2010 WSOP Circuit - Caesars Palace

Main Event
Day: 1
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Event Info
2010 WSOP Circuit - Caesars Palace
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k4
Prize
$190,137
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,150
Entries
150
Level Info
Level
21
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 150
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Kelley Runs Into Full House

On the flop of {A-Hearts}{A-Clubs}{10-Diamonds}, the first player fired 150 before Chuck Kelley made the call. THe next player called and then Ted Lawson mucked. Out of the four that saw the flop, three remained to the turn.

The turn brought the {3-Hearts} and action was checked by the first player and Kelley. The player with last action fired 600 and only Kelley called.

The river completed the board with the {K-Spades}. Kelley fired 2,500 and his opponent raised to 5,500. Kelley made the call, but mucked his hand when his opponent tabled two black threes for a full house.

Kelley's down to about 14,000 chips.

Tags: Chuck KelleyTed Lawson

Tough Start for Little

According to Jonathan Little's Twitter stream, he picked up pocket aces on the second hand and lost 20 big blinds, then lost another 10 with pocket tens a few minutes later. He's down 70 more big blinds after an encounter with a pernicious draw.

Little, in late position, was one of three players to limp into the pot pre-flop. The big blind made a pot-sweetening raise to 300 that all limpers called. When the action checked to Little on an {8-Hearts} {4-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds} flop, he bet 1,200. Only one player called.

The turn was the {J-Clubs}. Little's opponent checked and then called another bet for 2,000 chips. Both players shut it down on the {3-Spades} river. Little's opponent showed {K-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds}, a flush draw that turned a pair of jacks. It was enough to win the pot when Little mucked.

Tags: Jonathan Little

Shamseddin Takes Early Lead

Four players put 1,500 chips in the pot preflop and saw the {A-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}{7-Clubs} come down. Brock Parker was first and he checked. The next player checked and then Soheil Shamseddin fired 4,000. The player behind him called and the other two folded, leaving the action heads-up to the turn.

The turn brought the {K-Diamonds} and Shamseddin fired 10,000. His opponent called.

The river was the {10-Diamonds} and Shamseddin moved all in. His opponent began mumbling to himself, complaining about the fourth diamond that hit the felt on the river. Eventually, he folded the {A-Hearts}{K-Clubs} face up and Shamseddin scooped the pot. He didn't show and moved up to 45,000 chips. Despite the blinds only being at 25-50 for the first level, the chips are really flying.

Tags: Brock ParkerSoheil Shamseddin

Yang's Raise Called by Two Pair

With a few thousand chips in the middle, the board read {Q-Spades}{J-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{3-Diamonds} between one player and former WSOP champion Jerry Yang. The first player fired 2,500 into Yang. After a minute in the tank, Yang fired back a raise to 6,500. His opponent quickly called and showed the {Q-Hearts}{J-Hearts} for two pair to beat Yang, who mentioned he only had a queen.

Yang is down over half his stack to 12,100 chips.

Tags: Jerry Yang

One is the Loneliest Number

For those interested in such things:

* So far there is one woman in the field. There is a second woman who is helping a handicapped player handle his cards and chips.

* There is one former world champion in the field. (Jerry Yang!)

* Jonathan Little is the only former WPT Player of the Year in the field.

* David Williams just walked into the room. If he sits down to play, he will be the only WPT Championship winner registered so far. Williams won the WPT Championship at Bellagio on Sunday night.

Back to Defend His Title

The defending champion Justin Bonomo just walked into the room and took his seat. Last year, Bonomo conquered a field of 187 entrants to win the WSOP-C event here and will be looking to go back to back. Bonomo won $237,692 last year.

Tags: Justin Bonomo

Structure Notes

The structure for this tournament is incredibly player-friendly. Levels are 75 minutes long until the money bubble bursts. Once that happens, every subsequent level will last 90 minutes through the end of the tournament.

In addition to long, slow levels, players are starting with 500 big blinds in their stacks. A player could conceivably buy in at the end of late registration and he or she would start Level 3 with 125 big blinds. The blinds increase gradually enough from that point to still provide plenty of play.

We'll play seven levels today and seven levels tomorrow. Day 3 will play as long as is required to reduce the field to a final table of nine. Those nine will play down to a champion on Friday.

Who's All Here?

Although the numbers are rather small right now, there's a good amount of names in the field to look out for. Right now, Ted Lawson, David Daneshgar, Darryll Fish, Chris Bell and Scott Seiver are all in the tournament room at Caesars.

Also here and making a rare appearance on the felt is former WSOP Main Event champion Jerry Yang. Yang hasn't been spotted too much around the tournament circuit, but is in today's field. He isn't too noticeable at first glance, with a black hood pulled tightly down over his head and sunglasses on.

Blair Hinkle, Brock Parker, Dutch Boyd, James Mackey and JC Alvarado are also shuffling chips and peeling back cards.

Slowly Filtering In

With two full 75-minute levels of late registration, the field is expected to fill in quite a bit as we go. Right now the players are spread across 15 tables in the back tournament room of the Caesars poker room. This is the same room that hosts the annual NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship. Giant, three-foot photos of many of the all-time great poker players hang from the walls.

Many players are likely using this tournament as an engine-check before the WSOP gets started at the Rio in four weeks. The always-gregarious Layne Flack, seated at a table with Jonathan Little, mentioned that he hasn't been playing much the last four months. We definitely expect to see him in the Amazon Room this summer.