2010 World Series of Poker

Event #16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed
Day: 2
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Event Info

2010 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♦k♣
Prize
$482,774
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$2,245,050
Entries
1,663
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000
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Shuffle Up and Double Up

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The cards are in the air and Robert Williamson doubles up on the first hand of the day. Williamson opens the pot from the cutoff by announcing all in. Anthony Licastro makes the call from the small blind and the two players are heads up.

Showdown:
Williamson: {5-Hearts}{6-Hearts}
Licastro: {A-Clubs}{3-Diamonds}

"I had nice suited connectors in an unopened pot. I couldn't help it," said Williamson. The board came {q-Diamonds}{j-Diamonds}{8-Hearts}{5-Clubs}{j-Hearts}, pairing Williamson's 5 and doubling him to around 23,000. Licastro still has a sizable stack of 78,000 in front of him.

"God I hope I double up again on my second hand," said Williamson. "Would that be greedy?" His opponents nodded. Yes Robert, it would be greedy.

Tags: Anthony LicastroRobert Williamson

Fireworks on Red 362 Already

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[user75032]

It didn't take long for Red 362 to get going. Anthony Licastro and Jordan Morgan got all of the chips into the middle. Morgan tabled {a-Hearts} {a-Clubs}, which held up on a board of {3-Clubs} {2-Clubs} {j-Hearts} {7-Hearts} {4-Spades} to give Morgan the double-up to start the day. Licastro was a Top 10 stack when play started, but after that hand he's been knocked down to about 70,000 while Morgan is up to about 100,000.

In a separate hand, Ted Lawson became one of the first players eliminated today.

Tags: Anthony LicastroJordan Morgan

Interesting Tables

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[user75032]

Two tables in the center of the room have caught our attention. At Red 362 are Jordan Morgan, Ted Lawson and Robert Williamson III. At the very next table, Red 363, Avery Cardoza, Eric Buchman and John-Paul Kelly all find themselves seated together.

Level: 11

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 100

Six Seats at the Table Means Lots of Action

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[user75032]

The chip bags are out on the tables in the Red Section of the Amazon Room today as WSOP staff prepare for Day 2 of Event #16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six-Handed.

Last year 1,459 players entered this event. In 2010 there was a 15% uptick, as 1,663 paid the $1,500 buy-in yesterday to play the aggressive brand of poker that's required in a six-handed format. It didn't surprise anyone that the money bubble was burst before Day 1 ended. These six-handed tournaments tend to play much faster than their full-ring counterparts.

When we left off at about 1am local time last night, 146 players remained. They were led by Roger Teska with 221,000, nearly 70,000 more chips than his closest opponent. With blinds starting the day at 600 and 1,200, that's a significant advantage.

It's tough to predict these things in a six-handed tournament, but we probably won't reach the final table of six players tonight. Our best guess is that 10-12 players will remain when the chip bags come out again at 2:30am.

Whether we reach the final table or not, PokerNews will be there all the way. Stay tuned.

Day 2 Table and Seat Draw

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donpeters

Table 344
Seat 1: Manish Patel - 67900
Seat 2: Andre Akkari - 29000
Seat 3: Lance Harris - 12400
Seat 4: Justin Filtz - 18400
Seat 5: Tristan Wade - 64700
Seat 6: Simon Charette - 41800

Table 346
Seat 1: Michael Meyers - 79700
Seat 2: David Sands - 117800
Seat 3: Paul Whiting - 17100
Seat 4: Aaron Steury - 63700
Seat 5: Wesley Clark - 36500
Seat 6: Steven Tabb - 83600

Table 347
Seat 1: Tyler Chung - 25100
Seat 2: Al Barbieri - 70000
Seat 3: Milad Jorshari - 34800
Seat 4: Russell Thomas - 35100
Seat 5: Jesse Martin - 41800
Seat 6: David Pederson - 20100

Table 348
Seat 1: Chris Viox - 35900
Seat 2: Joseph Kustosz - 12900
Seat 3: Ralph Ratchford - 34400
Seat 4: Bryan Micon - 65500
Seat 5: James Goldstein - 9800
Seat 6: Anthony Lessel - 36400

Table 349
Seat 1: Basile Blancpain - 30900
Seat 2: Ryan Snickles - 79000
Seat 3: Steven Rice - 33400
Seat 4: Aaron Mermelstein - 46200
Seat 5: Steven Fenic - 85700
Seat 6: Tyler Netter-Wainwright - 56000

Table 351
Seat 1: Jerry Yang - 38300
Seat 2: Mark Seif - 70300
Seat 3: Michael Darling - 27500
Seat 4: Nicholas Petrangelo - 25000
Seat 5: Dominik Kulicki - 16400
Seat 6: --empty--

Table 352
Seat 1: Judson Dymond - 15400
Seat 2: Samuel Gerber - 68800
Seat 3: Steven Kelly - 56300
Seat 4: Anthony Spinella - 26700
Seat 5: Whisenant Brook - 27700
Seat 6: --empty--

Table 353
Seat 1: Daniel Johnson - 12100
Seat 2: Nathan Huvelle - 34400
Seat 3: Ronald Lee - 61500
Seat 4: Andre Dyonisio - 30700
Seat 5: Michael Downey - 86400
Seat 6: Sanghyon Cheong - 126300

Table 354
Seat 1: Francois Billard - 117000
Seat 2: Lee Childs - 49000
Seat 3: William Lin - 59200
Seat 4: Chris Bjorin - 12600
Seat 5: Dorlan Schick - 139600
Seat 6: --empty--

Table 356
Seat 1: Robert Lipkin - 45400
Seat 2: David Olson - 81700
Seat 3: Matt Zoorob - 72200
Seat 4: Eduard Scharf - 42000
Seat 5: Angus Lynn - 12600
Seat 6: Neil Tyler - 21600

Table 357
Seat 1: Arun Chugani - 46500
Seat 2: Rio Gralnick - 24800
Seat 3: Julien Nuijten - 42200
Seat 4: Brian Kennish - 24600
Seat 5: David Diaz - 98000
Seat 6: Benjamin Roberts - 38400

Table 358
Seat 1: Roger Teska - 221000
Seat 2: Chad Thomsen - 19800
Seat 3: Darren Wong - 21300
Seat 4: Dustin Bailey - 40300
Seat 5: Kevin Boudreau - 48000
Seat 6: Hugo Perez - 94400

Table 359
Seat 1: Jan Skampa - 76000
Seat 2: Thong Tran - 59400
Seat 3: Par Alexande - 47000
Seat 4: Derek Christensen - 20400
Seat 5: Vladimir Kochelaevskiy - 59100
Seat 6: Chris Lindh - 13600

Table 361
Seat 1: Stephen Moss - 63200
Seat 2: Ray Henson - 39500
Seat 3: Vincent Vanderfluit - 59600
Seat 4: Simon Nguyen - 60100
Seat 5: Kenneth Terrell - 33700
Seat 6: Ryan Thurlow - 35200

Table 362
Seat 1: Anthony Licastro - 119000
Seat 2: Jordan Morgan - 47700
Seat 3: Jonathan Duhamel - 87200
Seat 4: Ted Lawson - 13000
Seat 5: Robert Williamson - 10700
Seat 6: --empty--

Table 363
Seat 1: Avery Cardoza - 22700
Seat 2: Eric Buchman - 58200
Seat 3: John-Paul Kelly - 92900
Seat 4: Mikhail Lakhitov - 56600
Seat 5: Jamie McCarrel - 34400
Seat 6: Evgeniy Zaytsev - 43100

Table 364
Seat 1: Matthew Mercurio - 103500
Seat 2: Jeffrey Chu - 23300
Seat 3: Jorge Arias - 77800
Seat 4: Ronald Grauer - 35500
Seat 5: Feming Chan - 39400
Seat 6: Jamal Clark - 14800

Table 366
Seat 1: Chad Layne - 39200
Seat 2: Timothy Adams - 138900
Seat 3: Kevin Haw - 26500
Seat 4: Matthew Hawrilenko - 53100
Seat 5: Richard Robinson - 33800
Seat 6: Steven Schartner - 24400

Table 367
Seat 1: Jeffrey Palarino - 18800
Seat 2: Jim Herndon - 10300
Seat 3: Gabriele Lepore - 101000
Seat 4: Carter Phillips - 64400
Seat 5: Matthew Schulte - 29000
Seat 6: Cort Kibler-Melby - 75300

Table 368
Seat 1: Christopher Wafula - 37500
Seat 2: Blake Slade - 106700
Seat 3: Rui Cao - 43300
Seat 4: Darren Elias - 80500
Seat 5: James Guinther - 30200
Seat 6: Dennis Marinack - 20000

Table 369
Seat 1: --empty--
Seat 2: Scott Barrows - 74600
Seat 3: Francois Balmigere - 81000
Seat 4: Matthew Ezrol - 87600
Seat 5: Nickolas Davies - 91500
Seat 6: Steve DiBari - 15000

Table 370
Seat 1: Tyler Witteman - 27200
Seat 2: Hoyt Corkins - 37300
Seat 3: Craig Bergeron - 86200
Seat 4: Andrew Mullens - 10400
Seat 5: Matthew Waxman - 61000
Seat 6: Michael Kucinski - 66100

Table 371
Seat 1: Don Rubenstein - 7300
Seat 2: Carl Johnson - 34200
Seat 3: Daniel Quinn - 23400
Seat 4: Stuart [Removed:293] - 51300
Seat 5: Kevin Iacofano - 149200
Seat 6: Dash Dudley - 83500

Table 373
Seat 1: Alexander Wilson - 32600
Seat 2: Joonhee Yea - 56100
Seat 3: Eric Bolinder - 77200
Seat 4: Samuel Bernstein - 32600
Seat 5: Steven Mcnally - 24900
Seat 6: Mark Flowers - 112700

Table 374
Seat 1: Bruce Seaquist - 81700
Seat 2: Conrad Monica - 73400
Seat 3: Joseph Stefan - 48900
Seat 4: Jeffrey Levine - 29700
Seat 5: Stefan Rapp - 17000
Seat 6: Mikhael Saakian - 29000

Event #16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed

Day 2 Started

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