Event 57 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em Day 2a | 2009 World Series of Poker

07-07-2009 07:18 UTC-12

Billy "The Croc" Argyros Doubles Up

[user111541]

Billy "The Croc" Argyros doubled early when his {A-Spades}

held up against his opponent's {A-Diamonds}

. He is now at 14,000.

Tags: Billy Argyros

07-07-2009 07:15 UTC-12

BOOM!

donpeters

On one of the very first hands of the day, Mark Landgraf was crushed in dramatic fashion. According to Landgraf, this is how the hand went down.

Landgraf's opponent, Alexander Yaroshetskiy, raised to 1,200 preflop and Landgraf called. The flop came down {K-Hearts}

. Yaroshetskiy bet 5,000 into Landgraf and he called.

The turn added another lady to the party with the {Q-Spades}

. Yaroshetskiy fired out 10,000 and Landgraf called.

The river brought the {10-Hearts}

and Yaroshetskiy bet a hefty 20,000. Landgraf shoved and his opponent snap-called. Landgraf was happy to roll over {A-Clubs}

for quad queens. Yaroshetskiy however, was holding a superior hand, {A-Hearts}

, for the royal flush. The table erupted and one player even fell back out of his chair as he was leaning back in it.

Yaroshetskiy is now up to 240,000 and Landgraf dropped all the way to 15,000.

Tags: Alexander Yaroshetskiy Mark Landgraf

07-07-2009 07:04 UTC-12

Double Feature

[user66118]

The featured tables should provide for some good television today. The main table over in the ESPN arena contains Greg Raymer and Jason Alexander, and Alexander has a good stack of nearly 90,000 chips to wage war with. Over on the secondary feature, the matchup between Chris Ferguson and Roland de Wolfe figures to be a good one to watch as well.

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

07-07-2009 07:02 UTC-12

Shuffle Up and Deal!

[user75032]

Day 2a is underway.

07-07-2009 06:50 UTC-12

Day 2A Set to Start

[user108095]

1,476 players are making their way into the tournament rooms in preparation for day 2A, which is just minutes away.

There will be five levels of play today, with those remaining returning as part of the merged field when Day 3 begins on July 10th.

Stick around for all of the coverage of today's event, kicking off shortly.