Event 9 - $1,500 Six-handed No Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-04-2009 13:09 UTC-12

Adios Awada

[user75032]

Joe Awada's tournament is over. He moved all in for 38,000 over the top of an open-raise to 6,100 by Allan Brown. Brown snap-called with {A-Hearts}

; Awada had to grimace as he turned over {10-Diamonds}

. There was no help for him anywhere on a board of {2-Diamonds}

. Awada's out; Brown is up to 120,000.

Tags: Allan Brown Joe Awada

06-04-2009 13:22 UTC-12

A disastrous hour for Jeremiah Smith has ended with his elimination. He opened from under the gun for 6,200. Action folded to Jason Melnick on the button, who re-raised to 21,600. Smith shipped in his whole stack with {6-Diamonds}

and was snap-called by Melnick's {K-Hearts}

. No help for either player on the board; a disgusted Smith left the tournament area without even receiving his payout slip.

Tags: Jason Melnick Jeremiah Smith

06-04-2009 13:26 UTC-12

One Hour Dinner Break

MarcC

42 players will return in one hour where we will play down to a final table of six.

06-04-2009 14:25 UTC-12

We're Playing Poker

[user75032]

Dinner's over. Back to business. 42 left of the original 105. We need to eliminate 36 more players before the day is done.

Level: 15

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 400

06-04-2009 14:35 UTC-12

Mike Batell Eliminated

[user75032]

David Baker is running good! He was in the small blind and called the shove of Mike Batell for 38,900. Batell showed down {Q-Clubs}

against Baker's {J-Diamonds}

, but Baker spiked the {J-Clubs}

on the river to make a set of jacks and win the hand. He's now up to 330,000 while Batell can retire to the rail and tell his bad-beat story.

Tags: David Baker Mike Batell

06-04-2009 14:39 UTC-12

Too Young To Continue

MarcC

The turn had been dealt giving us a {5-Diamonds}

board. Justin Young and Allan Brown were the two players involved and Brown only had a few thousand chips separating them. A series of bets and raises had them both all in.

Brown tabled {A-Hearts}

to Young's {K-Diamonds}

. The river fell {7-Clubs}

to eliminate Young and double Brown up to 220,000.

06-04-2009 14:57 UTC-12

Steady and Slow

[user75032]

Looks like full bellies have contributed to a slowdown in play. We haven't broken a table yet after dinner despite playing for more than thirty minutes.

Now, as a general rule, eliminations should continue at a steady pace from here to the final table (although collapsing tables causes fewer eliminations per level the closer we get to the final table). But sometimes they get "stuck" -- like shifting tectonic plates under the ground get stuck, eventually resulting in an earthquake. It looks like we're in a "stuck" period right now. We'll see what it takes to shake some of these players loose.

06-04-2009 15:07 UTC-12

Fuller Can't Fill

[user75032]

Thomas Fuller needed to fill a straight. He was all in on a board of {10-Hearts}

and called by Joe Parille, who turned over {J-Spades}

for two pair. Fuller was drawing at a straight, {J-Hearts}

, and missed two times: on the turn ( {5-Clubs}

) and on the river ( {A-Hearts}

). As a result he's out of the tournament and Parille is up to 128,000.

Tags: Joe Parille Thomas Fuller

06-04-2009 15:11 UTC-12

Frenchman's Timing Off

MarcC

Rob Brown raised from the cut off before Ludovic Lacay shoved from the button for a little bit less than 60,000. Nice to get yourself back in it generally. That is unless you have {10-Spades}

in your hand and your opponent is sitting there with {Q-Hearts}

.

Ludovic had to got through the torture of watching the board come {A-Spades}

before he left to collect his winnings.