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2011 42nd Annual World Series of Poker

Thursday, July 07, 2011 to Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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

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  • Buy-in: $10,000
  • Prizepool: $64,540,858
  • Entries: 6,865
  • Remaining: 0

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:43 PM Local Time

Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri has been eliminated, his chair remaining empty for a short while before being filled by Erik Cajelais. Soon after Cajelais was in action, trying to see if the seat would work out better for him.

Cajelais opened with a raise to 2,000 from middle position, and the big blind defended. The flop came    . Cajelais' opponent checked, he bet 3,200, and his opponent called. Both then checked the   turn.

The river brought the   and a bet of 5,000 from the big blind. Cajelais sat for a moment, then tossed his cards away. He has about 60,000 now.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:42 PM Local Time

Erik Cajelais fired out 2,300 on a     flop against one player, then another 4,000 on the   turn - both times he was called. On the river   Cajelais checked and immediately folded when his opponent threw out several orange 5k chips into the middle.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:38 PM Local Time

We were walking through the orange section and we noticed a player who has graced the ESPN cameras before. It was Darus Suharto, who made the final table of the 2008 Main Event, finishing in 6th. Suharto has laid relatively low since that result, posting just five live results in the last three years. However, he is here today and he just won a nice sized pot.

We missed the action before, but Suharto had a short stack all in in a coin flip. Suharto held   , and his opponent had   . The flop came out    , giving his opponent more outs for a counterfeit. The   came on the turn, and Suharto would have to dodge a king, queen, jack, or five on the river. That card was the  , which was safe for Suharto. He took the pot, and now has a stack over 60,000.

Darus Suharto66,000
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:36 PM Local Time

The cutoff (also coincidentally the player who won a huge side pot with    against Ramdin's flopped straight earlier) got into a major raising war against Victor Ramdin. When we arrived, there was already a 3,600 bet in front of the former (judging by the pot, there might have been some limpers) and Ramdin had made it 8,400 on the button.

Then the cutoff virtually clicked it back, making it 17,000 to play. Ramdin recounted his stack before deciding to just flat call in position as the flop came down    . The cutoff quickly lead out for 22,000 and Ramdin tanked for a minute as the rest of the players at the table got more and more interested in the hand. Alas, just as their interest had piqued, Ramdin elected to fold to his nemesis.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:36 PM Local Time
Anthony Miller200,000
Todd Brunson115,00030,000
Blair Hinkle105,00080,500
David Vamplew100,000-5,000
Carlos Mortensen85,000-13,000
Rupert Elder85,0000
Young Phan80,000
Vivek Rajkumar50,000-17,000
Matt Marafioti35,000
Andy Black27,000-18,000
Erick Lindgren24,00013,500
Jennifer Harman23,000-13,000
Ray Henson12,000-7,500
Playtika - Jason Alexander
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:35 PM Local Time

We caught up with the action to see Patrik Antonius bet 6,200 on a board of    . His opponent decided to put in a raise, making 12,800 and Antonius three-bet all in. His opponent called off his last 15,000 only to run into the top pair of Antonius'   . We missed his opponent's hand but he failed to improve on the turn and river and Antonius was able to scoop the pot, bringing him up to 220,000 in chips.

Patrik Antonius220,00030,000
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:34 PM Local Time

The 2011 World Series of Poker drew 6,865 runners and created a prize pool worth $64,531,000 that will be distributed among the top 693 players. Here is a look at the payouts for the top 99:

PlacePrize
1$8,711,956
2$5,430,928
3$4,019,635
4$3,011,665
5$2,268,909
6$1,720,396
7$1,313,851
8$1,009,910
9$782,115
10 - 12$607,882
13 - 15$478,174
16 - 18$378,796
19 - 27$302,005
28 - 36$242,636
37 - 45$196,174
46 - 54$160,036
55 - 63$130,997
64 - 72$108,412
73 - 81$90,343
82 - 90$76,146
91 - 99$64,531

To see the entire list of payouts, head here.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:31 PM Local Time

Here are counts from the Blue Section

Ryan D'Angelo287,0000
-255,0000
Elie Payan145,0000
Bryan Colin140,0000
Jeffrey Gross127,0000
Minh Nguyen118,0000
David Williams115,0000
-112,0000
Steven Kelly112,0000
Javier Martinez110,0000
-107,0000
Derek Lerner81,0000
Leif Force77,0000
Alexandre Gomes76,0000
Chad Batista71,0000
Jorge Arias65,0000
Jean-Robert Bellande54,0000
Kathy Liebert53,0000
Arthur Walker51,0000
Pascal Lefrancois46,0000
Salvatore Bonavena35,0000
Berry Johnston28,0000
Shawn Cunix28,0000
Greg Mueller24,5000
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:28 PM Local Time
Amanda Musumeci170,000-20,000
Daniel Suied150,00025,000
David Chiu147,00017,000
-135,00034,000
Dan Kelly135,000-20,000
Mike Carson120,00016,000
Andrew Chen120,000
-115,0006,000
Dax Mellon110,000-12,000
-90,00019,000
David Levi85,00020,000
Emil Patel80,000-5,000
Vanessa Rousso70,000-7,000
Lars Bonding70,00030,000
Tim West65,00019,000
Bryan Micon63,000
-63,00020,000
Robert Varkonyi60,000-11,000
Richard Lyndaker57,00024,000
-52,000-8,000
Amnon Filippi50,000-40,000
Noah Boeken50,0000
Jason Lester47,000-16,000
Darvin Moon45,000-1,000
Will Souther43,000
David Bach35,000-33,100
Chau Giang25,000-1,850
Terrence Chan22,5007,000
Jonathan Aguair21,0004,000
Amit Makhija21,000475
David Ulliott17,0000
Luca Pagano11,000-16,500
Randy Dorfman11,000-38,000
Eric Mizrachi8,000-5,000
Luca Moschitta0
Masa Kagawa0
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:22 PM Local Time

We caught up with the action on a     flop. The player in the big blind checked, prompting a c-bet of 4,100 from his lone opponent - Patrik Antonius. The big blind then check-raised to 12,200. Antonius remained stoic, as he usually does, and quietly announced, "Re-raise." Antonius then put together a bet of 20,300 and slid it into the middle. Antonius' opponent mucked after some deliberation.

Antonius is up to 190,000.

Patrik Antonius190,00010,000
Playtika - Jason Alexander
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:20 PM Local Time
Claudia Crawford175,000
Shankar Pillai140,000
Phil Laak126,0003,000
Anthony Rivera118,000
Shawn Keller115,000-21,000
John Racener108,000-14,000
Matt Matros106,000-2,000
Guillaume Rivet100,000-45,000
Freddy Deeb98,000-16,000
Doug Lee90,000
Galen Hall87,000
James Carroll85,000
Ricky Fohrenbach85,000-17,700
Matt Stout81,000-4,000
Mathieu Clavet78,000
-69,00013,000
-58,00037,075
Chris Lindh52,000
Cole Swannack47,000
Rayan Nathan40,000
Mike Sexton39,00012,000
Scott Clements38,0000
Eric Siegel35,000
Diego Brunelli33,0008,175
Odette Tremblay31,000-9,000
Tommy Hang15,000
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:18 PM Local Time

Sam Simon did not have queens

Sam Simon was heads up with an opponent, and the board read      . Simon led for 6,500, and his opponent reluctantly called.

"Queens," the player said to Simon.

Simon, looking as though he had been rivered, unhappily mucked his hand. His opponent tried to muck as well, but, per tournament rules, his hand had to be opened. The player showed   . Simon shot him a very confused look.

"I'm sorry," the player apologized. "I thought you had queens."

"You said queens," Simon responded. "I thought you had queens."

"I should've just kept my mouth shut," the man apologized again. "I just always fear for the worst. I'll buy everyone a drink when we're done."

Sam Simon108,000-8,000
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:14 PM Local Time

Action folded around to the button, who made it 2,500 to go. Online phenom and bracelet winner Dan "djk123" Kelly reraised it to 7,000 in the small blind. The big blind folded, and the button shoved all in for around 14,000. Kelly made the call, and was in a dominating position.

Kelly:   
Opponent:   

The flop brought two black cards, but they weren't the ones that Kelly was worried about, coming    . The turn paired both, coming the  , and the river paired the board, bringing the  . Kelly's jack played, and it was good enough to score the knockout, upping his stack to over 150,000.

Dan Kelly155,00092,000
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:14 PM Local Time

That was a longer than usual break. Enough time to forget all about what happened before, for some.

Just after the start of Level 8, a player being escorted by Chris, one of the tournament directors, was walked into the middle of the purple section. "Okay players in the purple section," said Chris into a mic over the public address. "We have a player here who can't remember his seat. Does anyone recognize this gentleman? Was he playing with you?"

Laughter echoed around our corner of the Amazon. Getting no response, Chris and the player repeated the sequence over in the Blue section. Again, more laughter, but no help for our lost player. Finally, Chris narrowed things down a bit further.

"Okay, dealers," he said. "Is there a black sweater on an empty seat at your table?"

A hand went up, and applause rang 'round the room as our lost player was at last reunited with his chip stack.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:03 PM Local Time

After what was essentially a double break due to the color up, the cards are back in the air. We will be going to dinner in two hours.

Playtika - Jason Alexander
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:03 PM Local Time
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 3:55 PM Local Time

Kenny Tran

On the last hand before the break, we noticed that Kenny Tran was all in with    against his opponents    on a     flop. The table was waiting for the ESPN cameras to set up, and that gave us time to talk to table mate Amit Makhija who told us about the hand. There was a raise from under the gun, and four callers, including Tran on the button. The small blind led out on the flop, and Tran shoved his last 15,000, getting a call from the small blind.

After about 45 seconds of waiting, the camera were rolling, and Tran was ready to see how his fate would turn out. Unfortuantely, it didn't go so well, as the   completed his opponent's flush, and ended Tran's day. The   completed the board, and Tran was sent to the rail, ending his day and tournament.

Kenny Tran0-15,000
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 3:50 PM Local Time

The tournament staff is in the process of coloring up the green T25 chips. Understandably, it's taking quite a while with all of the tables in play. They have restarted the break clock, and cards will be in the air in about 14 minutes.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 3:26 PM Local Time

Level 7 is over, and players are on another 20-minute break.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 3:26 PM Local Time

With 3,500 in the pot and a board reading      , Darvin Moon checked and his opponent checked right behind. Moon showed    for a small flush, but it was no good against the button's   . Both players were in good spirits and seemed to be playing quite friendly.

Moon is sitting with 46,000.

Darvin Moon46,000-3,000
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