Kirill Rabtsov was all in preflop with pocket kings and up against an opponent's 
. Rabtsov went on to flop a king and it held from there to double up to 24,500 in chips.
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$68,798,600
Entries
7,319
Level
41
Blinds
800,000 / 1,600,000
Ante
200,000
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Phillip Hilm just doubled through at the featured table here in the Red Section.
We did not catch his opponent's cards, but Hilm was all in preflop holding 
and the board ran 
. Hilm doubled to 31,000 chips putting him back above starting stack.
UK veteran Ian McDonald is out of the Main Event, 
no good against 
on a king high board.
There was about 8,000 in the pot when we walked up to a flop of 
. Tristan Wade checked, then raised Phil Laak's bet from 10,000 to 25,000 straight. Laak promptly moved all in over the top, and Wade called off the rest of his own chips, all in for about 60,000 total.
It was one of those flops; Laak tabled 
, smashed by Wade's 
. The turn and river were not running quad cards for Laak, and he's sent a big double up over to Wade. The two men have essentially traded stacks now, Laak sitting with 58,000 to Wade's 120,000.
Dan Harrington raised to 1,200 and was called by Erica Schoenberg out of the big blind. The two of them took a flop of and checked to see the fall on the turn.
Schoenberg fired 2,200 and Harrington made the call before the final community card was dealt out. The 
fell on the river and Schoenberg checked. Harrington bet 3,000 and his female counterpart mucked.
Harrington moved to 45,000 while Schoenberg decreased to 41,150.
A player in early position raised to 2,000, and Nicholas Mitchell called from the button. He and the raiser took a heads-up flop of 
, and Mitchell faced a continuation bet of 5,000. He decided to raise to 20,000, enough to cover his opponent. The call came quickly, and the cards were turned up:
Mitchell: 
Opponent: 
The 
turn and 
sealed the knockout for Mitchell, boosting his stack to right at 50,000 now.
Eric Wasserson raised to 1,100 from middle position and was called play a player in the small blind. The flop fell 
and the player in the small blind checked. Wasserson continued for 1,000 and his opponent check-raised to 3,000. Wasserson folded.
"I'll pay you $100 if you show a bluff," Wasserson poked.
"$100?" his opponent returned.
Wasserson nodded, and his opponent showed a 
.
"A king and...?" Wasserson prodded further.
The second card was a , proving that it wasn't a bluff. The player may have lost out on $100, but he is happy to have Wasserson's chips.
A player in middle position limped, Ronnie Bardah limped from the cutoff seat, the small blind completed and Jason Riesenberg checked in the big blind. The four of them took a flop of 
and action checked around to see the fall on the turn.
The small blind checked and Riesenberg took the initiative with a bet of 1,100. The next player folded before Bardah made the call. The small blind mucked as well.
The river completed the board with the 
and also completed some more draws. Riesenberg didn't seem scared and fired 2,200. Bardah fired back with a raise to 5,300.
"Really?!?!" commented Riesenberg immediately after Bardah raised him. He then went into the tank for a minute or two. Finally, Riesenberg would let it go after checking his hole cards twice more and the pot was pushed to Bardah.
Bardah increased to 54,000 while Riesenberg slipped back to about 20,000.
Snickers Bar in the Poker Kitchen; $2, Taxi to the Rio: $11; Being eliminated from the Main Event in the last level of the day with aces versus ace-king: priceless.
It's not often I wince at the felt and feel the pain of a victim of variance, but with just 20 minutes remaining, one pour soul found himself heading towards the rail with a tear in his eye and a limp in his step.
All in with 
, he had his opponent by the short and curlies with , but after a cruel 
board it was the bullets that would halt in mid air. The World Series: where dreams are shattered and hopes are crushed.
Peter Neff raised to 1,600 from the button, and Mark Teltscher reraised to about 3,600 from the small blind. In the big, Eugene Todd wasn't messing around either. He moved all in for an additional 12,775 on top, Neff folded, and Teltscher called to put him at risk.
Showdown
Teltscher:
Todd: 
Todd was safe on the flop, scared on the turn, and eliminated on the river of a board that came down 
. Teltscher's straight does the deed, sending Todd out and adding those chips to his own stack of 52,500.