Event #56: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day 1 Started
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #56: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$4,464,300
Entries
1,941
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000
Welcome to Event #56: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em!
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Good afternoon, and welcome to Event #56. This afternoon's tournament marks the last chance players have to grab a bracelet before we kick off the Main Event next week. While there are still a number of other tournaments running, we can likely expect a large turnout from players wanting one more chance at gold.
The final tournament before last year's Main Event was a $5,000 limit hold'em tournament won by Matt Hawrilenko. The last no-limit event was a $1,500 tournament won by Tony Veckey. We'll see if either of them decide to play in today's event, but we're confident that we're going to have a large, exciting field regardless.
Play is set to kick off at 5:00 PM local time and continue through eight levels of play. Please join us as we follow every flop, turn, and river, on the way to awarding the 56th bracelet of this year's World Series of Poker.
Level: 1
Blinds: 25/50
Ante: 0
And They're Off
There are enough tables going already to fill a whole section of the Pavilion Room and another in the Amazon. Cards are in the air.
Notables From Over Amazon Way
An entire corner of the Amazon Room is full, some of the players sitting in this side of the action include:
Victoria Coren
Shannon Elizabeth
Daniel Negreanu
Lauren Kling
Jason Potter
Theo Tran
Adam Levy
More players are working their way into the room. We'll keep you posted as they arrive.
Tran Doubles Early
We arrived at Theo Tran's table to see him sitting in the big blind, involved in a pot against a player in middle position.
The flop we were looking at was 
and Tran's opponent had bet 1,500 into a large-sized pot. Tran throught for a moment and went all in for about 4,000, with his opponent calling:
Tran: 
Opponent: 
Tran had made his flush, but his opponent was drawing to the nut flush. The turn was the 
and Tran only had to sweat one more card, which he did when the river came 
.
Tran is now up to about 15,000.
The Moneymaker Effect
Chris Moneymaker just took a seat at Theo Tran's table towards the back of the Amazon Room. It wasn't long before they were both involved in a pot together. However, it was a brief dance, with Moneymaker calling Tran's early position preflop raise to 150 along with two other players. When Tran bet 275 into a flop of 
the next player to act made it 875 to go, with everyone else folding.
Tran showed a red jack to the table before releasing his cards.
Level: 2
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
De Wolfe Vs. De World
It's still early so many of the cool kids haven't made it in quite yet, but nevertheless a few interesting tables have formed.
Perhaps the most interesting currently features Phil Ivey and Roland de Wolfe sitting side by side. The field is massive and your bloggers are only two so we haven't been able to spend too much time checking out their antic at the table yet, but we can tell you that when we first strolled by their table de Wolfe was over 10,000 with an empty seat next to him a the table - but when we passed by again a little while later, de Wolfe was down under 3,000.
Mayrinck On the Rise
Maria Mayrinck was sitting in the small blind when she was facing a raise to 250 from a player in middle position and a call from a player in late position. She used her turn to re-raise to 725. The original raiser called, but the late-position player folded.
The flop came 
and Mayrinck bet 700 with her opponent calling. The turn was the 
and both players checked to see the 
river and checked again.
Mayrinck turned up 
and her opponent mucked, sending the Brazilian's stack to about 9500.