Bloch-age
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against 
on a 
flop. Bloch's ace high was ahead on the flop and on the 
turn but the 
river made his opponent a 6-high straight.Bloch has only 2,000 left.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 40 - $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Omaha
Day: 1
against on a flop. Bloch's ace high was ahead on the flop and on the turn but the river made his opponent a 6-high straight.Bloch has only 2,000 left.
Bad Beat for Chau Giang
All seemed well, until recently when Giang was sitting with both chairs facing with their backs to the table.
Just yards from us we just witnessed Giang's top chair unbalance itself from the one below, to see Giang fall flat on his back onto the floor. While moderately amusing, Giang was in some distress as he appears to have given his head a whack onto the dealer's chair of the table behind him.
"Bad beat Chau!" yelled Barry Greenstein from across the room as the players were all distracted by the fall.
A little dazed and still rubbing his head, Giang is now back in action, with just one chair, and in the traditional manner.
Giang has 32,000 chips.
Ziigmund Eliminates Makowsky
flop. Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies made the call with 
against Makowsky's 
. The turn was the 
and the river the 
. Ziigmund's solitary pair of aces were enough to win it all.
Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 0
The Shark is Hungry!
Brenes tabled the nuts with his 
as his opponent was left in trouble with 
.The river bricked the
and Brenes doubles to 50,000 chips.
Powell Singing
The board read
and Powell's hand was the only one on the table with his 
good to double through. Powell is up to nearly 70,000 with Singer crippled with just 7,000.
The Grass Is Always Greener
, Barry Greenstein checked before raising to 13,900 after his opponent had fired a bet. With the pot heads-up at this point, his opponent moved all in with Greenstein making an easy call as he showed 
for top set and straight draw."That's all huh?" said his despondent opponent as he was in deep trouble with
."I kind of liked that flop," replied Greenstein.
The
on the turn brought some life to the hand but the on the river left Greenstein stacking up 100,000 chips.
New Champion...
Ferguson Busts Filippi
board and Amnon Filippi moves all in on top. Ferguson makes the call and shows a monstrous 
against Filippi's 
.The turn was
and the river was the making a flush for Ferguson on the river.Chris Ferguson has 51,000.
Queen Selbst Collects From Bhasin
.Selbst tabled
for over pair and flush draw, but would need to improve against Bhasin's for the rockets."Wow, I didn't think you had that!" quipped a nervous Selbst, but she need not have worried as she improved on both the
turn and river to finish with a flush and the pot.It seems Selbst likes to tangle with the Aussies. She first gained attention for her final table blow-up when Mark Vos won his bracelet in 2006. She then overcame another Aussie in Jamie Pickering in a rather "entertaining" heads-up display for the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha bracelet last year.
Selbst clips another Aussie in Bhasin to double through to 54,000 with Bhasin back to the pack with 87,000.