World Series of Poker - Day Four Report
Well, so much for the pros being lost in the shuffle of this gigantic field. Of the nine players making this final table, four are well known players, and top professionals.
Allen Cunningham is the chip leader of Event # 2 of the WSOP as we go to the TV table, which will resume play at 2pm today. Other top pros who will be a factor in this final table include Scott Fischman, who comes in right on Cunningham's heels, only 21,000 chips behind. This final table should make for good TV if for one word only - Devilfish. Yes, Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott is going to be on ESPN, and teach us yanks a thing or two about cracking wise at a poker table while playing some pretty darn good poker. Devilfish comes in sixth in chips, and comes in with only about 15 big blinds in his stack, so he will have to make a move some time early in today's play. Also at this final table is Can Kim Hua, who has two WPT final tables under his belt, and currently ranked 33rd in the player of the year race.
The fact that this event was extended from a two day to a three day event wound up being a real help to these final table players. Play actually ended about 11pm last night, allowing the players to get some rest before playing for $725,000 and the highest honor in poker - a WSOP gold bracelet. This is in stark contrast to the Pot Limit Event, where play ended at about 3:15 am, and 36 players are going to have to come back at noon today to play the tourney out to its conclusion. Due to the Event # 2 field being so huge, the Pot Limit Hold Em event (Event # 3) was struck from the ESPN TV schedule, so it really doesn't matter when they start the final table, as long as they finish tonight.
A great story that fell just short of being on ESPN was Travis Green. Oh, Travis has already been on ESPN a bunch, because he plays hockey for the Boston Bruins (at least he did, before the lockout, or is it a strike?), and has been in the NHL for a number of years. Travis managed to wade his way through the field of 2,305 entrants...only to finish 12th, and miss the TV by three places. Something tells me this ESPN appearance would have been Travis' favorite one ever.
As with any tournament, there was a 'bubble boy', and today's bubble boy was Jerry Flynn. When Jerry moved in from the small blind with AJ of hearts, and was called by CK Hua with pocket queens, Jerry knew he needed help to be on TV. When a queen hit the board on the flop, and the board paired on the turn, Jerry knew it was not meant to be, and we were down to our TV nine.
The final table looks like this.
Allen Cunningham $728,000 in chips
Scott Fischman $707,000
Charlie Huff $500,000
Can Hua $440,000
An Tran $337,000
Dave Ulliott $270,000
Richard Boutwell $204,000
Liz Lieu $177,000
Rondy Edmonson $89,000
Play will start at 2pm with the blinds at 8,000/16,000, with a 2,000 ante. At 38,000 chips an orbit, some of these players will have to make some moves fairly quickly. Other money finishers are listed below, with known players bolded. See you at 2pm today.
10. Jeremy Flynn $34,990
11. Burton Boutin $34,990
12. Travis Green $34,990
13. Minh Ly $28,630
14. Andrew Kelsall $28,630
15. Robert Newton $28,630
16. Daniel Schmiech $22,265
17. Keith Clarke $22,265
18. Robert Amereno $22,265
19. Josiah Trager $15,905
20. Diego Cordovez $15,905
21. Eric Sarkissians $15,905
22. Daniel Tran $15,905
23. Charles Dawson $15,905
24. Phillip Hellmuth $15,905
25. Patrick Moore $15,905
26. Jeremy Brom $15,905
27. Kerry Small $15,905
28. Farzad Arastoozad $11,135
29. Daniel Moore $11,135
30. Rory Monahan $11,135
31. Jason Steinhorn $11,135
32. Kenneth Robbins $11,135
33. David Fried $11,135
34. Kevin Keller $11,135
35. Darren Woolard $11,135
36. Joseph Pelton $13,135
37. Tom Lee $9,225
38. James Plateroti $9,225
39. John Evans $9,225
40. Christopher Russo $9,225
41. Matthew Fletcher $9,225
42. David Ho $9,225
43. Joseph Goldstein $9,225
44. Michael Matusow $9,225
45. Rami Owera $9,225
46. Thomas Fougeron $7,475
47. Arnold Tolee $7,475
48. Terry Weimer $7,475
49. Jay Smith $7,475
50. Shreeniwas Kelkar $7,475
51. Aaron Donovan $7,475
52. Joshua Olson $7,475
53. Mark Seif $7,475
54. Steve Shkolnik $7,475
55. Michael Byers $6,360
56. Cyndy Violette $6,360
57. Kevin Kyblock $6,360
58. Daniel Benjamin $6,360
59. Marc Bradley Lome $6,360
60. Loi Phan $6,360
61. Sam Von Duhn $6,360
62. James Bechtel $6,360
63. Thomas Savitsky $6,360
64. Melvin Swancy $5,565
65. Ky Vu $5,565
66. David Tuchman $5,565
67. Ronnie Yambra $5,565
68. Jeffrie Rine $5,565
69. Gavin Writer $5,565
70. Allie Prescott $5,565
71. Andrew Reanrungroch $5,565
72. Emad Alabdi $5,565
73. Jeff Calkins $4,770
74. Marcello De Grosso $4,770
75. Vincent Devita $4,770
76. James Lester $4,770
77. Boris Shats $4,770
78. Charles Ruggerloi $4,770
79. Mark Scott $4,770
80. Brandon Wong $4,770
81. Kenneth Taylor $4,770
82. Saso Perduloski $3,975
83. Carlton Jerome $3,975
84. David Levi $3,975
85. Jason Rich $3,975
86. Greg Raymer $3,975
87. Jeff Gibralter $3,975
88. Daniel Vogel $3,975
89. Gregg Smallowitz $3,975
90. Mark Chapic $3,975
91. Mark Kozin $3,500
92. Eric Taylor $3,500
93. James Pursifull $3,500
94. Jeremy Stein $3,500
95. Steve Kim $3,500
96. Cecilia Reyes $3,500
97. Kevin Bott $3,500
98. Unknown $3,500
99. Roberto Gordon $3,500
100. Ralph Schwartz $3,500
101. Kenneth Goldstein $3,180
102. Ben Davenport $3,180
103. Ben Foster $3,180
104. Zackary Hon $3,180
105. Daniel Smith $3,180
106. Paul Westly $3,180
107. Steven Greenberg $3,180
108. David Dandeshgar $3,180
109. Timothy Miles $3,180
110. Christopher Sapirman $3,180
111. Lanzi Nicholas $2,865
112. Michael Ortiz $2,865
113. Chad Logsdon $2,865
114. Senthil Kumar $2,865
115. Jon Moonres $2,865
116. Jan Hoitmann $2,865
117. Brian Hebert $2,865
118. Robert Blechmen $2,865
119. Bradley Anderson $2,865
120. Frederick Wolf $2,865
121. Jonathen Shelton $2,865
122. Keith Love $2,865
123. Max Scharf $2,865
124. Glyn Banks $2,865
125. Michael Waterstradt $2,865
126. Amos Sharpe $2,865
127. Kevin Tucci $2,865
128. Gary Walters $2,865
129. Evelin Ng $2,865
130. Keith Rittenhouse $2,865
131. Susau Austin $2,865
132. Gary Ringhofer $2,865
133. Richard Sharpe $2,865
134. Adolfo Crespo $2,865
135. Jeffrey Stoff $2,865
136. Russel Krueger $2,865
137. Anthony Licastro $2,865
138. John Hurst $2,865
139. Casey Bogus $2,865
140. Ken Goldin $2,865
141. Jordan Devenport $2,545
142. Mark Ristine $2,545
143. Donald Sjulstad $2,545
144. Gennady Leviten $2,545
145. David Peat $2,545
146. Janes Pechac $2,545
147. Benjamin Owens $2,545
148. Thomas Dull $2,545
149. George Bronstein $2,545
150. Avi Mukherjee $2,545
151. Greg Lasica $2,545
152. Kevin Fox $2,545
153. Michael Stapleton $2,545
154. Victor Amereno $2,545
155. Brian Lesser $2,545
156. Unknown $2,545
157. Dumitru Gazetovici $2,545
158. Angel Juarez $2,545
159. Emad Rayyan $2,545
160. Unknown $2,545
161. Johan Storakers $2,545
162. James Bakvnowicz $2,545
163. Seth Angel $2,545
164. Thomas Rawlins $2,545
165. Thomas Slater $2,545
166. Jesse Danial $2,545
167. Gary Yates $2,545
168. Michael Rosario $2,545
169. Larry Etherington $2,545
170. Thomas Christensen $2,545
171. Amawattie Mahabir $2,225
172. Brian Schwanz $2,225
173. Matthew Glantz $2,225
174. Marco Traniello $2,225
175. Adam Green $2,225
176. Robert Landaver $2,225
177. Unknown $2,225
178. Canio Sabia $2,225
179. John Morris $2,225
180. Jeffrey Shulman $2,225
181. Allen Hausman $2,225
182. George Nichols $2,225
183. Blake Toungate $2,225
184. Bob Buyce $2,225
185. Chris Mccormack $2,225
186. Seth Lindsley $2,225
187. David Anderson $2,225
188. Terry Fleischer $2,225
189. Denny Crum $2,225
190. Jerry Bernetzke $2,225
191. Walter Joslin $2,225
192. Olivia Mandell $2,225
193. Ann Escobedo $2,225
194. Bart Rothwell $2,225
195. Eric Mizrachi $2,225
196. Brian Owens $2,225
197. Rubin White $2,225
198. Robert Sanders $2,225
199. Russell Laverdiere $2,225
200. Marco Patacios $2,225
Ed Note: There is still plenty of time to live the dream. Full Tilt are doing a 30 WSOP seat guaranteed tournament on June 19th...Plenty of time to get in.
