2011 World Series of Poker

Event #27: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
j3
Prize
$378,642
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$1,428,800
Entries
152
Level Info
Level
26
Limits
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
0

Official Day 1 Chip Counts (full)

Official Day 1 Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
118,800
Josh Arieh us
Josh Arieh
107,500 500
WSOP 6X Winner
103,100
Mikhail Smirnov ru
Mikhail Smirnov
95,100
Shawn Buchanan ca
Shawn Buchanan
92,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Erik Cajelais ca
Erik Cajelais
87,000 78,000
WSOP 1X Winner
84,500
Carlos Mortensen es
Carlos Mortensen
76,600 24,600
WSOP 2X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
75,900
Maria Ho us
Maria Ho
75,700
Barry Greenstein us
Barry Greenstein
74,400
Tyler Bonkowski ca
Tyler Bonkowski
72,700 35,200
WSOP 1X Winner
72,000
Greg Debora ca
Greg Debora
69,800
Jeff Shulman us
Jeff Shulman
66,700 19,700
Isaac Haxton us
Isaac Haxton
66,300 22,300
WSOP 1X Winner
66,200
Alessio Isaia it
Alessio Isaia
66,000
65,900
Dan Kelly us
Dan Kelly
64,400 4,400
Justin Smith us
Justin Smith
64,000 9,000
Ari Engel ca
Ari Engel
63,600
WSOP 2X Winner
63,200
Matthew Woodward us
Matthew Woodward
63,000
Brett Richey us
Brett Richey
62,600 19,600

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Event #27: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship

Day 1 Completed

Kid Poker Leads After Day 1

Level 8 : 1,000/2,000, 0 ante
Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu

Day one of the $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship has come to an end. A total of 152 players took to the felt today generating a prizepool of $1,428,800.

18 of the remaining 111 players will walk away with cash in hand, with first place taking home $378,642 and the gold bracelet.

This event's defending champion, Matt Keikoan, was eliminated late in the day meaning there will be no repeat winner.

Our chip leader coming out of day one is none other than the infamous "Kid Poker," Daniel Negreanu. He finished the day with 118,800 in chips. Having already won two limit hold'em WSOP bracelets, Negreanu is obviously in a great position to go for his third (and his fifth bracelet overall).

After play ended Negreanu said on his Twitter page, "Those that doubt the secret solution will doubt no more. It works. Time to win this." We aren't sure what the secret solution is, but it obviously IS working for Negreanu!

Many well known pros were unable to gain momentum today and were sent to the rail. Those eliminated included Phil Laak, Jeff Lisandro, Phil Hellmuth, Shaun Deeb, Justin Bonomo, Dan Heimiller, Johnny Chan, and Scott Seiver.

On the other end of the spectrum, these players finished the day near the top of the chip counts.
Josh Arieh - 107,000
Shawn Buchanan - 92,000
Maria Ho - 75,700
Barry Greenstein - 74,400

Below is a graph showing the champions of this event from the past five years. Will Negreanu be able to maintain his lead and be the next name on this list?

Former $5,000-$10,000 Limit Hold’em Champions

YearEventEntrantsPlayerEarnings
2005Event #28 ($5,000)269Dan Schmeich$404,585
2007Event #18 ($5,000)257Saro Jason Getzoyan$333,379
2008Event #30 ($10,000)218Rob Hollink$496,931
2009Event #33 ($10,000)185Greg Mueller$460,836
2010Event #29 ($10,000)171Matt Keikoan$425,969

There is still lots of limit hold'em action to come! Join us tomorrow at 3:00pm to kick off day two!

Eslami and Veenman Busted

Ali Eslami
Ali Eslami

Ali Eslami got his short stack all in with {A-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds} and was up against the {9-Diamonds}{9-Spades} of David "ODB" Baker. The board ran out an uneventful {K-Hearts}{7-Spades}{5-Spades}{6-Spades}{9-Clubs} and Eslami hit the rail.

We can also confirm that a short-stacked Richard Veenman was eliminated from the $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship.

Player Chips Progress
Richard Veenman nl
Richard Veenman
Busted
Ali Eslami us
Ali Eslami
Busted
WSOP 1X Winner

Tags: Ali EslamiRichard VeenmanDavid Baker

Wagoner Wamboozled

After a series of raises, we found Lisa Wagoner all in preflop and looking good with {A-Clubs}{Q-Hearts} against the {K-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds} of Dan Shak. Wagoner’s chances were looking even better when the flop came {A-Hearts}{4-Hearts}{3-Diamonds} as Shak would need running cards to eliminate her. The {2-Diamonds} on the turn was a helpful one for Shak as he could eliminate Wagoner with any diamond on the river and the two would chop the pot if a non-diamond five came. The river was a five which meant that Shak would get at least half the pot but unfortunately for Wagoner, it was the {5-Diamonds} and she was eliminated.

Player Chips Progress
Dan Shak us
Dan Shak
16,000 -7,500
Lisa Wagoner
Lisa Wagoner
Busted

Tags: Dan ShakLisa Wagoner

The End is Near

Level 8 : 1,000/2,000, 0 ante

With 10 minutes left of the tournament clock, players have just been told that they will play three more hands and then bag and tag.

No Repeat for Keikoan

Level 8 : 1,000/2,000, 0 ante

Our reigning champion, Matt Keikoan, was just eliminated from the tournament. He was down to his last 1,000 and got it in against our chip leader Shawn Buchanan.

Keikoan: {j-Clubs}{7-Spades}
Buchanan: {a-Clubs}{6-Hearts}

The board ran out {10-Spades}{6-Spades}{4-Spades}{a-Spades}{6-Diamonds} and strangely, the dealer and most of the players at the table seemed to only see that Keikoan had made a flush. The dealer began pushing the pot towards Keikoan until one of the other players at the table interjected, "Hey, he [Buchanan] has a full house."

It seems that Buchanan and the dealer hadn't even realized it and the pot was then correctly pushed to Buchanan and Keikoan was sent to the rail.

Tags: Matt KeikoanShawn Buchanan

Late Triple for Short-Stacked Veenman

Richard Veenman got his remaining 4,300 all in preflop and was up against two opponents. When the flop fell {J-Clubs}{Q-Clubs}{A-Clubs}, the big blind checked, the button bet, and a call followed. It then went check-bet-fold on the {6-Diamonds} turn, leaving Veenman heads up against the button.

Veenman: {9-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}
Button: {A-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}

Veenman was in bad shape and needed a club or nine to stay alive. Lucky for him, the river delivered said club and he more than triple.

Player Chips Progress
Richard Veenman nl
Richard Veenman
15,000

Tags: Richard Veenman

Ciao Traniello

Marco Traniello
Marco Traniello

We missed the preflop action but saw that there was some raising between Marco Traniello and Ari Engel. Traniello bet dark as the {A-Clubs}{J-Hearts}{10-Spades} flop came out and Engel called. On the {8-Diamonds} turn, Traniello bet again and after some raising, he was all in and at risk. Engel turned over {A-Spades}{5-Clubs} and had Traniello’s {K-Clubs}{K-Spades} in trouble. The {3-Spades} on river changed nothing and Traniello was the latest casualty.

Player Chips Progress
52,000 12,000
Marco Traniello it
Marco Traniello
Busted

Tags: Ari EngelMarco Traniello