Event #43: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Day 1 | 2011 World Series of Poker

06-26-2011 03:51 UTC

Player	Chips	Progress
Joseph Cheong	39,000 28,000	28,000

Michael Mizrachi	35,000 25,900	25,900

Soi Nguyen	33,000 24,800	24,800
Jonathan Aguiar	27,000 3,000	3,000

Erica Schoenberg	19,500
John Dolan	16,000 8,000	8,000
Simon Watt	15,000 3,000	3,000
Jason Wheeler	13,000 -5,500	-5,500

Kathy Liebert	10,500 5,900	5,900

Allen Kessler	10,200 4,900	4,900
Jordan Young	10,000 -2,500	-2,500
Chris Tryba	9,200 1,700	1,700

Liv Boeree	8,500 100	100

Terrence Chan	8,000 -2,500	-2,500

Andre Akkari	8,000 -700	-700
Ali Eslami	5,500 -4,500	-4,500

Sofia Lovgren	4,100 600	600
Jason Young	2,700 -3,900	-3,900

Chris Moorman	Busted

Fatima Moreira De Melo	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Bernard Lee	25,800 7,900	7,900

Cada Four-Bets

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Level 7 : 150/300, 25 ante

2009 Main Event Champion Joe Cada opened the betting by raising to 725 preflop from early position. It folded around to the player in the cutoff who quickly three-bet to 1,800.

Action folded back around to Cada who slowly and meticulously counted out his chips and then stacked them back up. He did this one more time before pushing out a pile of chips, four betting to 4,350. His opponent shook his head and threw his cards to the muck.

Cada scooped the pot and is now sitting around 20,500 in chips.

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06-26-2011 04:02 UTC

Moving to Black

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With tables beginning to break, here are some of the players that have moved to the Black section of the Pavilion room.

Unfortunately, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier took a seat between Andrew Lichtenberger and Justin Bonomo, and when our PokerNews field reporter ventured over to get a chip count, Grospellier had bitten the dust.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Lichtenberger	19,400 14,900	14,900

Jordan Smith	12,600 8,100	8,100
Jean-Robert Bellande	11,500 4,500	4,500

Bertrand Grospellier	Busted

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06-26-2011 04:02 UTC

Binger Busts One

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Kevin Taylor

Nich Binger and a short stacked opponent got all of the chips in preflop, and Binger was looking to collect a bounty in a race situation.

Binger: {9-Hearts} {9-Clubs}
Opponent: {j-Clubs} {10-Clubs}

The flop came out {a-Diamonds} {q-Clubs} {9-Spades} , giving Bingera set but his opponent an open ended straight draw. Binger faded the turn, coming the {3-Hearts} , and also faded the river, as it came the {a-Clubs} . Binger knocked out his opponent, and boosted his stack to over 20,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Binger	21,000 17,600	17,600

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06-26-2011 04:11 UTC

Bellande Complains, Cada Arrives

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Level 7 : 150/300, 25 ante

"Anyone object to playing seven-handed!" asked Jean-Robert Bellande to his table.

"I do!" responded one player as they waited patiently for their new players.

"Maybe I should tweet it" continued Bellande.

"If you tweet Jack [Effel], you'll get a player now!" stated the Tournament Director.

A few moments later Bellande exclaimed, "God damn five fucking minutes!"

About thirty seconds later, two new players arrived with one of them being 2009 World Champion Joe Cada and his 16,500-chip stack.

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06-26-2011 04:19 UTC

Randal Smelling The Flowers

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Kevin Taylor

A player under the gun limped in, and Randal Flowers raised to 1,050 in middle position. Action folded back to the under the gun player, who made it 3,000. Flowers then went all in for around 6,000, and his opponent snap called.

Flowers: {q-Spades} {q-Hearts}
Opponent: {a-Clubs} {a-Diamonds}

The flop came {10-Clubs} {j-Hearts} {a-Spades} , giving Flowers an inside straight draw and his opponent top set. Flowers wouldn't get that straight, as it came {6-Diamonds} and {6-Spades} . Flowers has been eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Randal Flowers	Busted

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Level: 8

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

06-26-2011 04:24 UTC

Event Snapshot of the 2010 WSOP

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Level 8 : 200/400, 50 ante

Event Snapshot of the 2010 WSOP

Bracelet Events: 57
Total Prize Pool: $187,109,850
# of Total Entries: 72,966
# of total Cashers: 7,486
# of Main event Entries: 7,319
Largest Non-Main Event Field: 4,345 (Event #3)
Largest Prize Pool: $68,799,059 (Event #57 Main Event)
Largest 1st Place PrizeL $8,944,310 (Event #57 Main Event)
# of Participating Countries: 117
Bracelet Winner From: United States (38), Canada (6), United Kingdom (5), Hungary (2), France (1), Russia (1), Norway (1), New Zealand (1), Netherlands (1), Israel (1)
Multiple Bracelet Winners: 1- Frank Kassela (2 bracelets)
Event Dates: Mat 27, 2010—July 17, 2010; November 6-8, 2010 (Main Event Final Table)
Event Location: Rio all-Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

06-26-2011 04:25 UTC

Mayrinck Doubles

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Maria Mayrinck managed to get her chips all in with {J-} {J-} against her opponent's {A-} {Q-} .

The board ran out {9-} {7-} {8-} {10-} {Q-} and Mayrinck got up to leave as she thought she was beat. It turns out that she misread the board and thought she saw a five as one of the number cards, so in her mind she did not made the winning straight. The dealer informed her that she had the winning hand and she happily sat down to continue playing.