2009 World Series of Poker Day 17 – Poker Blogger Invasion

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

It will be interesting to see the difference between yesterday’s noon starting tournament and today’s. Yesterday was the always insane $1,500 NLHE event and today brings us the $1,500 LIMIT Hold’em tournament. We will get a third as many players or will we see the true grinders come out in force? As I write this from the Amazon Room they have yet to put the tournament information up on the screen so I’m completely in the dark with everyone else.

There will plenty of other action between the Amazon and Brasilia Rooms as things kick into gear with the weekend warriors flooding back into town. We have a little bit of something for all tastes. Limit Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha/8, Deuce to Seven Draw, Omaha-Seven Card Stud/8, the shootout final table and culling the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em field.

My assignments for the day will be checking out John Juanda to see if he can pick up his 5th World Series of Poker bracelet and tracking returning players in the Omaha/Stud split pot tournament. That includes such royalty as Phil Ivey, Shirley Rosario, Chau Giang and Carol Kline. That event will attempt to play down to it’s final table late this evening.

I’ve been getting a few questions through email and comments so I came up with a brilliant idea while sitting up at 3am. Intermittently throughout the week I will post a “Reader’s Mailbag” post with your questions and my answers. I know it’s a cliche, but the floor is yours. Feel free to drop me an email at AlCantHang@aol.com, no question too silly or serious. (Personal email posted on FullTiltPoker.com, that shouldn’t generate TOO many spam messages).

Later today I will bring you the pictures of Week 2 and I’ve found some fantastic stuff. Check back later today for some of the best.

Chip counts for the restarting events after the jump:

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: 10

1	Vince Musso	765,500
2	Ville Wahlbeck	481,000
3	John Juanda	387,000
4	Nick Schulman	300,000
5	Archie Karas	264,500
6	Steve Sung	212,500
7	David Benyamine	139,000
8	Justin Smith	122,500
9	Michael Binger	108,000
10	Roland De Wolfe	102,000

Event #24 No Limit Hold’em
Buyin: $1,500
Number of Entries: 2,506
Net Prize Pool: $3,420,690
First Place Prize: $607,256
Total Spots Paid Out: 270
Players Remaining: 270

Top 50 chipstacks:

1	McCaffrey, Glenn	187,800
2	Fish, Darryll	157,900
3	Meyer, Marcus	153,000
4	Hamrick, Dean	134,700
5	Linn, Mike	125,800
6	Montgomery, Seth	123,000
7	Marshak, Stuart	122,600
8	Barwacz, Ryan	120,800
9	Powell, Jack	116,900
10	Carroll, Cory	114,400
11	Panayote, Pete	113,800
12	Yeh, Anthony	111,400
13	O’Donnell, Neel	110,300
14	Penno, Travis	104,900
15	Champlin, Benny	100,500
16	Fitzpatrick, Brian	97,500
17	Mahrenholz, Karl	97,200
18	Nguyen, Binh	96,900
19	Sparks, Chris	95,000
20	Shuchleis, Victor	93,400
21	Heimiller, William	92,000
22	Stjernvang, Helge	88,800
23	Hickey, Emmett	86,400
24	Derke, Nicholas	84,500
25	Jaffray, Alan	84,200
26	Ly, Dau ‘Tommy’	83,500
27	Winters, Thomas	83,300
28	Halprin, Michael	83,100
29	Galic, Dragan	82,800
30	Vilayvanh, Souvanh	82,700
31	Tobin, Kara Scott	81,700
32	Truijers, Roberto	81,400
33	Downey, Michael	80,100
34	Plumley, Dale	78,900
35	Fox, David	78,400
36	Naalden, Marc	76,300
37	Michalowski, Rafal	75,100
38	Dietrich, Mike	74,300
39	Mcfayden, Neil	74,200
40	Waliany, Javed	72,300
41	Daneshgar, David	72,200
42	Kim, Allen	71,500
43	Nehorayan, Robert	71,000
44	Morales, Roberto	71,000
45	Gray, Craig	70,400
46	Van Horn, Archie	67,500
47	Lerman, David	67,200
48	Frisk, James	67,000
49	Paasonen, Mika	66,900
50	Shulruf, Joel	66,600

Event #25 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8 or Better
Buyin: $2,500
Number of Entries: 376
Net Prize Pool: $864,800
First Place Prize: $220,538
Total Spots Paid Out: 40
Players Remaining: 153

Top 50 chipstacks:

1	Hua, Can	51,800
2	Sitar, Dustin	46,600
3	Scott, Mark	45,800
4	Prescott, Allie	44,900
5	Turner, Jon	43,300
6	Sorensen, Jan	42,300
7	Spivack, Stuart	39,800
8	Lee, Ming	39,200
9	Iacofano, Kevin	37,300
10	Rosario, Shirley	36,200
11	Richburg, James	35,400
12	Kassela, Frank	35,100
13	Buckley, William	34,500
14	Emerson, Alan	34,400
15	Boyd, Dutch	33,700
16	Ivey, Phil	33,600
17	Javani, Javid	33,300
18	Cahail, Blake	33,300
19	Giang, Chau	32,700
20	Leonidas, Toto	32,500
21	Bach, David	32,300
22	Bihl, Thomas	32,000
23	Aronesty, Joe	31,400
24	Jurgens, Ted	31,400
25	Brown, Chad	31,200
26	Stephens, John	30,100
27	Bac, Dao	29,700
28	Rinaldi, Claudio	29,500
29	Sheikhan, Sean	29,500
30	Slezak, Bob	28,400
31	Loi, Tran	28,300
32	Fragin, Boris	28,100
33	St. Jean, Larry	28,100
34	Mortensen, Carlos	28,100
35	Fu, Tianxiong	27,000
36	Hohn, Steve	26,800
37	Clements, Scott	26,700
38	Nicewander, Daniel	25,900
39	Rosenberg, Menachem	25,700
40	Zimmerman, Raphael	25,400
41	Jett, Chip	25,300
42	Schonsheck, William “Shony”	25,100
43	Gault, Eric	25,000
44	Serock, Joseph	24,600
45	Kelly, Matt	24,400
46	Baghchehsaraie, Sirous	23,700
47	Appel, Joe	23,500
48	Jamison, Greg	23,200
49	Harman, Jennifer	22,900
50	Kline, Carol	22,600