Event 10 - $2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em/Omaha Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

Event 10 - $2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em/Omaha

Day 1 Completed

06-03-2009 22:09 UTC-12

Play Concludes

Shamus

Play has concluded for the night, with the board showing 104 players remaining from our starting field of 453.

Only the players are allowed in between the ropes as they are bagging up their chips. Those bags will be safely stowed until just before their return at 2 p.m. local time tomorrow for the restart of the tournament.

Official chip counts of the surviving players will be posted overnight. Thanks for following our coverage of Day 1 of the $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha event. See you here tomorrow.

06-03-2009 22:01 UTC-12

Levy Short on Chips, Not on Levity

Shamus

"I have 4,500 right now," just said a grinning Adam Levy as he walked back across the room to his seat. With just a hand or two left to go, will he return tomorrow?

Tags: Adam Levy

06-03-2009 21:54 UTC-12

Five More Hands

Shamus

As we approach the end of the last level of the evening, it has been determined that players will play five more hands before we call it a night.

06-03-2009 21:47 UTC-12

Thater, Giang Hit the Rail

Shamus

A couple more eliminations to report. Katja Thater has been eliminated. Also, Chau Giang just went out on a PLO hand.

In Giang's hand, he held 6-4-x-x on a 8-6-4 flop (two clubs), and got the last of his chips in against an opponent who held {A-Clubs}

-K-x. The turn was another eight, counterfeiting Giang's two pair. And the river was a club, sealing his fate.

Tags: Chau Giang Katja Thater

06-03-2009 21:45 UTC-12

Bjorn to Run Good

Shamus

Dutch PLO specialist Bjorn Verbakel has pushed his stack up to 90,000 chips. Word is he hadn't necessarily intended to play in today's tournament, but ended up deciding at the last minute to take a seat. After these eight profitable levels of play, he's likely glad he did.

Tags: Bjorn Verbakel

06-03-2009 21:36 UTC-12

Black, Gowen Out

Shamus

Both Andy Black and Clonie Gowen, who had been nursing short stacks, have been eliminated.

06-03-2009 21:26 UTC-12

Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose, Sometimes You Win and Lose

Shamus

A now-beardless Andy Black had his entire short stack in on the flop {7-Clubs}

. As Black's opponent was contemplating his call, he held his cards before him in a fashion that the player to his left could see what he was holding.

Black objected that his opponent's hand was now dead since another player had seen his cards. Others at the table suggested otherwise, and Tony Cousineau even challenged Black to a $500 side bet that the floor would not rule his opponent's hand to be dead. The floor was called over, and indeed, since the opponent's neighbor was no longer in the hand, the ruling was that his hand was not dead.

"Ship it!" said Cousineau. The player then folded, showing everyone else that he held A-K. Black had J-8 on the hand for the double belly-buster.

After that hand, Black is up to 13,000 chips, and down five hundy.

Tags: Andy Black Tony Cousineau

06-03-2009 21:20 UTC-12

Seeing Is Believing

Shamus

Daniel Negreanu just picked up another nice-sized pot after soliciting a river call from an opponent, then showing him that his {5-Hearts}

had turned a six-high straight (the nuts).

Negreanu is up to 86,000.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu

06-03-2009 21:12 UTC-12

Who Has the Chips?

Shamus

One more level to go before play ends this evening. We're looking around the room for some of the larger stacks to report to you. Here are few:

Jan Collado -- 62,000
Jamie Rosen -- 115,000
Bjorn Verbakel -- 64,000
Alfredo Vega -- 100,000