Event 39 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-20-2009 11:18 UTC-12

A Random Sampling of Chip Counts

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Victor Ramdin - 8,800
Young Phan - 4,900
T.J. Cloutier - OUT
Adam "Snoopy" Goulding - 11,000
Kathy Liebert - 12,000
Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri - 45,000 (leading the charge, we reckon)

06-20-2009 11:20 UTC-12

De Wolfe Turns the Ten

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A player in early position limped into the pot, and Roland de Wolfe made a smallish middle-position raise to 500. The small blind called, as did the original limper, and it was three-handed to the flop.

It came down {8-Diamonds}

. The small blind led out with a bet of 1,000, enough to fold the early-position player. De Wolfe came along though, seeing the turn card bring the {10-Hearts}

. Both men checked, and the river was the {6-Diamonds}

. The small blind passed again, and de Wolfe put out a bet of 2,000. The small blind called, turning over {9-Hearts}

. It was no good though; de Wolfe tabled the winning {K-Hearts}

. His pair of tens takes down the pot, chipping him up to 11,200.

Tags: Roland de Wolfe

06-20-2009 11:31 UTC-12

Jacob Cracks Five Figures

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Alex Jacob has a shade more than 10,000 chips following a pot against an opponent in which Jacob snapped off a bluff. Both players checked a {3-Diamonds}

flop. On the turn {9-Spades}

the big blind bet 700 and Jacob called.

The river fell {6-Clubs}

. The big blind fired out a sizable bet, 1,600 chips. Jacob tanked for a minute and then called with {A-Hearts}

.

"Good call," said Jacob's opponent. "King-high." He flashed {K-Diamonds}

and then mucked.

Tags: Alex Jacob

06-20-2009 11:33 UTC-12

Break Time!

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Players are on their second break of the day, 20 minutes this time. It will give you time to check out some of the great videos that our video team has been producing, including Part 2 of the "40 Years of WSOP" series, embedded below.

Level: 5

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 25

06-20-2009 11:53 UTC-12

Cards Flying

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Play has resumed.

06-20-2009 11:58 UTC-12

An Unfortunate Turn

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Just before the break, Bernard Lee was involved in a big heads-up confrontation. On a flop of {2-Hearts}

, Lee checked, then raised when his opponent bet 1,200. Lee made it 3,700 to go, his opponent moved all in, and Lee snap-called.

Showdown
Lee: {2-Spades}

Opponent:

Lee had flopped the baby set to temporarily crack aces. To his disgust though, the {A-Hearts}

spiked the turn to leave him dead to the case deuce. The {J-Spades}

on the river was not a decue, and Lee has been stripped of a big chunk of chips. He's back to 8,200.

Tags: Bernard Lee

06-20-2009 12:13 UTC-12

Chippies!

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Theo Tran - 2,500
Tom Franklin - 10,500
Jen Mason - 8,000
Shawn "sprstoner" Glines - 27,000
Alex Jacob - 15,000
Dewey Tomko - 4,000
Gavin Smith - 3,500

"Make a note that they're check-raising me on this table," Smith told me as I watched him get check-raised out of a pot on a flop of {10-Diamonds}

. "I don't like it one bit."

Smith added that he had already figured out the title of his next book -- "How Can He Call?!"

06-20-2009 12:20 UTC-12

So Do We All, Darus, So Do We All

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Sometimes when we're making the rounds among the tables, players are only too happy to give us information about hands we missed. They usually take the flavor of the relating player's brilliant play, or everyone's least favorite tale -- the bad beat story.

One player at Darus Suharto's table stopped us
to let us know that Suharto was engaging in play as creative as playing {Q-?}

from under the gun. It turned out that Suharto hit two pair on the flop and dragged a nice pot.

"Hey, are you complaining about me?" Suharto asked as his opponent re-told the tale. "I need to get lucky sometimes!"

Suharto has around 9,000 chips right now, just about average.

Tags: Darus Suharto

06-20-2009 12:23 UTC-12

Mitchell Goes Under

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Will Mitchell has just taken the long walk through the maze of players and spectators to the exit. On his way out the door, a frustrated (but still smiling) Mitchell told us that he had his pocket aces cracked by pocket tens to end his day.

Tags: Will Mitchell