Event #58: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship

We caught the action on the river with a board of       with a pot had already reached over 25,000. Mark Schmid, a 2011 WSOP Bracelet winner, was all in for his final 13,125 and his opponent was mulling over his decision. Eventually, he threw in the chips and Schmid tabled   . His opponent angrily showed    and mentioned that queen-ten was the only hand he was afraid of.

With that hand, Schmid has doubled to 52,000.

Not a great Level 2 thus far for Chris Moneymaker. Here are a few counts from the tables in Tan:

Pablo Santos Cobo	53,000	2,000
Silvio Crisari	45,200	-5,300
John Tabatabai	43,000	5,000
Sean Getzwiller	37,500	11,500
Andrew Robl	34,000	5,500
Bobbie Talbot	32,500	1,500
Leo Wolpert	31,000	-1,000
Michael Winnett	25,500	0
Grayson Ramage	23,000	500
Chris Moneymaker	8,500	-21,500

Ray Romano opened to 600 from middle position and got a call from the cutoff and from the button. The flop came       and Romano led out for 800. The cutoff folded and the button raised to 2,000.

Romano thinks for a moment and then folds pocket jacks face up. The player on the button showed his cards as he was dragging the pot --    .

The player in the hijack raised to 600 only to have the cutoff immediately re-raise to 1,650. When action got to Maria "Maridu" Mayrinck in the big blind she wanted to see how much the cutoff had in his stack and politely asked him to move his arms that were covering it, but found that he didn't speak English and didn't understand her request. A couple others at the table eventually got him to understand what she was asking and he obliged her request. After seeing how many chips he had Maridu called the 1,650 while the hijack got out of the way.

The flop came     and both players checked. When the   came on the turn Maridu tossed out a bet of 1,700 and the other player opted to fold. After the hand was over someone pointed out to Maridu that the player spoke Spanish so she quickly explained to him in Spanish what she had been asking him during the hand. It seemed Maridu just wanted to make sure he understood that she had harmless intentions in asking how many chips he had behind.

After the conversation ended another player joked, "Now you have to say it in French!" to which Maridu replied, "I'll say it in braille if I have to!" which elicited a bit of laughter from her tablemates.

Maria Mayrinck

32,000

3,200

Jonathan Duhamel was stuck on about 20,000 for a while at the start of Level 2, but he's doing what he can to grab some momentum over on the main feature table.

Just now William Kassouf opened with a raise to 525 from early position and it folded to Duhamel on the button. He made it 1,375 to go, and Kassouf gave it up.

On the next hand Duhamel opened with a raise to 500 from the cutoff, and only Kassouf called from the big blind. Both checked the     flop and   turn. Kassouf checked again when the   fell on the river, Duhamel bet 650, and Kassouf let it go once more.

It was another raise-and-take hand for Duhamel the next time around as well. After that three-hand sequence, Duhamel presently sits with about 23,000.

It hasn't been the best of starts for Singapore's Bryan Huang, who's down to less than 22,000 after a recent hand on table 279.

The player in the UTG +1 position raised to 500 before the flop and the action folded to the cutoff who called, only to see Huang re-raise to 1,375 from the button. The UTG +1 player folded but the cutoff called, then led out for 2,000 after the flop of    .

Huang called and then both players checked down both the turn of the   and the river   before the cutoff showed   , which was enough to see Huang send his hand into the muck.

Diwei Huang

21,300

-9,000

We just stopped by Brad Garrett's table to check on his chip stack, and we found him opening the pot to 600 as he and his table talked about the picture of Puggy Pearson over on the far side of the wall. "I think that's Bo Derek," Garrett said as he flicked the raise into the pot. "Looks like she's got a hot dog in her mouth."

Garrett found calls from Max Cohn (in position) and the big blind, and the three of them went off to a       flop. It checked around, and Garrett made a delayed continuation bet of 1,000 after the   turn. Cohn raised it up to 3,000, the big blind folded, and Garrett quickly called. "Naw, I don't think that's Puggy Pearson. I'm pretty sure it's Bo Derek."

The river was the  , and Garrett checked. Cohn checked behind, and he gets a gold star for the day. Garrett rolled over     for quads! "Boy, I was hopin' you'd bet that," he stated the obvious. "You weren't calling a bet, though, right?"

Cohn didn't miss a beat, giving the rub right back to the comedian: "What? With the jackass hands you've been playing?!"

Garrett is doing well for himself so far, back up to about 39,600 with that pot.

From middle position, Jordan Morgan opened the pot with a raise to 400. Team PokerStars Pro Humberto Brenes and his shark were on the button and raised to 1,200. It folded back to Morgan and he made the call.

The flop was     and Morgan checked. Brenes bet 2,000 which was enough to Morgan off his hand and put him back above starting stack with 30,500.

Wendeen Eolis might be a name some people are unfamiliar with, but the New Yorker was the first ever woman to cash in the main event in 1986, some 25 years ago. Since then, she's played every year in the main event since then, with six cashes since then - the most recent being in a $1,500 back in 2009. She's here once more playing in the white section of Pavilion, hoping to improve on her best finish of 25th place in this event.