2010 World Series of Poker

Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Event Info

2010 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
$8,944,310
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$68,798,600
Entries
7,319
Level Info
Level
41
Blinds
800,000 / 1,600,000
Ante
200,000

Mystic Snoopy Strikes

Like fairground fortune tellers, I'm always making predictions that fall short, and after 'bigging up' Yevgeniy Timoshenko in my last post, he did, of course, decimate his stack within moments of my posting.

On a three-handed flop of {4-Spades}{4-Diamonds}{6-Spades}, Timoshenko bet 10,000 into a pot of 18,000, only to be raised to 40,000. After another played had folded, Timoshenko moved all in and was subsequently called by his shorter-stacked opponent for a total of 130,000.

Despite defeat lurking ominously, Timoshenko actually had the goods, his {A-Hearts}{A-Diamonds} in dominating shape against {10-Hearts}{10-Spades} and just looking to evade one of two outs. Oh, there's always the remote possibility of a cheeky backdoor flush, and that's precisely what occurred as the turn and river came {K-Spades} and {7-Spades} respectively to deal Timoshenko the lowest of blows.

As a result, Timoshenko's stack has now plummeted all the way back down to 86,000 after being on the verge of taking this tournament by storm. Right, off I go to place the curse on another unwitting victim...

Tags: Yevgeniy Timoshenko