Matt Affleck called an opponent's all-in bet with 
. The at-risk player had pocket jacks. The board ran out 
and Affleck won the pot and his opponent's 175,000 chips. He's now over 700,000.
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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Theo Jorgensen ended up all in pre-flop with his pocket aces and found an opponent with pocket tens, ready to gamble.
The board came out 
and Jorgensen is now up to 650,000 chips. His opponent is now on his way home.
Theo Tran opened for 7,500, Sebastian Panny three-bet to 36,000 from the small blind and Tran made the call. The flop came down 
and Panny led out for 30,000. Tran called. Panny led again when the 
hit the turn, making it 65,000 to go. Again Tran called. The river fell the and after quite a long dwell, Panny settled on a bet of 95,000. Tran tanked equally long and finally made the call for more than half of his remaining chips.
Panny showed 
and Tran mucked. He's down to only 65,000 while Panny is nearing half a million.
Preflop action saw three bets occur, building this hand between Joe Awada and an opponent to 39,000 by the time we saw the turn.
The board read 
after the turn and Awada made a bet of 25,000. His opponent on the button moved all in for 44,000 and Awada called.
Awada showed 
for top pair, but his opponent tabled 
for two pair, which held through the 
on the river.
After losing the pot Awada has left himself just 42,000 chips.
Over at the secondary feature table, Gavin Smith and Dan Harrington were just having a conversation about "M" -- that indicator of how many rounds (blinds plus antes) a player has left in his stack made famous by Harrington in his influential Harrington on Hold'em books.
"Why'd you call it 'M'?" asked Smith. "Why not 'H'?" Their end of the table laughed. "Even better, why didn't you call it your 'Dan'? You could say 'My "Dan" is 8.5…'?"
Harrington proceeded to relate the story -- told in HOH -- about how he and Paul Magriel had had dinner one night before the original book was published. Magriel had explained to Harrington how mathematicians generally assign a letter to a formula, and since Magriel had also come up with the idea of talking about the ratio of one's chips to the number of orbits one could afford, Harrington decided to call it "M".
Smith and Harrington were soon involved in a pot in which Smith raised his button and Harrington called from the big blind. The flop came , Harrington bet, and Smith let his hand go.
Harrington has moved up to 220,000 now. Meanwhile, Smith lost a few more chips on the following hand, and has slipped down to 80,000. That's a "Dan" of about 10 at the moment.
Jon Aguiar came into the day with about 15bb, but he had a hell of a start to Day 4. Aguiar was up over 100,000 in no time, and he worked his stack over 200,000 by the break. It's all gone south, however.
We heard the dealer call his all in from across the room, so we hustled over to see what the deal was. It was indeed Aguiar all in for about 180,000 with 
, and he had Benjamin Straate drawing awfully slim with his on a 
flop.
Turn: 
Oh no.
Straate pulled into an unlikely lead with his trip jacks, and the river did nothing to help Aguiar's cause. He was last seen tweeting as he made his exit from the Amazon Room for the last time this year:
"Finally got aces and lost a 360k pot vs AJo on J76r, turn J my wsop is over, couldn't be more dissapointed [sic]."
For players with stacks of less than 50,000, it's desperation time. The under-the-gun player at Ronnie Bardah's table recently moved all in with 
. Bardah called with pocket tens and dragged the pot on a board of 
. Bardah is up to 640,000 in chips and has moved the field that much closer to the money bubble.
Facing a raise to 7,100, Scott Clements made the call to see a flop of 
. Action checked to him and he tossed out 8,500. His opponent made the call and the turn brought the .
Again it was checked to Clements and this time he fired 14,500. His opponent again called and the 
completed the board on the river.
This time it was check, check and Clements' opponent opened 
. It was good as Clements flashed the 
and mucked. Never mind, Clements is still in good shape with 428,000 chips.
Jason Mercier raised to 6,700 in late position, and the button paid to see a flop. Mercier checked, and the other player checked behind. Mercier checked again when the turn brought the . His opponent bet 10,000, and Mercier called. He check-called 15,000 when the river fell the 
. The button tabled , but Mercier had outflopped him with 
. The hand moved Mercier up to 245,000.
Erica Schoenberg got all in from the big blind with the player on the button. The button held the and Schoenberg the .
The board ran out
and Schoenberg let out a big, "Whhhhoooooooooo!!!!" in celebration. She apologized though and is up to 85,000 now with some breathing room.
