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The number on the big board has been stuck at 352 runner for quite some time, so we'll go ahead and call that the unofficial number of entrants. The staff is triple-checking the paperwork as we speak, and we should have some official numbers -- including the prize pool -- shortly.
With 1,750 in the pot and a board reading 
, Sammy Farha bet 1,500 only to have Bill Chen pot it from the hijack. It was 4,750 more to Farha, but he thought better of it and laid down his hand. The 2003 World Series of Poker runner-up is hovering right around the starting stack of 15,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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15,000 | |
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With a board reading 
, Ted Forrest checked from the big blind and Nacho Barbero bet 3,900. Forrest then check-raised to 7,900 and Barbero shot back in his chair. He clearly wasn't expecting resistance and seemed perplexed as to what Forrest might have.
Barbero sat in the tank for a couple minutes before making the call and tabling 
. His full house was good as Forrest's cards wound up in the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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28,500
13,500
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13,500 |
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12,000
1,000
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1,000 |
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Mitch Schock has had quite the 2011 WSOP. He has five cashes totaling $406,018, three final tables, and a bracelet for his win in Event #39 $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha. His performance has earned him 364.81 points on the 2011 Player-of-the-Year Leaderboard, which is currently good enough for 9th place.
Unfortunately for Schock, he'll have to wait for the Main Event to earn some more POY points as he just busted from this tournament after running jacks full into kings full.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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We've got a Tom "Durrrr" Dwan with us now, and we just watched him play the first two hands he played. On the first, he called a raise to 600, then folded to a bet of 1,650 on a 
flop.
On the next hand, Dwan opened to 900 from middle position, and Nick Schulman called from the button to go heads up to the flop. It came 
, and Dwan continued out with another 1,600. Schulman called, and they'd check it down behind the 
turn and 
river.
Dwan showed 
for Broadway, and Schulman's 
was good enough to take the low half of the pot.
Chop it up, and Dwan is just below his starting stack with about 14,600 now.
A player in middle position raised to 700 to open the pot, and Eli Elezra called from the button.
The two of them took a 
flop, and Elezra called a 1,500-chip continuation bet. His opponent bet another 2,400 on the 
turn, but now Elezra raised the pot. That's all he had to say. His opponent's cards hit the muck rather quickly, and Elezra has moved up to about 33,000.
"Miami" John Cernuto raised to 875 from middle position and found a lone caller in the big blind. Both players proceeded to check the 
flop, leading to the turn. The big blind mustered the courage to bet 1,150, which was enough to push Cernuto off the hand.
"Miami" John is down to 11,800.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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11,800
-3,200
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-3,200 |
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We just walked up to some pretty significant post-flop action. There was 7,500 in the pot when we walked up to the 
flop, and the first player to act (Player 1) had moved all in for 3,250. Right behind him, Richard Ashby had raised to about 15,000, and Jim Anderson called all in for 9,050 next door. That put the action on one last gentleman, Player 4, and he spent a long, long while considering the decision for his last 4,825 chips. After some time, he reluctantly tossed them into the pot.
Showdown
Player 1: 
(pair, wheel draw)
Ashby: 
(top pair)
Anderson: 
(set, wheel draw)
Player 4: 
(wheel draw)
It was a mess of cards and chips laying on the board, and the dealer ran out a turn and 
river. Ashby let out a fist pump and a quiet, "Yes!" as he ran down a full house to take the high half of the pot. Player 1 is eliminated, while Player 4 wins half of the main and side pots with his low. Ashby does likewise with his full house, and Anderson can only win half of the last little side pot, stacking up the 1,475 chips he has left to try and make a comeback.
Ashby is up to about 28,000.
On a board reading 
, a player in middle position checked to David Chiu, who bet 3,850, leaving himself just 800 behind. Nick Binger made the call from the button and the middle-position player came along as well. When the peeled off on the river, it went check, bet 800, and calls.
"I've got the low," Chiu said as he turned over . The middle-position player then showed for the high, leaving Binger's 
out in the cold.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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25,000
10,000
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10,000 |
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9,000
-9,000
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-9,000 |
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The numbers are in, and they are good!
An impressive 352 players bought into this event, an increase of nearly 25% over last year's field in the same event. That means a bigger prize pool, too -- $1,654,400 in fact. That money will be chopped up by the final 36 players with the bottom payout being worth $10,091. That's just more than twice the buy-in.
Going up from there, everyone at the final table will make at least $33,352, and the six-figure payouts start with fourth place. First? Just $397,073 and a gold bracelet, thankyouverymuch.
You can find the full breakdown of the prize pool in the Payouts tab up top.
