Event 23 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-10-2009 21:52 UTC-12

Seven More Hands

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With ten minutes remaining in Level 8, the tournament clock was stopped and a card drawn to determine the number of hands that would be played before stopping for the night. It was a seven, ergo seven more hands before our survivors bag and tag their chips.

06-10-2009 21:59 UTC-12

Prognosis Negative for Rheem

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There has been plenty of short-stack survival at Chino Rheem's table tonight. His luck didn't match theirs. Rheem moved all in for his last 14,200 and saw Gus Hansen reraise all in over the top to isolate from the button. Rheem drew one card; Hansen stood pat with 10-7-6-5-4. Rheem opened T-7-6-3 but drew a nine. He's eliminated just before the end of the day.

Tags: Chino Rheem Gus hansen

06-10-2009 22:07 UTC-12

Anna Wroblewski Eliminated in Three-Way All In

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Before the draw, both Daniel Alaei and Anna Wroblewski were all in against Jeff Lisandro, who had both players covered. All three drew one card.

Wroblewski picked up an ace to make A-8-6-3-2, while both Alaei and Lisandro drew tens. Alaei's T-7-4-3-2 beat out Lisandro's T-8-7-6-5 to take down the pot and give him a late-night double up to about 52,000. Lisandro slipped to 20,000 while Wroblewski hit the rail.

06-10-2009 22:08 UTC-12

One Day in the Books

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It was a surprisingly quiet Day 1 here at Event 23, the $10,00 World Championship of No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw. The defending champ, Mike Matusow, provided some color and insight at the start of play; Sam Grizzle and Jean-Robert Bellande provided it at the end.

In between, 96 players sat down and played poker. Some (Tom Dwan, Phil Hellmuth) sat down later than others and left sooner; others quietly chipped up without making much of an impact on the tournament.

At the end of the day, it was Roland de Wolfe's name atop the leaderboard with approximately 180,000 chips. He's followed by John Juanda and Vince Musso. A total of 60 players -- about 60% of the field -- made it through to Day 2.

Those 60 players will go home for the night to get some sleep. They'll reassemble tomorrow for Day 2 at 2pm local time in the Orange section of the Amazon Room. See you then!

Event 23 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw

Day 1 Completed