2011 World Series of Poker

Event #26: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
Day: 2
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Oleksii Kovalchuk
Winning Hand
77
Prize
$689,739
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$3,134,950
Entries
1,378
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000

Kitai Takes Big Hit

Davidi Kitai and Peter Gilmore got heads up in a pot where there was an open raise and a call preflop. The board came {9-Clubs} {7-Diamonds} {10-Spades} and they got it all in. Kitai held {A-} {10-} and Gilmore held {Q-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds}. Gilmore was at risk for his tournament life and the turn and river came {K-Spades} {10-Diamonds}. Gilmore hit his straight and Kitai sent a few stacks of chips over -- 86,700 to be exact.

Player Chips Progress
Peter Gilmore
Peter Gilmore
197,000
124,500
124,500
Davidi Kitai be
Davidi Kitai
124,000
-37,000
-37,000
WSOP 3X Winner
Winamax

Tags: Davidi KitaiPeter Gilmore

Break

Level 16 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Players are now on a 20 minute break. The black T100 chips will be colored up during this break.

Level: 17

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 500

Cohen Doubles

Level 17 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

After raising back and forth with another player, Jesse Cohen announced he was all in and the other player didn't take much time in calling.

Cohen: {a-Hearts}{a-Diamonds}
Opponent: {9-Spades}{9-Clubs}

The board ran out {j-Hearts}{j-Diamonds}{4-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{2-Spades} and Cohen's aces helped him double his stack to around 240,000.

Tags: Jesse Cohen

Action is Sloooooooowwwwwwing

Level 17 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Action has slowed down quite bit in the last half hour of play. With blinds at 2,000/4,000 most of the field is very deep stacked. Most of micro stacks busted before dinner or just after. The over/under number for players remaining at the end of Day 2 was at 12 at the start of the day. It seems as if the over will be the smart bet.

Medic Needs A Medic

Nenad Medic
Nenad Medic

Nenad Medic and his super short stack are out of the tournament.

A player in middle position raised it up to 9,000 and Medic went all in for his last 12,500. The small blind however, re-raised to 25,000 and the initial raiser moved all in and got an insta-call from the small blind.

Small Blind: {k-Diamonds}{k-Clubs}
Medic: {j-Hearts}{10-Spades}
Middle Position: {a-Hearts}{k-Hearts}

The board ran out {8-Clubs}{3-Clubs}{j-Clubs}{6-Spades}{4-Spades} Medic hit the rail, and the small blind player won the hand and scored a double up.

Player Chips Progress
Nenad Medic us
Nenad Medic
Busted
WSOP 1X Winner

Tags: Nenad Medic

Some Chips For You to Snack On

Player Chips Progress
Christian Stricker Kohl
Christian Stricker Kohl
540,000
-45,000
-45,000
Chris Moorman gb
Chris Moorman
497,000
117,000
117,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Christian Jeppsson se
Christian Jeppsson
460,000
387,500
387,500
Daniel Morgan us
Daniel Morgan
355,000
98,000
98,000
Anthony Ruberto us
Anthony Ruberto
352,000
-93,000
-93,000
Tuan Le us
Tuan Le
330,000
-50,000
-50,000
Alex Fitzgerald us
Alex Fitzgerald
286,000
28,000
28,000
Tyler Cornell us
Tyler Cornell
230,000
5,000
5,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Jesse James
Jesse James
230,000
-30,000
-30,000
Eric Hettinga
Eric Hettinga
170,000
-18,000
-18,000
Olivier Busquet us
Olivier Busquet
170,000
-36,000
-36,000
Jared Vengrin
Jared Vengrin
160,000
3,000
3,000
Bradley Howard us
Bradley Howard
115,000
104,100
104,100

Chip Leader Takes A Hit

We came into this hand on a flop of {a-Hearts}{a-Clubs}{k-Spades} when our chip leader Christian Stricker Kohl bet 40,000 from the small blind. Vladimir Mefodichev called from the cutoff and the two saw the turn {9-Spades}

Kohl ramped it up this time and made a bet of 100,000. Mefodichev tanked for a while and then pushed two big stacks of yellow and a few oranges out to make the call.

On the river {5-Spades}, Kohl almost seemingly gave up and checked. Mefodichev moved all in and Kohl mucked.

After the hand, Mefodichev has 490,000 and Kohl is down to 370,000

Player Chips Progress
Vladimir Mefodichev
Vladimir Mefodichev
490,000
383,100
383,100
Christian Stricker Kohl
Christian Stricker Kohl
370,000
-170,000
-170,000

Tags: Christian Stricker KohlVladimir Mefodichev

Well, Not Too Much Momentum

A player under the gun opened for 8,000 and got two calls from Valdemar Kwaysser and Ionel Anton. The flop came {A-Clubs} {8-Clubs} {4-Hearts} and the UTG player bet out 9,000, Kwaysser called and Anton called. The turn came {5-Spades}, UTG checked, Kwaysser checked and Anton bet out 22,000. The UTG player folded and Kwaysser called. The river came {K-Hearts}, Kwaysser checked and Anton bet 22,000 again. Kwaysser called and Anton tabled {5-Diamonds} {5-Clubs} for a turned set. Kwaysser stared at the cards as if he couldn't believe it, but he smiled and mucked his cards.

Player Chips Progress
Ionel Anton ro
Ionel Anton
285,000
70,000
70,000
Valdemar Kwaysser hu
Valdemar Kwaysser
124,000
-61,000
-61,000
WSOP 1X Winner

Tags: Ionel AtonValdemar Kwaysser