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

Shulman Out

Barry Shulman Eliminated
Barry Shulman Eliminated

Barry Shulman is been sent crashing to the rail after he committed his last chips on a flop of {Q-Spades}{6-Clubs}{8-Clubs}.

Shulman opened {A-Clubs}{6-Spades} and was trailing his opponent's {K-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds}. The turn was the {4-Spades} and river the {5-Diamonds} to bring no help to Shulman and end his tournament short of the money.

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Ruthless

Adam "Roothlus" Levy started the day with 323,400 chips. He's been on the attack over the first 90 minutes and has managed to increase his count to by about a third to 450,000. He was in the small blind for a recent hand which saw Levy heads up against the big blind on the turn, {10-Hearts}{2-Hearts}{j-Diamonds}{q-Hearts}. Levy bet 8,500 and was called. He did not slow down when the board paired with a river {10-Clubs}. He bet another 18,000 and took the pot without showdown after his opponent folded.

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Lodden Flying

What does Johnny Lodden think? He's thinks it's pretty good to be Johnny Lodden right now after he's just raked in another nice pot to add to his blossoming stack of chips.

Lodden check-called for 24,000 on the turn before leading for 45,000 on the river on a board of {2-Spades}{7-Clubs}{3-Hearts}{2-Clubs}{5-Clubs}. His opponent quickly called but Lodden showed {A-Clubs}{3-Clubs} for the nut flush, as his opponent flashed pocket queens.

We estimate Lodden's towers of chips to now be somewhere in the vicinity of 750,000 chips.

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Alexander the Great

Alex Jacob on Day 3
Alex Jacob on Day 3

We haven't heard too much from Alex Jacob this year, but despite his lower-than-usual profile (the hair certainly has less volume this year), he's deep in this Main Event and the recent recipient of a double through.

With the flop reading {J-Spades}{10-Hearts}{5-Hearts}, Jacob got it all in with {5-Diamonds}{5-Spades} in the big blind, only to be met by a hand he didn't want to see: {A-Hearts}{2-Hearts}. But despite the possibility of pain, the {K-Spades} turn and {3-Spades} were both safe, and Jacob was rewarded with a newly refurbished stack of 162,000.

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Real Chips For the Online Pro

The action folded to Lauren Kling on the button and she opened the pot with a 7,500-chip raise. Shannon Shorr folded the small blind and André Coimbra called in the big.

The flop ran out {9-Diamonds}{6-Spades}{j-Clubs} and the Portuguese player check-raised to 20,000 a 9,500-chip bet from Kling. Kling called and saw a {2-Spades} fell on the river.

Coimbra fired a 30,000-chip bet and took the pot, is now up to 270,000 chips.

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Antonius Busts One

Patrik Antonius was in the small blind and moved all in against the short stack in the big blind. The big blind made the call with the {A-Hearts}{2-Hearts}, but was dominated by the {A-Diamonds}{8-Spades} of Antonius.

The board ran out {A-Clubs}{9-Spades}{6-Spades}{3-Clubs}{8-Hearts} and Antonius made two pair to win the pot. He's now up to 250,000 in chips.

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Shulman Bounces Back

Barry Shulman's quite popular with the cameras today, and they managed to catch his latest hand. I didn't see who made the first raise, but when I joined there was 9,000 in front of Shulman in the small blind and the action on a player in the cut-off who bumped it up to 27,400.

Shulman made the call leading to a {2-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{10-Hearts} flop which went check, check, before the reigning WSOPE Champion took it down on the {Q-Spades} turn with a bet of 25,000. Shulman senior now has 160,000 after hitting a few hurdles earlier on.

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Bucaric Takes Out Two

A shout of "Two all-ins and a call on 340!" brought us to the top corner of the Orange Section, where two short stacks were all in with {a-Clubs}{q-Hearts} and {a-Diamonds}{a-Hearts}, respectively. They had both been called by Matthew Bucaric on the button, who showed {j-Clubs}{j-Diamonds}.

"Did anyone fold a jack?" Bucaric asked. There was no reply, but a jack did appear on a flop of {j-Hearts}{6-Clubs}{6-Hearts}. That full house left the first all-in player drawing dead to running sixes. The second had only one additional out, the case ace. The turn {q-Diamonds} and river {k-Diamonds} knocked both players out of the tournament.

"Sorry guys," said Bucaric as the pot was pushed to him.

A floor standing at the table replied, "You ain't sorry. Don't lie, or give the chips back." Bucaric just stacked them up.

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Rodman Out

Blair Rodman was folded to in the button when he announced he was all in for his last 55,000 chips. The player in the small blind also announced he was all in, having Rodman just barely covered. The big blind got out of the way and we were headed to a heads-up showdown.

Rodman: {a-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}
Opponent: {k-Spades}{k-Hearts}

Rodman was in rough shape and was hoping to hit an ace to pull ahead. However, he didn't get the help he needed as the board ran out {10-Clubs}{4-Spades}{10-Spades}{7-Hearts}{q-Hearts}, sending Rodman to the rail.

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Lodden Wins Large Pot in Near Silence

A gentleman in mid position opened for 6,000 only for Johnny Lodden to make it 15,500 from the cutoff. Back to the initial raiser, who made it 37,500, and then back to Lodden, who called.

This makes it all sound very snappy, but in reality the preflop action was punctuated by long periods of tankage on both sides, and was conducted in absolute silence - some classic Scandie poker from Lodden and his opponent.

They saw a {6-Hearts}{10-Hearts}{10-Spades} flop which they both checked. The initial raiser checked again and Lodden spoke for the first time. "You know how much you have?" he asked. About 80,000, was the answer. Lodden bet 28,000, and it was enough to end the hand.

Lodden was up to 660,000 after that.

Tags: Johnny Lodden