2009 World Series of Poker Day 18 – Seat Open!

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

$Jon \"Pearljammed\" Turner at the 2009 World Series of Poker$

Jon “Pearljammed” Turner leads Event #25 at the 2009 World Series of Poker
Photo credit: IMPDI

I’m running out of terms and having trouble thinking of a new way to describe what happens during the weekend $1,500 No Limit Hold’em events. How many times over seven weeks can I use the terms donkey, lemur, pushmonkey, etc? I may have to start a contest to keep my content and vocabulary up to date. “Seat Open!” will be the call of the day.

Today’s noon event will draw near 3,000 players and I ran into every single one of them this morning. My standard procedure is to be firmly planted in my media row seat by no later the 10:30am. It’s quiet in the Amazon Room and I can get more work done before I hit the tournament floor. Today I did not get to the hallowed halls until just before noon, found myself swimming against a constant stream of weekend warriors pushing their way into their respective rooms to see how fast they can dust off 4500 in chips.

My plan is to watch the finals of the Omaha/Stud Hi-Lo tournament where Full Tilt is well represented. Phil Ivey and Steve Wong are alive and Jon “Pearljammed” Turner leads the final 14 players in the tournament. Also playing are Carlos Mortensen, Dutch Boyd and Chad Brown. They will play down to a winner later today with first place taking home over $220,000 plus the bracelet.

There are also two other non-NLHE events to keep my attention. The field for the Limit Hold’em event was smaller than your average push/pray festival and there are some sharp people at the top heading into Day 2. Richard “Quiet Lion” Brodie, Bill Chen, Justin Bonomo and Noah Boeken are just a few in the top 10.

Only 198 registered for the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha/8 tournament which usually means it’s easier to locate the bracelets in the event. 59 players return and attempt to make tomorrow’s final table. If my fuzzy memory is correct, the only events to stick to the schedule have been Pot Limit tournaments. Three of the top 10 will be sporting Full Tilt gear. Roland De Wolfe, Richard Ashby and Andy Black are just a few of the FTP pros still in contention.

Finally, the fun 5pm tournament. It will be my first time covering a live Heads Up tournament. Spread throughout the Amazon, Brasilia, and Miranda rooms will be the 256 players who drop $10,000 on the latest “World Championship”. They’ll play two heads up matches today bringing the field down to 64 at the end of the day. The field is capped at 256 and spots were nearly full at the start of the day.

I’ll need to sharpen my elbows to make it through the railbirds but I’m a veteran now.

Chip counts of the restarts after the jump.

Gavin Smith cashed in the H.O.R.S.E. event saving him from chopping off his hair
Photo credit: IMPDI

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: 19

1	Andy Seth	1,407,000
2	Alan Jaffray	1,193,000
3	Glenn Mccaffrey	737,000
4	Roberto Truijers	681,000
5	Dean Hamrick	629,000
6	Benny Champlin	623,000
7	Stuart Marshak	616,000
8	David Lerman	589,000
9	Brian Fitzpatrick	582,000
10	Andrew Seden	575,000
11	Michael Greco	546,000
12	Souvanh Vilayvanh	523,000
13	Ernst Hermans	518,000
14	Gualter Santos	512,000
15	Mihai Manole	436,000
16	Pete Vilandos	325,000
17	Roberto Correa	309,000
18	Ali Davoudi	254,000
19	Chris Sparks	202,000

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: 14

1	Jon Turner	465,000
2	Carlos Mortensen	328,000
3	Blair Rodman	290,000
4	Dutch Boyd	236,000
5	Steve Wong	226,000
6	Frank Debus	218,000
7	Eric Buchman	213,000
8	Matt Kelly	184,000
9	Phil Ivey	161,000
10	Peter Gelencser	156,000
11	Tom Koral	139,000
12	Ming Lee	97,000
13	Mark Scott	95,000
14	Chad Brown	23,000

Event #26 Limit Hold’em
Buyin: $1,500
Number of Entries: 643
Net Prize Pool: $877,695
First Place Prize: $197,509
Total Spots Paid Out: 63
Players Remaining: 124

Top 50 chipstacks:

1	Von Halle, Jan	68,300
2	Kulicki, Dominik	61,100
3	Chen, Bill	60,600
4	Keikoan, Matt	48,300
5	Levine, Josh	47,800
6	Porter, Rep	44,900
7	Bonomo, Justin	44,800
8	Bromberg, Corey	43,700
9	Boeken, Noah	42,400
10	Brodie, Richard	41,500
11	Seber, Bill	40,800
12	Eichel, William	40,100
13	Harris, Nikki	39,400
14	Darden, Paul	39,300
15	Yek, Kuong	38,100
16	Burkart, Alexander	38,100
17	Damany, Paul	37,700
18	Cordone, Joseph	37,700
19	Blanco, Christiano	37,400
20	Hart, Daniel	37,200
21	Glickstein, Rich	37,200
22	Engelbert, Glenn D.	37,000
23	Lackner, Daniel	36,700
24	Buckley, Jim	36,000
25	Cicconi, Guy	35,900
26	Arvanetes, Demetrios	35,100
27	Zimmerman, John	34,900
28	Clemento, Jack	34,300
29	Rae, William	34,100
30	Devonshire, Bryan	34,100
31	Ho, Tam	33,500
32	Yu, Benjamin	32,700
33	Kerstine, Andrew	32,700
34	Ellis, Michael	32,600
35	Greenstein, Barry	32,200
36	Nack, Reinhard	31,200
37	Price, Craig	31,000
38	Neilan, Craig	30,900
39	Ramdin, Annand	30,900
40	Bailey, Earle	29,800
41	Olson, David	29,300
42	Dong, Zelong	29,200
43	Minnullin, Albert	28,100
44	DeFusco, Marc	27,200
45	McCarrel, Casey	27,200
46	DeNiro, Joe	27,000
47	Morgan, Douglas	26,500
48	Cornell, Tyler	26,100
49	Smith, Jason	25,900
50	Svendsen, Katja Sophie	25,200

Event #27 Pot Limit Omaha/8
Buyin: $5,000
Number of Entries: 198
Net Prize Pool: $930,600
First Place Prize: $246,616
Total Spots Paid Out: 18
Players Remaining: 59

1	Newitt, J.D.	185,900
2	Ramirez III, Sergio	134,200
3	DeWolfe, Roland	130,800
4	Filippi, Amnon	128,100
5	Tang, Benjamin	123,800
6	Ashby, Richard	122,300
7	Lellouche, Anthony	100,100
8	Black, Andrew	97,000
9	Yancik, Stewart	95,300
10	Ruiz II, Armando	92,600
11	Lisandro, Jeff	92,000
12	Kirill, Rabtsov	86,200
13	Negreanu, Daniel	78,300
14	Baxter, Mike	76,900
15	Gabor, Fabian	70,600
16	Racener, John	66,100
17	Bartlog, Mark	63,000
18	Foulias, Andreas	59,800
19	Clements, Scott	58,800
20	Isaia, Alessio	57,000
21	Danzer, George	54,400
22	Bell, Chris	51,600
23	Shulman, Barry	49,800
24	Elezra, Eli	47,300
25	Matusow, Mike	46,200
26	Corpuz, Martin	43,300
27	Ivey, Phil	40,800
28	Bloch, Andy	36,100
29	Campbell, Robert	35,900
30	Giannokostas, Gregory	35,600
31	Friedman, Patri	33,600
32	Tam, Kenny	32,300
33	Ozkan, Ender	31,500
34	Krueger, Quentin	31,000
35	Kravchenko, Alex	30,900
36	Beevers, Joe	30,700
37	Richey, Brett	29,100
38	John, David	26,600
39	Freedman, Bruce H.	26,300
40	Mercier, Jason	25,000
41	Sexton, Mike	25,000
42	Reslock, Chris	23,700
43	Singer, Nathan	23,700
44	Guth, John	23,300
45	Petersen, Kevin	22,500
46	Solomon, Michael	20,000
47	Longfellow, Karen	18,400
48	Murphy, Kevin	18,300
49	Cousineau, Tony	18,000
50	Binger, Michael	17,700
51	Rapoport, Al	17,000
52	Singletary, Matthew	16,200
53	Appleman, Mickey	14,000
54	Wiesner, Nathan	13,900
55	Boatman, Ross	11,000
56	Ladowsky, Stephen	8,800
57	Kassin, Charles	7,600
58	Gould, Alan	7,500
59	Lefkowitz, Matt	6,200