2010 WSOP Circuit - Caesars Palace

Main Event
Day: 2
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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
Total Entries
150
Level Info
Level
21
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 150
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Casetta Catches a Good River

Dan Casetts earlier said he thought Diego Sanchez might be luckier than Casetta himself. Casetta certainly caught a good piece of luck against Cary Katz just now. Casetta opened pre-flop to 8,000, with Katz calling from the big blind. Both players checked a king-high flop, {2-Hearts} {10-Hearts} {K-Spades}. When the turn fell {5-Spades} and Katz checked again, Casetta tried a bet of 13,500. Katz called.

The river was a third Broadway card the {J-Hearts}. Katz checked a third time, then snap-called a bet of 30,000. Casetta turned over {A-Diamonds} {Q-Hearts} for the rivered nuts, much to Katz's disgust. Katz flashed {K-?} {J-?} for top two pair and then paid off the bet.

Action on the Bubble

Gary Friedlander raised under the gun to 9,400 and Jeff Roper called from middle position. The two players took a flop of {A-Clubs}{K-Clubs}{Q-Clubs} and Friedlander fired 10,200. Roper folded and Friedlander tabled the {10-Clubs}{9-Clubs} for almost a royal flush having flopped all clubs.

On one of the other tables, Matt Stout raised from under the gun to 8,000 and Cary Katz called on the button. After a flop of {6-Spades}{5-Spades}{2-Diamonds}, Stout fired 14,000. Katz took his time and then raised to 30,000, which got Stout to lay his hand down.

Tags: Cary KatzGary FriedlanderJeff RoperMatt Stout

Bubble Play

The staff here at Caesars has announced that they do hand-for-hand play a little differently than most other places. Each hand is played and no matter how long the hand takes, two minutes will be taken off the clock per hand. If each table finishes their hand without seeing a flop, only one minute will be taken off.

Flowers Falls

Randal Flowers - busto
Randal Flowers - busto

"This is really close," said James Carroll. He had opened his button for 8,000 in front of Randal Flowers, who moved all in from the small blind for 109,000. Carroll thought it over for about a minute, then firmly announced, "Call." Flowers showed {J-Diamonds} {J-Spades} and was against Carroll's {A-Diamonds} {Q-Hearts}. Carroll paired aces on the flop and faded the remaining jacks on the turn and river.

Flowers leaves the tournament in 20th place, two places short of the money. The tournament is now playing hand-for-hand, with two minutes taken off the clock for each hand played. The next player eliminated will be the last one to leave without any cash.

Lynn Gilmartin caught up with Flowers on the dinner break to chat about his upcoming first WSOP experience:

Tags: Randal Flowers

Sanchez Doubles Again

"I couldn't believe I woke up with this either," said Matt Stout as he opened {A-Clubs} {K-Spades}. Stout had raised the button to 8,000, then moved all in after big blind Diego Sanchez re-raised to 22,000. Stout had Sanchez well covered when Sanchez called all for 102,000 with {A-Hearts} {10-Clubs}.

Stout flipped his hand into the muck in resignation after the dealer produced a board of {5-Hearts} {Q-Hearts} {10-Spades} {4-Diamonds} {6-Clubs} to give Sanchez a pair of tens and the winning hand. He's up to about 210,000, while Stout fell to about 165,000.

Casetta Trips Up Stout

Dan Casetta checked the flop of {10-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}{7-Spades} to Matt Stout, who fired 15,000. Casetta called.

The turn brought the {4-Hearts} and Casetta checked. Stout checked behind.

The river was the {10-Spades} and Casetta fired 33,000. Stout quickly made the call verbally. He mucked just as fast when he saw Casetta table the {J-Spades}{10-Hearts} for trip tens.

Casetta moved up to 375,000 and Stout is down to 265,000.

Tags: Dan CasettaMatt Stout

Small River Bet for Carroll

James Carroll raised from the button and made it 8,000 to go. In the small blind, Randall Flowers made the call. The action was then checked by both players all the way to the river as the board ran out {A-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{2-Hearts}{7-Spades}{10-Clubs}. Flowers checked the river and Carroll fired a tiny 4,000, barely more than the minimum. Flowers couldn't even call that little of a bet and mucked.

Tags: James CarrollRandall Flowers

One Step Closer

The shortest of the short stacks, Anthony Grappo, was just eliminated from Table 45, reducing the field to 20. Here's how they're seated:

Table 35

Seat 1: Anthony Yeh
Seat 2: David Light
Seat 3: Thu Nguyen
Seat 4: Brock Parker
Seat 6: Bryan Devonshire
Seat 7: Randy Dorfman
Seat 9: Christopher Demaci

Table 45


Seat 2: Steve O'Dwyer
Seat 4: Diego Sanchez
Seat 5: Cary Katz
Seat 6: Aaron Been
Seat 8: Dan Casetta
Seat 9: Matt Stout

Table 55

Seat 1: James Carrol
Seat 2: Randal Flowers
Seat 3: Steve Burkholder
Seat 4: Paul Rubin
Seat 5: Gary Friedlander
Seat 7: Andrew Lichtenberger
Seat 8; Jeffrey Roper

Sanchez Counterfeits a Double

Matt Stout raised to 8,000 from middle position and Steve O'Dwyer flatted in the cutoff seat. Diego Sanchez was in the small blind and moved all in for 49,000 total. Stout folded, but O'Dwyer made the call. He held two nines and had the {A-Spades}{9-Clubs} of Sanchez dominated.

The board ran out {K-Diamonds}{J-Spades}{7-Hearts}{K-Spades}{J-Clubs} and Sanchez counterfeited O'Dwyer's nines to double up.

Tags: Deigo SanchezMatt StoutSteve O'Dwyer