2010 World Series of Poker

Event #56: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 1
Event Info

2010 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a4
Prize
$825,976
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$4,464,300
Entries
1,941
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000

Event #56: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Day 1 Completed

Official Day 1 Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Daniel Smith au
Daniel Smith
229,000
Marc Sander
Marc Sander
98,000
Barrie Pietersz nl
Barrie Pietersz
97,900
Jason Helder us
Jason Helder
92,300
Gianluca Speranza it
Gianluca Speranza
92,100
Tommie Janssen nl
Tommie Janssen
92,000
James Moutsatsos us
James Moutsatsos
91,200
Thien Nguyen us
Thien Nguyen
86,500
Brian Roberts us
Brian Roberts
82,600
Christopher Kolla
Christopher Kolla
82,400
Theodore Barrie
Theodore Barrie
81,500
Mark Newhouse us
Mark Newhouse
81,400
Shane Schleger us
Shane Schleger
77,000
David Singer us
David Singer
76,700
Bryan Porter
Bryan Porter
76,100
Paul Lee us
Paul Lee
74,700
Reginald Roberts us
Reginald Roberts
74,200
Balazs Botond hu
Balazs Botond
73,000
[Removed:106]
[Removed:106]
71,700
Mike Wattel us
Mike Wattel
WSOP 2X Winner
70,400
Isaac Baron us
Isaac Baron
WSOP 1X Winner
70,100
Fabrizio Gonzalez uy
Fabrizio Gonzalez
69,160
Court Harrington
Court Harrington
69,000
Daniel Weinman us
Daniel Weinman
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 2X Winner
68,500
Jon Turner us
Jon Turner
66,400

Day 1 - Done

Marc Sander
Marc Sander

In eight short levels we have whittled our field down from 1,941 to less than 600.

The number on the board said 585 as the last three hands of the night were announced, so we will probably have ended up with just a few under that. Impressive stuff, but remember, the plan is to play down to a final table tomorrow, and with only 198 places paying out at all, we are looking at this tournament possibly even going to four days.

Our chip leader heading into Day 2 looks to be Marc Sander, on around 100,000. Plenty of big names are still in the field as well - Victor Ramdin, Dan Heimiller and Matt Hawrilenko are just a few of the folks still in with a shot at this, the last bracelet event before the Main Event. Among the folks who didn't make it were Daniel Negreanu, Roland de Wolfe and Joe Hachem.

We'll be back here at 3pm PT tomorrow when we will be starting out on the long road down to a final table. Join us back here then.

Flying Brosolo

We found Yann Brosolo checking the river of a {6-Hearts}{10-Hearts}{9-Clubs}{4-Spades}{9-Hearts} board, a good few chips in the middle of the table. His opponent checked behind, and Brosolo flipped {a-}{10-}. HIs opponent couldn't beat it and mucked, and Brosolo moved up to 40,000.

Tags: Yann Brosolo

Turn of the Tide

We arrived just in time to see an all-in player turn over {k-Hearts}{9-Hearts} and Jon Turner flip a dominating {k-Diamonds}{j-Spades}. Another plyer at the confessed that he had folded pocket nines.

"You folded two of my nines?" said the all-in player. "Thanks for telling me that, man."

Board: {8-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}{q-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds}

Tags: Jon Turner

Hawrilenko Aiming High

Matt Hawrilenko is looking to finish the day on a high note. We walked over to his table just in time to see him arranging a new stack of chips after his {10-}{10-} bested an all-in opponent's {a-}{j-}. He's now up to about 37,000 chips.

Tags: Matt Hawrilenko

O'Connell Gets Lucky

We're not sure whether the chips went in on the flop or before it, but either way come the river Kevin O'Connell was up to 30,000 and his opponent was storming off in disgust.

O'Connell: {a-Spades}{8-Spades}
Busted opponent: {9-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}

Board: {2-Diamonds}{3-Hearts}{8-Hearts}{8-Clubs}{5-Spades}

Tags: Kevin O'Connell