Wroblewski Blows Up
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2009 World Series of Poker
Event 24 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,420,690
Entries
2,506
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Break Time
Enormous Hand Alert
In a blind-on-blind confrontation, we caught up with the action on the turn of the
board, when small blind Emmett Hickey (incidentally my Awesome Name Of The Day, and he's wearing a Panama hat to boot) bet out 10,000 with a pretty hefty amount already in the pot. Alain Roy in the big blind moved all in for another 18,000, and Hickey was left with a big decision. He stood up and dwelled for a while, then sat down and continued to dwell until the clock was called -- and Hickey called too.Roy:
Hickey:
River: here comes the outdraw bit...
...
...
Ouch. Roy is bust, and Hickey is up to more than 75,000.
No Cigar for Edler
and got looked up by Anthony Magallon in the cutoff holding a rather more traditional 
. A bit of excitement on the flop, but ultimately no tournament cigar for Edler and he busts out while Magallon is up to 26,000.Board:
Here's Something You Don't See Very Often
So it was enormously refreshing to hear one of the players approach one of the floormen for no other reason than to praise the dealer at his table, a gentleman named Arron. "He doesn't make a mistake, his motions are crisp..." the gent was saying. The floorman was clearly taken aback as, like I said, that's not usually what players want to talk to floormen about. How very refreshing.
Other Counts of Interest
Karl Mahrenholz: 35,000
David Chicotsky: 27,000
Tom McEvoy: busto
J.C. Tran: also zilch and heading for the door
Eric No Liu-ser
Maridu Does Something Gross
"I just tripled up in the most grotesque way." Oh yes? "No, I can't tell you, it's too gross."
It wasn't actually all that disgusting, a mere desperate shove from the small blind to a early position raise. Maridu's
offsuit was, admittedly, in pretty terrible shape against her opponent's 
(I believe it may have actually been 
and two hearts on the flop, but it also may not have been), but a friendly jack on the turn kept her in the game."It was horrible, I'm not proud of it," she announced. Then to the gent who'd had the
: "Sorry."
Assorted Chip Counts
Alex Jacob: 5,800
Anna Wroblewski: 25,000
Marc Naalden: 44,000
Humberto Brenes: 14,000
Graham Wheldon: 12,500
Kevin O'Leary: 25,000
It's a No for Yeh
With the gent on the button all in preflop, Yeh checked the
flop and called a 9,000 bet from the other gentleman in the hand. They proceeded to the turn and Yeh checked again, but undeterred, his opponent bet 10,000. Yeh reluctantly laid down his hand and the all-in player and the aggressive bettor flipped their hands over.Mr. All In Preflop:
Mr. Aggressive: a very esoteric
River:
The short stack doubled, Mr. Aggressive won the very chunky side pot, and Yeh is fuming.