A short-stacked Christopher Howard decided it was time to push his last 17,000 when he was dealt . Eugene Todd, short-stacked himself, with , decided to play.
The board came , and that king on the end meant Howard's day was done. Todd is up to 37,000.
We've had so many eliminations today that the payout line here in the Brasilia room is backed up ten players deep. We'll be bringing eliminations updates as soon as things settle down.
Greg "FBT" Mueller was seen using his big stack to his advantage at his table. Kevin Dwyer raised preflop to 4,500 and Greg made it 21,500 to go. Kevin folded the hand and Greg is now up to 140,000. We've noticed that thus far today, Greg has raised roughly 85% of hands dealt.
Young Phan has been active here at the start. Phan eliminated two players on the first two hands of today's action, and has quickly vaulted up to 182,000.
Though only two or three hands have been dealt per table, we've already had several eliminations. "Seat open!" has been heard throughout the Brasilia room.
Overnight, the WSOP has compiled the chip counts and handed out the Day 2 seating draw for all 215 returning players in Event 49, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. Here are the seating assignments for Day 2:
(Table 6)
Seat 1: Steven Pilc – 31,600
Seat 2: Michael Herrera – 23,200 Seat 3: Jason Smith – 90,300
Seat 4: Michael LaBonte – 17,100
Seat 6: Steve Karp – 14,700
Seat 7: Neil Channing – 20,700
Seat 8: Allan Bieler – 49,100
Seat 9: Steven Josephsen – 10,000
(Table 7) Seat 1: Magnus Persson – 76,500
Seat 2: Mike Bavonese – 10,200
Seat 3: Phillip Van Kuiken – 25,400
Seat 4: Michael Roth – 11,000
Seat 5: Michael Krueger – 57,500
Seat 7: Christopher Howard – 21,300
Seat 8: Gregg Silverstein – 17,100
Seat 9: Joseph Chee – 69,100
(Table 8)
Seat 1: Tyron Krost – 17,100
Seat 2: V Pinnamaneni – 24,000
Seat 3: Dwayne Heide – 40,100
Seat 4: Joe Pelton – 40,800
Seat 5: Robert Kalb – 31,700
Seat 6: Chris Viox – 51,900
Seat 7: Alejandro Mange – 27,500
Seat 8: Tim Wiegand – 37,700 Seat 9: Carlos Fernandez – 59,500
(Table 9)
Seat 1: Alexandre Schwab – 34,900
Seat 2: Patrick Enright – 11,500
Seat 3: Scott Shafer – 13,400 Seat 4: David Pham – 76,200
Seat 5: Joshua Pollock – 40,100
Seat 6: Daniel Spear – 9,900
Seat 7: Jan Tapken – 44,100
Seat 8: David Bass – 25,000
Seat 9: Andy Garza – 61,500
(Table 10)
Seat 1: Simon Persson – 43,200
Seat 2: Nicholas Hill – 9,100
Seat 3: Julien Pouchain – 64,100
Seat 4: Joseph James – 9,600 Seat 5: Greg Alexander – 134,700
Seat 6: Sourd Gilles – 15,600
Seat 7: Karan Radia – 42,100
Seat 8: Matt Heintschel – 41,600
Seat 9: Delmer Helvie – 4,600
(Table 11)
Seat 1: Tim Croston – 10,700
Seat 2: Patrick Ricci – 28,800
Seat 3: Tingjian Xiang – 13,200
Seat 4: Kevin Dwyer – 63,700 Seat 5: Greg Mueller – 131,700
Seat 6: Benjamin Gilbert – 25,900
Seat 7: Badei Khoury – 39,200
Seat 8: Larry Marshall – 28,400
Seat 9: Ross Derrod – 14,600
(Table 12)
Seat 1: Michael Capobianco -- did not report
Seat 2: Tony O'Hagan – 11,900
Seat 3: Ian Nelson – 21,100
Seat 4: Mark Sloane – 23,500 Seat 5: JC Tran – 92,600
Seat 6: Peter Hansson – 32,500
Seat 7: Mike Racich – 13,200
Seat 8: Steven Goosen – 43,800
Seat 9: JianHuan Chen – 32,200
(Table 13)
Seat 1: Bill Shalhoob – 35,900 Seat 2: Sherif Zaher – 64,100
Seat 3: Anderson Silva – 22,000
Seat 4: Hevad Khan – 58,800
Seat 5: Chris Polster – 21,700
Seat 6: Vaughn Willanger – 22,000
Seat 7: Jun Yan – 33,200
Seat 8: Adrian Ridner – 17,100
Seat 9: Talal Shakerchi – 53,200
(Table 14)
Seat 1: Giovanni Nervo – 38,100
Seat 2: Brandon Gerstein – 36,600
Seat 3: Mike Trivisonno – 31,500 Seat 4: Gregg Merkow – 109,900
Seat 5: Greg Wagner – 24,000
Seat 6: Jeffrey Kent – 27,300
Seat 7: Keith Johnson – 22,400
Seat 8: Steve Pierce – 19,700
Seat 9: Jeff Bragalone – 51,700
(Table 15)
Seat 1: Paul Nobles – 45,600
Seat 2: Jeffrey Charlton – 55,000
Seat 3: Russell Davies – 22,100
Seat 4: Nancy Tyner – 50,200
Seat 5: Walter Hunt – 15,800
Seat 6: James Forsythe – 16,700
Seat 7: Trieu Hong – 50,000 Seat 8: Paul Kim – 78,300
Seat 9: Robert Karr – 61,700
(Table 16)
Seat 1: Taylor Douglas – 88,300
Seat 2: Ricardo Cubas – 44,600
Seat 3: Kashif Aleem – 46,800
Seat 4: Chris Skoldberg – 45,000
Seat 5: Eric Newsham – 29,300
Seat 6: Josh Richardson – 16,900
Seat 8: John Green – 30,400 Seat 9: Matt Matros – 113,600
Seat 9: Jeremy Armstrong – 10,700
(Table 17)
Seat 1: Brad Anderson – 42,100
Seat 2: Shane Pacheco – 22,300
Seat 3: Matt Berkey – 26,500
Seat 4: Chad Boehnke – 4,200
Seat 5: David Taylor – 17,500 Seat 6: Micah Raskin – 175,200
Seat 7: Jody Mitchell – 41,400
Seat 8: Parviz Razavian – 89,200
Seat 9: Paul Balzano – 26,400