2010 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1b
Event Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$68,798,600
Entries
7,319
Level
41
Blinds
800,000 / 1,600,000
Ante
200,000
Players Left 1 / 7,319
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The first four community cards were out on a board showing 
, and we walked up to see the big blind lead out with a bet of 7,075 into a pot of more than 10,000. Phil Collins was his lone opponent, and Collins moved all in for 23,800 total. His opponent called, and Collins was caught red-handed with just 
. He didn't even have six outs as the big blind turned up 
.
Looking for an ace but finding none on the 
river, Collins has been eliminated.
Kido Pham opened to 1,200 in early position and got calls from one player in mid position and another on the button before the gentleman in the big blind reraised to 2,650. Back to Pham, who re-popped for 8,200 and the other two players got out of the way. The big blind wasn't having any of it, though, and five-bet to 19,625. Pham flat-called and they saw a flop.
This was a very, very large pot by this point.
They saw a 
flop and the rest of the chips went in.
Pham: 
Big Blind Opponent : 
"Turn a jack!" came a random cry from the rail.
Turn: ding!
River: 
The hapless gentleman with the queens hit the rail before dinner, while Pham was up to an impressive 107,000.
"Hey Kido, did you hear that?" called out the railer. "I said to turn a jack!"
Facing an open from middle position, Perry Friedman three-bet to 2,100 from the big blind, only for the initial raiser to four-bet to 5,200.
Freidman called leading to a flop of 
where he check-called a continuation bet on the 4,000. He then checked again on the turn, but folded when his opponent moved all in for 35,000.
Freidman back below his starting stack with 24,500.
A player opened the pot with a raise to 800 and another player called before action got to Jared Pacifici. He called as well and it was three ways to the flop. The flop came down 
and the original raiser fired 2,000. The next player folded, but Pacifici made the call. The turn brought the and action checked to Pacifici. He fired 2,400 and won the pot.
Upon seeing our reporter writing down the hand Pacifici joked, "That's too boring, don't do it!"
Pacifici did let us know about a bigger hand he played and here's how he described the action to us.
A player raised to 800 from the hijack seat and the cutoff called. The small blind called and then Pacifici reraised from the big blind to 3,300 with the 
. The original raiser and the small blind both called. After the flop came down 
, the small blind and Pacifici checked. The next player, who was the one to start all of the raising preflop, fired 6,100. The small blind folded and then Pacifici raised all in for 23,700. His opponent folded and Pacifici picked up the pot.
Pacifici is sitting with around 56,000 in chips right now, a stack that's well above average.
A short-stacked player was all in before the flop with , and Joe Sebok (who was also fairly short on chips) looked him up with the overcards, 
.
Sebok had a chance at the knockout, but the board of 
held his opponent's pair and earned him the double up. It came at quite a cost to Sebok who is now down to just 3,350.
Comeback time for Seebs!
Shortly after Andrew Jeffreys let us know about his doubled up to 38,000, he was heard yelling at his table. From across the room we could see his hands up the air and him cheering loudly. We tried to make it to his table, but couldn't in time. All we did see was Jeffreys shaking hands with some of the players at the table and waving goodbye to the cameras as he had nothing but felt left in front of him.
The remaining players are on a 90-minute dinner break. Play will resume just prior to 8:30 p.m.
Robert Miller has already managed to accumulate 152,000 chips, and that's going to give him the top spot heading off for the break. Kido Pham has two-outed his way up towards the top of the counts as well, and he's joined up there by Jim Collopy, Todd Witteles and Phil Galfond.
Dinner break is always a little more pleasant when you have piles of chips.
We'll be back for Level 4 once everyone's had their supper.
Level: 4
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
