2009 World Series of Poker Day 24 – Speed Limit

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

“Watching paint dry” is an over used phrase, but if ever appropriate it was yesterday. The $10,000 Seven Card Stud/8 World Championship kicked off with 164 of the biggest grinders in the world. It was a rock garden. Monstrous starting stacks, slow structure, and a limit split pot game. Players would not be leaving the event very quickly. Only 54 players were eliminated by the end of play.

Those 110 players return today and attempt to make their final 8. The field contains some of the best in the world. Tuan Le, Lyle Berman, Tom “Donkey Puncher” Schneider, Chip Jett and Johnny “World” Hennigan are just a few I caught with a quick look at the list.

Adding to the fun today is another limit game, this time it’s the $2,000 Limit Hold’em Event #38. The field will be significantly smaller than the usual noon starting tournament and the play will be slightly less stellar than the $10,000 Limit Hold’em World Championship. This is the only new tournament of the day.

Sometime this evening we will crown a new champion in the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha event. Full Tilt / Cardrunner pro Isaac Baron is in the remaining 11 player field but starting with a short stack. Also looking for the big prize today will be “Johnny Bax” and Sorel Mizzi leads the field.

Day 2 of the latest $2,000 No Limit Hold’em festival restarts just 42 spots away from the money. The bubble will burst and the tournament will begin it’s slow crawl towards the final table. My pick to win the tournament is Shaun Deeb. Play resumes at 2pm PT.

Chip counts for the restarts after the jump. Look for the Week in Pictures later this afternoon.

Barny Boatman playing 2009 World Series of Poker $2,000 No Limit Hold’em #36

Event #35 Pot Limit Omaha
Buyin: $5,000
Number of Entries: 363
Net Prize Pool: $1,706,100
First Place Prize: $409,484
Total Spots Paid Out: 36
Players Remaining: 11

1	Mizzi, Sorel	969,000
2	Palevic, Rifat	949,000
3	Josephy, Cliff “JonnyBax”	805,000
4	Austin, Richard	537,000
5	Marcus, Van	482,000
6	Ramos, Felipe	372,000
7	Jetten, Peter	370,000
8	Hindin, Don	342,000
9	Nielsen, Jeppe	242,000
10	Ngai, Samuel	207,000
11	Baron, Isaac	176,000

Event #36 No Limit Hold’em
Buyin: $2,000
Number of Entries: 1695
Net Prize Pool: $3,084,900
First Place Prize: $586,212
Total Spots Paid Out: 171
Players Remaining: 213

Top 50 chip stacks:

1	Cole, Corwin	185,700
2	Botond, Balazs	160,000
3	De La Gorce, Guillaume	148,700
4	Dirksen, Dustin	145,000
5	Sparta, Philip	145,000
6	Terrell, Karec	143,900
7	Rich, Jordan	128,900
8	Goethals, Theo	126,400
9	Plens, Jonathan	123,800
10	Gray, Jason	122,700
11	Mirzikinian, Warwick	121,200
12	Adler, Adam	119,400
13	Cutler, Joe	119,100
14	Roux, Anthony	114,200
15	White, Adam	113,400
16	Huang, Yue Fan	110,400
17	Smith, Jordan	110,100
18	Roberts, Jamie	109,900
19	Switzer, Brett	109,900
20	Yaginuma, Jesse	109,700
21	Mozingo, Chris	108,100
22	Kovacs, Andras	100,100
23	White, Andrew	98,500
24	Baldwin, Joseph	95,100
25	Almira, Scripcenco	95,000
26	McNally, Steve	92,300
27	Demes, Brandon	91,500
28	Martin, Michael	90,000
29	DeMaci, Christopher	88,800
30	Deeb, Shaun	88,500
31	Molinari, Matt	88,300
32	Mihaly, Greg	83,100
33	Brown, Jamie	82,300
34	Lippert, Adam	82,100
35	Tovish, Nina	82,000
36	Miner, William	78,800
37	Levy, Elliott	76,000
38	Vance, Matt	75,900
39	Harder, Christian	75,400
40	James, Kenna	75,200
41	Rheem, David	74,600
42	Suharto, Darus	74,200
43	Woodall, Warren	74,100
44	Wan, Jeffrey	73,100
45	Seden, Andrew	72,900
46	Ward, Denis	72,500
47	Yanovski, Leonid	70,800
48	Neckar, Johnny	69,100
49	Andrews, Scott	69,000
50	Krause, Andreas	66,600

Event #37 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low World Championship
Buyin: $10,000
Number of Entries: 164
Net Prize Pool: $1,541,600
First Place Prize: $431,656
Total Spots Paid Out: 16
Players Remaining: 110

1	Le, Tuan	234,000
2	Mariani, Frank	111,300
3	Berman, Lyle	109,500
4	Lisandro, Jeff	105,400
5	Sklar, Richard	96,200
6	Kassela, Frank	90,600
7	Brix, Eric	90,000
8	Schneider, Tom	83,300
9	Jurgens, Tad	82,500
10	Minieri, Dario	81,500
11	Alaei, Daniel	79,900
12	Brunson, Todd	79,500
13	Jett, Chip	77,700
14	Schulman, Nick	73,000
15	Sheikh, Aurangzeb	72,900
16	Koral, Thomas	71,600
17	Grapenthien, Matt	69,900
18	Filippi, Amnon	68,400
19	Buss, Jerry	67,800
20	Saab, Doug	66,000
21	Benyamine, David	65,400
22	Hennigan, John	64,900
23	Phan, Tim	63,100
24	Andrzejwski, Pawel	62,900
25	Tehan, Joe	62,600
26	Lind, George III	62,400
27	Anthony, Richard	61,600
28	Rinaldi, Claudio	61,600
29	Houshiar, Homan	59,600
30	Sitar, Destin	59,600
31	Limongi, Michele	59,500
32	Rivera, Anthony	59,000
33	Leonidas, Toto	58,600
34	Lederer, Howard	57,500
35	Jung, Alexander	57,000
36	Sexton, Mike	53,400
37	Rouhani, Farzad	51,000
38	Van Alstyne, James	50,200
39	Sung, Steve	47,900
40	Turner, Jon	47,200
41	Heimiller, Dan	47,000
42	Mountain, Josh	45,900
43	Boyd, Dutch	45,400
44	Friedman, Perry	45,300
45	Hoang, John	45,100
46	Raymer, Greg	45,000
47	Michael, Joseph	44,100
48	Landrum, Sabyl	44,100
49	Duke, Annie	43,500
50	Mosseri, Abraham	42,600