2009 World Series of Poker Day 27 – Calm before the storm

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

And we’re back after a slight delay due to “technical difficulties” and ready to set off on the closing few weeks of the 2009 World Series of Poker. The big men in charge did us a favor with a relatively slow week but those days are not going to last very long. Yesterday started two small fields, the $5,000 NLHE Shootout and the $2,500 Mix Tournament, and today we only have the Seniors and Razz events.

There will be plenty to keep people hopping all day though, in addition to those two new events we have the continuation of a donakment, World Championship PLO, crazy Shootout format and the 8-game Mix event. Not much push-and-pray action today.

The $5,000 Shootout event drew 280 players making for an interesting format configuration. The players battled it out yesterday on full tables but 30 players return today to play five 6-handed tables. I can only assume that means tomorrow’s final table will be 5 players aiming for the bracelet. Quite a few Full Tilt pros are still alive on Day 2 but three are sitting at one table. Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harman, and Barny Boatman all drew table 59. Peter “Nordberg” Feldman and David “The Dragon” Pham* also have a chance to make the final table.

I believe yesterday was the first Pot Limit Omaha tournament of the year that played down to 3am without forming it’s final table. This tournament is the $10,000 World Championship event so the play was higher and the stacks much deeper. 5 of the returning players will be sporting Full Tilt logos and trying to bring another bracelet into the family. Markus Golser has a second place chip stack followed by Josh Arieh, Howard Lederer, Vitaly Lunkin, and Chau Giang.

There was plenty of action in Day 1 of the $2,500 Mix Game event. The 8-game tourament (H.O.R.S.E. plus No Limit Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha and Deuce to Seven Lowball) drew 412 players with only 153 surviving through the 10 levels. Plenty of big names remain in the field with Andy Black and Jon “Pearljammer” Turner sporting top ten stacks.

The day will help me excercise my poker thesaurus with so many different variation floating around the Amazon and Brasilia rooms. I’ll keep the camera handy and the notepad ready to go.

* Not a real dragon

Chip stacks for restarts after the jump:

Howard Lederer makes Day 3 of the Pot Limit Omaha World Championship

Event #39 No Limit Hold’em
Buyin: $1,500
Number of Entries: 2,715
Net Prize Pool: $3,705,974
First Place Prize: $657,969
Total Spots Paid Out: 270
Players Remaining: 26

1	Michele Iacavone	1,605,200
2	Ray Foley	1,302,000
3	Joe Bartholdi	1,040,000
4	Steve Banner	745,000
5	Chairud Vangchailued	707,000
6	Wei Mu	658,000
7	Shawn Glines	510,000
8	Nam Le	500,100
9	Mohsin Charania	471,000
10	Alex Jacob	433,000
11	Kelvin Crawford	420,000
12	Raymond Davis	401,000
13	Patrick O’Connor	396,000
14	Matt Livingston	388,000
15	Tyler Spalding	339,000
16	Zachary Humphrey	322,000
17	Brandon Cantu	270,000
18	Jonathan Markham	236,000
19	Conrad Monica	224,000
20	Christopher Kolla	207,000
21	Donald Nicholson	207,000
22	Nicholas Derke	200,000
23	Richard Lutes	153,000
24	John Woolen	146,000
25	Jim Mitchell	127,000
26	Steve Mohs	104,000

Event #40 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship
Buyin: $10,000
Number of Entries: 295
Net Prize Pool: $2,773,000
First Place Prize: $679,402
Total Spots Paid Out: 27
Players Remaining: 25

1	Noah Schwartz	1,220,000
2	Marcus Golser	621,000
3	Robin Keston	606,000
4	Matt Graham	586,000
5	Nathan Doudney	585,000
6	Ferit Gabriellson	547,000
7	Stefan Mattsson	484,000
8	Barry Greenstein	467,000
9	Matt Vengrin	389,000
10	Josh Arieh	356,000
11	Richard Austin	331,000
12	Howard Lederer	326,000
13	David Podgurski	261,000
14	Padraig Parkinson	259,000
15	James Taylor	254,000
16	Van Marcus	246,000
17	Vitaly Lunkin	220,000
18	Rodrigo dos Santos	204,000
19	David Williams	198,000
20	Nate Lindsay	171,000
21	Chau Giang	129,000
22	Nenad Medic	128,000
23	Tony Cousineau	100,000
24	Henri Kettunen	100,000
25	Todd Barlow	97,000

Event #41 No Limit Hold’em Shootout
Buyin: $5,000
Number of Entries: 280
Net Prize Pool: $1,316,000
First Place Prize: $348,755
Total Spots Paid Out: 30
Players Remaining: 30

		Table	Seat
1	Mercaldo, Michael	58	1
2	Hougaard, Lars	58	2
3	Feldman, Peter	58	3
4	Hughes, Ryan	58	4
5	Teltscher, Mark	58	5
6	Wong, Danny	58	6
7	Boatman, Barny	59	1
8	Ivey, Phil	59	2
9	Filtz, Justin	59	3
10	Harman-Traniello, Jennifer	59	4
11	Elnasr, Nasr	59	5
12	Saar, Wilf	59	6
13	Baker, David	60	1
14	Benelli, Andrea	60	2
15	Monnette, John	60	3
16	Traply, Peter	60	4
17	Serock, Joseph	60	5
18	Kitai, Davidi	60	6
19	Lykov, Maxim	61	1
20	Veldhuis, Alexander	61	2
21	Makhija, Amit	61	3
22	Frerichs, Jeffrey	61	4
23	Heath, Jonathan	61	5
24	Radoja, Mark	61	6
25	Kibler-Melby, Cort	62	1
26	Gaspard, Jean	62	2
27	Isra, Roland	62	3
28	Pham, David	62	4
29	Lichtenberger, A	62	5
30	Channing, Neil	62	6

Event #42 Mixed Event
Buyin: $2,500
Number of Entries: 412
Net Prize Pool: $947,600
First Place Prize: $241,637
Total Spots Paid Out: 40
Players Remaining: 153

Top 50 chip stacks:

1	Filippi, Amnon	90,000
2	Billirakis, Steve	59,275
3	Black, Andrew	58,200
4	Frangos, Nikolaos	54,550
5	Rasmussen, Thayer	48,425
6	Alioto, Dario	47,175
7	Crain, Eric	46,200
8	Rodriguez, Miguel	45,000
9	Hernandez, Frank	43,700
10	Turner, Jon	41,275
11	Klodnicki, Chris	41,250
12	Mizzi, Sorel	39,525
13	Stoykov, Mihail	39,500
14	Viox, Chris	39,400
15	Koubi, Fuad	37,300
16	Boukai, Rami	36,125
17	Radel, Andrew	35,050
18	Bazin, Stephane	35,025
19	Groysman, Zvi	34,975
20	Rapp, Stefan	34,750
21	Tran, JC	34,700
22	Bronshtein, Yuval	34,375
23	Katchalov, Eugene	33,550
24	Voertmann, Jens	32,400
25	Slezak, Bob	32,100
26	Keiner, Michael	31,600
27	Bonomo, Justin	31,250
28	Luu, Thang	30,900
29	Lilly, Jason	30,225
30	Sabic, Sebastien	29,950
31	Brunson, Todd	29,275
32	Burdsall, Jeff	28,675
33	Williamson III, Robert	28,650
34	Holland, Randy	28,600
35	Lehr, Keith	28,550
36	Binger, Michael	28,200
37	Tims, Jeff	27,800
38	Grishchuk, Alexander	27,750
39	Harman, Jennifer	27,750
40	Chen, Yan	27,575
41	Seidensticker, Tim	27,125
42	Ramos, Felipe	27,050
43	Kostritsyn, Alexander	27,025
44	Altbregin, Sergey	26,875
45	Ankenman, Jerrod	26,850
46	DeGreef, Jeremiah	26,300
47	Davis, Jared	25,375
48	Tunkel, Jeff	25,100
49	Kessler, Alan	25,000
50	Cordovez, Diego	24,725