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Event #27: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 3 completed
Congratulations to Daniel Idema, Event #27 Champion ($378,642)

The $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship is one of the most prestigious tournaments held at the annual World Series of Poker. It also has a reputation as being one of the toughest. This year 153 players began Event #27 and played three grueling days of poker. In the end, only one man remained to claim the WSOP gold bracelet and the $378,642 first-place prize. That man was Daniel Idema, who redeemed himself after finishing runner-up in this very event just one year ago.

Day Three began with just 14 players including Matthew Gallin, who entered as chip leader with 575,000. Joining him were some tough competition in last year’s runner-up Daniel Idema; three-time bracelet winner and Team PokerStars Pro (USA) Barry Greenstein; runner-up in the 2009 WSOP $40K NLHE tournament, Isaac Haxton; Microsoft millionaire Richard “Quiet Lion” Brodie; online sensation Justin “Boosted J” Smith; and Nick Schulman, who has numerous titles to his credit including a WSOP bracelet in the 2009 $10K No Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw event.

As Day 3 progressed, five players succumbed to the high betting limits. They included Marwan Abdelal (14th- $24,060), Matt Hawrilenko (13th- $24,060), Tam Hang (12th- $28,990), Darren Woods (11th- $28,990), and Hoyt Corkins (10th- $28,990). Their eliminations brought about the official WSOP Final Table, with Daniel Idema’s stack of 740,000 leading the pack.
Official $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship Final Table

Seat   Player   Chip Counts
1   Nick Schulman   252,000
2   Daniel Idema   977,000
3   Domenico Denotaristefani   461,000
4   Steve Landfish   649,000
5   Justin "Boosted J" Smith   484,000
6   Barry Greenstein   428,000
7   Matthew Gallin   514,000
8   Richard Brodie   384,000
9   Isaac Haxton   409,000

The first final-table elimination came when Schulman ran pockets nines into Greenstein’s pocket sevens on a {7-Clubs}{4-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds} flop. The {4-Hearts} turn and {8-Clubs} river changed nothing and Schulman was sent packing in ninth place ($35,519). Next out the door was Brodie who grew short stacked and couldn’t improve his {Q-Hearts}{4-Hearts} against Greenstein’s {A-Hearts}{8-Clubs}.

It took a long time before the next elimination, but it finally came when Haxton got his stack in preflop with {10-Diamonds}{10-Clubs} againt the {A-Diamonds}{J-Diamonds} of Landfish. The board ran out {2-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds}{7-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}{K-Spades} to give Landfish a flush and send Haxton out the door in seventh place ($55,908). Not long after, short-stacked Smith got his chips in with {8-Spades}{5-Hearts} against Greenstein’s {A-Hearts}{J-Diamonds}. The board ran out {10-Hearts}{7-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{10-Spades}{7-Spades} and Boosted J followed Haxton out the door in sixth place ($71,897).

Five-handed action lasted a long time, which was surprising considering the high blinds. It just seemed like every time a player was all in, they doubled. That all changed when Denotaristefani raised on the button only to have Landfish snap three-bet from the small blind. Denotaristefani made the call and watched as the {5-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}{4-Clubs} came down on the flop. Landfish led out, Denotaristefani raised, Landfish three-bet, and Denotaristefani called off his last 35,000.

Landfish: {9-Clubs}{9-Hearts}
Denotaristefani: {4-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}

Denotaristefani’s tournament life was at stake but he was way out in front. The {J-} turn changed nothing and left Landfish looking for one of two remaining nines on the river to steal the pot and eliminate his opponent. When the {9-Spades} spiked on the river, Landfish slapped the table in celebration. Denotaristefani's supporters fell deafly silent as their man was eliminated by a two outer. Denotaristefani took home $94,029 as he made his exit in fifth place.

Landfish’s luck ran out soon thereafter when he ran {A-Spades}{Q-Hearts} into the {A-Diamonds}{A-Hearts} of Gallin. Three-handed play didn’t last long either as Greenstein received a bad beat after getting it all in with {Q-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} against the {10-Spades}{5-Spades} of Gallin on {4-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}. Unfortunately for the fan favorite, the turn came the {A-Hearts} followed by the {5-Hearts} on the river.

Heads up play lasted less than five hands as Idema entered with a commanding chip lead of 3.6 million to Gallin’s 900,000. While Idema hadn’t eliminated any opponents up to that point, he steadily increased his chip lead throughout the final table; in fact, he was the only player who was never all in during final-table play. His perseverance and patience paid off when he cracked Gallin’s pocket queens by flopping two pair. After suffering with the title of $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship runner-up for a year, Idema has validated himself and found redemption as he claimed the title of Champion!
Final Table Results

Place   Player   Winnings
1st   Daneil Idema   $378,642
2nd   Matthew Gallin   $233,944
3rd   Barry Greenstein   $169,512
4th   Steve Landfish   $125,120
5th   Domenico Denotaristefani   $94,029
6th   Justin “Boosted J” Smith   $71,897
7th   Isaac Haxton   $55,908
8th   Richard Brodie   $44,207
9th   Nick Schulman   $35,519


Darren woods 11th for $29,000

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #28: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

50 of 2500 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Bret Hruby    750,000
2    Frederik Jensen    555,000
3    Steven Merrifield    485,000
4    Lars Bonding    360,000
5    Gabriel Rouleau    360,000
6    Josh Field    350,000
7    Thao Nguyen    320,000
8    Robert Thompson    290,000
9    Tore Spannenberg    275,000
10    Andy Frankenberger    270,000

Ben Vinson still in with 160,000

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #29: $2,500 10-Game Mix / Six Handed

25 of 431 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Brian Haveson    310,000
2    Roland Israelashvili    295,000
3    Don McNamara    257,000
4    David Whitis    195,000
5    Travis Pearson    188,000
6    Shaun Deeb    182,000
7    Jason Stern    163,000
8    Matt Vengrin    121,000
9    Scott Bohlman    120,000
10    Chris Lee    118,000

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #30: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship

Today marked a record-setting number of entrants for the Seniors Championship, with exactly 3,752 seniors packing into both the Pavilion and Amazon Room. Similar to last year, the event had such a large player pool that it actually interfered with starting times of other tournaments, including the Event #31: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha, which was delayed by a little over an hour.

By the end of the day, we dwindled down to just 529 players. Just a handful of "notables" remain, including Susie Isaacs (26,500), Shirley Williams (10,300) and Paul Magriel (56,100).

Big names who busted early include Amarillo Slim, Dennis Phillips, Lon McEachern, T.J. Cloutier, Berry Johnston, Tony Ma and Charles "Woody" Moore. Harold Angle also busted, which means we will crown a new champion this year.

It appears our current chip leader going into day two is John Bovin, who managed to amass a commanding 113,000 in chips. Other big stacks include Charlie Sewell (74,800) and Rick Mombourquette (66,700).

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #31: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha



    Players Left
        216

    Entries
        684


Top Chip Counts
1    Emmanuel Sebag    120,000
2    Matt O'Donnell    110,000
3    Christian Harder    82,000
4    Andrew Chen    70,000
5    Tex Barch    62,000
6    Andrew Watson    60,000
7    Leif Force    51,000
8    Roberto Romanello    44,000
9    Brock Parker    41,000
10    Jeffrey Lisandro    39,000

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #28: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em


Andy Frankenberger has just defeated Josh Evans to win the bracelet

1     Andy Frankenberger          599,153
2    Joshua Evans       372,498
3    Robert Shortway       263,655
4    Owen Crowe       190,147
5    Tyler Kenney       138,847
6    Steven Merrifield       102,600
7    Thao Nguyen       76,747
8    Sidney Hasson       58,083
9    Bret Hruby       44,482
10    Geoffrey Lay       34,458
11    Karl Johansson       34,458
12    Jefferson Lasecki       34,458
13    Stephen Falcon       27,000
14    Frederik Jensen       27,000
15    Mickey Petersen       27,000
16    Aleksandr Mozhnyakov       21,397
17    Jacobo Fernandez       21,397
18    Gabriel Rouleau       21,397
19    Matt Graham       17,145
20    Timothy Ulmer       17,145

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #29: $2,500 10-Game Mix / Six Handed


7 of 431 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Shaun Deeb    1,230,000
2    Brian Haveson    555,000
3    Travis Pearson    485,000
4    Chris Lee    370,000
5    Kendall Fukumoto    355,000
6    John D'Agostino    155,000
7    Kevin Chance    62,000

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #30: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship


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Top Chip Counts
1    Richard Harwood    520,000
2    Kenneth Russell    460,000
3    Harvey Bundy    460,000
4    Gregory Meredith    450,000
5    Gregory Alston    405,000
6    James Hess    403,000
7    Anthony Hornyak    345,000
8    Andrew Bradshaw    340,000
9    Sanford Lubetkin    330,000
10    Hans Pfister    305,000

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #31: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha


32 of 685 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Warren Fund    475,000
2    Christian Harder    470,000
3    Emmanuel Sebag    370,000
4    Ben Lamb    300,000
5    Sam Stein    290,000
6    Brock Parker    285,000
7    Tommy Le    280,000
8    Benjamin Keiley    250,000
9    Gabor Gyarmati    250,000
10    Austin Scott    240,000


Jon Spinks and Jerome Bradepiece both in and short-stacked with 33,000 and 31,000 respectively

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Event #32: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 completed


Day 1 of Event #32: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em has concluded. Another enormous field of 2,828 runners came out for this one, making it another great starting day for a 2011 World Series of Poker event. Adam Lippert should be the overall leader heading into Day 2 with 144,800 in chips. That is, unless we missed someone hiding among the masses. Under 400 players remain and we're less than 100 eliminations away from the money.

A lot of faces were spotted throughout the day, but the following group was nowhere to be found at the end of it. MIke Leah, Phil Laak, Jean-Robert Bellande, Jerry Yang, Dwyte Pilgrim, Scotty Nguyen, Joe Cada, Kara Scott, Kathy Liebert, Adam Levy, Ronnie Bardah, Allen Cunningham and Jeff Madsen all played, but were eliminated on the day. Humberto Brenes, Jason Mercier, Gualter Salles, Andre Akkari, Martin Hruby and Randy Lew were some of the Team PokerStars players who hit the rail as well on Day 1.

There's plenty of notables still remaining in this field including Chino Rheem and Martin Kabrhel. Every time we see these two in an event, they're always stacking towers. Rheem bagged up 101,500 to end the night while Kabrhel finished with 94,800. They'll be towards the top of the bunch to start things off tomorrow. Joining them in the mix will be Kyle Cartwright, Layne Flack, Tim West, Brent Hanks, Josh Brikis, Todd Terry and Justin Young.


Top Chip Counts
1    Adam Lippert    139,000
2    Rodrigo Garrido    129,000
3    Chino Rheem    110,000
4    Kyle Cartwright    105,000
5    Claudio Rinaldi    98,000
6    Martin Kabrhel    82,000
7    Brett Jungblut    69,000
8    Layne Flack    62,000
9    Ramsey Ajram    45,000
10    Eric Cloutier    45,000

Still in: Channing, Trickett, Cody, Vamplew, Steve Watts, Josh Field, Jack Powell, Martins Adeniya

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Event #33: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship

139 of 168 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Maxwell Troy    85,000
2    Allen Kessler    79,000
3    Ted Forrest    73,000
4    David Benyamine    69,000
5    Bernard Lee    61,000
6    Jonathan Duhamel    56,000
7    David Singer    54,000
8    Alex Kravchenko    54,000
9    Hasan Habib    54,000
10    Matt Glantz    52,000

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #30: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship


52 left of 3752

Top Chip Counts
1    Richard Harwood    520,000
2    Kenneth Russell    460,000
3    Harvey Bundy    460,000
4    Gregory Meredith    450,000
5    Gregory Alston    405,000
6    James Hess    403,000
7    Anthony Hornyak    345,000
8           ANDy BRADSHAW   340,000
9    Sanford Lubetkin    330,000
10    Hans Pfister    305,000

come on you old twat. i have never said one time but would gladly let him use mine

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #31: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha


32 of 685 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Warren Fund    475,000
2    Christian Harder    470,000
3    Emmanuel Sebag    370,000
4    Ben Lamb    300,000
5    Sam Stein    290,000
6    Brock Parker    285,000
7    Tommy Le    280,000
8    Benjamin Keiley    250,000
9    Gabor Gyarmati    250,000
10    Austin Scott    240,000


Jon Spinks and Jerome Bradepiece both in and short-stacked with 33,000 and 31,000 respectively

Zimnan Ziyard is 9th- known as Zimmy

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Event 32 $1500 nlhe


1   Jacob Szudera   240,000
2   Adam Latimer   236,000   from oxford
3   Andrea Dato   210,000
4   Carter Gill   185,000
5   Adam Lippert   150,200
6   Rodrigo Portaleoni   144,800
7   Andrew Barber   142,400
8   Michael Whitfield   125,000
9   Justin Young   125,000
10   Matthew Wantman   124,200

147 left from 2828

quite a few brits still in, including John Eames  43,600       Ramsey Ajram 104,800


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-32-no-limit-hold-em/

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Level InfoLevel23Blinds10,000 / 20,000Ante0Players InfoPlayers Left9Entries685Average Chip Stack685,000Total Chips6,165,000Prize Pool1,870,050Next Pay OutPlace 9, $31,360


Top Chip Counts


1 Christian Harder 1,520,000

2 Ben Lamb 1,050,000

3 Adam Junglen 1,010,000

4 Austin Scott 525,000

5 Sam Stein 465,000

6 Zimnan Ziyard 460,000

7 Brock Parker 370,000

8 Warren Fund 292,000

9 Dilyan Kovachev 190,000


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-31-pot-limit-omaha/