Derick Hernandez Eliminated On Day 3 of WSOP 2008

July 14, 2008

One day shy of making it in the money, Derick had a very big chip stack and could have cruised into day 4. The poker gods decided otherwise, and in a table that had only one bigger stack, Derick got Pocket Kings. After some aggressive betting pre-flop, on the flop, and on the turn, on the river with a board of , Alberto Font moved all in against Frederick Hernandez. Font had Hernandez covered. Hernandez made the call and showed and Font showed . After the hand, Font moved up to 773,000 in chips and became the new chip leader.

Although we did not have any of our local guys cash this year, they still had a strong showing making it to day 3 in a field of over 6,800 other hopefuls.

Congratulations to Neil and Derick for representing the country and showing the world how good our poker players really are!

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