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$5,000 Circuit Championship EventDay 1 completed
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Wed Apr 30 2008 03:22 PST | Posted by gsqwared
List of Day 1 Survivors w/ Day 2 Table Draw and Chip Counts
**Note: Players listed in bold are table chip leaders.
(Table 34)
Seat 1: Danny Wong - 76500
Seat 2: Scott Eskenazi - 18500
Seat 3: John Alm - 27500
Seat 4: Bill Edler - 37000
Seat 5: Matt Giannetti - 82600
Seat 6: Clint Roberts - 66700
Seat 7: Steve Wong - 64000
Seat 8: Max Reele - 263200
Seat 9: Vladimir Gorsky - 29400
(Table 35)
Seat 1: Alan Smurfit - 17000
Seat 2: Peter Feldman - 74700
Seat 3: Tony Cousineau - 42800
Seat 4: Patrick Walsh - 51400
Seat 5: Theo Tran - 21000
Seat 6: Than Nguyen - 34400
Seat 7: Doug Lee - 123000
Seat 8: Allen Cunningham - 29500
Seat 9: Thomas Hover - 71400
(Table 44)
Seat 1: Sabyl Suzan Cohen - 61700
Seat 2: J.C. Alvarado - 38400
Seat 3: Kelly Samson - 31000
Seat 4: Scott Zakheim - 39700
Seat 5: Elie Said - 158400
Seat 6: Frank Schinco - 20800
Seat 7: Ralph Perry - 105800
Seat 8: David Levi - 54700
Seat 9: Motoyuki Mabuchi - 157800
(Table 45)
Seat 1: Blair J. Hinkle - 42600
Seat 2: Tommy Vedes - 55800
Seat 3: Seong Bag - 28300
Seat 4: Larry Chinchic - 35600
Seat 5: Nenad Medic - 122200
Seat 6: Alan Engel - 114000
Seat 7: Michael Esposito - 92600
Seat 8: Nikolay Evdakov - 12100
Seat 9: Giovanni Marcacci - 223600
(Table 54)
Seat 1: Lee Rubin - 27200
Seat 2: Alex Kravchenko - 16400
Seat 3: Jason Risenberg - 90200
Seat 4: Ben Fineman - 55000
Seat 5: Mark Newhouse - 120400
Seat 6: John Theisen - 103700
Seat 7: David Redlin - 13200
Seat 8: Jimmy Ngoc Tran - 59700
Seat 9: Brian Wolfe - 77500
(Table 55)
Seat 1: James George McBeth - 52300
Seat 2: Doug MacKinnon - 32400
Seat 3: Adam Geyer - 92500
Seat 4: Bobby Law - 28900
Seat 5: Viver Rajkumar - 29800
Seat 6: Kelly Kim - 27400
Seat 7: Justin Bonomo - 90800
Seat 8: Derek Harrington - 49300
Seat 9: Jon Eaton - 46800 -
Wed Apr 30 2008 00:33 PST | Posted by gsqwared
Day 1 Chip Leader Max ReeleDay 1 is a Wrap
Eight levels of play have come and gone here on Day 1 of the $5,000 championship event of the 2008 World Series of Poker Circuit Event at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. 334 players started the day, but only 54 of them will return tomorrow afternoon for Day 2.
Max Reele finished the day atop the leaderboard with a whopping 263,000 in chips after winning a monstrous hand late in the day. According to Max, he earned the bulk of his chips in a hand against an unknown opponent in which he was dealt a pocket pair of kings and called his opponent's all-in semi-bluff on a Q-10-x flop; his opponent tabled J-9 at the showdown for an open-ended straight draw. Max was able to dodge his opponent's eight outs twice and took down the pot, which catapulted him past the quarter-million mark for the day.
Several big names hit the rail early on Day 1 including Gavin Smith, Jared Hamby, last year's winner Cory Carroll, and Scotty Nguyen. Some of the notables who survived the day were Ari "BodogAri" Engel, Mark Newhouse, Nenad Medic, Bill Edler, Allen Cunningham and T6 Poker's Alex Kravchenko.
We'll post tomorrow's table draw with a complete list of Day 2 players and their respective chip counts as soon as it's made available to us.
Tune in tomorrow afternoon at 12:00 p.m. PT for our continued coverage of the 2008 WSOP Circuit Event live from the Caesars Palace Poker Room in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Wed Apr 30 2008 00:26 PST | Posted by cboncek
Seasoned pro David LeviLevi Gets Healthy Again
Facing an all-in reraise from a player in the cutoff position, David Levi called, setting up a pre-flop showdown. Levi's
looked to be dominated by his opponent's ace-king. The flop of 
was promising for Levi, and the turn of 
kept him in the lead. The 
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Wed Apr 30 2008 00:06 PST | Posted by gsqwared
Ted LawsonTed Lawson Eliminated
World Series of Poker bracelet winner Ted Lawson has just been eliminated from the championship event.
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Tue Apr 29 2008 23:47 PST | Posted by gsqwared
Scoreboard Update
Nenad Medic - 82,000
Theo Tran - 42,000
Alex Kravchenko - 20,500
Peter Feldman - 25,200 -
Tue Apr 29 2008 23:46 PST | Posted by Reporter
Erick LindgrenErick Lindgren Busts
First to act, a talkative Erick Lindgren raised to 3,300. Four players called and the flop came
. The chip leader at the table was first to act and led for 6,500. Lindgren thought for a moment and said, "Loose call." The other players in the hand quickly folded.
The turn brought the
and the big stack checked to Lindgren, who bet 12,000. After studying him for a few seconds, Lindgren's opponent check-raised all in. "S**t! That was such a good card for me!" said Lindgren before he reluctantly called his last 16,000. The big stack turned over the nuts with a 
, leaving Lindgren drawing to a split pot. The river was a blank, and Lindgren is out in 68th place. -
Tue Apr 29 2008 23:41 PST | Posted by gsqwared
72 Players Remaining
With 50 minutes left to play in level eight there are just 72 players remaining in the tournament and the average chip stack is 46,388.
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Tue Apr 29 2008 23:39 PST | Posted by cboncek
Jesus Bumped by Cunningham
All in from the button Chris "Jesus" Ferguson was called by fellow FullTilt pro Allen Cunningham. Jesus made his stand holding
, as Cunningham revealed a pair of pocket tens. The board evolved with little promise as the dealer spread a flop of 
. The 
on the turn was no help, and left Jesus needing a miracle on the river. Unfortunately it never came as the 
sealed the deal for Ferguson. -
Tue Apr 29 2008 23:37 PST | Posted by gsqwared
Dario MinieriGame Over for "Super Dario"
Team PokerStars pro Dario Minieri was just eliminated from the championship event by former WSOP Circuit winner Doug Lee. According to Lee, all of the money went in on an A-J-9 flop; Dario's with top two pair (aces and jacks) and Lee's with a set of nines.
After the hand, Doug stacked up just over 160,000 in chips which puts him at the top of the leaderboard.
Started 29th Apr, 2008
