2011 World Series of Poker

Event #7: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aq
Prize
$573,456
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$2,340,600
Entries
249
Level Info
Level
26
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
0

Mclean Cleaning Up

Level 5 : 200/400, 0 ante

Mclean Karr is proving himself a force to be reckoned with at his table.

We missed the action but we recently saw Karr's {a-Diamonds}{a-Clubs} knock out another player on a board reading {7-Hearts}{4-Hearts}{2-Hearts}{3-Diamonds}{q-Clubs}. Karr now has a healthy 163,500 and seems to be the current chip leader.

Tags: Mclean Karr

Updated Eliminations and Chips

Player Chips Progress
Barry Greenstein us
Barry Greenstein
59,000
-14,000
-14,000
Vladimir Shchemelev ru
Vladimir Shchemelev
31,000
1,000
1,000
Beth Shak us
Beth Shak
30,000
2,500
2,500
David Baker
David Baker
24,000
5,000
5,000
Michael Mizrachi us
Michael Mizrachi
13,000
-17,000
-17,000
$25K Fantasy
WSOP 5X Winner
Andy Frankenberger us
Andy Frankenberger
12,000
-2,000
-2,000
WSOP 2X Winner
Nikolay Evdakov ru
Nikolay Evdakov
Busted
Scott Seiver us
Scott Seiver
Busted
$25K Fantasy
WSOP 4X Winner
Dan Shak us
Dan Shak
Busted
$25K Fantasy
Alan Sternberg us
Alan Sternberg
Busted
WSOP 1X Winner
John Racener us
John Racener
Busted
$25K Fantasy
WSOP 1X Winner
Frank Kassela us
Frank Kassela
Busted
WSOP 3X Winner
Alex Kravchenko ru
Alex Kravchenko
Busted
Neil Channing gb
Neil Channing
Busted

Obrestad Cripples Meltzer

Level 5 : 200/400, 0 ante

With the board reading {a-Diamonds}{7-Spades}{5-Diamonds}{a-Clubs}{9-Diamonds} Alan Meltzer bet 11,000 and Annette Obrestad raised all in for around 25,000. Meltzer opted to call and Obrestad showed the {9-Hearts}{9-Clubs} for a rivered full house and Meltzer mucked his hand.

Meltzer was left with less than 7,000 after the hand while Obrestad's stack grew to 62,000.

A few hands later Meltzer was eliminated from the tournament.

Tags: Alan MeltzerAnnette Obrestad

Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 0

Don't Do It To Me!

Level 7 : 300/600, 0 ante

Justin Bonomo raised preflop to 2,000 and the player on the button reraised to 5,700. Chau Giang then declared "pot" and bumped it up to nearly 20,000. Bonomo folded and the button went all in. Giang made the call and the hands were tabled.

Giang: {a-Hearts}{k-Spades}
Button: {a-Clubs}{k-Clubs}

The flop came {6-Spades}{4-Clubs}{3-Hearts} and we looked set for a chop pot. Then the {3-Clubs} came on the turn giving the button a flush draw. Giang exclaimed, "Don't do it to me!" The river brought the {6-Diamonds} and the players ended up splitting the pot.

Tags: Chau GiangJustin Bonomo

Luke Schwartz Short-Stacked

Level 7 : 300/600, 0 ante

Luke Schwartz raised from middle position to 1,200 and action folded around to the cutoff, who then reraised to 2,800. The table folded around back to Schwartz and he called to see the flop of {5-Hearts} {2-Spades} {K-Spades}.

Both players checked to the {10-Spades} turn and Schwartz checked again. The cutoff bet 3,300 and Schwartz called. The {4-Spades} came on the river and Schwartz check called a 4,200 after a short tank. The cutoff turned over {A-Spades} {A-Diamonds} for the nut flush and Schwartz mucked with a sigh. He's down 14,000.

Tags: Luke Schwartz

Frankenberger Picks Up Jacks

Level 7 : 300/600, 0 ante

A player in middle position raised to 1,300 only to have a short-stacked Andy Frankenberger reraise to 3,300 from the small blind. Action folded back to the original raiser and he made it 11,300 to go. Frankenberger then moved all in for a total of 15,700, his opponent called, and the cards were turned on their back.

Frankenberger: {J-Diamonds}{J-Spades}
Opponent: {Q-Clubs}{J-Hearts}

Frankenberger's best bet to double was to dodge a queen, which is exactly what he did as the board ran out {3-Clubs}{2-Diamonds}{3-Hearts}{K-Spades}{10-Clubs}. He is now sitting with 33,000.

Tags: Andy Frankenberger

Josephy's Stack Increases

Level 7 : 300/600, 0 ante

With the board reading {a-Hearts}{k-Clubs}{7-Clubs}{q-Diamonds}, Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy shoved all in. The other player in the hand went into the tank for a bit before eventually deciding to fold. There was already a good amount of chips in the pot which upped Josephy's stack to around 32,000.

Tags: Cliff Josephy

Russians Collide

A series of preflop raises saw PokerStars Team Pro Russia member Maxim Lykov all in for around 25,000 against Vladimir Shchemelev, who barely had him covered.

Lykov: {K-Spades}{K-Hearts}
Shchemelev: {A-Spades}{K-Diamonds}

Lykov was in great shape and looking to dodge an ace, but the {A-Diamonds}{6-Spades}{A-Hearts} flop was disastrous and left him drawing dead. The meaningless {7-Diamonds} turn and {J-Spades} river were run out for good measure as the Team Pro paid his massage therapist and made his way to the rail.

Player Chips Progress
Vladimir Shchemelev ru
Vladimir Shchemelev
60,000
29,000
29,000
Maxim Lykov ru
Maxim Lykov
Busted

Tags: Maxim LykovVladimir Schemelev