Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship

Jorn Walthaus checked a   flop, and Chad Batista bet 1,600 in position. Walthaus called. He check-called again after the   on the turn when Batista bet 4,100. The river was the  , and Walthaus checked a third street. "Lilholdem" checked behind with   to discover that his flopped top pair and been rivered by Walthaus'  . With two pair, Walthaus scooped the pot, moving to 160,000. Batista slipped to 73,000.

Rob Hollink was all in for his last 5,800 with two players also making the call; with one of them all in also.

Hollink:   

Opponent:   

Opponent:   

The board ran out       to see Hollink eliminated.

Unfortunately Aaron Benton has been eliminated from the Main Event.

Re-raising someone preflop with   , Benton saw a     flop fall after his opponent made the call.

Benton and his opponent then got in a raising war before Benton was all in for his tournament life.

Unfortunately for Benton his opponent had trapped him with   , but that still left Benton with a club draw and backdoor straight draw to stay alive.

The turn was the   to end Benton's tournament in a cooler hand!

There was about 10,000 in the pot and a flop of     when Adam Junglen checked to his opponent on the button, who bet 2,200. Junglen raised to 7,200 only to have the button make it 15,000 to go.

Junglen asked the gentleman for a count, which was about 47,000 behind, and then moved all in. "Wow," the button exclaimed as he shot back in his chair. The decision put him into the tank for a couple minutes before he frustratingly mucked.

Junglen is up to around 110,000.

Right before the break, Jonathan Karamalakis raised to 900, and from middle position, Peter Jetten reraised to 2,400. The small blind made it 10,500 total, and after Karamalakis folded, Jetten called all in for 10,050 total. Jetten had the best of it with  , while his unhappy opponent showed  . The board ran out  , and Jetten doubled to 21,500.

He tweeted that ESPN's cameras had come to the table just before the hand, and he fortuitously picked up aces against kings, so the "whole table thinks it was rigged."

For some of these players Level 5 started on Monday, for others Wednesday, but it concluded only moments ago for all of them. The words "All in and a call!" rang through the Amazon and Pavillion rooms every few minutes as short stacks attempted to get something going here on Day 2A of the Main Event.

Two short-stacks enjoying early double-ups were Dennis Phillips and Howard "Tahoe" Andrew, the latter doubling through Sam Farha. Rather than shoving for her last 5,500 over her opponent's three-bet, Tiffany Michelle mistakenly flat-called, but found a seven from heaven on the flop, making her a set and snapping off her opponent's pocket aces to double her back to her 30,000 starting stack.

This hour's most notable elimination was Hall of Famer Mike Sexton. Sexton looked good to triple up when he got his stack in with pocket kings against pocket queens and pocket nines, however, a nine hit the flop, leading his lucky opponent to launch into an obnoxious celebration.

We've only played but an hour, but the players have just been sent on their first break. We'll see you in twenty minutes.

A player opened for 1,300 from under the gun -- a bit more than a 3x raise -- and Johnny Chan called from the button. Then the player in the big blind reraised to 5,000, and both the original raiser and Chan called.

The flop came    . It checked to Chan who bet 5,000, and only the player in the big blind called. The turn brought the  . This time Chan's opponent took the initiative, betting 11,000. Chan thought about it, then called.

The river was the  . Chan's opponent checked, and Chan didn't hesitate before setting out a stack of about 17,000 -- enough to put his opponent all in. His opponent folded, saying he had hearts.

The 1987 and 1988 WSOP Main Event winner continues his good start to the 2010 ME. He has about 172,000 as we draw near the end of Level 5.

Steve Wong is the next player to be felted.

We are unsure exactly of how the hand played out, but it was Wong's    unable to best his opponent's    on a final board reading      .

Dave Stann raised from early position to 1,050, and both Jamie Rosen and Matt Marafioti called from the small and big blind, respectively. The ESPN cameras were rolling as the dealer burned a card.

The three men took a flop of      , and the blinds checked to the raiser. Stann continued out with 2,025 and Rosen quickly folded. Marafioti fumbled with his chips, though, rocking back and forth from a rather aggressive massage that he's in the middle of. Finally, he collected 7,650 chips and slid them into the pot on a check-raise. Stann didn't like it, throwing his arms up into the air. With a heavy sigh, he shuffled a handful of chips and rhetorically asked, "Right here? You wanna do it right here?"

After another few seconds, though, "Hollywood" Dave folded and the camera crew dispersed.

A middle position player raised to 1,100, Jason Gray made the call from the button and the big blind called as well. The flop came down    . The big blind checked, Mr. Middle Position bet 2,100, Gray called and the big blind folded. The turn paired the board with the   and both players checked. The river fall the   and they checked it down one more time.

Gray turned over    and it was good to take down the pot. He's up to 72,500.