Event 34 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

Level: 6

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

06-16-2009 12:59 UTC-12

The Lay of the Land

Shamus

Here a just a few stacks of the still more than 800 players remaining. These all belong to players seated around tables in the Amazon room. There are still a handful of tables left in the Brasilia and Miranda rooms, but soon all will be here in one place.

Jeff Madsen -- 9,500
J.J. Liu -- 7,800
Dennis Phillips -- 20,500
Alex Kravchenko -- 28,000
Cliff Josephy -- 17,500
Shawn Glines -- 7,500
Mark Seif -- 27,000
Phil Hellmuth -- 22,000
Roland de Wolfe -- 32,000
David Singer -- 11,500

06-16-2009 13:06 UTC-12

Battered from Both Sides

Shamus

Over in the Miranda room, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Paul Wasicka have been moved to the same table, where the two of them are taking turns claiming just about every pot. One can assume the others sitting at their table are eager for that table break to happen sooner than later.

Both have stacks of more than 20,000 at the moment.

Tags: Bertrand Grospellier Paul Wasicka

06-16-2009 13:09 UTC-12

Singer Over Madsen

Shamus

David Singer raised to 900 from under the gun and got two callers behind, including Jeff Madsen. The flop came {2-Diamonds}

. Singer bet 2,400, and only Madsen called. The turn was the {K-Hearts}

, and when Singer pushed all in for about 8,000, Madsen got out.

Singer has about 17,500 now, while Madsen drops to 4,800.

Tags: David Singer Jeff Madsen

06-16-2009 13:20 UTC-12

Another One Bites the Dust

Shamus

It folded to Paul Wasicka who opened from late position with a preflop raise to 825, and the big blind called, putting himself all in. The BB turned over 8-3, and was probably glad to see Wasicka's {4-Spades}

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If he was glad, it wasn't for long, though, as the board ran out 6-A-5-2-10. Wasicka had made a straight, eliminating his opponent.

Wasicka is up to 27,000 now. There are 790 players left.

Tags: Paul Wasicka

06-16-2009 13:31 UTC-12

Scott Skirts Skirmish

Shamus

A player in middle position raised to 300, the player to his left reraised to 950, and Scott Montgomery, fifth-place finisher in last year's WSOP Main Event, called from the cutoff. It folded back to the original raiser who called as well.

The flop came {K-Diamonds}