2009 World Series of Poker Day 19 – Another Ivey Celebration

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

Phil Ivey poses with WSOP bracelet #7 after winning $2,500 Omaha/Stud High Low
Photo credit: IMPDI

It seems like just a few short hours since I sat in media row for my short writeup of Phil Ivey winning his 7th World Series of Poker bracelet. I’m back in the Amazon Room getting ready for Day 19 of the WSOP, enjoying the pregame quiet before today’s noon event kicks off. The days are starting to blend together.

Today at 2:20pm PT Phil Ivey will take the podium for the second time this year to get a shiny new bracelet from Commish Jeffrey Pollack and some new hyper-mega version of the Harrah’s Diamond card. He said he will probably be back later today for the Pot Limit Omaha or H.O.R.S.E. events. Unfortunately for the rest of the players, Ivey looks to be dialed in and says that he’s playing the best tournament poker of his career. Look out Hellmuth!

As far as when he thinks he will pick up his next bracelet, he told the WSOP staff:

WSOP: There are still 32 more events to go at this year’s WSOP. What’s the Over/Under on your next victory.

Ivey: Tomorrow.

Good luck to the rest of the players if he thinks he can pick up a few more this year.

Aside from Phil Ivey picking up his bracelet today, we have more chances for Team Full Tilt to pick up victory number 5. They will play out the final table of the Pot Limit Omaha/8 today and FTP is represented by Andy Black, Roland De Wolfe, and chip leader/Omaha guru Scott Clements. The Limit Hold’em tournament played down to the last 15 players and looking for their winner today also. Richard “Quiet Lion” Brodie quietly showed up in Las Vegas and is sitting 9th in chips.

Today’s restart events include Day 2 of the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em which stayed true it’s nature and dropped 90% of the field the first day. The field disappeared at a rate of nearly 4 players per MINUTE. Only 57 players away from the money to begin.

We’ll also see the next two rounds of the $10,000 Heads Up World Championship. This event kept the railbirds hopping in the Brasalia Room. Big names and the spread out field gave them plenty of opportunity to spot their favorite players. They played down from the sellout of 256 entrants to 64, one HU win from making the money. Returning players include Jeff Madsen, Steve Zolotow, David “The Dragon” Pham*, Chris Ferguson, Erik Seidel, and Brian Lemke. Of course heads up specialist Tom “durrrr” Dwan is still kicking.

* Not a real dragon

Today’s new events will have smaller fields allowing room for the $1,500 return. We expect a European invasion for the noon $2,500 Pot Limit Hold’em field and a pretty descent turn out for the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. at 5pm.

Plenty of action and excitement as the weekend closes out and the bloggers invade the Rio.

Restarting chip counts after the jump:

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: 15

1	Al ” Barbieri	400,000
2	Demetrios Arvanetes	350,000
3	Tomas Alenius	322,000
4	Kim Phong Duong	272,000
5	Ken Dickenson	230,000
6	Rep Porter	196,000
7	Glenn Engelbert	173,000
8	Andrew Kerstine	161,000
9	Richard Brodie	152,000
10	Jason Tam	144,000
11	Dominik Kulicki	131,000
12	John Varner	110,000
13	Mike Schiffman	110,000
14	Yan Li	85,000
15	Cole Miller	67,000

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: 9

1	Scott Clements	801,000
2	Antony Lellouche	533,000
3	Roland DeWolfe	386,000
4	Alex Kravchenko	267,000
5	Brett Richey	238,000
6	John Racener	214,000
7	Armando Ruiz	192,000
8	Andrew Black	182,000
9	Robert Campbell	152,000

Event #28 No Limit Hold’em
Buyin: $1,500
Number of Entries: 2,638
Net Prize Pool: $3,600,870
First Place Prize: $639,331
Total Spots Paid Out: 270
Players Remaining: 327

Top 50 chipstacks:

1	Nguyen, Van Dung	218,000
2	Fritz, Zach	154,000
3	Gavatin, Mats	131,800
4	Johnson, Marco	126,200
5	Evans, Arthur	125,800
6	Bo, Magne	117,300
7	Lippert, Adam	112,000
8	Nardi, Anthony	106,700
9	Jarvinen, Jon	100,200
10	Wrenn, Evan	99,400
11	Cheng, Peng	93,700
12	Smith, Asa	91,700
13	Brattole, Joey	90,700
14	Boyd, Terry	87,700
15	Paradiso, Roman	87,300
16	Ebeling, Bryce	86,500
17	Pekmezaris, John	85,000
18	Antoniou, George	84,500
19	Eladli, Fouad	84,300
20	Zulker, Mike	84,000
21	Douglas, Champie	83,500
22	Simmons, Joe	82,500
23	Wright, Gary	81,300
24	Cserhati, Zsolt	79,200
25	Neuberger, Mickey	77,300
26	Rubin, Mark	74,700
27	Ketteringham, Mark	74,000
28	Croffut, Adam	72,700
29	Woods, Grant	72,300
30	Eise, Mike	71,900
31	Park, Chulwoo	70,800
32	Tahata, Lance	69,400
33	Karman, Antonio	69,300
34	Piazza, Anthony	69,300
35	Ho, Tony	67,900
36	Pham, Huy	66,400
37	Madsen, Mikkel	65,500
38	Kieschke, Tilman	63,000
39	Weiss, Joshua	63,000
40	Burbick, Corey	62,700
41	Johnson, Richard	62,500
42	Nguyen, Kate	62,300
43	Wolpert, Marc	62,000
44	McCarrel, Jamie	60,400
45	Fisher, Monique	60,200
46	Mok, Felix	59,600
47	Zakhem, Salim	58,900
48	Cardosa, Michael	58,400
49	Iola, Sam	58,200
50	Glasser, Michael	58,100