WSOP 2010 Thread. Feed your wild side revisited

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Jesse Rockowitz Wins Event #45 ($721,373)!


Coming back for Day 2 with 35, we knew the journey could be long, and your blogging team were taking bets on the under/over for a 4am finish. But, with just two minutes to spare, we eventually unearthed a winner, an elated Jesse Rockowitz who toppled a tough opponent in Raymond Coburn to overcome what was an epic final table.

Prior to the heads-up battle, the arena was buzzing with the ever-vocal Brazilian contingent supporting their hero as if he were the second coming. However, when he crashed out in third, the chanting and singing came to an abrupt end, and the mood suddenly became deadly serious: the bracelet was brought to the table, and our two remaining Trojans were just one spot away from topping a 3,097-thick field.

Cooler than the Fonzie in a fridge freezer, Rockowitz remained composed throughout, and battled ferociously to come back from a chip deficit to, first, double through, and then, several hands later, drop the hammer with {7-Hearts}{2-Hearts} to claim victory. Without doubt, this was a tough, hard-fought out victory that would have aged any man, but it was all worth it as Rockowitz goes home with some new jewelry and the small matter of the $721,373 first prize.

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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #46: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better

Chris Bell Wins Event #46: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better ($327,040)!


Ladies and gentlemen, we finally have a winner.

We came back today with a daunting 21 players, and after play was delayed for some time owing to Erik Seidel playing the Tournament of Champions, it was doubtful whether we'd make it at all and it was suggested for a while that we might have to come back tomorrow to play down to a winner.

Bearing all this in mind, it's actually been a remarkably speedy final.

The nine gentlemen who made it as far as the official final had an extraordinary 13 bracelets between them - three in the hands of Perry Green, eight for Erik Seidel and one apiece for Dave Ulliott and Rob Hollink - and that number has now been upped to 14. Chris Bell already had an impressive record before he reached this final table, including three WSOP final tables, but now he has achieved the fondest dream of every poker player - his first WSOP bracelet.

As the Rio cleaners vaccuum around us, it's a bunch of extremely happy railers who pose around their boy Chris Bell - particularly happy and proud is Gavin Smith, who of course won his own first bracelet last night. And indeed it's been a notably amicable, jovial and well-supported final. The chip lead changed hands many times over the course of the night and any of our finalists would have made a worthy champion. This one, however, belongs to Bell.

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Event #48: $2,500 Mixed Event

Day 2 Concludes

Well, it's been a long night and everyone's feeling it. From the players to the media to the tournament staff. Finally though, Day 2 has come to an end and with 20 players remaining. Play lasted just nine hours today, but for many it seemed like days. It's just that time of the WSOP when things start to become a true grind. For a handful of those enduring the grind, they were able to overcome the exhaustion and push through to make it through the day to return to Day 3, keeping their bracelet hopes alive in this event.

Going into the final day, Nikolai Yakovenko will be the chip leader, bagging up 310,000 in chips. Not too far behind him is Matt Vengrin with 276,600. There's also still plenty of fire power left with big names such as John D'Agostino, Dario Minieri and Kirk Morrison.

All remaining players will return tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. local time to play down to a winner.

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I couldn't help but notice that the TOC seems to have copied the APAT payout structure 

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I couldn't help but notice that the TOC seems to have copied the APAT payout structure 

Trailblazers.

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 Event #47: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Day 2 completed

It was another fast-paced day in Event #47, the fifth of the six $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em events. We started with 476 players and played all of the way down to just 33.

Olivier Busquet and Allan Baekke both spent time at the top of the counts as the day wore on, but in the end it was Manuel Davidian bagging the most of anyone, with his 889,000 chips barely squeezing into the bag provided to him. Adam White, Jason Riesenberg, and Owen Crowe all bagged more than half a million as well.

Also coming back to tomorrow's Day 3 -- Scott Montgomery, winner of Event #36, the last of these $1,000 no-limit hold'em events.


33 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Manuel Davidian    889,000
2    Adam White    713,000
3    Jason Riesenberg 635,000
4    Owen Crowe    610,000
5    Justin Young    449,000
6    Paulus Valkenburg 439,000
7    Pekka Ikonen    435,000
8    Shawn Busse    432,000
9    Olivier Busquet    377,000
10    Dieter Stoeffler    351,000

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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #48: $2,500 Mixed Event

3 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Sigurd Eskeland    1,500,000
2    Steve Sung    1,325,000
3    Alexander Wice    650,000


4     Nikolai Yakovenko     73,776
5    Stephen Su       54,032
6    Scott Seiver       40,175
7    Jared Jaffee       30,319
8    Kirill Rabtsov       23,223
9    Matthew Vengrin    18,045
10    Todd Brunson       18,045

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Tournament of Champions

Day 2 Concludes, Matusow Talks Himself into the Lead

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow stole the show on Day 2 of the Tournament of Champions, building a stack high enough to rival the volume of his chatter. He finished in the lead with 85,500, followed by Huck Seed and Johnny Chan. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier will return with the most work to do, as he's down to 21,400. Antoinio Esfandiari is also in critical condition.

After an hour, the 22 players who returned for Day 2 of the Tournament of Champions had whittled themselves down to 18. But they only got rid of one more player in the next three levels. Doyle Brunson was the first to make his exit, followed soon after by reigning Main Event Champion Joe Cada, Internet qualifier Andrew Barton, and "poker's greatest ambassador" Mike Sexton. Once they redrew to the two ESPN feature stages, action slowed down...waaaay down. Dan Harrington was the only unlucky soul to find himself down and out without a chance at the freeroll cash.

Since 17 players survived Day 2, tournament staff had to do some quick rescheduling. They were supposed to return on July 4th already down to nine players, but with 17 left, they decided to resume on Saturday, July 3rd at 7 p.m. to play to a final table. However, if one of the remaining players is still alive in the $25k Six Max event or in Ante Up for Africa, they'll scrap that plan and return at 9 a.m. on Sunday.

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 Event #49: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 completed

The last $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event of the 2010 World Series of Poker kicked-off today with a moment of silence for Amir Vahedi, who passed away ealier this year. Tournament Director Jack Effel announced that as an added bonus, and as a tribute to Amir, the winner of the tournament would win a box of his favorite cigars.

The tournament drew a field of 2,543 players who created a prizepool of $3,433,050, with $609,493 of that going to the victor. Among those who entered with the hopes of taking down a gold bracelet were Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, Eric Baldwin, Chino Rheem and Vanessa Rousso. Unfortunately, none of these players managed to make it through the day.

This is not to say a few big names didn't navigate their way through the massive field. Allen Kessler, Andy Bloch, JP Kelly, Liv Boeree, David Pham, Roland De Wolfe and Chad Batista all made it through to Day 2. Also in contention are a number of big stacks including Shawn Prendiville (110,500), Kyle Knecht (104,400), Ben Eilers (110,000), Greg Roy (119,600), Andrew Gillis (120,500), Roberto Stamerra (120,100) and Guiseppe Zarbo (156,500).

Approximately 315 players will return at 2:30 PM local time for the start of Day 2 as they make their way toward the money bubble, which awards the top 270 players.


Top Chip Counts
1    Guiseppe Zarbo    156,500
2    Andrew Gillis    120,500
3    Roberto Stamerra 120,100
4    Greg Roy    119,600
5    Shawn Prendiville 110,500
6    Ben Eilers    110,000
7    Kyle Knecht    104,400
8    Scott Freeman    85,000
9    Kenneth Terrell    85,000
10    George Lind    76,500

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 Event #50: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day 1 completed

There were 460 players who entered Event #50: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha. They filled the blue section in the Amazon Room and by the end of the night less than half remain. Daniel Negreanu, Chad Brown, Vanessa Selbst, Marco Traniello, Erick Lindgren, and JP Kelly (who was multi-tabling this event and Event #49: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em), among others all started the day with hopes of making the second day of this event, but those hopes were dashed as they all exited toward the rail throughout the eight levels of play.

A prize pool of $2,162,000 was generated and 45 players will make the money tomorrow, with 45th place taking home $10,226. First place, along with that coveted gold bracelet, will take home $508,090. Among the players that will see Day 2 are Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Jason Mercier, Lex Veldhuis, Phil Hellmuth, and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier.

Our chip leader going into Day 2 is Kevin Schaffel with 178,900. Alex Freiberg is behind him with 138,900 and Kevin Boudreau is sitting with 137,300.

Top Chip Counts
1    Kevin Schaffel    178,900
2    Alex Freiberg    138,900
3    Kevin Boudreau    137,300
4    Jonas Entin    118,200
5    Dan Shak            100,800
6    Javed Abrahams    92,700
7    Scotty Nguyen    67,000
8    Annette Obrestad 58,000
9    Joshua Tieman    57,000
10    Senovio Ramirez    52,100

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Day 3 completed

Event #47: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em


We originally thought that we were going to play down to a final table today and were preparing for a long day. However once we got down to our final ten it was announced that we'd be calling it a day at nine.

And at our final nine we are. It ended up being quite a short day with a ton of hands having all their action play out before a flop. We started out with 35 players this afternoon and it took less than five full levels to reach nine. Play wasn't extremely deep for any of the players, so it wasn't surprising to see a flurry of pre-flop action.

Scott Montgomery was amongst the players who busted before the final table and had his hopes of winning back-to-back $1,000 events dashed. Manuel Davidian was our unfortunate bubble boy, but will still be taking home a fair chunk of change for his efforts.

Adam White will be heading into the final table as our chip leader with 1,685,000 chips but he's followed closely by Allan Baekke who has 1,633,000 chips. Other players above the million-chip mark include Shawn Busse (1,203,000) and Owen Crowe (1,192,000).


Top Chip Counts
1    Adam White    1,685,000
2    Allan Baekke    1,633,000
3    Shawn Busse    1,203,000
4    Owen Crowe    1,192,000
5    Ilya Andreev    985,000
6    Chuan Shi        894,000
7    Jason Mann    893,000
8    Pekka Ikonen    626,000
9    Wenlong Jin    292,000

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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #48: $2,500 Mixed Event
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Day 3 completed

Posted 20 hours 34 minutes ago by donpeters
Event #48: $2,500 Mixed Event
Day 3 completed
Congratulations to Sigurd Eskeland, Event No. 48 Champion ($260,497)!

Posted 20 hours 35 minutes ago by donpeters

Sigurd Eskeland is a 36-year-old former teacher hailing from Oslo, Norway. He's previously cashed in two WSOP events, including the Main Event back in 2008 where he was the chip leader for Day 3.

It was a grueling day of eight different games that began at 3:00 p.m. with 20 players returning to action. Eskeland came into the day at the top of the bottom half of the field sitting in 12th position. When it was all said and done, 14 hours later, he was the only man left.

It may have taken a sick beat to deliver the final blow as Eskeland went runner-runner flush to knock off Steve Sung in second place, but Eskeland played his heart out throughout the day and the final table. He was given great respect by many of the others in the field and complimented numerous times. Eskeland was quick to return those sentiments and said to Sung after the final hand, "I hated playing with you. You are a great player, truly."

For the win, Eskeland takes home over $260,000 and captures his first WSOP gold bracelet!

1     Sigurd Eskeland      260,497
2    Steve Sung       160,952
3    Alexander Wice       102,314
4    Nikolai Yakovenko    73,776
5    Stephen Su       54,032
6    Scott Seiver       40,175
7    Jared Jaffee       30,319
8    Kirill Rabtsov       23,223
9    Matthew Vengrin    18,045

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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #49: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left
33
Entries
2543

Top Chip Counts
1    Mihai Manole    950,000
2    Michael Linn    740,000
3    Anthony Spinella    660,000
4    Sean Prendiville    580,000
5    Benjamin Smith    550,000
6    Jonathan Spinks    520,000
7    Alexander Kuzmin 490,000
8    Tyler Cornell    410,000
9    Manuel Cadilhe    395,000
10    Thomas Gruber    390,000


We have a Brit Karl "discomonkey" Fenton in with 310,000. Guaranteed $14,000. $609,000 up top

[StuartHopkin]

Spinkaments

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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #50: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

Players Left
39

Entries
460


Top Chip Counts
1    Robert Mizrachi    435,000
2    Ran Azor            405,000
3    Ryan D'Angelo    380,000
4    Benny Spindler    305,000
5    David Iammarino    305,000
6    Jose Nacho Barbero 265,000
7    Danny Smith    265,000
8    Di Dang            241,000
9    Gary Bolden    230,000
10    Ben Middleton    215,000



Julian Gardner, Ross Boatman and Joe Beevers still in guaranteed $11,000