WSOP 2010 Thread. Feed your wild side revisited

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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #51: $3,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em

18 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Guillaume Darcourt    1,350,000
2    Ryan Welch    850,000
3    Will Failla            770,000
4    Frank Rusnak    715,000
5    Jon Eaton            675,000
6    Tommy Vedes    555,000
7    Michael Noda    440,000
8    Aftab Ahmed    425,000
9    Sergey Lebedev    385,000
10    Christophe Benzimra 320,000

James Akenhead       312,000    guaranteed $21,000. $559,000 up top

Akenhead out 17th. I blame lack of Tighty funk thread

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JULY 1, 2010 - 10:45:40 PM PST
Shawn Busse Wins WSOP Gold Bracelet in Event 47

by: Nolan Dalla-

 
21-Year-Old Poker Pro Wins No-Limit Hold’em Championship
 
 
Shawn Busse was the winner of the $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker.  He is a 21-year-old poker pro from Massapequa, NY.  This marked his first time to cash at the WSOP.  Busse collected $485,791 in prize money.
 
The runner up was Owen Crowe, from Canada who cashed for the eighth time at the WSOP.  Crowe’s most notable previous achievement was a 15th-place finish in the 2008 WSOP Main Event championship.  He collected a nice consolation prize amounting to $300,494.

This tournament had special meaning because it was played in memory of former gold bracelet winner Amir Vahedi, who won this event in 2003.  Vahedi, famous for his smile, his wit, and his trademark cigar, passed away late last year.  To remember Vahedi, the WSOP presented the winner of this tournament with a box of the late champion’s favorite cigars – Saint Luis Rey Rothchilde.

The top 324 finishers collected prize money.  Aside from those who made the final table, former WSOP gold bracelet finishers who cashed in this event included – Scott Montgomery (29th), Antonio Esfandiari (73rd), Peter Traply (75th), Simon Watt (118th), Mickey Appleman (156th), Jeff Madsen (200), David Sklansky (247th), and Al Krux (276th).

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JULY 1, 2010 - 1:19:02 AM PST
Mike Linn Wins WSOP Gold Bracelet in Event 49

by: Nolan Dalla


San Diego Student Tops 2,543 Player Field
 

Michael Linn was the winner of the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker.  This marked his first career WSOP gold bracelet victory.  Linn collected $609,493 in prize money in what was his third time to cash at the WSOP.  Linn’s most notable previous achievement was cashing in last year’s WSOP Main Event championship, where he finished 191st.

Linn is a 22-year-old student from La Jolla, .  His uncle is poker star Barry Greenstein.

The runner up was Taylor Larkin, from Siloam Springs, AR.

The top 270 finishers collected prize money.  Former WSOP gold bracelet finishers who cashed in this event included – Roland de Wolfe (60th), Marc Naalden (134th), Robert Cheung (183rd), Matt Matros (194th), David Daneshgar (201st), and J.P. Kelly (208th).

Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler (191st place) became the first player at this year’s WSOP to cash eight times.  The record for most cashes in a single year is ten, held by Nikolay Evdakov in 2008.  Kessler is now in serious contention to match or break the record with seven WSOP events remaining, plus five more tournaments to be held at WSOP Europe in September.

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Chance Kornuth Wins WSOP Gold Bracelet in Event 50

by: Nolan Dalla

Chance Kornuth was the winner of the $5,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker.  This marked his first career WSOP gold bracelet victory.  Kornuth exploded upon the scene at the Rio out of nowhere to collect $508,090 in prize money in what was only this second time to cash at the WSOP.  His Las Vegas winnings up to this point had amounted to $2,005.

The final duel was an all-Colorado battle.  The runner up was Kevin Boudreau, from Colorado Springs, CO.  He earned a very respectable consolation prize amounting to $313,792.

The top 45 finishers collected prize money.  Former WSOP gold bracelet finishers who cashed in this event included – Jason Mercier (16th), Joshua Tieman (21st), Ayaz Mahmood (22nd), and Annette Obrestad (36th).

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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #51: $3,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em

Place    Winner    Sponsor    Prize (USD)
1    Ryan Welch       559,371
2    Jon Eaton       344,830
3    Guillaume Darcourt       223,459
4    Will Failla       163,532
5    Bradley Craig       121,451
6    Sergey Lebedev       91,407
7    Tommy Vedes       69,647
8    Noel Scruggs       53,694
9    Tad Jurgens       41,842
10    Koen de Bakker       33,026
11    Frank Rusnak       33,026
12    Gregory Ronaldson    33,026
13    Christophe Benzimra    26,544
14    Nicholas Mitchell       26,544
15    Getty Mattingsley    26,544
16    Aftab Ahmed       21,333
17    James Akenhead    21,333
18    Michael Noda       21,333
19    Zsombor Gall       17,471
20    Julien Arneodo       17,471

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Event #52: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed

20 of 191 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Bryn Kenney    1,450,000
2    Eugene Katchalov 1,185,000
3    Daniel Negreanu    1,050,000
4    Sam Trickett    1,019,000
5    Frank Kassela    940,000
6    Abe Mosseri    903,000
7    Isaac Haxton    878,000
8    Brian Hodhod    857,000
9    Dan Kelly            800,000
10    Carlos Mortensen 750,000

other remaining runners

Martins Adeniya          640,000
Mikael Thuritz       612,000    
Shawn Buchanan    600,000
Vadim Trincher       522,000    
Richard Anthony       520,000    
John Juanda       370,000    
Jason Somerville       324,000    
Justin Bonomo       310,000    
Heather Sue Mercer    275,000    
Billy Jordanou       186,000


Good luck to Sam and Martins


the payouts are:

1               1,315,518
2          812,941
3          556,053
4          386,125
5          272,084
6          194,559
7          141,168
8          141,168
9          104,651
10          104,651
11          77,569
12          77,569
13          58,699
14          58,699
15          58,699
16          58,699
17          58,699
18          58,699   

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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #53: $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout

9 of 541 remain

able 308
Terrence Chan - 185,000
Matthew Kelly - 175,000

Table 309
Feming Chan - 303,000
Brian Tate - 57,000

Table 310
Jonathan Little - 280,000
Claudio Rinaldi - 80,000

Table 313
Mike Schnieder - 150,000
Theo Tran - 140,000
Timothy Vansant - 70,000

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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em


End of Day 1A


Day 1A of of Event #54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em saw 2,340 players spread throughout both the Pavilion and Amazon Rooms. Among those who entered with the hopes of winning a gold bracelet were Tom Dwan, Chris Ferguson, Matt Hawrilenko, Berry Johnston, Faraz Jaka, Dennis Phillips and Dwyte Pilgrim. Unfortunately for them, they were unable to make it through the day.

On the other hand, a number of pros did survive and will be part of the approximately 350 players who will return for Day 2 on Saturday. Among them are Liv Boeree, Tony Dunst, Nikolay Evdakov, Shannon Shorr, Kara Scott and Thierry Van Den Berg. Also in contention are the big stacks in the room including Ron Schutsky (62,000), Eelke Arjaans (75,550), Alan Keating (62,000), Sean Prendiville (59,000) and Tommaso Breotti (54,000).

Tomorrow a whole new field of players will take their seats at noon local time to compete for the last $1,000 gold bracelet of the series.


Top Chip Counts
1    Eelke Arjaans    75,550
2    Alan Keating    62,000
3    Ron Schutsky    62,000
4    Sean Prendiville    59,000
5    Tommaso Breotti 54,000
6    Sigurd Eskeland    40,000
7    Matt Waxman    36,000
8    Nikolay Evdakov    32,500
9    Liv Boeree            25,500
10    Thierry Van Den Berg    23,375

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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #55: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship

310 of 346 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Noah Boeken    120,000
2    Men Nguyen    98,000
3    David Baker    90,000
4    Justin Smith    80,000
5    James Akenhead 80,000
6    Vanessa Selbst    78,000
7    David Benefield    66,000
8    Jeff Lisandro    66,000
9    Ted Lawson    65,000
10    John Racener    62,000

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Event #52: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed

20 of 191 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Bryn Kenney    1,450,000
2    Eugene Katchalov 1,185,000
3    Daniel Negreanu    1,050,000
4    Sam Trickett    1,019,000
5    Frank Kassela    940,000
6    Abe Mosseri    903,000
7    Isaac Haxton    878,000
8    Brian Hodhod    857,000
9    Dan Kelly            800,000
10    Carlos Mortensen 750,000

other remaining runners

Martins Adeniya          640,000
Mikael Thuritz       612,000    
Shawn Buchanan    600,000
Vadim Trincher       522,000    
Richard Anthony       520,000    
John Juanda       370,000    
Jason Somerville       324,000    
Justin Bonomo       310,000    
Heather Sue Mercer    275,000    
Billy Jordanou       186,000


Good luck to Sam and Martins


the payouts are:

1               1,315,518
2          812,941
3          556,053
4          386,125
5          272,084
6          194,559
7          141,168
8          141,168
9          104,651
10          104,651
11          77,569
12          77,569
13          58,699
14          58,699
15          58,699
16          58,699
17          58,699
18          58,699   

GL to Sam, big bokkage to Negreanu, I don't think I could cope with the size of his head if head won this................

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Day 3 Concludes, Dan Kelly in Control

It was a relatively brief Day 3 here at the $25,000 NLHE six-max event. 18 players returned to play down to a final table of six, and within the first level we lost an entire table of players. By the time were down to eight, we'd lost former big stacks Daniel Negreanu, Abe Mosseri, and Isaac Haxton, along with the man who came into the day with a dominating chip lead, Bryn Kenney.

The story of the day, however, was that of the rise of Dan Kelly. Best known as "djk123" online, the 21 year-old came into Day 3 with only 260,000 in chips, making him the shortest stack among the final 18 players. Kelly found an early double-up and just kept on swinging, three-betting and check-raising his way to the 5,895,000 he just bagged up. With just over 14.3 million spread around the table, Kelly controls more than 41% of the chips in play.

The oldest player remaining in this event by more than a decade and a half, Frank Kassela, also made a surge today and is making a serious run at his third bracelet. Kassela is second in chips with 2.6 million and now has a stranglehold on the WSOP Player of the Year race. Guaranteed at least sixth place, Kassela is now 45 points ahead of John Juanda, and a win in this event would make it extremely difficult for anyone to catch him for the title.


Top Chip Counts
1    Dan Kelly    5,895,000
2    Frank Kassela    2,610,000
3    Shawn Buchanan 2,110,000
4    Jason Somerville    1,665,000
5    Mikael Thuritz    1,535,000
6    Eugene Katchalov 475,000

7     Sam Trickett          141,168
8    Bryn Kenney       141,168
9    Isaac Haxton       104,651
10    Brian Hodhod       104,651
11    Daniel Negreanu      77,569
12    Abe Mosseri       77,569
13    Martins Adeniya       58,699
14    Billy Jordanou       58,699
15    Heather Sue Mercer    58,699
16    Vadim Trincher       58,699
17    Carlos Mortensen    58,699
18    Justin Bonomo       58,699

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 Event #53: $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout

Congratulations to Brendan Taylor, Event #53 Champion ($184,950)

The 53rd event of the 2010 World Series of Poker, the $1,500 Limit Shootout tournament, has come to an end with Brendan Taylor emerging victorious. Three days ago the tournament started with 548 competitors who played down to 64. From there, the field was whittled down to just eight.

Anticipation for the final table was centered on two individuals, Jonathan Little and Terrence Chan. Chan, who is considered one of the best limit players in the game, was the first to go. Little managed to do a little better by finishing third. No one could have predicted what was discovered next. It turned out the final two players, Taylor and Ben Yu, were in fact housemates here in Vegas. The rail was filled with their supporters who couldn't believe the pair was going to battle heads up for a gold bracelet.

Taylor started heads up with a commanding chip lead and the first hand between the two was symbolic that the title was meant for Taylor. In that hand, the board had three aces and Taylor put out a bet. Yu called and was crippled when Taylor showed the fourth ace. It was just a few hands later that Taylor finished the job and captured his first WSOP gold bracelet along with the $184,950 first place prize.

Congratulations to Brendan Taylor, Event #53 Champion!

1     Brendan Taylor          184,950
2    Ben Yu               114,484
3    Jonathan Little       73,218
4    Joseph McGowan    48,546
5    Brian Tate               33,276
6    Michael Schneider    23,563
7    Sijbrand Maal       17,215
8    Terrence Chan       12,961

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 Event #54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Day 1b completed

Today's Day 1b attracted fewer runners than we saw yesterday, with 1,504 total coming out to take their shot at this last of the $1,000 open-field buy-in events. Put together with yesterday's field of 2,340, and that made 3,844 entrants altogether, creating a total prize pool of $3,459,000.

There were relatively fewer so-called "name" pros in our field today as compared to yesterday, too, although there were a number of familiar faces scattered among the many tables as we made our first walk throughs early in the afternoon. Among those who came and -- ultimately -- went, were Chris Moneymaker, Barry Shulman, Chad Brown, Men Nguyen, J.C. Tran, David Wiliams, Ken Aldridge, and Phil Ivey.

Midway through the day Andrew Talbot won a huge hand versus Peter Feldman, knocking out Feldman and catapulting Talbot into the chip lead. He'd remain among the leaders at the top of the counts for most of the day, joined near evening's end by Jeremy Wilck, Anthony Gargano, Yuval Bronshtein, and Josh Barnes.

However, all will be chasing James Dempsey when the two Day One flights join together tomorrow. The British pro amassed a huge stack of more than 140,000 on Day 1a, and will return on Saturday to unbag the biggest pile of chips in the room.


lol miscountaments

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Event #55: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship


47 of 346 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Tom Dwan    540,000
2    Shawn Hattem    455,000
3    Jonathan Cantor    420,000
4    John Racener    415,000
5    Ludovic Lacay    380,000
6    Dmitry Stelmak    375,000
7    Daniel Alaei    330,000
8    Miguel Proulx    310,000
9    Ville Mattila    294,000
10    Phil Hellmuth    285,000


James Akenhead, Dave Ulliott, Ross and Barny Boatman still in nearing the cash

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Event #56: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em

838 of 1941 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Mark Newhouse    53,000
2    Jonathan Karamalikis 43,000
3    Jon Aguiar    40,000
4    Matt Hawrilenko    34,675
5    David Singer    33,200
6    Jon Turner    32,000
7    Shane Schleger    32,000
8    Scott Montgomery 32,000
9    Court Harrington    29,700
10    Dan Heimiller    29,000