2009 World Series of Poker Day 15 – Shootout in the Amazon Room

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

There are only a few events on the schedule which turn the Amazon Room into some massive den of insanity. the $1,000 has to be on top of that list with bustouts at an insane rate. I have no idea what to expect when they run the Heads Up Championship here in a few days. Today brings us the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Shootout event.

If you are unaware of the Shootout format, here is a quickie lesson on today’s event. 1,000 players will play 100 SnG’s 10-handed. The winner of each table will be moved to a new 10-handed table where they will play down to the final table. Put quite simply, all you need to do in order to earn a 2009 World Series of Poker bracelet is win 3 straight Sit n Goes with the world’s toughest players. Cake.

I suspect it will be an easier event to cover since tables will not be breaking and moving players around the room. And it will be easier on the players as they will only be playing one round today, one round tomorrow and the final table on Day 3. Those players who win their table early will not be forced to stick around for half a day waiting for their next assignment.

Only one bracelet will be awarded today when the $2,500 No Limit Hold’em 6-max event plays down to their winner. Brock Parker is looking to pick up his second bracelet this year, also winning the 6-max Limit Hold’em event just days ago over Daniel Negreanu. 10 players remain in the event.

The $1,500 Pot Limit Hold’em and $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. return for their Day 2. Erik Seidel and Roland De Wolfe lead the pack in the PLH event and David Singer trying to bring home a braclet in H.O.R.S.E.

The 5pm new tournament of the day will bring the entertainment. It will be a small but distinguished field that enters the $10,000 World Championship of No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Lowball. It just sounds fun typing it out that way. You’ll be able to find me sitting in the Brasilia Room most of the afternoon and evening where I’ll probably run out of notebook paper writing down the stories.

In entertainment news today, we find out whether Full Tilter Gavin Smith will be shaving his head. He made a proclamation via Twitter that if he doesn’t cash in an event by Tuesday he would be chopping the locks. He has a reprieve until today because he’s still alive in $3,000 HORSE tournament. I’m torn as to which result I would like to see.

Chip stacks for the restarts after the jump:

Event #19 No Limit Hold’em Six Handed
Buyin: $2,500
Number of Entries: 1,068
Net Prize Pool: $2,456,400
First Place Prize: $552,745
Total Spots Paid Out: 108
Players Remaining:11

1	Serock, Joseph	1,745,000
2	Parker, Brock	1,603,000
3	Rios, Jesse	745,000
4	Ivarsson, Alexander	734,000
5	Crane, Russell	672,000
6	Wilson, Alexander	603,000
7	Kinkade, Jay	542,000
8	Newman, Clayton	501,000
9	Meinders, Brian	423,000
10	Friesen, Brian	258,000
11	Sudworth, James	247,000

Event #20 Pot Limit Hold’em
Buyin: $1,500
Number of Entries: 633
Net Prize Pool: $864,045
First Place Prize: $194,434
Total Spots Paid Out: 63
Players Remaining: 61

Top 50 chipstacks:

1	Dewitt, Jason	184,700
2	Vinsant, Jeremiah	107,600
3	Stowell, Nick	106,000
4	Carlston, Kyle	92,400
5	Honig, Matt	89,700
6	Seif, Mark	83,000
7	Chicotsky, David	82,400
8	Vandevenne, Andreas	81,700
9	Beasley, Mike	78,300
10	Sands, David	78,100
11	Tschirch, Marc	77,400
12	Kelly, John-Paul	77,000
13	Stepp, Blake	76,800
14	Allen, Kyle	71,000
15	Schwartz, Brian	69,000
16	Radoja, Mark	67,600
17	Collins, Philip	65,100
18	Daigle, Larry	64,900
19	Van Asdale, Shawn	62,700
20	Beebe, Glynn	62,700
21	Seidel, Erik	61,400
22	Pulido, Yesniel	53,300
23	Bartlema, Wolbert	49,800
24	Gallagher, Richard	46,900
25	VanCruchten, Leon	43,700
26	Reyes, Isaias	43,200
27	Liebert, Kathy	40,200
28	De Wolfe, Roland	40,000
29	Yeh, Philip	38,200
30	Frey, Hunter	37,700
31	Sexton, Mike	35,000
32	Langston, Brian	32,900
33	Martin, Eddylee	32,000
34	Jaffee, Jared	31,600
35	Stroj, David	31,000
36	Brooks, Saul	30,900
37	Radel, Andrew	29,200
38	Steward, Kirk	29,100
39	Popov, Alexey	29,000
40	Frank, Justin	28,100
41	Virchis, Aaron	27,400
42	Shelton, Michael	26,100
43	Sitron, Scott	25,800
44	Sebok, Joe	24,000
45	Cicconi, Guy	22,800
46	Seber, Bill	21,600
47	Massad, William	21,300
48	Andrews, Frank	21,100
49	Berger, Fred	21,000
50	Mousavi, Mohsen	20,100

Event #21 H.O.R.S.E.
Buyin: $3,000
Number of Entries: 452
Net Prize Pool: $1,247,520
First Place Prize: $311,899
Total Spots Paid Out: 48
Players Remaining: 197

Top 50 chipstacks:

1	Amereno, Rob	96,800
2	Debus, Frank	62,100
3	Golser, Markus	52,500
4	Lake, Scott	51,600
5	Penn, Phillip Sr.	50,600
6	Akkari, Andre	50,200
7	Singer, David	48,700
8	Keiner, Michael	46,500
9	Amaral, Chris	45,300
10	McKain, Brian	44,500
11	Phillips, Dave	43,400
12	Young, Justin	42,900
13	Finne, Timothy	41,400
14	Limongi, Michele	40,500
15	Montgomery, Mans	37,700
16	Billirakis, Steve	37,100
17	Van Alstyne, James	36,600
18	Barbieri, Al “Sugar Bear”	36,000
19	Davidson, Matthew	36,000
20	Levi, David	35,600
21	Donev, Ivo	34,900
22	Murphy, Kevin	34,800
23	Price, Robert	34,700
24	Greenstein, Barry	34,300
25	August, Leonard	33,500
26	Jurgens, Tad	33,400
27	Frangos, Nikolaos “Nick”	33,300
28	Stoykov, Mihail	33,100
29	Brunson, Doyle	32,800
30	Mascio, Greg	32,100
31	Potter, Jason	31,240
32	Friedman, Perry	31,200
33	Rosario, Shirley	31,100
34	Baker, David	31,000
35	Argyros, Billy “Croc”	30,200
36	Smith, Mallory	29,900
37	Cremen, Frank	29,900
38	Giang, Chau	29,800
39	Freiberg, Alex	29,800
40	Altizer, Von	29,500
41	Chiovari, Richard	29,500
42	Franklin, Tom “Captain”	29,200
43	Rood, David	29,000
44	DNR	28,800
45	Sexton, Keith	28,800
46	Binger, Michael	28,700
47	Moore, Pete	28,100
48	Bari, Allen	28,100
49	Hawrilenko, Matt	28,100
50	Salazar, Hernan	28,000