2008 World Series of Poker

Event 21 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000

Day 2 Seat Assignments Announced

Alex Melnikow opens Day 2 action with the deepest chip stack
Alex Melnikow opens Day 2 action with the deepest chip stack
Complete seat assignments for the 121 Day 2 survivors in Event #21, $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em, have now been announced. When play resumes at 2pm PT on Thursday, the players will be seated as follows:

(Table 1)
Seat 1: Brent Roberts -- 60,100
Seat 2: Hilbert Shirey -- 26,300
Seat 3: Adam Levy -- 107,700
Seat 4: Steve Gross -- 51,600
Seat 5: Steve Brecher -- 15,200
Seat 6: Jared Okun -- 170,000
Seat 7: Sam El Sayed -- 215,800
Seat 8: Michael Chrisanthopoulos -- 38,700
Seat 9: Rayan Nathan -- 28,300

(Table 2)
Seat 1: Scott Freeman -- 115,800
Seat 2: Eli Elezra -- 50,500
Seat 3: Aaron Coulthard -- 49,200
Seat 4: Ian Gulam -- 44,400
Seat 5: John Sexton -- 65,000
Seat 6: Humberto Kim -- 99,600
Seat 7: Eric Haber -- 49,400
Seat 8: David Singer -- 24,900
Seat 9: Michael Watson -- 26,000

(Table 3)
Seat 1: Thomas Jean-Narc -- 36,200
Seat 2: Joshua Ladines -- 29,900
Seat 3: Patryk Hildebranski -- 80,500
Seat 4: Jan Heitmann -- 68,600
Seat 5: Alex Kamberis -- 101,900
Seat 6: Rocco Lazazzaro Jr -- 65,100
Seat 7: Gouyer Audrey -- 21,900
Seat 8: Pier Ruscalla -- 67,800

(Table 4)
Seat 1: Can Hua -- 70,000
Seat 2: Jerrod Ankenman -- 113,100
Seat 3: Greg Mueller -- 31,200
Seat 4: Danny Smith -- 67,100
Seat 5: Luca Pagano -- 88,000
Seat 6: Quoc Vu -- 43,400
Seat 7: Jacobo Fernandez -- 17,800
Seat 8: Dag Palovic -- 92,800
Seat 9: Jeremiah Vinsant -- 72,600

(Table 5)
Seat 1: Alex Jacob -- 51,200
Seat 2: Brian Rast -- 26,000
Seat 3: Anna Wroblewski -- 100,000
Seat 4: Alex Melnikow -- 248,800
Seat 5: Marcel Bedard -- 40,200
Seat 6: James Lee -- 25,800
Seat 7: Jorge Arias -- 38,000
Seat 8: Ben Grundy -- 32,500
Seat 9: John Tabatabai -- 35,000

(Table 6)
Seat 1: Stephen Leonard -- 35,800
Seat 2: Mark Szczawinski -- 37,300
Seat 3: Rajesh Vohra -- 117,700
Seat 4: George Dunst -- 67,900
Seat 5: Ryan Rapaski -- 34,100
Seat 6: Chris McCormack -- 45,000
Seat 7: Teddy Djmal -- 28,300
Seat 8: Mark Radoja -- 117,700
Seat 9: Matt Ballesteros -- 10,500

(Table 7)
Seat 1: Thanhdat Tran -- 164,700
Seat 2: Huck Seed -- 20,500
Seat 3: Manelic Minaya -- 37,900
Seat 4: James Hart -- 38,700
Seat 5: Eric Lynch -- 38,100
Seat 6: Zachary King -- 15,600
Seat 7: Jon Van Fleet -- 18,900
Seat 8: Adrian Velasquez -- 71,800
Seat 9: Claudio Pagano -- 39,300

(Table 8)
Seat 1: Connor Allisen -- 48,300
Seat 2: Howard Lederer -- 67,200
Seat 3: Christopher Miranda -- 83,800
Seat 4: Keven Stammen -- 103,600
Seat 5: Ben Sprengers -- 25,500
Seat 6: Anders Henriksson -- 74,500
Seat 7: Joe Monro -- 41,600
Seat 8: Justin Filtz -- 56,600
Seat 9: Jorryt Van Hoof -- 89,500

(Table 9)
Seat 1: Michael Mizrachi -- 103,100
Seat 2: David Brannan -- 32,200
Seat 3: Jean-Philippe Matte -- 58,800
Seat 4: Dustin Pattinson -- 35,500
Seat 5: Eric Baldwin -- 53,700
Seat 6: Farzad Bonyadi -- 15,600
Seat 7: Layne Flack -- 39,600
Seat 8: Travis Pearson -- 81,100
Seat 9: Humberto Brenes -- 101,000

(Table 10)
Seat 1: Nathan Mullen -- 76,300
Seat 2: Thomas Hover -- 24,700
Seat 3: Eric Hicks -- 42,000
Seat 4: David L McCollum Jr -- 99,100
Seat 5: Ralph Perry -- 64,500
Seat 6: Adam Geyer -- 44,600
Seat 7: Amit Makhija -- 38,600
Seat 8: Jason Tikijian -- 84,700
Seat 9: Stephen Dwyer -- 76,600

(Table 11)
Seat 1: Sarah Bilney -- 28,500
Seat 3: Jason Gray -- 66,800
Seat 4: Robert Zoellner -- 69,500
Seat 5: Noah Boeken -- 84,000
Seat 6: Chuck Sklar -- 61,900
Seat 7: Scott Seiver -- 27,800
Seat 8: Dustin Woolf -- 21,400
Seat 9: David Seidman -- 119,800

(Table 12)
Seat 1: Eric Liu -- 21,300
Seat 3: Jimmy Dowda -- 20,800
Seat 4: Michiel Brummelhuis -- 106,100
Seat 5: Keith Tilston -- 135,400
Seat 6: Dmitri Nobles -- 100,000
Seat 7: Amato Galasso -- 63,000
Seat 8: Gavin Smith -- 25,500
Seat 9: John Conkright -- 52,100

(Table 13)
Seat 1: Jacques Zaicek -- 39,000
Seat 2: Hasan Habib -- 140,200
Seat 3: Peter Granlund -- 23,100
Seat 4: Will Hayden -- 21,100
Seat 5: Kathy Woo -- 43,300
Seat 7: Matthew Casterella -- 66,100
Seat 8: Wendell Teets -- 56,900
Seat 9: Joshua VanDuyn -- 56,600

(Table 14)
Seat 2: Rodeen Talebi -- 23,000
Seat 3: Cody Slaubaugh -- 86,300
Seat 4: Mark Bontius -- 33,400
Seat 5: John Murphy -- 52,300
Seat 6: Lyric Duveyoung -- 15,000
Seat 7: Henry Strasser -- 28,800
Seat 8: Kathy Liebert -- 49,700
Seat 9: Blake Cahail -- 59,400

Alex Melnikow is the overall leader at 248,800 in chips.

Tags: Alex Melnikow

Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

Henry Strasser Eliminated

Henry Strasser was eliminated after shoving all in from early position. John Murphy called and showed pocket tens while Henry held {A-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds}. The board ran {10-Hearts} {9-Hearts} {4-Hearts} {4-Spades} {A-Spades}, with Murphy flopping a set to eliminate Strasser.

Scott Freeman Eliminates Michael Watson

Michael Watson raised to 4,440 and Scott Freeman called from the cutoff. Both players checked the {A-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} flop, and when the {7-Hearts} turned Watson bet 7,200 and Freeman called. When the {6-Diamonds} fell on the river Watson checked, Freeman bet 10,500, and Watson moved all in for his last 22,800. Freeman turned over {A-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds} to Watson's {K-Spades} {K-Hearts}, and Watson was eliminated. Freeman now has 142,000.

Tags: Michael WatsonScott Freeman

Dmitri Nobles Has Been Eliminated

Under the gun Keith Tilston raised before the flop and Dmitri Nobles reraised to 10,800. The flop came {K-Diamonds} {J-Clubs} {8-Diamonds}, Tilston checked and Nobles bet 20,000. Tilston check-raised all in and Nobles made the call, to find that his {A-Diamonds} {A-Clubs} had been outflopped by Tilston's {J-Hearts} {J-Spades}. Nobles didn't catch an ace on the turn or river and was eliminated. Tilston now has over 230,000.

Tags: Dmitri NoblesKeith Tilston

Jorge Arias Triples Up

Jorge Arias was all in preflop and was called by Ben Grundy and John Tabatabai. Arias held {A-Hearts} {9-Hearts} and was crushed by Tabatabai's {A-Clubs} {K-Spades}, though both were in need of help against Grundy's pocket queens. The flop came {10-Spades} {9-Clubs} {A-Spades}, flopping top and bottom pair for Arias. Everyone else failed to improve and Arias is up to 39,000 after the hand.