2010 World Series of Poker

Event #35: $10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1
Event Info

2010 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q10
Prize
$625,682
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$2,406,400
Entries
256
Level Info
Level
7
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
0

Official Round 3 Participants (full)

Player Chips Progress
Andrew Rosskamm us
Andrew Rosskamm
120,000
Bertrand Grospellier fr
Bertrand Grospellier
120,000
Robbie Verspui nl
Robbie Verspui
120,000
Ryan Fee us
Ryan Fee
120,000
Timothy Adams ca
Timothy Adams
120,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Ludovic Lacay fr
Ludovic Lacay
120,000
Jordan Morgan us
Jordan Morgan
120,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Scott Clements us
Scott Clements
120,000
WSOP 3X Winner
Scott Baumstein us
Scott Baumstein
120,000
Chris Moorman gb
Chris Moorman
120,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Matthew Waxman us
Matthew Waxman
120,000
Vladimir Shchemelev ru
Vladimir Shchemelev
120,000
Jeremy Coon
Jeremy Coon
120,000
Keith Block us
Keith Block
120,000
Alexander Kostritsyn ru
Alexander Kostritsyn
120,000
Ernst Schmejkal
Ernst Schmejkal
120,000
Juan Ramirez us
Juan Ramirez
120,000
Melanie Weisner us
Melanie Weisner
120,000
Thomas Tiller
Thomas Tiller
120,000
Eric Cloutier ca
Eric Cloutier
120,000
Vivek Rajkumar in
Vivek Rajkumar
120,000
Michael Glasser
Michael Glasser
120,000
Johan Sundell
Johan Sundell
120,000
Terrence Chan ca
Terrence Chan
120,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Vanessa Rousso us
Vanessa Rousso
120,000

Read full

Event #35: $10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship

Day 1 Completed

Day 1 Concludes

Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey

I've never covered a heads-up event before, but boy was it frantic. Of course, it helps when Phil Ivey is bouncing around the room multi-tasking with different tournaments, but that won't be of any comfort to victim Michael Mizrachi who ended up receiving just two hands for his $10,000 investment.

Meanwhile, the pace continued into Round 2, and three and half hours later the playing area was empty. Saar Wilf and Juan Ramirez were slightly stubborn and threatened to rob your blogging team of their post-match beverages, but when Wilf finally succumbed at the death, we were left with our final 64, all of whom will be taking their newly acquired stack of 120,000 into Round 3.

And what a line-up it is too. We may have lost the likes of Tom "durrrr" Dwan, David Benyamine, John Juanda and reigning WSOP Champ Joe Cada along the way, but flying the flag for the "big names" are renowned pros such as Vanessa Rousso, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Antonio Esfandiari and, of course, Sir. Phil Ivey, who seemed to play rather less hands than his fellow survivors.

Play resumes tomorrow at 3pm with players looking to advance another round and get that much closer to the sparkling, gold bracelet and the lion's share of the $2,406,400 prize pool. There are a plethora of enticing match-ups in store (see below), so be sure to join us, same bat-channel, slightly earlier bat-time. Cheerio.

Tags: Phil Ivey

Third-Round Match-Ups

Just 64 players remain. One more match and the surviving 32 are in the money. Here are the third-round match-ups, a.k.a., the bubble round:

Jason Somerville vs. Tobias Reinkenmeier
Julian Herold vs. Craig Bergeron
Martin Kabrhel vs. Fabrizio Baldassari
Alexander Benovski vs. Darren Woods

Gavin Smith vs. Gabe Kaplan
Josh Arieh vs. Maxim Lykov
Ashton Griffin vs. Anton Kozlovskiy
Phil Ivey vs. Kido Pham

Andrew Feldman vs. Nicholas Rampone
Michael Leah vs. Faraz Jaka
Steven Gross vs. Amritraj Singh
Brock Parker vs. Phil Gordon

Brian Rast vs. Aaron Been
Antonio Esfandiari vs. Owen Crowe
Ayaz Mahmood vs. James Collopy
Alioscia Oliva vs. Kevin Saul

Sorel Mizzi vs. Matthew Waxman
Chris Moorman vs. Vladimir Schmelev
Jeremy Coon vs. Alexander Kostritsyn
Keith Block vs. Scott Baumstein

Scott Clements vs. Robbie Verspui
Bertrand Grospellier vs. Andrew Rosskamm
Ryan Fee vs. Timothy Adams
Jordan Morgan vs. Ludovic Lacay

Ernst Schmejkal vs. Juan Ramirez
David Williams vs. Christopher Moore
Jonathan Little vs. Alexander Kravchenko
Sam Stein vs. Emil Patel

Vanessa Rousso vs. Terrence Chan
Dee Tiller vs. Melanie Weisner
Eric Cloutier vs. Vivek Rajkumar
Johan Sundell vs. Michael Glasser

Ramirez Makes 64

All of the other 63 matches had completed, only Juan Ramirez and Saar Wilf were left battling to decide who would take the final spot in tomorrow's third round. Ramirez enjoyed a 3-to-1 chip advantage during the latter stages of their match, but Wilf continued to survive.

On the conclusion of one hand near the end, Wilf exhaled. "We'll get there eventually," he said. "Yeah," agreed Ramirez. Soon after it was announced the new level -- with 3,000/6,000 blinds -- was starting. "We got there!" smiled Ramirez, and both laughed.

Indeed, it didn't take much longer. Down below 20,000 chips, Wilf faced an all-in raise from Ramirez, and decided his {10-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds} was good enough for the call. Ramirez tabled {7-Clubs}{7-Spades}, the board went {3-Spades}{5-Spades}{A-Spades}{2-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}, and Ramirez is our last second round winner.

Tags: Juan RamirezSaar Wilf

Level: 20

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 0

One to Go

Looking in on our lone remaining combatants...

Currently Juan Ramirez has the lead with 81,000 to Saar Wilf's 39,000.

Boost for Venovski

Justin Smith
Justin Smith

As Justin Smith was still in the pot-limit Omaha event, he was allowed to play his heads-up in the Amazon Room rather than the Pavillion.

However, we have a spies, and they reliably tell us that he was unable to topple fellow countryman Alexander Venoski who proceeds to the next round.

This means that just one match-up remains: Saar Wilf versus Juan Ramirez.

Tags: Alexander VenoskiJustin Smith

Level: 19

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 0