Event 11 - $2,000 No Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

06-04-2009 17:20 UTC-12

Break Time!

[user46392]

It's our last 20 minute break of the day, and the green 25 chips are being raced off even as I type.

A few breaktime chip counts...

T.J. Cloutier: 32,000
Thanh Chau: 112,500 and still our chip leader
Phil Hellmuth: 28,000
Captain Tom Franklin: 22,000
Tommy Pope: 85,000
William Martin: 22,000
Tom McEvoy: 12,500
Kathy Liebert: 9,100
Maridu Mayrinck: 27,000

We'll be back in 20 to play ouy the last two levels of the night.

06-04-2009 17:05 UTC-12

Mercier in No Danger at All

[user46392]

Does anyone remember Poochie from the Itchy & Scratchy Show?

Jason Mercier has dropped a little from his former 50,000-and-chip-leader perch -- he's down to 40,000 after doubling up another player.

Mercier: {A-Hearts}

Other Player: {J-Clubs}

Board:

With the average stack at around 23,500, though, 40,000 still constitutes a very healthy stack and he won't be going anywhere for a while.

Tags: Jason Mercier

06-04-2009 16:59 UTC-12

T-Shirt of the Day

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Said t-shirt, on the back of Mr Adam Sanborn, proclaims him to be "World Champion of Everything". We at Pokernews approve of this kind of confidence. Although on 10,000 or so, he should probably start getting those chips in if he wants to be World Champion of the $2,000 No Limit Hold'em event...

06-04-2009 16:51 UTC-12

Take It Liy-ing Down

[user46392]

It's that time in the tournament -- they're dropping like flies now.

Liya Gerasimova is our latest casualty, getting her chips in most confidently with {Q-Diamonds}

but finding herself up against some rather unexpected pocket aces. A queen-free board later, and we are down one Russian.

Tags: Liya Gerasimova

06-04-2009 16:47 UTC-12

Seabeast Caught

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Jay "Seabeast" Kinkade somehow managed to get his last in with {K-Spades}

against Eric Neal's {K-Diamonds}

-- already drawing thin, and drawing dead come the flushalicious {J-Diamonds}

flop. The Seabeast swims away none the richer.

06-04-2009 16:45 UTC-12

Baker Takes the Biscuit

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A double up for Mandy Baker to around 16,000 after surviving a coinflip -- her {J-Diamonds}

held up nicely against her opponent's {A-Clubs}

down an exciting but ultimately no-cigar sort of {5-Clubs}

board.

Tags: Mandy Baker

06-04-2009 16:42 UTC-12

Massive Hand Alert

[user46392]

Biggest pot of the tournament so far, caught up with on the river of the {9-Spades}

board. With a number of chips already in the pot that can only be described as a lot, Tommy Pope announced all in, and after some rather tense dwelling time, Faraz Jaka announced call.

Jaka: {A-?}

Pope:

Yikes.

With that rather cruel river, Pope doubled up to a chip lead contesting 92,000, while Jaka's healthy stack was decimated. Don't feel too sorry for Jaka, though -- he managed to make a straight flush the very next hand to knock out a player, and is on a very respectable 28,000.

Tags: Faraz Jaka Tommy Pope

06-04-2009 16:22 UTC-12

Thanh Chau Is Chip Leader; Very Happy

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Ladies and gentlemen, meet Thanh Chau. He has 94,000 in chips right now.

"What's that for?" he asked suspiciously as I asked him his name. "It's because you're chip leader," said I. "Oh," he said. Then, happy as Larry, "Am I really chip leader?" Yes he is. That's why we do this job. It's for those little bits of happiness we can spread across a card room.

Tags: Thanh Chau