. Lambard flips over a dominating 
.However, the board came
giving Armstrong a straight.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 29 - $10,000 World Championship Heads Up No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$2,406,400
Entries
256
Level
6
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 256
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. Lambard flips over a dominating .However, the board came
giving Armstrong a straight.
and made the call. Mizrachi tabled 
with two live cards for his tournament life.The board would frown on the Grinder though, coming
. Wolpert's pair of jacks gets the job done, moving him on to round two without Michael Mizrachi.
of Matt Hawrilenko.The board came
eliminating Froehlich from the tournament.
. Scott Augustine showed down 
for the two overs. Augustine paired his jack on the flop, and Benefield could not improve. The chip stacks switch again, Benefield with 10,000 to Augustine's 50,000.
and another with 
vs. . In the final hand of their match, Young was all in after a flop of
. Young showed 
and was up against the 
of Woolf.The board filled out
x allowing Woolf to advance to the next round.
Benefield has just crawled back to even up the match with king-six against Augustine's ace-nine. Benefield paired his king on the flop, and the rest of the board ran out ragged to hold him up. He's now virtually even with his opponent, just about 4,000 chips separating the two men.
. David Benefield held 
, and he was either going broke or taking an insurmountable lead.The board ran
. Both players paired up on the flop, but Benefield's queen was good enough to win him the pot. Augustine has just 800 chips left.
and Benefield showing the .The board ran out
. As the cards lay, Augustine was ahead. He turned over his second card, not improving with the . Benefield rolled over the though, giving him the winning set of three and punching his ticket to round two.
The action was lightning fast in this first round, with all but a handful of matches completed well within two hours. As the last matches finished up right at the three-hour mark, the players and spectators vacated the room for this extended break.
Round two will kick off at 10:00pm sharp. The full table draws will be posted just as soon as we get them typed up. Rest assured, it figures to be a fantastic series of matches. Stay tuned!
Johnny Chan vs. Anthony Guetti
Alec Torelli vs. Jan Maarten Meijer
Masaaki Kagawa vs. Francois Safieddine
Kyle Brossia vs. Aaron Wilt
PLAYER UNKNOWN vs. David "Raptor" Benefield
Antonio Esfandiari vs. Konstantin Puchkov
Olav von Prince vs. John Juanda
Yevgeniy Timoshenko vs. Dmitry Stelmak
Chris Ferguson vs. Jason Somerville
Mike Caro vs. Joe Cappello
Jason Senti vs. Philippe Dauteuil
Benjamin Sprenger vs. Gavin Smith
Andrew Feldman vs. Steven Crawford
Scott Baumstein vs. Noah Schwarz
Nathan Doudney vs. Anthony Roux
Jesper Petersen vs. Jason Mercier
Steven Silverman vs. Alex Keating
Michael Baxter vs. Jared Ingles
Benjamin Tollerene vs. Greg Raymer
Lex Veldhuis vs. William Thorson
Stuart Marshak vs. John Duthie
Thomas Marchese vs. Michael Banducci
Terrence Chan vs. Tommy Chen
Adam Ewestein vs. Evelyn Ng
Domen Pinteric vs. Albert Iversen
John Parker vs. Jonathan Aguiar
Nicholas Rampone vs. Tariq Rahim
Jamie Armstrong vs. Ramin Henke
Roman Yitzhaki vs. Joao Vide Barb
Steve Zolotow vs. Anton Allemann
Jonathan Jaffe vs. Mohsin Charania
Sorel Mizzi vs. Cory Carroll
Benjamin Lamb vs. Scott Seiver
Alexey Popov vs. Kenneth Middleton
Nathanael Poysti vs. Stanislav Alekhin
Adam Junglen vs. Erik Seidel
Tom "Durrrr" Dwan vs. Samuel Stein
"Action" Jeff Garza vs. Matt Giannetti
Steven Levy vs. Brian Lemke
Claudio Rinaldi vs. OPPONENT UNKNOWN
Matt Woodward vs. Lance Treankler
Dario Minieri vs. Alexander Venovski
Justin "BoostedJ" Smith vs. Hoyt Corkins
Jeff Madsen vs. Joe Serock
Scott Fischman vs. Scott Montgomery
Kenneth Shei vs. Michael Pesek
Jamin Stokes vs. Layne Flack
John Tabatabai vs. Benjamin Spindler
Dmitry Lesnoy vs. Taylor Caby
Andrew Lichtenberger vs. Joseph McGowen
Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier vs. James D'Ambrosio
Matt Hawrilenko vs. Robert McLaughlin
Jessie Martin vs. Andrew Zaichenko
Shawn Buchanan vs. Benjamin Francisco
Bryan Pellegrino vs. Will Failla
Dragan Galic vs. Daniel Illingworth
Bryn Kenny vs. Roberto Romanell
Mark Teltscher vs. David "The Dragon" Pham
Vanessa Rousso vs. Emil Patel
Shaun Deeb vs. Branden Hampton
Evan Roberts vs. Kenny Tran
Justin Filitz vs. Olivier Busquet
Richard Anthony vs. Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf
