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"All in and a call, Table 303!"
"All in and a call, Table 279!"
"All in and a call, Table 276!"
An unknown player at Table 283: "That's what I like to hear!"
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 4
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 room has undergone some noticeable cosmetic changes since the last break. About half of the Orange section has been broken, and the back two rows of Blue followed shortly thereafter. The tables have been removed from the Amazon Room for the last time this year, and there is some free floor space opening up around the perimeter of the room.
The field is breaking toward the center of the room, and there's no longer any room for spectators. The ropes have been pushed to the edges, and all of the friends and family will have to lurk around the far outskirts of the tables while we approach the money bubble. There are 94 tables left (846 players), and we are 99 eliminations away from the money. It's unlikely we'll get there before the dinner break in two hours, but it will be close.
We've rid ourselves of all those pesky black T100 chips, and the stacks are physically a little bit more manageable now. Hand-for-hand play will begin about five players shy of the bubble. There is an army of floor men and women that have been dispatched onto the floor to keep an eye on things during this crucial stage.
The cards are back in the air, and the last half of Level 15 is upon us. A little bubbly, anyone?
Duy Le was our first player to reach a million chips in the 2010 Main Event, and now sits with an impressive 1,105,000. Le's constant aggression has his tablemates on edge and his stack growing.
Matt Affleck (1,109,000) is also over a million chips. Does the name sound familiar? Affleck was a chip leader on one of the latter days of last year's Main Event, but was ultimately eliminated in 81st place.
In the last two hours we've lost some notables including 2002 Main Event Champion Robert Varkonyi, Barry Greenstein, Alfonso Cammarota, Jonathan Aguiar and David Sands. There are plenty of friendly faces still alive though. Patrik Antonious, Johnny Chan, Alexander Kostritsyn, Jesper Hougaard, David Benyamine and Josh Brikis are all still in and looking for a deep run.
We are now on an extended break due to a massive color-up. All of the black T100 chips are being raced off so we will see you in 30 minutes!
How is it that the biggest hands always go down just as we're about to take a break? Frank Kassela decided that we would have to wait a little longer before visiting the bathroom after making a huge move on the final hand of the level.
The madness started with the under-the-gun player raised to 10,500. There was one call before Kassela also called on the button. The small blind came along but the player in the big blind put in a raise and squeezed it to 60,000. Two folds and Kassela sensed that the big blind might have been up to something, so he responded by moving all in over the top. The small blind tanked and folded (what he later claimed was ace-king) as the big blind snap-called.
Kassela: 
Big blind: 
Oops! Kassela was in a pickle and there was no suckout on the 
board. When Kassela heard that the small blind had flatted with ace-king, he was a little miffed, as a standard raise in that spot, would have prevented Kassela from making his move and losing most of his stack. He's down to just 83,000 and could do with a break.
From the middle of the Blue section, Barbara Martinez was heard having a shrieking crisis of some sort. We heard the commotion before we saw it, so we hustled over to see what drew the blood-curdling scream.
Martinez had gotten her chips in with 
against Gregory Chochon's 
in a blind-versus-blind debacle. The 
flop was not at all good news for Martinez's overcards, as the set of sevens had her drawing dead to two runners.
The turn 
was the first runner, and the river was the cause for the shrill scream. Martinez has loudly doubled up to 163,000 in the luckiest of ways, and Chochon had to endure that celebration as he stared down at his little lonely stack of just 15,000 remaining chips.
Karina Jett was all in for 64,900 preflop with 
, and she found a call from Andrew Brown and his pocket deuces.
The board ran out 
, and Jett has doubled herself up to about 171,000.
A quick update from the two feature tables…
At the secondary feature table, Gavin Smith returns from the break to a super short stack of 45,500. Meanwhile, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi had a good last half-hour over there, pushing up to 190,000.
Both are in the tall shadow of Max Casal's big stack, though. Like everyone else at the table. Casal has 861,000.
At the main feature table, Jeff Fenech has 92,000, while Johnny Chan returns to a stack of 753,000. And Brett Richey is back in business after scoring a double-up on the last hand before the break.
In that hand, Richey got all of his chips in on the turn with the board showing 
. Richey had and his opponent 
. The river was the , and Richey stacked up 262,000 right before the color-up.
It looks like they'll be switching out this group from the main table after the break. More to come.
When we arrived at the table the board spread 
and there were more than 100,000 chips in the pot. Patrik Antonius moved all in for about 87,000 chips and his opponent tanked.
After a minute or two, he announced call and tabled 
. Antonius tabled .
The river card was a 
and Antonius doubled up to 360,000 chips.
In a hand that was recalled to us by a tablemate, Evelyn Ng has virtually doubled up and eliminated an opponent in the process.
It was Ng's 
up against 
as an exciting board ran out 
. Ng's flush was too good for her opponent's set as she is now up to 180,000.