World Series of Poker 2010

Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino

The 41st World Series of Poker took place from May 27th to July 17th, 2010 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas , Nevada . The final table ( Engl. Final Table ) of the main tournament (Engl. Main Event ) was played in November 2010. With a total of 57 tournaments in various variants and limits that was after four year break Tournament of Champions and for the fourth time by Annie Duke and Don Cheadle organized charity tournament Ante Up for Africa organized.

The 2010 World Series of Poker was hosted by Harrah's Entertainment under the direction of Jack Effel as tournament director. The television broadcaster ESPN was responsible for the preparation for television .

Changes to previous years

In addition to the Amazon Room (approx. 11,500 m²), the tournaments also took place in the Pavilion Ballroom (approx. 17,000 m²). Due to the larger playing area, around 20 percent more tables were available than in the previous year. After Jeffrey Pollack stepped down in November 2009, there was no WSOP commissioner in 2010 .

Set of rules

In addition to minor changes, most of the rules were adopted from the 2009 World Series of Poker . Rule 55 on the use of mobile phones has been expanded : the mobile phone must be switched off during a tournament. Players who are not in one hand ( cards in muck ) are allowed to send texts (via SMS , email , Twitter etc.) as long as the recipient is not a player at the same table. A minimum distance of one table length from your own table must be kept for telephone calls . Violations of this rule can result in disqualification from the tournament.

Tournaments

Tournament schedule

In mid-November 2009, a tournament schedule was briefly published on the WSOP homepage , which was removed again after a short time. There was no public comment from Harrah's Entertainment . The official tournament schedule was announced on December 23, 2009, which was almost identical to the one previously published. As in the previous year, there were 57 bracelets to be won, including 12 championship events (including 10 open). There was again an event with addons , a rebuy tournament did not take place as in the previous year.

The first major change was that there will no longer be a $ 50,000 HORSE event. Instead, the so-called The Poker Player's Championship was offered with a buy-in of $ 50,000. It was an 8-game tournament in which, in addition to HORSE , the variants No-Limit Hold'em , Pot-Limit Omaha and 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball were included in the rotation. Only No-Limit Hold'em was played at the final table and the first place winner could win the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy in addition to the bracelet . The most expensive buy-in for a HORSE tournament was the new $ 10,000 HORSE Championship event .

The Stud High , Stud Hi-low Split-8 or Better , and Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better tournaments with a medium buy-in have been canceled , leaving only the $ 1,500 and $ 10,000 versions for these tournaments remained. This decision was received negatively by many players, as it would give up the characteristic variety of variants in the World Series of Poker in favor of No-Limit Hold'em . The championship event in the Mixed Hold'em (No-Limit / Fixed-Limit) discipline was also canceled. The $ 40,000 40,000 40th Annual No-Limit Hold'em tournament being offered to celebrate the 40th World Series of Poker will also be canceled . To compensate for this, a $ 25,000 no-limit hold'em / six-handed tournament was held.

The deletion of the less popular tournaments will add 5 more open $ 1,000 No-Limit Hold'em tournaments to the tournament schedule, which took place on consecutive weekends during the World Series, including one on July 1st. The attempt was made to follow up on the success of last year's $ 1,000 Stimulus Special , in which 6,102 players set the record for the largest field of participants for a non-main event tournament. Especially for professional poker players , these are low-limit tournaments ($ 1,000 and $ 1,500) less profitable because with a larger starting field, the lower number of big blinds , and the increased this year from 9 to 10 percent of entry-Fee (admission fee ) they are less able to play to their strengths.

After starting day 1D of the main event was completely sold out in the previous year and around 500 players had to be turned away, July 4th ( Independence Day in the United States ) was declared the only day without a game. Starting days 1A to 1D therefore fell on July 5th to 8th.

The tournaments were designed for three game days each. Exceptions to this were Events 3, 13, 24, 36, 47 and 54, each with two first match days and a duration of five days (four match days), Event 57 ( Main Event ) with four first and two second match days and a duration of 14 Days (ten game days), Event 1 with two game days, Event 52 with four game days and Event 2 with five game days. Separate conditions of participation applied to events 1, 22 and 34.

#	Buy-in (in $ )	competition	Tournament start	Attendees	winner	origin	Prize money (in $)
1	00.500	Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em	May 28, 2010	0721	Hoai Pham		0.071,424
2	50,000	The Poker Player's Championship (8-Game)	May 28, 2010	0116	Michael Mizrachi		1,559,046
3	0.1000	No-Limit Hold'em	May 29, 2010	4345	Adam Daya		0.625.872
4th	0.1500	Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better	May 30, 2010	0818	Michael Chow		0.237.463
5	0.1500	No-Limit Holdem	May 31, 2010	2092	Praz Bansi		0.515.501
6th	0.5000	No-Limit Hold'em Shootout	June 1, 2010	0358	Joshua Tieman		0.441,692
7th	0.2500	2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit)	June 1, 2010	0291	Peter Gelencser		0.180.730
8th	0.1500	No-Limit Hold'em	June 2, 2010	2341	Pascal Lefrançois		0.568,974
9	0.1500	Pot-Limit Hold'em	June 3, 2010	0650	James Dempsey		0.197,470
10	10,000	Seven Card Stud Championship	June 3, 2010	0150	Men Nguyen		0.394,807
11	0.1500	No-Limit Hold'em	June 4th 2010	2563	Simon Watt		0.614.248
12	0.1500	Limit Hold'em	June 4th 2010	0625	Matt sailors		0.189,870
13	0.1000	No-Limit Hold'em	June 5, 2010	3042	Steve Gee		0.472.479
14th	0.1500	2-7 Draw Lowball (No-Limit)	June 5, 2010	0250	Yaniv Chen		0.092,817
15th	10,000	Seven Card Stud Hi-low Split-8 or Better Championship	June 6, 2010	0170	Frank Kassela		0.447,446
16	0.1500	No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed	June 7, 2010	1663	Carter Phillips		0.482,774
17th	0.5000	No-Limit Hold'em	June 8, 2010	0792	Jason DeWitt		0.818,959
18th	0.2000	Limit Hold'em	June 9, 2010	0476	Eric Buchman		0.203,607
19th	10,000	2-7 Draw Lowball Championship (No-Limit)	June 9, 2010	0101	David "Bakes" Baker		0.294,321
20th	0.1500	Pot-Limit Omaha	June 10, 2010	0885	John Barch		0.256.919
21st	0.1500	Seven Card Stud	June 10, 2010	0408	Richard Ashby		0.140,467
22nd	0.1000	Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship	June 11, 2010	1054	Vanessa Hellebuyck		0.192.132
23	0.2500	Limit Hold'em / Six-Handed	June 11, 2010	0384	Dutch Boyd		0.234.065
24	0.1000	No-Limit Hold'em	June 12, 2010	3289	Jeffrey Tebben		0.503.389
25th	10,000	Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better Championship	June 12, 2010	0212	Sam Farha		0.488.241
26th	0.2500	No-Limit Hold'em / Six-Handed	June 14, 2010	1245	William Haydon		0.630.031
27	0.1500	Seven Card Stud Hi-low 8 or Better	June 14, 2010	0644	David Warga		0.208,682
28	0.2500	Pot-Limit Omaha	June 15, 2010	0596	Miguel Proulx		0.315.311
29	10,000	Limit Hold'em Championship	June 15, 2010	0171	Matt Keikoan		0.425,969
30th	0.1500	No-Limit Hold'em	June 16, 2010	2394	Mike Ellis		0.581.851
31	0.1500	HORSE	June 16, 2010	0828	Konstantin Puchkov		0.256,820
32	0.5000	No-Limit Hold'em / Six-Handed	June 17, 2010	0568	Jeffrey Papola		0.667.433
33	0.2500	Pot-Limit Hold'em / Omaha	June 17, 2010	0482	Luis Velador		0.260,552
34	0.1000	Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship	June 18, 2010	3142	Harold Angle		0.487.994
35	10,000	Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship	June 18, 2010	0256	Ayaz Mahmood		0.625.674
36	0.1000	No-Limit Hold'em	June 19, 2010	3102	Scott Montgomery		0.481.760
37	0.3000	HORSE	June 19, 2010	0478	Phil Ivey		0.329.840
38	10,000	Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship	June 20, 2010	0268	Waldemar Kwaysser		0.617.214
39	0.1500	No-Limit Hold'em Shootout	June 21, 2010	1397	Steven Kelly		0.381,927
40	0.2500	Seven Card Razz	June 21, 2010	0365	Frank Kassela		0.214.085
41	0.1500	Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better	June 22, 2010	0847	Steve Jelinek		0.245,871
42	0.1500	No-Limit Hold'em	June 23, 2010	2521	Dean Hamrick		0.604.222
43	10,000	HORSE Championship	June 23, 2010	0241	Ian Gordon		0.611,666
44	0.2500	Mixed Hold'em (Limit / No-Limit)	June 24, 2010	0507	Gavin Smith		0.268.238
45	0.1500	No-Limit Hold'em	June 25, 2010	3097	Jesse Rockowitz		0.721.373
46	0.5000	Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better	June 25, 2010	0284	Christopher Bell		0.327.040
47	0.1000	No-Limit Hold'em	June 26, 2010	3128	Shawn buses		0.485.791
48	0.2500	Mixed Event (8-game)	June 26, 2010	0453	Sigurd Andreas Eskeland		0.260.497
49	0.1500	No-Limit Hold'em	June 28, 2010	2543	Michael Linn		0.609.493
50	0.5000	Pot-Limit Omaha	June 28, 2010	0460	Chance Kornuth		0.508.090
51	0.3000	Triple Chance No-Limit Hold'em	June 29, 2010	0965	Ryan Welch		0.559.371
52	25,000	No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed	June 30, 2010	0191	Dan Kelly		1,315,518
53	0.1500	No-Limit Hold'em Shootout	June 30, 2010	0548	Brendan Taylor		0.184,950
54	0.1000	No-Limit Hold'em	July 1, 2010	3844	Marcel Vonk		0.570.960
55	10,000	Pot-Limit Omaha Championship	July 1, 2010	0346	Daniel Alaei		0.780.599
56	0.2500	No-Limit Hold'em	July 2, 2010	1942	Tomer Berda		0.825.976
57	10,000	No-Limit Hold'em Championship (Main Event)	5th July 2010	7319	Jonathan Duhamel		8,944,310

Main Event

Jonathan Duhamel after his win

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The final table began on November 6, 2010. In the final hand, Duhamel won with A ♠ J ♥ against Racener with K ♦ 8 ♦ .

space	origin	player	Age *	Prize money (in $ )
1		Jonathan Duhamel	23	8,944,310
2		John Racener	24	5,545,955
3		Joseph Cheong	24	4,130,049
4th		Filippo Candio	25th	3,092,545
5		Michael Mizrachi	29	2,332,992
6th		John Dolan	24	1,772,959
7th		Jason Senti	25th	1,356,720
8th		Matt Jarvis	26th	1,045,743
9		Soi Nguyen	37	0.811.823

^* Age at the beginning of November Nine

expansion

In September 2010 the World Series of Poker Europe was held for the fourth time in the Empire Casino in Leicester Square in London , with five regular bracelets to be won.

Web links

Commons : World Series of Poker 2010  - Collection of Images

• 2010 World Series of Poker results on the World Series of Poker website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Schedule Announced for 41st Annual World Series of Poker. In: wsop.com. December 23, 2009, accessed February 6, 2010 .  
2. ↑ Jeffrey Pollack resigns as WSOP Commissioner. In: pokernews.com. November 16, 2009, accessed February 6, 2010 .  
3. ↑ 2010 World Series of Poker Official Tournament Rules. (PDF; 248 kB) In: wsop.com. Retrieved February 6, 2010 .  
4. ↑ Elaine Chaivarlis: The Nightly Turbo: Joe Sebok Update on UB Scandal, WSOP Rules, and World Cup Results. In: pokernews.com. January 15, 2010, accessed February 6, 2010 .  
5. ↑ Dan Cypra: 2010 WSOP Schedule Leaked, Features Eight $ 1,000 Events. In: pokernewsdaily.com. November 21, 2009, accessed March 19, 2010 .  
6. ↑ ^{a b} Brett Collson: 2010 World Series of Poker Schedule: Player Reaction. In: pokernewsdaily.com. December 20, 2009, accessed March 19, 2010 .  
7. ↑ Stephen A. Murphy, Hundreds Turned Away from the WSOP Main Event. In: cardplayer.com. July 6, 2009, accessed February 6, 2010 .  
8. ↑ Elaine Chaivarlis: The Nightly Turbo: World Series of Poker 2010 Schedule, Brad Booth Talks Full Tilt Poker, and More. In: pokernews.com. December 17, 2009, accessed February 6, 2010 .  
9. ↑ Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2010 in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 7, 2015 (English).