2009 World Series of Poker Day 3 – Sweet Ride

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

1970 Red Corvette sitting in the Amazon Room
Will be awarded to the winner of the Champions Invitational this weekend

Day 3 of the 2009 World Series of Poker will see them crown the bracelet winner of Event #1 in a new ceremony at a special setup, the first non-NLHE tournament with the $1,500 Limit Omaha/8, and the continuation of the $40,000 deepstack event. Event #2 played down to 89 grinders with notions of glory in this inaugural tournament, there was plenty of action at the end of the day where players fortunes drastically changed from where they expected to finish the day.

Last year the $1,500 LO8 tournament drew 832 players and I set the unofficial, friendly wager line at 800. Everyone is taking the over. I think we’ll see a nice selection of European, online, and pro players looking to lock up their first bracelet of the year early. Mike Matusow has already stated that he’ll start playing Event #3 for a few hours before retaking his seat in the $40k tournament where he is sitting on a shortstack. I think if the big guys can dodge the low-limit Omadonks there’s a great chance we’ll see a pro take down a bracelet in this tournament.

Brian Townsend has the top chipstack for Team Full Tilt, sitting with 609,000 after a big next-to-last hand of the night. He’s followed up Andy Black, Phil Ivey, Josh Arieh and Huck Seed among others. ESPN has been busy all morning refining the lighting system around the TV feature table where they’ll get one step closer to the $1,981,000 first place prize. One of the biggest story-lines is the strong play and big stack of poker Moses Chris Moneymaker, he’s sitting in second with 805,000 in chips. It’s impossible to calculate the number of players who started playing this game as a result of his monumental victory in the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event. The railbirds are already beginning to clutter the hallways and there is still more than 2 hours until play resumes.

We will be back during the day if something interesting occurs and with a wrap up at the end of the day.

Full chip counts for Day 2 of Event #2 after the jump.

1	Fitoussi, Bruno	812,500
2	Moneymaker, Chris	805,000
3	Bonomo, Justin	738,000
4	Veldhuis, Alexander	646,500
5	Wilson, Kyle	611,500
6	Townsend, Brian	609,000
7	DeMichele, Michael	519,500
8	Patel, Emil	494,500
9	Sass, Alan	491,000
10	Black, Andrew	449,500
11	Baker, David Mitchell	446,000
12	Eslami, Ali	444,000
13	Galfond, Phil	443,000
14	Mizzi, Sorel	431,000
15	Self, Mark	411,500
16	Forrest, Ted	401,500
17	Haxton, Issac	392,500
18	Stern, Daniel	386,000
19	Marafioti, Matt	375,000
20	Johnson, Marco	365,500
21	Le, Nam	359,500
22	Jacob, Alex	357,000
23	Wahlbeck, Ville	354,500
24	Doshi, Suresh	353,000
25	Billirakis, Steve	353,000
26	Torelli, Alec	345,500
27	Kassela, Frank	339,500
28	Arieh, Joshua	339,000
29	Mercier, Jason	331,000
30	Chriss, Neil	315,000
31	Guoga “Tony G” Antanas	306,500
32	Channing, Neil	296,500
33	Esfandiari, Antonio	292,500
34	Lunkin, Vitaly	289,000
35	Ivey, Phil	279,000
36	McNiff, Evan	276,500
37	Seed, Huckleberry	274,000
38	Brenes, Humberto	269,500
39	Robl, Andrew	260,500
40	Weinstein, Steve	246,500
41	Chiu, David	245,000
42	Brunson, Doyle	244,000
43	Glantz, Matthew	238,000
44	Lehmann, Markus	229,000
45	Tran, Kenny	226,000
46	Barta, Andrew	223,500
47	Raymer, Greg	213,000
48	Lehr, Keith	206,000
49	Mackey, James	205,500
50	Yawitz, Jess	202,500
51	Pham, David	192,500
52	Duthie, Cohn	188,000
53	Pinchot, Dale	188,000
54	Markholt, Lee	184,000
55	Barry, Doc	174,500
56	Giannetti, Matt	174,500
57	Walker, Chance	174,000
58	Zolotow, Steve	172,500
59	Schwartz, Noah	168,000
60	Singer, David	168,000
61	Rousso, Vanessa	165,500
62	Hamagumi, Clark	159,000
63	Tran, J.C.	155,500
64	Gerasimov, Kirill	149,000
65	Junglen, Adam	144,000
66	Strassmann, Johannes	143,500
67	Chen, Bill	141,000
68	Batista, Chad	140,000
69	Rast, Brian	139,000
70	Suer, Robert	136,000
71	Kelopuro, Sami	126,500
72	Lisandro, Jeffrey	124,500
73	Seiver, Scott	124,500
74	Moore, Christopher	110,500
75	Chan, Terrence	109,500
76	Molson, William	108,000
77	Lichtenberger, Andrew	108,000
78	Corkins, Hoyt	104,500
79	Rosenblum, Russell	102,000
80	Dickstein, Mark	95,000
81	Watson, Michael	92,500
82	Makhija, Amit	88,500
83	Giang, Chau	87,500
84	Matusow, Mike	87,000
85	Benefield, David	70,500
86	Buchanan, Shawn	62,000
87	Moorman, Chris	57,500
88	did not report	did not report
89	Ulliott, Dave	did not report