Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 8 Started
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 8
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$68,798,600
Entries
7,319
Level
41
Blinds
800,000 / 1,600,000
Ante
200,000
Day 8 Table and Seat Draw
Table 100 (Secondary feature table)
Seat 1: Michael Mizrachi (6,300,000)
Seat 2: Scott Clements (7,250,000)
Seat 3: Michiel Sijpkens (7,765,000)
Seat 4: John Dolan (2,175,000)
Seat 5: John Racener (10,470,000)
Seat 6: Brandon Steven (6,045,000)
Seat 7: Redmond Lee (3,315,000)
Seat 8: William Thorson (3,680,000)
Seat 9: Mads Wissing (3,070,000)
Table 101 (Main feature table)
Seat 1: Johnny Lodden (1,560,000)
Seat 2: Joseph Cheong (24,490,000)
Seat 3: Jason Senti (13,550,000)
Seat 4: Matt Affleck (12,515,000)
Seat 5: Matthew Jarvis (13,300,000)
Seat 6: Matthew Bucaric (2,270,000)
Seat 7: David Baker (6,825,000)
Seat 8: Filippo Candio (10,020,000)
Seat 9: Ronnie Bardah (2,525,000)
Table 102 (Outer table)
Seat 1: Adam Levy (4,745,000)
Seat 2: Benjamin Statz (9,885,000)
Seat 3: Soi Nguyen (23,100,000)
Seat 4: Duy Le (7,225,000)
Seat 5: Jonathan Duhamel (10,520,000)
Seat 6: Robert Pisano (8,060,000)
Seat 7: Pascal LeFrancois (15,780,000)
Seat 8: Hasan Habib (1,510,000)
Seat 9: Patrick Eskandar (1,655,000)
What Dreams May Come
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Here we are, Poker World. It's taken almost a fortnight for us to get here. Way back on July 5, the first flight of hopefuls -- more than 1,200 in total -- sat down for Day 1a of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. Now, 12 days later, the full field of 7,319 players has been condensed, consolidated, whittled down, and crystallized into 27 players who are one last day away from a berth in the November Nine.
Two players each already have more than 10% of the chips in play. Soi Nguyen and chip leader Joseph Cheong have a huge advantage against the rest of the field. They can't necessarily fold their way to the November Nine, but both have to be considered prohibitive favorites to dominate their respective tables today and secure a date in November in the Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio.
The rest of the field has some work to do. We're not playing favorites, but we can't help but be intrigued by the story of Michael "the Grinder" Mizrachi. He won the $50,000 Player's Championship to start the 2010 WSOP. Can he end the 2010 WSOP having survived the ultimate grind by making it to the November Nine?
We can't even count out the player in the Dank Position -- Hasan Habib. Habib has one previous bracelet in 2004. Could this be the year he wins his second? And what of two-time bracelet winner Scott Clements? As yesterday made patently clear, truly anything can happen between now and the end of the day.
Last year everyone in the media expected Day 8 to go into the wee hours of the morning, and then were shocked when play wrapped up by midnight. This year we're not making any predictions. All we can tell you is that we'll be here until the bags come out again, from the first riffle of the cards to the last river dealt at the 2010 WSOP -- at least, until November.
See you in fifteen minutes.
Preliminaries
Players are in their seats, unbagging and stacking chips. Ty Stewart informed the players at each table, "You are all television characters today." He expanded from there to remind them that they are not allowed to add, change or remove any logos from now until the end of the day. Anyone who does so will risk incurring a penalty.
We expect Jack Effel on the mic to make the opening remarks in a few minutes.
That Could Make Things More Difficult
Matt Affleck may be doing a lot of squinting today. He apparently lost his glasses since yesterday. WSOP Media Director got on the mic and asked everyone to "look around" to try to find his glasses. "Between 150 of us in here, we should be able to locate them," said Dalla.
Already Mixing Up Chips
Upon removing their chips from the bags, David Baker and Matthew Bucaric got some chips mixed up. The chips that were left in between them were unclaimed and they couldn't quite remember whose they were. The tournament staff came over and verified their official end-of-day chip counts with us before going back to assist the players in getting their stacks right before play kicked off.
Level: 30
Blinds: 60,000/120,000
Ante: 15,000
Shuffle Up and Deal!
Jack Effel got on the mic and kept his remarks mercifully short. He mentioned an MMA fight card being hosted tonight at the Rio and then got down to business.
"In the true fighting spirit that all of our remaining players share today, we'd like to invite an honored guest today to kick off the last day of the WSOP Main Event before November," said Effel. He then introduced MMA fighter Kevin "the Monster" Randleman, a former UFC heavyweight champion.
"You guys are all very talented," said Randleman. "I hope you guys have good luck along with that talent. Dealers, shuffle up and deal!"
With that, cards are in the air. 93 minutes remain in the level.
Bardah Shoves First Hand
On the very first hand of the day, Ronnie Bardah had the button. Action folded to him and he moved all in for 2.515 million. Both blinds folded and Bardah picked up the blinds and antes.
A Good Omen for Mizrachi?
On the first hand of the day, Redmond Lee opened for 310,000 from late position. Action passed to Michael Mizrachi in the small blind. His re-raise to 650,000 took down the pot. Mizrachi showed the table 
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