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Event #41: $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout
Day 1 Completed
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #41: $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout
Day: 1
Event Info
2011 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Total Entries
538
Level
25
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 538
Filter
Level 10
: 800/1,500, 0 ante
We started Day 1 of Event #41 with 538 players and now we are down to 60. All of the remaining players are guaranteed $4,118, but all have their eyes on the first-prize $167,060 and of course, the shiny gold bracelet.
Tomorrow, there will be 10 six-handed tables that play down to our final table of 10. We started with an extremely stacked field including, Tom Dwan, Eric Baldwin, J.C. Tran, David Benyamine, Todd Brunson, Greg Mueller, Jean-Robert Bellande, Chau Giang, Sorel Mizzi, Jason Mercier, Jason Somerville, Lex Veldhuis, Humberto Brenes, Jonathan Little, and Barry Greenstein, all of whom did not make it.
Of those who won their tables and are still in contention for the bracelet and first prize money are Noah Boeken, Hoyt Corkins, Ari Engel, Jacobo Fernandez, and Sergey Rybachenko. Also included are Team PokerStars Pros Eugene Katchalov (Ukraine) and Victor Ramdin (USA) who both came back from 20-1 chip defects in heads-up play to take down their tables and make it to Day 2.
Be sure to check in at 2:30 p.m. PST where our coverage will resume and we will play down to our ten-handed final table.
Dwyte Pilgrim raised, Yegor Tsurikov re-raised, and Pilgrim called. Pilgrim called a bet from Tsurikov on the flop, turn and river with the board ending up 
. Tsurikov showed the 
which was good and Pilgrim was left with 7,000.
Shortly thereafter Pilgrim got the last of his chips in on a board reading 
. Tsurikov showed 
for king high which was good enough and Pilgrim was the last player eliminated in round one.
Thomas Schulze and his opponent got it all in on the turn with the board reading 
, Schulze showing and his opponent showing 
. The river was a and Schulze won the second to last table of the day.
Level 10
: 800/1,500, 0 ante
There are only two tables left playing heads up. Dwyte Pilgrim is one of the players remaining. We don't expect play to last too much longer on either table, but you never know!
Level: 10
Blinds: 800/1,500
Ante: 0
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 0 ante
Our remaining heads up tables are now on a 20 minute break.
Ray Henson raised and Todd Witteles called. After the flop came 
, Witteles checked to Henson who bet. Witteles then raised and Henson called. The turn brought the 
and Witteles bet and Henson called. The river was the 
and both players checked.
Witteles showed the 
for a ten-high flush and Henson was left with only 1,200 in chips.
Henson got the remainder of his chips in shortly thereafter holding the 
against Witteles' 
. The board ran out 
and Witteles' pair of tens was best eliminating Henson.
Witteles is now moving on to round two!
On a 
board we found Ivo Donev's opponent three betting all in, and Donev calling. Donev held 
while his opponent had . The river brought the 
and gave Donev two pair for the victory.
