Event #50: $5,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em
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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #50: $5,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em
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Event Info
Risultati finali
Event Info
Informazioni livello
2011 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$5,000
Montepremi
$3,839,000
Entries
817
Livello
32
Bui
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Welcome to Day 1 of Event #50: $5,000 Triple-Chance No-Limit Hold’em Championship!
Welcome back to the Pavilion Room at the Rio in Las Vegas!
Today, competitors will be playing Event #50, the $5,000 No-Limit Triple Chance Tournament. In a "Triple Chance" tournament format, each player will be given 5,000 chips and two "rebuy lammers" that are individually worth 5,000 chips. Each player has to decide when to use these rebuy lammers for themselves as they can be traded in before any hand through the first four levels. At that time, they will be automatically traded in if they have not yet been used. Some players will use the lammers before the very first hand to give themselves a head start right away while others will save them for a rebuy if they find themselves without chips.
Last year, the $3,000 Triple Chance tournament brought out 965 runners and saw Ryan Welch take down his first bracelet. With the win, Welch took home more than $550,000 and a ton of respect from the poker community for winning such a large and strategic tournament. Previously this year, Event #12 was a $1,500 Triple-Chance No-Limit Hold’em tournament and drew a field of 1,340 players. In the end, David Diaz took it down to win his very first gold bracelet and $352,808. When asked if he expected to win, he said, “Actually, I expected to win two. I don’t know why but I just did.” Maybe this tournament is his chance as he has already proven he knows what it takes to win in the Triple-Chance format.
Today's action is set to kick off in about 15 minutes at 12 pm local time (GMT-7) and as always, PokerNews will be covering all of the action from start to finish.
Livello: 1
Bui: 50/75
Ante: 0
Game On!
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Jack Effel has just finished running through the announcements, and the cards are in the air!
At Table 57, Todd Terry is already complaining vehemently about something. It looks like his table still needs the red add-on chips, and Mr. Terry is none too pleased right now. Pace yourself, Todd. It's going to be a long ten-level day.
Speaking of today's schedule, we'll play six levels before our 90-minute dinner break, and then we'll come back and play four more to finish up around 12:30 A.M. or so.
Rebuy!
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Although it seems a lot of players are choosing to be fashionably late this morning, the players who are already seated aren't wasting any time in bumping up their stacks by using their rebuy chips. As the tournament started, dealers in all parts of the room started calling out "Rebuy!" as players traded in their rebuy chips for some chips of value.
Name Dropping
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Spotted among the players in the White section are Phil Laak, Faraz Jaka, Lars Bonding, Jennifer Tilly, Sam Stein, Allen Bari, Tony Dunst, and Mike Leah.
Heads Up On Day 1
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Usually you have to play three days (and sometimes four) in order to reach Heads Up play. However, Andy Black and Event #34 winner Mark Schmid, have been playing Heads Up for fifteen minutes. While most tables have filled in at least seven or eight of their seats, Black and Schmid are still alone.
In one hand, Black was first to act and folded. Schmid was in the cutoff and the dealer required him to make a raise before he could ship him the blinds. He threw out some chips and pot went his way. So far it has been an interesting dynamic as the two men are acting quickly so that they can get in as many hands as possible before seats are filled.
Notable Names
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We've done a quick walk through the black section and found all of these players at their seats.
PokerStars Team Pros Jude Ainsworth, Gualter Salles, Jonathan Duhamel, Humberto Brenes, and Vanessa Selbst along with Barry Shulman, David "ODB" Baker, Adam Levy, Kathy Liebert, David Sands, Dwyte Pilgrim, Dan Shak, Shane Schleger, Alan Kessler, Jason Somerville, Rene Angelil, Shannon Shorr, Isaac Haxton, Erica Schoenberg, David Pham, Terrence Chan, Ted Lawson, Kevin Saul, Peter Feldman, Chad Batista, and Dave Ulliott.
More Notables
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: 50/75, 0 ante
We've started to fill the "Chip Counts" tab in with a list of familiar faces, but we'll give you some highlights here too.
We spotted Rene Angelil over in the Black section, sitting at a table full of unknowns. Angelil is the husband and manager of pop singer Celine Dion, though from the lack of table talk, it's quite possible nobody at his table recognizes him, either.
We also have a smattering of 2011 bracelet winners in the house today. Jason Somerville was the first one we spotted, and we've also seen Sam Stein, Sean Getzwiller, Andrew Badecker, Amir Lehavot, and Allen Bari in the house this morning.
World Champs? We've got at least one. Jonathan Duhamel is here, and actually, most of last year's November Nine are as well. Jason Senti, Filippo Candio, Joseph Cheong, and Matt Jarvis (who also won a bracelet this year) are all playing in this event, and we wouldn't be surprised to see Michael Mizrachi make an appearance a little later on.
Some eyebrow-raising table matchups include Kathy Liebert/Adam Geyer/David Baker, Allen Kessler/Jason Somerville, and a European reunion table featuring Dag Palovic (Slovakia) and Ludovic Lacay (France).
Laak Up and Down
Livello 1
: 50/75, 0 ante
Phil Laak had gotten his stack to 11,300 with two rebuy lammers before the following hand occurred:
From early position, an opponent opened with a raise to 175, Phil Laak flatted from the button and Mike Leah made the call from the big blind. The flop was 
and the action was checked to Laak. He bet 200 and both players called.
The turn was the 
and for a second time the action was checked to Laak. This time he decided to get a little more aggressive and fired 1,475. Leah got out of the way but the other player stuck around. The last card was the 
prompting both players to check. Laak was unable to beat the 
of his opponent and lost the hand.