Event 57 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em Day 1b | 2009 World Series of Poker

07-04-2009 15:01 UTC-12

Not Sure That's A Good Idea

[user76023]

News is just coming to us that during the last level a player left the tournament area with his chips.

According to players at the table, including Gary Clarke, the player in question had been steadily drinking and then declared to his tablemates that he was going to the restrooms.

The player then left and it was only after he had gone that the rest of the table noticed that there was only one $100 blue chip remaining on the table when the player had been playing with a stack of between 5,000 and 6,000.

Chips taken off the table in this manner are removed from play and hence he blinded out a few hands later and has now been eliminated from the tournament.

07-04-2009 15:00 UTC-12

Hoivold Having Hard Time

[user46392]

An up and down sort of day for Andreas Hoivold over on the Table Of Doom -- or rather, a down and then up sort of day, which is always more pleasing.

First, the down.

Hoivold and one other player saw a {3-Hearts}

flop, which the other player checked to Hoivold. Hoivold bet 3,400 -- but the other gent check-raised to 10,000 and Hoivold gave it up. Down to 22,000.

A little while later, after some admirable clawing, Hoivold got involved in a monster of a pot, calling a preflop raise from a gent in early position to see a {10-Hearts}

flop.

Mr. Early Position bet out 1,300 and Hoivold made it 3,400. Call.

Mr. Early Position proceeded to check-call 5,625 form Hoivold on the {10-Spades}

turn and another 8,400 on the {6-Clubs}

river -- but he couldn't beat Hoivold's {10-Clubs}

for a full house.

Up to 53,000.

Tags: Andreas Hoivold

07-04-2009 14:57 UTC-12

Presto! More Chips for Davis

Shamus

A player under the gun limped, two more followed suit, then Raymond Davis made it 800 from the button. The blinds folded, then the UTG player repopped it to 3,200. The other two limpers got out, and Davis called.

Both checked the {A-Clubs}

flop. The {5-Hearts}

came on the turn. The UTG player checked, Davis bet 5,000, and his opponent called.

The river was the {Q-Spades}

, and both checked. Davis' opponent showed {A-Diamonds}

, and Davis showed {5-Spades}

for the turned set. Afterwards, Davis said he thought his opponent might've had queens, thus the caution on the end.

Davis has chipped up to 70,200 now.

07-04-2009 14:48 UTC-12

40 Years of WSOP

Shamus

Hard to believe that in 1970 just seven players participated in the first ever World Series of Poker, whereas today the WSOP routinely attracts thousands and thousands.

In this second part of a three-part series, the PokerNews crew tells how the WSOP began the process of growing from a modest event designed as a kind of gamblers' reunion into the huge spectacle it has become today:

07-04-2009 14:42 UTC-12

Vicky Coren Busto

[user46392]

Vicky Coren, down to 9,400 last we saw her, has continued her downward spiral and is now down to, er, nothing.

Most unfortunate as it turns out. She got her whole stack in preflop with {Q-Spades}

and was drawing rather thin against her opponent's {K-Clubs}

.

Flop: {4-Diamonds}

No help.

Turn: {Q-Diamonds}

Someone suggested that Coren, who'd been standing to leave, sit back down again.

River: smack! {K-Diamonds}

Kings held up after all, and Ms. Coren makes an early exit.

Tags: Vicky Coren

07-04-2009 14:42 UTC-12

Crazy Hands

donpeters

The Main Event brings out all types of poker players and all types of poker playing. Over in the green section, we've had the luxury of seeing some unbelievable hands on both sides of the spectrum.

Earlier, we saw a hand over on table #155 where the board read {K-?}

. After all the betting was over, one player turned up {9-?}

and the other player turned up {9-?}

for a chipped pot.

In another hand more recently, one player flopped top pair, top kicker with {A-Hearts}

on a board of {A-Diamonds}

against a player holding pocket jacks. The turn brought the {J-Diamonds}

, putting the jacks in the lead. But when the river fell the {Q-Hearts}

, broadway was made by the player holding big slick.

From nine-high chops to suck-resuck hands, we've seen a lot, but this is surely only the beginning.

07-04-2009 14:41 UTC-12

Straight Up for Eslami

Shamus

Ali Eslami has had a good first three levels, chipping up from the very start. Just now he was involved in a hand in which the board showed {K-Spades}

, and a player in the hijack seat bet 3,500. Eslami, on the button, raised behind him to 9,000. The player mistakenly thought Eslami had just called, not raised, and thus tabled his hand -- {Q-Hearts}

.

The floor was called, and it was ruled that the player still had the option either to fold or bet. It sounds like he was given a warning, though, for showing his hand before acting.

The player chose to call with his straight, but Eslami turned over {A-Clubs}

for the higher straight. Eslami is up to 90,000 now.

Tags: Ali Eslami

07-04-2009 14:37 UTC-12

Pagano Paid

[user46392]

nice flush-and-gutshot draw on a {10-Spades}

flop -- his {Q-Spades}

was looking rather nice and he bet 1,550, getting one caller.

Pagano bet out another 4,200 on the {K-Hearts}

turn and finally 7,000 on the {2-Spades}

river. His opponent called, and quickly mucked to the flush.

Pagano's up to 48,000.

Tags: Luca Pagano

07-04-2009 14:36 UTC-12

Deeb Doubles Another

[user67765]

Shaun Deeb opened with a raise from the button to 750 before the big blind popped it up to 2,300. Deeb thought for a moment before moving all in with his opponent quickly calling.

Deeb: {A-Hearts}

Opponent:

The board ran out {J-Diamonds}

.

Deeb drops another big pot, yet still manages to sit behind 37,000 chips.

Tags: Shaun Deeb

07-04-2009 14:25 UTC-12

Easy Fold for Taonus

[user46392]

Here's an interesting little controversy:

Our intrepid field reporter heard, "All in!" and duly rushed to the table in question -- only to discover that the vital "...And call," bit had been missing from the dealer's cry.

Actually, it was a bit unclear what had happened. Mr. Gjorgji Chuchuk (harder to spell than to pronounce) had his whole 46,825 stack counted out in front of and a pair of aces tabled. Ms. Narrmayet Taonus (harder even to pronounce than to spell) had 16,000 invested in the hand but had not called -- everyone at the table was claiming she had called, but she maintained that she had said, "How much is it to call?" To be honest it looks as though it might have been a combination of dealer error and overexcitement from Mr. Chuchuk and his aces. It was decided that Ms. Taonus had not yet called, and she opted to muck, as you do when you know you're up against aces.

Mr. Chuchuk became involved with another player the next hand -- they saw a {7-Hearts}

flop and turn, and Chuchuk raised a bet from his opponent. "CALL," said his opponent, very clearly and deliberately. Much giggling from the rest of the table followed.

"Interesting table to watch, this one," commented tablemate Shaun Deeb.