Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #38: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$2,519,200
Entries
268
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
0
Wong Wins
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On a board of 
, Danny Wong bet 1,500 into the 2,000 pot and the big blind called. The river was the 
and the big blind checked again to Wong, who bet 4,000. The big blind tanked for a minute, then called.
Wong showed 
for queens full and took his stack up to 39,800.
Heather Sue Mercer Eliminated
With the board reading 
[4g] on the turn, Heather Sue Mercer moved all-in for 13,525, Dani Stern re-shoved behind her for about 28,000 and their third opponent in the big blind folded.
Mercer 
Stern 
The river was the 
and Mercer hit the rail about halfway into Level 2. Stern is the early chip leader with 80,000.
ElkY vs. durrrr
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier bet 3,200 on the turn, the board reading 
and Tom "durrrr" Dwan called from the cutoff. The river was the 
and Grospellier fired again for 7,400. Dwan snap-called.
Grospellier tabled 
and Dwan mucked. "ElkY" is up to 52,000 while "durrrr" is down to 12,500.
Harder Up, Saul Down
We walked up to the turn of a board showing 
and a pot of about 14,000 in the middle of the table.
On that turn, Kevin Saul slowly checked, and Christian Harder considered carefully before checking it back.
The river came the 
, and Saul checked it again. Harder slid out 9,000, and Saul tanked for about three minutes before making a reluctant call. Harder knew his 
was good when he turned it over, and he picks up the pot to move to 47,000.
Saul is down to 12,000 here in the early going.
Annette Gets There
We just caught the tail end of this pot as the board read 
. We were too late to see the early betting action, but there was about 6,000 in the pot when Annette Obrestad bet 3,300 into it. Humberto Brenes was her opponent in the hand, and he made the call to see a showdown.
Obrestad said, "I know. I got there," as she turned up her 
, and Humberto simply said, "Nice hand," (or something that sounded vaguely like that) as he sent his cards muckward.
Obrestad - 29,500
Brenes - 26,000
Images of a Championship
Two Cards To Win
We picked up a three-handed pot as the dealer put a flop of 
on board. David Benefield and Christian Harder checked, and Kevin Saul put out a bet of 1,250 into a pot of about 2,000. Benefield called, and Harder ducked out of the way.
That brought them heads up to the turn , and the action check-checked to the river. Benefield took the betting lead now with a 2,600-chip wager, and Saul called. Benefield instantly slid his cards into the muck, and Saul did the same as the dealer pushed him the pot.
"He has to show," Justin Bonomo astutely noticed. Saul pulled his 
back out of the muck and slapped them face-up on the table, and his two pair earns him a chip increase back to 15,000, half his starting stack. Benefield is down to 27,200.
Durrrr Sent to the Rail
Tom Dwan had just 4,600 chips left when the dealer put the river onto a 
board. Those last few chips went into the pot, and his opponent Jesse Martin instantly called with for the rivered flush.
Dwan mucked and headed straight out of the ropes, and Martin's knockout pot has moved him up to 53,000.
Been Playing Poker
The table folded around to the blinds where the small blind opened with a raise to 700. Aaron Been made it 1,400 from the big blind, and the small blind popped it right back up to 5,100 total. Without missing a beat, Been five-bet with a pot-sized reraise, and that was enough to finally win him the pot.
He flashed the 
as he dragged in the chips.