2011 World Series of Poker

Event #42: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship
Day: 1
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
6542
Prize
$814,436
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$3,393,400
Entries
361
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
0

Le Eliminated

Tuan Le and his opponent were heads up on a flop that read {10-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}{6-Spades}. Le's opponent checked, and Le went all-in for 15,000, and his opponent called instantly.

Le: {q-Diamonds}{j-Spades}{9-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}
Opponent: {a-Spades}{j-Hearts}{10-Spades}{3-Clubs}

Both players had just one pair, and though Le's pair was inferior, he did have a flush draw. The turn came the {3-Hearts}, giving his opponent two pair, and the river came the {j-Clubs}, giving both players two pair. Le's two pair was again inferior, and he was eliminated.

Player Chips Progress
Tuan Le us
Tuan Le
Busted

Negreanu Bluffs; Then Runs

Level 6 : 250/500, 0 ante

We walked by on a board of {6-Diamonds}{8-Spades}{10-Hearts}{2-Clubs}{3-Hearts} and saw that Daniel Negreanu was all-in against Joe Hachem. Hachem fell hard into the tank and then proceeded to call the clock on himself. The flooman came over and began the minute-long count.

With about 20 seconds to go, Hachem mucked and asked if Negreanu was bluffing.

"Of course I was bluffing, I'm still in the other tournament!" Negreanu replied, literally running away from his table to head to the Amazon Room - where he is still playing in the $5,000 six-max event.

Negreanu is up to 41,000 while Hachem has slipped to 18,000.

Tags: Daniel NegreanuJoe Hachem

Updated Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Max Pescatori it
Max Pescatori
WSOP 4X Winner
160,000 -6,000
J.C. Tran
J.C. Tran
130,000 35,000
Greg Fund
Greg Fund
130,000 7,000
Michael Binger us
Michael Binger
100,000 14,000
Peter Jetten ca
Peter Jetten
98,000 18,000
Michael Mizrachi us
Michael Mizrachi
WSOP 5X Winner
80,000 35,000
Erik Cajelais ca
Erik Cajelais
WSOP 1X Winner
78,000 -18,000
Barry Greenstein us
Barry Greenstein
57,000 15,000
Andy Seth us
Andy Seth
50,000 10,000
John Hennigan us
John Hennigan
WSOP 6X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
50,000 20,000
Erik Seidel us
Erik Seidel
WSOP 10X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
48,000 13,000
Dan Kelly us
Dan Kelly
47,000 22,000
David Baker
David Baker
46,000 7,500
Steve Billirakis us
Steve Billirakis
WSOP 2X Winner
43,000 -5,000
Allen Bari us
Allen Bari
WSOP 1X Winner
41,000 8,000
Matt Waxman us
Matt Waxman
WSOP 1X Winner
40,000 -22,000
Carlos Mortensen es
Carlos Mortensen
WSOP 2X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
38,000 1,000
Lex Veldhuis nl
Lex Veldhuis
38,000 -19,000
David Ulliott
David Ulliott
38,000 5,000
Vanessa Selbst us
Vanessa Selbst
37,500 -32,500
Nenad Medic us
Nenad Medic
WSOP 1X Winner
36,000 3,000
John Juanda id
John Juanda
WSOP 5X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
35,000 -1,000
Phil Laak us
Phil Laak
WSOP 1X Winner
33,000 18,000
Christian Harder us
Christian Harder
32,300 2,300
Mike Matusow us
Mike Matusow
WSOP 4X Winner
32,000 17,000

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Brenes Doubles Up

Humberto Brenes and an opponent got in a raising war preflop that saw Brenes get his last 17,900 in there.

Brenes: {9-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{5-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}
Opponent: {a-Hearts}{a-Spades}{q-Spades}{2-Clubs}

The flop brought Brenes a ton of help, coming {5-Diamonds}{q-Clubs}{10-Diamonds}. Brenes spiked two pair on the turn when it came the {4-Hearts}, and the {j-Spades} changed nothing on the river, giving Brenes the double.

Player Chips Progress
Humberto Brenes cr
Humberto Brenes
40,000 22,000

Tags: Humberto Brenes

Selbst Sends One to the Rail

Level 6 : 250/500, 0 ante

On a board reading {3-Clubs}{3-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}{2-Spades}, Vanessa Selbst checked from the hi-jack and her lone opponent in the cut-off checked behind. The river brought a {4-Hearts} and Selbst checked. Her opponent thought for about a minute and then put his remaining several thousand into the middle. Selbst snap-called, which got a groan of disappointment out of her opponent.

Selbst tabled{10-Clubs}{3-Spades}{8-Clubs}{9-Spades} for treys-full and her opponent mucked.

Selbst is up to 70,000.

Tags: Vanessa Selbst

Updated Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Tom Dwan us
Tom Dwan
130,000 -10,000
Eric Baldwin us
Eric Baldwin
WSOP 2X Winner
66,000 11,000
Tex Barch us
Tex Barch
60,000
Matt Glantz us
Matt Glantz
60,000 30,000
Richard Ashby gb
Richard Ashby
WSOP 1X Winner
58,000 13,000
James Akenhead gb
James Akenhead
51,000 4,000
Sam Trickett gb
Sam Trickett
50,000 20,000
Sam Stein us
Sam Stein
49,000 12,000
Jacobo Fernandez us
Jacobo Fernandez
37,000
Felipe Ramos br
Felipe Ramos
36,000
Romik Vartzar us
Romik Vartzar
32,000
Ben Zamani us
Ben Zamani
30,000
Joe Hachem au
Joe Hachem
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 1X Winner
30,000 -3,000
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
28,000
Jeff Lisandro au
Jeff Lisandro
WSOP 6X Winner
28,000 -15,500
Erica Schoenberg us
Erica Schoenberg
23,000 -2,000
Anders Taylor
Anders Taylor
21,000
Craig Bergeron us
Craig Bergeron
20,000
Roberto Romanello gb
Roberto Romanello
WSOP 1X Winner
19,000
Humberto Brenes cr
Humberto Brenes
18,000 -3,000
Steve Sung us
Steve Sung
WSOP 2X Winner
17,000 -8,000
Jani Sointula fi
Jani Sointula
11,000

Pescatori Flushes Lindgren Out

We just caught a huge pot between Max Pescatori and Erick Lindgren that has given Pescatori the chip lead. The two were in the hand with two other players, and they all took a flop of {6-Diamonds}{2-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}. Lindgren get 4,500, and Pescatori made it 16,000 to go. The other two players folded, and then Lindgren raised pot, essentially going all in. Pescatori went all in, and the players tabled their cards.

Lindgren: {7-Hearts}{6-Hearts}{6-Clubs}{5-Diamonds}
Pescatori: {8-Diamonds}{a-Clubs}{a-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}

Lindgren had flopped middle set, and Pescatori was drawing to an ace or a diamond. He didn't get it on the turn, as it came the {j-Clubs}, but the {q-Diamonds} spiked the river, shipping a huge pot over to Pescatori and knocking Lindgren out of the tournament.

Player Chips Progress
Max Pescatori it
Max Pescatori
WSOP 4X Winner
166,000 136,000
Erick Lindgren us
Erick Lindgren
WSOP 2X Winner
Busted

Tags: Erick LindgrenMax Pescatori

Rast and Binger Get Flushed

Level 6 : 250/500, 0 ante

We caught up with the action on the {6-Diamonds}{4-Spades}{8-Diamonds} flop, where Michael Binger led out for 7,000 and was called by Brian Rast and the player on the button. All players then proceeded to check down on the {2-Spades} turn and the {2-Diamonds} river.

The player on the button revealed {5-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{8-Hearts} for a flush and Binger and Rast both mucked.

Binger is at 88,000 and Rast is sitting with 33,000.

Tags: Brian RastMichael Binger

Time To Crunch Some Numbers

Level 6 : 250/500, 0 ante

The tournament director just announced all of the numbers over the loud speaker, telling us that 361 players entered this tournament, up from the 346 who entered last year. First place is a whopping $814,436, the third highest prize of the series so far. Only the $25,000 heads up championship, won by Jake Cody, and the $5,000 No-Limit Holdem won by Allen Bari, produced a higher first place prize. 36 players will be paid, with the first payout being 20,699, and the top 7 players will all be getting six-figure scores.