Regional Championship Day 1 | 2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit - Harrah's Atlantic City

12-19-2010 16:58 UTC-4

A Contributing Factor To Selbst's Greatness

[user66118]

Level 4 : 100/200, 0 ante

We picked up a bit of a hand just a moment ago as four players limped in to see a flop. It came out {J-Clubs} {7-Spades} {J-Hearts} , and the action checked to the button. The player there bet 1,000, and Vanessa Selbst check-raised to 2,500. That folded the table and won her the pot, and her chip count is still right around where it started. Allen Bari piped up from the next seat over:

"How come your bluffs are so awesome and mine never work? Is that why you're the greatest?"

Selbst let out a little smirk as she stacked the pot, she responded, "Probably a contributing factor."

Tags: Allen Bari Vanessa Selbst

12-19-2010 16:59 UTC-4

Schedule Change

Mickey Doft

Level 4 : 100/200, 0 ante

Tournament Director Jack Effel asked the players if they would rather play eight levels today with no dinner break, as opposed to the scheduled 11 levels with a dinner break.

The verdict? A rousing applause for his suggestion, meaning we will be playing eight levels today.

12-19-2010 16:59 UTC-4

Break It Down

Mickey Doft

Level 4 : 100/200, 0 ante

The players are on a twenty-minute break.

Level: 5

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 25

12-19-2010 17:37 UTC-4

Bloch Enters

[user66118]

Level 5 : 100/200, 25 ante

We've been Twitter stalking Andy Bloch all day as he flew from Boston to Atlantic City (he loves small airports like ACY, you know) this morning, then cabbed it over to Harrah's. Returning from the break, Andy Bloch has arrived to take his seat over at the fun Table 40 with Allen Kessler and company.

Tags: Andy Bloch

12-19-2010 17:37 UTC-4

Liebert Exits

[user66118]

Level 5 : 100/200, 25 ante

We picked up the pot on the turn as the board read {9-Hearts} {A-Clubs} {7-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} . It was a heads-up pot with about 15,000 in it, and Shannon Shorr stuck out a big bet after fourth street. It was enough to cover his lone opponent, Kathy Liebert, and the lady spent a good while in the tank considering. She finally did call off her remaining chips with {A-Spades} {4-Spades} , but she was drawing nearly dead. Shorr turned up {7-Hearts} {7-Diamonds} , and the river {8-Spades} shipped him the pot and shipped Liebert out the door.

Put Shorr on 64,000 chips now if you're scoring at home.

Tags: Shannon Shorr Kathy Liebert

12-19-2010 17:39 UTC-4

Chip Counts From Around The Room

Mickey Doft

Player	Chips	Progress
Jordan Morgan	78,000 46,000	46,000

Jim Collopy	72,000 2,000	2,000

Shannon Shorr	64,000 21,000	21,000

Jon Aguiar	53,000 8,000	8,000
John Racener	49,000 22,500	22,500

Matt Stout	47,000 14,000	14,000
Vanessa Selbst	46,000 19,000	19,000

Chris Reslock	40,000 -4,000	-4,000

John Monnette	39,000 1,000	1,000

Andy Seth	36,000 4,000	4,000
David Baker	33,000 9,000	9,000

Phil Collins	33,000 12,000	12,000
Eric Haber	32,000 -2,000	-2,000
Leo Wolpert	32,000 -1,000	-1,000

Jason DeWitt	32,000 -6,000	-6,000

Lee Childs	31,000 -2,500	-2,500
Dean Schultz	29,000 500	500
Steve O'Dwyer	27,000 -2,000	-2,000

Isaac Baron	26,000 6,000	6,000

John Cernuto	23,000

Matthew Waxman	22,000 -6,000	-6,000
Ravi Raghaven	20,000 -13,000	-13,000
Allen Bari	17,000 -2,000	-2,000

Cornel Cimpan	12,000 -10,000	-10,000

Jonathan Wein	11,000 6,000	6,000

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12-19-2010 17:58 UTC-4

Some More Chip Counts

Mickey Doft

Player	Chips	Progress
Andy Frankenberger	63,000 3,675	3,675

Ronnie Bardah	46,000 11,000	11,000

Chris Klodnicki	45,000 15,000	15,000

Dan Kelly	41,000 10,000	10,000
Christian Harder	40,000

Bernard Lee	39,000 1,000	1,000
Victor Ramdin	38,000 3,000	3,000
Scott Fischman	35,000 -5,000	-5,000

Brett Richey	31,000 4,000	4,000
T.J. Cloutier	31,000 7,500	7,500

Keven Stammen	30,500 7,000	7,000

Will Failla	30,000

Curt Kohlberg	30,000 8,100	8,100
Kyle Bowker	30,000

Chris Bell	29,800 -6,200	-6,200
David Peters	29,000 6,500	6,500

Sorel Mizzi	28,500 -9,500	-9,500
Beth Shak	28,000 -1,700	-1,700

Ted Lawson	28,000

Josh Brikis	28,000
James Mackey	26,000 -2,000	-2,000

NIck Schulman	23,500 5,300	5,300

Dave Sands	23,000 -3,000	-3,000
Josh Arieh	23,000 -4,000	-4,000

Matt Glantz	21,000 -3,700	-3,700

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12-19-2010 18:00 UTC-4

One-Three-Two?

[user66118]

Level 5 : 100/200, 25 ante

Registration is still open for another half hour or so, but there's not likely to be a huge rush at the cage to sign up in between now and the end of the level. The big board shows 132 players have thus far signed up, and that may well end up being our final number. There are still, however, a few players we recognize loitering around the outskirts of the tournament area.

One of those is Tom Marchese, the leader in one of the Player of the Year races. Marchese has a lead of 1,162 points lead over his nearest challenger, Dwyte Pilgrim, and he tells us he's probably going to skip this event in favor of a day of football watching.

Pilgrim is in the field trying to make up some ground, but we fear his efforts in that regard may be in vain. If the field size stays as it is, first place for this event will only be worth 720 points, and even a victory would not be enough to make up that gap. In fact, Pilgrim would need the field size to climb to 200 players to make this event point-heavy enough to do him any good. The only other event left in 2010 that counts for points is the $350 side event here on Tuesday.

Sorel Mizzi, Vanessa Selbst, and John Racener are third, fourth, and fifth respectively, and they too are in the field trying to make up some ground in the penultimate points event of the year.

Tags: Tom Marchese Dwyte Pilgrim

12-19-2010 18:18 UTC-4

Mizzi Busts Gregg

Mickey Doft

Level 5 : 100/200, 25 ante

We caught up with the action on an {A-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds} {4-Spades} flop. Sorel Mizzi and Anthony Gregg were involved in a raising war, with Gregg finding himself all in for about 30,000 with {4-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} , up against Mizzi's {K-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} . The {9-Hearts} turn card kept Gregg ahead, but Mizzi caught the {K-Clubs} river card to make the better pair and eliminate Gregg.

Mizzi upped his stack to about 83,000.

Tags: Anthony Gregg Sorel Mizzi