2009 World Series of Poker Day 33 – The Main Event Nears

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Another day gone by, another near miss for a Full Tilt bracelet. Lee Watkinson had Brandon Cantu all in with a weak A2xx at the Pot Limit Omaha/8 but could not hold off the midling eight on the flop. That propelled Cantu to the chip lead and he was able to continue his lucky run to the bracelet.

The final table became very interesting as the blinds rose and players continued to chop chop their way deeper. While sitting four handed, simply betting the pot preflop involved a significant portion of a player’s chip stack. This caused huge fluctuations in the counts and current leader. In the end, the only Full Tilt logo in the winner’s picture was Gavin Smith jumping in with Cantu.

Team FTP has another bracelet shot later today when Greg “FBT” Mueller goes for his second of the year at the $1,500 Limit Shootout final table. He defeated 2007 WSOP Player of the Year Tom “Donkey Bomber” Schneider in a long heads up battle to make it through. The final table will be 8-handed with the winner taking away just under $200,000 and the jewelry.

The $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship gallops along (see what I did there?) with still over half the starting field coming along. Gus Hansen leads the way going into Day 3 along with Team Full Tilt members Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, David Chui, Vitaly Lunkin, Huck Seed, Chau Giang and others. They are still 37 players away from the money and final two tables.

Two new tournaments kick off today with something called a Triple Chance $3,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament. This replaces the rebuy events and there are varied strategies for playing. We will see how that goes. The big name pros will be split evenly between this and the $1,500 Stud/8 event starting at 5pm.

Things are getting down to the finish line quickly. Looking at the schedule we only see three new events besides the Ante Up for Africa charity tournament and the Main Event. Tomorrow brings the last of the $1,500 “donkaments” and a $2,500 Limit Deuce to Seven Draw tournament. Tuesday has the $5,000 6-max No Limit Hold’em event and that is it. Those tournament will run us down to the end of the week when the celebs show up for charity and near 7,000 people flood town for the Main Event.

Interesting times my friends.

Restart chip counts after the jump:

Lee Watkinson can only watch as his cards do not hold up for his second bracelet

Event #49 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship
Buyin: $50,000
Number of Entries: 95
Net Prize Pool: $4,560,000
First Place Prize: $1,276,806
Total Spots Paid Out: 16
Players Remaining: 53

1	Hansen, Gus	686,000
2	Dehkharghani, Ray	643,000
3	Sagstrom, Erik	560,000
4	Brunson, Todd	549,000
5	Habib, Hasan	490,000
6	Nguyen, Scotty	463,000
7	Cremen, Frank	457,000
8	Bach, David	451,000
9	Guoga, Antanas “Tony G”	433,000
10	Sointula, Jani	412,500
11	Bueno, Patrick	380,000
12	Kassela, Frank	379,000
13	Kabbaj, John	376,000
14	Perry, Ralph	348,000
15	Chiu, David	344,000
16	Glantz, Matt	337,000
17	Monnette, John	324,000
18	Chen, Bill	324,000
19	Bechtel, Jim	312,000
20	Lunkin, Vitaly	308,000
21	Wattel, Mike	307,000
22	Wahlbeck, Ville	307,000
23	Billirakis, Steve	300,000
24	Greenstein, Barry	284,000
25	Hansen, Thor	256,000
26	Seed, Huck	244,000
27	Tulchinskiy, Mikail	235,000
28	Chau, Giang	231,000
29	Brunson, Doyle	224,000
30	Clements, Scott	221,000
31	Deeb, Freddy	208,000
32	Grey, David	191,000
33	Hawrilenko, Matt	190,000
34	Turner, Jon	179,000
35	Seidel, Erik	179,000
36	Ferguson, Chris	173,000
37	Rabtsov, Kirill	165,000
38	Schulman, Nick	157,000
39	Ivey, Phil	154,000
40	Gray, Jason	144,000
41	Hennigan, John	142,000
42	Soulier, Fabrice	138,000
43	Antonius, Patrik	131,000
44	Buss, Jerry	130,000
45	Benyamine, David	130,000
46	Lindgren, Erick	114,000
47	Hanson, John	113,000
48	Vallo, Martin	100,000
49	Smith, Justin	87,000
50	Kravchenko, Alex	80,000
51	Alaei, Daniel	63,000
52	Sung, Steve	50,000
53	Richey, Brett	43,000

Event #50 Limit Hold’em Shootout
Buyin: $1,500
Number of Entries: 571
Net Prize Pool: $779,415
First Place Prize: $194,909
Total Spots Paid Out: 64
Players Remaining: 8

1	David Williams	360,000
2	Flaminio Malaguti	360,000
3	Greg Mueller	360,000
4	Joep Van Den Bijgaart	360,000
5	Jose Barbero	360,000
6	Marc Naalden	360,000
7	Matthew Sterling	360,000
8	Millie Shiu	360,000

Event #51 No LImit Hold’em
Buyin: $1,500
Number of Entries: 2,781
Net Prize Pool: $3,796,065
First Place Prize: $664,426
Total Spots Paid Out: 297
Players Remaining: 349

Top 50 chip stacks:

1	Bonita, Christopher	131,700
2	Price, Ryan	130,000
3	Slaubaugh, Cody	125,900
4	Huynh, Phong	123,300
5	Van Zadelhoff, Steven	118,000
6	Armstrong, Kevin	117,700
7	Helder, Jason	117,700
8	Le, Hon	115,900
9	Shelton, Kenneth	105,600
10	Potter, Jason	100,100
11	Vanchiro, Jeffrey	95,400
12	Thibaud, Durand	93,600
13	Bogdan, Aurel	91,300
14	McFadgen, Michael	88,900
15	Gharibian, Tro	88,100
16	Crowe, Owen	88,000
17	Saleh, Christopher	87,200
18	Hudson, Michael	86,900
19	Subilia, Sam	85,300
20	Stocker, William	84,900
21	Jesus Breda, Jorge	83,400
22	Benvenuti, Michael	82,300
23	McClellan, Fitz	80,200
24	Pfund, Doug	79,900
25	Nakhoul, Ben	79,700
26	Vegas, Carlos	79,200
27	Anderson, Chapin	78,900
28	Filippi, Amnon	77,700
29	Kenna, Stephen	77,300
30	Rodriguez, Miguel	75,600
31	Trujillo, Clint	75,200
32	Hasten, Michael	75,000
33	Gagliano, Michael	74,700
34	Walasinski, David	72,900
35	Pilot, Shawn	71,600
36	Meyers, Brandon	71,600
37	Nguyen, Men “The Master”	71,200
38	Chen, Andrew	71,200
39	Brickman, Robert	70,600
40	Fleischer, Terry	69,900
41	Diaz, Robert	69,300
42	Belloso, Rafael	68,400
43	Braband, Tom	67,300
44	Souza, Marc	66,900
45	Hawk, William	66,300
46	Mertz, Jasper	65,200
47	Roberts, Jamie	62,800
48	Marquez, Marco	62,500
49	Florian, Schramm	60,600
50	Tuthill, Nathan	60,300