Event 12 - $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-04-2009 12:00 UTC-12

Jack Of All Trades

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Welcome to the $10,000 Mixed Event, arguably one of the toughest events of the series. The 8-game features 2-7 Triple Draw, Limit Hold'em, Omaha Eight Or Better, Razz, Stud, Stud Eight Or Better, No Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha. This is event truly is for all-rounders and weaknesses in any game is not accepted.

Players are just getting round to sitting down now.

We'll be playing eight levels and during the deuce to seven lowball two players will sit out in each hand.

06-04-2009 12:09 UTC-12

Shuffle Up and Deal!

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Tournament Director is doing his best to herd the 142 currently registered players into their seats, as many of them are still standing and chatting with one another.

The clock, however, is running and the $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event is officially underway.

Level: 1

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

06-04-2009 12:14 UTC-12

A Bit About the Structure

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With eight poker variants in the mix today, the structure is naturally a bit complex.

The games will be played in the following order: 2-7 triple draw, limit hold'em, Omaha 8 or better, Razz, seven-card stud, stud 8 or better, no-limit hold'em, pot-limit Omaha. Games will change every eight hands.

Each level will last 60 minutes. Players have a 30,000 chip starting stack and blinds start off at 100-200 in flop games with betting limits of 200-400. In the stud games, they'll begin with a 50 ante, a 50 bring-in, and betting limits of 200-400. In NLHE, action begins with a 25 ante and 50-100 blinds, while PLO will be played with no ante and the same 50-100 blinds to start.

06-04-2009 12:22 UTC-12

Who's Here?

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Naturally, we have an extremely stacked field in this event. Thus far we've spotted Doyle Brunson, Jennifer Harman, Vitaly Lunkin, Nick Schulman, John D'Agostino, Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler, David "The Dragon" Pham, Jeff Madsen, Andy Black, Barry Greenstein, Thor Hansen, Victor Ramdin, Michael Binger, Scott Seiver, Freddy Deeb, Chad Brown, Vanessa Rousso, Noah Schwartz, Greg "FBT" Mueller, and Jimmy "gobboboy" Fricke.

06-04-2009 12:23 UTC-12

The Deebster Speaks...

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A quote from Freddy Deeb, "There's more dead money in this than I thought there would be."

06-04-2009 12:33 UTC-12

Breaking A Table...

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No, not like that. Table 242 was found to be err... a bit too wobbly for the players liking so a hasty replacement has just be swapped in.

It was very speedy work indeed, perhaps I can get these guys to help me move house?

06-04-2009 12:36 UTC-12

Spotted

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Also found playing in the event are Jean-Robert Bellande, Ivan Demidov, Toto Leonidas and David Oppenheim

06-04-2009 12:36 UTC-12

Harman Runs into Kings

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Limit hold'em:

In a pot that was four-bet pre-flop between Jennifer Harman on the button and her opponent in the small blind, the flop came down {K-Clubs}