Event #35: $10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 2 Started
Event #35: $10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 2 Started
Welcome back to the Rio and the 2010 World Series of Poker for Day 2 of Event #35 $10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship!
64 players are returning for Day 2 action with all off them just win away from being in the money and a guaranteed $17,987 richer. However it will be the $625,682 first prize, coveted gold bracelet and title of Heads Up Champion that will be the only goal in mind.
Josh Arieh, Terrence Chan, Scott Clements, Antonio Esfandiari, Ashton Griffin, Phillip Gordon, Bertrand Grospellier, Steve Gross, Phil Ivey, Faraz Jaka, Gabe Kaplin, Alexander Kostritsyn, Alexander Kravchenko, Jonathan Little, Chris Moorman, Brock Parker, Vivek Rajkumar, Vanessa Rousso, David Williams and Sorel Mizzi are a few of the big names remaining.
Make sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for continuous live updates from 3:00 pm PST of every rivered flush, turned straight and flopped set from Event #35!
Jason Somerville vs. Tobias Reinkenmeier
Julian Herold vs. Craig Bergeron
Martin Kabrhel vs. Fabrizio Baldassari
Alexander Benovski vs. Darren Woods
Gavin Smith vs. Gabe Kaplan
Josh Arieh vs. Maxim Lykov
Ashton Griffin vs. Anton Kozlovskiy
Phil Ivey vs. Kido Pham
Andrew Feldman vs. Nicholas Rampone
Michael Leah vs. Faraz Jaka
Steven Gross vs. Amritraj Singh
Brock Parker vs. Phil Gordon
Brian Rast vs. Aaron Been
Antonio Esfandiari vs. Owen Crowe
Ayaz Mahmood vs. James Collopy
Alioscia Oliva vs. Kevin Saul
Sorel Mizzi vs. Matthew Waxman
Chris Moorman vs. Vladimir Schmelev
Jeremy Coon vs. Alexander Kostritsyn
Keith Block vs. Scott Baumstein
Scott Clements vs. Robbie Verspui
Bertrand Grospellier vs. Andrew Rosskamm
Ryan Fee vs. Timothy Adams
Jordan Morgan vs. Ludovic Lacay
Ernst Schmejkal vs. Juan Ramirez
David Williams vs. Christopher Moore
Jonathan Little vs. Alexander Kravchenko
Sam Stein vs. Emil Patel
Vanessa Rousso vs. Terrence Chan
Dee Tiller vs. Melanie Weisner
Eric Cloutier vs. Vivek Rajkumar
Johan Sundell vs. Michael Glasser
Phil Ivey is making a deep run in Day 3 of the PLO/PLH event, so he and his third-round opponent Kido Pham agreed to bump their heads-up match forward to an earlier time. They played it out at 1:00 p.m. here in the Amazon Room, and the battle was a quick one.
Pham eliminated Ivey in less than ten minutes, and he's the first one through to the Round of 32.
Level: 1
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 0
Today we will be playing three rounds of heads up matches.
There will be one at 3:00 pm with the winner sneaking into the money, before another is played at 7:00 pm. The final one of the day will be at 11:00 pm to leave just eight players remaining for final day action tomorrow.
With play now underway, there are some matches that only have one opponent seated. Missing from the field are Vivek Rajkumar (though he's walking to his seat as we speak now), Johan Sundell, and Andrew Feldman. Their opponents have only the dealers to talk to for now.
Although they are waiting patiently for their match to get started, the clock continues to tick away with WSOP rules stipulating that every minute the seated player will receive a big blind, and then a small blind and so forth until their opponent arrives.
Scott Clements opened the button for a min-raise of 2,000 with Robbie Verspui making the call to see a flop fall.
Both players checked it through to see the land on the turn and Verspui fired out 3,000.
Clements made the call as the landed on the river and both players checked.
Verspui tabled his as Clements picked up his cards, looked at them, then back at the board, before flashing his and mucking his hand.
The match however is still evenly poised with Verspui holding the slightest edge.
On a flop of , Juan Ramirez followed up his preflop raise with a continuation bet. Ernst Schmejkal check-raised, Ramirez raised back, and Schmejkal moved all in with the slightly bigger stack.
Ramirez called with , still on the draw, and Schmejkal was looking to fade the outs and have his set of sevens hold up. The turn and river were a blank apiece for Ramirez, and he has been eliminated after missing that big draw.
Ernst Schmejkal is in the money and on into the fourth round.
Vladimir Schmelev opened from the button to 3,000 and Chris Moorman made the call to see a flop fall.
Moorman checked and Schmelev fired out 4,000 only to have Moorman check-raise to 11,000. Schmelev made the call before the turn landed the and Moorman fired out 17,200.
Schmelev - being covered - moved all in and was quickly called by Moorman.
Moorman:
Schmelev:
With Schmelev turning a higher set, he was a near certainty to double through and take a commanding lead in his match against the British online star.
Unfortunately there aren't too many certainties in poker as the dealer burned and turned the final three - the - to send Schmelev crashing to the rail as Moorman proved victorious and into the final thirty-two with a guaranteed $17,987 in his pocket.