Event #52: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed
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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #52: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$25,000
Prize Pool
$4,536,250
Entries
191
Level
28
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Big Buy-in, Big Action
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Welcome back to the Rio Hotel and Casino for PokerNews' continued coverage of the 2010 World Series of Poker. There's something a little special in the air this afternoon as we're about to kick off one of the most highly anticipated events of the series.
There's been plenty of talk about the $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed Event as old schoolers and young guns alike are looking forward to this high buy-in, high action format. For many, it's been described as the "make or break" event of the summer for them. It's a new event on the WSOP schedule so we have no precedent to judge numbers. Our closest comparison is the special $40,000 buy-in event last year which attracted 201 players, so a line around the 200-220 mark seems like the best educated guess.
No doubt we'll see the cream of the crop here this afternoon in what should produce one of the toughest tournament lineups of all time. All of the big name pros will be here in what should be an exciting day of poker ahead of us. All the action kicks off at 12pm local time which is about twenty minutes from now. Stay tuned to PokerNews.com for exclusive live updates of all the action.
Where Are the Players?
"Don't think I won't start, that's clock is going to be running in two minutes!"
That's what tournament director Jack Effel just yelled out. Right now, there's only two or three players at every table in the room and the field looks extremely scarce. There's a total of 45 tables set up, but from the looks of it right now, they won't need anywhere close to that.
Level: 1
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
We're Underway!
The players are slowly filing into the Pavillion Room for the start of this event as the cards are now in the air. Most tables are starting off short-handed, with several commencing with the minimum number of two players.
How Many Will Survive?
How many players are we going to lose in the first level? How many will we lose today? Those questions have bounced around media row this morning, and without a precedent to fall back on, there's quite a range of answers being thrown out there. Last year in the $40,000 buy-in event, well over half the field didn't see day two action.
The players are kicking off with a massive 75,000-chip start bank, which sounds like a hell of a lot of chips. However our blinds are also kicking off at the 150/300 level, with antes introduced from the get go, which means there should be plenty of action from the first hand of the day.
We're playing ten levels today, and due to the unpredictable nature of no limit hold'em, we should still see plenty of bustouts today, despite the deep stacks.
Timoshenko Loses Over Half His Stack
There was already 11,000 in the pot when we happened upon this hand. The board read 
on the turn and Dmitry Stelmak had checked over to Yevgeniy Timoshenko, who bet 7,000. Stelmak raised to 19,000 and Timoshenko called. The river was the 
and Stelmak led out for 23,000. Timoshenko called.
Stelmak showed 
for a king-high flush and Timoshenko mucked. He's down to 29,000 from his starting stack of 75,000 while Stelmak is the early chip leader with 130,000.
Juanda Jumps Bichon
Not a good start for PokerStars Team France Pro Thomas Bichon. We arrived at the table following a raise and a re-raise preflop, to see John Juanda pop up the bet an additional 5,400. Bichon made the call and they saw a flop of 
.
Juanda fired out a bet of 10,600 and Bichon made the call, to see the 
land on the turn. Juanda led again for 16,500 and Bichon had seen enough as he got out of the way.
Juanda jumps out of the gates to move up to 92,000 with Bichon down to 58,000.
(Potential) Tables of Death
The majority of the tables here in the white section of the Pavillion Room are being played three or four-handed at the moment, but some early Tables of Death are starting to emerge.
Table 22: Chris Moorman, Steve Billirakis, Tom "durrrr" Dwan
Table 23: Dani "Anksy" Stern, Faraz Jaka, Joe Cada
Table 26: Shawn Buchanan, Michael Mizrachi, Shaun Deeb
Table 27: Roland de Wolfe, Daniel Negreanu, David Benyamine
Boat Over Boat Already
Nikolay Evdakov raised on the button before Kevin Saul three-bet to 2,300 out of the small blind. Evdakov made the call and the two of them saw the flop come down 
. Saul led for 3,200 and Evdakov called.
The turn added the 
to the board, pairing it with jacks. Saul checked over to his Russian counterpart and Evdakov fired 4,000. Saul made the call.
The hit the felt on fifth street and Saul fired a hefty bet of 17,500. Evdakov tanked before making the call and the hands were revealed.
Saul tabled a rivered full house with the 
. His tens over jacks were beaten though as Evdakov tabled the 
for jacks full of tens. Saul was knocked down to 48,000 in chips while Evdakov increased to 102,000.