2008 WSOP Circuit Event - Harrah's New Orleans

Bayou Poker Challenge Main Event
Day: 2
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Event Info

2008 WSOP Circuit Event - Harrah's New Orleans

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
j♣7♣
Prize
$382,928
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$1,196,650
Entries
249
Level Info
Level
17
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
3,000

Day 2 Seat Assignments

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[user38449]
** Note ** Gaps in the following seating chart are most likely a direct result of players not filling out their bag tags properly or illegibly (per Harrah's). The players whose table and seat numbers we are unsure of are listed in chip count order (biggest to smallest) at the bottom of this post.

(Table 9)
Seat 3: David Babin - 35700
Seat 4: Suju Abraham - 45600
Seat 6: Fatolla Shahen - 30400
Seat 7: Charles Wright - 22200
Seat 9: Lee Wilson - 42300

(Table 10)
Seat 1: Beverly Cheney - 41000
Seat 2: Gabe Costner - 38900
Seat 3: Anita Vasquez - 54500
Seat 4: Timothy Miles - 78400
Seat 5: Marc Fratter - 75400
Seat 6: Jon Nathan - 37800
Seat 7: Rob Quin - 48000
Seat 8: David Fox - 102100

(Table 11)
Seat 2: Brian Cospolich - 15600
Seat 3: Jonathan Little - 27300
Seat 4: Matt Sterling - 11100
Seat 5: Clint Schafer - 27300
Seat 6: Derek Feldman - 14000
Seat 7: Floyd Vanderford - 25700
Seat 8: Robert Jones - 12700
Seat 9: Cory Albertson - 28000

(Table 12)
Seat 1: Joseph Brooks - 20500
Seat 2: Matt Brady - 6300
Seat 4: Lou Esposito - 102100
Seat 5: Rick Drury - 24900
Seat 6: Kyle Molik - 40000
Seat 7: Joe Cutler - 25500
Seat 8: Soren Eriksen - 26200
Seat 9: Michael Cohen - 49100

(Table 13)
Seat 1: Jim Pritchard - 19000
Seat 2: Drew Hart - 47700
Seat 4: Tim Vance - 16200
Seat 7: Purvis Blake - 80600
Seat 8: Ed Corrado - 22600
Seat 9: Devin Jarreau - 57000

(Table 14)
Seat 1: Ryan Lenaghan - 42500
Seat 2: Allen Kessler - 23300
Seat 4: Ed Jatho - 81600
Seat 5: Collier Merrill - 4300
Seat 6: James Henson - 28300
Seat 7: Matt Stout - 63900
Seat 8: Senovio Ramirez - 88900
Seat 9: Jeff Tims - 55300

(Table 15)
Seat 5: Jason Brice - 24500
Seat 6: Gary Friedlander - 59900
Seat 9: Edward Sabat - 21100

(Table 16)
Seat 1: Chuck Kelley - 80200
Seat 2: Jeff Coutroulis - 34600
Seat 3: Jack Schanbacher - 34800
Seat 7: Boris Kravets - 10300
Seat 8: Doug Carli - 10000
Seat 9: Daryll Fish - 46800

Chris Marsh - 55000
Mike Browne - 96000
Gil Morgenstern - 34300
Philip Sparta - 31300
Dana Diephouse - 27100
Glenn Hyde - 25300
Tom Sartori - 21500
John Ryan - 20100
Ali Akram - 18500
Eli Lizka - 17300
Ben Gordon - 16600
Nick Ceci - 15300
Herbie Montalbano - 13200
Michael Andrews - 12400
Jimmy Tran - 10200
Paul Prudhomme - 9600

2008 Bayou Poker Challenge - Day 2

[user38449]
[user38449]
Welcome back to Harrah's New Orleans for Day 2 of the 2008 Bayou Poker Challenge. Play concluded last night with 69 players remaining in the tournament who will return to the felt at noon CT to begin the race to the final table.

Lou Esposito and David Fox are tied for the chip lead heading into Day 2, each with 102,100 in chips. Notable names still remaining are Jonathan Little, Jimmy Tran, and Doug 'Rico' Carli.

Tune in to PokerNews.com at 12:00 p.m. local time for our continued coverage of the Harrah's New Orleans championship event, live from the 'Big Easy.'

Level: 8

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 200

Early Knockouts

[user66118]
[user66118]
On the first pot of the day, Michael Cohen raises to 3,000, and short-stacked Matt Brady pushes his last 6,100 chips in, showing the {Q-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}. Cohen has the {A-Spades}{5-Spades}, and on a board of {2-Hearts}{J-Clubs}{2-Clubs}{4-Spades}{J-Spades}, Brady is eliminated early.

On the adjacent table, also on the first hand, Jonathan Little and Robert Jones get it in before the flop, and Little's pocket nines hold up to send Jones packing.

Tags: Jonathan LittleMichael Cohen

Prudhomme Eliminated

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donpeters
Jason Brice raises to 7,000 from early position. Dana Diephouse calls from middle position and then Paul Prudhomme moves all in on the short stack from the big blind. Three players see the flop and one is all in.

The flop goes check, check between Brice and Diephouse on a {3-Diamonds}{8-Spades}{10-Spades} board. The turn brings the {5-Diamonds} and Brice moves all in. Diephouse folds.

Brice shows 6-6 and Prudhomme shows {A-Diamonds}{6-Hearts}. The river is the {K-Spades} and Prudhomme is eliminated.

Tags: Paul Prudhomme

Carli Folds

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donpeters
Doug 'Rico' Carli
Doug 'Rico' Carli
Doug 'Rico' Carli moves all in after a bet from John Ryan. Carli shows the Q-J and Ryan shows K-10. The board is K-A-A-2-3 and Carli is eliminated.

Carli had been attempting to post a record 35th cash on the WSOP circuit; he holds the current record of 34.

Tags: Dou gCarli

Espo Going the Wrong Way

[user66118]
[user66118]
Co-leader Lou Esposito has started the day in his aggressive mode, and his chipstack has been suffering as a result. Two pots in a row, he came in raising to 3,100 and folded to a big re-raise each time.

In the latest pot, he again came in for 3,100, but this time the big blind, Soren Eriksen, flat called, and the two players saw a flop of {K-Spades}{10-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}. Eriksen checked, and Esposito fired a continuation bet of 4,600.

Eriksen grabbed hold of his whole stack, and slid it forward, check-raising to 21,900 and all in. Esposito went into the tank for almost five minutes, before finally relinquishing his hand, and sending more than 7,000 chips to the other end of the table.

Tags: Lou Esposito

Little Catches a Card

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[user66118]
Jonathan Little, on the button, and Clint Shafer, in the big blind, get all their chips in preflop. Little flips over {6-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}. Shafer is covered, but has the best hand with {8-Diamonds}{8-Hearts}.

However, his lead in the hand doesn't last long. The flop comes {6-Hearts}{A-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}, giving Little a set, and putting Shafer on the brink of elimination. The {3-Hearts} and {4-Diamonds} that follow don't allow Shafer to catch back up, and he is eliminated.

Little increases his chip count to around 62,000.

Tags: Jonathan Little

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