Event #52: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship Day 1 | 2014 World Series of Poker

06-27-2014 00:42 UTC-7

Hang Takes One

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Level 8 : 800/1,600, 0 ante

Tommy Hang, the winner of the most recent $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event, just took down a nice little pot off Vitaly Lunkin.

Hang raised and Lunkin three-bet in position, was was quickly called by the former. The flop brought and Hang check-called a bet.

On the turn, the , Hang bet and Lunkin called. The river was the and both players checked. Hang showed and his hand took down this pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tommy Hang	64,000 8,000	8,000
Vitaly Lunkin	26,000 -8,000	-8,000

Tags: Tommy Hang Vitaly Lunkin

06-27-2014 00:27 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
David Chiu	109,000 57,000	57,000

Eli Elezra	77,000 59,800	59,800

Jan Sjavik	66,000 4,000	4,000
David Steicke	65,000 32,000	32,000
Jeff Shulman	56,000 -16,000	-16,000
Michael Moore	46,000 29,000	29,000
Mike Sowers	46,000 1,000	1,000
Diego Cordovez	45,000 12,000	12,000

James Obst	42,000 16,000	16,000

Alexander Kuzmin	32,000
JJ Liu	31,000 -8,000	-8,000
Kevin Song	27,000 -3,000	-3,000

Lee Goldman	27,000 -19,000	-19,000
Greg Debora	26,000 -7,000	-7,000
Philip Sternheimer	16,000 -19,000	-19,000
Shaun Deeb	16,000 -21,000	-21,000

Scott Seiver	14,000 -1,000	-1,000

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06-27-2014 00:15 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

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Level 8 : 800/1,600, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Antonio Esfandiari	80,000 24,000	24,000

Ronnie Bardah	70,000 -30,000	-30,000

Mike Leah	63,000 6,000	6,000

Jeff Lisandro	58,000 16,000	16,000

Brian Tate	56,000 32,000	32,000
Juha Helppi	51,000 -5,000	-5,000

Talal Shakerchi	48,000 1,000	1,000
Joep van den Bijgaart	48,000 -10,000	-10,000
Ryan Tepen	44,000 8,000	8,000
JC Tran	43,000 -5,000	-5,000
Max Pescatori	42,000 4,000	4,000

George Danzer	38,000 -18,000	-18,000

Nick Schulman	31,000 -3,000	-3,000

Dan Shak	30,000 21,500	21,500
Mike Watson	21,000 11,000	11,000
Melissa Burr	18,000 -5,000	-5,000
Mohsin Charania	15,000

Mark Newhouse	5,500 -26,500	-26,500

06-27-2014 00:00 UTC-7

Chan Bets For Value

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Level 8 : 800/1,600, 0 ante

Limit Hold'em specialists Paul Volpe and Terrance Chan just ended up clashing, and it was the latter who took down the pot.

Volpe, while enjoying a late dinner, raised from late position and Chan called from the big blind. The flop brought out and Chan check-called a bet.

On the turn the popped up and both players checked. The river was the and Chan bet, which got Volpe to tank, and eventually he made the call.

Chan showed and raked in this pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Volpe	66,000 10,000	10,000

Terrence Chan	31,000 -3,000	-3,000

Tags: Paul Volpe Terrence Chan

06-26-2014 23:53 UTC-7

Kings For Sjavik

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Level 7 : 800/1,600, 0 ante

On a flop David Steicke bet and Jan Sjavik raised. Steicke called and on the turn, the , he checked. Sjavik bet, Steicke called and the river brought the .

Steicke checked again and called Sjavik's bet after about 20 seconds.

"Jack-ten!" Philip Sternheimer guessed, but Sjavik turned over and that was enough to take this pot down.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jan Sjavik	62,000 14,000	14,000
David Steicke	46,000 -5,000	-5,000

Tags: David Steicke Philip Sternheimer Jan Sjavik

Level: 8

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 0

06-26-2014 23:43 UTC-7

The Payouts

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Level 7 : 800/1,600, 0 ante

In total 122 players signed up for this event creating a total prize pool of $1,146,800. The winner of this tournament will ultimately walk away with $303,909 while a min cash is worth $16,273.

Place	Prize
1	$303,909
2	$187,811
3	$136,056
4	$100,425
5	$75,470
6	$57,706
7	$44,874
8	$35,481
9	$28,509
10-12	$23,268
13-15	$19,312
16-18	$16,273

06-26-2014 23:33 UTC-7

Froehlich Out, Volpe Up

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Level 7 : 800/1,600, 0 ante

Self proclaimed Limit Hold'em specialist Paul Volpe has just knocked out fellow WSOP bracelet winner Eric Froehlich. Froehlich, the owner of two WSOP bracelets and once upon a time the youngest winner ever, had an unfortunate stretch of hands and Volpe stacked some of those chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Volpe	56,000 17,000	17,000

Eric Froehlich	Busted

Tags: Paul Volpe Eric Froehlich

06-26-2014 23:30 UTC-7

More Counts

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Level 7 : 800/1,600, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Antonio Esfandiari	56,000 12,000	12,000

Tommy Hang	56,000 32,000	32,000
Talal Shakerchi	47,000 27,000	27,000
Ryan Tepen	36,000 6,000	6,000
Vitaly Lunkin	34,000 6,000	6,000

Nick Schulman	34,000 -18,000	-18,000

Brian Tate	24,000 -6,000	-6,000
Ben Yu	19,000 -3,000	-3,000