2009 World Series of Poker

Event 39 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
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Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
j♦q♥
Prize
$657,969
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
2,715
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000
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Day 2 Seating Assigments and Chip Counts

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Play will resume at 2:00pm.

(Table 157)
Seat 1: John Salis - 18600
Seat 2: Kevin Fassino - 51200
Seat 3: Jon Peachey - 45500
Seat 4: Kyle Hegeman - 53600
Seat 5: Darryll Fish - 21400
Seat 6: Matthew Cohen - 28800
Seat 7: Thomas Johnston - 35100
Seat 8: Bradley Farr - 13800
Seat 9: Judy Lepire - 25100

(Table 158)
Seat 1: Robert McFarland - 19100
Seat 2: Napoleon Ta - 88000
Seat 3: Arkadiy Tsinis - 101300
Seat 4: Brett Wiegner - 38300
Seat 5: Thomas Johnson - 12700
Seat 6: Chris Arvanitis - 47600
Seat 7: Robert Merulla - 36000
Seat 8: Matthew Berto - 44700
Seat 9: Edmond Mercier - 9800

(Table 159)
Seat 1: Shane Demler - 95800
Seat 2: John Matterson - 58500
Seat 3: Kun Tong - 69500
Seat 4: Anthony Robinson - 28500
Seat 5: Arnaud Grumiaux - 23700
Seat 6: Peter Busch - 18300
Seat 7: Luke Pauls - 96500
Seat 8: Nicholas Derke - 15000
Seat 9: Robert Johnson - 31700

(Table 160)
Seat 1: Ben Van Klink - 43900
Seat 2: Lauchlin McKinnon - 39500
Seat 3: David Lam - 17800
Seat 4: Pascal Misteli - 11900
Seat 5: Christopher Yee - 36400
Seat 6: Katja Svendsen - 47400
Seat 7: Priyan De Mel - 30700
Seat 8: David Fox - 86700
Seat 9: Christopher Kolla - 57600

(Table 161)
Seat 1: Todd Baker - 25000
Seat 2: Peter Osborne - 19000
Seat 3: Richard Poff - 23700
Seat 4: Dmitriy Boshenyatov - 47400
Seat 5: Chris Bjorin - 22500
Seat 6: Hayden Fitzgerald - 23700
Seat 7: Torrey Korsog - 11000
Seat 8: Frank Blumlein - 55900
Seat 9: Peter Jelinek - 25700

(Table 162)
Seat 1: Brad Steinberg - 31800
Seat 2: Lillian Allen - 37400
Seat 3: Johannes Keoerber - 35000
Seat 4: Yueqi Zhu - 17500
Seat 5: Denny Robinson - 57100
Seat 6: Micah Raskin - 107700
Seat 7: Rishabh Gupta - 21900
Seat 8: Thu Tran - 22000
Seat 9: Frank Rusnak - 77000

(Table 163)
Seat 1: Catherine Calhoun - 9800
Seat 2: Adam Levy - 72900
Seat 3: Andrew Miller - 43000
Seat 4: John Nixon - 92900
Seat 5: Oliver Thomas Anderson - 22800
Seat 6: Steve Banner - 43200
Seat 7: Bruce Dye - 50200
Seat 8: Michael Carroll - 52500
Seat 9: Stephen Delateur - 10900

(Table 164)
Seat 1: Dennis Tilley - 11400
Seat 2: Eugeny Serebryakov - 59500
Seat 3: Jon Gumapas - 32400
Seat 4: Jeff Battaglia - 18300
Seat 5: Tri Ma - 34800
Seat 6: Scott Bohlman - 31000
Seat 7: Christian Bowerman - 19700
Seat 8: Matt Matros - 45700
Seat 9: Joe Loguidice - 58700

(Table 165)
Seat 1: Jeanpaul Seatelli - 61100
Seat 2: William Pijewski - 50900
Seat 3: Sven Wedekin - 15000
Seat 4: Katherine Baxter - 35900
Seat 5: Desmond Portano - 102600
Seat 6: Verono Toms - 58300
Seat 7: Richard Walker - 26100
Seat 8: Ed Sevillano - 15000
Seat 9: Steven Davis - 26900

(Table 166)
Seat 1: Shawn Johnson - 36700
Seat 2: Mohsin Charania - 144100
Seat 3: Chairud Vangchailued - 124500
Seat 4: Michele Iacovone - 42000
Seat 5: Jeffrey Baylos - 21600
Seat 6: Bryan Carlin - 23800
Seat 7: Shawn Pilot - 25300
Seat 8: Jason Wright - 10600
Seat 9: Tom Grimes - 109000

(Table 167)
Seat 1: John Woolen - 65100
Seat 2: Nenad Sizgoric - 21600
Seat 3: Brad Beard - 14800
Seat 4: Eric Lupovich - 7300
Seat 5: Raymond Bonauida - 82100
Seat 6: Thorsten Schafer - 12600
Seat 7: Hunter Frey - 33000
Seat 8: Thomas Vinas - 27900
Seat 9: Christopher Crockett - 69200

(Table 168)
Seat 1: Samuel Rosenblatt - 14700
Seat 2: Tom McCormick - 105000
Seat 3: Konstantin Buecheol - 46100
Seat 4: James Pinpin - 43300
Seat 5: Sebastian Bauer - 37600
Seat 6: Zachery King - 24900
Seat 7: Keith Murrell - 31300
Seat 8: Nam Le - 33800
Seat 9: Mike Mrozek - 13100

(Table 169)
Seat 1: Daniel Hood - 14400
Seat 2: Cartigny Franck - 49200
Seat 3: Tommy Le - 13000
Seat 4: Jason Jung - 8100
Seat 5: Kevin Klafeta - 10000
Seat 6: Ben Heinrichs - 23700
Seat 7: Neil Zimmet - 13800
Seat 8: Lester Lenart - 23600
Seat 9: John Utley - 30900

(Table 170)
Seat 1: Ray Foley - 67700
Seat 2: Kwan Leung - 20900
Seat 3: Zachary Humphrey - 43600
Seat 4: Stuart Kemble - 26200
Seat 6: Alex Bolton - 33100
Seat 6: Marc Tschirch - 9200
Seat 7: Ramon Vergara - 19400
Seat 8: Thomas Kasperski - 17200
Seat 9: Matthias Neu - 64100

(Table 171)
Seat 1: David Smith - 12300
Seat 2: Lana Wlodyka - 5400
Seat 3: Tyler Patterson - 31600
Seat 4: John Sias - 46200
Seat 5: Jonathan Markham - 95200
Seat 6: Anthony Bustamante - 21500
Seat 7: Chad Boehnlee - 14300
Seat 8: Gabriel Andrade - 67600
Seat 9: John Erting - 23400

(Table 172)
Seat 1: Richard Lutes - 15500
Seat 2: Mikael Olsson - 31100
Seat 3: John Iacolucci - 7400
Seat 4: Paula Montanaro - 28300
Seat 5: Craig Young - 23300
Seat 6: Michael Cohen - 11900
Seat 7: Uwe Bamminger - 76400
Seat 8: Robert Miller - 38300
Seat 9: William Umansky - 13000

(Table 173)
Seat 1: Tyler Spalding - 26500
Seat 2: Greg Alston - 63400
Seat 3: Jorge Jesus - 66400
Seat 4: Jim Mitchell - 65400
Seat 5: Sean Peterson - 23500
Seat 6: Chandrasekmar Billavara - 44000
Seat 7: Sacrispeyere Patrick - 17100
Seat 8: Julie Farkas - 14900
Seat 9: Antonio Chavez - 29400

(Table 174)
Seat 1: Beqir Salihu - 12100
Seat 2: Al 'Sugar Bear' Barbieri - 35000
Seat 3: Benjamin Kang - 49500
Seat 4: Jan Von Halle - 101400
Seat 5: Brian Barnes - 51900
Seat 6: Barry Bounds - 31700
Seat 7: Luis Sanchez - 105500
Seat 8: Newton Kanno - 9000
Seat 9: Keith Greer - 53000

(Table 175)
Seat 1: Denise Molloy - 17100
Seat 2: Jamie Acevedo - 44700
Seat 3: Scott Seiber - 29800
Seat 4: Mark Wilds - 62300
Seat 5: William Brewin - 15400
Seat 6: Terry Wolthius - 22200
Seat 7: Gustav Lundholm - 37100
Seat 8: Farzad Etemadi - DNR
Seat 9: Yarron Bendor - 60000


(Table 176)
Seat 1: Kelly Armstrong - 52400
Seat 2: Frank Diaz - 1600
Seat 3: Mark Newhouse - 79300
Seat 4: Christopher Wong - 38600
Seat 5: Peter Mavro - 45100
Seat 6: Hubert Evans - 26200
Seat 7: Tai Phan - 36600
Seat 8: Sergey Pomerantsev - 62800
Seat 9: Roman Ginzburg - 6200

(Table 177)
Seat 1: Michael Larimer - 50800
Seat 2: Ali Rabah - 28800
Seat 3: Ragavan Thiagarajah - 59600
Seat 4: David Tighe - 58700
Seat 5: Steve Mohs - 43900
Seat 6: Maikel Van Leeuwen - 30700
Seat 7: Michael Hertziger - 54000
Seat 8: Albert Iversen - 56000
Seat 9: Doug Luther - 42100

(Table 178)
Seat 1: Rick Hollman - 19800
Seat 2: Jason Landon - 20500
Seat 3: Jessica Mendoza - 22400
Seat 4: Mads Amont - 16000
Seat 5: Daniel Burdette - 16100
Seat 6: Javier Corzo - 32100
Seat 7: Oliver Bosch - 40000
Seat 8: Matt Livingston - 40900
Seat 9: Kevin Dryer - 19000

(Table 179)
Seat 1: Audley Harrison - 36000
Seat 2: Brandon Brumback - 22100
Seat 3: Charles Dolan - 51400
Seat 4: John Miller - 11100
Seat 5: Jakob Testeser - 39500
Seat 6: Hieu Nguyen - 15300
Seat 7: Marc Miller - 16200
Seat 8: Shane Schleger - 63000
Seat 9: Tom West - 35600

(Table 180)
Seat 1: Robert Worster - 22400
Seat 2: Michiel Brummelhuis - 41400
Seat 3: Brian Gray - 51600
Seat 4: Eric Chesier - 16000
Seat 5: Jesse Correa - 20800
Seat 6: Frederick Jensen - 26100
Seat 7: Serguei Timofeev - 54700
Seat 8: An Vuong - 69500
Seat 9: Marc Suctman - 8100

(Table 181)
Seat 1: Ching Choy - 24700
Seat 2: Darius Campo - 22500
Seat 3: Alex Jacob - 47300
Seat 4: Paul Stonechewski - 23500
Seat 5: Angel Guillen - 42800
Seat 6: Ron Linden - 37000
Seat 7: Martin May - 17200
Seat 8: David Grove - 21900
Seat 9: Greg Arzt - 20300

(Table 182)
Seat 1: Josh Engerdahl - 13800
Seat 2: Minor Scott - 84900
Seat 3: Chris Bigler - 18700
Seat 4: Carman Cavella - 32300
Seat 5: Craig O'Neill - 71000
Seat 7: Shan Jing - 81300
Seat 8: Tracey Nguyen - 28500
Seat 9: Anh Van Nguyen - 14600

(Table 183)
Seat 1: Tristan Wade - 84200
Seat 2: Raymond Davis - 45100
Seat 3: Hady Breidy - 52300
Seat 5: Ron Verstappen - 14400
Seat 6: Kimberely Kroetsch - 22900
Seat 7: Daniel Pinto - 51900
Seat 8: Dennis Sargent - 8400
Seat 9: Jeff Williams - 66200

(Table 184)
Seat 1: John Ray - 38100
Seat 2: Yasir Ali - 72300
Seat 3: Juan Jose Perez - 50500
Seat 4: Tom Coan - 53500
Seat 5: Paul Garbedian - 21500
Seat 7: Kevin MacPhee - 52700
Seat 8: Kurt Maier - 26100
Seat 9: Michael Pitzuto - 24000

(Table 185)
Seat 1: Chang Luo - 79300
Seat 2: Eric Baldwin - 63400
Seat 3: Samuel Woo - 72800
Seat 5: Chris Niberding - 9700
Seat 6: Grant Hinkle - 85800
Seat 7: Angel Freytez - 21300
Seat 8: Lee Ferris - 16200
Seat 9: Zak Gilbert - 22000

(Table 186)
Seat 1: Shawn Glines - 45900
Seat 2: Karlo Lopez - 16500
Seat 3: Larry Gerek - 19500
Seat 4: Mike Souza - 25500
Seat 5: Wei Mu - 53100
Seat 7: Jerilyn Totani - 12700
Seat 8: Mario Delis - 46600
Seat 9: Walter Simmons - 20300

(Table 187)
Seat 1: Sebastian Roy - 33600
Seat 2: Kenneth Shelton - 34100
Seat 3: Justin Bonomo - 34400
Seat 5: Timothy Christensen - 23600
Seat 6: Ernest Patrick - 10700
Seat 7: Tom Antonucci - 72300
Seat 8: Leopoldo Araneta - 32600
Seat 9: Leonard Simpson - 5800

(Table 188)
Seat 1: Scott Woodzell - 11200
Seat 3: Matt Calhoun - 20600
Seat 4: Sean Etmon - 8500
Seat 5: Bryan Uyeda - 10400
Seat 6: John Crino - 14300
Seat 8: Luke McIntyre - 14100
Seat 9: Charles Threet - 77500

(Table 189)
Seat 1: Andreas Ramadanis - 58200
Seat 2: Paul Patton - 55000
Seat 4: Stan Athan - 14900
Seat 5: Jeffery Meuangkhot - 2600
Seat 6: Juan Fregoso - 8900
Seat 7: Mike Sprando - 28000
Seat 9: Mike Leah - 13600

(Table 190)
Seat 1: Alex Donofrio - 27900
Seat 3: Patrick Connor - 58500
Seat 4: Jorge Gonzalez - 20700
Seat 5: Brett Parise - 32400
Seat 6: Lucas Priour - 27500
Seat 7: Magnus Persson - 32600
Seat 8: Regis Burlot - 57200
Seat 9: Christian Keller - 6900

(Table 191)
Seat 1: Zachary Clark - 24500
Seat 2: Eugene Tito - 18500
Seat 3: Christopher Tubbs - 5500
Seat 4: Amanda Baker - 55800
Seat 5: Steve Bannasch - 28600
Seat 6: Mike Baxter - 16800
Seat 8: Brent Vail - 100110
Seat 9: Marcello Delgrosso - 23400

(Table 192)
Seat 1: Luke Vrabel - 62700
Seat 2: Maarten Meijer - 25900
Seat 4: Kambiz Zamani - 69800
Seat 5: Meredith Shaid - 11600
Seat 6: Leo Labbe - 34500
Seat 7: Richard Rayos - 2200
Seat 8: Mary Jones - 74900
Seat 9: Veronica Dabul - 15100

(Table 193)
Seat 1: Robert McLaughlin - 49400
Seat 2: Tom Maser - 21900
Seat 3: Dennis Anderson - 33600
Seat 4: Jeff Harris - 36000
Seat 5: Brandon Cantu - 86600
Seat 7: Joe Bartholdi - 34400
Seat 8: John Repetti - 47900
Seat 9: Harry Pozetsky - 32300

(Table 194)
Seat 1: Vitor Coelho - 104700
Seat 2: Conrad Monica - 12400
Seat 3: Jody Howe - 23100
Seat 5: Thithi Tran - 23000
Seat 6: Kevin Crawford - 36800
Seat 7: Donald Nicholson - 70900
Seat 8: Claus Valloe - 47100
Seat 9: Richard Aronow - 41300

Day 2 Set

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We're in the Brasilia Room today for the Day 2 restart of Event #39, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. 2,715 runners started in the field yesterday. By the end of the day 88% of the field had been sent home empty-handed.

Today at 2pm local time the remaining 327 come back to try to play as far down to the final 9 as they can before the 3am "Rule 96" hard cap kicks into effect. Mohsin Charania is the current chip leader with 144,100, but as you all know -- anything can happen between here and the final table.

We expect to burst the money bubble (270 paid) before the first break. See you in thirty minutes!

Level: 11

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 100

Tough Table

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Without a doubt, the toughest starting draw in the room has to be Table 174. Seated in a row at that table are: Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri, Benjamin King, and Jan von Halle. It could be a long day for those gentlemen.

Over on 179, in the 1-seat, is an English former heavyweight boxer, Audley Harrison. "Do you still box?" one of the players asked when Harrison arrived to take his seat.

"Yeah, I still box," Harrison replied. "But now I'm all about poker -- fighting on the table."

Harrison is huge, as you would expect for a heavyweight boxer. He might even be taller than Kang, the tallest German in the room.

Double or Nothing for Calhoun

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First in from the hijack seat, Catherine Calhoun moved all in for her remaining 8,800 chips. The cutoff immediately folded, but Andrew Miller wasn't so quick about it on the button. He stared up Calhoun's chips, now stacked neatly in the middle of the table. He popped one of his earphones out, glanced at his own chips and made the call.

Showdown
Calhoun: {9-Spades} {9-Hearts}
Miller: {A-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds}

The flop was clean but dangerous for Calhoun, coming out {2-Diamonds} {5-Hearts} {7-Diamonds} to add a flush draw to Miller's two overcards. The turn was a blank {10-Hearts} though, and the {3-Hearts} that filled out the board meant a much needed double up for Calhoun. She's back to 20,300, her high point for the tournament.

Tags: Catherine Calhoun

Battaglia Bounced

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We went to check in on Matt Matros just in time to see him play a big pot. Matros opened for a raise from early position that was called by a player in late position before small blind Jeff Battaglia moved all in for about 16,000. That induced an all-in reraise from Matros, which was enough to drive the third player out of the pot. Cards on their backs, gentlemen!

Matros: {A-Hearts} {10-Spades}
Battaglia: {A-Clubs} {8-Clubs}

Battaglia cheered when he saw the dealer put out an {8-Spades} {10-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} flop, not realizing that Matros had also paired his kicker. He stood up as the turn and river came {4-Spades} and {5-Spades} to bounce him from the tournament.

"I didn't see your ten," Battaglia said by way of explanation to a puzzled Matros. He shook a few hands and left the Brasilia Room.

Matros now has 73,000.

Tags: Jeff BattagliaMatt Matros

Getting Lucky with the Worster Hand

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From early position, Jesse Correa opened with a raise to 3,500. Action passed around to Robert Worster in the small blind, and he moved all in for a total of 3,700. Michiel Brummelhuis called from the big blind, as did Correa, putting Worster's tournament life in danger.

The flop came {A-Diamonds} {K-Clubs} {7-Diamonds} with the two live players check-checking it. The turn card brought the {2-Clubs} and a bet of 2,000 from Brummelhuis. Correa got the message and ducked out.

Correa tabled {A-Hearts} {6-Hearts} for top pair, and Worster was reluctant to show down his hand. When he finally did, it revealed {J-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds}, looking for a diamond to stay afloat. The dealer obliged him, spiking the {8-Diamonds} down on fifth street and sending a timely triple up over to the short stack.

Worster has been the best dressed man in the room for two days, sporting a suit and tie for the duration of play. Now he can sit at least a bit more comfortably as he's increased his stack nearly fourfold. He's up to 13,800 now.

Tags: Jesse CorreaMichiel BrummelhuisRobert Worster

Good Start for Newhizzle, Bad Start for Hinkle

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It's competing fortunes for Mark Newhouse and Grant Hinkle. Newhouse, seated at Table 176, recently raised his button to 3,500 and was called by big blind Peter Mavro. Mavro check-called another 3,700 from Newhouse on a flop of {J-Spades} {10-Clubs} {2-Clubs}. When the turn paired deuces, {2-Hearts}, Mavro checked again and then folded to a bet of 10,500 from Newhouse.

A few tables over, Hinkle took down a small pot preflop, but it was the table talk that caught our attention. Hinkle started the day with 85,800 chips. Sitting with the button, he reraised Samuel Woo preflop from 3,000 to 8,000. Once action folded around, Woo asked for a count.

"After I lost the last two pots, about 55,000," said Hinkle. He won that pot, but even with 60,000, has last more than a quarter of his stack in the first thirty minutes.

Barbieri Surrenders

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Al Barbieri is on the tough table, Table 174, but that hasn't stopped him from trying to mix it up. Sitting in middle position, he opened a pot for 4,200. He was called by a big stack, Luis Sanchez, who was in the big blind. Both players checked the {6-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds} {9-Hearts} flop. When Sanchez led out for 7,000 on the {8-Diamonds} turn, Barbieri waved the white flag and pitched his cards into the muck.

Tags: Al BarbieriLuis Sanchez

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