2009 World Series of Poker Day 30 – HORSE on the way

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

I should be taking every advantage of this lovely Thursday afternoon/evening because it might be the last slow day I have until I hop that jet airplane back east after the “November Nine” is set. Just one little $1,500 PLO8 tournament kicking off today but tomorrow is the granddaddy of big buyin skill games. The $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. is next up on the agenda. We can expect a crush of players, railbirds, and poker media with unreal expectations.

There are three tournaments restarting including two more bracelet winners in the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold’em World Championship and $2,500 Limit Omaha/8 tournament. The Mix Hold’em event begins it’s Day 2 and amazingly only 7 players from the money already. There are some big names coming back with Barry Greenstein leading the field and Eli Elezra ahead of all other Full Tilt pros.

Mike Matusow will be my player to watch today in the Omaha/8 tournament where he sits 18 out of 23 remaining. Matusow won his second WSOP bracelet in 2002 playing this game and knows how to pull up from the shortstack.

The last sane day of the WSOP, I intend to enjoy it.

My blogging brethren over at Wicked Chops Poker spend their days entertaining millions, perhaps billions and trillions of readers each day. They’ve been sitting in media row each day to bring the hard hitting stories from the depths of the Amazon Room. Today they are paying back some of their loyal readers with a freeroll on Full Tilt Poker.

The WSOP has introduced an event during the Main Event called Dream Team Poker. It’s a concept recently developed and getting great reviews. Three players team up and play a tournament against other teams. Prize pool payouts are based on individual AND team performance. The configuration prevents teammates from finding themselves at the same table unless they get really deep.

Wicked Chops Poker is giving you the opportunity to play in this event on their dime, as their second team. The top 3 finishers will win the prize, if one of those players is unable to attend it moves to the next player(s). Kind of like Miss America scandals.

I’m signed up and will be playing from the great big Amazonian Amazon Room.

Tourney Name: WCP Dream Team WSOP Freeroll
Tourney ID: 95494430
Date/Time: June 25, 20:00 ET (8pm ET)
Password: VikkiBlows

Chip counts for the restarts after the jump:

Mike Matusow shoots for bracelet #4 today in Omaha/8 Event #46

Event #45 Pot Limit Hold’em
Buyin: $10,000
Number of Entries: 275
Net Prize Pool: $2,585,000
First Place Prize: $633,335
Total Spots Paid Out: 27
Players Remaining: 14

1	Kabbaj, John	2,226,000
2	Alvarado, J.C.	924,000
3	Kopp, Billy	772,000
4	Baldwin, Eric	713,000
5	Haxton, Isaac	660,000
6	Kitai, Davidi	581,000
7	Gerasimov, Kirill	550,000
8	Lennaard, Ken	467,000
9	Fish, Darryll	368,000
10	Todd, Eugene	351,000
11	Kamran, Michael	261,000
12	Lester, Jason	240,000
13	Charania, Mohsin	224,000
14	Pettersson, Thomas	121,000

Event #46 Omaha/8
Buyin: $2,500
Number of Entries: 424
Net Prize Pool: $975,200
First Place Prize: $229,192
Total Spots Paid Out: 45
Players Remaining: 23

1	Tenner Mark	285,000
2	Patrice Boudet	258,000
3	John Monnette	237,000
4	Fabio Coppola	229,000
5	Hua Can	225,000
6	Keiner Michael	214,000
7	Josh Schlein	201,000
8	Frankie Odell	194,000
9	Derek Raymond	177,000
10	Sirous Jamshidi	128,000
11	Meng La	124,000
12	Victor Deltoro	119,000
13	Dempsey James	116,000
14	Mark Gregorich	108,000
15	Jeff Tunkel	106,000
16	Poels Pat	89,000
17	Seewald Jonah	75,000
18	Matusow Mike	63,000
19	Bohlman Scott	58,000
20	J.W.Southside Smith	35,000
21	David Danheiser	25,000
22	Danny Smith	4,400
23	Jim Banafato	DNR

Event #47 Mixed Hold’em (Limit and No Limit)
Buyin: $2,500
Number of Entries: 527
Net Prize Pool: $1,212,100
First Place Prize: $278,804
Total Spots Paid Out: 54
Players Remaining: 67

1	Greenstein, Barry	177,200
2	Habib, Hasan	165,000
3	Demes, Brandon	125,000
4	Ahmadi, Bahador	122,100
5	Jung, Alexander	120,200
6	Elezra, Eliahu	108,800
7	Billard, Francois	105,000
8	Sinopoli, Frank	104,200
9	Negreanu, Daniel	101,000
10	Abede, Omar	100,900
11	Filippi, Amnon	98,000
12	Haddox, Randy	92,000
13	Woodward, Matt	90,500
14	Bloch, Andy	88,800
15	Couden, Joey	86,900
16	Ngai, Samuel	85,300
17	Minnullin, Albert	83,000
18	Baker, David	82,000
19	Naalden, Marc	80,400
20	Bickel, Michael	77,800
21	McGuiness, John	76,900
22	Lopez, Karlo	76,500
23	Bolton, Alex	72,200
24	Goldberg, Michael	71,500
25	Williams, Jeff	70,100
26	Vlastaris, Lee	68,200
27	Zartman, Kyle	66,600
28	Tran, Thithi “Mimi”	65,300
29	Schwartz, Ylon	63,900
30	Mccarrel, Casey	59,100
31	Milisits, Ryan	58,600
32	Bach, Klein	56,600
33	Hang, Tommy	56,000
34	Bleiker, Felix	54,800
35	Kuether, Joe	52,700
36	Froehlich, Eric	51,800
37	Stoykov, Mihail	49,500
38	Shan, Yeping	48,900
39	Serbine, Oleg	48,200
40	Hougaard, Jesper	47,400
41	Griffin, Gavin	46,600
42	Fuhs, Danny	45,300
43	Parizon, Michael	42,600
44	Deeb, Shaun	41,300
45	Sands, David	40,200
46	Devonshire, Bryan	38,900
47	Zajdner, Mark	38,400
48	Matros, Matt	36,600
49	Madsen, Jeff	36,500
50	Cunningham, Allen	35,700
51	Kahan, Howie “Howitzer”	35,600
52	Pechie, Justin	30,000
53	Tompkins, Jason	28,200
54	Humphrey, Zachary	27,800
55	Teplitz, Charles	26,800
56	Whitacre, William	26,600
57	Podlewski, Chris	24,200
58	Bellande, Jean-Robert	21,300
59	Black, David	20,800
60	Rabtsov, Kirill	20,200
61	Terrell, Kenneth	20,100
62	Rutter, Stuart	18,600
63	Martin, Jesse	18,200
64	Tran, Theo	11,900
65	Hamagami, Clark	11,700
66	Bazin, Stephane	7,700
67	Pollanen, Petri	7,200