2009 World Series of Poker

Event 4 - $1,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kk
Prize
$771,106
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$5,410,800
Entries
6,012
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Event 4: $1,000 No Limit Hold'em - Day 2

Welcome back to Day 2 of the $1,000 event. We started with over 6,000 players and we're now down to the last 760 or so. 621 players will be getting paid with $1,894 for the bottom spot and a huge $771,106 for our winner as well as magnificent bracelet.

The players are debagging now even as we speak and, like the first two start days, we're expecting the action to fast furious though there will be a sudden lull around the time of the bubble. One of the favourites has to be former bracelet winner JC Tran, who is sitting amongst the chip leaders going into the start of the day.

At this point the Brasilia room, where all but seven of the tables are located (the others are in the Miranda room) is now buzzing with anticipation. The plan for today is to play until 3am with play restarting tomorrow at 1pm.

All that's left to do is for them to “Shuffle up and deal!”

Level: 11

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

Early Hit

Cashing machine, Nikolay Evdakov, raises to 3,000 from the cut off before a player moves all in from the small blind for 8,000. Evdakov calls with {a-Spades} {10-Clubs} but sees he’s dominated by the SB’s {a-Diamonds} {q-Clubs}.

The board comes {8-Spades} {j-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} {k-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} to give the SB the nut flush. Evdakov down to 27,500.

Chips Were Only on Loan

A three-way all in confrontation has just occurred on Nikolay Evdakov's table and he's involved again. He has {A-Spades} {K-Hearts} and is up against {A-Hearts} {9-Diamonds} and {Q-Diamonds} {Q-Clubs}.

The board came {K-Clubs} {J-Spades} {10-Diamonds} {K-Diamonds} {7-Clubs}. Trip kings good enough for Evdakov to knock two players out and put him up 50,000.

Rob From The Rich...

Rob Perelman managed to start today with 53,000 after getting all-in on the turn of a {A-?} {10-?} {4-?} {8-?} X board last night in the very last hand. He held {A-?} {J-?} against {A-?} {9-?} which held on the river to double him up.

Cor...Win for Cole

Corwin Cole has doubled up. He bet 4,800 on a {Q-Clubs} {4-Spades} {10-Spades} board and found himself being check-raised all-in.

Cole snap-called flipping {K-Diamonds} {K-Clubs} and his opponent simply said, "Ouch..." flipping {A-Clubs} {10-Clubs}. The turn was the {7-Diamonds} and the river the {4-Clubs} making two pair for both players, Cole's being the better.

He's now on about 50,000.

Tags: Corwin Cole

No Fun.

Jack 'Doctor_Fun' Powell is the most studenty-looking player probably still in the tournament. With a slightly bored look on his face, he raised to 2,500 from midposition and found the cutoff reraising to 6,500. Checking his opponent's stack of about 23,000, he made it 16,500 which was met with a swift all-in.

Powell was forced to call with {5-?} {5-?} but lost out to {K-Hearts} {K-Spades} on a {K-Diamonds} {6-Clubs} {2-Spades} {A-Spades} {J-Hearts}

"You can let me survive"

Eric Mizrachi has a very short stack and just moved in from mid position. It was folded to the big blind who asked for a count. Mizrachi counted his stack and it turned out to be 8,100.

"You can let me survive" Mizrachi aimed at the big blind. It worked as the big blind folded. Mizrachi showed {A-?} {K-?}.

Bubble Bubble...

The players have been toiling, but they're not yet out of trouble. With three minutes still on the clock, the tournament director has just sent the players on a fifteen minute break, we're just trying to find out exactly why.