Event #43: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Day 1 | 2013 World Series of Poker

06-24-2013 00:25 UTC-7

A Few Chip Counts From Around The Room

Mickey Doft

Level 6 : 250/500, 125 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Hasan Habib	58,000	-1,000
Naoya Kihara	57,000	19,000
John Hennigan	51,000	11,000
Jeff Lisandro	50,000	22,000
Erik Seidel	41,000	20,000
Dario Alioto	36,000	-1,000
Ben Yu	36,000
Konstantin Puchkov	35,000	-3,000
Ali Eslami	34,000	-3,000
Billy Baxter	32,000	-2,000
Jon Turner	23,000	1,500
Phil Galfond	22,000	-9,000
Larry Wright	15,000	5,500
Lamar Wilkinson	12,000	-8,000
Bertrand Grospellier	7,000	-23,000
Abe Mosseri	Busted

06-24-2013 00:18 UTC-7

Hellmuth Gone

Josh_Cahlik

Level 6 : 250/500, 125 ante

After his last encounter with Paul Volpe, it seems that Phil Hellmuth entered a downward spiral. We arrived at the table to find him open to 1,300 before the draw. Tobias Wenker raised to 3,200 from the next seat over and it folded back to Hellmuth who shot the rest of his stack in the middle for less.

Hellmuth announced that he was drawing one and Wenker stood pat, rolling over his hand.

Wenker:
Hellmuth:

Hellmuth was drawing live with his final card in front of him.

"I have a feeling it's going to be paint. It feels like paint. I've had a wheel draw four times today," said Hellmuth very quickly. It was indeed paint as he picked up the , giving him the second best hand. Hellmuth stormed out of the tournament area and disappeared quickly from sight. Wenker dragged in the pot, satisfied with having slain a world champion.

Player	Chips	Progress
Phil Hellmuth	Busted

Tags: Phil Hellmuth

Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 150

06-23-2013 23:50 UTC-7

Break

Mickey Doft

Level 6 : 250/500, 125 ante

The players are in the midst of their final 15-minute break of the night.

06-23-2013 23:49 UTC-7

Volpe Bests Two World Champions

Josh_Cahlik

Level 6 : 250/500, 125 ante

Johnny Chan opened with an early position raise to 1,600 and Paul Volpe called from the cutoff. Phil Hellmuth peeked at his cards from the small blind and moved out a three-bet to 7,000. Chan took a moment and looked at his cards once more before moving out a call. Volpe decided to call behind.

Player	Draw
Phil Hellmuth	Pat
Johnny Chan	1
Paul Volpe	1

Hellmuth checked before the draw was even complete and Chan checked as well. Volpe knocked the table back and the dealer prompted the players to table their hands.

"Queen," announced Hellmuth.

"No good," shot back Volpe, showing .

Chan quietly looked at Volpe's hand and mucked his own. Hellmuth threw his hand away but nothing about the exchange that occurred afterward was quiet.

"He calls seven-thousand with a nine. It's just insane," Hellmuth muttered to himself. "If I get some chips I have a shot to win. You on the other hand..." he trailed off.

Volpe quietly replied with something that we couldn't hear, but this was when Chan chimed in.

"Did he say he had a queen?" asked Chan.

Volpe confirmed that was what Hellmuth said.

"I had him beat anyway!" said Chan.

Hellmuth continued to speak lowly even as the next hand begun. The PokerBrat now has about 19,000 in chips while Volpe is thriving at 42,000. Chan is just around starting stack with 31,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Volpe	42,000	11,000
Johnny Chan	31,000	-4,000
Phil Hellmuth	19,000	-20,000

Tags: Johnny Chan Paul Volpe Phil Hellmuth

06-23-2013 23:43 UTC-7

Mike Watson vs. Dee Tiller

Mickey Doft

Level 6 : 250/500, 125 ante

Mike Watson raised to 1,250 under the gun and Dee Tiller three-bet to 5,000 from the cutoff. Action folded back to Watson who called. Watson drew one, while Tiller stood pat. After a few moments, Watson bet 10,000 and Tiller called.

Watson tabled , Tiller couldn't beat it, and Watson took down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mike Watson	36,000	13,000
Dee Tiller	27,000	-12,000

Tags: Dee Tiller Mike Watson

06-23-2013 23:42 UTC-7

More Eliminations

Mickey Doft

Level 6 : 250/500, 125 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Barry Greenstein	Busted
Galen Hall	Busted

06-23-2013 23:20 UTC-7

Schneider Bests Schulman

Mickey Doft

Level 6 : 250/500, 125 ante

Nick Schulman raised to 1,400 under the gun and David "Bakes" Baker called from the hijack. Tom Schneider three-bet to 6,500 from the big blind, Schulman called, and Baker folded.

Both Schneider and Schulman stood pat and opted to check,

Schneider tabled , besting Schulman's holdings to win the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Schulman	49,000	-5,000
Tom Schneider	43,000	8,000

Tags: Nick Schulman Tom Schneider

06-23-2013 23:20 UTC-7

Chips For Cheong

Josh_Cahlik

Level 6 : 250/500, 125 ante

Phil Laak opened the action by raising to 1,050 from under the gun. Joseph Cheong called from the next seat over and the two were joined to the draw by Richard Ashby from the small blind and the player in the big blind.

Ashby drew one card, the big blind took two, and both Laak and Cheong followed Ashby's lead by drawing one. There were three checks around the table to Cheong who cut out 2,750. Ashby called the bet and the other two folded.

"Nine," said Cheong, fanning .

Ashby nodded his head and mucked his hand as the pot was pushed to Cheong. Cheong now sits just around starting stack with 29,000 in chips.