Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Today brings together the survivors of Day 1a and Day 1b. These lucky players will have to battle their way through 5 levels of poker today to end the day with chips for Day 3. On a regular basis we will be hearing the dealer call of “all in and a call”. Level 5 seems to be moving time for the players.
1,746 players begin the day and there are far too many members of Team Full Tilt to list but many of your favorites are slinging chips. Mike Matusow, Erik Seidel, Gus Hansen, Amanda Baker, Gavin Smith, Richard Brodie, Michael Craig, Jon “Pearljammer” Turner, Roland de Wolfe, and Vitaly Lunkin. Chris Ferguson begins Day 2a sitting at the secondary feature table to be broadcast by ESPN.
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Day 1d also brought us the first decent bit of controversy during the Main Event when many players were shutout of the tournament when the day sold out. Any players who thought they could be slick by showing up late to the final day one flight would walk away very disappointed. Those who had a little forethought to register early for the biggest day would be the lucky ones with chips at the start of the day.
There was always going to be a hard cap on the number of players the Rio can reasonably seat in any one event. We had several preliminary events sell out throughout the WSOP, there is only so much room to shoe horn tables. Day 1d had Main Event players sitting in Amazon, Brasilia, and Miranda rooms as well as table in the Rio hallway outside the casino and the actual Rio poker room. A full hour before the kickoff and there were just no more seats available to sell.
WSOP Commish Jeffrey Pollack gathered a few hundred of the players shutout (and a fair share of the media) to explain the situation. He apologized but stated simply that they were unable to accomodate any more players in the event.
While there is plenty of finger pointing, I place most of the blame upon the players who waited too long to get themselves in the tournament. There were quite a few empty seats in the first three days of the Main Event and more than enough time to get themselves registered.
Then again, it’s just my opinion.
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Late in the evening during Day 1d, we were given the final number for the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event. Every member of the “November Nine” will earn over $1,000,000.
2009 World Series of Poker Main Event
Number of players: 6,494
Total Prizepool: $61,043,600
Places Paid: 648
First Place: $8,546,435
(Complete payout structure after the jump)
1st – $8,546,435
2nd – $5,182,601
3rd – $3,479,485
4th – $2,502,787
5th – $1,953,395
6th – $1,587,133
7th – $1,404,002
8th – $1,300,228
9th – $1,263,602
10th through 12th – $896,730
13th through 15th – $633,022
16th through 18th – $500,557
19th through 27th – $352,832
28th through 36th – $253,941
37th through 45th – $178,857
46th through 54th – $138,568
55th through 63rd – $108,047
64th through 72nd – $90,344
73rd through 81st – $68,979
82nd through 90th – $57,991
91st through 99th – $47,003
100th through 162nd – $40,288
163rd through 225th – $36,626
226th through 288th – $32,963
289th through 360th – $29,911
361st through 432nd – $27,469
433rd through 504th – $25,027
505th through 576th – $23,196
577th through 648th – $21,365
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