Sally Anne Boyer learned how to play poker a little under a year ago. Eagre to learn, she enrolled in the WSOP Academy, learned the game then won a tournament at the Golden Nugget the day after. That win gave her the bankroll to playing in vent 17, the $1,000 ladies world championship. She parlayed a poker lesson into a World Series of Poker bracelet.
- Saro Getzoyan emerged from the fray with the bracelet in the $5,000 limit hold’em world championship, event 18.
- In Event 19, $2,500 no-limit hold’em, Lars Bonding and Devin Porter are the co-leaders, but all eyes will assuredly be on Humberto Brenes. It’s Brenes third final table of the Series.
- Greg Raymer is the headliner at the final table of event 20 – Seven-card Stud high/low split (eights or better). A win would give Raymer his first bracelet since his world championship in 2004.
- A great table is set for the final of Event 21 - $1,500 no-limit hold’em shootout. The players all start even in chips, but the favorites have to be best friends Daniel Negreanu and Erick Lindgren.
With the blinds and antes quickly escalating, Sally got into a back and forth shoving contest with Anne Heft. The more aggressive of the two in heads-up play, Bowyer moved all-in with Kc-2d and got called by Heft’s Ks-10s. The flop came 5s-4c-3d, giving Sally an open-ended straight draw. Anne saw the writing on the fall.
The turn came 8c, allowing Heft to hope that the poker gods might just be teasing, but the river came 2s, giving Sally a pair to Anne’s king-high. The newbie, playing her first WSOP event, had taken the title.
Gary Wise
gary@wisehandpoker.com
