2011 World Series of Poker

Event #58: $10,000 Main Event
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
ak
Prize
$8,715,638
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$64,531,000
Entries
6,865
Level Info
Level
43
Blinds
1,200,000 / 2,400,000
Ante
300,000

Khan Can't Catch a Flush

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

The under-the-gun player raised to 600 and a player in middle position re-raised to 1,475. Hafiz Khan called while the initial raiser folded. The flop came {8-Diamonds}{3-Hearts}{2-Hearts} and the first player bet out 2,475 which Khan called. Both players checked after the {5-Clubs} came on the turn and saw the {k-Spades} hit on the river. The first player checked to Khan who bet 4,600 and the other player snap called.

Khan: {q-Hearts}{j-Hearts}
Opponent: {a-Spades}{k-Diamonds}

Khan had nothing but a busted flush draw and the other player's pair of kings was good enough to win the pot. Khan was left with 31,600 after the hand.

Tags: Hafiz Khan

Alexander the Not-Doing-So-Great

Alexander Roumeliotis
Alexander Roumeliotis

Swede Alexander Roumeliotis has been eliminated after getting involved in a three-bet pot against Carlos Mortensen. The chips all went in on a {J-}{6-}{6-} flop, Roumeliotis holding {Q-}{Q-} but the Spaniard flipped {7-}{6-} for trip sixes to eliminate him.

Mortensen is over the 50,000 mark now.

Player Chips Progress
Carlos Mortensen
Carlos Mortensen
52,000
19,000
19,000
Alexander Roumeliotis se
Alexander Roumeliotis
Busted

Tags: Alexander RoumeliotisCarlos Mortensen

Blue Section Stacks

Player Chips Progress
Mike Watson
Mike Watson
47,300
20,100
20,100
Tristan Wade
Tristan Wade
46,000
11,500
11,500
Mikhail Smirnov
Mikhail Smirnov
45,000
25,500
25,500
Justin Bonomo
Justin Bonomo
37,400
3,900
3,900
Vivek Rajkumar
Vivek Rajkumar
37,000
5,000
5,000
Eugene Katchalov ua
Eugene Katchalov
36,400
-4,600
-4,600
35,000
Guillaume Rivet
Guillaume Rivet
33,000
3,100
3,100
Richard Toth
Richard Toth
31,500
1,400
1,400
Scott Seiver
Scott Seiver
29,300
1,200
1,200
Tyler Kenney
Tyler Kenney
26,200
-6,800
-6,800
Jake Cody
Jake Cody
26,100
-5,000
-5,000
Jon Aguiar
Jon Aguiar
25,500
-3,500
-3,500
Ken Aldridge
Ken Aldridge
24,000
500
500
Michael Tureniec se
Michael Tureniec
23,500
1,175
1,175
WSOP 1X Winner
Jon Eaton
Jon Eaton
22,300
600
600
Ben Lamb
Ben Lamb
15,800
800
800
Thayer Rasmussen
Thayer Rasmussen
13,800
-6,200
-6,200

Toth Makes Tough Call

We managed to catch up to Richard Toth who was facing a 2,500 chip bet on a {A-Hearts}{q-Hearts}{3-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}{k-Diamonds} board. With around 6,000 already in the pot Toth went into the tank to contemplate a call. After two minutes or so Toth threw in the appropriate amount of chips. Toth's opponent immediately mucked, when it was on Toth to show his cards to claim the pot he simply let them lay there face down. The dealer announced that someone needed to show in order to win the hand, so Toth flipped over {A-}{2-} for a pair of aces and the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Richard Toth
Richard Toth
37,000
5,500
5,500

Tags: Richard Toth

Hall Fills Up

We caught up with the action four-handed on a {10-Clubs}{5-Clubs}{4-Spades} flop, where it was checked around to the player in the cutoff, who bet 800. Both blinds folded, but Galen Hall called from early position.

Hall check-called a 1,600 bet from his opponent on the {7-Hearts} turn. However, when a {7-Spades} came on the river, Hall led out for 6,100 and was quickly called by his opponent. Hall tabled {5-Diamonds}{5-Hearts} for a full house and his opponent nodded in acknowledgement before mucking.

Hall is up to 42,000.

Player Chips Progress
Galen Hall
Galen Hall
42,000
8,000
8,000

Tags: Galen Hall

Check Out the PokerNews Twitter Page for Even More Updates

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

Hopefully all of our readers are enjoying PokerNews' coverage of the 2011 World Series of Poker. We're proud to be the official live reporting team again this year and it wouldn't be without all of your support. We'd just like to remind everyone that with such massive field sizes in many of these events and players scattered all across the room, we're unable to track every single player in the chips counts as often as we'd like to.

Things on the tournament floor are constantly changing from hand to hand and we know you want every single piece of information you can handle. Many pros in all of these events update their Twitter account on the regular, so you might want to check out the PokerNews Twitter page to see what the players themselves are saying about their progress in the events.

Akkari Short Annnnnnddddd Out

Andre Akkari
Andre Akkari

Bracelet winner and Team PokerStars Pro (Brazil) Andre Akkari is out of the Main Event.

We saw Akkari lose a few hands to Mike Matusow including this one where on a flop of {10-Spades}{7-Diamonds}{5-Hearts} Matusow bet out 575 and Akkari raised it up to 1,625. Matusow made the call and the two saw the turn {7-Hearts} both players checked and the river came {7-Clubs} Both players checked again and Matusow announced, "I would've played kings or aces the same way" as he showed down {9-Clubs}{10-Clubs} for top pair. Akkari mucked and was down to just 12,000 at that point.

While we missed the action, we did see him getting up and walking away from the table just a few hands later. Although he made an early Main Event exit, it does not overshadow his excellent series and bracelet win with one of the most exciting rails the WSOP has ever seen.

Player Chips Progress
Mike Matusow
Mike Matusow
38,000
-2,000
-2,000
Andre Akkari br
Andre Akkari
Busted

Tags: Andre Akkari

Some More Orange

Player Chips Progress
Sam Stein
Sam Stein
46,500
4,500
4,500
Perry Friedman
Perry Friedman
43,300
13,300
13,300
Lucille Cailly fr
Lucille Cailly
39,100
-10,900
-10,900
Ted Lawson
Ted Lawson
36,000
6,000
6,000
John Monnette
John Monnette
32,300
2,300
2,300
Anton Ionel
Anton Ionel
31,500
-23,500
-23,500
Chris Viox
Chris Viox
30,800
800
800
25,000
-5,000
-5,000
Tuan Le us
Tuan Le
8,500
-21,500
-21,500

Alright Aldridge

We caught up to the action at Table 293 to find four players witnessing a {9-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}{j-Clubs} flop. Ken Aldridge in the big blind bet out 1,600 and was able to convince Jake Cody to call while the two other players folded.

With a {2-Hearts} on the turn Aldridge fired out 3,000. Cody made the call and it was off to the river.

A {a-Spades} fell in place for the river and both players opted to knuckle. Aldridge showed {A-Clubs}{j-Spades} for two pair aces and jacks while Cody simply mucked.

Player Chips Progress
Ken Aldridge
Ken Aldridge
36,000
12,000
12,000
Jake Cody
Jake Cody
20,000
-6,100
-6,100

Tags: Jake CodyKen Aldridge