2011 World Series of Poker

Event #21: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship
Day: 1
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
j595666
Prize
$331,639
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$1,184,400
Entries
126
Level Info
Level
28
Limits
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000

Rolled Up Jacks No Good

Level 2 : 250/500, 50 ante

Gonzalez: {X-}{X-} / {4-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds} FOLDED
Fretus: {X-}{X-} / {5-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{5-Spades}{A-Spades} FOLDED
Opponent 1: {J-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}{3-Clubs} / {J-}{J-}{X-}
Opponent 2: {K-Clubs}{2-Clubs}{K-Hearts}{4-Clubs} / {Q-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{5-}

Fabrizio Gonzalez brought in and Ivan Fretus completed. Both opponents and Gonzalez made the call. On fourth, Gonzalez folded but the action got capped between the other three players. On the three remaining streets, Opponent 2 bet and the others players called. Opponent 2 didn’t need his kings as he showed a flush. Fretus mucked and Opponent 1 showed rolled up jacks that didn’t improve to a full house before he mucked.

Tags: Fabrizio GonzalezIvan Fretus

Aces Up for Alexander The Great

Level 2 : 250/500, 50 ante

Kravchenko: {K-Spades}{A-Spades}{J-Diamonds}{A-Diamonds} / {K-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}{6-Clubs}
Opponent: {5-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{7-Spades}{3-Spades} / {X-}{X-}{X-}

The opponent brought in and Alexander Kravchenko completed. The opponent made the call and called Kravchenko’s bets on every street up until seventh where both players checked. Kravchenko showed aces up and his opponent couldn’t produce a better hand and mucked.

Tags: Alexander Kravchenko

Dwan is Laak-Lustre

Level 2 : 250/500, 50 ante

Dwan: {x-}{x-} / {2-Diamonds}{J-Diamonds}{2-Clubs}{3-Diamonds} / {x-}
Laak: {A-Hearts}{10-Hearts}{7-Spades}{9-Hearts} / {5-Hearts}{7-Hearts}{10-Spades}
Third Player: {x-}{x-} / {8-Spades}{3-Hearts} FOLDED

Tom Dwan brought in and it was folded around to the third player in the hand who raised his eight, Laak flat-called with his ace and Dwan also called. Laak took the lead with the betting on fourth street and Dwan made the call but the original raiser folded. When Dwan paired his deuce he fired out and Laak called with the pattern repeating itself on sixth.

On seventh Dwan bet out but Laak raised, Dwan called and the "Unabomber" turned over his flush for the pot.

Not a Barry Good Hand

Level 2 : 250/500, 50 ante

Greenstein: {K-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{10-Clubs}{5-Hearts} / {X-}{X-}{X-}
Opponent: {6-Hearts}{8-Clubs}{2-Spades}{3-Diamonds} / {Q-Clubs}{2-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}

We caught up with the action on fourth street where Barry Greenstein bet and his opponent called. Greenstein bet again on fifth but his opponent raised. Greenstein made the call and check-called on sixth and seventh. The opponent showed two pair and Greenstein mucked.

Tags: Barry Greenstein

Dwan Runs Into a House

Level 2 : 250/500, 50 ante

Dwan: {x-}{x-} / {8-Hearts}{J-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{K-Hearts} / {x-}
Opponent: {5-Spades}{Q-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}{A-Clubs} / {A-Hearts}{A-Diamonds}{8-Spades}

By seventh street, the pot was three handed and Dwan fired out a bet, one player folded but the other raised, Dwan called and said, "I have a flush," but his opponent turned over his cards and replied, "I have a full house," to win the pot.

Tags: Tom Dwan

Keeps on Bumping

Level 2 : 250/500, 50 ante

Munley: {Q-Spades}{J-Hearts}{4-Spades}{7-Hearts} / {J-}{7-}{2-}
Opponent : {8-Diamonds}{5-Spades}{9-Hearts}{5-Clubs} / {8-}{10-}{5-}
Pezzin: {4-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}{A-Diamonds}{7-Clubs} / {X-}{X-}{X-} FOLDED

We caught up with the action on fifth street where all three players checked. On sixth, the opponent bet and both other players called. On Seventh, it was checked to Bill Munley who bet and only the opponent called. The opponent announced “8s and 5s” but Munley showed a higher two pair with jacks and sevens and won another pot.

Tags: Bill MunleyPat Pezzin

Russian to Victory

Level 1 : 200/400, 50 ante

Kravchenko: {J-Clubs}{3-Clubs} / {J-Spades}{8-Hearts}{3-Spades}{3-Diamonds} / {8-Hearts}
Opponent: {x-}{x-} / {A-Diamonds}{2-Spades}{K-Spades}{10-Spades} / {x-}

Alex Kravchenko's opponent raised with an ace after the {2-Hearts} brought in and the Russian made the call while everyone else folded. The other player took the lead and fired out on fourth and fifth street but Kravchenko raised on the latter. The call quickly followed as did a bet/call on sixth. Kravchenko's opponent raised his bet on seventh but the Russian made it three bets and quickly got called.

Kravchenko then flipped his full house to ship the pot.

Tags: Alex Kravchenko

Fives No Good

Level 1 : 200/400, 50 ante

Opponent 1: {X-}{X-} / {4-Clubs}{3-Diamonds} FOLDED
Evdakov: {A-Spades}{6-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}{Q-Hearts} / {7-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{3-Hearts}
Opponent 2: {5-Spades}{5-Diamonds}{A-Clubs}{Q-Clubs} / {X-}{X-}{X-}
Opponent 3: {X-}{X-} / {5-Hearts}{J-Spades} FOLDED

Opponent 1 had the bring in, Nikolay Evdakov completed and the other three players called. On all proceeding streets Opponent 2 bet and Evdakov called with Opponents 1 and 3 having folded on fourth.
Opponent 2 announced “fives” which was the pair he was showing. Evdakov turned over his hole cards for a pair of sixes which was one notch higher than his opponent’s pair and was good for the pot.

Tags: Nikolay Evdakov