Benjamin Statz – Poker Player Profile
On Day 7 of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, Wisconsin native Benjamin Statz rumbled through the competition in the $10,000 buy-in feature tournament. After a 4bet pre-flop shove with Q-10 of spades, Statz was up against the A-K of UB.com qualifier Christopher Bolt. The flop came 7-6-2 with one spade, leaving Statz rooting for a queen, ten, or running spades to draw out on Big Slick.
Then, the four of spades struck on the turn, improving Statz to a bona fide flush draw, which promptly hit on the river. Seemingly out the door on the flop, Statz cruised to a double up to more than 2.5 million in chips. Statz also showed Mark Meloche the door on Day 7 of the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Meloche was all-in on a board of 9-9-8-10 with two clubs and tabled Q-9 for trips. Statz, however, turned over A-9 for a better kicker and no saving grace came on the river.
Statz’s resilience through Day 7 allowed him to survive in the prestigious poker tournament after entering play at 27th on the leaderboard at 2.91 million. His original table draw on the seventh day of the 2010 WSOP Main Event included Bolt, Meloche, Jerry “sandler1860” Payne, Josh “brikdog24” Brikis, and online poker whiz Bryn Kenney.
According to the Hendon Mob database, Statz’s lone in the money finish in a major live event came during the 2002 United States Poker Championship in Atlantic City. There, the New Yorker finished in sixth place in a $500 No Limit Hold’em tournament for $2,500. The 2010 Main Event marked his first in the money finish in a WSOP contest.
On Day 5 of the Main Event, like many other players that have come before him, Statz committed his stack pre-flop and found himself in a race. This time, it was the “classic race situation,” pocket queens versus the A-K of Nicholas Fierrogottner. The flop brought Statz a set and he ducked a wheel draw on the river to stay alive in the 2010 WSOP Main Event.
Statz is surrounded by poker daily, as the 32 year-old is dating UB.com pro Annie Duke‘s little sister. He day trades and came armed to Day 7 of the 2010 WSOP Main Event in a maroon Full Tilt Poker hoodie.
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Poker glossary:
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- STRAIGHT FLUSH - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence and the same suit.
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
- ROYAL FLUSH - An ace-high straight flush, the best possible hand in regular poker.
- MANIAC - A player who bets, raises and reraises without regard to the quality of his hand. Most often found in flop games.
- DRAW - [1] A class of poker games characterized by players being dealt 5 cards face-down and later having the opportunity to replace some of the original 5. "Draw poker" and "Five-card draw" are examples of usage. [2] In stud and Hold'em games, the set of cards that will be dealt later can be collectively called "the draw". [3] To discard some number of cards and have dealt an equal number of replacements.
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