2009 World Series of Poker

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

1-2-3 Break!

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[user75032]
We're still spread across three rooms, which is making it very difficult to track players. There's a breaking order priority here at the WSOP, which goes something like this:

1. Break tables out of Amazon Red (cash games!)
2. Break tables out of the back of Amazon Orange (2pm restart)
3. Break tables out of the back of Miranda (daily tournaments)
4. Break tables out of the back of Brasilia Yellow (5pm bracelet event)
5. Break tables out of the front of Brasilia Yellow (single-table satellites)
6. Break tables out of Miranda
7. Break tables out of Brasilia
8. We're all in Amazon.

That means a player can be bounced anywhere among the three rooms for the better part of the first six levels as tables are balanced and broken. Players we did spot on our last pass included Alexandre Gomes, rocking a roughly average stack at 14,500, and Eddy Sabat, who's sitting on 12,000 and appears to be heating up.

Al Barbieri's been at the same table all day and absolutely crushing his opponents. He is close to 60,000 chips -- which is the biggest stack we've seen.