2009 World Series of Poker

Event 57 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1d
Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
6,494
Players Left
9
Next Payout
Place 9
$1,263,602
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000
Players Left 9 / 6,494
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Arieh Accelerates

After a raise and reraise preflop, Josh Arieh and his opponent checked a flop of {K-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{10-Hearts}. The {q-Diamonds} turn brought a 4,000-chip bet from Arieh, before he fired another 10,000 chips on the {6-Clubs} river.

His opponent reluctantly folded and Arieh moves up to a commanding 97,000 chips.

Tags: Josh Arieh

Schwartz Doubles Before Break

Noah Schwartz
Noah Schwartz
The flop was {9-Hearts} {8-Clubs} {3-Spades}. The small blind checked, the big blind fired 3,000, and then Noah Schwartz raised to 6,500. The small blind folded before the big blind reraised to put Schwartz all in. Schwartz made the call for 15,175 total.

Showdown:
Schwartz: {8-Diamonds} {8-Hearts}
Opponent: {J-Hearts} {J-Diamonds}

The turn came the {7-Hearts} and the river the {9-Clubs}, giving Schwartz a full house and doubling him up to 38,000.

Tags: Noah Schwartz

Chorny Awarded Controversial Pot

Some controversy has erupted just before the break on Glen Chorny's table.

Chorny limped in from middle position before a late position player raised it up to 800 to go. The blinds folded and suddenly the dealer dropped the deck, pushed the pot to the late position player and mucked his cards as Chorny was sitting there with live cards!

The floor was called over to make a ruling and the lead supervisor had to be called.

At this point Chorny said that he was happy to forfeit the pot but wanted his 300 chips back that he had put into the pot.

The table appeared to be satisfied with this arrangement but the lead supervisor ruled that you need live cards in order to receive the pot. It was ruled that the late position player would receive his 500-chip raise back, however the 300-chip call would stay in the pot which was then given to Chorny.

Everyone at the table disagreed with this ruling as it was dealer neglect which caused the problem in the first place.

However they were reminded that it is a player's responsibility to protect his cards at all times and unfortunately his ruling stood, much to the surprise of an apologetic Chorny.

Tags: Glen Chorny

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

Number Crunching

An announcement was just made letting the players know that the average chip stack is currently 39,700.

We don't have an update on the big board regarding the number of players remaining, but a little bit of math suggests that with that average we must have about 2,122 players left from the 2,809 who started Day 1d.

Shorr Slides

Shannon Shorr just suffered a setback early in the level. After his bet of 1,900 was called on a {6-Hearts} {Q-Spades} {5-Clubs} board, the {6-Clubs} landed on the turn.

Shorr bet enough to put his opponent all in. After a few moments, the call was made and Shorr tabled {K-Diamonds}{Q-?} to his opponent's {8-Clubs}{8-Spades}.

However, the {8-Diamonds} fell on the river as Shorr took a hit to knock him down to 40,000.

Tags: Shannon Shorr