Level: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$2,245,050
Entries
1,663
Level
25
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000
Break Time
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Players are on a break, the last one of the night.
Tabb Doubles in Creative Fashion
Steven Tabb, sitting in the big blind, re-raised all in over the top of an open-raise by Russell Thomas. Thomas called with 
and found himself up against Tabb's 
.
Whoops.
Never fear. This is hold'em, where any two cards can win. Sure enough, the board came 
to pair up Tabb, but not Thomas. Thomas let out an expletive as Tabb's railbirds gave him some good-natured ribbing.
"Well played Tabb! Finally found the 9-5!"
Tabb is up to 234,000. Thomas has slipped back to 410,000.
7-7-7
There is no better spot to go all in in this tournament than preflop. And that's exactly what Russell Thomas and Eric Bolinder did. Thomas showed 
and Bolinder revealed 
for a coin flip.
The flop came 
. Bolinder hit his ace but, as the title revealed, Thomas hit a set of 7's. The turn and river ran dry for Bolinder and he was eliminated in 23rd place. Thomas' stack is now at 590,000.
A look at the players
This is what we see.
Schulte's Draw Not as Good as It Seems
Matthew Schulte flopped what surely must have looked like a monster. Schulte held 
on a flop of 
, giving Schulte two overcards and two big draws. He bet 24,000 into a pot of 60,000, then moved all in after Craig Bergeron raised. Bergeron called with a draw of his own -- . That hand cut Schulte's outs almost in half. He still had plenty of ways to improve, but the board bricked out for him 
and to end his tournament in 22nd place.
Bergeron is up to 580,000.
Hugo Perez, Saved Again
Two players were all in, Hugo Perez held and Ryan Snickles had him dominated with 
. Salvation came for Perez again, but two streets earlier this time.
The flop came 
, pairing Perez's 9. The turn and river brought running 2's giving Perez the full house. He doubles up to 253,000 and Snickles is left with 205,000
Wong the Next to Go
With only 80,000 left in his stack, pocket tens must have looked like a great hand to Dennis Wong. But Feming Chan had been dealt pocket queens and made an easy call of Wong's all in. A board of 
was no relief for Wong's lesser pair. His elimination cleared the way for a consolidation fo the field to its final four tables.
Henson's String is Cut
About a half hour ago, Ray Henson lost a critical pot when his pocket queens couldn't overtake Conrad Monica's pocket kings. That left Henson hoping to flip to re-build a stack. He got his chips in with pocket sixes against 
. A jack on the flop was the last thing Henson wanted to see.
Check the Tabb
"I'm back in it," said Steven Tabb after he doubled up through Russell Thomas. The chips got in before the flop and Tabb's was a favorite over Thomas' .
The 
board confirmed Tabb's double up and he now has 200,000. Despite taking a hit, Thomas still has 400,000 chips, well above the average.