2009 World Series of Poker Day 20 – PLO H.O.R.S.E.

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Day 20 brings another No Limit Hold’em event at noon and a $10,000 World Championship at 5pm. There were lines running down the halls with players registering for today’s $2,000 No Limit Hold’em Event #32, the price is a little steeper so I expect players will not be busting at 5 per minute. Perhaps 4 per minute will be reasonable. Starting up in the Brasalia Room later today will be the big $10,000 Limit Hold’em World Championship. Another pro-heavy field including a bunch old time grinding rocks who made their chops playing Limit.

The $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event did not come close to reaching it’s final table nine keeping with the norm this year. 27 players return today for a long session to declare another bracelet winner.

The $10,000 Heads Up World Championship will bring back their final 8 players for a bracelet and $625,000 first place prize. Poker legend Johnny Chan will start the day just two matches away from tying Phil Hellmuth with his 11th World Series of Poker bracelet. This event has been an odd one to rail but I’ll be standing on the sidelines hoping to witness history.

Restarts today include the $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha and $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. tournaments. 61 players remain in the PLO event and lurking back in 23rd is Phil Ivey. Is there anyone at this point that wouldn’t put money on Ivey with 60 players between him and his third bracelet of the year? Also carrying the flag for Team Full Tilt will be John Juanda (9th), Ross Boatman (11th), Eli Elezra (15th), David Chiu (17th), and Andy Bloch (18th). The Pot Limit events seem to be the only ones to reach their final 9 on schedule so we’ll know by the end of the day if Ivey is in line to catch Erik Seidel in the bracelet standings.

Restarting chip counts after the jump:

$Richard \"Quiet Lion\" Brodie at the 2009 World Series of Poker$

Richard “Quiet Lion” Brodie finished 10th in the $1,500 Limit Hold’em Event

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: 27

1	Joe Simmons	1,100,000
2	Jason Potter	929,000
3	Adolfo Ramirez	789,000
4	Tilman Kieschke	699,000
5	Mickey Neuberger	684,000
6	Mikkel Madsen	601,000
7	Arthur Evans	580,000
8	Mehdi Alaei	505,000
9	Avi Braz	499,000
10	Mike Zulker	484,000
11	Jose Franco	458,000
12	Barry Berger	430,000
13	Jeff Chang	423,000
14	Jake Solis	374,000
15	Jim Coyle	345,000
16	Shoaib Makani	326,000
17	Zach Fritz	324,000
18	Andrew Daniels	320,000
19	Mike Eise	301,200
20	Marco Johnson	275,000
21	Mark Silvanovich	264,000
22	Joey Brattole	234,000
23	Josef Samanek	224,000
24	Gary Wright	200,000
25	Fred Louie	187,000
26	Adam Lippert	148,000
27	Fouad Eladli	141,000

Event #30 Pot Limit Omaha
Buyin: $2,500
Number of Entries: 436
Net Prize Pool: $1,002,800
First Place Prize: $235,685
Total Spots Paid Out: 45
Players Remaining: 61

Top 50 chip stacks:

1	Tran, J.C.	176,900
2	Ashby, Len	123,500
3	Rios, Jesse	109,200
4	Layne, Chad	106,000
5	Klein, Loren	102,000
6	Ewing, David	95,100
7	Elbaz, Jakcob	95,000
8	Zalewski, Hertzel	91,800
9	Juanda, John	85,300
10	Jorgensen, Theo	84,800
11	Boatman, Ross	75,000
12	Tademy, Mark	73,000
13	Force, Leif	70,500
14	Kegel, Dr ‘Prince of Docness’	68,700
15	Elezra, Eli	67,200
16	Leandri, Jean-Philippe	66,200
17	Chiu, David	65,500
18	Bloch, Andy	65,500
19	Batey, Andrew	60,300
20	Boukai, Rami	60,200
21	Stotz, Mikey	57,500
22	Chapman, Jeff	57,400
23	Ivey, Phil	56,600
24	Fish, Darryll	55,300
25	Wickersheim, Colin	54,700
26	Kolstad, Cedric	53,700
27	Kelly, John-Paul	52,600
28	Ladowsky, Stephen	51,100
29	Krause, Andreas	50,000
30	Baron, Isaac	49,000
31	Taylor, Anders	46,900
32	Alioa, Brian	44,070
33	Kimber, Jeff	43,300
34	Flowers, Dallas	43,200
35	Aversa, Gregory	41,800
36	Davis, John	41,000
37	Kline, Dennis	41,000
38	Boeken, Noah	40,700
39	Sarkeshik, Ali	40,100
40	Sung, Steve	39,600
41	Studer, Daniel	38,300
42	Pouya Majd, Pouya	38,000
43	Cowsar, Lawrence	37,900
44	Fegan, Andrew	31,800
45	Newman, Clayton	31,400
46	Lunkin, Vitaly	31,200
47	Shemmer, Yadin	30,600
48	Gorodinsky, Mike	30,400
49	Milanov, Pavel	30,000
50	Murphy, Kevin	29,400

Event #31 H.O.R.S.E.
Buyin: $1,500
Number of Entries: 770
Net Prize Pool: $1,051,050
First Place Prize: $247,033
Total Spots Paid Out: 72
Players Remaining: 220

Top 50 chip stacks:

1	Sebastien, Sabic	72,700
2	Kurtzman, Eric	57,800
3	Traniello, Marco	55,000
4	Silveira, Jim	55,000
5	Black, Andrew	54,300
6	Saab, Doug	51,400
7	Buckley, William	43,300
8	Barone, Vito	42,300
9	Fu, Tianxiong	41,500
10	Gaspard, Jean	40,300
11	Fiorenza, Bruno	36,100
12	Hofman, Ronnie	35,800
13	Green, Jonathan	34,800
14	Dollinger, Jason	34,400
15	Eichel, William	34,100
16	Lee, Ming	32,500
17	Soulier, Fabrice	32,200
18	Hong, Jay	32,000
19	Bjorin, Chris	31,100
20	Rousso, Vanessa	30,900
21	Blanda, Bill	30,300
22	Krouner, Ken	30,300
23	Lazarou, Vassilios	30,100
24	Barbieri, Al “Sugar Bear”	30,000
25	Bryan, Dustin	29,800
26	Leinhos, Bonnie	29,600
27	Karatas, Sarharib	29,100
28	Karas, Archie	28,800
29	Gelencser, Peter	27,600
30	Lonardo, Vincent	27,200
31	Odell, Frankie	26,500
32	Salazar, Hernan	26,200
33	Moore, Pete	25,900
34	Fishman, Eddie	25,300
35	Taylor, David	25,100
36	Shei, Kenny	25,000
37	Van Alstyne, James	24,500
38	Yu, Benjamin	24,500
39	Myerson, Alan	24,400
40	Hughes, Ryan	24,300
41	Duke, Annie	23,700
42	Kacir, Jeffrey	23,600
43	Micon, Bryan	23,600
44	Landowski, Benjamin	23,500
45	Jones, Lacey	23,400
46	Lozano, Rolando	23,200
47	Koubi, Fuad	23,100
48	Burkart, Alexander	23,000
49	Ezykowich, Keith	22,700
50	Anderson, Kyle	22,000