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Event 33 - $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Completed
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 33 - $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Total Entries
185
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 185
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Like every World Championship event, we saw more than our fair share of big names, and among those who bit the dust on Day 1 were Phils Hellmuth and Ivey, reigning champion Rob Hollink, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow and Liz Lieu.
Day 2 looks to be a very interesting one, with Bill Chen, Annie Duke, Brunsons Sr and Jr and Jennifer Harman all still in the running. Mark Klecan leads the field on 115,000 with Josh Arieh, Shaun Deeb, Greg Mueller and Mark Teltscher all not far behind.
Join us tomorrow from 2pm when we'll be playing right down to the final table.
They didn't let us down in a recent hand with Elezra opening the action with a raise before Minieri three-bet. Elezra called and they saw a flop of
. Elezra checked, Minieri bet, Elezra raised, Minieri reraised and Elezra called.The turn was the
and produced a more civilized check, bet, call, again with Minieri as the aggressor.The hyper-aggression kicked in on the
river. Elezra led with a bet, before Minieri put in another raise. Elezra then made yet another raise, and incredibly Minieri was on an air-ball as he folded for just one more bet.Elezra claimed he held
as he raked in the pot to move up to 68,000 with Minieri slipping to 38,000 late in the evening.
.Again Geller just check-called, but her
was well in front to take down the pot with trip fours.
. His opponent folded on the river but Shak was happy to flash the 
.Shak is approaching the 50,000 chip mark and looking good for a day two berth.
Teltscher:
Pescatori:
Ferguson:
The board ran out
and the nine on the river was the end for Pescatori as Ferguson took the pot to survive a little longer.
