Event #38: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 2 Started
Event #38: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 2 Started
Day 1 saw more than half of the 268 players who started this event hit the rail. Poker heavyweights like John Juanda, Sorel Mizzi, Kathy Liebert, Justin Bonomo, and Greg Raymer all reached the bottom end of their chip stacks yesterday, leaving 122 players still in contention for the Pot-Limit Hold'em World Championship title and a WSOP bracelet.
Tom Marchese emerged as the runaway chip leader last night, bagging up more than 334,000 in chips. Nikolai Yakovenko, Dani "Ansky" Stern, Sirous Jamshidi, John Duthie, and Noah Boeken will also start Day 2 with formidable stacks, while Huck Seed, David Baker and Barry Greenstein will all be looking for a double-up to start their afternoon.
Action resumes a 3 p.m. PDT. Stay tuned!
Level: 9
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 0
Alex Kravchenko entered today short-stacked with just 21,600. On one of the first hands of Day 2, the Russian committed his remaining stack in a hand versus Daniel Smith following a flop.
Kravchenko held for nines, but Smith had for the better pair. The turn was the and river the , and Kravchencko is out.
Smith began the day in the top ten, and now moves up to 178,000.
David Peters just now got into a preflop raising war with an opponent in which he finally four-bet all-in and was called. Peters had , but unfortunately for him was up against .
The board ran out , and Peters is another early elimination here on Day 2.
Facing a raise to 2,400, Huck Seed moved all-in for 5,700 more and earned a call. Seed's pocket aces held up and he doubled his micro-stack to a still-short 13,800.
Team PokerStars Pro Humberto Brenes drew a seat at the same table with Sirous Jamshidi to start Day 2, and it looks like Jamshidi has won the battle of the mustachioed players. Jamshidi's thriving with more than 200,000 (good for top five in chips), while Brenes has just been eliminated.
Brenes was first crippled in a hand versus Christian Harder. A short-stacked Harder open-shoved his last 15,700 with , and Brenes called with . No trey came for Brenes, and he was down to just 5,000. Harder chipped up to 33,000 on that one.
All in on the next hand versus Friend of PokerStars Pierre Neuville, Brenes had a good hand -- -- but had run into Neuville's . The board went , and the Costa Rican pro hit the rail. Neuville now has 83,000.
Jonathan Aguiar opened for 3,000 from the cutoff, and it folded around to Basilis Jordanou who called from the big blind.
The flop came . Both players checked. The turn was the , and Jordanou bet 4,100. Aguiar called. The river was the , and this time Jordanou bet 10,000. Aguiar again made the call.
Jordanou showed for two pair, and Aguiar mucked, Jordanou now has 96,000, while Aguiar slips to 44,000.
Shaun Deeb raised to 2,800 from under the gun, and all folded to Andy Bloch in small blind. Bloch called the raise, as did Burt Boutin from the big blind.
The flop came (easy as) . The blinds checked to Deeb who continued for 3,600. Bloch called Deeb's bet, then Boutin check-raised to 15,000. Deeb got out, but Bloch reraised all in for about 40,000 total. Boutin called.
Bloch
Boutin
Top pair for Bloch, but he was in tough shape versus Boutin's flopped straight. The on the turn meant no card could save Bloch, and he gathered up his iPad and left the scene.
Meanwhile, Boutin moves way up to 190,000.
Jonathan Little was just all in before the flop with . Unfortunately for him he was up against Shawn Keller's .
The board went , and Little is out.
Keller is up to 136,000.