Depending where you are in the world: good morning, afternoon and evening. Welcome to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and Event #17 $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em.
The festivities will be kicking off at 12:00 PM where the first cards in a 10-level session will be flung to the far corners of the Brasilia Room. Event #17 is a three-day event with players beginning with 30,000 in tournament chips. Breaks will occur after every two levels and will be twenty-minutes in length. Each level consists of sixty-minutes and there will be a ninety-minute dinner break after the completion of Level 6.
This is the second Pot-Limit Hold'em event at this years WSOP. Event #5 the much smaller $1,500 buy-in event went the way of Nick Jivkov who bested a star-studded final table comprising of Daniel Negreanu, Bryan Pellegrino, Tommy Vedes and John Eames.
In 2011, the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em WSOP bracelet was placed on the wrist of Amir Lehavot. Lehavot defeating the likes of Nicolas Levis and McLean Karr to take down the gold.
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Erik Seidel looking happier with 50k in front of him
We have just glided past Table #7 as the dealer was handing Erik Seidel a nice pot. After some discussion with a watching journalist we understand that Seidel and Arieh got all of their money into the pot pre-flop; Arieh raising to 500 and then after four players called, John Juanda made it 3,200 to play. Erik Seidel then made it 6,000, Arieh bumped it up to 22,500, Juanda folded and Seidel called.
Seidel
Arieh
Board:
Erik Seidel moves up to 50,000 and Arieh is down to 8,000 and change.
Hugo Lemaire, who recently took fourth in the $5,000 Mixed-Max event for $162,443, just knocked out Josh Arieh over at Table 7. Arieh raised preflop to 800 from the button and Lemaire three-bet to 2,000 from the small blind. Arien came along for the ride and the dealer revealed a flop. Lemaire bet 1,825, Arieh quickly moved all in, and Lemaire nearly beat him into the pot.
Arieh:
Lemaire:
Arieh was looking for an ace or a diamond to double up and cripple Lemaire, but the turn and provided no help to the former WSOP Main Event final tablist. Lemaire increased his stack to 26,000, and Arieh made his way out of the Brasilia Room.
We caught the action at the tail end with the dealer counting Negreanu's stack to see if he had survived the hammer blow delivered by Nenad Medic. In the middle of the table was a board of , just in front of Medic was and in front of Negreanu was . So quads for Medic versus the over pair of Negreanu. The Negreanu count was 26,075 and with a stack of around 27,500 in front of Medic the elimination of the Canadian was confirmed.
Noah Schwartz is up to 52,000 after eliminating 'Mad' Marvin Rettenmaier. We didn't see the action but Adrien Allain informed us the the money went into the middle on a flop of (2 x clubs) with Schwartz holding and Rettenmaier . The turn and river bricked for the German and he was out.
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Pokerkat in her customary purple attire.
Kathy Liebert has just doubled up in the first hand after the break, courtesy of Eric Froehlich. We didn't see the action but we did see the showdown; all the action occured pre flop.
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A little bit of magic and Levi vanished
Nicolas Levi and Antonio Esfandiari just put it all on the line on a flop of . Esfandiari was holding and Levi . The board ran out and meaning Levi will not be creating back-to-back $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em final table experiences.
A journalist was heard asking Esfandiari whether or not the money went in pre flop or post flop.
"The internet wizards like to get it in pre flop. Us old school pros prefer the post flop route," said Esfandiari.
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flop. Lemaire bet 1,825, Arieh quickly moved all in, and Lemaire nearly beat him into the pot.
turn and 
provided no help to the former WSOP Main Event final tablist. Lemaire increased his stack to 26,000, and Arieh made his way out of the Brasilia Room.
and in front of Negreanu was 
(2 x clubs) with Schwartz holding 
and Rettenmaier 
. The board ran out 
and Seidel now has 120,000 chips.