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Level: 6
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit - Horseshoe Hammond
Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit - Horseshoe Hammond
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,245,680
Total Entries
872
Level
36
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
50,000
Players Left 1 / 872
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After the hijack seat made a preflop raise to 600, Kevin Saul reraised from the small blind to 1,600. The player in the big blind thought for a long time before reraising to 3,550. The original raiser folded from the hijack seat and then Saul tanked for a couple of minutes. In true Kevin Saul fashion, he wasn't about to let just a measly four-bet win this pot. Instead, Saul five-bet to 8,550 and his opponent in the big blind folded. Saul's nearing 40,000 in chips now.
On the flop of 
, Josh Brikis raised an opponent's bet of 1,100 to 3,600. Everyone in the hand folded, including the bettor and Brikis won the pot to add another couple of thousand chips to his growing stack. He's got about 47,000 now.
You can check out Brikis' PokerNews profile to read a little about him and check out his blog. Get to know him here.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
44,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
|
38,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
||
|
37,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
|
34,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
34,000 | |
|
30,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
27,000 | |
|
||
|
27,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
26,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
|
||
|
25,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
||
|
23,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
23,000 | |
|
23,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
21,000 | |
|
|
21,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
19,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
|
17,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
16,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
16,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
|
15,500
4,500
|
4,500 |
|
15,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
||
|
12,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
9,000
1,200
|
1,200 |
|
8,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
8,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
One hand after being crippled at the hands of Gary Leibovitz, Eddy Sabat got his last 925 chips into the middle with 
. Josh Brikis reraised to 2,000 right next door, and that was enough to isolate him against the at-risk player with a chance for the knockout.
"I got a pair," Brikis said, tabling 
. Sabat showed his before asking the dealer to find an ace in the deck. He would not; the board ran 
, and Brikis' full house is plenty good enough to do the deed.
Sabat's day is done.
Level: 5
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Jeff Banghart raised to 500 in the hijack seat, and Eddy Sabat made the call from the button. Gary Leibovitz called from the blinds, and it was three ways to the flop.
It came out 
, and the table checked to Sabat. He took the lead with a bet of 625, and both opponents called quickly. The 
on the turn brought all the rest of the action. Leibovitz checked, Banghart led for 1,200, and Sabat called. When it came back to the blinds, Leibovitz snuck in a check-raise to 6,000 straight, Banghart moved all in, Sabat called all in, and Leibovitz did the same, committing his last ~15,000 to the pot.
"Anyone freerolling to a diamond?" Banghart asked.
"I am," came the voice from the other end of the table, Leibovitz rolling hover his 
. Sabat showed his 
and Banghart his 
, all three men with a piece of the pot at the time. But that all changed on the river.
The 
dropped off the deck, giving Leibovitz his freerolled flush and earning him the big triple up. He's vaulted all the way up over 60,000 now, dropping Sabat down to 925 and Banghart down around 14,000.
Tom Marchese raised before the flop, and he found calls from Faraz Jaka and a gentleman in the big blind. Three-handed then, the flop came out 
rainbow, and Marchese continued out with 700 chips. Jaka raised to 2,000 straight, the big blind folded, and Marchese made the call.
That led the two pros heads up to the 
turn, and Marchese checked to the aggressor. Jaka fired again, 3,700 this time, and Marchese check-raised all in for about 12,000 or so. That's the last time he'd get to touch his chips. Jaka snapped with the 
, and Marchese's needed to fill up to keep him alive. It did not, though, and the raggy river sent him pacing over to tell his sob story to buddy William Reynolds at an adjacent table. We didn't hear the whole story, but we did hear Reynolds finish the conversation with a half-interested, "That's unfortunate, dude."
Jaka was likely the chip leader before that pot, and he's been given another big boost all the way up to about 81,000. Look out!
With approximately 12,000 in the middle former WSOP Circuit New Orleans champion Jean "Prince" Gaspard checked to his opponent on the turn with the board reading 
. The player fired out 5,500. Gaspard raised to 9,500, only 4,000 more thinking that's all the player had left. The player tossed in the extra 4,000, but still had a tiny bit more than that so some of the other players at the table piped up about the raise not being enough. Gaspard was instructed he made the raised to 11,000, or 5,500 more. He put in the extra amount and his opponent called all in.
Gaspard tabled the 
and his opponent the 
. It was Gaspard's top pair versus the open-ended straight draw for his opponent.
The river completed the board with the , pairing it with sevens and missing Gaspard's opponent's straight draw. Gaspard won the pot and sent the player to the rail, building his stack to about 45,000 in chips now.
"You guys gotta know I'm a gangsta, I don't go for stuff like that," said Gaspard. "Gotta know who you're dealing with, you're dealing with a prince!"
