Frankie O'Dell, Fabrizio Gonzales, and John Juanda tangled in a huge Stud-8 pot. O'Dell caught a five on seventh to round out his wheel. That was enough to scoop and send Gonzales packing. Juanda was left with 12,000 after the hand while O'Dell raked in enough to build to 310,000.
$8,944,310—Amount Jonathan Duhamel won for winning the 2010 Main Event
525,000- # of individual poker chips deployed to run the WSOP each year
420,834- # of entrants that have competed in the WSOP
50,792- # of total entrants to compete in the WSOP Main Event
$50,000—Highest buy-in for a WSOP bracelet event in 2011
41,417- # of entrants that have cashed
7,318- # of people Jonathan Duhamel beat in 2010 to become champion.
1970—Year that the first WSOP was held at Binion’s Horseshoe in Las Vegas
893- # of WSOP Gold Bracelet winners [WSOP classifies all past winners as Bracelet winners]
888- # of Official WSOP events [5 Mixed Double events had 2 winners, but were 1 event]
858- # of gold bracelets awarded [In 1974, the Main Event winner received a bracelet. 1975 became the first year all event winners received a gold bracelet. In 1982, gold watches were awarded to the 15 winners instead].
$500—Smallest buy-in for a WSOP bracelet event in 2011 [Employee’s Event]
193- # of millionaires created by the WSOP.
117- # of nations represented at the 2010 WSOP [82 nations competed in Winter Olympics]
97- Age of Jack Ury in 2010, the oldest player ever to compete in a WSOP event.
40- # of cameras ESPN uses to cover WSOP [FOX used 32 to cover Super Bowl XLIV]
21 years, 11 months, 22 days—Age of Joe Cada [Youngest Main Event Champion in history]
11- # of people Moss beat in 1970 to become champion [by vote of his peers]
$0—Amount Johnny Moss won for winning 1970 Main Event [won a silver cup]
1- # of countries represented at the 1970 WSOP
These facts and statistics have been provided to us by the WSOP media guide.
Daniel Alaei: (X)(X) /
Jimmy Fricke: (X)(X) / / (X)
Andrey Zaichenko: (X)(X) / / (X)
Daniel Alaei had the bring in, and Jimmy Fricke called with a nine. Andrey Zaichenko completed with a four showing, and both Alaei and Fricke called. Fricke bet fourth when Zaichenko caught a king, and everyone called. Zaichenko took over the betting after Fricke checked on fifth. Alaie got out of the way, and Fricke called. He check-called again on sixth, and checked one more time after the last cards were dealt. This time when Zaichenko bet, Fricke check-raised him. Zaichenko paid to see Fricke's . With in the hole, Zaichenko caught a on seventh and was stuck with a second-best .
Fricke stacked 250,000, dropping Zaichenko to 200,000.
David Benyamine found himself all in against Matthew Ashton on fifth street as both player's boards ran out as follows.
Benyamine: / /
Ashton: / /
It would be Ashton's ace-king high that would see him scoop the pot - with his seven-six low being superiour to Benyamine's eight-six - and send Benyamine to the rail as Ashton moved to roughly 330,000 in chips.
The Tournament Director has just broken another table to leave us with five tables containing slightly less then forty players.
One of those players that was unable to make the final five tables was multi-bracelet winner John Juanda who was unable to gather momentum after being crippled in a hand down to one big bet just several orbits ago.
both Anton Allemann and Fu Wong committed four bets as the 
completed the board on the river.
/ (X)
. With 
in the hole, Zaichenko caught a 
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