Event 52 - $3,000 Triple Chance No Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-28-2009 10:07 UTC-12

Juanda and Alvarado Go at it Again

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A player in early position raised to 450 and found two callers -- including J.C. Alvarado -- before the action came to John Juanda. Juanda reraised all in for his last 1,900 (no rebuy chips left). The original raiser folded. Alvarado considered his options, then reraised to isolate. He got his desire as the remaining player in the hand folded, allowing Juanda to open {A-Spades}

against Alvarado's {2-Clubs}

.

"I got you in trouble," Juanda said.

"Ahhh, I had to call though," replied Alvarado. "You never have aces there."

The board ran out {A-Hearts}

to give Juanda the win. He doubled up to about 4,300.

Tags: JC Alvarado John Juanda

06-28-2009 10:03 UTC-12

Baited Breath

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Dag Palovic waved us over to his table.

"Look who's sitting on my right!" he said with a grin. There was nobody in the seat, but there was a registration ticket on the table. The name on the registration ticket?

"Phillip Hellmuth."

So it seems the Poker Brat will be joining the field at some point today.

06-28-2009 09:59 UTC-12

Chan Caught in the Middle

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Scooping the crowd for Isaac Baron (still haven't seen him), we passed by Terrence Chan's table. Preflop, an early-position player raised to 500 and Chan called, only to see a player behind him raise to 2,500. That folded everyone else back to the original raiser, who moved all in for about 5,000. Chan knocked the table in frustration and mucked his hand. The other player called with pocket 9s; the all-in player showed ace-queen. When the board developed, {6-Diamonds}

, Chan begged the dealer to put a jack on the river, suggesting that he may have folded the best hand. The river bricked, leaving Chan to steam over folding the winner.

06-28-2009 09:46 UTC-12

Erick Lindgren Was Here

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Erick Lindgren was in the tournament for a little while, but he's already busted. We figure the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. tournament (which restarted a half hour ago) in which Lindgren has about 200,000 chips is more important to him than this tournament was.

Tags: Erick Lindgren

06-28-2009 09:38 UTC-12

Demidov's Stack Moves in Right Direction

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Players still have rebuy chips, so it's a bit difficult right now to peg a player to a count. Effectively each rebuy chip is worth 3,000 chips, but until it's redeemed a rebuy chip is not considered part of the stack.

Ivan Demidov has one rebuy chip behind his stack of 7,700 chips. That stacked was doubled by an opponent in a recent hand. The opponent raised the button to 325, then called Demidov's small blind reraise to 1,450. Demidov moved in on a flop of {K-Spades}

and his opponent called. Neither player had connected -- Demidov's {A-Diamonds}

was ahead of his opponent's {A-Hearts}

. The turn blanked {6-Spades}

and the river {10-Clubs}

made a pair of tens for Demidov.

Tags: Ivan Demidov

06-28-2009 09:33 UTC-12

Neverwin Full of Win

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Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf lost a huge pot in the first ten minutes of the day. Since then he's been grinding a short stack, trying to re-balance himself and try again.

Shortly before the break he led out for 600 chips on a flop of {K-Diamonds}

. One opponent called to see a fourth diamond hit the turn. Woolf checked, then snap-called when his opponent pushed all in. Woolf's opponent had the {Q-Diamonds}

in his hand for the second nut flush, but Woolf was one better with {A-Diamonds}

, the nut flush.

Woolf is now back to the starting stack of 9,000 chips.

Level: 3

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

06-28-2009 09:27 UTC-12

Play Resumes

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After a brief delay for today's bracelet ceremony (awarded to Brandon Cantu for his victory in Event 48, $1,500 PLO-8), cards are back in the air.

06-28-2009 09:03 UTC-12

Break Time

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Players are on the first 20-minute break of the day. At the end of the break, registration for this event will be closed.

06-28-2009 09:00 UTC-12

Action Starting to Pick Up

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Now that we're about two levels in, we're starting to see some action. Allie Prescott and Liv Boeree tangled. We picked up the action on the turn, the board showing {8-Clubs}