Event #6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$5,000
Entries
358
Level
4
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000
Guns Up
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Welcome back to the Rio for the 2010 World Series of Poker, it's time for Event #6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout!
Last year this event attracted 280 runners and Peter Traply ousted Andrew Lichtenberger heads-up for the bracelet and $348,728.
This is the first of five $5,000 events this year, and we anticipate the field to be stellar. So far we've spotted George Lind, Brent Hanks, Jeffrey Lisandro, Sorel Mizzi, Greg Raymer, Barry Greenstein, Erik Lindgren and Rafe Furst floating around the Pavilion Room.
We are set to start at noon Vegas time, and the plan is to play two heats today. Keep it locked to PokerNews for all your live updates from this and every event at the 2010 WSOP!
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Cards In The Air
Jack Effel has given us the go, and the cards are in the air.
Shootouts work a little different than normal tournaments. Each table will play down to a winner and then the surviving players will redraw for Round 2. We have been corrected though, we are only playing one round today.
There are 36 ten-handed tables, tomorrow there will be 6 six-handed tables and Day 3 there will be 1 six-handed final table.
The players have 15,000 in starting chips and with the blinds starting at 50-100 there will be plenty of room for play.
Who's Here?
Michael 'SirWatts' Watson, Gavin Smith, Dan Kelly, Issac Haxton, John Duthie, Jeff Lisandro, Justin 'Boosted J' Smith and Sorel Mizzi have all just taken their seats in the tournament.
Tough Tables
Over on table 20 we find Joe Sebok, Scott Clements, Gavin Griffin and David Ulliott seated together while on table 25 we find Eric Froehlich, Bill Chen, Amnon Filippi and Daniel Negreanu battling it out.
Table 20 features Jonathan Aguiar, Phil Ivey, Kiril Gerasimov and Rob Hollink while over on table 9 we find Greg Raymer, Jason Potter, Greg Mueller, Justin Bonomo and Faraz Jaka.
More Fun Tables
Table 1
Mohsin Charania
Nam Le
Steve Gross
Andreas Hoivold
Table 2
Todd Terry
Soheil Shamseddin
James Akenhead
Mike Sowers
Table 3
Andy Bloch
Darryll "DFish" Fish
David Singer
Table 8
Kevin Saul
Eugene Todd
Erik Seidel
Amit Makhija
Table 11
Tom Dwan
James Mackey
Vivek Rajkumar
Table 12
JC Tran
Boris Becker
William Reynolds
Tim West
Pat Pezzin
Smith Gets Early Boost
Catching the action on a flop of 
we found Justin 'Boosted J' Smith all in holding 
against his opponent's 
.
The turn and river blanked out with the 
and 
to see Smith double through to just under 29,000 while leaving his opponent in dire straights with just 825 in chips.
Two Players, One Seat
Andy Bloch has been sitting at Seat 5 at Table 3 for an orbit or so and just moments ago Jean-Robert Bellande showed up intending to sit in the same exact sheet.
"It's a match!" Bellande shouted when he held his receipt next to Bloch's.
Indeed the computer had printed the same seat for both of them. The table began joking about the situation, saying that the two should switch every orbit.
"No, no, no," Darryll "DFish" Fish argued. "Two rounds for Bobby, one for Andy."
The situation has since been fixed, and Bellande is situated at a new table.
Adios Amnon
On a board reading 
Amnon Filippi fired out a bet of 2,600 only to have Eric Froehlich drop in a stack to effectively put Filippi all in.
Filippi made the call tabling his 
to be trailing Froehlich's 
, and when the fourth diamond didn't peel on the river, Filippi hit the rail as Froehlich doubled through.