World Series Of Poker -- Mizrachi Amongst Leaders After Day 1AEarly Action Claims Raymer And Others |
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The first flight-day of poker’s premiere event drew 1,125 players. There will be roughly 800 who will return for day 2A on Friday.
Michael Mizrachi is one of the notables who finished with a stack over 100,000. He had a great start to his day and just kept rolling.
Mizrachi was setup on one of the exterior feature tables and he proceeded to pound his opponents from the outset. He scored knockouts and huge pots as he found himself as one of the top notables after the first day.
Here is an early hand from level two that helped propel Mizrachi near the top of the leader board as reported on CardPlayer.com’s live updates:
Mizrachi Plows Plowman
Picking up the action after the board had run out 7
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2 6
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Boyd Plowman was all in from seat 3 and Michael Mizrachi made the call.
Plowman: J 9
Mizrachi: 8 7
Mizrachi’s trip sevens was good against Plowman’s busted club draw and Mizrachi scored the knockout. He was at 55,000.
Another player who finished with a healthy chip stack is Card Player’s own Barry Shulman. Shulman grinded all day but found a double up on the second to last level of play. Then this hand happened:
Shulman Hits His Ace
Barry Shulman raised to 1,200 and was called by a player behind him and a player in the blinds.
The flop came J 6 3 and the player in the blinds checked and called a bet of 3,000 from Shulman.
The turn was the A and the same player check-called 7,000. The river was the A and both players checked. Shulman showed A 9 and the player in the blind showed pocket tens.
Shulman boosted his stack to 90,000 with the pot.
Shulman managed to score a knockout on one of the last hands of the night and finished with over 100,000 as well.
Other notables who made it to day 2A include Maria Ho, Chad Batista, Scott Seiver and John Hennigan.
Notables Fall Early
Day 1A started fast as chips seemed to fly all over the Amazon Room. The first level of play saw tons of action that claimed many notables. One of them was a former main event champion. Here is how Greg Raymer began his exit from the 2010 main event.
Picking up the action on the flop, the board read Q 10 2. Greg Raymer moved all in for 23,225 and his opponent in seat 3 made the call.
Raymer: K Q
Seat 3: 10 10
Raymer was drawing to a flush to go with his top pair while seat 3 flopped middle set. The turn was the 8 and the river was the 5 and Raymer was down to just 1,200 chips in the early going.
Raymer would go on to bust just a few hands later, but he was not the only notable to be sent home early. Nick Schulman, Chino Rheem and Victor Ramdin were just some of the players who did not make it past the second level.
The surviving players will join the survivors from day 1C for day 2A on Friday, but Tuesday will bring a new group of hopefuls trying to capture the top prize in all of poker as day 1B will get underway at noon.
Stay tuned to CardPlayer.com as we bring you hourly live updates from every day of the main event.
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