2007 World Series of Poker

Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
Day: 1b
Event Info
2007 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
88
Prize
$8,250,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$59,784,954
Entries
6,358
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
400,000 / 800,000
Ante
100,000
Players Left 1 / 6,358
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Juha Helppi Has Been Eliminated

Juha Helppi
Juha Helppi
Juha Helppi raised to 2,500 from under the gun. Two players called and Team PokerNews player Tony G, who was in the big blind, moved all in for 16,200. Helppi called and the others passed. The players showed...

Helppi: 5-5
Tony G: 6-6

The board filled out A-9-K-8-A with Helppi picking up a flush draw on the turn. Helppi missed everything however and headed for the rail. Tony G is now in command of a chipstack of 38,000.

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D'oh!

It looks like we "did a Homer." We incorrectly reported earlier that "The Simpsons" co-creator Sam Simon had been eliminated. He is, in fact, alive and well with 48,000 in chips on table 26.

Roland de Wolfe Eliminated

Board:
{9-Spades}{5-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}{J-Spades}{4-Spades}

Roland de Wolfe raises to 2,200 preflop in late position. The button makes it 8,000 and de Wolfe calls. On the flop, de Wolfe checks and the button bets 10,000. de Wolfe check-raises all in to 20,000 and the button calls. de Wolfe has {8-Hearts}{8-Diamonds} and the button has {K-Diamonds}{K-Spades}. de Wolfe is out.

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Dan Alspach Has Been Eliminated

Dan Alspach
Dan Alspach
When the friends and family of Dan Alspach ask how he got knocked out of the Main Event, he'll get to start it with those five familiar words: "So I get pocket aces..."

Alspach raised all in on a seemingly harmless ten-high flop. His opponent quickly made the call and showed 10-10. Dan Alspach sighed and turned over his A-A, knowing he was in trouble. Alspach couldn't catch one of the two remaining aces in the deck and is yet another Day 1b casualty.

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Eric Faccer Eliminated

Team PokerNews player Eric Faccer was knocked down and then out in a span of just a few hands.

The hand that put him on the ropes saw Faccer, holding {A-Clubs}{J-Clubs}, move all in over the top of a 5,000 bet from his lone opponent on a flop of {K-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{6-Spades}. Faccer's opponent made the call, committing the rest of his own chips to the pot with {K-Hearts}{Q-Clubs}. Faccer missed all of his outs on both the turn and river and was left with just 3,000 chips.

Shortly thereafter, Faccer found himself all in with pocket fives against an opponent's K-J. A jack on the flop ended Faccer's hopes of a comeback, and he was eliminated from the tournament.

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"Miami" John Survives Disaster

"Miami" John Cernuto
"Miami" John Cernuto
"Miami" John Cernuto dodged a major bullet after getting all of his money into the pot preflop holding pocket eights against an opponent's pocket jacks.

As grim as things looked preflop, however, the flop came {10-Hearts}{8-Hearts}{4-Clubs}, which gave Cernuto new life. "Miami" John ended up making a full boat on the river and survived to see another flop.

After the hand, Cernuto stacked up 26,300 in chips.

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Jonathan Lessin Wins A Big Pot With "Top-Top"

We caught up to this hand on the turn. The board read {Q-Hearts}{J-Spades}{6-Spades}{8-Diamonds}. Lessin's opponent bets 12,000 from late position and Lessin made the call from the cutoff seat. The river brings the {7-Diamonds}. Again Lessin's opponent fires; this time for his whole stack of 18,900. Lessin ponders for a bit, then calls and shows A-Q. His opponent shows a queen and mucks. Lessin not only sent another player home, but is now sitting on a stack of 103,500.

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Team PokerNews Doing Well

Team PokerNews player Shane Beckham has won a nice pot.

He was on the button when the action was folded around to him and he decided to make it 3,000 preflop. The big blind then decided to reraise it to 9,000 total and Shane called.

On a flop of {5-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}{Q-Hearts} the big blind lead out with a bet of 10,000 and Shane called. The turn brought the {4-Spades}, the big blind checked and Shane bet 10,000. That bet won the pot.

Before chipping up the chips he did show the {Q-Spades} and reminded the other player he wasn't there to steal the pot.

Shane is one of many PokerNews players doing well today. You can join Team PokerNews at the PokerNews Cup in Australia this October. Click here for details.