2011 World Series of Poker

Event #50: $5,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 1
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a8
Prize
$825,604
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$3,839,000
Entries
817
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000

The Stars Are Out

Level 2 : 50/100, 0 ante

Speaking of PokerStars...

Their Team Pros are out in full force today. Have a look at the roster we've accumulated so far, and remember there are still more than two hours left in late registration.

Tony Hachem (Australia)
Johnny Lodden (Norway)
Dag Palovic (Slovakia)
Martin Hruby (Czech Republic)
Jude Ainsworth (Ireland)
Liv Boeree (United Kingdom)
Humberto Brenes (Costa Rica)
Alex Gomes (Brazil)
Gualter Salles (Brazil)
Vanessa Rousso (USA)
Vanessa Selbst (USA)
Victor Ramdin (USA)
David Williams (USA)
Jonathan Duhamel (Canada)

We also have Friend of PokerStars Pierre Neuville of Belgium here, and Randy "nanonoko" Lew of Team Online stardom. There's also one more member of Team Online in the house, but we'll incriminate ourselves and tell you we've don't recognize him by sight. We'll get a name to go with the face shortly.

Tags: PokerStars

One Pair is a Go For Ho

Level 2 : 50/100, 0 ante

After a flop of {a-Clubs}{k-Spades}{4-Diamonds}, the player under the gun bet 475 and Maria Ho called from the button. Both women checked when the {9-Clubs} fell on the turn and the river brought the {8-Clubs}. The first player checked again and Ho bet 650. The other player called and Ho showed her {a-Diamonds}{j-Spades} which was good enough to take the pot.

Ho now has 9,400 in her stack with no rebuy chips behind. Her table will definitely be one to watch today as it also contains Kevin Saul and Melanie Weisner.

Tags: Maria Ho

Not Andy Black's Day

Level 2 : 50/100, 0 ante

During a four-way flop with a {j-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}{3-Hearts} board, there was a bet, call and fold to Andy Black. He jokingly said to Mark Schmid and McLean Karr, the two remaining players in the hand, "I'm going to let you ladies go at it," before mucking his cards. The hand was played out without anymore words exchanged between the players and Schmid ended up winning a pot worth about 2,200 chips.

Tim West, however, was not happy with Black's antics. He voiced his displeasure to Black about his comments and made it clear that he didn't want Black to act like that when he (West) was involved in a hand. Black seemed a little surprised and after West left for break, approached Karr to sort things out.

Tags: Andy BlackMark SchmidMcLean KarrTim West

Level: 3

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

Late Reg-aments

Level 3 : 75/150, 0 ante

There are about a half-dozen late-registration tables in play, and they're pretty tough.

At one of the tables sits Antonio Esfandiari, Nenad Medic, Jason Young, Anthony Newman, Kevin Eyster, and Brent Hanks.

Adjacent to them is a table with Vanessa Peng, Jason Potter, Lex Veldhuis, and Brandon Cantu.

A couple tables over there's another tough one with Mohsin Charania, Kyle Bowker, Josh Arieh, and Vladimir Geshkenbein.

And finally, we see Jon Aguiar, Andrew Lichtenberger, and Ivan Demidov all together, too.

Updated Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
57,000
Lars Bonding dk
Lars Bonding
26,500
11,500
11,500
Michael Leah ca
Michael Leah
20,000
5,000
5,000
Vitaly Lunkin ru
Vitaly Lunkin
19,000
4,000
4,000
WSOP 2X Winner
Mark Schmid us
Mark Schmid
19,000
4,000
4,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Allen Bari us
Allen Bari
19,000
4,000
4,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Blair Hinkle us
Blair Hinkle
18,000
3,000
3,000
WSOP 1X Winner
David Benyamine fr
David Benyamine
15,500
WSOP 1X Winner
Steve Watts gb
Steve Watts
14,500
-500
-500
Dan Smith us
Dan Smith
12,500
-2,500
-2,500
WSOP 1X Winner
Darryll Fish us
Darryll Fish
12,300
-2,700
-2,700
Tony Dunst us
Tony Dunst
8,600
-6,400
-6,400
WSOP 2X Winner
8,000
-7,000
-7,000
Ali Eslami us
Ali Eslami
7,100
-7,900
-7,900
WSOP 1X Winner
5,000
-10,000
-10,000

Duhamel Doing Work

A player in late position raised to 300 and Jonathan Duhamel re-raised to 800 from the hijack. Action folded back to the original raiser who opted to call. The flop came {k-Hearts}{k-Diamonds}{4-Spades}, and the first player check-called a bet of 925 from Duhamel. When the {j-Spades} came on the turn both players checked and they saw the {7-Spades} hit on the river. The first player checked a third time and Duhamel fired out a bet of 2,325. The other player tossed his cards into the muck and Duhamel took the pot.

On the very next hand action folded to Duhamel who raised to 400 and everyone folded giving him another small pot.

After the hands Duhamel had 11,600 in his stack.

Player Chips Progress
Jonathan Duhamel ca
Jonathan Duhamel
11,600
-3,400
-3,400

Tags: Jonathan Duhamel

Bowker Bows Out

Kyle Bowker was down around 3,000 chips when he three-bet shoved into Mohsin Charania's opening raise. (Word on the street is that Bowker ran pocket aces into pocket kings earlier in the day.) Charania quickly made the call with {Q-} {Q-}, and Bowker's {K-} {Q-} was in a world of trouble.

The board ran out {2-}{8-}{q-}{j-}{7-}, and Bowker was already drawing dead with one to come. He's gone, and Charania needed that pot as it boosts his stack back to about 11,200.

Player Chips Progress
Mohsin Charania us
Mohsin Charania
11,200
-3,800
-3,800
WSOP 1X Winner
Kyle Bowker us
Kyle Bowker
Busted
WSOP 1X Winner

Tags: Mohsin CharaniaKyle Bowker