Event 30 - $10,000 Limit Hold'em World Championship Day 1 | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-15-2008 17:56 UTC-7

The Biggest Cheer of the Series

[user37786]

Came when Tiger Woods snuck in his birdie putt on 18 to force a playoff with Rocco Mediate. Players gathered around TVs all over the Amazon Room jumped to their feet and shouted and cheered as Woods pumped his fist in triumph. Players are standing in the aisles talking about the putt and watching replay after replay.

In other news, there's a poker tournament going on here. Hopefully the folks playing in it will start to take notice.

06-15-2008 18:11 UTC-7

Uh...What?

[user37786]

The TVs that were showing the final holes of the U.S. Open are now tuned to Game 5 of the Celtics-Lakers series.

No chance that this'll distract any of the players. No chance at all.

06-15-2008 18:15 UTC-7

Boat for Cajelais

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Jennifer Harman called preflop from middle position and Eric Cajelais called from the small blind. The flop fell {8-Spades}

and Eric led out. Harman made it two bets and Eric called, with the turn bringing the {8-Diamonds}

. Eric bet the turn and Harman called. The {K-Clubs}

fell on the river and both players checked, with Eric turning over pocket jacks for a full house and Harman mucked.

06-15-2008 18:18 UTC-7

Other Big Names

[user37786]

Some players who showed up a bit late for today's event include Marcel Luske, Scotty Nguyen, Maria Ho, Steve Zolotow, and Andy Bloch

06-15-2008 18:23 UTC-7

Slotboom Gets Set Up

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Preflop, from the cutoff, Rolf Slotboom led out and a player on the button raised. Action folded around to Rolf who called. The flop came {J-Hearts}

and Rolf led out again, only for his opponent to make it two bets. Rolf called and the turn brought the {5-Clubs}

. Rolf fired again and again his opponent bumped the bet. The river was the {7-Hearts}

and Rolf check-called his opponent. His opponent showed pocket jacks for top set and took it down. After the hand, Rolf is down to 5,200.

06-15-2008 18:39 UTC-7

Tough Table

[user37786]

Not that there are many easy tables in a $10,000 buy-in event, but Table 23 looks especially nasty. Seated there are Joe Sebok, J.C. Tran, Michael Mizrachi, Huck Seed, and Theo Tran.

06-15-2008 18:45 UTC-7

Very Late Arrivals

[user37786]

You can register for events through the first two levels of an event and a number of well-known players just beat the deadline. Gabe Kaplan just bought in, as did Vivek Rajkumar and Josh Arieh. Max Pescatori, fresh from winning a bracelet in Event #24, the $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'Em/Omaha tournament, has also just taken a seat.

Tags: Gabe Kaplan Max Pescatori Vivek Rajkumar

06-15-2008 18:47 UTC-7

Time Runs Out

[user38971]

We currently have 207 entrants and just thirteen minutes left until the late registration period ends. They've already added three tables to the field, as well as stepped up space to nine-handed per table, which originally started at seven-handed.

06-15-2008 19:00 UTC-7