2009 World Series of Poker Day 16 – Return of the Donkament

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

Day 16 will run me into the ground without a doubt. We have loads of Full Tilt pros spread among every restarting event today, the bloggers begin their invasion of the WSOP, and there’s a little $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament kicking off the day. I have considered strapping a pedometer to my belt to track my daily walking mileage.

My big story will be following Erik Seidel at the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold’em final table where he shoots for his 9th World Series of Poker bracelet. Over the last two days he outlasted over 600 players and sits third in chips starting the day.

The $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. tournament saved the locks of our very own Gavin Smith. Smith let the public know via Twitter he would cut off his hair if he did not cash in an event by Tuesday. He battled his way through Day 2 and sent the following tweet, “Cashed in the horse, the hair stays!” He’ll start the day sitting 13th of the remaining 21. Also in the field are Tilters Matt Hawrilenko and Chau Giang. They will play down from 21 to the bracelet winner, making it a very long day for some.

Yesterday’s premier railbird-attracting tournament was the $10,000 No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw World Championship in the Brasilia Room. A small but distinguished field lost 39 of their starting 96, returning with too many Tilters to list. Big stakes 5-card bingo. Roland De Wolfe leads the field and defending event champion Mike Matusow is still alive in 35th entering Day 2.

Blogger CK31 was a Bracelet Race winner during our Battle of the Blogger Tournaments series and comes to the Rio this afternoon. She’ll use her Tournament of Champions prize on the $2,500 Omaha/8 and Stud/8 tournament. CK specializes in split pot games only occasionally dipping her foot in the NLHE pool. This positions her to pick on the inexperienced players at the table and bring home some jewelry. I’ll be railing my friend as she starts her 2009 WSOP at 5pm.

Finally we have the newest $1,500 No Limit Hold’em festival of pushmonkeys. These fields generally contain seasoned pros looking for a quick double up, players kick starting their new careers, and a boatload of scared money. Thousands will enter today and only a few hundred will survive to see Day 2. With all these events, every room in the Rio convention center will be packed with grinders.

Chip counts for the restarting events after the jump:

Scott Clements finished second in the $10,000 Omaha/8 World Championship

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: 9

1	J.P Kelly	627,000
2	Jason Dewitt	476,000
3	Eric Seidel	337,000
4	Kyle Carlston	320,000
5	Marc Tschirch	268,000
6	Andrew Radel	250,000
7	Kirk Steward	231,000
8	Aaron Virchis	191,000
9	Ravi Raghavan	145,000

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: 21

1	Zac Fellows	471,000
2	James Van Alstyne	455,000
3	Timothy Finne	411,000
4	Michele Limongi	368,000
5	Martin Eikeng	335,000
6	Stewart Yancik	284,000
7	Gabriel Nassif	242,000
8	Ylon Schwartz	186,000
9	Frank Cremen	160,000
10	Chau Giang	149,000
11	Bill Blanda	144,000
12	David Baker	132,000
13	Gavin Smith	121,000
14	Chris Amaral	120,000
15	Adam Heller	118,000
16	Asher Derei	104,000
17	Brian McKain	92,000
18	Matt Hawrilenko	87,000
19	Jared Okun	49,000
20	Aaron Steury	30,000
21	Frank Debus	22,000

Event #23 World Championship of No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Lowball
Buyin: $10,000
Number of Entries: 96
Net Prize Pool: $902,400
First Place Prize: $172,863
Total Spots Paid Out: 14
Players Remaining: 57

1	De Wolfe, Roland	180,300
2	Alekhin, Stanislav	121,000
3	Musso, Vince	118,000
4	Juanda, John	111,800
5	Phan, Tim	98,500
6	Smith, Justin	83,500
7	Harmetz, Daniel	83,000
8	Allemann, Anton	76,100
9	Booth, Doug	74,000
10	Benyamine, David	69,500
11	Kesselman, Eric	68,300
12	Bueno, Patrick	65,500
13	Binger, Michael	65,100
14	Tran, Kenny	64,800
15	Fernandez, Jacobo	61,700
16	Pescatori, Max	61,100
17	Colin, Bryan	59,000
18	Bonyadi, Farzad	58,300
19	Mueller, Greg	57,400
20	Levy, Eliyahu	56,000
21	Ivey, Phil	56,000
22	Cardoza, Avery	54,600
23	Grizzle, Sam	53,800
24	Zalewski, Hertzel	53,700
25	Wattel, Mike	53,500
26	Fitoussi, Bruno	52,000
27	Alaei, Daniel	51,000
28	Wahlbeck, Ville	50,000
29	Bloch, Andy	49,800
30	Deeb, Freddy	49,600
31	Black, Andrew	49,400
32	Chan, Johnny	49,200
33	Buchanan, Shawn	46,600
34	Bellande, Jean	43,100
35	Matusow, Mike	41,500
36	Grey, David	38,800
37	Weitzman, Mark	38,800
38	Schulman, Nick	37,500
39	Brunson, Doyle	36,700
40	Hansen, Gus	36,300
41	Appleman, Mickey	35,200
42	Gray, Jason	34,500
43	Wilkinson, Wil	34,000
44	Raymer, Greg	31,500
45	Fillipi, Amnon	30,500
46	Karas, Archie	30,400
47	Sheikhan, Sean	29,000
48	Bjorin, Chris	28,600
49	Gould, Peter	25,400
50	Zolotow, Steve	21,300
51	Richey, Brett	20,700
52	Hanson, John	20,400
53	Elezra, Eli	17,600
54	Mizzi, Sorel	15,800
55	Lederer, Howard	15,700
56	Lisandro, Jeff	14,800
57	Sung, Steve	6,100