Dwyte Pilgrim just won a big pot to push his stack up to 270,000 in chips after he hit quad tens on a board of 
. Pilgrim check-called the flop and turn before shoving in on the river. He was paid off by his opponent who held an ace.
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
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Alan Sternberg started the day with 375,000 chips, slipped down into under 300,000, and has been working his way back up. He's currently sitting on 325,000 after calling a player's all-in bet preflop.
Sternberg: 
Opponent: 
All it took was the flop for Sternberg to pull ahead, as it came down 
. The 
on the turn and 
on the river saw him through to the end.
Three players had reached the turn with the board showing 
. Johnny Chan led for 14,000, then an opponent raised to 30,000. The third player folded, and Chan tanked for a short while. Perhaps it was those decades of experience -- or maybe just the last couple of hours' worth with this opponent -- but something told Chan he wasn't good, and so he folded.
Chan showed one of his cards -- the 
-- as he let his hand go. That perhaps prompted his opponent to share what he'd had: 
for the straight. Chan's instinct was correct.
Chan preserves his stack of 610,000.
David "Doc" Sands opened with a raise, and Filippo Candio added another 17,400 to the bet. Sands responded by moving all in for about 70,000. "What? All in?" Candio asked the dealer several times. "All in? Oh, I call." Sands stood up, disgusted by the cooler.
Sands: 
Candio: 
He was even suit dominated. Yuck. The board ran out 
, and Candio's friends on the rail whooped while Sands made a quiet exit. A rough end to a solid series from the Doc. Candio has his chips in a messy mountain that reaches above his eye level. It's impossible to count exactly, but he's somewhere in the 750,000 range after busting Sands.
In a raised pot preflop, chip leader Duy Le and Will "The Thrill" Failla took a flop of 
. Both players checked.
The turn brought the and Le bet out 9,000.
"Pair the board, dealer," Failla requested as he flipped out enough chips to call.
The river was the and Le tossed four orange T5,000 chips forward. Failla almost beat him into the pot.
Le opened his hand, but all we could see was the . Failla showed 
for a bigger pair and Le mucked his hand. Faila jumped to 225,000 chips while Le slipped to 891,000.
Another word about the Chip Counts:
We started the day with all 1,203 names in the chip counts so that you guys could eyeball your friends and family and see where they stacked up. It's not feasible for us to give you reliable updates on 1,200 players, however, so we've since culled the list down to the notables and big stacks in the room.
So, if your best friend's mom was in the chip counts earlier and she's been removed now, that doesn't mean she's been eliminated. She's just been removed for now so that you don't have to wonder why her count is stuck in the same place all day. We're constantly updating our list with big stacks as they appear, so you'll have a good picture of what's going on in the room and who's doing what. We're just unable to follow everyone individually today.
Tomorrow we'll be tracking the full field once everyone is safely in the money.
When we arrived at the table Hoyt Corkin had just called an all in from one of his opponents.
Corkins tables 
and his opponent tabled ace-king.
The board ran out 
and Corkins is now up to 620,000 chips.
A player in middle position opened the pot, and next to speak called. The action folded to Raymond Rahme, and he moved all in.
The initial raiser called and tabled pocket sixes, Rahme tabled pocket queens.
The board came out 
and Rahme is out of the Main Event.
Mori Eskandani suffered a small loss in a recent pot but still has significantly more chips than the average stack. Sitting with the button, he was part of a three-way flop of 
. The big blind checked to a player in middle position, who led out for 13,000. Only Eskandani called. The turn 
brought some more coordination to the board. Eskandani considered his options for about a minute once his opponent bet 32,000. He eventually folded his hand to preserve his count at 360,000.
Frank Kassela is in high spirits, but I suppose knowing that your enlarged face will be adorning the Rio corridors next year tends to have that effect. At the moment, he has 310,000, and just three-bet an open of 7,500 to 21,000.
"I'm normally pretty lucky when the cameras are here," he laughed as the lens drew nearer. In the end, his opponent heeded the warning and made the fold, allowing the two-time bracelet winner to pick up the pot uncontested. "I had a good sized pair," revealed Kassela mid-probing.