2009 WSOP Circuit - Rincon

$5,150 Circuit Championship Event
Day: 1
12
Event Info
2009 WSOP Circuit - Rincon
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k2
Prize
$125,775
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Total Entries
106
Level Info
Level
17
Blinds
8,000 / 16,000
Ante
2,000
Players Left 1 / 106
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Taylor Cagey with Aces

Esther Taylor played her pocket aces in a cagey fashion but was unable to take down a large pot. She called two preflop raises out of the small blind, the first from Yong Harrison and the second from a player in the nine-seat. The {3-Diamonds} {K-Hearts} {7-Hearts} flop checked through. Taylor bet 1,100 when the turn fell {A-Diamonds} and found one caller in Harrison. She bet 2,200 when the board paired {K-Diamonds} on the river, but Harrison folded. Taylor turned over {A-Spades} {A-Hearts}.

Tags: Esther TaylorYong Harrison

Billirakis Earns a Small One

Steve Billirakis
Steve Billirakis
Under the gun, Eric Morris limped into the pot. Steve Billirakis followed suit, and the big blind came along for the three-handed flop.

It brought {K-Hearts} {8-Spades} {Q-Hearts}. Morris checked, and Billirakis put out a bet of 300. Brown called, while Morris elected to duck out.

The turn was the {6-Clubs}. Billirakis kept the pressure on with a bet of 450, which Brown quickly called. The river was the {5-Diamonds}, and both men checked.

Billirakis turned over {A-Hearts} {Q-Clubs} for second pair, top kicker. Brown flashed a {Q-?} of his own, but he apparently had kicker troubles as he slipped his cards into the muck, sending the pot over to the young pro.

Tags: Steve Billirakis

Boukai First Player Eliminated

Halfway into Level 2, we have our first elimination of the day. Rami Boukai bet 2,500 on a flop of {10-Diamonds} {9-Spades} {7-Spades}. His opponent, Kyle Schroeder, asked how much Boukai had behind (about 10,000) before raising to 7,000. Boukai moved all in and Schroeder quickly called.

Boukai: {A-?} {A-?}
Schroeder: {J-Diamonds} {J-Spades}

The turn {5-Spades} didn't improve Schroeder, but he spiked the {J-Hearts} on the river, drawing a grimace from Boukai has he left the table and went to inform a friend that he was out of the tournament.

Tags: Kyle SchroederRami Boukai

Rizen Rising

Eric Lynch
Eric Lynch
We pick up the action on the flop in a three-way pot over at Table 2. The board showed {4-Spades} {3-Hearts} {5-Clubs}, and there were 3,700 chips already piled in the middle of the table. First to act was Ernest Opena, and he checked. Eric "Rizen" Lynch put out a bet of 1,700, and both Taylor Bell and Opena called.

Fourth street brought the {10-Spades}. Opena again checked, allowing Lynch to bet 4,000. That was enough to fold Taylor Bell, but Opena flicked in an over-sized chip to make the call.

The river came the {J-Spades}, and both men checked. "I got aces," announced Rizen, tabling {A-Hearts} {A-Spades}. Opena double-checked his hole cards, flashed them to his neighbor at the table and mumbled, "I guess I should have gone broke that hand." After spinning them into the muck, the dealer pushed the pot to Eric Lynch, who has chipped his way up to 28,000 here in the early going.

Tags: Eric LynchRizen

Second Career for Robbins?

The hand was down to two remaining players at Table 22: Shaun "****in'" Deeb and Jamie Robbins. With the board showing {K-Diamonds} {A-Hearts} {5-Diamonds} {6-Hearts} {J-Hearts}, Deeb led out for 1,450. Robbins announced a raise and then started to eyeball Deeb's stack as he pondered the amount of his raise. His actions prompted Deeb to make a remark that we didn't catch, but Robbins certainly did.

"Too much Hollywood?" he asked Deeb.

"Too much Hollywood," replied Deeb. "It's ridiculous." He mucked his hand.

Tags: Jamie RobbinsShaun Deeb

The Field Expands

The tournament is filling out a bit. Due to some latecomers and a few late registrations, we're up to twelve nine-handed tables in play. It's nice to see a few women among the new arrivals; we started with just two in the field but now are up to fie or six. There's still one more level of late registration. Once registration is officially closed we should be able to provide the final number of players and the prize pool information.

Level: 2

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

Lynch Folds Top Pair. Or Did He?

We came up to Eric Lynch's table to find him involved in a heads-up pot with Quoc Vu. Vu checked the {5-?} {8-?} {K-?} flop to Lynch, who made a healthy bet. Vu quickly check-raised that bet and was dismayed to see Lynch fold just as quickly.

Vu turned over his hole cards, revealing two fives (presto goot!). "I thought you had a king," he lamented.

"Maybe I did have a king," Lynch replied.

Tags: Eric LynchQuoc Vu

Stout Begins the Long Climb

It's a long way from the starting stack of 20,000 chips to the final table of the tournament. The journey requires the relentless accumulation of chips. Matt Stout has started that journey by taking down a four-way pot that he raised preflop to 175 from middle position. Stout and three callers took a flop of {2-Diamonds} {Q-Spades} {10-Diamonds}. Action checked to Stout, who made it 400 to go. Only the big blind called that bet; he check-called another 800 after the turn fell {J-Spades}. Stout fired a third bullet, for 2,200, on the {2-Spades} river but didn't get a call. We imagine he was happy enough to just take down the pot.

Tags: Matt Stout

Echo, Echo

We're pretty used to the relative silence that dominates no-limit hold'em tournaments, as compared to other forms of tournament poker, but it seems incredibly quiet in here today. The total lack of table talk is amplified by the cavernous confines of the tournament room, a sixty-foot by sixty-foot ballroom with a twenty-foot ceiling. There are eleven tables in play, all clustered in the front left corner of the room beneath a projector screen that is showing a spring training baseball game between Tampa Bay and Minnesota.