2011 World Series of Poker

Event #43: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 2
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kj
Prize
$675,117
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,856,950
Entries
2,857
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
40,000

Caillyamity

Level 13 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Lucille Cailly has just seen her chip stack take a hefty hit after she lost a 65,000 pot all in preflop to a shorter stack. It was Cailly's {Q-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds} against the {K-Clubs}{J-Hearts} of her opponent but the turn wasn't the set she wanted to make when the board came {6-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}{A-Spades}{Q-Spades}{7-Hearts}.

Current mood: Opposite of happy bunny.

Tags: Lucille Cailly

Ho Loses Some

Action folded around to Mark Allen in the big blind who raised to 3,500. The small blind folded and Maria Ho three-bet to 11,600. Allen moved all in for about 1,000 more and Ho made the call only to find that she was dominated.

Ho: {10-Hearts}{9-Clubs}
Allen: {A-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}

The board fell {7-Spades}{7-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{A-Clubs}{A-Spades} and Allen was able to double up through Ho.

Player Chips Progress
Maria Ho us
Maria Ho
35,000 -6,000

Tags: Maria HoMark Allen

Michalowski Trading Blows with Spets

After just taking a big pot off Age Spets, Rafal Michalowski opened the cutoff to 3,700 only to have Spets three-bet to 15,800 from the small blind. Michalowski made the call, and when the flop landed {8-Hearts}{3-Hearts}{5-Clubs}, he and Spets both checked.

The {K-Diamonds} on the turn saw Spets fire a delayed continuation-bet of 20,000 which was called by Michalowski before Spets tapped the table when the {2-Clubs} completed the board.

Michalowski pushed out a stack of chips amounting to 24,400 as Spets announced, "That's a bluff! A good bluff!"

Spets deliberated for a few moments before eventually releasing his hand to slip to 85,000 as Michalowski moves over the 200,000-chip mark to sit with 210,000 in chips.

Player Chips Progress
210,000 35,000
Age Spets no
Age Spets
85,000 -35,000

Tags: Rafal MichalowskiAge Spets

Money, Money, Money

The next round of eliminations all receive $3,085 for their efforts.

Player Chips Progress
Oleg Simanovsky us
Oleg Simanovsky
Busted
James French us
James French
Busted
Tyler Patterson us
Tyler Patterson
WSOP 1X Winner
Busted
Philippe Ktorza fr
Philippe Ktorza
Busted
Jens Hansen
Jens Hansen
Busted
Craig Carrillo us
Craig Carrillo
Busted
Richard Kelly
Richard Kelly
Busted
Thomas Keller us
Thomas Keller
WSOP 1X Winner
Busted
Ryan Entrekin
Ryan Entrekin
Busted
Patti Norris
Patti Norris
Busted
Gil George us
Gil George
Busted
David Petrus us
David Petrus
Busted
James Mccullen
James Mccullen
Busted
John Kelsey
John Kelsey
Busted
Nick Binger us
Nick Binger
WSOP 1X Winner
Busted
Steve Beck
Steve Beck
Busted
Stewart Yancik
Stewart Yancik
Busted
Scott Roy
Scott Roy
Busted
Artie Smith
Artie Smith
Busted
Matthew Hankins
Matthew Hankins
Busted
Ryan Olisar us
Ryan Olisar
Busted
Erica Schoenberg us
Erica Schoenberg
Busted
Michael Elkin
Michael Elkin
Busted
Tommy Vedes us
Tommy Vedes
Busted

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300

Griffin Petered Out of the Tournament

Gavin Griffin has been eliminated, he raised Tobias Peters' flop bet on a {K-Spades}{Q-Diamonds}{10-Clubs} board from 6,400 to 16,800 and then moved all in when Peters put in another reraise. Peters snap-called with {A-Diamonds}{J-Clubs} and Griffin's {K-Clubs}{Q-Spades} was, like the US soccer team's defence yesterday, in need of some serious improvement. But the turn was the {4-Clubs} and the river the {3-Diamonds} meaning that the former Triple Crown winner had to head to the payout desk.

Player Chips Progress
Tobias Peters nl
Tobias Peters
WSOP 1X Winner
160,000
Gavin Griffin us
Gavin Griffin
WSOP 1X Winner
Busted

Tags: Tobias PetersGavin Griffin

Cada Climbing

Joe Cada made it 3,800 to go and the action folded around to the blinds. Both the small and big blind made the call.

The flop came {K-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds} and the blinds both checked. Cada continued out for 6,500. The small blind quickly dipped into his stack of yellow 1,000 denomination chips and raised it to 16,000 total. The player in the big blind got out of the way.

Joe Cada shuffled chips with both hands for about thirty seconds before announcing that he was all in. The player in the small blind went into the tank before finally releasing his cards. Cada has been consistently winning pots and has climbed to one of our top stacks.

Player Chips Progress
Joe Cada us
Joe Cada
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 4X Winner
125,000 37,000

Tags: Joe Cada

Poker Vov Pop: Tim "Tmay420" West

Tim West (earlier in the WSOP)
Tim West (earlier in the WSOP)

On the last hand of the level we witnessed Tim "Tmay420" West three-betting his button to 13,200 following an early position raise of 3,500. Once the action passed round to the preflop raiser, he moved all in for 45,400 and West made the call.

West tabled his {Q-Clubs}{Q-Spades} straight away, but his opponent would pause, look up at West's hand and then table his {K-Hearts}{K-Clubs} as a few of the players on the table uttered a few words they may have had the word slow... in it.

The board ran out {8-Clubs}{3-Hearts}{3-Spades}{A-Spades}{4-Spades} to see West ship a few stack of chips over to his opponent while slipping to roughly 74,000. His opponent and another player on the table got into a slightly heated argument about one of them being called "a piece of shit", but the Tournament Director on duty didn't issue any penalty. West however - although a little frustrated - happily partook in the next instalment of the Poker Vox Pop.

Favorite Game?
Omaha.

Favorite WSOP Event?
Pot-Limit Omaha full ring.

Favorite Hand?
{J-Hearts}{7-Hearts}

WSOP Event you most want to win?
The $10,000 Main Event.

Will Phil Ivey play an event at this World Series?
No.

Most admired poker player?
Erik Seidel, but not for his past year in poker.

Player Chips Progress
Tim West us
Tim West
73,500 -44,500

Tags: Tim West