2009 World Series of Poker Day 35 – Coin Flip for the H.O.R.S.E.

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Eight players will take their seats for the final table of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Champioship today and four of those players are members of Team Full Tilt. Carrying the flag today will be Vitaly Lunkin who starts the day second in chips followed by Huck Seed, Chau Giang, and Erik Seidel. With 50% of the remaining players, we’re coin flipping to add an eight bracelet to the FTP count. As expected it will be a stacked final table with 18 bracelets amongst the 8 players.

Erik Siedel – 8 wins
Huck Seed – 4 wins
Chau Giang – 3 wins
Vitaly Lunkin – 2 wins
Ville Wahlbeck – 1 win

Lunkin and Wahlbeck have a chance to add to the number of multiple bracelet winners at the 2009 World Series of Poker. Four players have accomplished that feat this year, it could move us into uncharted waters trying to tie/pass the record of six multiple winners in 2003.

There will also be two other bracelet awarded by the end of the day. Eric “Rizen” Lynch is the premier name remaining in the Triple Chance No Limit Hold’em Event. Allie Prescott and Tournament Director extraordinaire Matt Savage are lining up to win some WSOP gold in the $1,500 Stud/8 tournament.

Today brings us the final “open” tournament before the Ante Up for Africa and Main Event. The $5,000 6-max No Limit Hold’em should draw a nice crowd of grinders and pros looking at their next to last shot at WSOP glory. Those who have not had the best series so far may turn desperate, others will be looking to add more to their 2009 WSOP earnings.

The halls of the Amazon Room have begun their final transformations. Over the last 5 weeks things have been pretty standard. Munchie stations, a few bar setups for adult beverages, the odd booth featuring bikini clad girls to distract the grinders. The Main Event is right around the corner so we’re seeing more displays and hucksters. The Rio staff has begun preparing the convention center for the World Series of Poker Life Expo. I may be able to do an entire post just reviewing each booth.

The clock is ticking for our players this year. Time to make moves.

Restart chip counts after the jump:

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: 8

1	Erik Sagstrom	3,675,000
2	Vitaly Lunkin	2,490,000
3	David Bach	2,345,000
4	John Hanson	1,700,000
5	Huck Seed	1,380,000
6	Chau Giang	1,075,000
7	Erik Seidel	965,000
8	Ville Wahlbeck	645,000

Event #52 Triple Chance No Limit Hold’em
Buyin: $3,000
Number of Entries: 854
Net Prize Pool: $2,357,040
First Place Prize: $506,800
Total Spots Paid Out: 81
Players Remaining: 16

1	Jason Dewitt	1,599,000
2	Alex Millar	1,006,000
3	Karga Holt	715,000
4	Michael Noda	641,000
5	Joe Patrick	538,000
6	Jorg Peisert	477,000
7	Benjamin Gilbert	421,000
8	Michael Katz	356,000
9	Jason Somerville	320,000
10	Warren Watson	320,000
11	Max Greenwood	294,000
12	Thomas Applegate	279,000
13	Eric Lynch	230,000
14	An Tran	216,000
15	William Erickson	173,000
16	Vladimir Kochelaevskiy	168,000

Event #53 Seven Card Stud/8
Buyin: $1,500
Number of Entries: 466
Net Prize Pool: $636,090
First Place Prize: $159,048
Total Spots Paid Out: 48
Players Remaining: 14

1	Brian Swinford	292,000
2	Chad Brown	284,000
3	William Kohler	230,000
4	Max Ster	216,000
5	David Halpern	215,000
6	Allie Prescott	202,400
7	Richie Sklar	134,000
8	Zak Gilbert	110,000
9	Matt Savage	106,000
10	Jack Rosenfeldt	106,000
11	Jose Paz	82,000
12	Christian Toboc	77,000
13	Vince Burgio	40,000
14	Mike Krescanto	27,000

Event #54 No Limit Hold’em
Buyin: $1,500
Number of Entries: 2,818
Net Prize Pool: $3,846,570
First Place Prize: $673,276
Total Spots Paid Out: 297
Players Remaining: 376

Top 50 chip stacks:

1	Christensen, Jon	160,800
2	Howe, Jody	126,600
3	Gall, Zsombor	114,300
4	Merchan, Henry	108,700
5	Gray, Craig	104,300
6	Boivin, Donald	100,700
7	Morneau, Joe	100,300
8	Benjosef, Nadav	98,900
9	Hayes, Eric	98,400
10	Arias, Jorge	96,200
11	Bonita, Christopher	96,000
12	Hodges, Jason	87,100
13	Lambertz, Felix	85,400
14	Tsinis, Arkadiy	84,800
15	Rosini, Kevin	84,700
16	Lee, Sanford	84,400
17	Desai, Kiran	79,900
18	Musalem, Francisco	76,800
19	Gomes, Alexandre	76,000
20	Keys, James	76,000
21	Nguyen, Dangkhoa	75,000
22	Palmer, Ben	74,700
23	Veckey, Tony	74,400
24	Falkenstein, Danny	72,300
25	Keating, Alex	72,100
26	Pomerantsev, Sergey	72,000
27	Pfeifer, Randy	70,700
28	Seliga, Eddie	70,000
29	Cohen, Jamie	67,400
30	Outram, Stephen	65,400
31	Fuller, Thomas	64,700
32	Fritzer, Rip	64,600
33	Knodler, Eric	64,000
34	Teng, Andrew	63,800
35	Tkachenko, Alexey	63,300
36	Finlay, Robert	62,800
37	Cote, Daniel	62,400
38	Motsakov, Pasi	60,600
39	Yegorov, Dmitriy	60,000
40	David, Jaoui	59,800
41	Wong, Brandon	59,800
42	Chung, Vincent	59,300
43	Monteveci, James	59,100
44	Naidoo, Nersan	59,100
45	Ly, Dau “Tommy”	59,000
46	Rowan, Charles	58,300
47	Ratcliff, Mike	58,200
48	Kweskin, Aaron	58,000
49	Larcheveque, Eric	57,700
50	Nguyen, Ut	57,000

Event #55 Deuce to Seven Draw
Buyin: $2,500
Number of Entries: 257
Net Prize Pool: $591,100
First Place Prize: $165,521
Total Spots Paid Out: 24
Players Remaining: 73

Top 50 chip stacks:

1	Ewenstein, Adam	71,800
2	Peltekci, Mike	65,100
3	Fuller, Rick	55,200
4	Jennings, Terrance	54,100
5	Fernandez, Jacobo	53,900
6	Lee, Jasper	46,600
7	Rodman, Blair	46,500
8	Tanaka, Masayoshi	46,400
9	Lord, Kris	42,800
10	Le, Tuan	42,000
11	Sitar, Dustin	41,800
12	Fisler, Ryan	40,800
13	Mosseri, Abraham	39,100
14	Quach, Daniel	38,800
15	Zalewski, Hertzel	38,400
16	Dykes, Douglas	37,800
17	Gualtieri, Joe	35,400
18	Smith, Justin	33,700
19	Hedlund, Peter	33,600
20	Libson, Brad	32,900
21	Rodriguez, Miguel	32,100
22	Duvall, Jeffrey	31,600
23	Juanda, John	31,500
24	Sheikhan, Shawn	31,100
25	Habib, Hasan	29,800
26	Vallo, Martin	29,500
27	Isra, Roland	28,400
28	Corpuz, Martin	27,800
29	Porter, Rep	27,300
30	Franklin, Tom	27,200
31	Dariush, Imani	25,900
32	Cohen, Claude	25,800
33	Schneider, Julie	25,700
34	Filippi, Amnon	25,700
35	McC, Tom	24,900
36	Luong, Gioi	24,800
37	Negreanu, Daniel	24,100
38	Sung, Steve	23,900
39	Lester, Jason	23,800
40	Sarkeshik, Ali	23,400
41	Peeples, Brad	23,100
42	Baxter, Billy	23,100
43	Shoreman, Jon	23,100
44	Sklansky, David	22,600
45	Saltus. Brian	22,400
46	Le, Nam	22,000
47	Poels, Pat	21,900
48	Zhu, Yueqi	21,200
49	Ankenman, Jerrod	20,400
50	Duvall, Jeff	20,300