My friend Mike Paulle has given me permission to post his daily reports for each event of the World Series of Poker this year to the ChipBoard! Below is his report on Event #11. Andy - Las Vegas

WORLD SERIES OF POKER 2002

EVENT #11 POT-LIMIT HOLD'EM
Sunday, April 28, 2002
$2,000 BUY-IN
$2,000 in chips

NO FEAR

"Look, honey, just like in the movie 'Rounders.' There's Johnny Chan in the One
Seat and Erik Seidel in the Six Seat. Oh, and Eskimo Clark's at the table and
John Juanda along with An Tran and Barney Boatman from England. Boy, those
other guys at the table, that we've never heard of, must be TERRIFIED."

There were 216 entrants in the $2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha for a total prize pool of
$406,080. Three tables were paid, a total of 27 players.

Top English player Surinder Sunar got everyone in the money when he called an
all-in who had an A 8 with a K 9. No worries, a 9 flopped right off the deck
and 27 were golden.

To set up the Final Table, it was early Monday morning with eleven players
left. The short stacked Mel Weiner was forced to make a move with the K 6 of
Spades. Johnny Chan flopped trip Deuces on Mel and made Deuces full of Jacks
for a slight overkill. Sadly, the ever-lovely Kathy Kohlberg barely missed
making the Final Table a more beautiful place in 12th.

THE FINAL TABLE: 25 mins left of 75. The blinds were $1,000/$2,000. Playing
$2,000/$4,000
Player Hometown Chip Count
Seat 1 Johnny Chan Las Vegas NV $52,000
Seat 2 An Tran Las Vegas NV $60,000
Seat 3 Aaron Katz Los Angeles CA $15,000
Seat 4 Barney Boatman London, UK $80,000
Seat 5 Eskimo Clark Bell CA $28,000

Seat 6 Erik Seidel Las Vegas NV $66,000
Seat 7 Jay Sipelstein Narberth PA $46,000
Seat 8 Phil Gordon Las Vegas NV $39,500
Seat 9 John Juanda Alhambra CA $26,500
Seat 10 Robert Miller Las Vegas NV $25,500

10th in chips, it didn't take Aaron Katz long to exit the premises. (He left so
fast I was still getting a sandwich and had to ask Andy Glazer what happened.)
For a second, Aaron thought he liked the Jack on the river. Aaron had A J.
Johnny Chan, with Q 10, really liked the Jack on the river. It gave him the nut
straight.

"Slow and steady," John Bonetti said sarcastically to Eskimo Clark as he left
in 9th place after only 15 minutes in. Evidently that had been Bonetti's advice
to Eskimo before the table began. But Eskimo Clark doesn't have that gear. If
Clark thinks he may have the best hand or he thinks you think he may have the
best hand, he pushing in chips.
Already running low, The Eskimo raised all-in with a K Q from early position.
An Tran didn't hesitate to call with A 10 and flopped an Ace. Eskimo was slow
and steady heading for Bonnie Damiano, the paymaster.

It was an odd hand for John Juanda to go out on in 8th after a long and valiant
struggle to grow his stack. Jay Sipelstein had hardly played a hand and it
seemed obvious that Jay was a very tight player. When Sipelstein raised from
the button, John, in the big blind, must have known Jay had a real hand.
Anyway, Juanda reraised all-in with the J 8 of Diamonds and missed the board
completely. Jay had an A 9 that was plenty.

Like the surprise winner of Event #2, Mike Majerus, Robert Miller makes his
living dealing poker. Unlike Majerus who also was up against a world-class
field, Miller didn't win today. But 7th isn't bad on one of the toughest Final
Tables imaginable. The premium hand K Q of Hearts joined a couple other K Q's
in the dumpster today. The hand just couldn't get there. Miller bet out and
called Jay Sipelstein's reraise from the big blind all-in with his K Q but it
wasn't Miller Time. Robert entirely missed the board as well. Sipelstein had A
K.

Phil Gordon may have known the players he saw across from him well enough to be
intimidated, but Phil Hellmuth introduced Gordon at the start as "…someone
who couldn't be run over." To his credit, Phil Gordon wasn't run over, but
neither could he run over anyone else with the cards he held. With the blinds
rising, Phil tried to run over Johnny Chan with an A 6 under the gun. Johnny
bet the flop and Phil was stuck calling all-in with an Ace on board. Chan's
King kicker ran over Gordon's 6 kicker to give Phil a creditable 6th.

At this point it looked like Johnny Chan might win this event. He was chip
leader and seemed very confident, as he always does. Then a couple of amazing
hands later the legendary Johnny Chan was out in 5th place. The first hand
might have been called 'Rounders 3.' Here were the famous movie antagonists, in
real life, that Matt Damon studied for clues on how to induce a player to make
a mistake. There was no mistake here. Chan had an all-in Erik Seidel covered
easily when they both turned over A K. But wait! Seidel's A K was suited! Erik
needed three diamonds to come on board and they did. Seidel was back in
business.

Then came the crusher. But first we need some history between Johnny Chan and
Barney Boatman. Barney came into today as the chip leader. But Johnny took the
lead away and almost busted Boatman early with pocket 8's against Barney's A K.
In a later attempt to bust the dangerous Boatman, Chan had Barney on the flop
and Boatman needed a runner runner straight to survive. Miraculously, that's
exactly what came. 'It's better to be lucky than good,' as they say. Whoever
'they' are. Now, once again, Chan had Boatman with the worst of it. Johnny
flopped trip 3's and Barney Boatman called all-in with the nut flush draw and
an A 4 of Hearts. Of course, the Heart came and Chan was almost broke. Johnny
sent the last $30k in on the flop of 9 6 2. Chan had two overcards with the J
10 of Clubs that missed.

'The Boss' is An Tran's nickname. And although he doesn't sing with the E
Street Band, 'The Boss' can be very bossy at a card table. Tran drew a tough
seat between Chan and Boatman and couldn't get it going today with those guys
pushing mega chips all the time. An lost most of his stack late with an A Q
against Erik Seidel's pocket Kings. All-in on a $12k raise, Tran managed to
muck his hand before anyone could see it when Jay Sipelstein showed two pair.

Erik Seidel may have outlasted his movie nemesis Johnny Chan, but he'll still
be disappointed with his 3rd place finish. While all three remaining players
were about even with around $150,000 each, surprisingly it was Seidel who left
first. A key hand was telling. Seidel checked the A K 3 flop. Jay Sipelstein
bet $20. Erik check raised another $50,000! Without hesitation, Jay Sipelstein
moved all-in for $118,000 more! Erik Seidel folded! Seidel never fully
recovered from that hand. A few hands later, Barney Boatman raised $18k to go.
Seidel came over the top for $42k more and Jay Sipelstein went all-in. Boatman
folded. Seidel called all-in with pocket 6's. Sipelstein had pocket Queens. In
the next movie maybe the immortal Jay Sipelstein can be Seidel's nemesis. Who?

During the introductions of the Final Table's great names, Jay Sipelstein said
to no one in particular, "You don't know me" when his turn came. We know him
now.

Be honest. If you were at this table with so many players you'd read about, saw
videos about as they were making millions of dollars playing poker. Saw movies
about being studied for technique. Wouldn't you, if you'd never played in a
WSOP event before and had never even played a pot-limit tournament before be
TERRFIED of calling a check raise by one of these players? Jay Sipelstein was
that person who was in his first WSOP event, in his first pot-limit tournament
and Jay Sipelstein showed NO FEAR in an as impressive a performance as we've
had so far this year. With a 2-1 chip lead heads up against Barney Boatman,
Boatman tried the same hand against Sipelstein that Erik Seidel did with the
same results. Barney got it all in with pocket 6's. Again without hesitation,
Jay Sipelstein called with A J and flopped a Jack. Be honest. Would you have
had NO FEAR in that situation?

Official Money Winners
1. Jay Sipelstein $150,240
2. Barney Boatman 77,160
3. Erik Seidel 38,580
4. An Tran 24,320
5. Johnny Chan 18,280
6. Phil Gordon 14,220
7. Robert Miller 10,160
8. John Juanda 8,120
9. Eskimo Clark 6,500
10. Aaron Katz 4,880

11th-12th received $4,880
Mel Weiner and Kathy Kohlberg

13th-15th received $4,060
John Shipley, Wade Collier, Flan Pilkington

16th-18th received $3,240
Surinder Sunar, Martine Oules, Warren Colman

19th-27th received $2,440
Bill Gazes, Tam Duang, roger Easterday, Jim Huntley, Robin Keston, Paul Wolfe,
John Cernuto, Lindsay Jones, Anthony Lazar

More Super Satellite winners were: Christopher Heintschel, Chip Jett, Mike
Sexton (2nd), Rameen Sai, Paul Kroh, Exxon Feyznia, Warren Karp, Jessica
Misiak, Jan Sjavik (4th), Allen Cunningham, Fred Berger, Jay Scoratow, Jay
Heimowitz and Randy Bly