2010 World Series of Poker

Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Event Info

2010 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
$8,944,310
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$68,798,600
Entries
7,319
Level Info
Level
41
Blinds
800,000 / 1,600,000
Ante
200,000

Cunningham KO's Another

Allen Cunningham opened to 800 from early position and found a call from Bernard Lee from the cutoff before the small blind moved all in for 11,300.

Cunningham made the call as Lee folded to take us to a showdown.

Cunningham: {A-Clubs}{K-Hearts}
Opponent: {A-Spades}{J-Diamonds}

The board ran out {9-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}{A-Diamonds}{K-Clubs} to see Cunningham collect the pot to move to 79,800 while dispatching of another player.

Tags: Allen CunninghamBernard Lee

Montgomery Takes a Hit

Scott Montgomery
Scott Montgomery

WIth the board spread {q-Diamonds}{j-Spades}{2-Spades}{5-Diamonds} and almost 9,000 chips in the pot, Scott Montgomery fired a 8,200-chip bet from the big blind. The player in the small, check-raised to 15,000 and Montgomery tank-folded.

Montgomery slipped to 30,000 chips.

Tags: Scott Montgomery

Bow Down to Jeff Shulman

University of Washington graduate Jeff Shulman was all in preflop against Johannes Steindl. ESPN cameras rushed the table to catch action, and the hands were opened.

Shulman: {a-Hearts}{k-Clubs}
Steindl: {k-Hearts}{j-Hearts}

The board ran {4-Diamonds}{q-Clubs}{5-Hearts}{3-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}, and the proud Huskie doubled to 8,400 chips. Shulman is still short, but with the structure being so friendly we'd rather not count out a man who's made two Main Event final tables.

Tags: Jeff ShulmanJohannes Steindl

Sometimes it's Best to Follow Your Instinct

We arrived a little late but saw a board of {j-Hearts}{k-Hearts}{j-Spades}{7-Spades} and Vivek Rajkumar checking with his opponent doing the same.

The river was the {a-Hearts} and Rajkumar checked again. When the player in Seat 9 bet, Rajkumar raised and Seat 9 shoved all in for 13,000 total. Rajkumar said, "I have the worst possible full house" and tanked for some time before another player called clock.

Rajkumar ended up making the call and his {7-}{7-} was indeed no good against his opponent's {a-Clubs}{a-Spades}.

After losing the large pot, Rajkumar is down to 8,800 in chips.

Tags: Vivek Rajkumar

Weis Beyond Her Years

Melan-choly
Melan-choly

Melanie Weisner bet around 1,500 on an {8-Hearts}{a-Spades}{k-Spades} flop and received exactly one call, from the gentleman in the hijack.

Both players then checked the {q-Clubs} turn and Weisner checked the {j-Clubs} river as well before her opponent bet 3,250. Weisner quietly pushed her hole cards back to the dealer, and she took a small hit to leave her with 38,000.

Tags: Melanie Weisner

Wigging Out

EPT Copenhagen winner Anton Wigg has not had a marvelous day. Just now we witnessed him going all in with at least one limper ahead of him. No-one called though, and he remains short on less than 7,000.

Tags: Anton Wigg

Call the Medic . . . and I don't Mean Nenad

Paramedics were just in the Pavilion Room assisting an elderly gentleman who was complaining of chest pains. The medics were doing a great job and the man seemed to in good spirits but he was still wheeled out of the room on a stretcher to be taken to the hospital.

As it turns out, the man was playing in the tournament. The table seemed concerned for the man and assured him that they would watch over his chips; likewise, the tournament staff reassured the man his chips would be blinded throughout the rest of the day and the remainder would be taken into Day 2. His stack currently sits at 26,125 so he should easily survive the next level and a half.

Hopefully everything turns out alright and he'll be back in action sooner than later.

Lee Check-Raised Off the Flop

Bernard Lee
Bernard Lee

With a little over 5,000 chips already in the middle Bernard Lee fired a bet of 2,750 after his opponent checked to him. The player then check-raised to 7,000. Lee thought for a bit, but mucked his hand and dropped back to 39,600.

Tags: Bernard Lee

Six-Bet Victory for Coimbra

André Coimbra opened with a raise from the button only to have the big blind three-bet to 3,200.

With the action back on Coimbra, he made it 6,400 to go, only to have his opponent raise it once more; this time to 15,200.

As Coimbra's masseuse halted his massage so he could play out the pot, Coimbra dropped in an additional six 5,000-denomination chips to make it the sixth bet of the hand; this one amounting to 36,400.

After nearly three minutes deliberating, Coimbra's opponent released his hand to see Coimbra collect the pot and move to 89,000 in chips.

Tags: André Coimbra