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Yesterday I was railing the NL $500/$1000 CAP table at Full Tilt Poker. I like to watch this table since there is usually a lot of action going on.

One hand that cought my attention was the one between Phil Ivey and John Juanda. Juanda had been playing really tight for the last hours, come to think of it this is probably the first hand I saw him play.

It played out something like this….

John Juanda has the big blind and picks up 5-6 off suit. Phil ivey raises it up to $3000 under the gun and it is folded to Juanda who calls.

The flop comes 5-8-6 rainbow and Juanda raises with around $5K and Phil Ivey makes the re raise. Juanda then moves all in with the maximum of $30K and Phil Ivey calls showing 9-9 for an overpair.

The turn comes another 8 giving Phil Ivey two pair with nines and eights and is now ahead in the hand.

The river comes another eight giving Ivey the full house with eights over nines while Juanda holds eights over sixes.

This meant that Ivey could take down a nice $60K pot and Juanda lost even though he had Ivey dominated after the flop.

The well known Full Tilt Poker player John Juanda took down the WSOPE Maint event a couple of hours ago. The final table lasted for an amazing 22 hours and the heads up battle to decide the winner lasted 7 hours. I can imagine that he will need some rest after this tournament. But at least when he wakes up in the morning he will find the WSOPE 2008 Main Event bracelet on his wrist and a nice £868 000 in cash waiting for him at the bank for his first place finish.

The second place finisher Stanislav Alekhin will not walk away empty handed either as he cashed in for £533 950 for his second place finish.

Here are the results of the final table of the 2008 WSOPE Maint Event

1. John Juanda £868 800

2. Stanislav Alekhin £553 950

3. Ivan Demidov £334 850

4. Bengt Sonnert £271 500

5. Daniel Negreanu £217 200

6. Scott Fischman £171 950

7. Robin Keston £135 750

8. Toni Hiltunen £108 600

9. Chris Elliot £81 450