Livello: 3
Bui: 50/100
Ante: 0
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #45: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Giorni 1
Event Info
Risultati finali
Event Info
Informazioni livello
2011 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,000
Montepremi
$2,601,000
Entries
2,890
Livello
28
Bui
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000
Livello 2
: 25/50, 0 ante
Players are now on the first break of the day. We will resume play in twenty minutes.
| Giocatore | Chip | Avanzamento |
|---|---|---|
|
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6,100
3,100
|
3,100 |
|
3,700
700
|
700 |
|
2,300
700
|
700 |
|
||
|
2,200
800
|
800 |
|
|
||
Livello 2
: 25/50, 0 ante
We missed seeing how it happened, but Scott Montgomery's quest for another WSOP bracelet in a $1,000 no-limit hold'em event has already ended with his elimination prior to the first break.
Livello 2
: 25/50, 0 ante
Preflop action had left just Ryan Schmidt (middle position) and Faraz Jaka (small blind) with cards when the flop came 
. Jaka bet 375 and Schmidt called. The turn was the 
, pairing the board, and this time Jaka checked. Schmidt bet 525, and Jaka made the call.
The river brought the 
and another check from Jaka. Schmidt paused, then announced he was all in, putting his stack of 1,825 before him. Jaka tanked for more than a minute, then with a reluctant look tossed his cards away.
Schmidt Jaka has about 5,200 while Schmidt moves up to about 4,000.
Livello 2
: 25/50, 0 ante
Hearing one player say "you call? OK, let's see what I got," we hurried over to catch a player go all-in blind for his last 800 chips. His opponent showed down 
and the all-in player revealed his holding one card at a time.
He stood and turned over his 
with a flourish, before flipping the and saying optimistically, "I'm live here, that's always good."
When the dealer flopped the 
, the player was a little less live, and the on the turn pushed him closer to the brink. The dealer turned over the 
on the river, however, and the table gasped at the blind all-in's turn of fortune. Rather than retake his seat, the player kept standing and told the rest of his table, "I've got 1,900 or so, time to get it in good one more time and see what happens!"
Brent Hanks tried to make a play with his short stack by calling a 125 raise from a player in middle position from the big blind. The flop ran out 
. Hanks checked, his opponent bet 225, and Hanks raised it to 450. His opponent then moved all in and Hanks folded.
Hanks was eliminated shortly after.
| Giocatore | Chip | Avanzamento |
|---|---|---|
|
Eliminato | |
|
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We watched professional Dmitrii Valouev, who cashed three times in last year's WSOP for $69,011, push all-in over his opponent's bet of 700 to put his last 2,100 at risk.
The board read 
and his opponent snap-called with his 
. The other player let out a shout of anguish, however, when Valouev revealed his for a better overpair. After the 
hit the river, Valouev had earned the double-up and crippled his opponent in the process.
| Giocatore | Chip | Avanzamento |
|---|---|---|
|
4,600 |
Livello 2
: 25/50, 0 ante
Karlo Lopez, who in addition to being an accomplished poker player is also an expert magician specializing in "sleight of hand" tricks, opened for 150 from the cutoff, and it folded to the small blind who called. The big blind then made it 375 to go, Lopez called, and the third player folded.
The flop came 
, eliciting a bet of 375 from the reraiser. Lopez couldn't conjure a reason to call, and so pushed his cards to the dealer.
A slow start for Lopez, who sits with 2,175 as we begin the second level of play.
Livello 2
: 25/50, 0 ante
During our latest lap around the room, a player stopped us and said we should ask the next table over about a recent hand. The young man seemed so amused by what he had just witnessed that we had to hear it for ourselves.
According to the dealer and the player who won the pot, Nick Zohrabi, this is how it went down. Zohrabi held and the flop fell , giving him the nuts at that point with his top set. After a bet and a raise, Zohrabi's lone opponent in the hand pushed all-in.
Zohrabi needed some time to think things through. With no other opponents in the hand and the action on him, Zohrabi went deep into the tank with his top set, deliberating for what the dealer said was "at least ninety seconds."
After coming to his decision, Zohrabi finally made the call and his opponent revealed 
for two-pair. The board bricked out and Zohrabi claimed every one of his furious opponent's chips. While the slowrolled player is "probably in Reno by now after that one," according to a player at the table, Zohrabi contentedly counted his newly earned chips.
When asked why he decided to wait so long before calling with the nuts, Zohrabi looked up and said simply "It's a World Series of Poker tournament and it's serious stuff. I gotta put him on the straight there." He concluded by adding cryptically, "I gotta put him on somethin' there...I could've been beat."
