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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #44: $2,500 Mixed Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$1,166,100
Total Entries
507
Level
26
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 507
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No-Limit
We saw chips being pushed into the pot, so we hustled over to Table 4 to see Pat Pezzin all in for about 20,000 against Andreas Hoivold. The flop showed 
, and Pezzin had 
in front of him. He was in good shape to double up; Toivold's cards showed 
.
Pezzin dodged his opponent's outs as the turn 
and river 
filled out the board. That marks his double up to over 40,000, and he's all smiles as he and Andy Bloch make small talk at the table.
No-Limit
Jim "Mr_BigQueso" Collopy has had an up-and-down day, thriving during the no-limit rounds for the most part, but struggling during fixed-limit play. Just now, however, no-limit wasn't so good to him.
A player was all in against Collopy for 18,200 with 
versus Collopy's 
. The board went 
, and Collopy -- who at one point today was flirting with reaching 100,000 -- slips to 25,000.
No-Limit
On a flop of 
we watched a heads-up battle between Aaron Steury and Liv Boeree. Steury had check-raised Boeree from 3,200 to 8,800 when we walked up. Boeree promptly three-bet it up to abot 25,000, only to see Steury move all in right back over the top.
Boeree snap-mucked, and she's left with just under 12,000 now.
The last one-hour level of the night begins, and with it the last 30 minutes of no-limit hold'em. Some players -- especially a few of the shorter-stacks -- welcome one last shot at no-limit before play concludes as an opportunity to build back up quickly before night's end.
Indeed, a few minutes before the last level concluded, Jeffrey King, looking down at his below-average stack of 12,000, was heard to say "I would like no-limit right now." A tablemate nodded in agreement, and joked that it had crossed his mind to play the last hands of the level more slowly so as to get to NL without having to play as many limit hands. There was a lengthy debate at another table earlier this evening when a short-stacked player did, in fact, play slowly at the end of a limit round so as to avoid having to pay the bigger blinds.
It has been interesting all day to hear players discussing their relative preference for limit or no-limit. By far, it seems, the greater percentage of our players prefer and are more comfortable with no-limit than limit.
Level: 10
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 0
Limit
With the board showing 
and several bets already in the middle, a player in middle position bet, Team PokerStars Pro Alexandre Gomes of Brazil raised, and his opponent called with his remaining chips.
Gomes showed 
for an open-ender, but already had the best hand against his opponent's 
. The river was the 
, and another player hit the rail, murmuring that oft-heard refrain in poker room's: "I just couldn't get a hand."
Gomes, meanwhile, gets himself other hand, and moves to 62,000.
Limit
Gavin Smith raised from middle position, and the big blind defended to see a flop.
It came 
, and the big blind check-raised to two bets. Smith bet-raised to three bets, and the big blind flatted. They both checked through the 
turn and river.
"Jack-high," the big blind said. Smith showed up his own miss, , but his nothing was better than his opponents. That pot pushes Smith up just a little, sitting now with 39,000.
Limit
Gavin Smith opened with a raise from under the gun, Steven Burkholder three-bet from the cutoff, then the player in the small blind four-bet. Smith and Burkholder both called.
The flop came 
. The SB bet, Smith called, Burkholder raised, and the other two called. The turn was the . It checked to Burkholder who bet, and both of his opponents called.
The river was the . It checked to Burkholder who bet again, the small blind called, and Smith got out. Burkholder showed , but was beaten by his opponent's 
.
Burkholder is now at 18,000.
No-Limit
In the last hand of the no-limit round, Praz Bansi opened for 2,000, and Grant Hinkle again shoved all-in, this time for 13,700. Bansi called, showing to Hinkle's 
.
The flop came 
, putting Bansi in the lead. But the turn was the 
, giving Hinkle a full house. The river was the 
, and Bansi is now down to just 6,800. Hinkle, meanwhile, chips up to 29,000.
