Event 1 - Casino Employees No Limit Hold'em | 2009 World Series of Poker

05-28-2009 08:45 UTC-12

Let's Rock and Roll!

[user76023]

It's the second and final day of the $500 Employees' event in the Amazon room here in the Rio. All the attention might be on the $40,000 No Limit Event on the other side of the room, but there are 81 players here fighting to win the very first bracelet of 2009.

The blinds are starting at 800/1600 with a 200 ante and the average stack is about 32,000 so we're expecting a fairly fast start.

Players are just sitting down now and stacking their chips and play will begin in about 15 minutes.

05-28-2009 08:51 UTC-12

Chip Counts:

[user76023]

Chip Counts from overnight:

Felix Karli 108,200
Cesar Chavez 107,700
Andrew Cohen 103,100
Casey Kuhn 100,500
Paul Peterson 97,400
Elpidid P. Dulay Jr. 87,100
Sammy Porter 76,900
John McAvoy 75,200
Tigran Karakashyan 70,100
Osmel Castro 65,800
Clayton Bell 61,400
Ramy Zakaria 60,900
Jeffrey A Von Alst 60,500
Grant Yasul 59,400
Zhen Cai 58,700
Stephen Sallot 56,100
John C Harris 54,600
Daniel Price 51,100
Phi Tran 44,500
Ryan McNeel 42,300
Jodie Sanders 41,400
Aaron Kelley Medrano 36,100
Steve Ludwick 36,000
Daniel Hecht 35,400
Chris Beddow 34,100
Jesse Duangrudeesawat 32,200
David E Hillis 31,300
Angelito Trinidad 30,400
Robert Maxwell 30,100
Aaron Surbeck 30,100
Amen Abrahim 28,500
Cavin Quintanilla 27,100
Wern Lalaw 27,000
Richard Haughey 26,300
Robert Mason 25,400
Ming Pui Day 25,200
Theanne R Sergeant 24,100
Marshall Silverstein 22,500
Alex Lan 22,400
Matt Pettit 22,100
Michael Lopez 21,900
Robert W Rooney 21,000
Ferdinand Boleski 20,900
Jon Williams 20,200
Adam Buccieri 19,500
Dave Fischer 19,100
Bobby O'Mara 18,300
Stephanie Donahue 18,100
Matt Parker 17,800
Tom Alper 17,200
Barry Bergida 16,900
Lesley Houghtaling 14,900
Kandi M Ghrist 14,700
Tuni Rafaele 14,500
Edward Marcos 14,500
Dayne Baverman 13,400
Sunshine Gardner 13,100
Robert Baptista 12,400
Stephen Sanchez 12,000
Frank Presley 12,000
Guy Jankowski 11,900
Al Adler 11,600
John Armstrong 11,500
Geoffrey R Suk 11,500
Tyrone Kelley 11,400
David Brown 10,900
Michael Ovellette 10,600
Brian Petersen 9,800
Jim Bakunowicz 9,000
Jean Sebastien Cloutier 8,900
Stanley Bartlett 7,600
Timothy Stroud 7,300
Joe Devlin 7,000
Derek Carbajal 5,800
Bruce C Gaw 5,700
Colton Avery 5,600
Mary Patton 5,100
Charles Platt 4,700
Aaron Salonek 2,600
Sang Cun Liu did not report
Thanna Girdpool did not report

Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

05-28-2009 09:04 UTC-12

And We're Off!!!

[user76023]

Cards are in the air!

With nearly thirty players having around ten big blinds or less, expect a lot of exits early on...

05-28-2009 09:17 UTC-12

Jesse 'Sawats' Them Away...

[user76023]

Triple elimination very early on in this frenetic tournament.

Colton Avery moved all-in for about 5,500 and then Bobby O'Mara moved all-in behind him for 17,000. Jesse Duangrudeesawat, the biggest of the stacks involved in this hand, made the call and then Tyrone Kelley put his last 12,000 in the pot too.

Avery: {K-Diamonds}

O'Mara:

Duangrudeesawat: {10-Spades}

Kelley:

was the board and somehow Duagrudeesawat avoided all the overcards to knock out the other three players.

05-28-2009 09:20 UTC-12

Sanchez Doesn't Get Clubbed to Death

[user76023]

On a flop of {Q-Diamonds}

, all the money went in between Stephen Sanchez and Thanna Girdpool who hold {5-Diamonds}

and

respectively, meaning the hand is finely balanced with two cards to come.

The turn is the {4-Clubs}

, making the flush for Girdpool but the {5-Spades}

for the re-suck on the river houses up Sanchez while knocking out Girdpool in the process.

05-28-2009 09:25 UTC-12

Porter Flushes Jankowski Away

[user76023]

With the board reading {A-Hearts}

, Marshall Silverstein leads out for 3,500. Guy Jankowski moves all-in and Sammy Porter makes the call as Silverstein folds.

Jankowski doesn't want to particularly show his {A-Clubs}

and he's drawing to runner runner against Porter's flopped nut flush with {K-Hearts}

. Blanks on the turn and river and another player is down.

05-28-2009 09:34 UTC-12

Donahue is the Queen

[user76023]

A short-stacked player moves all-in from the button and Stephanie Donahue makes the call in the small blind, dominating his {J-Diamonds}

with

.

A flop of {4-Hearts}

causes a few deep breaths, but Donahue fist-pumps when a {Q-Diamonds}

comes on the turn and avoids the two remaining tens on the {5-Clubs}

river.

05-28-2009 09:42 UTC-12

Marcos 'Peters' Out

[user76023]

Paul Peterson has won a big flip against Edward Marcos, knocking out the latter. They were off to the races as it was {7-Clubs}

versus

all-in preflop, of course.

The board came {4-Spades}

and Marcos was a goner.

Peterson is one of the chip leaders now with a very healthy stack.

05-28-2009 09:45 UTC-12

BTW...

[user76023]

We lost twenty players out of the eighty-one starting today within thirty-eight minutes, if this trend continues, the tournament will be finished within two hours...