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

Horton Hits The Highway

Brian Horton open-shoved from the small blind for his last 180,000 and Ryan Eriquezzo looked down at his cards in the big blind and decided to make the call.

Horton: {A-Hearts}{6-Hearts}
Eriquezzo: {K-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}

Horton held the lead but that changed on the {K-Spades}{4-Hearts}{5-Diamonds} flop, much to the dismay of Horton.

"Wow, this is just great..." sighed Horton but the {3-Spades} turn did give him a few more outs with an open-ended straight draw. Horton couldn't connect on the {j-Hearts} river and was sent to the rail as Eriquezzo is up to 2.5 million.

Tags: Brian HortonRyan Eriquezzo

Two Pair for Steven

With the action folding to Brandon Steven in the cutoff, he raised to 42,000 with Nicholas Rainey calling from the small blind.

The flop fell down {10-Spades}{k-Clubs}{9-Hearts} and Rainey led out for 39,000 with Steven making the call.

The turn landed the {3-Clubs} and Rainey again led; this time for 68,000, with Steven again smooth-calling.

The river landed the {7-Clubs} and Rainey checked before Steven pushed out a bet of 107,000 to put Rainey deep into the think-tank.

After nearly two minutes of deliberation, Rainey made the call, but mucked at the sight of Steven's {10-Clubs}{9-Diamonds} as to 1,450,000 while Steven collected the pot to move to 780,000 in chips.

Tags: Nicholas Rainey. Brandon Steven

Level: 22

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 3,000

Grinder Wins One from Jetten

Peter Jetten raised to 40,000 from middle position. Michael Mizrachi reraised to 98,000 from the cutoff seat. Jetten made the call and the two saw the flop come {K-Spades}{K-Clubs}{5-Clubs}.

On the flop, Jetten checked to Mizrachi. He fired 100,000 and Jetten folded. Mizrachi scooped the pot and increased to 1.85 million in chips. Jetten slipped to 2.28 million.

Both Mizrachi brothers are still in, but Michael is doing much better than Robert, who has only about one-seventh of the chips Michael has.

Tags: Michael MizrachiRobert MizrachiPeter Jetten

It Happens Live, Too

People talk about set-up hands, "cooler" hands, and "internet flops". But all of those types of hands and flop happen live, too. The most recent example occurred at Juha Helppi's table. Helppi, Derek Gibb an Niklas Toorell were involved in a three-way pre-flop all-in situation. Helppi showed {k-Spades}{k-Clubs}, Toorell showed {q-Spades}{q-Hearts}, and Gibb showed {j-Spades}{j-Diamonds}. The board blanked out eight-high, and because of the various stack sizes involved, it turned out no player was eliminated. After the hand Helppi was up to 1.6 million, Toorell was basically level at 860,000, and Gibb fell to 250,000.

Tags: Juha HelppiDerek GibbNiklas Toorell

Love Hates the River

Imari "Doctor" Love got his last 410,000 into the pot with {J-Clubs} {J-Hearts}, and James Carroll put him at risk with {A-Diamonds} {K-Diamonds} and the covering stack.

Things were all warm and fuzzy for Doctor Love on the flop of {5-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} {Q-Hearts}, and the tun {9-Spades} was safe too. The river {K-Spades}, however, was not quite so safe. That paired up Carroll and took the rest of Love's chips away from him and eliminated him from the Main Event.

Carroll - 2.8 million

Tags: Imari LoveJames Carroll

Huge Hit Rocks Chan's World; Pisano Pushes Ahead

Johnny Chan
Johnny Chan

Huge pot just now involving Johnny Chan and Robert Pisano. A preflop raising war put Pisano all in for 2.19 million, and left Chan with about 800,000 behind. The hands?

Chan {K-Hearts}{K-Clubs}
Pisano {A-Spades}{A-Clubs}

No king came for Chan, as the dealer delivered the community cards thusly: {4-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}{5-Spades}{7-Clubs}{4-Hearts}. No wonder Chan's card didn't come -- two different players said they had folded kings!

"Welcome to my world," said Chan afterwards. He still has that 800,000 with which to try to make his world better. Meanwhile, Pisano is on top of our little WSOP Main Event world right now with 4.4 million.

Tags: Johnny ChanRobert Pisano