The break is over, and the cards are back in the air!
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 4
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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Following the bad beat just prior to the break, it didn't take long for the last of Tyler Kenney's chips to enter the middle.
Kenney went with 
but ran into the dominant 
of Tom Kallaway.
The board fell 
to miss both players, leaving Kenney to make a frustrated exit from the Main Event. Kallaway is up to 170,000.
After we came back from the break, Johnny Chan had just taken his seat back at the main feature table when an opponent, Jeff Fenech, had a question for him.
Like Chan, Fenech is a world champion himself -- a boxing champion. The Australian was a three-time bantamweight champion, in fact, back in the 1980s.
Fenech had purchased a poker strategy book during the break -- not Chan's own book, Million Dollar Hold'em, incidentally -- and held it up asking Chan whether or not it would help him. We couldn't hear Chan's response, but the two were laughing as the cards were dealt and Fenech quickly put the book away.
Chan won the first pot coming back from the break, and has moved back up over 600,000 now. Fenech, meanwhile, is still punching with his current stack of 135,000.
In the far corner of the Amazon Room, a patch of open space has sprouted, and is growing larger by the minute. About six tables have been completely removed from the Orange section, leaving a slice of unoccupied casino carpeting the size of a New York City studio apartment beneath Dan Harrington and Huck Seed's banners. To many of us veteran reporters, this is the first sign that the Main Event is closing in on its later stages and the first pinprick of light at the end of the long tunnel that is the World Series of Poker.
A seventh and now an eighth table are now being carted away as we grow ever-closer to the money bubble. It was just announced that there are less than 1,000 players remaining. Today's magic number, again, is 747, and we're likely to get there within the next couple of hours.
Frank Kassela is in high spirits, but I suppose knowing that your enlarged face will be adorning the Rio corridors next year tends to have that effect. At the moment, he has 310,000, and just three-bet an open of 7,500 to 21,000.
"I'm normally pretty lucky when the cameras are here," he laughed as the lens drew nearer. In the end, his opponent heeded the warning and made the fold, allowing the two-time bracelet winner to pick up the pot uncontested. "I had a good sized pair," revealed Kassela mid-probing.
Mori Eskandani suffered a small loss in a recent pot but still has significantly more chips than the average stack. Sitting with the button, he was part of a three-way flop of 
. The big blind checked to a player in middle position, who led out for 13,000. Only Eskandani called. The turn 
brought some more coordination to the board. Eskandani considered his options for about a minute once his opponent bet 32,000. He eventually folded his hand to preserve his count at 360,000.
A player in middle position opened the pot, and next to speak called. The action folded to Raymond Rahme, and he moved all in.
The initial raiser called and tabled pocket sixes, Rahme tabled pocket queens.
The board came out 
and Rahme is out of the Main Event.
When we arrived at the table Hoyt Corkin had just called an all in from one of his opponents.
Corkins tables 
and his opponent tabled ace-king.
The board ran out 
and Corkins is now up to 620,000 chips.
Another word about the Chip Counts:
We started the day with all 1,203 names in the chip counts so that you guys could eyeball your friends and family and see where they stacked up. It's not feasible for us to give you reliable updates on 1,200 players, however, so we've since culled the list down to the notables and big stacks in the room.
So, if your best friend's mom was in the chip counts earlier and she's been removed now, that doesn't mean she's been eliminated. She's just been removed for now so that you don't have to wonder why her count is stuck in the same place all day. We're constantly updating our list with big stacks as they appear, so you'll have a good picture of what's going on in the room and who's doing what. We're just unable to follow everyone individually today.
Tomorrow we'll be tracking the full field once everyone is safely in the money.
In a raised pot preflop, chip leader Duy Le and Will "The Thrill" Failla took a flop of 
. Both players checked.
The turn brought the 
and Le bet out 9,000.
"Pair the board, dealer," Failla requested as he flipped out enough chips to call.
The river was the 
and Le tossed four orange T5,000 chips forward. Failla almost beat him into the pot.
Le opened his hand, but all we could see was the 
. Failla showed for a bigger pair and Le mucked his hand. Faila jumped to 225,000 chips while Le slipped to 891,000.
