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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #12: $1,500 Limit Hold’em
Day: 1
Event Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Total Entries
625
Level
26
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 625
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Just before players headed out on their dinner break, Lauren Kling knocked out Tom Schneider. He had three-bet preflop and the rest of his chips went in on the flop with 
. He was ahead of Kling's 
, but Kling made a four-flush to send him on a very long dinner break indeed.
Bloggers can be like vultures, and after finding Jordan Rich down to just 450 chips earlier in the day, we wasted several minutes hanging around his table waiting to see if he busted.
Thus it came as a bit of a surprise when we wandered by to see him not only still in, but involved in a three-way pot and betting every street of an 
board. One player dropped out on the turn and the other dropped out on the river, and once Rich had raked in the pot, he was back up to 3,400.
Just moments before the break, we lost Welshman Roberto Romanello. "Were you Ivey-ed?" I inquired, considering my question to be more than an 8:1 shot. "Yeah, I was actually," came the response. (By the way, think 'Gavin and Stacey' when reading Roberto's quotes - or Tom Jones for American viewers).
"I only had 1,100 at the time," he continued, "but flopped a pair, so got it in. He won with fours."
Something tells me Roberto's pair wasn't the biggest, but either way, he's gone, whilst Ivey continues to escalate up the chip counts.
As I scoured the tables, I was temporarily blinded by Phil Ivey's dazzling jacket, but with my hand blocking its beams, I was able to note down the following encounter:
Three-handed to an 
flop, the action checked around to Ivey on the button who led out. Just the small blind called. Both players checked the turn, only for Ivey to bet 300 on the 
river.
His opponent fingered his chips, paused, and eventually made the call. Ivey took the pot with 
.
As a result, Ivey is now up to 7,700.
The player on the button raised and Isaac Haxton called in the big blind to see an 
flop. He checked, his opponent bet, and Haxton called. All good.
So imagine everyone's surprise when, just as the dealer was dropping the on the turn, Haxton cried, "Hold on, I raised!"
The rest of the table assured him that he had only put 150 in, which only constituted a call.
"That good, huh?" asked his opponent, and open-folded. Haxton showed him 
.
From being short stacked earlier on, Ted Forrest is now up there with the notable chip leaders with 9,500, despite his stack being predominantly made up of small denomination chips.
On the other side of the dealer, fellow pro Chris Ferguson is struggling somewhat with 4,200.
The more technically-minded of you will be interested to know that Phil Ivey - regarded by many as the best poker player in the world - chooses what many, presumably other, people regard as the best headphones in the world.
Eschewing the trend for Monster Beats and Bose, Ivey instead has gone for Sony Pro MDR-7506 professional studio headphones to stream what we imagine is soothing whale song or classical opera directly into his brain while he plays. And he's going to need it - he attempted to play three tournaments simultaneously today, and has managed to bust out of two of them.
2009 WSOPE Champion Barry Shulman has been eliminated from today's event. Jeff Shulman, however, is still in, and our reporter observed that Shulman senior passed a banknote to Shulman junior on departure, so likely a lost wager rubbing salt in already open wounds.
Joep van den Bijgaart was down to just 400 chips when we strolled by his table, and just a tiny amount of tableside patience on our part was rewarded when the very next hand, he raised in early position. The gentleman on the button reraised, the blinds folded, van den Bijgaart called all in, and they were on their backs.
"You might have the best hand," said the player on the button, turning over .
"No, I don't think so," said the still cheerful van den Bijgaart, and revealed 
.
Board: a flush-tastic 
Van den Bijgaart doubled up, but is still in some trouble on 1,025.
