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

Level: 3

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

06-04-2009 09:43 UTC-12

Who Else Is Here, and How Many Chips Do They Have?

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A few late arrivals, or possibly just familiar faces we managed to miss during earlier rounds of our two vast tournament rooms:

- Peter Eastgate, on 5,000 currently and enjoying a massage
- be-hatted Frenchman Nicolas Levi, fresh off his final table finish at the Grand Prix de Paris and right now sitting on 3,500
- Maridu Mayrinck: 4,000
- Allen Cunningham: 6,400
- Chris Ferguson: 5,600
- noticed earlier, but seems to fit in well with the chip count theme of the post, Sandra Naujoks: 6,600

06-04-2009 10:07 UTC-12

The Miranda Room in Numbers

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Oh yes, not content with taking over half the Amazon Room, our $2,000 No Limit Hold'em tournament has spread all the way down the corridor to the almost-as-vast Miranda Room. Among the runners holed up in there for the afternoon or until they bust are these luminaries:

Liya Gerasimova: well ahead on 19,500
Mike Ellis: 5,800, an excellent recovery
David "LeKnave" Jones: 10,000
Jason Mercier (now of course the proud owner of a Diamond rewards card after that little ceremony earlier): 13,500
Adam Levy: 5,000

There is also a remarkable prominence of hats over in the Miranda Room.

Cowboy hats: 3
Baseball caps: average 3 per table, so with 21 tables it's approximately 63
Yellow fisherman hat: 1

Not to mention the dude in the photo. Not really sure what he's dressed up as, but there you go.

There is also a curious aroma of hamster cage as one enters the room, but I would not like to speculate about its origins.

06-04-2009 10:11 UTC-12

Ridiculous Hand Won by Ridiculous Hands

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Four players saw a {K-Spades}

flop, and Will Fry bet 300. He looked somewhat surprised to get two callers. Fry started giggling, and all three proceeded to check down the {J-Clubs}

turn and

river. "Er... I have a four," volunteered Fry, but both his opponents turned over the mighty {10-?}

offsuit to win the pot. Hilarity all round.

Tags: Will Fry

06-04-2009 10:26 UTC-12

Missing, Presumed Busted

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It is of course rather difficult actually to confirm that people are gone unless we see them bust with our own eyes, but the fates of the following players are currently in question, owing to the empty spaces that comprise their former seats.

- Nicky Evans
- Nicolas Levi
- Marc Naalden

Also missing in action is Neil Channing -- although curiously he has left his chips behind. A dwindling stack remains in the place where he ought to be, but he hasn't been back to his seat since the break. Yikes. If anyone sees him, send him back to the Amazon Room...

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

06-04-2009 10:32 UTC-12

Hellmuth Only Three Hours Late

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Just as we were about to head into level 4, Phil Hellmuth appeared and shook hands with everybody at a particular table. Then he sat down at the same table and assessed his 5,325 remaining after three hours of blinds. He is expected to play some hands shortly; please stand by.

Tags: Phil Hellmuth

06-04-2009 10:35 UTC-12

Taking Leba-ties

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Ted Leba and his opponent found themselves all-in-and-call, all very very fast, Leba with the chip advantage.

Leba: {Q-Clubs}

His Opponent: {A-Hearts}

Board: an incredibly exciting {9-Diamonds}

to almost double Leba's stack and bust the hapless coinflipper.

06-04-2009 10:45 UTC-12

'Vish Upon a Star

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A fantastic recovery for Nina Tovish. Down to just a little over 2,000 in the first level, she's now up to over 10,000.

"I sucked out," she said cheerfully, telling me that her pocket fours came good against pocket fives when a four came down on the flop. A few hands later she doubled up with pocket aces against {A-?}

, and just now she took down a sizable pot after moving all in on the turn of a {9-Clubs}

board, eliciting an eventual fold from her opponent.

Tags: Nina Tovish

06-04-2009 10:50 UTC-12

Chip Count Central

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Nick Binger: 19,000
Joe Sebok: 11,300
Lee Watkinson: 20,500
Scott Montgomery: 19,000
Chris Ferguson: just 2,000

Still on roughly their 6,000 starting stacks:

- Kelly Kim
- Tom McEvoy
- Brandon Cantu
- Sorel Mizzi
- Yevgeniy Timoshenko
- Phil Hellmuth