Photos from the shrinking field.
2010 World Series of Poker
John Sidoni called Kyle Knecht's under the gun raise to 45,000 and the two went to a flop reading . When Knecht bet close to 90,000 into the pot, Sidoni shoved the rest of his stack and was snap-called by Knecht.
Sidoni:
Knecht:
Knecht's hand held through the rest of the board and Sidoni will be able to beat the traffic home for dinner.
Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
We arrived after the hand had wound up, but were able to catch Tomer Berda scooping up a pile of chips after doubling through Hugh Bell. We were able to catch the cards on the table, and they looked a little something like this:
Berda:
Bell:
Board:
Berda's straight bested Bell's two pair, and Berda was left with twice as many chips as he started.
Not too long afterwards, Berda was seen mixing it up in a pot with David Tuthill. When we arrived, there was about 90,000 in the pot, with the flop reading . Tuthill bet 63,000 from the under the gun position and folded to Berda's re-rase to 175,000.
With only one player to go before tables were broken down to two groups, Ting Xiao was the one to let it happen. He's been eliminated in 19th place, and is taking home $15,222 for his efforts.
The draw for the final two tables have been made and cards are back in the air.
Table 372
Seat 1: Tyler Hamade
Seat 2: Benjamin Kleyman
Seat 3: Tomer Berda
Seat 4: Jason Fazzone
Seat 5: Kyle Knecht
Seat 6: Yuval Bronshtein
Seat 7: David Tuthill
Seat 8: John Sidoni
Seat 9: Hugh Bell
Table 371
Seat 1: Joshua Gibson
Seat 2: Santiago Nadal
Seat 3: Karl Pirkopf
Seat 4: Praz Bansi
Seat 5: David Sands
Seat 6: Vincent Jacques
Seat 7: Donald Offord
Seat 8: Calvin Kordus
Seat 9: John Myung
We're now been playing for 40 minutes and Tyler Hamade has not shown up yet. Where are you Mr. Hamade?
We're now with 19 players left in the field and it's time for a redraw.
Tomer Berda opened the pot with a 40,000 raise and Yuval Bronshtein re-popped it to 170,000.
Berda four-bet to 261,000 and Bronshtein just called.
Flop: and Bronshtein check-folded to Berda's shove.
Berda has now about 550,000 and Bronshtein slipped to 350,000.
Vincent Jacques may have just lost some chips to Praz Bansi, but he rebounded by knocking out Dion Flores in 20th place.