$5,150 Circuit Championship Event Day 2 | 2009 WSOP Circuit Event - New Orleans

Level: 16

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 500

05-19-2009 19:00 UTC-4

Where's Kurt?

[user66118]

Kurt Scheer's chip stack was in complete disarray, so the floor staff enlisted the help of an off-duty dealer to help neatly stack his chips for him. Shortly thereafter, Scheer intentionally exposed one of his hole cards out of turn, and he was given a one-orbit penalty for the foul.

05-19-2009 19:05 UTC-4

Christopher Doubles

donpeters

Ben Thomas raised to 16,000 from middle position and action folded over to Ken Christopher in the small blind. He opted to move all in for 67,500 total. In the big blind, Richard Kirsch went into the tank after checking his hole cards.

"Ahh, I was gonna do that!" Kirsch proclaimed. "All right, I fold, I fold."

With action now back on Thomas, he went into the tank as well. He made a few turns to check out the tournament clock and then made the call. Thomas held pocket eights, {8-Hearts}

. Christopher held {A-Spades}

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"I folded pocket jacks," said Kirsch.

The flop came down {Q-Hearts}

, giving Thomas outs to a flush to end it and further putting him in the lead. The turn brought the {A-Clubs}

and just like that, Christopher took the lead. He still needed to dodge a lot of outs on the river though.

The river came the {2-Clubs}

and that was it. Christopher was able to earn the double and has around 140,000. Thomas now has 100,000.

Tags: Ben Thomas Ken Christopher Richard Kirsch

05-19-2009 19:31 UTC-4

Thomas Folds Jacks

donpeters

From early position, Ben Thomas raised to 17,000. Action folded all the way around to Kenny Milam in the big blind and he reraised to 38,000. Thomas made the call.

The flop came down {9-Hearts}

and Milam immediately moved all in. Thomas went into the tank for a few minutes. He stood from his chair and picked his hand up from the table and shuffled the two cards back and forth. Finally, he folded revealing two jacks. Milam showed pocket queens.

Tags: Ben Thomas Kenny Milam

05-19-2009 19:36 UTC-4

Ben Thomas Eliminated in 17th Place ($13,982)

donpeters

From under the gun, Justin "LockdownTex" Allen raised to 11,000. Action folded around the table to big blind Ben Thomas and he announced that he was all in. Allen quickly called.

Showdown
Allen: {A-Diamonds}

Thomas:

The board ran out {4-Hearts}

, failing to improve Thomas' hand and he was eliminated in 17th place, earning nearly $14,000. We're now down to 16 players.

Tags: "LockdownTex"Ben Thomas Justin Allen

05-19-2009 19:50 UTC-4

More Chips For Christopher

[user66118]

Ken Christopher got all ~50,000 of his chips into the middle preflop holding {A-Spades}

. He got action from Jean Gaspard who tabled {A-Hearts}

.

The board cards ran {10-Spades}

. With his aces up, Ken Christopher tallies a crucial double up, sitting now right on 100,000.

Tags: Jean Gaspard Ken Christopher

05-19-2009 19:51 UTC-4

Dinner Break and Chip Counts

donpeters

The remaining 16 players are on their dinner break. Dinner break will last until 8:15 PM, so we will see you back here then. Here are the chip counts at the dinner break.

Billy Kopp - 400,000
Kenny Milam - 400,000
Jean Gaspard - 330,000
Matt Brady - 270,000
Kurt Scheer - 250,000
Justin Allen - 225,000
Daniel Walsh - 220,000
Shaun Deeb - 170,000
Andy Slater - 155,000
Steven McKoy - 155,000
Anita Vasquez - 90,000
Chris McCormack - 85,000
Richard Kirsch - 70,000
Suju Abraham - 70,000
Mark Gallagher - 60,000
Ken Christopher - 50,000

Level: 17

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 500

05-19-2009 21:18 UTC-4

Back in Action

donpeters

The players are back from a nice, long dinner break and action is underway.

05-19-2009 21:39 UTC-4

Inaction

[user66118]

Well, we're at a loss for action here in the first 20 minutes of the level, so we'll relay the most exciting thing that has happened so far.

Opening the pot from the button, Steven McKoy raised to 12,500. Next to act, Suju Abraham announced that he was all in, sliding out his remaining 63,000 chips. McKoy would go into the tank for more than a minute before prodding, "I have king high. Is that good?" After another moment, he let his hand go. Abraham showed his {Q-Diamonds}

as he raked in a chunk of free chips.

Steven McKoy was given a verbal warning following the fold for disclosing the contents of his hand.

See? Isn't that exciting?