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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1c
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
The players are back in their seats and cards are being dealt. Tournament staff just announced 2,314 is the official number of entrants for today. Approximately 1,900 (and change) remain.
Level: 4
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
Once upon a time, the old-timers will tell you if you stick around to listen, making a dinner break meant something. In 2010 80% of the field makes the dinner break. If the dinner bell doesn't toll for you, it means you're one of the unlucky few out of the tournament before the end of Level 3.
Joining the ranks of the early departed in Level 3 were : 2009 November Niner Steve Begleiter; the aggressive and unpredictable Faraz Jaka; former WSOP Player of the Year Jeff Madsen; and Chad Brown, who ran his pocket kings right into pocket aces. It was only the twenty third time today that we saw someone run kings into aces.
There wasn't much change at the top of the counts in Level 3. Barny Boatman looks like our end-of-level chip leader with 143,000. David Williams, who dropped almost 60,000 chips at one point, is right behind with 141,000. Former champion Johnny Chan rounds out the Top 3 with 130,000.
There are plenty in the field who are struggling right now. Mike Sowers, Lee Markholt and Tom "durrrr" Dwan haven't been able to find the right gear yet to start accumulating chips. Dwan was particularly unlucky to run a small flush into a bigger flush just before dinner break.
Perhaps the 90-minute dinner break will give them all a chance to re-group, re-focus, and come back ready to rock when Level 4 starts at 8:20 p.m. local time.
With the board reading 
, Darryll Fish fired a bet of 4,025 before his opponent raised it to 13,100.
Fish went into the tank for a long time before declaring a call.
"Straight," said his opponent as he opened 
.
"F*#k!" exclaimed Fish as he slips back to 35,000.
Johnny Chan raised to 800 in early position, and he was called in two places.
The three men took a flop of 
, and the small blind led out with a bet of 1,100. That folded the big blind, but Johnny Chan promptly raised to 3,100. His opponent snap-reraised to 12,100 total, and Chan called.
The turn 
drew a tiny bet of 3,000 from the small blind. Chan instantly raised and his opponent instantly shoved, and Chan called, well... instantly. He turned up 
for top set, and his opponent and his 
were drawing dead and eliminated on the 
river.
With that, Chan has moved his way toward the top of the board with 130,000 just as the dinner break approaches.
With the action folded to him in the small blind, Joao Nunes opened for 800 and the big blind called. The flop came down 
. Nunes led out for 1,400, the big blind raised to 3,100, Nunes moved all-in for 8,250 and his opponent gave up his hand.
With that pot, Nunes is back in five figures with 13,000 in chips.
There was a multi-way pot in progress when we walked up to a flop of 
. Two players checked, and the middle-position bettor made it 2,000 to go. Jon "FatalError" Aguiar called the 2,000, and it would be he and his opponent heads up to the turn.
The 
fell on board, and both players checked to the 
river. When the bettor checked, Aguiar figured a bet of 2,200 was in order, and his opponent made the call.
Aguiar tabled 
for the overpair, and his three pair were good enough to earn him that little pot and push his stack close to 60,000.
Chad Brown's misery in this tournament was prolonged for a good two minutes after he was forced to wait around at the table until the ESPN cameras were summoned to capture the moment of his impending elimination, after he ran his 
into an opponent's 
preflop.
Lights, cameras, action, board 
. No king for Brown and he was sent to the rail.