Event 33 - $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-15-2009 13:57 UTC-12

The Mouth is in the House

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The slender Mike Matusow has silently slipped into today's field and taken his seat in the far side of the tournament area. Matusow hasn't had a great WSOP to date, and will be looking for a big result here in this event.

06-15-2009 14:01 UTC-12

Greenstein Boosts His Stack to Slightly Over 30,000

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Barry Greenstein has picked up a fairly hefty pot with {K-?}

on a queen-high board; his opponent mucked with a look of disgust on his face. Nevertheless all the stacks look to the untrained eye like, well, approximately 30,000. We're just going to have to give it some time.

06-15-2009 14:05 UTC-12

Overheard Conversation of the Day

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Greg Mueller: "I'll give you two to one."

Daniel Negreanu: "On winning this event? I'll take it."

06-15-2009 14:09 UTC-12

Parker Going for Number Three

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Can Brock Parker make it three bracelets?

Yevgeniy Timoshenko raised from late position before Nikolay Evdakov popped it up from the cutoff. Brock Parker called out of the big blind, as did Timoshenko and they took a flop of {6-Clubs}

.

Play checked to Evdakov, who bet out. Parker then put in a check-raise which drove Timoshenko out of the pot. Evdakov made the call, and then called bets on the {2-Diamonds}

turn and the {5-Spades}

river.

Parker tabled {7-Spades}

for the best hand to collect the pot as he gets off to a good start in his quest to achieve the inconceivable and win his third WSOP bracelet of the series.

Tags: Brock Parker Nikolay Evdakov

06-15-2009 14:17 UTC-12

Feldman Short-Ish Already

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We're not exactly sure how it happened, but young Brit Andrew Feldman is down to 19,700 -- a pretty significant swing in level two. He doesn't look very happy about it at all.

Tags: Andrew Feldman

06-15-2009 14:19 UTC-12

No Mor for Ofir

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Wow. Only one guy can top Feldman's achievement -- the unfortunate Ofir Mor, who "didn't win a hand" in levels one and two, but must have played an awful lot of them as he's busto before the first break. Yikes. Today might go faster than we expected.

06-15-2009 14:20 UTC-12

Aces No Good

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Daniel Negreanu raised from under the gun and Barry Greenstein popped it up. The table folded around and Negreanu made the call.

They took a flop of {8-Clubs}

, and Negreanu led with a bet before Greenstein raised. Negreanu reraised and Greenstein called. The turn was the {8-Hearts}

and again Negreanu fired with Greenstein again raising. Negreanu called and they saw the {2-Clubs}

fall on the river. Negreanu checked and Greensteen bet again.

"Against most players I would raise here..." pondered Negreanu before just flat-calling.

Greenstein tabled {A-Diamonds}

.

"No good," laughed Negreanu and flipped {A-Clubs}

as they chopped up the pot.

Tags: Barry Greenstein Daniel Negreanu

06-15-2009 14:21 UTC-12

Deeb's Doing Well Though

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Meanwhile, much better fortune for Shaun Deeb -- he's up to almost 60,000 already. Most recently, he raised and everyone folded; he showed them pocket kings. "Hey," said Deeb, "it's been a good day."

Tags: Shaun Deeb

06-15-2009 14:22 UTC-12

Break

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They players are now taking a 20-minute break.

Level: 3

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 0