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#763 – 2009 WSOP #21 – Daily Tilt #11 – Monday, June 8, AM Edition
There is just one new event today, $2,500 NLHE 6-handed, but a lot of action worth watching in the ongoing events. Svetlana Gromenkova, last year’s Ladies Champion, is second in chips entering Day 2 of that event, and John Juanda is 3rd in chips at the final table of the $1,500 Stud. David Pham, like Juanda, is stalking his fifth bracelet, and he has a lot of chips in the $5,000 NLHE. But he’s also got to contend with a pair of Full Tilt’s CardRunner.com pros, chip leader Isaac Baron and short-stack David Benefield.
I’ve calculated upon my return to Las Vegas that I’m 14 blogs behind so rather than follow the action, I’ll be spending most of my day trying to catch up. (OK, curiousity will probably get me to the Amazon Room at some point ….)
FULL TILT BRACELETS
Vitaly Lunkin (#2)
Event #4 – $40,000 NLHE
Phil Ivey (#6)
Event #8 – $2,500 NL Deuce-to-Seven
FULL TILT MONEY LIST
Name – Earnings – Cashes – Final Tables
Vitaly Lunkin – $1,907,667 – 2 – 1
David Chiu – $376,034 – 2 – 1
Ted Forrest – $230,317 – 1 – 1
Brian Townsend – $128,665 – 1 – 0
Huckleberry Seed – $102,286 – 1 – 1
Phil Ivey – $96,367 – 1 – 1
Andy Black – $71,858 – 1 – 0
David Pham – $71,858 – 1 – 0
Greg Mueller – $53,885 – 1 – 1
Roland de Wolfe – $25,824 – 1 – 0
Sigi Stockinger $25,151 – 1 – 1
Jon Cernuto – $24,171 – 2 – 0
Eric Froehlich $23,661 – 2 – 0
Amanda Baker – $22,671 – 1 – 0
Lee Watkinson – $22,671 – 1 – 0
Erik Seidel – $21,026 – 1 – 0
Fabrice Soulier – $13,734 – 3 – 0
Erick Lindgren – $10,660 – 2 – 0
Svetlana Gromenkova – $9,834 – 1 – 0
Luis Velador – $7,918 – 1 – 0
Rafe Furst $7,886 – 1 – 0
Eli Elezra – $7,869 – 1 – 0
Perry Friedman $6,770 – 1 – 0
Rob Hollink $6,293 – 1 – 0
David Grey – $6,292 – 1 – 0
Josh Arieh $5,797 – 1 – 0
Markus Lehman $5,074 – 1 – 0
Chip Jett – $4,924 – 1 – 0
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby $4,194 – 1 – 0
Scott Montgomery $3,894 – 1 – 0
Bruce Buffer $3,894 – 1 – 0
Toto Leonidas – $3,796 – 1 – 0
COMPLETED EVENTS
Event #13 – $2,500 NLHE
Starters: 1088
Prize Pool: $2,502,400
Places Paid: 117
Winner: Keven Stammen $506,786
Full Tilt pros in the money:
9. Roland de Wolfe $25,824
18. Phil Ivey $18,467
Note: The final table played in a lightning-fast 70 hands, or just over three hours. (Even with the one-hour dinner break, it took just four hours to conclude Event #13.)
Event #14 – $2,500 LHE 6-handed
Starters: 367
Prize Pool: $844,100
Places Paid: 35
Winner: Brock Parker $223,697
Notes: Brock Parker is part of the group of young (and now not-so-young) poker players who developed their interest in competitive poker from the card game Magic. Eric Froelich and David Williams are among the successful graduates of the Magic circuit … Daniel Negreanu was runner-up, following David Chiu as the second player to narrowly lose in his attempt to snag bracelet no. 5 … CARD PLAYER owner Barry Shulman finished fifth.
CHIP COUNTS
All counts are courtesy of the World Series of Poker. Transcription errors are mine and, though I’ll do my best to keep an updated list of who at the Series is affiliated with Full Tilt, apologies for misattribution. I will attempt immediately to correct any errors brought to my attention (mrchaotic@aol.com).
Event #15 – $5,000 NLHE
End of Day 2
Starters: 655
Prize Pool: $3,078,500
Places Paid: 63
Remaining: 17
Chip leader: Isaac Baron 1,101,000
1. Isaac Baron 1,101,000
3. David Pham 880,000
17. David Benefield 239,000
Full Tilt pros in the money:
22. Erik Seidel $21,026
Note: Thomas “Thunder” Keller, on a relatively short stack, is still in the hunt, as is Mike Sowers, whose 583,000 in chips puts him in the middle of the pack.
Event #16 – $1,500 Stud
End of Day 2
Starters: 359
Prize Pool: $490,035
Places Paid: 40
Remaining: 8
Chip leader: Jeffrey Lisandro 334,000
3. John Juanda 287,000
Full Tilt pros in the money:
11. John Cernuto $7,522
21. Fabrice Soulier $3,645
Notes: John Juanda joins the group of top pros with four bracelets getting to the final table for the first time in 2009 with a shot at number 5 … A lot of Old School names on the money list for this event, including Sam Grizzle (37th), Howard “Tahoe” Andrew (33rd), Barbara Enright (19th), Miami John, and Thor Hansen (9th) … Fabrice Soulier became the first Full Tilt pro to cash in three events in this Series.
Event #17 – $1,000 Ladies NLHE World Championship
End of Day 1
Starters: 1,060
Prize Pool: $964,600
Places Paid: 117
Remaining: 146
Chip leader: Tammy Tibbles 129,700
2. Svetlana Gromenkova 62,200
49. Erica Schoenberg 23,300
107. Karina Jett 11,600
Note: Svetlana Gromenkova won this event last year and has put herself in excellent position to make a serious bid for back-to-back bracelets … A few days ago, someone who had no business being in the Undisclosed Location was wandering around, making a pest of themself. Naturally, they were bothering me, making inquiries about bothering other people. “Is that Karina Jett over there?” the Pest asked me, pointing to Karina, about ten feet away, who was in conversation. “No,” I said, without looking up. “Really? It looks just like her.” “Yeah, well … she gets that a lot.”
Event #18 – $10,000 Omaha Eight-or-Better World Championship
End of Day 1
Starters: 179
Prize Pool: $1,682,600
Places Paid: 18
Remaining: 129
Chip leader: Chris Bjorin 134,400
2. Scott Clements 130,800
9. Josh Arieh 82,700
11. Phil Ivey 80,000
22. Richard Ashby 63,100
24. Toto Leonidas 61,600
33. Jeff Madsen 55,600
36. Steve Zolotow 54,300
40. Bill Gazes 51,600
45. Mike Matusow 50,000
49. John D’Agostino 48,200
51. Greg Mueller 45,300
58. Phil Gordon 43,200
64. Greg Mascio 40,800
76. Chau Giang 32,100
78. Rob Hollink 31,300
83, David Chiu 27,000
100. Farzad Bonyadi 20,200
111. Erick Lindgren 15,600
115. Vitaly Lunkin 11,400
119. Bill Edler 9,000
121. Lee Markholt 7,500
123. John Juanda 6,200
127. Nick Schulman 2,200
129. Perry Friedman 1,600
TODAY’S EVENT
Noon: Event #19 – $2,500 NLHE 6-handed
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