2010 World Series of Poker

Event #51: $3,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 2
Event Info

2010 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
qj
Prize
$559,371
Event Info
Buy-in
$3,000
Prize Pool
$2,663,400
Entries
965
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Hamby Still Gumming Up the Works

Jared Hamby is the fly in the ointment at James Akenhead's and David Singer's table. Hamby called a bet (we didn't see the amount) from Singer on a board of {q-Clubs}{5-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}{a-Spades}. When the river came {2-Diamonds}, Singer slowed down and checked. Hamby fired out a bet of about half the pot, 13,000 total. Singer thought for two minutes before folding.

Tags: Jared HambyDavid Singer

Queso All Over the Place

Peter Traply was all in for 63,000 before the flop with {7-Clubs} {7-Hearts}. His shove was a response to aggression from Jim Collopy, and "Mr_BigQueso" put Traply to the test with {3-Diamonds} {3-Clubs}. The board doubled Traply up as it came {2-Diamonds} {Q-Hearts} {6-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds}, and Collopy fell back under 30,000.

Maybe two hands later, Collopy open-shoved for 28,700, and Joel Casper quickly called with {10-Clubs} {10-Diamonds}. "Really?!" Collopy said, standing from his chair and turning up {K-Spades} {J-Hearts}. The flop was a big swing and a miss for the at-risk WSOP rookie, coming {4-Hearts} {9-Diamonds} {9-Spades}. "Higher," he commanded.

Turn: {K-Diamonds}

That is indeed higher, and a good hit for Queso. The river {J-Clubs} made him two pair just for good measure, and he's doubled back to about 60,000 now.

Tags: Jim CollopyJoel CasperPeter Traply

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 300

"Yes, That Really Did Happen"

That's what one of our hand runners said as he handed in the details of Andrew Rosskamm's elimination hand. Koen Debakker opened pre-flop with a raise to 5,100 from middle position. Action passed to Rosskamm in the big blind, who made a massive over-shove for about 89,000 total. Debakker, with about 100,000 total in his stack, called with {j-Spades}{j-Hearts}. He was racing Rosskamm's {a-Clubs}{k-Clubs} and dragged the pot on a 10-high board, {10-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}{10-Spades}{2-Clubs}.

Debakker now has about 200,000 chips.

Tags: Andrew RosskammKoen Debakke

Table 374 Collapsing Under Its Own Weight?

You'd be forgiven for thinking that James Akenhead's table might be playing a different event than the rest of this tournament. With the average stack at roughly 90,000 chips, there are only three players at the table below par. Every single other player has between 125,000 and 225,000 chips, making for some surprisingly deep-stacked play for this juncture of the tournament.

Chip Check

Counts from a little chunk of the room:

Player Chips Progress
Michael Fong us
Michael Fong
240,000
35,000
35,000
Koen de Bakker nl
Koen de Bakker
220,000
Alessio Isaia it
Alessio Isaia
198,000
15,100
15,100
Alan Sass me
Alan Sass
175,000
60,000
60,000
Alexander Kravchenko ru
Alexander Kravchenko
156,000
25,000
25,000
Gavin Griffin us
Gavin Griffin
151,000
15,000
15,000
Lee Gaines
Lee Gaines
146,000
114,000
114,000
Michael Noda
Michael Noda
142,000
60,000
60,000
Frank Rusnak us
Frank Rusnak
139,000
29,000
29,000
Guillaume Darcourt fr
Guillaume Darcourt
130,000
71,200
71,200
Chris Tryba us
Chris Tryba
117,000
-81,000
-81,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Brent Wheeler us
Brent Wheeler
109,000
60,000
60,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Craig McCorkell gb
Craig McCorkell
105,000
48,500
48,500
WSOP 1X Winner
Tad Jurgens
Tad Jurgens
100,000
41,500
41,500
Tom Franklin us
Tom Franklin
95,000
39,500
39,500
WSOP 1X Winner
Aftab Ahmed
Aftab Ahmed
94,000
77,000
77,000
Jeff Hakim lb
Jeff Hakim
83,000
-12,000
-12,000
Eric Haddad
Eric Haddad
76,000
12,300
12,300
Justin Pechie us
Justin Pechie
73,000
-9,000
-9,000
WSOP 2X Winner
Stephen Dwek
Stephen Dwek
72,000
50,100
50,100
Nicholas Mitchell
Nicholas Mitchell
71,000
-30,000
-30,000
Dylan Linde us
Dylan Linde
70,000
6,600
6,600
WSOP 1X Winner
Marcos Neves br
Marcos Neves
67,000
-43,000
-43,000
Mark Scellato
Mark Scellato
64,000
Nathan Doudney
Nathan Doudney
61,000
16,000
16,000

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Fin(ne)

Timothy Finne's final stand came with {a-Spades}{10-Diamonds}. Another player at his table had been dealt {k-Diamonds}{k-Spades}, which was bad news for Finne on a board of {j-Diamonds}{9-Spades}{3-Hearts}{10-Clubs}{2-Spades}. His one pair of tens was not enough to avoid the axe. He's out of the tournament with less than one table remaining until the money bubble bursts.

Tags: Timothy Finne

Akenhead Takes Singer to Value-Town

While the rest of the tournament turtles and tries to eke ino the money, the deep-stacked play continues on Red 374. David Singer opened for 6,500 and was called only by big blind James Akenhead. Akenhead checked and called a bet of 10,000 on a flop of {a-Hearts}{j-Hearts}{8-Clubs}.

Both players then checked the {3-Clubs} turn. That prompted Akenhead to fire out 26,500 on the river. Singer gave the matter about thirty seconds of thought before calling. It was the wrong decision. Akenhead showed {a-Diamonds}{8-Hearts} for two pair, aces and eights. He collected the pot to climb to about 190,000 while Singer, who started the day as one of the chip leaders, is down to about 120,000.

Tags: James AkenheadDavid Singr

Hand for Hand

The tournament is now being played hand for hand, with exactly 91 players remaining. Somebody's going home unhappy in a few minutes.