Event 23 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-11-2009 09:45 UTC-12

Bad Luck for Tran

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Kenny Tran's nickname is "Sick Call", not "Sick Raise". He may have forgotten that when, after the draw, he raised Eliyahu Levy from 8,000 to 33,000. Levy snap-called with a smooth eight, 8-5-4-3-2. That had Tran's 8-7-5-4-2 crushed.

Tran is not out of the tournament, but he is now rocking a short stack.

Tags: Eliyahu Levy Kenny Tran

06-11-2009 09:35 UTC-12

Early Eliminations

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Steve Zolotow, Johnny Chan, Brett Richey, and Jeff Lisandro were all eliminated in the opening 30 minutes of Day 2.

06-11-2009 09:34 UTC-12

Queen No Good, Freddy

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With 13,000 already in the pot, Freddy Deeb led out for a pot-sized bet from the small blind and Steve Sung made the call from the big.

"Queen," declared Deeb, but it couldn't stand up to Sung' 9-8-7-5-3.

Deeb is down to 20,000 while Sung increased his stack to 42,000.

06-11-2009 09:32 UTC-12

Good Start for the Mouth

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Mike "the Mouth" Matusow started in the bottom fifth of the chip counts but second in chips at his table. He has even more chips now after knocking David Grey out of the tournament with 9-7-5-3-2.

Tags: David Grey Mike Matusow

06-11-2009 09:30 UTC-12

Big Papa Eliminated

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A change in hats didn't bring Doyle Brunson the luck he needed today. He barely had John Hanson covered when the two got it all in pre-draw. Hanson stood pat with J-9-7-6-3. Brunson was drawing at 10-8-5-4 but pulled an ace.

That loss left Brunson with 400 chips. They went into the middle the next hand, with Brunson rapping pat with Q-J-5-4-2. Daniel Alaei was drawng at 10-7-6-2 and made his draw by catching a 4. Brunson was therefore eliminated.

Tags: Daniel Alaei Doyle Brunson John Hanson

06-11-2009 09:19 UTC-12

Luminaries on the Rail

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T.J. Cloutier was spotted sweating some of the action last night. He's here again today, making his way from table to table and saying hi to some old friends.

Meanwhile, over on Table 78, Mike Matusow is making some bold predictions about DeepStacks University, some sort of training site that he seems to be a part of. Matusow himself is not so deep-stacked to start the day.

Tags: Mike Matusow TJ Cloutier

06-11-2009 09:05 UTC-12

Cards are in the Air

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Level: 9

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 300

06-11-2009 08:39 UTC-12

A Second Day of Lowball -- Kansas City Style

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Yesterday's field will be a bit thinner to start play today.

We've moved over to the Orange Section of the Amazon Room today for the Day 2 restart of the $10,000 World Championship No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw. 96 of the most recognizable names in poker turned out yesterday to try their hand at a game most have rarely (if ever play) and win a WSOP gold bracelet. By the end of the day 57 remained.

Roland de Wolfe was a busy man yesterday, snapping up a total of 180,300 chips to take the overnight chip lead. That gives him a significant leg up on his next closest competitors, Stanislav Alekhin (121,000) and Vince Musso (118,000).

Play is scheduled to get underway at 2pm. That will require several tables that are currently being used for Event 24 to be broken by that time. It's bit unclear at the moment if that will happen on time. It seems more likely we'll be a touch late.

Whenever play gets underway, we'll be there to bring you the action.

06-11-2009 01:04 UTC-12

Day 2 Seat Assignments and Chip Counts

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(Table 75)
Seat 1: Kenny Tran - 64800
Seat 2: Hertzel Zalewski - 53700
Seat 4: Eliyahu Levy - 56000
Seat 5: Andy Black - 49400
Seat 6: Justin 'BoostedJ' Smith - 83500
Seat 7: Patrick Bueno - 65500

(Table 76)
Seat 1: Steve Sung - 6100
Seat 2: Avery Cardoza - 54600
Seat 3: John Juanda - 111800
Seat 4: David Benyamine - 69500
Seat 5: Shawn Buchanan - 46600
Seat 6: Freddy Deeb - 49600
Seat 7: Bryan Colin - 59000

(Table 77)
Seat 1: Jacobo Fernandez - 61700
Seat 2: Howard Lederer - 15700
Seat 3: Jeffrey Lisandro - 14800
Seat 5: Jean-Robert Bellande - 43100
Seat 6: Greg 'FBT' Mueller - 57400
Seat 7: Nick Schulman - 37500

(Table 78)
Seat 1: Gus Hansen - 36300
Seat 2: Sorel Mizzi - 15800
Seat 3: Amnon Filippi - 30500
Seat 4: Mike Matusow - 41500
Seat 5: Archie Karas - 30400
Seat 6: Michael Binger - 65100
Seat 7: David Grey - 38800

(Table 80)
Seat 1: Bruno Fitoussi - 52000
Seat 2: Brett Richey - 20700
Seat 3: Eli Elezra - 17600
Seat 4: Farzad Bonyadi - 58300
Seat 5: Mickey Appleman - 35200
Seat 6: Johnny Chan - 49200

(Table 81)
Seat 1: Mark Weitzman - 38800
Seat 2: Phil Ivey - 56000
Seat 4: Vince Musso - 118000
Seat 5: Sam Grizzle - 53800
Seat 6: Stanislav Alekhin - 121000
Seat 7: Ville Wahlbeck - 50000

(Table 82)
Seat 1: Andy Bloch - 49800
Seat 2: Chris Bjorin - 28600
Seat 3: Steve Zolotow - 21300
Seat 4: Doug Booth - 74000
Seat 6: Peter Gould - 25400
Seat 7: Eric Kesselman - 68300

(Table 83)
Seat 1: John Hanson - 20400
Seat 2: Shawn Sheikhan - 29000
Seat 3: Greg Raymer - 31500
Seat 4: Roland De Wolfe - 180300
Seat 5: Daniel Alaei - 51000
Seat 7: Daniel Harmetz - 83000

(Table 84)
Seat 1: Jason Gray - 34500
Seat 2: Tim Phan - 98500
Seat 3: Max Pescatori - 61100
Seat 4: Mike Wattel - 53500
Seat 5: Lamar Wilkinson - 34000
Seat 6: Doyle Brunson - 36700
Seat 7: Anton Allemann - 76100