2010 World Series of Poker

Event #56: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 3
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

Chips von Kaemmerlen

Peter Kaemmerlen opened to 20,000 preflop and Michael Abdoulah defended his big blind.

The flop fell {7-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{4-Hearts} and Abdoulah check-called 26,000 from Kaemmerlen. Both players checked the {5-Hearts} on the turn and the {5-Clubs} on the river as well.

Abdoulah opened {a-Diamonds}{9-Clubs} for just ace-high and mucked when Kaemmerlen showed {10-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds} for a pair of sevens.

Kaemmerlen started the day as one of our chip leaders, and is already up to 600,000 chips.

Tags: Peter KaemmerlenMichael Abdoulah

Weis Beyond Her Years

We're not sure when the chips went in, but either way the {5-Diamonds}{7-Spades}{6-Hearts} flop and {3-Diamonds} turn can't have been that much fun for Melanie Weisner who was all in with {a-Clubs}{9-Diamonds} against Enrique Leigue's {a-}{7-}. The {9-Hearts} on the river must have tasted like tournament ambrosia, though, and Weisner doubled to stay in the game on 95,000.

Tags: Melanie WeisnerEnrique Leigue

CAprA Doubles

Tyler Bonkowski opened to 22,000 before Sam Capra moved all in for 79,500 from the small blind. Bonkowski called having Capra at risk.

Bonkowski: {a-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds}
Capra: {a-Clubs}{a-Spades}

Capra's aces held as the board ran {10-Diamonds}{q-Hearts}{4-Spades}{k-Hearts}{9-Hearts}, doubling him to 173,000 chips.

Tags: Tyler BonkoskiSam Capra

Double Bust-Out for Berda

Weisner
Weisner

We arrived just in time to see a three-way all-in showdown between three relatively short-stacked players.

Melanie Weisner: {4-Diamonds}{4-Spades}
Viliamu Amitoelau: {a-Spades}{k-Clubs}
Tomer Berda: {k-Hearts}{k-Diamonds}

Board: {8-Spades}{3-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{j-Diamonds}{5-Hearts}

Berda's kings held up, and he had both players covered. They hit the rail in tandem, while Berda himself is no longer really in short stack territory, on a respectable 380,000.

Kamran Up, Hawkins Down

Maurice Hawkins opened the pot and was shoved on by Michael Kamran. Kamran had around ten big blinds (80,000) and Hawkins felt he was priced in, so he called.

Kamran: {a-Clubs}{q-Spades}
Hawkins: {10-Hearts}{9-Clubs}

The board ran {2-Clubs}{a-Spades}{j-Clubs}{4-Clubs}{k-Diamonds} and Kamran doubled to 178,000 chips. Hawkins is in trouble, sitting with just 30,000 now.

Tags: Maurice HawkinsMichael Kamran

Level: 19

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,000