2010 World Series of Poker

Event #56: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 1
Event Info

2010 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a4
Prize
$825,976
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$4,464,300
Entries
1,941
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000

Pilgrim Knocks One Out

A player in middle position had raised to 350 with Dwyte Pilgrim re-raiseing to 1,000. The original raiser then went all in for 4,200 total and Pilgrim made the call.

Pilgrim: {q-Spades}{q-Clubs}
Opponent: {a-Spades}{j-Clubs}

Pilgrim could hardly have asked for a better flop when it came {q-Hearts}{k-Hearts}{k-Diamonds}. The turn was the {7-Clubs} and the river was the {a-Clubs}. Pilgrim now has 9,125 chips.

Tags: Dwyte Pilgrim

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

Field Stabilizes

The number on the board spent a little while going up and down and then up again but it now seems to have settled at 1,943. That is a big ol' field for this, the last shot at a bracelet before the Main Event.

We'll let you know if that number gets tweaked any further.

King Kong Donnie P!

"This is my town! You can call it value town!"
"This is my town! You can call it value town!"

Strolling past PokerNews' own Donnie Peters, we found him raising it up to 400 from the cutoff after the action had folded to him.

The big blind defended as a {A-Hearts}{3-Spades}{2-Diamonds} flop was spread and both players checked it through to see the {A-Clubs} land on the turn and the big blind led for 450.

Peters made the call as the dealer burned and turned the {2-Spades} on the river with the big blind opting for a check this time. Peters paused for a moment before firing out 525 with the big blind making the call.

"Wow!" was all that Peter's opponent could manage when Peters tabled his {K-Diamonds}{K-Clubs} to begin collecting the pot to move to 8,225 in chips.

Tags: Donnie Peters

Madsen Eliminated

On a board reading {4-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{5-Spades}{3-Clubs} a player in middle position bet 1,125. He was called by another player before Jeff Madsen went all in for 5,700 total. The initial bettor folded, but the remaining opponent called.

Madsen: {q-Clubs}{j-Clubs}
Opponent: {7-Spades}{7-Clubs}

The river was the {10-Clubs}, and with Madsen missing any of his outs, he was on his way to the rail.

Tags: Jeff Madsen

Bell Back Up to Starting Stack

We found recent PLO8 bracelet winner Chris Bell involved in a hand. When we arrived, he and his opponent were at the turn, the board reading {8-Spades}{5-Spades}{4-Hearts}{q-Diamonds}.

We're not sure how the action went, but we suspect it may have been a check-raise from Bell - Bell's opponent in early position had a 1,000 bet in front of him, and Bell in the big blind had raised to 2,900. His opponent tanked up for a while but eventually folded, meaning that Bell bumped his stack up to 8,000, a little over what he started with.

Tags: Chris Bell

Less Money for the Maker

We got to Chris Moneymaker's table to see him involved against a single opponent on a board reading {2-Hearts}{10-Clubs}{7-Hearts}{a-Diamonds}. It had looked like Moneymaker had bet 300 and his opponent had raised to about 1,000. Moneymaker called the raise and we were off to the river.

The river came down {k-Hearts} and Moneymaker bet 1,325 after being checked to. When his opponent called, Moneymaker turned over {a-Hearts}{j-Spades} which was no good against his opponent's {a-Spades}{q-Hearts}.

Moneymaker is now down to about 4,700

Tags: Chris Moneymaker

Table of Very Brief Doom

As always with the late reg. tables, they are stacked beyond belief. As we strolled by one table, we found Men Nguyen, Jon Aguiar, Chris Ferguson and Roberto Romanello all squashed together with a few more getns we didn't recognize.

Having said that, it's a measure of how fast these things go that by the time we'd worked our way back over to the other side of the Pavilion Room, Men Nguyen had moved there as well.

A Classic Case of the Coolers

Christiano Guerra had 12,000 in front of him when got it all in against a player in middle position on a flop of {6-Clubs}{2-Spades}{8-Clubs}.

Guerra tabled {8-Spades}{8-Diamonds} for top set, while his opponent showed {2-Clubs}{2-Spades} for bottom set. The board ran out {10-Hearts}{j-Hearts} and Guerra was up to 25,000, with his opponent down to 2,200.

Tags: Christiano Guerra