Event 11 - $2,000 No Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-04-2009 10:53 UTC-12

What Hellmuth Does

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A player raised to 300, only for Phil Hellmuth to make it 1,300. Fold. Hellmuth showed him {A-Hearts}

.

"If I have the best hand, I raise," announced Hellmuth, "If I have the worst, I just call. That's what I do." His opponent declined to comment.

Tags: Phil Hellmuth

06-04-2009 10:58 UTC-12

Gazes Seeing Double

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A player raised to 500 preflop only for Bill Gazes to make it 3,400, leaving himself just 1,000 behind. Call.

Come the {3-Hearts}

flop, Gazes stuck his last in, his opponent called, and they were on their backs.

Gazes: {Q-Diamonds}

Mr Opponent: {A-Hearts}

Turn:

River:

Double-up achieved. Gazes up to 9,100.

Tags: Bill Gazes

06-04-2009 11:03 UTC-12

Tran Donates

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A slight accident for J.C. Tran, who called a 700 raise preflop and then called his opponent's 1,900 all-in on the {5-Hearts}

flop.

Tran: {6-Hearts}

All-in Opponent: {Q-Hearts}

Turn:

River:

"Good hand," said Tran and tapped the table; with 19,300 left, he can afford to be magnanimous.

Tags: J.C. Tran JC Tran

06-04-2009 11:06 UTC-12

What is Chris Ferguson up to, I hear the PokerNews-reading masses ask? With just 2,100 in chips, surely he's getting busy trying to double up, isn't he?

No! As far as we can see, Mr Ferguson is playing Chinese poker on his phone. That's dedication, right there.

Tags: Chris Ferguson

06-04-2009 11:22 UTC-12

Chip Counts from the Brasilia Room

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The fun never stops! Currently battling it out over in the Brasilia Room are, well, around 400 players, including the following:

Trond Eidsvig: 11,000
Paul "Pab" Foltyn: 5,000
Karl Mahrenholz: 6,000
Eric Liu: 7,500
Kathy Liebert: 6,000, and reading the ingredients on her candy bar out loud for some reason
Cory Albertson: 9,500
Joe Grech: 7,500

06-04-2009 11:30 UTC-12

Breaktime Chip Leader

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The biggest stack that we can find right now is the 35,000 in the possession of Nicolas Walters. "He got lucky," said Sunny Chattha to his right -- it turns out that Walters knocked out Andre Akkari. "Yeah," agreed an extremely cheerful Walters, "I'm a donkey, I'll be out soon."

And with that, players are heading off for another 20 minute break. Back shortly...

Level: 5

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 25

06-04-2009 11:53 UTC-12

Tran-Sit to the Top

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Last hand before the break, J.C. Tran knocked out a player to put himself up there with the chip leaders on 29,500.

He and his opponent saw a {7-Spades}

flop and Tran checked. His opponent bet 1,200, Tran raised to 3,700, his opponent moved all in and Tran called.

Tran: {10-Hearts}

The Other Guy: {A-Spades}

Turn:

River:

Job done.

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Other, unrelated, chip counts:

Chris Moorman: 9,600
Sunny Chattha: 10,000
J.J. Liu: 9,700

Tags: J.C. Tran JC Tran

06-04-2009 12:09 UTC-12

Show Me the Money

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The official figures currently stand at 1,646 runners, meaning that we have a whopping prize pool of $2,995,720, with $569,199 going to the winner. 171 places pay out.

06-04-2009 12:13 UTC-12

Hakim With a Capital 'W'

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Jeffrey Hakim is up to 26,000 after most fortuitously busting another player with {A-?}

up against the all-in player's {A-?}

. Bink! A queen on the board comes good for Hakim.

"That's Luckbox," pipes up a tablemate as I'm asking Hakim how to spell his name, "With a capital 'W'." This confuses me. "Capital 'L'," he corrects, but the moment is gone.