Event #62: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event Dia 1a | 2013 World Series of Poker

2013-07-06 23:03 UTC-7

Cada Doubles

YorkshirePud

Nível 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Former World Series of Poker Main Event champion Joe Cada is up to 21,300 chips after doubling up moments ago.

There were two limps, one in middle position and on on the button, before Cada completed his small blind. Tatiana Barausova checked her option in the big blind, meaning it was four-handed to the flop. The action checked to the button and he led for 4,000. Only Cada called.

The turn was the and Cada checked, the button bet 5,000 and then called when Cada moved all in for an additional 3,000 or so chips.

Cada showed but his opponent mucked before we could see what he had, his cards hitting the muck as the dealer placed the onto the river.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Joe Cada	21,300 8,700	8,700

Tags: Joe Cada

2013-07-07 00:11 UTC-7

Five-Way All-In Pot Shipped To Sohrabi; Three Players Eliminated

[user68268]

Nível 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Wow!

What. A. Hand.

An innocent raise from a player under the gun to 1,100 started the action over on Table 443 in the Purple Section of the Amazon Room before play folded over to a player in middle position. That player moved all in for 11,700. Right behind the shove, Mac Sohrabi was in the hijack seat and reraised all in for 23,100. Then, the player on the button called all in for 16,550 before action slid over to Yucel Eminoglu in the big blind.

Eminogla tanked and tanked, before eventually getting the clock called on him by not one, but two others at his table. After about 30 seconds, he shoved a giant stack of T5,000 chips into the middle, having all players in the hand well covered. As if four players weren't enough excitement for this pot, the original raiser from under the gun snap-called and created a five-way all-in pot!

Here's what we saw:

Under-the-gun player:
Middle-position shove:
Sohrabi:
Button:
Eminoglu:

The player under the gun snap-called all in for around 40,000 in chips holding the , but it was Sohrabi who held the best hand going into the battle with his pocket queens.

Following a runout on the flop, turn and river of , Sohrabi's queens held strong and he was awarded the main pot. He moved to nearly 100,000. Eminoglu was able to scoop a side pot from the player who held the and move to 150,300 in chips. The other three players were all eliminated.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Yucel Eminoglu	150,300 150,300	150,300
Mac Sohrabi	98,000 98,000	98,000

Tags: Mac Sohrabi Yucel Eminoglu

2013-07-07 00:17 UTC-7

Justice is Blind

Nível 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

We just heard the tell tale signs of a bad beat in progress, as one player screamed out in exultation in one moment, before crying out in anguish when the river card fell.

Brendan Flaherty, meanwhile, shot out of his chair in unadulterated joy, pumping his fist and knocking his chair over as he celebrated what has to be one of the more improbable victories of the day.

According to multiple sources at the table, the drama began when a short-stacked player moved all in over the top of a 1,000 opening raise, putting his last 7,000 at risk. Another player decided to isolate in position, and he reraised all in for 20,000, putting the action on Flaherty.

The boisterous Flaherty checked his cards and snapped off with a call, putting the majority of his own chips at risk in the process. With three players all in for their tournament lives, we arrived to see the most of the players at the table stand as one, expecting to witness a momentous showdown of premium hands.

Short-Stack Raiser:
Isolation Raiser:
Flaherty:

While both of his opponents showed up with the goods, Flaherty went to war with a cap gun against two cannons. The dealer burned and turned one card, before revealing the players' destinies with the flash of three board cards.

Flop:

The short-stacked player had survived the flop, and his pocket pair was in the lead in its race against the overcards. Flaherty, meanwhile, was left grasping for straws, as his ragged hand failed to connect in any meaningful way.

Turn:

With a third spade on board, the ace-queen added a slew of additional outs, while Flaherty's slim draw was drawn and quartered, leaving him with only non-spade tens, eights, and threes as potential saviors.

River:

Just like that, a blind squirrel found his nut in the form of a backdoor straight, while two players were eliminated from the Main Event in particularly brutal fashion.

For his part, Flaherty explained that he misread his hand, thinking he held rather than a three-gap unsuited connector. Despite this lapse in vision, Flaherty can now see a seat at Day 2 on the horizon, as he has built a healthy stack with just thirty minutes to play here tonight.

"Can I just go home now?," Flaherty wondered aloud, seemingly oblivious to the fact that he had nearly stamped that ticket just minutes before.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Brendan Flaherty	103,500 103,500	103,500

Tags: Brendan Flaherty

2013-07-07 01:08 UTC-7

Day 1a of the 2013 WSOP Main Event Concludes; Panesis Leads the Way

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The first day of the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event has come to a close, and what a way to kick off the greatest event on the face of the planet. Nearly 1,000 players took to action today, but it was Evan Panesis finishing on top of them all with 190,975 in chips. A couple hundred or so hit the rail before day's end, and official chip counts will be posted once received.

Day 1a is often known as the smallest and least star-studded of the starting days, but there were plenty of big names out in the field nonetheless. Arguably the most important player in the field today was the reigning champion Greg Merson, who delivered the "shuffle up and deal" speech before jumping in his seat for his title defense. Merson went on to finish with 81,650, giving him a very healthy stack moving forward.

Other notables in the field today were Joe Cada, Pius Heinz, Olivier Busquet, Brian Rast, Justin Bonomo, Elio Fox and Ivan Demidov, just to name a few. Heinz, the 2011 WSOP Main Event champion, was eliminated on the day when his opponent had rivered a Broadway straight against his trip sevens.

Things moved along nice and smooth in the event with not too much craziness happening, but then in the last level of the night, an insane five-way all-in pot went down on Table 443 in the Amazon Room that resulted in Mac Sohrabi winning a big main pot, Yurel Eminogla scooping a nice side pot, and the three other players being eliminated. You can read about that hand here. As if that wasn't enough fun in the final level, a three-way all-in clash was won by Brendan Flaherty over in the Orange Section of the room.

The advancing players will reconvene with those that survive from Day 1b for a joint Day 2 on Tuesday at 12 p.m. In the meantime, get some rest and come right back here tomorrow for more coverage from the 2013 WSOP Main Event right here on PokerNews. For now, we'll leave you with Lynn Gilmartin who had an exclusive invitation to the unveiling of the 2013 WSOP Main Event bracelet, valued at a whopping $500,000:

Tags: Brendan Flaherty Brian Rast Elio Fox Evan Panesis Greg Merson Ivan Demidov Joe Cada Justin Bonomo Mac Sohrabi Olivier Busquet Yurel Eminogla