Event #11: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2010 World Series of Poker

06-04-2010 23:08 UTC-7

Chip Counts From Around The Pavilion

Mickey Doft

Player	Chips	Progress
Tom Dwan	65,000 -5,000	-5,000
Neil Channing	48,000 -16,000	-16,000
Shaun Deeb	45,000 9,000	9,000

Brett Jungblut	36,000 -2,000	-2,000

Jason Young	35,000 18,000	18,000

Darryll Fish	30,000

Liv Boeree	26,000 1,000	1,000

Jerry Yang	24,000

Bertrand Grospellier	22,000 2,000	2,000

Thor Hansen	22,000 17,500	17,500
Berry Johnston	14,000 9,500	9,500

Steve Zolotow	12,000 6,800	6,800

Andrew Lichtenberger	11,000 2,400	2,400

Alex Bolotin	10,000 5,500	5,500

Amnon Filippi	5,000 500	500

Emanuel Failla	4,000 -500	-500
Brett Linbo	Busted
Annette Obrestad	Busted

Anthony Yeh	Busted

06-04-2010 23:24 UTC-7

The Phantom Queen of Diamonds

[user101598]

Laying between Tables 13 and 18 was a card face up; the {Q-Diamonds} .

A player on Table 13 picked it up and gave it to a player on Table 18 saying, "It's not ours."

The dealer on Table 13 counted both decks and they both contained 52 cards. A floorperson was called over and was outraged.

"Are you kidding me?!?" he snapped. "We've gotta find where this came from."

The hunt is on for the home of the phantom {Q-Diamonds} , members of the floor are counting numerous decks in the area.

06-04-2010 23:42 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
James Lee	110,000
Erick Lindgren	40,000 8,000	8,000

Mark Kroon	25,000 20,500	20,500
Tony Dunst	25,000 20,500	20,500

Eugene Todd	16,000 -12,000	-12,000

Bolotin of Lightning

[user101598]

Alex Bolotin recently doubled through an opponent at his table after getting it all-in peflop.

Bolotin held {Q-Clubs} {J-Hearts} against an opponent's {5-Spades} {5-Diamonds} and the board ran {9-Clubs} {7-Diamonds} {9-Spades} {Q-Diamonds} {K-Diamonds} , doubling him to 28,000 chips.

Tags: Alex Bolotin

06-04-2010 23:49 UTC-7

Boeree Tanks...Calls...Sweats...Chops....

Mickey Doft

An early-position player raised to 1,800 and Liv Boeree popped it to 5,000 on the button. The blinds folded and the original raiser made the call.

The flop came down {K-Diamonds} {3-Spades} {3-Clubs} and Boeree's opponent shoved. After confirming the amount, 13,300, Boeree tanked for about 90 seconds and opted to make the call. She showed {A-Spades} {Q-Spades} and her opponent slowly revealed... {A-Clubs} {Q-Clubs} .

The {10-Clubs} turn was a sweat for Boeree, but the river {10-Spades} chopped the pot.

Liv has about 20,000.

Tags: Liv Boeree

Level: 10

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

06-04-2010 23:53 UTC-7

Berry Busto

Mickey Doft

Berry Johnston got the last of chips in on a {5-Diamonds} {4-Clubs} {K-Diamonds} board with {8-Spades} {8-Diamonds} , but ran into an opponent's {K-Spades} {Q-Diamonds} .

The {5-Clubs} turn and {Q-Clubs} river were no help to Johnston, out late on Day 1.

Tags: Berry Johnston

06-04-2010 23:58 UTC-7

False Accusations FTW

[user101598]

We were walking through the Pavilion Room when we heard a commotion coming from Table 12.

Apparently a player in Seat 5 accused Neil Channing of working with another English player at the table.

"Just because I haven't had a hand in an hour and this man is from my a country - a country filled with 57 million people - you think I'm working on a team with him???" Channing shot at him.

A floorperson listened to both sides of the argument before completely dismissing the accusation and telling the table to, "Play nice."

Mind you that the same player that made this accusation earlier complained about folding after the dealer fanned a flop:

(Dealer flops the cards.)
Player: F***
Dealer: You can't do that sir.
Player: What? Say f***?
Dealer: Well yeah, but you can't react to the flop like that. You're giving away information.
(Player doesn't understand and shrugs.)

Tags: Neil Channing

06-05-2010 00:09 UTC-7

ElkY Eliminates Player

[user101598]

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier recently eliminated a player from his table.

We unfortunately missed all the details, but when we arrived at the table Grospellier had {K-} {Q-} sitting in front of him and {A-} {6-} was in front of the empty seat. There were two queens on the board, and ElkY was stacking his newfound chips.