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

Cheese Mountain Melting

The jovial Jim "Mr_BigQueso" Collopy seems to have peaked. After building his stack up to a chip-leading 130,000, he's now dropped back to a still big-stacked but rather more modest 95,000.

Just now we saw him take down a rather nice pot without any of the hassle of a showdown. One player limped under the gun and to his immediate left Collopy raised to 1,175. Player 2 in mid position made the call, but Player 3 in the cutoff made it 4,100 to go. Player 1 ducked out of their way, and Collopy four-bet to 10,575. Both his remaining opponents folded, and Collopy took the pot.

Next hand, and we found Collopy betting out 2,800 on the turn of the {q-Hearts}{j-Spades}{j-Hearts}{5-Spades} board. His opponent called to see the {a-Hearts} river - but folded when Collopy bet out a huge stack of orange T5,000 chips, enough to put his opponent all in. Collopy showed him the {9-Diamonds} for his troubles, and was up to 130,000.

Nevertheless, just a little while later we strolled by his table to discover that he had somehow dropped around 35,000 from his stack.

Tags: Jim Collopy