Event #20: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day 1 Completed
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #20: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
885
Level
26
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
0
Official Day 1 Chip Counts (full)
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
129,600 | |
|
116,100 | |
|
115,400 | |
|
106,300 | |
|
104,400 | |
|
94,100 | |
|
91,900 | |
|
88,100 | |
|
83,000 | |
|
75,100 | |
|
70,900 | |
|
70,400 | |
|
|
68,900 | |
|
63,300 | |
|
62,800 | |
|
|
62,100 | |
|
|
59,900 | |
|
|
59,400 | |
|
|
57,600 | |
|
57,000 | |
|
57,000 | |
|
55,800 | |
|
54,000 | |
|
53,900 | |
|
52,100 |
End of Day 1
The day started with 885 players packed into the Pavilion Room with dreams of a World Series of Poker bracelet and hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money.
Now, only 95 stand.
Jonathan Little tops our chip count with 129,600 chips followed by Christian Harder (116,100 chips), Tex Barch (115,400 chips), Matt Zoorob (106,000 chips) and Nenad Medic (104,400 chips). Little's day was seemingly less turbulent than others while Medic and Harder exploded during Levels 9 and 10.
November Niner James Akenhead was on a roller coaster the whole day, but finished strong with 52,100 chips.
The biggest story of the day though is that the two players that went heads up in this event last year are still alive.
Jason Mercier (25,500 chips) and Steve "pikappraider" Burkholder (32,400 chips) will return for Day 2 to try and make a repeat run at the final table. They are both relatively short, but their track records clearly precede them.
Play resumes tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. PST and we are scheduled to play down to a final table. We hope you join us for Day 2 right here at PokerNews.com!
Photos Day 1
Burkholder Slips
Action folded to Steve "pikappraider" Burkholder on the button who raised to 2,000. Christian "charder30" Harder was his only caller out of the big blind.
The two checked the 
flop and Harder led for 3,100 after the 
turned. Burkholder called.
The river was the 
and again Harder led - this time for 4,200. Burkholder cut out enough chips to call and riffled them for a bit before finally doing so.
"Aces," Harder said.
Burkholder mucked and Harder took down yet another pot.
Easy for Harder
Christian Harder has just won a meaty pot, eliminating a player with 
versus 
, all in on a 
flop. Both turn and river were bricks. The former PCA finalist now has 95,000.
Harder's Huge Hand
Christian "charder30" Harder opened to 2,100 from the cutoff and everyone behind him called.
The flop fell 
and the player in the small blind led for 4,000. Action folded to Harder who thought momentarily before grabbing a stack of chips and raising to over 10,000. The button folded and the small blind dropped a chip on his chips before going into the tank.
Finally after some deliberation he said, "I re-pot."
Harder shrugged, "I re-pot."
The two were all in and the cards were turned over:
Showdown
Harder: 
Opponent: 
Harder's flopped full house was way ahead and actually improved after the 
turned. The dealer wrapped the table before delivering a blank (the ) on the river, sending a huge, 90,000-chip put Harder's way.
His opponent was left with less than 2,000 chips and busted thereafter.
Clubbed to Death
James Akenhead made a standard open from early position, the hijack reraised to 7,000 and the big blind pushed all in. "All in," announced Akenhead sliding his chips across the line.
Despite being encouraged to "gamble", the hijack folded and we reached a showdown, a split pot imminent between 
and 
.
"Sevens," requested Akenhead's foe with a wishful smile. "Clubs," countered Akenhead.
In the end, it was the November Niner's demands who were met, the board coming 
to deliver him both the flush and the pot.
After a roller coaster of a last level or two, Akenhead is now back up above the 50,000 mark.
You Should Know Me By Now
With the board reading 
, Charles Alexandre Sylvestre led out for 8,000 into a 14,000 chip-pot against Nenad Medic.
"You can't be that sick," Medic darted at Sylvestre.
"Maybe," the Frenchman beamed back.
Medic tanked for a little longer before folding.
"You should know me by now!" Sylvestre blurted tabling 
for just a pair of fives.
Medic could do nothing but laugh even though his stack dropped down to around 80,000 chips. Sylvestre's antics have him trending up, he now sits with 55,000 chips.
Storms & Calm Waters
A kafuffle on one of the tables lured me over like Hellmuth to a TV camera. When I arrived, it quickly emerged that the root of the problem was an exposed card, the river being dealt before Christian Harder had been given the chance to act.
The board at the time read 
, and Richard Grace had led out for 2,500. After the next player made the call, the dealer committed his dastardly deed, but the difficulty with this situation was that only the caller had seen the card.
"We have a right to see the card too," claimed Harder.
"He has an advantage because he knows we don't have that card in our hand," added Grace.
After a back and forth discussion, the tournament director made his decision: "What's going to happen," he ruled, "is that that card will be taken out of play, and that if you [Harder] decide to call, the card will be exposed, as you're only affected if you decide to continue with the hand. The question here is whether you are entitled to see the card at this point in time, and you are not, as there is no purpose to it."
In the end, Harder did indeed make the call, and the was revealed (Yes, an anti-climatic card, I know). No burn card was produced, the dealer instead shuffling the remaining cards (which appeared rather fiddly as it was a depleted deck), and dealing the river card: the .
After the storm on the turn, it was calm waters on the river, the action checked around allowing Grace to pick up the pot with 
.
Grace - 42,000
Harder - 23,500