We're now on the money bubble and all tables have been instructed to go hand-for-hand. One unlucky soul will go home with nothing as the other 40 players will celebrate being $2,985 wealthier.
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #21: $1,500 Seven Card Stud
Day: 2
Event Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
408
Level
25
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 408
Filter
(1)
Names shall be withheld to protect, well, everyone, but this very unlikely exchange occurred just now while hand-for-hand play was in progress.
A brand new dealer arrived at the table.
Player 1, to the dealer: "You smell bad."
Player 2, to Player 1: "Dude, you can't talk to her like that."
Player 1, standing up: "Oh really?"
Player 2, also standing up: "I deal with ***holes like you at the Commerce all the time."
Thankfully this little fracas was broken up before any further nastiness could occur.
What did everyone have for dinner earlier? Wow.
...and in Seven Card Stud that can take a while! The average hand takes a lot longer to deal than a typical Hold'em game, with more cards to deal out and five rounds of betting action.
The bubble is taking a few minutes to burst but we've got our eyes on a couple of short stackers who are hanging on for dear life!
We're not sure how it came to this, but Alexander Dovzhenko was all in for an ante. Yup, just one 200 ante.
There were, naturally, several players in the hand, but Scott Epstein pushed all of them off by betting every street. Christine Pietsch was the last to fold, making it as far as sixth street before she gave it up. The cards were flipped - and Dovzhenko's two pair was good enough to roughly septuple up to 1,400.
Dovzhenko: 
/ 
Pietsch: (XXX) / 
- fold
Epstein: 
/ 
Level: 14
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 0
The bubble has burst and we are now in the money! The unfortunate bubble boy is none other than John Womack who was all in for his last chips on sixth street against Alex Kravchenko.
Womack: () / 
Kravchenko: (
) / 
Womack's jacks didn't improve as Kravchenko took it down with a set of kings. Womack leaves empty-handed as the remaining 40 players are thrilled to be in the money, especially Alexander Dovzhenko who was down to his last ante!
Now inside the money, Alexander Dovzhenko was all in with a single ante again and was up against a pair of jacks - but somehow he managed to make trip nines to septuple up again.
He promptly resumed folding.
George Trigeorgis: (XXX / 
Pat Pezzin: 
/ 
David Johnson: (XX) /
We didn't catch the action on third street, but we suspect that several bets made their way into the pot. When we caught up with the hand on fourth, David Johnson and George Trigeorgis (so good they name him thrice!) both checked to Team PokerStars Pro Pat Pezzin. They both called Pezzin's bet.
The action went check-check to Pezzin on fifth street as well, and once more Pezzin bet and the other two called to see a sixth card.
Trigeorgis now had a pair of kings showing and bet out, only for Pezzin to raise. Johnson folded but Trigeorgis called and they were dealt their last down cards.
Trigeorgis checked in the dark and then tanked up for a while when Pezzin bet. Eventually he called, but then swiftly mucked when the Canadian Team Pro turned over a full house.
Trigeorgis - 30,000
Johnson - 55,000
Pezzin - chip leader once again on 138,000
Darren Shebell has just run into the rolled-up deuces of Steven Albini in a huge pot. Shebell led the betting on fourth, before fifth street was checked by both players. Albini took the lead on sixth and seventh with Shebell making the call.
Shebell: (XX) / 
/ (X)
Albini: () / 
/
Albini moves up to 35,000 with Shebell down to 83,000.
Edward Nilosek has joined the queue at the cashier after his last chips were in on third street in a three-way pot.
Nilosek could only make a pair of deuces as James Laird took it down with tens and eights.
