2011 World Series of Poker

Event #41: $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout
Day: 1
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k4
Prize
$167,060
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
538
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
0

Matt Leshovsky Wins Table

On a {3-}{2-Diamonds}{4-Spades}{9-Clubs} board Matt Leshovsky's opponent moved all in and Leshovsky made the call with {9-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}. Leshovsky held {k-}{8-} for king high.

The river rang out a {7-Spades} and Leshovsky won the hand and will go on to tomorrow.

Player Chips Progress
41,500

Level: 9

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 0

Markus Herbel And Alex Burteh Win Tables

A player on the button raised it up preflop and Markus Herbel called in the big blind.

The flop came down {10-Diamonds}{4-Spades}{8-Hearts} and Herbel bet out with his opponent calling.

The turn was {q-Diamonds} and Herbel bet out again with his opponent calling all in.

Herbel had {a-Diamonds}{k-Diamonds} for a royal flush draw and his opponent just had {5-Spades}{7-Diamonds} for a gut shot straight draw. The river bricked and Herbel won the table

On another table, Alex Burteh and his opponent got it all in preflop, Burteh showing {a-Spades}{k-Hearts} and his opponent with {a-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}.

The board ran out {2-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{6-Spades}{10-Diamonds} and Burteh got the win.

Player Chips Progress
Markus Herbel
Markus Herbel
41,500
Alex Burteh
Alex Burteh
41,500

Tags: Alex BurtehMarkus Herbel

David Speicher Wins Table

A very low stacked Richard Brodie ended up all in against David Speicher preflop.

Speciher: {J-}{6-}
Brodie: {4-}{5-}

Brodie was never able to catch up as the cards came up {Q-}{10-}{6-}{7-}{k-}. David Speicher managed to get out of a table filled with talent besting the likes of Jerry Buss, Svetlana Gromenkova, and Richard Brodie.

Player Chips Progress
David Speicher
David Speicher
41,500

Tags: David Speicher

"Gavin Smith, If You Are In The Area, Please Report To Your Table"

Gavin Smith
Gavin Smith

Gavin Smith and Michele Limongi were heads-up before the dinner break, but after the break, Limongi returned and Smith did not.

For a while, they were simply dealing out hands and folding them and giving Limongi the blinds, but now the official ruling is that every two minutes Limongi will receive the amount of the blinds from Smith's stack (which is now down to around 12,000). If Smith comes back, he'll be very short, but if not, he should be completely blinded out by the end of the level.

Player Chips Progress
Michele Limongi it
Michele Limongi
29,500
Gavin Smith us
Gavin Smith
12,000

Tags: Gavin Smith

Ramdin Doubles

Victor Ramdin a once dominant force at his table is now short stacked and heads up against his opponent. On this particular hand we saw Ramdin get all in against his opponent on a {6-Diamonds}{Q-Clubs}{9-Diamonds} with {K-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds} for a flush draw. His opponent held {Q-}{2-}.

The turn brought the {Q-Diamonds} giving Randim the flush. He wasn't out of the woods yet, he still needed to avoid his opponent boating up. He was succesful as the river was a {K-}.

Player Chips Progress
Victor Ramdin us
Victor Ramdin
7,000 -10,000

Tags: Victor Ramdin

Fohrenbach Wins Table With Epic Comeback

At one point in his heads-up match Ricky Fohrenbach was down 4-1 to his opponent, but he wasn't phased and he came back to win the table.

On the last hand, the player on the button raised it up preflop, Fohrenbach re-raised, and his opponent re-raised again and was all in.

Fohrenbach showed {7-Hearts}{4-Spades} and his opponent had {q-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}

The board ran out {6-Clubs}{j-Clubs}{4-Hearts}{k-Spades}{k-Diamonds} and Fohrenbach got the knockout and the table win.

At this point, besides a few stragglers, pretty much all tables are heads-up, so the winners will keep pouring in as we find them.

Player Chips Progress
Ricky Fohrenbach
Ricky Fohrenbach
41,500 37,000

Tags: Ricky Fohrenbach