He was holding
with two hearts on the ten-high flop when his chips went in, but Jacob Avital's pocket jacks held up, and that's the end of that for Berman.Avital is on a chip-leading sort of 90,000 stack.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 57 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1d
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He was holding
with two hearts on the ten-high flop when his chips went in, but Jacob Avital's pocket jacks held up, and that's the end of that for Berman.Avital is on a chip-leading sort of 90,000 stack.
On the
Seiver bet 1,050 and his opponent called.The pattern was repeated on the
turn except Seiver bet 3,200 and was called.The river was the
and Seiver went for a chunky 10,000 bet and once again got called. He flipped 
for the flopped set, which was enough for the win.
It looked as though Hougaard bet every street of the
board, finally moving all in on the river -- and must have been delighted to be called all the way down, as he was holding 
for quads. "Ace ten?" he asked of his newly short-stacked opponent. Mr. Opponent nodded sadly.
against a short-stacked opponent's 
.The flop was a safe
but a 
on the turn gave his opponent the lead. The river bricked the 
and Hinkle slips to 75,000 chips.
Mr Wilson called a bet on the
flop before checking behind on the 
river. Her opponent bet 1,300 on the 
river and Wilson called again. She flipped 
and her opponent mucked; she lives to fight another day, possibly in a bra and panties match...
Except there was one slight problem.
He had bought in for day 1a instead.
Unsure if he has actually got through the day, Soesman is now working with a couple of members of staff to see if his stack made it through the day.
The flop came down
and action checked to the cutoff seat. He fired 3,000 with only Boyd making the call.The turn brought the
and checks from both players.The river was the
and Boyd checked. His opponent bet 6,000 and Boyd then raised to 15,000. His opponent made the call.Boyd showed the nut straight with
in his hand and won the pot, moving to 51,000 chips.
, the button would then bet 1,000. Plastik bumped up the action to 2,500 total, and the button called. The turn was the . Plastik led out for 2,000 and his opponent folded. He is now back above starting chips at 32,000.
to move to 40,000, Kenny Tran was back at it again.With the board reading
Tran fired out a 12,500-chip bet into tablemate Nick Schulman.Schulman sat in the tank for several minutes before eventually splashing the pot with his call.
Tran tabled the nizzles with
to prompt a quick and forceful fold from Schulman as he slipped to 10,200 while Tran soared to 65,000 in chips.
"Thought he was gonna cash out!" said one of the players after he'd left, to the laughter of the group.
Hopefully we won't be seeing another incident such as happened on Day 1b, when a player who'd been drinking did in fact take his short stack from the table -- and thus out of play.
