2009 World Series of Poker Day 13 – Full Tilt gets a 3rd bracelet?

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

Today will be busy for your man on the rail because there are several events rolling into Day 3 full of you favorite pros with a chance at a bracelet. That doesn’t include Day 2 of the $10,000 Omaha/8 Championship which will keep me hopping on it’s own. There are also a few players from my side of the U.S. running deep.

The players in the $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Event #15 were not happy campers at 3am when they found out the restart was scheduled for just a few hours later today at noon. There are 17 players remaining and they will play down to the final 9 and move to the ESPN feature table for broadcast on ESPN360.com. Still alive in this field are David “The Dragon” Pham*, Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers, Thomas Keller, David Benefield, and chip leader Isaac Baron. I’ll be tracking a player I’ve known for awhile from back east, Brian Lemke, as he tries to make Pennsylvania proud.

* not a real dragon

The other Day 3 brings back the final table of the $1,500 Stud tournament where John Juanda is right in the mix of things with the number 3 chipstack. Jeff Lisandro leads everyone and the field includes Atlantic City regular Nick Frangos. That event restarts at 2pm on the secondary stage in the ESPN area.

Restarting at the same time will be the $10,000 Omaha/8 World Championship that only lost 50 players on Day 1. Far too many pros to begin listing but it will assure another packed day on the rail. I continue my unabashed rooting for Mike Matusow to take this one down but there are plenty of other fantastic players between him and another bracelet. Josh Arieh and Phil Ivey are carrying the Full Tilt flag near the top of the heap starting Day 2.

For a nice change of pace, we only have one new tournament starting up today. Event #19 is the $2,500 6-max No Limit Hold’em tournament which is taking up plenty of tables. These are fun tournaments to cover since the calls of “seat open” are faster than your average event.

Chip counts of the 4 restarting events after the jump:

Event #15 No Limit Hold’em
Buyin: $5,000
Number of Entries: 655
Net Prize Pool $3,078,500
First Place Prize: $692,690
Total Spots Paid Out: 63
Players Remaining: 17

1	Isaac Baron	1,101,000
2	Olivier Busquet	951,000
3	David Pham	880,000
4	Danny Illingworth	850,000
5	Fabian Quoss	617,000
6	Mike Sowers	583,000
7	Liya Gerasimova	527,000
8	Tom Braband	474,000
9	Matthias Neu	435,000
10	Billy Kopp	693,000
11	Brian Lemke	601,000
12	Christian Iacobellis	509,000
13	Lars Bonding	365,000
14	Nicholas Grippo	335,000
15	Thomas Keller	314,000
16	David Inselberg	269,000
17	David Benefield	239,000

Event #16 Seven Card Stud
Buyin: $1,500
Number of Entries: 359
Net Prize Pool: $490,035
First Place Prize: $124,975
Total Spots Paid Out: 40
Players Remaining: 8

1	Jeffrey Lisandro	334,000
2	Steven Stencil	323,000
3	John Juanda	287,000
4	Rodney Pardey Sr.	245,000
5	Eric Pardey	217,000
6	Nick Frangos	84,000
7	Mitch Schock	83,000
8	Daniel Studer	43,000

Event #17 Ladies No Limit Hold’em Championship
Buyin: $1,000
Number of Entries: 1060
Net Prize Pool: $964,600
First Place Prize: $195,390
Total Spots Paid Out: 117
Players Remaining: 146

Top 50 chipstacks:

1	Tibbles, Tammy	129,700
2	Gromenkova, Svetlana	62,200
3	Resnick, Anna	53,200
4	Zarosky, Patti	51,000
5	Medina, Mychele	50,100
6	Beltran, Thuy	48,900
7	Parsons, Lisa	46,300
8	Kantor, Anna	46,200
9	Le, Anh	45,900
10	Peng, Vanessa	44,300
11	Kling, Lauren	44,200
12	Talbot, Alice	43,500
13	Hopper, Nelda	40,800
14	Liu, JJ	38,300
15	Verrett, Melissa	37,900
16	Schroeder, Christina	37,800
17	Storrar, India	37,600
18	Tran, Angie	37,400
19	Honour, Nicole	35,900
20	Abarbanel, Brett	35,500
21	Musson, Enid	35,100
22	Chalendard, Marie	34,400
23	McCarthy, Robin	33,000
24	Isaacs, Susie	32,600
25	Bearden, Julieta	32,500
26	Bui, Adeline	31,600
27	Bender, Lori	31,300
28	Saelee, Ming Yian Sing	30,400
29	Austin, Mary	30,300
30	Chambers, Torey	29,200
31	Santy, Lisa	29,200
32	Gregory, Cindy	28,800
33	Thomas, Dawn	27,900
34	Priday, Chris	27,700
35	Tangstrom, Ulrika	27,200
36	Joseph, Susan	27,100
37	Armstrong, Rhonda	26,800
38	Pierce, Lucia	26,500
39	Morelli, Mari Lou	26,000
40	West, Sandra	25,700
41	Mayrinck, Maria	25,500
42	Kolface, Candy	24,900
43	Ho, Maria	24,800
44	Kerstetter, Jamie	24,500
45	Baker, Jennifer	24,400
46	Pedroza, Angel	23,600
47	Hamilton, Lisa	23,500
48	Adams, Lisa	23,500
49	Schoenberg, Erica	23,300
50	Snead, Deb	22,300

Event #18 Omaha/8 World Championship
Buyin: $10,000
Number of Entries: 179
Net Prize Pool: $1,682,600
First Place Prize: $445,898
Total Spots Paid Out: 18
Players Remaining: 129

Top 50 chipstacks:

1	Bjorin, Chris	134,400
2	Clements, Scott	130,800
3	Koral, Tom	99,700
4	Bueno, Patrick	98,400
5	David, Benjamine	94,800
6	McKinley, Cameron	90,100
7	Rao, Pat	89,800
8	Hellmuth, Phil	83,700
9	Arieh, Josh	82,700
10	Van Alstyne, James	80,400
11	Ivey, Phil	80,000
12	Do, Cong	77,900
13	Colin, Bryan	74,000
14	Shamseddin, Soheil	74,000
15	Lawson, Ted	73,000
16	Reynaud, Max	70,100
17	Khoueis, Sam	69,400
18	Rogers, John	68,500
19	Kostritsyn, Alexander	67,500
20	Geary, Jim	63,400
21	Thang, Luu	63,400
22	Ashby, Richard	63,100
23	Lester, Jason	61,700
24	Leonidas, Toto	61,600
25	Savage, Matt	60,100
26	Crane, Ward	59,700
27	Binger, Michael	59,500
28	Gray, Jason	59,300
29	Pickering, Jamie	59,100
30	Farha, Sam	57,600
31	Tom, Phil	56,400
32	Toth, Richard	56,200
33	Madsen, Jeff	55,600
34	Fernandez, Jacobo	55,500
35	Abecassis, Michel	55,000
36	Zolotow, Steve	54,300
37	Campbell, Robert	54,000
38	Mizrachi, Robert	53,500
39	Rheem, David	52,500
40	Gazes, Bill	51,600
41	Brunson, Todd	51,000
42	Kearney, Simon	50,800
43	Haack, Brian	50,500
44	Kravchenko, Alex	50,000
45	Matusow, Mike	50,000
46	Negreanu, Daniel	50,000
47	Monnette, John	49,400
48	Lee, Mack	49,100
49	D’Agostino, John	48,200
50	Nguyen, Scotty	47,200