2010 World Series of Poker

Event #30: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 1
Event Info

2010 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a10
Prize
$581,851
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,231,900
Entries
2,394
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Final Level

We're approaching the end!
We're approaching the end!

With roughly 360 players remaining in the field and 243 of these receiving a part of the $3,231,900 prizepool, the question is will we get to the money?

At the rate that we have been losing players recently, there is a good chance, but after years of being behind the computer covering tournaments around the room, it is unlikely due to the bubble fear factor.

However, this PokerNews blogger loves to be proved wrong!

Level: 10

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

Fished by Fish

Darryll Fish
Darryll Fish

Darryll Fish opened the pot with a 1,800-chip raise in early position and was called by the player in the cutoff seat.

Flop: {k-Spades}{5-Clubs}{4-Clubs}

Fish checked-raised his opponents bet and all the chips ended up in the middle of the table, in rather tidy fashion.

Fish tabled {5-Hearts}{5-Diamonds} and his opponent {k-Clubs}{j-Spades}.

The turn brought a {4-Hearts} to the tabke and the river card was a {4-Spades}. Fish moved up to 60,000 chips and his opponent is out of the tournament.

Tags: Darryll Fish

Leading The Field

With only 380 players remaining, here is how the leaderboard stacks up.

Neil Channing - 115,000
Jimmie Guinthes - 105,000
Anthony Pope - 90,000
Matt Stout - 90,000
Ryan Allen - 72,000
Carlos Mortensen - 68,000
Dave Sands - 65,000

Recent Eliminations

Walking round the tournament floor we found the following players seats empty - and after closer inspection - also not located in the tournament.

Nikolay Evdakov, John Phan, Alex Bolotin and Florian Langmann.

Stack Those Chips Up Nam

Nam Le opened to 2,500 from middle position and found a caller as both players checked the {K-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds}{9-Hearts} flop.

The {2-Spades} landed on the turn and Le fired out a 3,500-chip bet which his opponent called before the {Q-Hearts} fell on the river.

Le opted with 5,200 this time, but his opponent tossed his hand into the muck to see the pot pushed to Le as he climbs to roughly 42,000 in chips.

Le must have had a good dinner, because when they departed, he had just under 5,000 in chips.

Tags: Nam Le

Hellmuth Run Down By Own Hand

Number 12 ain't coming today!
Number 12 ain't coming today!

Dan Kelly opened to 1,600 under the gun only to have Phil Hellmuth move all in for 4,700 total.

Kelly made the call tabling The Hellmuth - or in normal words - {9-Diamonds}{9-Spades} to be in a race against Hellmuth's {A-Hearts}{Q-Hearts}.

The board ran out {10-Diamonds}{5-Hearts}{5-Spades}{10-Spades}{K-Hearts} to see the crowd favorite hit the rail.

Tags: Dan KellyPhil Hellmuth

Jennifer Tilly Busto

Jennifer Tilly
Jennifer Tilly

According to Anthony Pope, Jennifer Tilly opened the pot with a 1,700-chip raise and Pope re-popped it to 5,000. Tilly called.

The flop come out {a-Spades}{10-}{5-Spades} and Pope fired a 5,000-chip bet and Tilly popped it to 15,000. Pope tanked and announced re-raise all in. Tilly called an tabled {10-Spades}{6-Spades}. Pope showed {a-}{q-}.

The turn card was a {5-} and the river brought to the table a {q-}. Tilly is out and Pope moved up to 70,000 chips.

Tags: Antohny PopeJennifer Tilly

Stout Closes In On 100k

"Bollocks! I have to fold again!"
"Bollocks! I have to fold again!"

Facing a raise on the button to 2,300, Neil Channing three-bet from the small blind to 7,500.

"How much is that?" asked Matt Stout as he contemplated a decision from out of the big blind.

Stout then grabbed a stack of yellow 1,000-denomination chips, carefully cut down a raise of 19,000 and dropped them into the pot.

The button passed, as did Channing, to see Stout take down the pot and move to 95,000 as Channing slips to below 70,000.

Tags: Matt StoutNeil Channing

Just Phil

Facing an under the gun raise to 2,000, Phil Hellmuth made the call from the big blind leaving himself just 3,500 behind.

The flop fell down {5-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}{8-Clubs} and Hellmuth check-folded when his opponent moved all in.

The next hand however Hellmuth pushed from the small blind to pick up the 800 big blind and the antes to recover to 5,200.

Tags: Phil Hellmuth