2011 World Series of Poker

Event #44: $2,500 Seven Card Razz
Day: 2
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
9x8x6x4x2x
Prize
$210,615
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$825,825
Entries
363
Level Info
Level
29
Limits
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000

Event #44: $2,500 Seven Card Razz

Day 2 Completed

Official End-of-Day Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Tommy Chen us
Tommy Chen
473,000
John Monnette us
John Monnette
WSOP 5X Winner
205,000
George Lewis
George Lewis
174,000
Mikhail Tulchinskiy ru
Mikhail Tulchinskiy
168,500
Matt Smith us
Matt Smith
168,000
Stephen Su
Stephen Su
167,500 500
Scott Bohlman us
Scott Bohlman
WSOP 1X Winner
166,000
Mikhail Smirnov ru
Mikhail Smirnov
153,000
Jay Kwon us
Jay Kwon
WSOP 1X Winner
148,500 500
Victor Ramdin us
Victor Ramdin
144,500 500
Simon Kearney
Simon Kearney
123,500 500
Gerard Rechnitzer us
Gerard Rechnitzer
113,500 -1,000
Rep Porter us
Rep Porter
WSOP 3X Winner
82,000
Chad Brown us
Chad Brown
70,000 -20,000
Brock Gary
Brock Gary
65,500
Scott Epstein us
Scott Epstein
52,000
David Sklansky us
David Sklansky
WSOP 3X Winner
50,000
Andreas Krause de
Andreas Krause
45,000
Roland Isra
Roland Isra
40,000
Chris Bjorin se
Chris Bjorin
WSOP 2X Winner
34,500
Robert Williamson III us
Robert Williamson III
WSOP 1X Winner
32,500
Eric Pratt
Eric Pratt
27,000
Greg Dyer us
Greg Dyer
26,000

Tommy on Top

Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Chip Leader Tommy Chen
Chip Leader Tommy Chen

After two days, and 17 levels of Razz action, we are down to our final 24 players. Tommy Chen leads the way with an impressive 473,000 chips. Chen was continuously accumulating throughout the day, earning him the nickname "Razz Machine" from 2011 WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Idema.

Idema was unable to make it out of the day however, and neither were fellow 2011 bracelet winners Chris Viox, Jason Somerville, Eric Rodawig, Viacheslav Zhukov, and Jason Mercier. Idema and Viox did make the money though, banking $5,334 and $4,475 respectively.

There is one player remaining who is looking for his second bracelet this summer. John Monnette not only survived Day 2, he ascended to the top of the ranks towards the end of the night. bagging 205,000 of chips

Other notables who made the made the money include Timothy Finne, Stuart Rutter, Perry Friedman, Shawn Sheikhan, and Chau Giang.

Two Team PokerStars Pros are still alive. Chad Brown (90,000) and Victor Ramdin (144,000) survived the day, and are both looking for their first ever WSOP gold bracelet. Brown has already made a final table at this year's series, and Ramdin has five cashes (including this event).

For a full list of the remaining players and their counts, click the Chip Counts tab above.

Play will resume tomorrow at 3 p.m. local time, where we will play ten levels, stopping only if a champion is crowned. Make sure you join us then for all the Razz action you can handle!

Goodnight from the Rio!

Tags: Tommy Chen

Monnette Making Moves

Recent first-time WSOP bracelet winner John Monnette has been climbing up the leaderboard towards the end of the day. We’ve recently seen him take down a couple of pots including the following one.

Monnette: (X)(X) / {2-}{3-}{4-}{J-} /(X)
Dyer: (X)(X) / {7-}{5-}{2-}{2-} / (X)

We caught up with the action on fifth where Monnette bet and Greg Dyer called. The action was the same on the last two streets and Monnette announced “wheel” as he showed {A-}{5-}. Dyer mucked his hand as he stayed near the bottom of the chip counts.

Player Chips Progress
John Monnette us
John Monnette
WSOP 5X Winner
220,000 95,000
Greg Dyer us
Greg Dyer
40,000

Tags: John MonnetteGreg Dyer

Redraw!

Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Table 276

SeatPlayer
1Mikail Tulchinskiy
2John Monnette
3Stephen Chidwick
4Robert Williamson III
5George Lewis
6Matt Smith
7Greg Dyer
8Andreas Krause

Table 277

SeatPlayer
1Simon Kearney
2Brock Gary
3Chris Bjorin
4Tommy Chen
5Eric Pratt
6Chad Brown
7Victor Ramdin
8Jay Kwon

Table 278

SeatPlayer
1Roland Isra
2Scott Epstein
3Rep Porter
4Stephen Su
5Mikhail Smirnov
6Gerard Rechnitzer
7Scott Bohlman
8David Sklansky

No More Chau

Chau Giang
Chau Giang

Smirnov: {2-}{4-} / {3-}{6-}
Giang: {A-}{4-} / {5-}{K-}

We found Chau Giang all in on fourth against Mikhail Smirnov. Smirnov made a six-low when he caught a {9-} on fifth and a {5-} on sixth. This had Giang who hit a {5-} on fifth and another {5-} on sixth drawing dead which eliminated him.

Player Chips Progress
Chau Giang us
Chau Giang
WSOP 3X Winner
Busted

Tags: Chau Giang