2011 World Series of Poker

Event #34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 2
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
qq
Prize
$488,283
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$2,829,600
Entries
3,144
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000

McClung Mixing it up

With some chips already in the middle, the button was all in for what looked like 10,200. The action was on Chris McClung in early position who plopped down a pile of chips for a sizeable raise. The player next to him folded and the two remaining players turned over their hands.

McClung: {10-Hearts}{8-Hearts}
Button: {K-Spades}{K-Hearts}

The button said “no hearts” before the {A-Hearts}{7-Spades}{6-Spades} flop came down to give McClung an inside-straight draw. He then said “no nine” prior to the {5-Diamonds} on the turn which now made McClung open-ended. McClung chimed in with “a four will do” but the river was the {3-Spades} and the button doubled up.

Player Chips Progress
Christopher McClung
Christopher McClung
135,000
11,000
11,000

Tags: Christopher McCLung

Let There Be Light!

Level 13 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

For a reason unknown to us, the lights above every table in the Amazon room just got turned up making the room much brighter.

A large amount of groans and mumbling came from the players throughout the room at the unexpected change in luminosity coming from the bulbs.

Pilgrim Literally Shoves in his Chips

In a hand right before the break, and following a flop of {k-Spades}{7-Clubs}{3-Spades}, Dwyte Pilgrim checked action over to Cory Thompson who bet 7,000. Pilgrim then opted to shove all in. He literally pushed his stacks of chips totaling 44,000 over onto the middle of the table.

After the chips had spilled every direction possible Thompson tried to figure out the reasoning behind Pilgrim's move. Thompson speculated that Pilgrim was trying to represent a strong hand.

Eventually Thompson opted to call but found that his {q-Spades}{q-Clubs} was behind to Pilgrim's {k-Clubs}{j-Clubs}. The {2-Spades} on the turn gave Thompson some flush outs, but the {2-Clubs} on the river couldn't save him and he was sent to the rail.

It took awhile, but after Pilgrim's chips were all stacked back up they totaled 110,000.

Player Chips Progress
Dwyte Pilgrim us
Dwyte Pilgrim
110,000
58,000
58,000
Corey Thompson us
Corey Thompson
Busted
WSOP 1X Winner

Tags: Dwyte PilgrimCorey Thompson

And We're Back!

Level 12 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Play has resumed with the blinds now at 800/1600/200. The average stack in the field right now is just below 50,000 chips.

Level: 13

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

A Disappearing Act?

Level 12 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Although we aren't even at the end of the end of level 12, we've already lost over 125 players and the field is down to less than 200 players. It seems as though most of the short stacks who limped through the bubble last night have either busted or built their stacks back up as the eliminations aren't coming nearly as quickly now.

Notable players that have busted so far include Barry Shulman, Matt Affleck, and Chad Batista.

Souza Sends One to the Rail

After some raises back and forth, Michael Souza and the player in the big blind ended up all in preflop. Souza held pocket kings while the other player held {a-}{j-} the board ran out bricks and the big blind was eliminated while Souza's stack grew to 60,000.

Player Chips Progress
Michael Souza us
Michael Souza
60,000
44,000
44,000

Tags: Michael Souza

Some Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Nick Petrangelo us
Nick Petrangelo
147,000
52,000
52,000
WSOP 2X Winner
Erik Lemarquand ca
Erik Lemarquand
146,000
74,600
74,600
Lee Satterwhite
Lee Satterwhite
128,500
44,100
44,100
Christopher McClung
Christopher McClung
124,000
-26,000
-26,000
Yueqi Wang us
Yueqi Wang
122,000
2,000
2,000
Cody Slaubaugh us
Cody Slaubaugh
120,000
48,900
48,900
Amanda Baker us
Amanda Baker
116,000
46,400
46,400
Benjamin Volpe
Benjamin Volpe
98,000
22,100
22,100
WSOP 1X Winner
Joseph Urgo
Joseph Urgo
88,000
8,700
8,700
Bryan Paris us
Bryan Paris
80,000
35,400
35,400
Natural8
Karoon Monfared
Karoon Monfared
78,500
-5,700
-5,700
Konstantin Puchkov ru
Konstantin Puchkov
65,500
-700
-700
WSOP 1X Winner
Corey Thompson us
Corey Thompson
60,000
29,400
29,400
WSOP 1X Winner
Joshua Schoonover
Joshua Schoonover
54,000
9,000
9,000
Joshua Norris
Joshua Norris
54,000
-21,600
-21,600
Dwyte Pilgrim us
Dwyte Pilgrim
52,000
-1,000
-1,000
Simon Watt nz
Simon Watt
47,000
-38,000
-38,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles
37,000
18,500
18,500
PokerStars
Mike Beasley us
Mike Beasley
25,000
-11,000
-11,000
Veronica Dabul ar
Veronica Dabul
24,000
-1,300
-1,300
20,000
20,000
20,000
Lars Bonding dk
Lars Bonding
16,000
-50,000
-50,000
Steven Mcnally us
Steven Mcnally
14,000
900
900

Another Winner for Wang

Level 12 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Yueqi Wang continues to remain very active at her table. From middle position she raised to 2,800 and a player in late position went all in for a total of 9,300. Wang called and the hands were flipped.

Wang: {8-Clubs}{7-Clubs}
Opponent: {a-Hearts}{10-Hearts}

The flop of {a-Clubs}{k-Hearts}{8-Diamonds} gave both players a pair but kept the all-in player in the lead. The {5-Clubs} on the turn gave Wang a flush draw, and the river brought the {8-Spades} giving her trip eights and the win.

Wang had around 115,000 after the hand.

Tags: Yueqi Wang