2009 World Series of Poker Day 25 – History making?

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

It’s Saturday morning at the World Series of Poker which can only mean one thing. Another $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event to pack the hallways with glory seekers and bankroll busters. Nearly 3,000 more players will donate their buyin to try and catch lightning in a bottle. Opposite of the $10,000 World Championship events, this time we’ll see the amateurs vastly out number the pros. Bracelet Race qualifiers, local poker club winners, and some putting their entire roll on the line. They’re all stacked up waiting for the flood doors of the Amazon Room to open.

The big story of the day involves a much different event. Legendary Doyle Brunson begins Day 25 in great position to win his 11th WSOP bracelet and tie Phil Hellmuth for the most in history. There are 12 players remaining in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud/8 World Championship and Texas Dolly is sitting in 3rd. There are some tough players between him and history including Jeff Lisandro, Perry Friedman, Lyle Berman and Scotty Nguyen. With the massive railbirds in town for the $1,500 making the corridors crowded, I’ll be thankful for my media credentials to get inside the rail and witness history up close.

There are two restarting events today, both $2,000 tournaments. No Limit Hold’em Event #36 will award a shiny new bracelet this evening and the Limit Hold’em Event #38 begins Day 2 with Full Tilt pro Rafe Furst the first name that jumps out as I peruse the list.

The second new event of the day brings another World Championship. Today’s $10,000 event is Pot Limit Omaha in the Brasilia Room and my pre-game pick is guru Scott Clements who has two Omaha final tables already this year.

Every inch of the Amazon Room will be packed today from the halls to the bathrooms to the poker kitchen to the rails. I will do my best to keep up with the action. Sharp elbows and sharp minds, 55 stay alive.

Chip count for the restarts after the jump:

Maya Antonius playing in Event #38 $2,000 Limit Hold’em tournament

Event #36 No Limit Hold’em
Buyin: $2,000
Number of Entries: 1,695
Net Prize Pool: $3,084,900
First Place Prize: $586,212
Total Spots Paid Out: 171
Players Remaining: 17

1	Steven Tabb	1,086,000
2	Andrew Seden	995,000
3	Warren Woodall	881,000
4	Pat Atchison	852,000
5	Andrew White	808,000
6	Jordan Smith	800,000
7	Jack Powell	679,000
8	Laurence Grondin	608,000
9	Anthony Roux	561,000
10	Corwin Cole	447,000
11	Ken Lennaard	445,000
12	Almira Scripcenco	407,000
13	Joe Morneau	405,000
14	Jonathan Plens	378,000
15	Adam White	330,000
16	Tommy Chen	283,000
17	Johnny Neckar	196,000

Event #37 Seven Card Stud/8 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: 12

1	Abraham Mosseri	950,000
2	Jeff Lisandro	786,000
3	Doyle Brunson	525,000
4	Farzad Rouhani	494,000
5	Yan Chen	476,000
6	Perry Friedman	378,000
7	Lyle Berman	333,000
8	Scotty Nguyen	298,000
9	Frank Mariani	267,000
10	Justin Smith	237,000
11	Mike Wattel	96,000
12	Anthony Rivera	92,000

Event #38 Limit Hold’em
Buyin: $2,000
Number of Entries: 446
Net Prize Pool: $811,720
First Place Prize: $190,770
Total Spots Paid Out: 45
Players Remaining: 107

Top 50 chip stacks:

1	Baker, David	72,100
2	Wagner, Jeff	59,200
3	Sagstuen, Simen	58,400
4	Hang, Tommy	58,000
5	Shamseddin, Soheil	51,000
6	Cordovez, Diego	50,400
7	Johns, Ian	49,700
8	Burke, Ron	47,600
9	Wassermann, Marvin	44,800
10	Shew, Scott	43,000
11	Cowley, Steven	42,600
12	Martens, Andreas	42,400
13	Strath, Henric	41,600
14	Lichtie, Matt	41,600
15	Painter, Jameson	40,500
16	Caldwell, Scott	39,800
17	Naalden, Marc	39,600
18	Westfall, Stephen	39,000
19	Morozov, Alexander	38,700
20	Young, Douglas	37,900
21	Doshi, Suresh	37,300
22	Furst, Rafe	37,100
23	Qutami, Ayman Danny	36,700
24	Mavro, Nick	36,500
25	Ma, Michael	34,800
26	Rainer, Meyer	33,600
27	McBride, Shawn	32,700
28	Tran, Hien	32,100
29	Monnette, John	32,100
30	Luske, Marcel	32,000
31	Wong, Fu	31,500
32	Dames, Matt	30,900
33	Porter, Rep	30,600
34	Mudd, Christopher	30,300
35	Sands, David	29,000
36	Laberge, Robert	28,600
37	Kravchenko, Alex	28,600
38	Pirone, Anthony	28,200
39	Li, Yan P	28,200
40	McHenry, Stuart	27,000
41	Kraus, Daniel	26,800
42	Thorpe, Mike	26,600
43	Ogura, Takashi	26,500
44	Keikoan, Matt	26,300
45	Hoang, Andy	26,100
46	Cospolich, Brian	26,000
47	DeRosso, John	25,900
48	Kulicki, Dominik	25,300
49	Lazar, Scott	24,500
50	Lewis, Robert	24,200