't be misled. This kids got the heart of a lion. The problem was he just couldn't put Fred away when he had him down.

The theme of the day between these two was heart flushes. Whenever Fred needed chips, a heart flush seemed to appear. Once, before Scary and Scarim were heads up, there was a preview of what was to come. Paul first three bet, then raised and reraised Fred. He just couldn't believe that his J/2 of hearts wasn't the best hand. Finally he ran out of bets and had to be shown. Seeing the K/8 of hearts in Fred's hand convinced him.

Another time, a heart on the river that put four on the board, cost Paul his made flush in a huge pot. Fred's 8's had the 8 of hearts. Paul had the 5/3.

Still after hours of play, it was the 7/2 of diamonds that turned the tide in Fred's favor. Unlike Paul, Scary wouldn't let Scarim come back.

7/2 suited wouldn't seem to be much of a hand heads up, but both guys had a lot of chips and in Limit you can only raise the blind one unit. There is no one to 3 bet. No one to check raise. Any pair is probably the best hand. So Fred called a raise with the 7/2 of diamonds. Seven deuce is a pretty good hand when a seven and two deuces hit the board.

Paul made some comebacks over the next hour but never really recovered.

When Fred saw two hearts in his hand, he raised Paul all-in. So what if they were just J/5. When Fred Bonyadi flopped three fives it was over. He'd climbed the ladder, he'd freerolled to the Championship. He was surrounded by stacks and stacks of chips and he had the bracelet. Oh, and $429,940.

$2,000 + $70 Limit Holdem - 581 Entries

1.	Fred Bonyadi - Los Angeles CA	$429,940
2.	Paul Scarim - Hoffman Estates IL	220,780
3.	Vic Kramer - Sydney Australia	110,390
4.	Thi Thi "Mimi" Tran - Milpitas CA	69,720
5.	Sooyoung Kim - Seattle WA	52,290
6.	Ade Boentaran - Colton CA	40,670
7.	John Foley - Chickasha OK	29,050
8.	Jim Quinn - Globe AZ	23,240
9.	Miami John Cernuto - Las Vegas	18,592
10.	Eli Balas - Las Vegas	13,944
11.	Aileen Claire - Benecia CA	13,944
12.	Luis Santoni - Pembroke Pines FL	13,944
13.	Sung Hee Chung - Lake Cormorant MS	11,620
14.	Dave Russell - Flemington NJ	11,620
15.	Gary Berbiglia - Lenexa KS	11,620
16.	James Miller III - Camarillo CA	9,296
17.	Frank Mariani Sr. - Inglewood CA	9,296
18.	Steve Brecher - Reno NV	9,296
19.	Diana Allen - Westerville OH	6,972
20.	Jeff Gould - N. Hollywood CA	6,972
21.	Barry Bindelglass - Montville NJ	6,972
22.	Denny Axel - Las Vegas	6,972
23.	Richard Randle - Salt Lake City UT	6,972
24.	Tau Duong - El Monte CA	6,972
25.	Anthony Weiner - Agoura CA	6,972
26.	David Rabbi - Las Vegas	6,972
27.	Frankie Havard - Pascagoula MS	6,972

(Patty Hughes and Rudy Lotief)

The No-Limit Super Satellites start each evening at 8:40 PM in the Satellite area. The Entry Fee is $220 for $200 in Tournament chips and there are unlimited $200 re-buys during the first hour, if you have less than $200 in Tournament chips. You may also make a single or double add-on at the end of the re-buy period. Blinds start at $5/$10 and increase every 20 minutes. Available monies will be converted into non-negotiable, non-transferable, non-refundable seats in the $10,000 World Championship event, with at least $5,000 in cash and $500 Lammers being divided among the final table players.

(Becky Kerber, Barbara Lotief and Terry Vanderlip)

Single Table Satellites are run continuously 21 hours every day (8:00 AM until 5:00 AM) and usually last around 90 minutes. There are featured Satellites each day for the next day's event, as well as other Satellites depending on demand. Single Table Satellites for the $10,000 Main event and for the next no-limit Holdem event are spread frequently.

The featured Satellite on Wednesday was for the $1500 Omaha High Event #3. These were played 10 handed with a $170 entry fee, that got you $600 in tournament chips. Blinds started at $15/$30, increased every 15 minutes, and the winner got three $500 Lammers plus $100 in cash.

$220 buy-in No Limit Holdem satellites were also being run. Ten Players got $800 each in chips, blinds started at $10/$25, increased every 15 minutes, and the winner got two $1,000 Lammers plus $100 in cash.

The Temperature sign atop Binion's Horseshoe read 86 degrees at 2:00 PM PDT on Wednesday afternoon. There was a blue sky, but quite a bit of haze was overhead also (We don't call it smog).

1998 vs 1997

Last year's $2,000 Limit Holdem Final Table lasted two hours and 36 minutes. This year it took five hours and 32 minutes.

GUESS WHAT I HAVE ?

On one hand at the Final Table, Mimi Tran and Vic Kramer made many, many, many pre-flop raises heads up before Mimi finally called. Both had pocket aces and split the pot.

McCLELLANDisms

Someone asked Jack why this year's Razz Event had five less entries than last year. Jack replied that five of last year's entrants had died.

Jack was trying to clear the crowd around the Tournament Registration Desk and Final Table Area and said "If you're in the Registration area, you better have $220 (Super Satellite entry fee) in your hands.

PLAYER CONDUCT

Any player abusing employees or other players, either verbally or physically (swearing, throwing cards, etc.) or disrupting the tournament will be penalized. The following will be the MINIMUM penalty imposed:

FIRST OFFENSE - 20 minutes away from the table. (Blinds and/or antes to be forfeited)

SECOND OFFENSE - 40 minutes away from the table.

THIRD OFFENSE - Disqualification

The WSOP Floorpeople will be strictly enforcing the rules, with zero tolerance.

SCOREBOARD

As of Wednesday evening, 22 April, Steve Morrow reports that one 20 minute penalty has been assessed against an unknown player for card throwing.

TOURNAMENTS

Jack McClelland is assisted by Steve Morrow and Jeff Vanderlip as Assistant Tournament Coordinators.

The 1998 WSOP continues the two-day format that was inaugarated last year, for most of the tournaments. Also, all two-day events start one level lower than in past years, and each level at the Final Table has been lengthened from 60 minutes to 80 minutes. Limit Holdem and Omaha events have two new levels of betting. First day play continues until the field is reduced to the Final Table, and Final Table play begins at 4:00 PM on the second day.

POKER ROOM

Shift Supervisors Jimmy Stefan, John Buchanan, Tony Shelton and Cathy Wood run the Poker room where the lower limit games are played.

A recent check showed the following games being spread:

2 - 1/4/8 Holdem	1 - 10/20 Omaha8
2 - 4/8 Holdem	4 - 15/30 Holdem
2 - 4/8 Omaha Hi	1 - 20/40 Holdem
1 - 1/5 7Stud	1 - 20/40 Omaha8
1 - 4/8 Omaha8	1 - 30/60 Holdem
3 - 10/20 Holdem	1 - 20/40 Razz/Omaha8/7Stud8

SIDE ACTION

Shift Supervisors John "Scoff" Sheffield, Kathy Hudson and Marshall Kassoff run the higher limit games on the south end of the Tournament Pavillion.

A recent check showed the following games were being spread:

1 - 5/5/10 PL Omaha/PL Holdem	1 - 50/100 7Stud8
1 - 25/25 PL Holdem	1 - 75/150 Holdem
1 - 25/50 PL Holdem	1 - 75/150 7Stud8
1 - 25/50 PL Omaha	1 - 150/300 Razz
1 - 50/100 7Stud	1 - 200/400 HORSE
1 - 50/100 Holdem	1 - 100/200/400 2 to 7
2 - 50/100 Omaha8

$10,000 CHAMPIONSHIP ENTRANTS

Updated through Tuesday Evening 21 April 1998

1.	Brent Carter	2.	Randy Holland
3.	Gary Lent	4.	Hieu Ma
5.	Milt Meyers	6.	Marsha Waggoner
7.	Michael Pancer	8.	Bob Walker
9.	David Tagg	10.	Barbara Enright
11.	Steve Rydel	12.	Joe Baumgartner
13.	R. London	14.	Paul Hoenke
15.	Allen Cunningham	16.	John Bonetti
17.	Frank Hernandez	18.	Men Nguyen
19.	Casey Kastle	20.	J.C. Pearson
21.	John Morgan

Farzad Bonyadi, an Iranian-born professional player, battled through a record field to capture the opening event of the 1998 World Series, the richest limit Hold'em tournament ever held. For his victory, the 38 year-old California resident won $429,940 and the coveted custom-designed gold bracelet for WSOP champions. "It was tough and tiring," Bonyadi said. "It felt very good to win such a long tournament, the third I've entered at the World Series. I had to fight my way back time after time." A former casino shift manager, Bonyadi has spent his time in and around the poker industry since he arrived in the United States in 1983. Asked what he would do with his world record limit Hold'em prize money, he said simply, "I'm a gambler."

The outcome of this tournament was in doubt until very late in Bonyadi's two and a half hour heads-up struggle with Paul Scarim, during which there were five chip-lead changes. Finally achieving a commanding lead, the Iranian took the title when his J-5 of hearts found a flop of Q-5-5, with Scarim trapped with Q-8. Punctuating his triumph, Bonyadi made a flush on the river.

Scarim, a 30 year-old manufacturer of money counting machines, was delighted with his $220,780 runner-up prize money -- "especially since I got into the tournament by winning a ($220) one-table satellite. It was exhausting but I'm real happy," he said. Scarim, who estimated he had played only 20 hours of poker this year before making his first trip to the WSOP, listened to the Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins rock groups on his Walkman throughout the final table action.

Third place went to Vic Kramer, an Austrian-born Australian who had a roller-coaster tournament which saw him all-in several times before finding a rush which brought him to the final table as chip leader. Kramer, 53, the owner of a retirement village, finished seventh in this event two years ago. "This is my biggest tournament win," he said. "I enjoyed meeting great players, including World Champions, and it was a pleasure to see how they performed." Back home in Australia, Kramer said he plays poker "only recreationally -- I'm a family man with a wife and six kids. I come out here to Las Vegas to gamble."

Kramer ran into protracted spells of unplayable hands and saw his chip lead evaporate. He was finally all-in with A-4 against Scarim's A-K, losing when the board showed Q-J-6/A-8.

Vietnamese-born Thi Thi Tran, the only lady at the final table, took fourth place when she took A-J up against Bonyadi's pocket tens. The flop came 3-l0-3 followed by 7-4. A poker professional since 1994, Tran, 37, left her native country in 1982 and formerly worked in an electric company. "This was my first major poker tournament," she said. "After I entered, I really just wanted to win my buy-in money back." She did far better: her $69,720 prize money put her into 11th place on the Women's Top Money Winners roster at the World Series.

Sooyoung Kim, a 44 year-old native of Korea who is now a CPA in the state of Washington, took fifth place. "This is my first tournament," he said. "I've played poker casually since coming here in 1979. I should have finished higher, but I'm happy." Kim was eliminated with K-9 when Scarim's pocket fives became a full house with the board 7-7-J/5-A.

Sixth place went to Ade Boentaran, 32, an Indonesian-born former pool hall owner who said, "This is my biggest tournament win since I came to the U.S. at the end of 1985." Surviving one all-in effort with A-Q, he was knocked out on the next hand with Ac-8c by Bonyadi's A-J with a board of 4-5-Q/6-6.

John Foley, playing in a tournament for only the second time, took seventh place when he went all-in with A-9, getting no help from the board against Scarim's A-J.

The eighth-place finisher was Jim Quinn, whose A-2 couldn't better Kramer's pocket fives. "This is my best tournament win by far," Quinn said.

The only WSOP multiple-winner at the final table, John Cernuto, lasted only ten minutes before exiting in 9th place, his K-Q running into Kramer's A-K which became a flopped top straight. With this win, his 15th at the World Series, Cernuto's total earnings stand at $629,632.

The Final Table
Card by Card and Bet by Bet
1998 WSOP Event #1: $2,000 Limit Holdem
581 Entries, $1,162,000 Total Prize Pool and chips in play

Seat 1.	Mimi Tran	154,000	[MT]
Seat 2.	Jim Quinn	20,000	[JQ]
Seat 3.	John Cernuto	49,000	[JC]
Seat 4.	Vic Kramer	225,000	[VK]
Seat 5.	Ade Boentaran	120,000	[AB]
Seat 6.	Fred Bonyadi	144,000	[FB]
Seat 7.	John Foley	112,000	[JF]
Seat 8.	Sooyoung Kim	197,000	[SK]
Seat 9.	Paul Scarim	142,000	[PS]

d = dealer

First action reported in a betting round, normally means the first player that put money into the pot in that betting round. A check is usually not reported as the first action in a betting round. Folds are not always reported. If there are four players at the beginning of a betting round, and it's reported that one player bets and is called by one other player, then the remaining two players folded.

*** 3,000/6,000 Blinds - 6,000/12,000 Limits

1. d MT - FB raises and all fold.
2. d JQ - SK raises, MT re-raises and SK calls. Flop: 8c 3d Qh. MT bets and SK folds.
3. d JC - FB and AB limp. Flop: As Qc 7d. AB bets and FB calls. Turn: 9s. FB bets and AB folds.
4. d VK - VK raises and FB calls. Flop: Kh 9c Qd. VK bets and FB folds.
5. d AB - MT raises and all fold.
6. d FB - JC raises, VK re-raises and JC calls. Flop: 7c Qc Jh. VK bets, JC raises and VK calls. Turn: 8d. JC bets 10,000 all-in and VK calls. JC shows Kd Qs and VK shows Ac Qh. River: 3s. VK wins.

   *** Miami John Cernuto finishes 9th at 4:12 PM.

7. d JF - FB raises and all fold.
8. d SK - AB raises and all fold.
9. d PS - AB raises and all fold.
10. d MT - JF raises and VK calls. Flop: 2h 7d Td. VK bets and JF calls. Turn: 7h. VK bets and JF folds.
11. d JQ - JQ raises 2,000 all-in and is called by VK and AB. Flop: 5s As 3h. All check. Turn: 7c. All check. River: Qc. All check. JQ wins with 8h 8s. VK shows Kd 5d and AB mucks.
12. d VK - MT raises and FB calls. Flop: 8s Jd Td. MT bets and FB calls. Turn: Kd. MT bets, FB raises and MT calls. River 2d. Both check. MT wins with Kh Th. FB shows As Ks.
13. d AB - PS raises, JQ re-raises and PS calls. Flop: 5c Jc Th. PS bets and JQ calls all-in. PS shows Ad Td and JQ has As Tc. Turn: 6h. River: Ac. Split pot.
14. d FB - VK raises and all fold.
15. d JF - FB raises and JF calls. Flop: 2d Td 5d. JF bets and FB calls. Turn: 2c. FB bets and JF folds.
16. d SK - JF raises and MT calls. Flop: Jh 8c 5c. JF bets and MT calls. Turn: 7d. Both check. River: 6d. JF bets and MT calls. JF shows As 4d for a straight. MT mucks.
17. d PS - JF raises and all fold.
18. d MT - Folded to VK in the big blind. JQ shows 2h 7s.
19. d JQ - JF raises and VK calls. Flop: 9s 8h 4s. VK bets, JF raises and VK calls. Turn: Kc. JF bets and VK folds.
20. d VK - VK raises and FB calls. Flop: 8s 9c 6c. Both check. Turn: 3h. FB bets and VK calls. River: 7s. FB bets and VK folds.
21. d AB - MT raises and FB calls. Flop: 2c 9h 4d. FB bets and MT calls. Turn: Ah. MT bets, FB raises and MT calls. River: 8d. FB bets and MT calls. FB shows As 9s and MT mucks.
22. d FB - JF raises and SK folds.
23. d JF - VK raises and FB calls. Flop: 7d 8h As. VK bets, FB raises and VK calls. Turn: Js. Both check. River: 4c. Both check. VK shows Ad 3s and FB mucks. Someone asks to see FB's hand, and dealer shows Td 9d.
24. d SK - JQ raises, SK re-raises, and JQ raises 1,000 more all-in. SK calls. JQ shows As 9c and SK has Ac Qs. Board: 6d Jc Jh Js 6s. Split pot.
25. d PS - VK raises, SK calls, MT raises, VK raises, SK folds, MT raises, VK raises, MT raises, VK raises, MT raises, VK raises and MT calls. Flop: 2s 7c Qh. VK bets, MT raises and VK calls. Turn: Tc. MT bets and VK calls. River: 5s. MT bets and VK calls. MT shows As Ah and VK shows Ac Ad. Split pot.
26. d MT - JQ limps, VK raises, JQ raises all-in and VK calls. JQ shows Ah 2s and VK has 5d 5c. Board: Qs 3c 9h 9c Js. VK wins.

    *** Jim Quinn finishes 8th at 4:42 PM.

27. d MT - MT raises and all fold.
28. d VK - All fold to FB in the big blind.
29. d AB - MT raises and all fold.
30. d FB - MT raises and SK calls. Flop: 8s 6c Kh. MT bets and SK calls. Turn: Tc. MT bets and SK folds.
31. d JF - MT raises and all fold.
32. d SK - All fold to MT in the big blind.
33. d PS - All fold to VK in the big blind.
34. d MT - All fold to AB in the big blind.
35. d VK - SK raises and all fold.

    *** 4:48 PM - SK won race-off for 13 - 1,000 chips.

    *** Blinds go up to 5,000/10,000 - Limits are 10,000/20,000.

36. d AB - SK raises and MT calls. Flop: 5c 6h Js. Both check. Turn: 2h. MT bets and SK folds.
37. d FB - VK raises and all fold.
38. d JF - AB raises and is called by JF and SK. Flop: 4c 9c 7d. SK bets and all fold.
39. d SK - VK raises and all fold.
40. d PS - JF raises and all fold.
41. d MT - SK raises and AB calls. Flop: Kc Ks 8h. Both check. Turn: 5h. AB bets and SK folds.
42. d VK - MT raises and all fold.
43. d AB - VK raises, AB raises and VK calls. Flop: Qd Tc 3h. AB bets and VK folds.
44. d FB - MT raises and all fold.
45. d JF - JF raises, PS raises and JF calls. Flop: Qh 7c Qd. PS bets and JF folds.

    *** Chip count

    MT 210,000 VK 270,000 AB 145,000 FB 175,000 JF 70,000 SK 145,000 PS 150,000

46. d SK - VK raises and all fold.
47. d PS - MT raises and VK folds.
48. d MT - FB raises, JF raises and FB calls. Flop: 4s 3h 4d. JF bets and FB calls. Turn: 9h. JF bets 15,000 all-in and FB calls. JF shows Ah Kd and FB has Ad Kc. River: 3c. Split pot.
49. d VK - JF raises and all fold.
50. d AB - MT raises and all fold.
51. d FB - FB raises and all fold.
52. d JF - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: Td 2c Ah. Both check. Turn: Qc. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. River: 5s. Both check. PS shows Ac 2s and FB mucks.
53. d SK - FB raises, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 9h 9c Ah. PS bets and FB folds.
54. d PS - MT raises and VK folds.
55. d MT - SK raises and all fold.
56. d VK - VK raises and all fold.
57. d AB - PS raises and all fold.
58. d FB - PS raises and is called by JF and SK. Flop: Td 2s Tc. PS bets, JF raises and PS calls. Turn: Ad. JF bets 10,000 all-in and PS calls. JF shows Ac 9h and PS has Ah Js. River: 6c. PS wins.

    *** John Foley finishes 7th at 5:13 PM.

59. d FB - AB raises, FB raises and AB calls. Flop: Js 4d 8h. FB bets and AB calls. Turn: Ts. FB bets and AB calls. River: 3h. FB bets (has 5,000 left) and AB calls (has about 25,000 left). FB shows Ks Kc and AB mucks.
60. d SK - VK raises and FB calls. Flop: 7d Qs 4d. VK bets, FB raises, VK raises and FB calls. Turn: 5h. VK bets and FB calls. River: Qh. Both check. VK shows 9s 9c. FB mucks after showing hand to PS.
61. d PS - Folded to VK in the big blind.
62. d MT - VK raises, AB raises 5,000 all-in and VK calls. AB shows Ad Qc and VK has Tc 4d. Board: 9c 3h 2h Jd As. AB wins.
63. d VK - VK raises and FB calls. Flop: 8h Qc 6d. VK bets and FB calls. Turn: Td. VK bets and FB folds. VK shows Ad Ts.
64. d AB - AB raises, FB raises and AB calls. Flop: 4c 5h Qd. FB bets and AB calls. Turn: 6c. FB bets and AB calls 5,000 all-in. FB shows Ad Jc and AB has Ac 8c. River: 6d. FB wins.

    *** Ade Boentaran finishes 6th at 5:23 PM.

65. d FB - SK raises and PS calls. Flop: 2c Ks Ah. PS bets and SK folds.
66. d SK - VK raises and all fold.
67. d PS - SK raises and all fold.
68. d MT - MT raises and FB calls. Flop: As 5d 4c. FB bets and MT folds.
69. d VK - VK raises and all fold.
70. d FB - FB raises and all fold.
71. d SK - VK raises and all fold.
72. d PS - SK raises and VK calls. Flop:8d Ad 5h. VK bets and SK folds.
73. d MT - SK raises and all fold.
74. d VK - PS raises and all fold.
75. d FB - VK raises and all fold.
76. d SK - PS raises and all fold.
77. d PS - Folded to VK in the big blind.
78. d MT - MT raises and all fold.
79. d VK - PS raises and all fold.
80. d FB - VK raises and FB calls. Flop: Jh 3c Qh. VK bets and FB calls. Turn: 3d. Both check. River: 2s. Both check. VK shows Ac 2c and FB mucks.
81. d SK - SK raises, PS raises and SK calls. Flop: 7c 7s Js. PS bets and SK calls all-in. PS shows 5h 5c and SK has Kd 9c. Turn: 5s. River: As. PS wins.

    *** Sooyoung Kim finishes 5th at 5:39 PM.

82. d PS - MT raises and VK calls. Flop: Ac 5d 2d. MT bets, VK raises and MT folds.
83. d MT - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 6s 7h 2s. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 5c. FB bets and PS calls. River: 3s. FB bets and PS folds.
84. d VK - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: 4c 5s 9d. FB bets, PS raises and FB folds.
85. d FB - VK raises, PS raises and VK calls. Flop: 2d Qh 9c. VK bets, PS raises and VK folds. VK shows Ad.
86. d PS - PS raises and VK calls. Flop: 9d 5c 5d. PS bets and VK calls. Turn: 7h. PS bets, VK raises and PS folds.
87. d MT - VK raises and FB calls. Flop: 2s 6c 8d. VK bets and FB calls. Turn: Kh. VK bets, FB raises and VK calls. River 6d. FB bets and VK calls. VK shows Qc 2c. FB mucks.
88. d VK - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: 3c Jc Kc. FB bets, PS raises, FB raises and PS folds.
89. d FB - Folded to MT in the big blind.
90. d PS - PS raises and VK calls. Flop: 4h 5c 7d. VK bets, PS raises and VK calls. Turn: 8h. VK bets and PS calls. River: Ad. PS bets and VK calls. VK shows Qh 8d and PS wins with Ah 3c.
91. d MT - MT raises and all fold.
92. d VK - MT raises, PS raises and MT calls. Flop: Ac 9s Kc. PS bets and MT folds.
93. d FB - FB raises and all fold.
94. d PS - FB raises and all fold.
95. d MT - PS raises and all fold.
96. d VK - FB raises and PS folds.
97. d FB - Folded to MT in the big blind.
98. d PS - PS raises and all fold.
99. d MT - MT raises and FB calls. Flop: Ah Qh 4s. Both check. Turn: 7h. FB bets and MT folds.
100. d VK - Folded to PS in the big blind.
101. d FB - PS raises and MT folds.
102. d PS - Folded to VK in the big blind.
103. d MT - PS raises and all fold.
104. d VK - VK raises and FB calls. Flop: 5s Jh 8h. VK bets, FB raises and VK calls. Turn: 3c. FB bets and VK calls. River 2d. FB bets and VK folds.

     *** Chip count

     MT 80,000 VK 400,000 FB 185,000 PS 500,000

105. d FB - FB raises and MT calls. Flop: Td 7d Jh. FB bets, MT raises and FB calls. Turn: 3c. MT bets 20,000 all-in and FB folds.
106. d PS - FB raises and is called by MT and VK. Flop: 9c 2d Qh. FB bets and is called by MT and VK. Turn: 8c. All check. River: Ts. All check. MT wins with Ac Td. VK shows Ad 8d and FB mucks.
107. d MT - PS raises and all fold.
108. d VK - MT raises and all fold.
109. d FB - VK raises and all fold.
110. d PS - PS raises and is called by MT and VK. Flop: 4h Qs 9c. VK bets and is called by PS and MT. Turn: Kc. PS bets and all fold.
111. d MT - PS raises and all fold.
112. d VK - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: Jh Ad 9h. FB bets, PS raises and FB calls. Turn: 7h. PS bets and FB calls. River: Kh. FB bets and PS calls. FB wins with 8h 8d for runner, runner flush. PS shows 3h 5h.
113. d FB - FB raises and is called by PS and MT. Flop: 2s 7c Js. All check. Turn: Jc. MT bets and all fold.
114. d PS - PS raises, MT raises and PS calls. Flop: 5s 6c 9h. MT bets and PS calls. Turn: 8s. Both check. River Kd. PS bets and MT calls. PS shows Kh 4c and MT mucks.

     *** 10 minute break at 6:11 PM.

     *** Chip count

     MT 120,000 VK 375,000 FB 170,000 PS 500,000

     *** Blinds are 5,000/15,000 and limits are 15,000/30,000.

115. d MT - MT raises and all fold.
116. d VK - VK raises, FB raises and VK calls. Flop: 7s Kd Qc. FB bets and VK calls. Turn As. FB bets and VK calls. River: Th. FB bets and VK calls. FB shows Ah 3h and VK mucks.
117. d FB - VK raises and MT calls. Flop: Ks 3s 7s. VK bets, MT raises and VK calls. Turn: 9s. MT bets and VK folds.
118. d PS - PS raises and all fold.
119. d MT - MT raises and FB calls. Flop: Jc Qs 2c. MT bets, FB raises and MT calls. Turn: Ts. FB bets and MT calls. River: 4d. MT bets and FB calls. MT shows Qd 3d and FB mucks.
120. d VK - FB raises and PS folds.
121. d FB - Folded to MT in the big blind.
122. d PS - FB raises, MT raises and FB calls. Flop: Ac 8c 3d. MT bets, FB raises and MT calls. 6d. FB bets and MT calls. River: 5c. FB bets and MT folds.
123. d MT - PD raises and all fold.
124. d VK - MT raises and PS calls. Flop: 3s 8c Td. MT bets and PS folds.
125. d FB - FB raises and all fold.
126. d PS - PS raises and all fold.
127. d MT - VK raises and FB calls. Flop: 4h 9c Js. VK bets and FB folds.
128. d VK - MT raises and all fold.
129. d FB - FB raises and all fold.
130. d PS - PS raises and MT calls. Flop: 7c 5c 3d. PS bets, MT raises, PS raises and MT calls. Turn: Qs. PS bets and MT folds.
131. d MT - MT raises and FB calls. Flop: 9d 6d 6s. MT bets, FB raises and MT folds.
132. d VK - MT raises and FB calls. Flop: Qc 6h 5h. FB bets and MT calls. Turn: 8s. MT bets and FB calls. River: 8c. MT bets and FB calls. MT shows 7d 9d and FB mucks.
133. d FB - PS raises, MT raises and PS calls. Flop: Qc As 2d. PS bets and MT calls. Turn: 3h. MT bets and PS calls. River: 7s. Both check. PS shows Js Qd and MT mucks.
134. d PS - PS raises and all fold.
135. d MT - MT raises and FB calls. Flop: Kd 7s Qd. MT bets, FB raises and MT folds.
136. d VK - VK raises and is called by FB and PS. Flop: 7c Kd Td. FB bets, PS raises, VK raises, FB calls and PS calls. Turn: 5c. All check. River: Qh. FB bets and VK calls. FB shows Ad Qd and VK wins with Ks Qc.
137. d FB - PS raises and MT folds.
138. d PS - FB raises, MT raises and FB calls. Flop: 3h Th 3s. MT bets, FB raises and MT calls. Turn: 7h. MT bets all-in and FB calls. MT has As Jh and FB has Tc Ts. River: 4c. FB wins with a full house.

     *** Mimi Tran finishes 4th at 6:47.

139. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 3h 9s Ad. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 5s. FB bets and PS folds.
140. d VK - VK raises, FB raises and VK calls. Flop: 7d 4c 3s. FB bets, VK raises and FB calls. Turn: Kd. VK bets, FB raises and VK calls. River: 5h. FB bets and VK calls. FB wins with Ah Kc. VK shows the Kh and mucks.
141. d FB - PS raises and VK calls. Flop: 9s 4s 2s. Both check. Turn: 4c. PS bets and VK folds.
142. d PS - Folded to FB in the big blind.
143. d VK - FB limps, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: Ts 2h As. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 9d. PS bets and FB calls. River: 4s. Both check. PS shows Kh Tc and FB mucks.
144. d FB - FB raises and VK calls. Flop: Ac As 4c. FB bets and VK folds.
145. d PS - Folded to FB in the big blind.
146. d VK - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: 5d 5h 9s. FB bets and PS folds.
147. d FB - PS raises and VK folds.
148. d PS - Folded to FB in the big blind.
149. d VK - VK shows 3c 7s and folds. FB raises and PS calls. Flop: Jd Qh 3h. FB bets, PS raises and FB calls. Turn: Kd. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. River: 6h. FB bets, PS raises, FB raises, PS raises and FB calls. PS shows Jh 2h for a flush. FB has Kh 7h for a higher flush.
150. d FB - PS raises, VK raises, PS raises and VK calls 1,000 all-in. PS shows Ad Ks and VK has As 4h. Board: 6h Qc Jd Ac 8s. PS wins.

     *** Vic Kramer finishes 3rd at 7:02 PM.

     *** Chip count

     FB 640,000 PS 525,000

151. d PS - PS folds.
152. d FB - FB raises and PS folds.
153. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: Th 9c 5c. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. Turn: 7s. FB bets and PS calls. River: Ks. PS bets and FB calls. PS shows As Ah and FB mucks.
154. d FB - FB raises and PS folds.
155. d PS - PS raises and FB folds.
156. d FB - FB raises and PS folds.
157. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: Jc 7d 5c. FB bets, PS raises and FB calls. Turn: 9d. PS bets and FB folds. FB shows the Ac.
158. d FB - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: 2d 9h 3s. FB bets and PS folds.
159. d PS - PS raises and FB folds.
160. d FB - FB raises, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: Ah 6s 9h. PS bets and FB folds.
161. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 8c 6c Jh. PS bets, FB raises and PS folds.
162. d FB - FB limps, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 3s Ts 4s PS bets and FB calls. Turn: Th. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. River: 7h. FB bets and PS calls. FB shows Ks Qs and PS mucks.
163. d PS - PS raises and FB folds.

     *** Chip count

     FB 740,000 PS 425,000

164. d FB - FB raises and PS folds.
165. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: Jh Jc 2d. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. Turn: 3h. FB bets and PS folds.
166. d FB - FB folds.
167. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 9h Th 4s. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. Turn: 8h. FB bets and PS calls. River: Qd. PS bets and FB calls. PS shows Qs 8c and FB mucks.
168. d FB - FB folds.
169. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: Qd 9c 8s. PS bets and FB folds.
170. d FB - FB folds.
171. d PS - PS folds.
172. d FB - FB raises, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 2c As Ts. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. Turn: 6h. Both check. River: Ks. PS bets and FB folds.
173. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 9h 5s 8h. PS bets and FB folds.
174. d FB - FB and PS both limp. Flop: Ah 7s 3s. Both check. Turn: As. FB bets and PS folds.
175. d PS - PS raises and FB folds.
176. d FB - FB folds.
177. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 5s 8s 9h. PS bets, FB raises, PS raises and FB calls. Turn: 2d. PS bets and FB calls. River: 3s. PS bets, FB raises and PS folds.
178. d FB - FB limps, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 2d 7d 6d. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: Th. Both check. River: Ts. Both check. PS shows 3h 3s and FB mucks.
179. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: Kh 8s Ad. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. Turn: Th. Both check. River: 3d. PS bets and FB folds.
180. d FB - FB folds.
181. d PS - PS folds.
182. d FB - FB limps, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 3h 9h 3s. PS bets and FB folds.
183. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 6h 6s Ad. Both check. Turn: 4c. PS bets and FB folds.
184. d FB - FB folds.
185. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: Td 3s As. PS bets, FB raises and PS folds.
186. d FB - FB raises, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 4c 7h 9s. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 6c. PS bets and FB folds.
187. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: Kc 2d 9h. PS bets and FB folds.
188. d FB - FB folds.
189. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 5s As 8d. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 3c. PS bets and FB calls. River: Qh. PS bets and FB calls. PS shows Td 6d and FB wins with 2s 3s.
190. d FB - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: Ks Kd 8c. PS bets and FB folds.
191. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: Ks 6h Qh. PS bets and FB folds.
192. d FB - FB raises and PS folds.
193. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 7c 4c 5h. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 8c. FB bets, PS raises and FB calls. River: 9s. PS bets and FB calls. PS wins with Qc 6c. FB shows 8s 6s.

     *** 10 minute break at 7:42.

     *** Chip count

     FB 350,000 PS 815,000

     *** Blinds go to 10,000/20,000 - Limits 20,000/40,000.

194. d FB - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: 2d 3s 8h. FB bets and PS folds.
195. d PS - Both limp. Flop: Kd 6h Qd. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. Turn: Ks. FB bets and PS calls. River: Jh. Both check. FB shows 6s 3c and PS has 7d 6c. Split pot.
196. d FB - FB raises, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 4s 3h Qs. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 7s. PS bets and FB folds.
197. d PS - PS raises and FB folds.
198. d FB - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: 9h 6c 9d. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 9c. FB bets and PS folds.
199. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 5c 2h 5s. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: Th. Both check. River: 8c. Both check. FB shows Kd 9h for a K high and PS mucks.
200. d FB - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: Kd Jc 6c. FB bets and PS calls. Turn: 3s. Both check. River: 9s. PS bets and FB folds.
201. d PS - PS folds.
202. d FB - FB folds.
203. d PS - PS raises and FB folds.
204. d FB - FB raises and PS folds.
205. d PS - PS folds.
206. d FB - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: Ad Td 6h. FB bets and PS folds.
207. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 8d 6c Ac. Both check. Turn: 4s. FB bets, PS raises and FB folds.
208. d FB - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: Jc 3c 9c. FB bets, PS raises and FB calls. Turn: 6s. Both check. River: 9h. PS bets and FB calls. PS shows Js 8d and FB mucks.
209. d PS - Both limp. Flop: 6c Qs 2c. PS bets and FB folds.

     *** Chip count

     FB 200,000 PS 1,415,000

210. d FB - FB folds.
211. d PS - PS folds.
212. d FB - Both limp. Flop: 2d 4s Ac. Both check. Turn: 5h. Both check. River: 4d. PS bets and FB folds.
213. d PS - PS raises, FB raises and PS calls. Flop: 5d 6s Ac. Both check. Turn: As. Both check. River: 4d. FB bets and PS calls. FB shows Ah Qc and PS mucks.
214. d FB - Both limp. Flop: Qh 5c Ac. FB bets and PS folds.
215. d PS - PS raises and FB folds.
216. d FB - FB raises and PS folds.
217. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 9d Js 4s. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 8s. Both check. River: Jc. FB bets and PS folds.
218. d FB - Both limp. Flop: Qs Ts 9s. FB bets and PS folds.
219. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: Ac 9c 3c. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 9s. PS bets and FB calls. River: Js. Both check. FB wins with 9d 8h. PS shows Qc 3s.
220. d FB - FB folds.
221. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 7c Jd 5c. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. Turn: Qc. FB bets and PS folds. FB shows Ac 8d.
222. d FB - Both limp. Flop: 6d 3h Qc. FB bets, PS raises and FB folds.
223. d PS - Both limp. Flop: 7h 5d Th. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: Tc. Both check. River: Ac. FB bets and PS calls. FB shows 7c 2s and PS mucks.
224. d FB - FB limps, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 4d 7h Th. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: Kd. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. River: Kh. Both check. PS shows Ac Jh and FB mucks.
225. d PS - Both limp. Flop: 2h 4c 4d. PS bets and FB folds.
226. d FB - FB limps, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 6c 9h Js. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. Turn: Ac. FB bets, PS raises and FB folds.
227. d PS - Both limp. Flop: 2c 5d Td. PS bets and FB folds.
228. d FB - FB folds.
229. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop Td Qc Qh. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. Turn: Kd. Both check. River: 2c. FB bets and PS calls. FB shows Jd 9d and PS mucks.
230. d FB - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: Qd 5s 6h. FB bets and PS folds.
231. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 2h Kc Jh. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 7c. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. River: Th. FB bets and PS calls. FB shows Kd 2c and PS mucks.
232. d FB - FB folds.
233. d PS - PS folds.
234. d FB - FB folds.
235. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 7h Qc Tc. Both check. Turn: Ah. FB bets and PS calls. River: 5h. FB bets, PS raises and FB folds.
236. d FB - FB limps, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: Kd Th Qh. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. Turn: 6h. FB bets and PS folds.
237. d PS - PS folds.
238. d FB - FB folds.
239. d PS - PS folds.
240. d FB - FB raises and PS folds.
241. d PS - Both limp. Flop: 6c Kh 2d. FB bets and PS folds.
242. d FB - FB raises, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 3s 7c 6h. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 2s. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. River: 2h. FB bets and PS calls. FB shows 7d 2d and PS mucks.
243. d PS - PS folds.
244. d FB - FB folds.
245. d PS - PS raises and FB folds.
246. d FB - Both limp. Flop: 2c Ah 6h. Both check. Turn: 2s. Both check. River: Tc. FB bets and PS folds.
247. d PS - PS raises and FB folds.
248. d FB - Both limp. Flop: Ts 8s Tc. FB bets and PS folds.
249. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: Qd Qh 8s. Both check. Turn: Qc. Both check. River: 5h. FB bets, PS raises and FB calls. PS shows Qs 9c and FB mucks.
250. d FB - Both limp. Flop: 3s 8s 2h. FB bets and PS folds.
251. d PS - Both limp. Flop: Kc 9d 4s. Both check. Turn: 3c. PS bets and FB folds.
252. d FB - FB raises, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 3s 2h 5d. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: As. PS bets and FB folds.
253. d PS - PS folds.
254. d FB - FB folds.
255. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 7h Jc 3s. FB bets and PS folds.
256. d FB - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: As Jh 6c. FB bets and PS folds.
257. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 7c 2s 8d. PS bets and FB folds.
258. d FB - FB raises and PS folds.
259. d PS - Both limp. Flop: Ad 6d Tc. PS bets, FB raises and PS folds.
260. d FB - FB folds.
261. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 8h 7c 3h. PS bets and FB folds.
262. d FB - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: Qd 5c Qh. FB bets and PS folds.
263. d PS - PS folds.
264. d FB - FB raises and PS calls. Flop: Ts 8c 2d. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: Qs. FB bets and PS folds.
265. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 5h Td 4d. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. Turn: Qh. FB bets, PS raises and FB calls. River: 2h. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. FB wins with Kh Th. PS shows Qc 5c.

     *** Chip count

     FB 1,040,000 PS 125,000

266. d FB - FB raises, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 9h Jh Ac. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 4s. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls 5,000 all-in. PS has As 9d and FB has Ah 4h. River: 2s. PS wins.
267. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: Th 5s Jd. FB bets and PS folds.
268. d FB - FB limps, PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 4h 7h Qc. FB bets and PS calls. Turn: 3c. FB bets and PS folds.
269. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 2s 8h Kc. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. Turn: Qd. FB bets, PS raises and FB calls. River: 4s. FB bets and PS calls 10,000 all-in. FB shows As Td and PS wins with Js Jd.
270. d FB - Both limp. Flop: 6h Kd 4d. FB bets and PS folds.
271. d PS - PS raises and FB folds.
272. d FB - FB folds.
273. d PS - PS folds.
274. d FB - FB raises and PS folds.
275. d PS - Both limp. Flop: 9h Qd Jc. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 2s. Both check. River: Qh. Both check. PS shows 9s 7c and FB mucks.

     *** 10 minute break at 9:14 PM.

     *** Chip count

     FB 875,000 PS 290,000

     *** Blinds go to 15,000/30,000 - Limits 30,000/60,000.

276. d FB - FB folds.
277. d PS - PS folds.
278. d FB - Both limp. Flop: Qc Js 7c. PS bets, FB raises and PS calls. Turn: Kh. FB bets and PS calls. River: Kc. FB bets and PS calls. FB shows Ah Qd and PS mucks.
279. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 2c Qd 2h. PS bets and FB folds.
280. d FB - FB raises and PS folds.
281. d PS - PS raises and FB folds.
282. d FB - Both limp. Flop: 6h 8c 5s. PS bets and FB folds.
283. d PS - Both limp. Flop: 9s 2d Js. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 3d. Both check. River: Jh. Both check. FB shows Ad Qh and PS wins with 9c 7c.
284. d FB - FB raises and PS folds.
285. d PS - PS raises and FB calls. Flop: 5c Qh 5d. PS bets and FB calls. Turn: 2h. PS bets, FB raises, PS raises 20,000 all-in and FB calls. FB shows Jh 5h and PS shows 8h Qc. River: 3h. FB wins.

     *** Paul Scarim finishes second and Fred Bonyadi wins the $2,000 Limit Holdem Championship at 9:35 PM.