2010 World Series of Poker

Event #10: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship
Day: 1
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Event Info

2010 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k♦k♣j♦6♦6♣
Prize
$394,800
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$394,807
Entries
150
Level Info
Level
26
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
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Seat Open!

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There was a question whether anyone would bust before dinner. The answer is yes. Matt Hawrilenko was the first player eliminated. Despite the pain of being first and burning $10,000 in less than four hours, he seemed to take it well. He stopped by Barry Greenstein's table on his way out and joked that he was planning to play a lot of tournaments this summer -- just not to cash in any of them.

"Thanks for making me look good," replied the Bear, who had been as short-stacked as Hawrilenko at one point.

Shortly after Hawrilenko, Erick Lindgren and Cyndy Violette both hit the rail as well.

Tags: Matt HawrilenkoErick LindgrenCyndy Violette

Ted Forrest NOT Eliminated

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If Ted Forrest wins this tournament, he better tip a dealer named Kojo very, very heavily.

We came by Forrest's table as the river was being dealt. Forrest was all in against Keith Sexton. Sexton had apparently already told Forrest that he had three jacks. Forrest told Sexton that he had two pair.

Somehow, as the river cards were being dealt, Kojo the dealer skipped Forrest, delivered a river card to Sexton and dropped the stub onto the burn cards. Forrest then asked where his river card was.

A floor was summoned, who ruled that Sexton should keep the river card that was supposed to have been Forrest's. The stub would be reshuffled along with the burn cards, and then Forrest would receive a new river.

"It would be really sick if that card fills me up," said Forrest. It turned out that Sexton received an 8, a card which did not fill Sexton up.

"It would be even sicker if this card fills me up, said Sexton. His board showed {2-Spades} {2-Hearts} {6-Hearts} {4-Clubs}. He squeezed his river and then looked at Sexton as if to say, "Sorry." He opened {9-Clubs} {9-Spades} {9-Diamonds} in the hole for nines full of deuces. Predictably, Sexton exploded in anger.

"Jesus Christ! I can't even win a pot and then you gotta do that!" He shouted at Kojo that Kojo needed to pay attention to what he was doing. Sexton also was unhappy with the floor ruling.

"I agree with you Keith," said Forrest. "I happened to benefit from it but I think it sucks. But Kojo, I'm going to try to win the tournament now."

"I hate poker for sh*t like this," said Sexton.

"THAT's why you hate poker?" asked David Grey. The table then started discussing how, at least online, there are no dealer errors. That prompted Forrest to state his wish that Full Tilt Poker would use a "real deck" the way PokerStars does.

"How can Dustin Wolfe beat me heads-up playing limit hold'em online every single time? The worst player in the world should win some. I won't even play him online anymore. Live is a different story." Forrest felt that some people have learned how to "time the algorithm" online, or at least have a good feel for it.

That conversation caught the attention of Perry Friedman, sitting one table behind. "Unless you can outsmart quantum randomness, it's impossible to time it," said Friedman. "If you hit the button at the exact same millisecond in a parallel universe, you'd get a different card."

Forrest didn't seem so certain about that, but it's hard to argue Friedman's knowledge of the FTP software. Whatever the story, Forrest is still in the tournament due to Kojo's error. He has 15,800, and a very pissed off Sexton has about 36,000.

Tags: David GreyKeith SextonPerry FriedmanTed Forrest

You Can't Beat Nines?

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Kirk Morrison: (X) (X) / {3-Spades} {2-Hearts} {k-Spades} {3-Hearts} / (X)
Alan Boston: (X) (X) / {q-Hearts} {10-Spades}
Amnon Filippi: (X) {9-} / {9-Spades} {j-Clubs} {5-Clubs} {6-Hearts} / (X)

Kirk Morrison had to bring in and along with Amnon Filippi, called a raise from Alan Boston. Boston checked on fourth street, with Morrison agreeing to go along for the ride, and Boston deciding to fold. On sixth street Filippi check-called a bet from Morrison, and both players checked through the rest of the hand.

When all the cards were distributed Filippi said "one pair," and Morrison mucked. Boston chimed in, saying to Morrison, "You can't beat nines?"

Tags: Alan BostonAmnon FilippiKyle Morrison

Flush Good Enough for Kravchenko

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Alexander Kravchenko: {k-Hearts} {7-Hearts} / {j-Hearts} {a-Hearts} {5-Diamonds} {7-Spades} / {8-Hearts}
Seat 7: (X) (X) / {7-Clubs} {2-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} / (X)

Kravchenko completed, getting a call from the player in Seat 7. Fourth street saw some action come down when Kravchenko bet, his opponent raised, Kravchenko re-raised, and his opponent called.

Kravchenko got called on his bets on fifth and sixth street before raising and getting called on a bet on seventh street.

Kravchenko tabled a flush, which was good enough for the win.

Tags: Alexander Kravchenko

Tough Start for Amaral

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Amaral: (X) (X) / {9-Hearts} {9-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} {k-Diamonds} / (X)
Opponent: (X) (X) / {a-Hearts} {k-Spades} {a-Spades} {7-Hearts} / (X)

We're not quite sure what Chris Amaral did to put the fear of God in his opponent. We got to the table at the river, where Amaral's opponent checked his open aces to Amaral's open nines. Amaral's single bet took down the pot.

"Second pot," Amaral noted as he stacked the chips. He's down to about 20,000.

Tags: Chris Amaral

Kelly's Turn

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Player 1: (X) (X) / {2-Clubs}
Erik Seidel: (X) (X) / {7-Hearts}
Dan Kelly: ({10-Spades} {8-Spades} / {k-Spades} {10-Hearts} {9-Diamonds} {10-Clubs} / {8-Spades}
Tim Phan: (X) (X) / {a-Hearts} {2-Spades} {7-Diamonds} {4-Hearts}

A player brought in and was called by Seidel and Kelly. When action came to Phan, he elected to raise, with Kelly being the only taker. Kelly went ahead and called a bet from Phan on fourth street, but raised a bet, getting a call, on fifth street. Kelly bet on sixth street, and Phan called with action happening the same way on seventh street.

Kelly tabled a full house and is now up to 46,000.

Tags: Dan KellyTim Phan

Level: 4

Blinds: /

Ante:

Ship 'em to Mizrachi

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Michael Mizrachi: (X) (X) / {9-Hearts} {3-Hearts} {3-Spades} {a-Diamonds}
Opponent: (X) (X) / {j-Hearts} {q-Hearts} {2-Clubs} {7-Diamonds}

Michael Mizrachi is picking up some chips, with a good chunk coming in this last hand where he started off calling when his opponent completed on third street. He followed up with another call on fourth street, but later took the lead, getting calls on bets on fifth and sixth street. A bet at the end encouraged his opponent to fold, and Mizrachi pulled in the chips.

Tags: Michael Mizrachi

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