2010 World Series of Poker

Event #55: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship
Day: 1
Event Info

2010 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
7655
Prize
$780,599
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$3,252,400
Entries
346
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
0

Could Have Been Worse for Seidel

Erik Seidel fired 2,500 on the river of a board reading {a-Clubs}{q-Clubs}{7-Clubs}{j-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}. Stuart Rutter called, and Seidel turned over a pair of jacks for third set. But Rutter's pocket queens game him second set to scoop the pot, making Seidel thankful that the dangerous board had saved him some chips. He still has 10,000 and all of his rebuys. Rutter is ahead with 16,000 on top of his red chips.

Tags: Erik SeidelStuart Rutter

Ferguson Forces a Fold

Facing a raise from early position to 475, Chris Ferguson defended his big blind with a call to see a flop of {3-Spades}{9-Clubs}{6-Clubs}. Ferguson checked to his opponent who fired 750. Ferguson then check-raised to 2,000 and his opponent made the call.

Ferguson fired another 3,000 on the {10-Hearts} turn. His opponent again called and the river fell a repeat {10-Spades}. Ferguson moved all in for his last 4,800 but his opponent gave it up. Ferguson is up to 16,000 chips.

Tags: Chris Ferguson

Binger's Aces Burn

Michael Binger and an unknown opponent were all in preflop and incredibly both tabled aces!

Binger: {A-Spades}{A-Hearts}{6-Clubs}{6-Spades}
Opponent: {A-Hearts}{A-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{4-Clubs}

Another player at the table informed Binger that he folded two sixes so he was drawing pretty thin to scoop. It didn't matter though, as his opponent made a flush on the {Q-Clubs}{5-Clubs}{K-Spades}{8-Clubs}{9-Spades} board.

Binger was down to his last 9,000 in chips and tossed in his last two add-in chips saying "I'm ready to gamble for the next seven minutes!"

Tags: Michael Binger

Peter Jettisoned

The cutoff raised to 700, and Josh Arieh called on the button. Then from the small blind, Peter Jetten potted to 3,900. The original raiser folded, and after a few minutes, Arieh called. Jetten only had 3,200 behind (and no rebuy chips), and he put the rest in without hesitation on the {10-Hearts}{5-Clubs}{5-Diamonds} flop. Arieh called. "Good flop," Jetten said when he saw Arieh's hand.

Jetten: {k-Hearts}{q-Spades}{9-Diamonds}{8-Hearts}
Arieh: {5-Hearts}{9-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}

The {6-Diamonds} turn and {10-Diamonds} river gave Arieh a flush, and Jetten quickly took his leave. Arieh moved up to 13,000 total.

Tags: Peter JettenJosh Arieh

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Dinner Time

The players are now on a 60-minute dinner break. All remaining rebuy chips must be cashed in now for 7,500 a piece, so the stacks (and stomachs) should swell over the next few minutes.

Level: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 0

Selbst Skyrockets

Vanessa Selbst and Brett Richey didn't wait around to ramp up the after dinner action. They got all the money in the middle (more than 100 big blinds apiece) on a {7-Clubs}{4-Hearts}{2-Diamonds} flop.

Selbst: {a-Diamonds}{a-Clubs}{3-Clubs}{2-Hearts} for aces, bottom pair, and a gutshot
Richey: {8-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{5-Clubs} for a big straight draw and eights

The {k-Diamonds} turn and {a-Spades} river kept Selbst in the lead. When the stacks were counted down, she had been all in for 36,850. Richey was left with 1,200 after doubling her up to around 78,000. Watch out, guys. Selbst with chips is extremely dangerous.

Tags: Vanessa SelbstBrett Richey

River Pain For Duthie

Catching the action on the river on a board of {5-Spades}{A-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}{2-Hearts}{K-Diamonds} we saw John Duthie raise his opponent's bet of 8,000 to make it 18,000 to go. However his opponent responded by moving all in.

It was around 12,000 more, and that was about the size of Duthie's stack but he decided to let it go.

Tags: John Duthie