Event #62: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship

Georg Lehmann and Rafael Caiaffa, who were very close in chips, got involved in an all in confrontation preflop. Caiaffa turned over   , and he was behind Lehmann's   . The board ran out      . Lehmann's kings held up, and Caiaffa was eliminated from the tournament.

Rafael Caiaffa

0

-300,000

We arrived in the midst of preflop back-and-forthing between Emile Petit and James Alexander, sitting side-by-side in the cutoff and on the button, respectively. By then the pair had reached a point where Alexander was tasked with deciding whether or not to call a final reraise for 117,000 more from Petit, and with a big grin and a laugh Alexander said he was calling, thus creating a total pot of about 400,000.

Petit tabled    and Alexander said "I'm gonna need to make two pair" as he turned over his   . The flop came    . "Or a straight," added Alexander, then the   appeared on the turn to increase the possibility of that happening. But the river was the  , and Petit won and survived.

"You're welcome, sir," said Alexander to Petit afterwards, then opened the next pot while saying "I gotta get those back."

James Alexander	1,225,000	-155,000
Emile Petit	402,000	202,000

Gregory Benac was all in preflop with the    againt the    for Tyler Cornell. The board ran out      , and Benac was eliminated. Cornell climbed to 590,000 in chips.

Tyler Cornell	590,000	508,000
Gregory Benac	0	-345,000

From under the gun, Ronnie Bardah raised to 17,000. Action folded all the way around to the player in the big blind, and he moved all in for 145,000. After tanking for a bit, Bardah folded and flashed just the  . His opponent didn't show.

The ESPN cameras were filming as Bardah tanked. After the hand, Bardah began talking about how he had lost two pots since David Stefanski showed up on the rail to sweat him a little bit.

"I've lost the last two pots since you showed up!" Bardah yelled over to Stefanski. "But I'm not blaming you!"

Bardah want on to put on a bit of a show for the cameras, pointing out how he doesn't win all the pots, but Robert Koss, his tablemate, does. "This guy right here, he wins all the pots!" Bardah said, pointing to the Koss and looking at the cameras. Bardah then mimicked Norman Chad saying that if Koss goes deep, they will show this on ESPN and talk about how he wins all the pots.

"Every pot I play against him, he fathers me! Puts me in my crib!" Bardah finished with.

Ronnie Bardah

640,000

-10,000

After a raise from middle position by Alex Livingston, Adam Friedman called. Action folded around to Annette Obrestad who was in the big blind and she reraised to 70,000. The big blind folded back to Livingston who folded. After a quick thought, Friedman folded as well allowing Obrestad to take down the pot without seeing a flop.

Annette Obrestad	894,000	44,000
Alexander Livingston	806,000	-9,000
Adam Friedman	320,000	48,000

Simon Lam opened to 17,000 in late position, Tzu Yen, who barely survived the bubble, three-bet all in for 190,000 on the button, and Mauro Villegas tanked for a considerable amount of time before cold-calling in the small blind. The big blind and Lam quickly folded.

Yen:   
Villegas:   

Yen was dominated, but the flop fell    , giving Yen an ace-high flush draw. Villegas held one of Yen's outs, but it didn't matter as the   turned. A meaningless   completed the board, and Yen doubled to 400,000 chips. Villegas slipped to 105,000.

Tzu Yen	400,000	210,000
Mauro Villegas	105,000	-44,500

Kima Kimura opened with a raise to 16,000 from middle position, then Glen Rose reraised to 30,000 from a seat over in the hijack. It folded back around to Kimura who sat for a short while, then pushed all in for the rest of her chips.

The reraise-shove added up to 172,000 total, and Rose considered for over two minutes before finally making the call.

Rose turned over    and Kimura   , and just as Rose wished Kimura good luck, the dealer burned a card and slid the three flop cards out with the   appearing right on top and the   and   underneath.

At that Kimura stood from her chair as the   came out on the turn. The dealer then delivered the river… the  ! Kimura quickly sat back down as the table reacted to the ace from space to save Kimura, and the pot was pushed her way.

Kima Kimura	352,000	251,000
Glen Rose	252,000	29,500

From middle position, Robert Koss raised to 17,000. Kevin Allen made the call on the button, then Rafi Elarrar reraised out of the small blind to 47,000. Koss folded, then Allen shoved all in. Elarrar quickly folded, and Allen won the pot.

Robert Koss	1,150,000	26,000
Kevin Allen	1,010,000	-15,000
Rafi Elarrar	195,000	-255,000

A very short-stacked Yann Migeon was all in and at risk preflop for his last 97,000 holding   , and he was in very bad shape against Simon Lam's   .

"Six of spades in the window," Vladimir Geshkenbein said, nudging a downtrodden Migeon.

The window was not the  , rather it was the  , but there was a seven on the     flop. The   on the turn was a brick, leaving Migeon with just five outs, and low and behold the   completed the board to give him trips.

"Voilà," Geshkenbein said, grinning.

Simon Lam	965,000	-180,000
Yann Migeon	215,000	45,000

These players earned $28,063 for their Main Event finish. Keep an eye on the payouts tab for exact-place finishes.

Jair Beltran	0	-118,000
James Lee	0	-236,000
Scott Matte	0	-233,500
Marc Carpentier-Perrault	0	-327,000
Robert Demuch	0	-195,500
Peter Kamaras	0	-182,500
Timothy Finne	0	0
Shawn Silber	0	0
Benjamin Gold	0	-404,000
Andras Stumpf	0	-87,000
Jamie Dawick	0	0
Paul Lackey	0	0
Tim Davie	0	-314,000
Tuan Le	0	0
Kenneth Hicks	0	-416,000
Harsukhpaul Sangha	0	-169,000
Doyle Brunson	0	0
Emilio Dominguez	0	-116,000
Muhammad Abdel Rahim	0	0
David Davenport	0	-39,000
Harry Maurer	0	-69,000
Nika Futterman	0	-187,000
John Keith	0	-155,000
Carlos Marques	0	0
Eric Rappaport	0	-192,500