Monday 20 June 2011

Anything you can do...

Robert Norberg and Alex Hanell may be into the last 100 at the Rio, but is it a WSOP bracelet or a friendly rivalry driving them on?

Both are accomplished high stakes players and enjoy nothing more than owning the bragging rights, so it's little surprise they have $200 on who will go deeper in Event #32.

They are also good friends with last year's big story, Johan Jakobsson, and after he finished 9th in 2010, the pair are also hungry to better his performance.

Meanwhile, Pham Kim-Phuc is also getting in on the competitive spirit, turning his fortunes around in the last hour with two double-ups.

The Vietnamese-born player had been as low as 35,000 chips after a big hand with Hanell earlier, but first he trebled his stack with AK vs pocket 4s and then took down another huge pot with Jacks.

Kim snap-called a villain's shove on a 9♠3♦7♦ board and showed his hooks, but still had to survive a scare as his opponent rolled J♦9♦, yet found no help.

That leaves Pham on around 350,000, wielding one of the biggest stacks in the room. 94 remain and David Pishvafar and Hanell are hovering around the 140,000-chip average, while Norberg has 110,000.

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