$5,000 Circuit Championship Event
Day 1 Completed
2008 WSOP Circuit Event - Caesars Las Vegas
$5,000 Circuit Championship Event
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 WSOP Circuit Event - Caesars Las Vegas
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$1,670,000
Entries
334
Level
18
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
4,000
List of Day 1 Survivors w/ Day 2 Table Draw and Chip Counts
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(Table 34)
Seat 1: Danny Wong - 76500
Seat 2: Scott Eskenazi - 18500
Seat 3: John Alm - 27500
Seat 4: Bill Edler - 37000
Seat 5: Matt Giannetti - 82600
Seat 6: Clint Roberts - 66700
Seat 7: Steve Wong - 64000
Seat 8: Max Reele - 263200
Seat 9: Vladimir Gorsky - 29400
(Table 35)
Seat 1: Alan Smurfit - 17000
Seat 2: Peter Feldman - 74700
Seat 3: Tony Cousineau - 42800
Seat 4: Patrick Walsh - 51400
Seat 5: Theo Tran - 21000
Seat 6: Than Nguyen - 34400
Seat 7: Doug Lee - 123000
Seat 8: Allen Cunningham - 29500
Seat 9: Thomas Hover - 71400
(Table 44)
Seat 1: Sabyl Suzan Cohen - 61700
Seat 2: J.C. Alvarado - 38400
Seat 3: Kelly Samson - 31000
Seat 4: Scott Zakheim - 39700
Seat 5: Elie Said - 158400
Seat 6: Frank Schinco - 20800
Seat 7: Ralph Perry - 105800
Seat 8: David Levi - 54700
Seat 9: Motoyuki Mabuchi - 157800
(Table 45)
Seat 1: Blair J. Hinkle - 42600
Seat 2: Tommy Vedes - 55800
Seat 3: Seong Bag - 28300
Seat 4: Larry Chinchic - 35600
Seat 5: Nenad Medic - 122200
Seat 6: Alan Engel - 114000
Seat 7: Michael Esposito - 92600
Seat 8: Nikolay Evdakov - 12100
Seat 9: Giovanni Marcacci - 223600
(Table 54)
Seat 1: Lee Rubin - 27200
Seat 2: Alex Kravchenko - 16400
Seat 3: Jason Risenberg - 90200
Seat 4: Ben Fineman - 55000
Seat 5: Mark Newhouse - 120400
Seat 6: John Theisen - 103700
Seat 7: David Redlin - 13200
Seat 8: Jimmy Ngoc Tran - 59700
Seat 9: Brian Wolfe - 77500
(Table 55)
Seat 1: James George McBeth - 52300
Seat 2: Doug MacKinnon - 32400
Seat 3: Adam Geyer - 92500
Seat 4: Bobby Law - 28900
Seat 5: Viver Rajkumar - 29800
Seat 6: Kelly Kim - 27400
Seat 7: Justin Bonomo - 90800
Seat 8: Derek Harrington - 49300
Seat 9: Jon Eaton - 46800
Day 1 is a Wrap
Max Reele finished the day atop the leaderboard with a whopping 263,000 in chips after winning a monstrous hand late in the day. According to Max, he earned the bulk of his chips in a hand against an unknown opponent in which he was dealt a pocket pair of kings and called his opponent's all-in semi-bluff on a Q-10-x flop; his opponent tabled J-9 at the showdown for an open-ended straight draw. Max was able to dodge his opponent's eight outs twice and took down the pot, which catapulted him past the quarter-million mark for the day.
Several big names hit the rail early on Day 1 including Gavin Smith, Jared Hamby, last year's winner Cory Carroll, and Scotty Nguyen. Some of the notables who survived the day were Ari "BodogAri" Engel, Mark Newhouse, Nenad Medic, Bill Edler, Allen Cunningham and T6 Poker's Alex Kravchenko.
We'll post tomorrow's table draw with a complete list of Day 2 players and their respective chip counts as soon as it's made available to us.
Tune in tomorrow afternoon at 12:00 p.m. PT for our continued coverage of the 2008 WSOP Circuit Event live from the Caesars Palace Poker Room in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada.
Until then, good night and good luck!
Levi Gets Healthy Again
looked to be dominated by his opponent's ace-king. The flop of 
was promising for Levi, and the turn of 
kept him in the lead. The 
on the river made no difference, as Levi returned to around the average chip stack with 54,000.
Ted Lawson Eliminated
Scoreboard Update
Theo Tran - 42,000
Alex Kravchenko - 20,500
Peter Feldman - 25,200
Erick Lindgren Busts
. The chip leader at the table was first to act and led for 6,500. Lindgren thought for a moment and said, "Loose call." The other players in the hand quickly folded. The turn brought the
and the big stack checked to Lindgren, who bet 12,000. After studying him for a few seconds, Lindgren's opponent check-raised all in. "S**t! That was such a good card for me!" said Lindgren before he reluctantly called his last 16,000. The big stack turned over the nuts with a 
, leaving Lindgren drawing to a split pot. The river was a blank, and Lindgren is out in 68th place.
72 Players Remaining
Jesus Bumped by Cunningham
, as Cunningham revealed a pair of pocket tens. The board evolved with little promise as the dealer spread a flop of 
. The 
on the turn was no help, and left Jesus needing a miracle on the river. Unfortunately it never came as the 
sealed the deal for Ferguson.
Game Over for "Super Dario"
After the hand, Doug stacked up just over 160,000 in chips which puts him at the top of the leaderboard.