Nam Le, Chau Giang, Mike Kaufman and Mikael Eder are all through to tomorrow.
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #53: $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout
Day: 1
Event Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$739,800
Entries
548
Level
8
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 548
Filter
(1)
The three remaining tables are on a twenty-minute break.
Level: 9
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 0
The cards are back in the air!
Pat Pezzin and Brandon "Drexel" Gerson have both won their tables here in Level 9.
We missed Gerson's hand, but Pezzin's last hand looked like this:
Showdown
Pezzin: 
Opponent: 
The board ran 
and Pezzin advanced to Day 2.
Tommy "Nhan" Le and Cornel Andrew Cimpan are still battling heads up at our last remaining table. The bets are big though, and with every pot chips are flying.
After a grueling, four-hour heads up match, we have a winner for Table 303.
Cornel Andrew Cimpan defeated Tommy "Nhan" Le with just five minutes remaining in Level 9. Cimpan held 
and Le needed help with 
.
The board ran 
and Cimpan's aces were good enough for the win sending him into tomorrow.
We started Day 1 of Event #53 with 548 runners and now we are down to 64. All of the remaining players are guaranteed $4,135, but are surely eyeing the $184,950 first-place prize and of course the gold bracelet.
Tomorrow, there will be eight eight-handed tables filled with very tough players. Among the returning players are Terrence Chan, Kirk Banks, Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar, Jonathan Little, Pat Pezzin, Nam Le, Chau Giang, Barry Shulman and Yevgeniy “atimos” Timoshenko.
Be sure to check in at 3 p.m. PST where our coverage will resume and we will play down to an eight-handed final table!
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Event #53: $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout
Day 1 Completed
