2011 World Series of Poker

Event #23: $2,500 Eight-Game Mix
Day: 1
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
akjj832
Prize
$278,144
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$1,112,475
Entries
489
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0

Poker Brat Making Noise

Level 5

Pot-Limit Omaha

When we returned from our dinner break, we noticed that the one and only Phil Hellmuth had late registered for the tournament, and he literally wasted no time in getting his money in. When we got to the table, Hellmuth had pushed all 7,300 of his chips in preflop, and Scott Clements slammed down a call, saying "Your ahead right now."

Hellmuth: {a-Spades}{a-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{3-Diamonds}
Clements: {9-Spades}{7-Spades}{5-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}

Clements had a ton of draw possibilities, but the flop was pretty ugly for his hand, coming {k-Spades}{k-Hearts}{9-Hearts}. The turn and river came {4-Hearts} and {j-Hearts}, and Hellmuth cruised to an early and surprising double up, while Clements dropped to 4,500.

Tags: Phil HellmuthScott Clements

Level: 5

Blinds: /

Ante:

Double or Nothing for Rinkema

Level 4
Remkooooooooo
Remkooooooooo

Pot-Limit Omaha

Our Dutch colleague, Remko Rinkema is playing the event today, and we've admittedly been ignoring him a bit. This particular blogger has immensely strong cooler powers, so we chose to watch from afar for the first few levels. Rinkema was down to just 1,400 chips during the last game, but he's found the first double-back.

A player in early position opened to 400, and another player flatted before Rinkema three-bet shoved with his short stack. The initial raiser called, the monkey in the middle ducked out, and Rinkema was heads-up for his tournament life.

Showdown
Rinkema: {A-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} {K-Hearts} {4-Hearts}
Opponent: {4-} {5-} {7-} {9-}

The board ran out pretty ugly, and a naked king on the turn was all Rinkema needed to drag the pot. He's back to 3,000 and back in the game here before the dinner break.

Tags: Remko Rinkema

Benyamine Doubles Through E-Fro

Level 4

No Limit Holdem

As we expected, there is plenty of action around the tables when the pot-limit omaha and no-limit holdem sections come into play. In a recent hand, we saw four players, including David Benyamine and Eric Froehlich, take a flop of {10-Hearts}{6-Spades}{2-Spades}. Benyamine checked in the small blind, and Froehlich bet out 750. It folded back to Benyamine, who check raised all in for 2,100 total. Froehlich made the call, and jokingly almost threw his hand into the air when he saw he was behind.

Benyamine: {10-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}
Froehlich: {7-Clubs}{6-Clubs}

The turn came the {5-Hearts} and the river came the {4-Clubs}, and Benyamine doubled up to 5,300, while Froehlich dropped to around 7,800.

Tags: David BenyamineEric Froehlich

A Bad Turn-er Card

Level 4
Jon Turner - out
Jon Turner - out

No-Limit Hold'em

Jon Turner was all in for 8,400 on a {Q-Spades} {10-Hearts} {8-Hearts}, and another player was all in for less. A third player in the hand looked both opponents up, and he had the covering stack and the draw with {A-Hearts} {10-Spades}. Turner showed {Q-Hearts} {Q-Clubs} for top set, and the short stack's {10-Diamonds} {10-Clubs} was drawing dead to one out.

Turner didn't like his hand either, and he made a tongue-in-cheek offer of $5,000 to buy his opponent's hand. He said he knew it was coming, and table mate Mike Matusow called him crazy. "It's not coming," Matusow predicted.

Turn: {7-Hearts}

Or, well, maybe it is coming. The flush was the hand to beat now, and Turner needed to pair the board (not the ten) to stay alive. The river was the {K-Clubs} though, and two players fall to the rail.

Tags: Jon Turner

Chips in Bunches

Player Chips Progress
Jimmy Fricke us
Jimmy Fricke
22,000 11,500
Noah Boeken nl
Noah Boeken
22,000 10,000
Max Pescatori it
Max Pescatori
WSOP 4X Winner
19,500 12,000
Brett Richey us
Brett Richey
18,300 2,800
Vitaly Lunkin ru
Vitaly Lunkin
WSOP 2X Winner
17,400 6,200
David Singer us
David Singer
16,000 1,000
Brandon Cantu us
Brandon Cantu
WSOP 2X Winner
16,000 8,500
Andy Black ie
Andy Black
14,800 5,100
Marco Traniello it
Marco Traniello
14,600 4,100
Nikolay Evdakov ru
Nikolay Evdakov
14,000 4,600
Erick Lindgren us
Erick Lindgren
WSOP 2X Winner
13,600 -900
Scott Clements us
Scott Clements
WSOP 3X Winner
13,200 5,700
Allen Kessler us
Allen Kessler
12,600 4,500
David Bach us
David Bach
WSOP 3X Winner
12,500 5,900
Joseph Cheong us
Joseph Cheong
WSOP 1X Winner
12,500 3,000
Mike Matusow us
Mike Matusow
WSOP 4X Winner
12,100 2,800
Josh Arieh us
Josh Arieh
WSOP 6X Winner
11,700 6,200
Ville Wahlbeck fi
Ville Wahlbeck
11,600 1,300
Al Barbieri us
Al Barbieri
11,600 1,900
Eric Froehlich us
Eric Froehlich
WSOP 2X Winner
11,000 3,500
Jonathan Aguiar pt
Jonathan Aguiar
WSOP 1X Winner
10,800 -100
Steve Wong nl
Steve Wong
10,500 -200
Bryan Devonshire us
Bryan Devonshire
10,100 3,000
Vladimir Shchemelev ru
Vladimir Shchemelev
10,000
Dutch Boyd us
Dutch Boyd
WSOP 3X Winner
9,800 2,100

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A Swollen WSOP

Level 4

Once again, the numbers are up for this event compared to last year. Registration is still open, and we've already ticked up to 463 runners in the fray. Even better, you've still got nearly an hour to register if you've got $2,500 burning a hole in your pocket.