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Posted on: Monday, July 13, 2009

Day 10 of the World Series of Poker main event


Associated Press

DAY: 10 (Officially known as Day 6).
BIG NEWS: The 2005 World Series of Poker champion says he’s lost all respect for a new brand of extremely aggressive poker players who seem to want to gamble all their chips on every hand in the main event.

Joe Hachem said after two hours of poker on Monday that the pace hasn’t slowed down at the no-limit Texas Hold ’em tournament because many players are willing to risk their tournament with mediocre hands.
Play started with 185 players and 38 were eliminated in two hours, despite starting with many chips relative to minimum bets.
Hachem says the overaggressive style is disrespectful to the tournament, its history and the $8.55 million prize.
Hachem is one of two former main event champions left in the tournament, along with last year’s winner Peter Eastgate.
STUD OF THE DAY: Adam Bilzerian of Frigate Bay, St. Kitts, who uncovered an opponent’s bluff and doubled up with a pair of fives on a board with a six, five and two. Bilzerian’s opponent held a jack high and put Bilzerian all in, which Bilzerian considered for several minutes.
After the hand, his opponents complimented the call and called him sick for making it, because so many cards could have beaten him, including a six.
BUSTED OUT: gold bracelet winner Blair Hinkle
UP NEXT: Players remaining in the tournament play about 10 hours, five levels, until just two or three tables are left on Tuesday.
POKER TALK: Monster: An enormous hand that is usually unbeatable, and often disguised. Hachem called last year’s third-place finisher Dennis Phillips sneaky after Phillips showed a monster full house, tens over eights. Phillips had played the hand passively in hopes that Hachem would trap himself.
HE SAID WHAT?: “It shocks the hell out of me ... People here shoving with 50 big blinds. I don’t know if it’s impatience or what, but wow!” — last year’s third-place finisher Dennis Phillips, commenting on aggressive play continuing at the main event on Monday. Phillips later called a big bet from an opponent, and won the pot with a pair of eights despite a 10 on the board.