Level: 8
Blinds: 300/500
Ante: 0
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #12: $1,500 Limit Hold’em
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
625
Level
26
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
Kling Crippled, Doubled, Busted
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Jeff Madsen opened under the gun and Lauren Kling reraised. Back and forth they went until Kling capped. A flop naturally followed.
Flop: 
Madsen checked and Kling bet. Madsen called and they saw a turn.
Turn: 
Madsen checked again and Kling bet again. Madsen called once more, albeit more slowly this time.
River: 
, putting four clubs on the board.
Madsen checked in the dark this time and Kling continued her betting rampage. With a sigh, Madsen called, and he was good. Neither player was holding a club, and Madsen's 
held up. Kling threw away her 
{kh{, and was down to just 400.
Kling doubled through Madsen a few hands later, her 
coming good against Madsen's 
on a 
board, but she couldn't make it last. Next time we strolled by her table, she was gone.
Busted
Eric Baldwin, Maria Ho, JC Tran and Eric "EFro" Froehlich have all recently hit the rail.
Baker Struggling
We haven't heard much from former WPT finalist David Baker today, but that may be because he's been nurturing a short stack through. With just 45 minutes left in the day, he currently has 2,500 and will be in search of a much-needed double through.
35 Minutes & Counting
...Chips, that is.
Stephen Murphy - 39,000 and our current chip leader, as far as we can see
Jameson Painter - 30,000
Barry Greenstein - 12,000
Phil Ivey - 24,000
Mark Gregorich - 5,000
Matt Hawrilenko - 13,000
Chad Brown - 14,000
Brock Parker - 11,000
John Juanda - 21,000
Sorel Mizzi - 32,000
Mikhail Tulchinskiy - 9,000
Terrence Chan - 26,000
Georgios Kapalas - 18,000
Ylon Schwartz - 6,500
Hitting a Brock Wall
Two-time bracelet winner Brock Parker is struggling with 10,000. He raised preflop from middle position and was reraised by the small blind. Parker called. Parker then called bets on the flop of turn of a 
board, before checking down the 
river. Parker mucked upon being shown 
.
All Change for Chan
Terrence Chan has taken three nasty hits in a row, all of them courtesy of Matt Hawrilenko.
Hit #1
Chan raised under the gun and Hawrilenko called in the big blind to see an 
flop. Hawrilenko check-raised, Chan duly bet/called and they proceeded.
Hawrilenko bet out on the 
turn and again on the 
river. Chan called both streets, but mucked to Hawrilenko's 
.
Hit #2
We'd actually wandered off for a while, but it looked as though Hawrilenko had bet out on every street from the small blind and Chan had called every time from the big blind. At the end of it, Hawrilenko flipped for another set and Chan mucked again.
Hit #3
Hawrilenko raised it up from the button and Chan reraised from the small blind. Hawrilenko called, and they saw their third consecutive flop together; it was 
. Chan bet out and Hawrilenko called.
Chan was a little more wary on the turn, merely check-calling this time, and was downright scared by the 
river - he check-folded to another bet from Hawrilenko and dropped to 15,000. Hawrilenko was by now up to 24,000.
Latest Chip Counts
As we enter into the final 15 minutes, some of the notable chip counts are as follows:
David Williams -- 27,500
Dewey Tomko -- 6,500
Sorel Mizzi -- 30,000
Brock Parker -- 12,500
John Juanda -- 14,500
Chad Brown -- 11,000
Matt Hawrilenko -- 24,500
Mark Gregorich -- 2,500
John Myung -- 16,000
Jeff Madsen -- 25,000
Svetlana Gromenkova -- 4,000
Phil Ivey -- 20,000
Jeff Shulman -- 21,000
Barry Greenstein -- 9,000
David Baker -- 13,000
Marco Traniello -- 18,500
Ted Forrest -- 11,000
Boosted Derooted
Justin 'Boosted J' Smith has been eliminated from today's event, desperately short and all in, I believe, on a flop of 
. David Baker removed the second player by betting the king on the turn with 
, only for Smith to take one glance at his opponent's hand and muck his cards. Meanwhile, Baker has made a minor recovery and is now up to around the 12,000 mark.
Ylon & On & On
Sorel Mizzi and Ylon Schwartz capped preflop, and nobody was surprised when Schwartz' remaining 1,200 chips went in on the flop.
On their backs.
Mizzi: 
Schwartz: 
Turn:
River:
The 2008 Main Event finalist doubled to 7,000 to stay in the game.