Event 57 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em Day 7 | 2009 World Series of Poker

07-14-2009 09:05 UTC-12

Welcome Eugene Katchalov

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Eugene Katchalov is the newest resident of the main featured table, taking over the vacant seven seat. The New Yorker is having a great Series, working on his sixth cash this year which is one better than his 2008 Series. All told, Katchalov has more than $3,000,000 in career tournament earnings, and 13 WSOP cashes. He's still looking for bracelet #1, and he's got a shot at wining the Big One if he can get through this featured table.

Tags: Eugene Katchalov

07-14-2009 09:09 UTC-12

Montagna Corrado Doubles Through Marc McLaughlin

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Montagna Corrado open-shoved for 740,000 from the cutoff and Marc McLaughlin moved all in behind him from the hijack seat. The rest of the table folded and the cards went on their backs.

Corrado {9-Hearts}

McLaughlin {A-Hearts}

Corrado won the coinflip, the board running out {6-Spades}

to double him up to 1,560,000. McLaughlin was left with 1,360,000.

07-14-2009 09:14 UTC-12

Schneider Surge Arrested By Kopp

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Tom Schneider studies Billy Kopp before making the call

Billy Kopp opened with a raise to 125,000, Tom Schneider called from the button, and Blair Rodman also called from the big blind.

The flop came {A-Spades}

. Rodman checked, Kopp bet 225,000, Schneider called, and Rodman folded. The turn was the {J-Clubs}

. Kopp bet 375,000 this time, and Schneider called.

The river brought the {8-Hearts}

. Kopp bet 980,000, and Schneider tanked for a few minutes before finally making the call. Kopp turned over {K-Hearts}

for the Broadway straight, and Schneider mucked.

Kopp moves up to 14.34 million after that one, while Schneider slips to 1.96 million.

Tags: Billy Kopp Tom Schneider

07-14-2009 09:14 UTC-12

Tough Break for Phillips

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Dennis Phillips missed a golden opportunity.

A confusing hand on Blue 6 has resulted in some genuinely bad luck for Dennis Phillips. After two players folded, Phillips limped into the pot. It was then that the players noticed that the first two players had acted out of turn, mistakenly assuming that the big blind was in the 9-seat rather than the 8-seat. The action was backed up to allow the 9-seat to fold. Phillips' limp then also stood.

Action proceeded past Phillips with folds all the way to Jeff Duvall, who raised his button to 150,000. That raise folded both blinds. Duvall, not realizing that Phillips had limped into the pot, then mucked his hand with action still pending on Phillips.

Phillips couldn't believe his bad luck. Why bad luck, you ask? Only because he had been dealt {A-Hearts}

! He opened his hand and insisted that he be awarded the whole pot, including the 150,000 raise made by Duvall.

The tournament had to be put on a five-minute pause to summon tournament director Jack Effel (who was out of the room) so that Effel could make a decision whether Duvall should have to forfeit all 150,000 chips or only the 50,000 that matched Phillips' original call. After Effel arrived and listened to a report of the action, he told Duvall that, by TDA Rules, if a dealer had killed Duvall's inadvertently, Duvall would be entitled to 100,000 chips back. But because Duvall had mucked his own hand, he had to forfeit all the chips in the pot if Phillips wanted to call. Phillips obviously did.

Tags: Dennis Phillips Jeff Duvall

07-14-2009 09:17 UTC-12

Buchman With a Big Check-Raise

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Jason Brice raised to 135,000 before Andrew Lichtenberger called on the button. Eric Buchman also called from the big blind.

The flop came down {10-Spades}

. Buchman checked and Brice fired 210,000. Lichtenberger folded and then Buchman raised to 1.21 million. Brice released his hand and Buchman took the pot.

Tags: Andrew Lichtenberger Eric Buchman Jason Brice

07-14-2009 09:21 UTC-12

Bach Puts the Pressure On

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Marco Mattes opened for 130,000, Chris Bach called from the cutoff and Tommy Vedes called from the small blind.

The flop came down {7-Diamonds}

. Vedes checked, Mattes made a 285,000 continuation bet, and Bach came over the top for 570,000. Vedes folded and after a bit of a think, Mattes mucked as well.

Bach is back up to 2,050,000 while Mattes slipped to 1.6 million.

07-14-2009 09:22 UTC-12

Maimone Anxious With Quads

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Nick Maimone was hoping he had hit the jackpot when he made quad fours on a potential action board, but all he got was a fold. Maimone opened in late position for 125,000 preflop and was called by Ben Lamb from the button. Maimone fired another 200,000 on a flop of {9-Diamonds}

.

When Lamb called that bet and the turn put three diamonds and a pair on board with the {4-Diamonds}

, Maimone checked. Lamb bet 500,000, then folded to Maimone's minimum-raise to 1 million. Maimone disappointedly flashed {4-Clubs}

in the hole for quad fours.

Tags: Ben Lamb Nick Maimone

07-14-2009 09:27 UTC-12

Big Blind Not-So-Special

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During that recent delay caused by the Dennis Phillips-Jeff Duvall hand, Tom Schneider took the opportunity to make a quick restroom run. As he hustled back, his wife, Julie, hastened him further, telling him his big blind was coming up. However, when he made it to the table, his BB was still a hand away.

When Schneider's big blind did come, Marc Etienne McLaughlin had raised from middle position to 120,000 and Kevin Schaffel had called from the button. Schneider called, too, and the flop came {A-Spades}

. All checked. The turn was the {3-Hearts}

. Schneider and McLaughlin checked, Schaffel bet 300,000, Schneider called, and McLaughlin folded.

The river was the {2-Hearts}

, and both players checked. Schneider showed {Q-Spades}

, but was outkicked by Schaffel's {K-Spades}

.

"Glad I made it back for my big blind," said Schneider with a wry grin.

Schneider slips to 1.47 million, while Schaffel moves up to 4.9 million.

Tags: Kevin Schaffel Tom Schneider

07-14-2009 09:27 UTC-12

Mattes Gets Lacay to Surrender

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With the action folded around to him in the small blind, Ludovic Lacay made it 200,000 to go and Marco Mattes called from the big blind.

Lacay led out for 275,000 on the {J-Hearts}

flop. Mattes made the call. The turn came the {7-Clubs}

and Lacay slowed down and checked. Mattes came in with a 350,000 bet and Lacay gave it up.

After the hand, Mattes was up to 2.2 million while Lacay dipped to 6.6 million.

07-14-2009 09:28 UTC-12

Kopp Turns the Nuts

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Billy Kopp opened for 125,000 from the hijack and got three callers in Charlie Elias, Blair Rodman and Luis Nargentino.

The flop came down {Q-Diamonds}

and the action was checked around. The turn was the {J-Diamonds}