Event 8 - $2,500 No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-02-2009 13:34 UTC-12

Welcome Daniel and Michael

donpeters

Daniel Negreanu just took a seat at Gavin Smith's table. Michael Binger entered as well and is seated at another table.

There are 136 entrants in this event so far.

06-02-2009 13:28 UTC-12

Here are some of the bigger stacks in the room as of right now. In parenthesis are the 2,500 add-ons that the player has left.

Gavin Smith (2) - 11,500
Layne Flack (2) - 9,200
Jean-Robert Bellande (0) - 8,500
Greg Raymer (0) - 8,200
Jon "PearlJammed" Turner (0) - 8,000
David "Chino" Rheem (0) - 7,000
Dario Minieri (0) - 5,500
Tom Schneider (2) - 5,000
Barry Greenstein (2) - 4,500
Chau Giang (2) - 4,500

Victor Ramdin is also playing today.

Tags: Jean-Robert Bellande

Level: 2

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 25

06-02-2009 13:13 UTC-12

The Champ is Here

donpeters

The champion from last year's version of this event, John "The Razor" Phan has taken his seat.

06-02-2009 13:07 UTC-12

No Rebuys?

donpeters

Even though there are no rebuys slated on the schedule this year, the players are playing this tournament like it is a rebuy -- with limitations of course. Many players in the field today have opted to use one bullet at a time instead of using two or three of them at once.

06-02-2009 12:59 UTC-12

Mortensen and Wattel Here

donpeters

Juan Carlos Mortensen just took a seat at Mike "The Mouth" Matusow's table. Matusow seems extremely happy to see Mortensen at his table.

Mike Wattel is here as well.

Tags: Mike Matusow

06-02-2009 12:55 UTC-12

More Players

donpeters

Nam Le and David Sklansky just walked in. Jim Geary final tabled the Event #3, $1,500 Omaha 8-or-Better, and is here as well.

Erik Seidel and Jennier Harman's husband, Marco Traniello, are also taking their seats.

06-02-2009 12:53 UTC-12

Enter Minieri

donpeters

Dario Minieri just sat down over at David "Chino" Rheem's table. Upon sitting down, Minieri greeted everyone and then explained that he's never played this game before.

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow is debating giving Rheem and Minieri a last-longer bet. "You'd need 100-to-1 to last longer than me and Dario would need 150-to-1." Matusow joked with Rheem. "I can't do that though, I don't want to make you play better. It'd be unfair to the rest of your table," he continued.

Tags: "Chino""The Mouth"Chino Rheem Dario Minieri David Rheem Mike Matusow

06-02-2009 12:47 UTC-12

More Faces and Tough Tables

donpeters

Roy Winston joined the action on table $234 with Huck Seed, Daniel Alaei, and Nikolay Evdakov. Freddy Deeb, Barry Greenstein, David "Chino" Rheem, David Singer, and Scotty Nguyen are also seated in the field. Nguyen and Flack joined Mike Caro's table.

On the other side of the room away from where we're set up is a tough table containing Kelly Kim, Ralph Perry, Chau Giang, Alessio Isaia, and Jose Luis Velador.

06-02-2009 12:29 UTC-12

Tough Tables in Action

donpeters

A few tables around the room have three or four top players seated at them.

(Table 231)
Jimmy Fricke
Erick Lindgren
Greg Raymer

(Table 234)
Nikolay Evdakov
Huck Seed
Daniel Alaei

(Table 241)
Dick Carson
Mickey Appleman
Alessio Isaia
Berry Johnston

The number of entrants has climbed to 118 now.