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

We missed the details but can confirm that Andy Frankenberger, winner of this year's Event #28: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em has busted from the tournament. Although his Main Event has come to an end here on day 2, Frankenberger has had a successful series, taking down the $599,153 first prize for Event #28.

Galen Hall opened with a raise to 2,200 from middle position and got three callers -- the cutoff and both blinds, including Matt Matros in the SB. The flop came     and it checked to Hall who continued for 6,000, and all three folded.

Hall is up to 94,000.

A player under the gun raised to 2,300 and got two callers, including Freddy Deeb. The flop came    . The preflop raiser checked, then the player to Deeb's right bet 4,000. Deeb rechecked his cards, then decided that flop was friendly enough to raise to 10,000. The UTG player got out, and after a bit of thought the third player folded as well.

Deeb has been steadily adding to his stack today, and now sits with 148,000.

Counts from Amazon Blue that is

-	324,500	4,500
Jonas Entin	270,000	19,000
-	262,000	112,000
Ryan D'Angelo	238,500	-1,500
Leif Force	165,000	-10,000
Steven Kelly	158,000	-17,000
Chad Batista	150,000	25,000
David Williams	145,000	-1,000
Javier Martinez	132,000	12,000
Kevin MacPhee	130,000	-15,000
-	126,000	-6,000
Thomas Keller	122,000	-1,500
Jorge Arias	77,000	-8,000
Jeffrey Gross	73,000	23,000
Minh Nguyen	70,000	-48,000
Matt Jarvis	60,000	-26,000
Bryan Colin	53,000	-55,000
Derek Lerner	46,000	22,000
Greg Mueller	43,000	20,000
Arthur Walker	40,000	-93,000
Berry Johnston	35,000	-27,000
J.C. Tran	22,000	8,400
Salvatore Bonavena	15,000	-11,000
Pascal Lefrancois	0	-26,500

We just reported to you how table #261 in Amazon Tan had been playing eight cards short for about 40 minutes, but we just got the full story from some of the tournament directors.

Apparently what happened is that when everyone went on dinner break, one of the dealers noticed that some of the cards in their red deck had been dented and she asked for replacement cards. When they replaced the cards, they replaced them with the wrong color and the replacement cards never made it to the correct deck. According to the floor, this meant that they had only been playing short for six or seven hands (after they reviewed surveillance etc.) and that was it. The floor also maintains that for the first half an hour, they were playing with a 52 card deck, but the players at the table are still convinced they were playing with 60, and then 44 (due to the eight replacement cards being the wrong color and being added to the wrong deck). After those "six or seven" hands is when the dealer who pushed noticed the short deck. Obviously there is still a little confusion amongst everyone and the whole section is buzzing about it, but for now there is nothing to be done but for them to continue play with the standard deck.

They did ask for some extra food vouchers for their troubles though. Seems fair.

With the flop reading    , Randall Flowers' opponent bet out 4,000 and Flowers made the call. The turn brought the   and both players checked.

The   fell on the river, completing the flush draw and pairing the board. Flowers' opponent checked and Flowers counted out a bet of 10,600. Rather quickly, Flowers' opponent tossed out a raised, making it 30,000 to go. Flowers went into the tank and began talking to himself about the hand. Eventually he mucked his cards face up, showing    for a king high flush.

"You have to show now," said Flowers to his opponent. His opponent did not comply, however, and instaed opted to quietly stack his newly won chips.

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115,000

33,000

Mark "P0ker H0" Kroon opened to 2,600 from early position, a player called directly behind him, and the rest of the players released. The flop fell    , and Kroon led for 2,600. His opponent called.

The turn was the  , and Kroon quickly tossed out 3,600. His opponent again called.

Both players knuckled after the   was dealt on the river, and Kroon tabled    for a pair of tens. His opponent mucked, and the P0ker H0 picked up the pot.

Mark Kroon

170,000

30,000

The board read       and about 25,000 rested in between Mike Sexton and his lone opponent, sitting to his right on the button. Sexton, playing out of the small blind, checked, and his opponent fired 19,000 into the space in front of them. Sexton sat quietly, his hands folded over his cards, then grabbed the chips to call and tossed them alongside those of his opponent.

The player on the button quickly flipped over his    for fives full of eights, and Sexton nodded silently, acknowledging he was beat. He slid his cards face down to the dealer, and looked back at his stack which has slid a bit as well. He's down to about 35,000.

Unfortunately, we didn't catch the hand, but we can confirm that Darvin Moon, runner-up in the 2009 Main Event, will not be making a return trip to the November Nine. Moon has been eliminated from the tournaments.

Darvin Moon

0

-26,000

We just heard an uproar from Table #261 as they demanded a count of the deck they had been playing with. Apparently, after 40 minutes of play with the same deck and dealer, a new dealer pushed and immediately felt the deck being short some cards. Then, one of the players at the table demanded a count of the deck and it was in fact eight cards short. One of the players at the table said jokingly, "Yeah, I mean I figured something was wrong when no one was hitting any flops at all."

The player who noticed the deck said, "When she seemed like something was wrong with the deck, I told her 'You better count those cards before you deal them out', and sure enough I was right. The floor just ran away with the setup and gave us a new one, but it's kind of ridiculous you know?"

Another player at the table asked the media members surrounding the table, "What do you think we should get in compensation?" Everyone seemed to agree an apology was in order to which she said, "Not on my watch, we better get something!" The table echoed her sentiments.

Players at the table next to them including 2006 Main Event Champ Jamie Gold, and Ray Henson were also curious as to what was going on, especially whether the cards had been found. Henson said, "I'm pretty sure I could feel a deck and know if it was short some cards, especially if it was that many." Gold then chimed in, "They can't just let this go, they should be searching every player at that table to make sure they weren't taking cards out of the deck the whole time."

The table is now playing with a new deck, and you better bet they are sure they have all 52 this time. If we hear anything else as to what happened to those missing eight cards or where the mystery setup has run off to, we'll let you know.