2010 World Series of Poker

Event #26: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
Day: 1
Event Info

2010 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
$630,031
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$2,863,500
Entries
1,245
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000

Can't Stop Jaka

With the board reading {K-Hearts}{8-Hearts}{K-Spades}, Faraz Jaka led for 900 and his opponent called.

The {2-Clubs} turned and Jaka led for 2,400. His opponent again called.

The {3-Spades} fell on the river and Jaka led for a huge bet; 15,000. His opponent called for a third time but mucked when Jaka tabled {3-Clubs}{3-Hearts} for a rivered full house.

There's no stopping Jaka right now, he's up to 80,000 chips.

Tags: Faraz Jaka

Vedes Loses Some

The board read {Q-Spades}{7-Hearts}{4-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}{2-Hearts} when Tommy Vedes led for 1,550. A player in middle position called and Vedes opened {7-Clubs}{5-Hearts}. His opponent had better though, {10-Diamonds}{10-Spades}, and Vedes lost the pot slipping to 28,500 chips.

Tags: Tommy Vedes

Negreanu Doubles

Daniel Negreanu opened and a player moved all in over the top of him. Negreanu called and the hands were tabled:

Showdown
Negreanu: {9-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}
Opponent: {A-Clubs}{J-Clubs}

The {6-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{9-Clubs} flop all but ended the hand and it was official after the {2-Diamonds} turned. The {7-Spades} river was but a formality and Negreanu doubled to 15,000 chips.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu

Billirakis Straightens Up

The board read {4-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}{6-Clubs}{7-Clubs} when Steve Billirakis led for 1,400. His opponent Matt Hawrilenko called and the dealer burned a card before dealing the {j-Spades} on the river.

Billirakis led again - this time for 3,500. Hawrilenko called and mucked when Billirakis showed {10-Diamonds}{9-Hearts} for a straight.

Hawrilenko slipped to 12,400 chips while Billirakis chipped up to 29,000.

Tags: Matt HawrilenkoSteve BIllirakis

Chip Counts After Dinner

Here are the updated chip counts following dinner break.

Player Chips Progress
84,000 300
61,500 18,500
51,000
50,000 22,500
46,000 19,800
43,500 -14,500
42,000 200
36,000 -1,000
35,000 28,500
32,000 12,500
31,000 17,800
31,000 7,000
30,000 19,000
29,000 18,500
28,000 4,500
28,000 -5,000
27,300 9,800
26,000 -3,500
26,000 1,500
24,200 5,500
24,000
23,000 9,200
23,000 10,000
20,100 -4,400
19,000 -12,700

Read full

Level: 7

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

Dinner Time

How many Main Events have you won?
How many Main Events have you won?

The remaining 414 players are now heading on their 90-minute dinner break with Jerry Yang leading the charge with 83,700 in chips.

See you back here at 8:20 pm PST.

Prizepool Announced!

The 1,245 players that took the felt have formed a prizepool of $2,863,500 with 126 players being guaranteed $4,782 with the final table payouts as follows.

1st - $630,031
2nd - $391,068
3rd - $248,265
4th - $163,649
5th - $110,903
6th - $77,228

Seif Cut Down By Yang

Mark Seif opened to 800 only to have Jerry Yang three-ball him to 3,300.

Seif made the call before jamming his last 1,500 when the {K-Spades}{Q-Diamonds}{A-Spades} flop fell down with Yang snap-calling.

Seif: {10-Clubs}{10-Diamonds}
Yang: {A-Hearts}{K-Diamonds}

The turn and river landed the {Q-Hearts} and {8-Diamonds} to see Seif hit the rail as Yang soars to over 83,000 in chips.

Tags: Mark SeifJerry Yang

RaSZi Rivered

Walking past Lex 'RaSZi' Veldhuis' table we noticed that his chair was vacant.

Veldhuis held Kings and Jeremy Ausmus ace-king with all the money going in preflop.

Unfortunately for Veldhuis, the river would fall an ace to send him to the rail.

Tags: Lex Veldhuis