$235 8-Game
Level 17: 10,000/20,000 Limits, 5,000/10,000 blinds
Total Entries: 185
Players Remaining: 13
No-Limit Hold’em
On the river, there is about 45,000 in the middle with a completed board of [Ts][7h][4h][8c][5h]. Chris Moneymaker checks from the small blind and Ryan Ordonez bets 22,000 from the big blind.
Moneymaker takes about a minute of thought before check-raising to 57,000. Ordonez calls. The 2003 WSOP Main Event champion turns over [Ah][3h], giving him the nut flush, and Ordonez mucks his hand.
With just one more elimination before the two-table redraw, Moneymaker has nearly a third of the chips in play.
Chris Moneymaker – 475,000
Ryan Ordonez – 62,000
