2009 World Series of Poker Day 8 – Crazy Game of Poker

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

Truth be told, I’ve been waiting to use that line from O.A.R. since the start of the series. Today is that day.

Here’s how the day is going to go and there is no sugar coating. Crazy. With the change in format of the $1k “Stimulus Special” to play the final table today, we are looking at 7 tournaments going on at different parts of the Rio. Surely plenty of chances to rail the players but where do I start? Just a quick taste of what we are in for throughout the day. Three WSOP bracelets will be awarded in the $1,000 “Stimulus Special”, the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha and the $10,000 Stud World Championship. Day 2 continues for the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em and $2,500 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball tournaments. We will see the start of the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em 6-max and $2,500 Pot Limit Hold’em/Omaha events.

We will be going non-stop from the moment we walk into the Amazon Room and won’t leave until the wee hours of the morning. That also means there will be plenty of opportunity to see history in the making. Just looking down the list of those remaining in the No Limit 2-7 Draw game will be enough to pack the rails. The top of the board contains names like Layne Flack, Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Erick Lindgren, Mike Matusow and David Grey.

The $1,000 final table nine will be rewarded for their extra day but playing out their bracelet in front of the ESPN360.com cameras this afternoon. Former WSOP bracelet winner Dan Heimiller leads the field but I will have a hard time being impartial as the table also includes a guy from my neck of the woods. Jim Matz is a PA resident and often seen rooming the halls of the Borgata.

The second bracelet awarded today will be in the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event, one of the few tournaments to stay on schedule. Jason Mercier was showing off a monster stack throughout this tournament, a truly massive feat of engineering, but goes into the final table mid-stack. Also making a run is online professional Steven “UFMan2″ Burkholder.

The most prestigious bracelet of the day will be given to the winner of the $10,000 Stud World Championship. With names like Jeff Lisandro, Tim Phan, Greg “FBT” Mueller, Daniel Negreanu and Max Pescatori remaining the field chips will be hard come by and this could be the tournament that causes us to stay the latest. Well worth the sleep deprivation.

Chip counts for todays events after the jump.

Event #4 No Limit Hold’em
Buyin: $1,000
Number of Entries: 6,012
Net Prize Pool: $5,410,800
First Place Prize: $771,106
Total Spots Paid Out: 621
Players Remaining: 9

1	Dan Heimiller	4,155,000
2	Steve Sung	3,395,000
3	Vilandos “Pete” Panayote	1,940,000
4	James Matz III	1,885,000
5	Jeff Oakes	1,680,000
6	Larry Sidebotham	1,500,000
7	Phong Huynh	1,310,000
8	Nathan Mullen	1,210,000
9	Danny Fuhs	965,000

Event #5 Pot Limit Omaha
Buyin: $1,500
Number of Entries: 809
Net Prize Pool: $1,104,285
First Place Prize: $237,415
Total Spots Paid Out: 81
Players Remaining: 9

1	Kevin Iacofano	770,000
2	Jonathan Tore	639,000
3	An Tran	435,100*
4	Jason Mercier	384,400
5	Victa Park	341,000
6	Dario Alioto	315,000
7	Matt Giannetti	311,000
8	Steven Burkholder	263,000
9	Chris Biondino	182,000

Event #6 World Championship of Stud
Buyin: $10,000
Number of Entries: 142
Net Prize Pool: $1,334,800
First Place Prize: $373,751
Total Spots Paid Out: 16
Players Remaining: 11

1	Eric Drache	755,000
2	Hasan Habib	593,000
3	Freddie Ellis	580,000
4	Jeff Lisandro	524,000
5	Ville Wahlbeck	472,000
6	Tim Phan	450,000
7	Ivan Schertzer	368,000
8	Greg Mueller	208,000
9	Daniel Negreanu	191,000
10	Ray Dehkharghani	141,000
11	Max Pescatori	did not report

Event #7 No Limit Hold’em
Buyin: $1,500
Number of Entries: 2,791
Net Prize Pool: $3,809,715
First Place Prize:$666,727
Total Spots Paid Out: 297
Players remaining: 337

Top 50 chipstacks:

1	Greeley, Victor	195,300
2	Fowler, Jerry	183,200
3	Tang, Gary	145,300
4	Jung, Hyun	129,700
5	Fernandez, Jacobo	123,000
6	Passavant, James	112,500
7	Bozzano, Enio Jr	105,900
8	Dominski, Paul	102,300
9	Choi, Christian	101,700
10	Michael, John	100,500
11	Junstrom, Matt	97,100
12	Vance, Matt	97,100
13	Perera, Mario	96,800
14	Heger, Will	96,600
15	Klein, Loren	94,200
16	Ciotola, Michael	93,100
17	Casper, Joel	91,400
18	Glasser, Michael	88,000
19	Mizzi, Sorel	85,900
20	Langmann, Florian	83,900
21	Vrabel, Luke	83,000
22	Permejo, John	78,800
23	Woelfel, Wade	78,400
24	Pozefsky, Harry	78,000
25	Cantu, Brandon	76,100
26	Gregg, Anthony	76,000
27	Smith, Patrick	75,000
28	Fett, Robert	75,000
29	Newburger, Jason	73,100
30	Haglund, Gary	72,600
31	Safieddine	72,300
32	Hamadani, Kia	69,500
33	Leonard, Mark	69,000
34	Macgregor, Bruce F.	68,700
35	Sousa, Philip	68,500
36	Paasonen, Mika	68,400
37	Chan, Gary	67,400
38	Asch, Bryan	67,400
39	Paxton, Doug	67,300
40	Koral, Tom	65,800
41	Krouner, Kenneth	63,000
42	Miller, Clinton	62,400
43	Hinkle, Grant	62,100
44	Brubaker, Brian	61,500
45	Brady, Mike	61,300
46	Price, Michael	61,100
47	Kwaysser, Valdemar	60,700
48	Selldorff, Frank	60,300
49	Nguyen, Qui	60,200
50	Bueti, Antonio	60,200

Event #8 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball
Buyin: $2,500
Number of Entries: 147
Net Prize Pool: $388,100
First Place Prize: $96,361
Total Spots Paid Out: 21
Players remaining: 35

1	Flack, Layne	75,125
2	Zimmerman, Raphael	60,750
3	Chen, Yan	48,500
4	Ivey, Phil	46,700
5	Grey, David	46,025
6	Talebi, Rodeen	45,000
7	Hellmuth Jr, Phil	41,150
8	Matusow, Mike	40,975
9	Monnette, John	39,650
10	Guoga, Antanas “Tony G”	39,250
11	Lindgren, Erick	38,225
12	Weitzman, Mark	38,050
13	Danzer, George	35,525
14	Mankin, Erle	32,075
15	Alaei, Daniel	31,925
16	Kesselman, Eric	31,200
17	Le, Nam	31,175
18	Ahmadian, Elia	30,725
19	Greenstein, Barry	29,625
20	Seidel, Eric	29,150
21	Deeb, Freddy	27,875
22	Bjorin, Chris	27,650
23	Booth, Doug	26,925
24	Erdman, Travis	26,875
25	Kamra, Michael	25,200
26	Juanda, John	24,800
27	Bonyadi, Farzad	23,160
28	Laszcz, Xavier	21,675
29	Pelteka, Mike	20,950
30	Iversen, Torstein	19,500
31	Rousso, Vanessa	14,475
32	Karabourniotis, Anargyros	13,555
33	Haynie, Derric	11,500
34	Jetten, Peter	9,275
35	Golser, Markus	8,250