Main Event
Day 2 Started
2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit - Caesars Palace Las Vegas
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit - Caesars Palace Las Vegas
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
496
Level
28
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000
Day 2 Table and Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 1 | Gary "Randy" Dishongh | 52300 |
| 31 | 2 | Jeff Sluzinski | 65300 |
| 31 | 3 | Michael Chow | 80600 |
| 31 | 4 | Harold Wasson | 50400 |
| 31 | 6 | Clifford Waite | 135400 |
| 31 | 7 | William Gaffne | 70200 |
| 31 | 8 | Jimmy Fricke | 78500 |
| 31 | 9 | Rich Nunzio | 75000 |
| 32 | 1 | Matthew A. Leecy | 163400 |
| 32 | 2 | Getty Mattingsley | 143700 |
| 32 | 3 | Cary Katz | 25700 |
| 32 | 4 | Tony Hartman | 106800 |
| 32 | 5 | Erica Schoenberg | 133000 |
| 32 | 6 | Dave Stann | 181600 |
| 32 | 7 | Lenny Nguyen | 38500 |
| 32 | 8 | Jimmy Nickens | 100900 |
| 32 | 9 | Bo Pathammavone | 55800 |
| 33 | 2 | Anthony Lazar | 154300 |
| 33 | 3 | Ray Ru | 170000 |
| 33 | 4 | David Williams | 148000 |
| 33 | 5 | Paul Lieu | 70300 |
| 33 | 6 | Evan Lamprea | 102700 |
| 33 | 7 | Brian Park | 87600 |
| 33 | 8 | George Shapatura | 66200 |
| 34 | 1 | Josh Prager | 61300 |
| 34 | 2 | John Kim | 77800 |
| 34 | 3 | Mary Jones | 304500 |
| 34 | 4 | Clint Powell | 78600 |
| 34 | 5 | Andy Robbins | 133300 |
| 34 | 6 | Kenneth James | 49000 |
| 34 | 7 | Scott Esptein | 219500 |
| 34 | 9 | Andrew Watson | 235000 |
| 41 | 1 | James L. Fike | 99500 |
| 41 | 2 | Jeffrey O'Brien | 41300 |
| 41 | 3 | Chad Winters | 69400 |
| 41 | 4 | Horatio Hu | 22800 |
| 41 | 5 | Vasilis Lazarou | 160900 |
| 41 | 6 | Derrick Kuenzel | 164200 |
| 41 | 7 | Luke Brown | 70900 |
| 41 | 8 | Takayuki Eidome | 41900 |
| 41 | 9 | Steve Heeley | 94100 |
| 42 | 1 | David Levi | 76100 |
| 42 | 2 | Denny Robsinson | 118500 |
| 42 | 3 | Duy Tran | 218000 |
| 42 | 4 | John Kulish | 181400 |
| 42 | 5 | Lance Oliver | 81200 |
| 42 | 6 | Steve Billirakis | 157600 |
| 42 | 7 | James Martini | 43700 |
| 42 | 8 | Michael Sortino | 202900 |
| 42 | 9 | Jesse Mills | 64100 |
| 43 | 1 | Anthony Winters | 20000 |
| 43 | 2 | James Riggs | 32200 |
| 43 | 3 | Peter Paturzo | 125800 |
| 43 | 4 | Kwinsee K. Tran | 20200 |
| 43 | 5 | Jon Seaman | 156100 |
| 43 | 6 | Adam Hui | 306500 |
| 43 | 7 | Barry Hamilton | 150900 |
| 43 | 8 | Scott Hamilton | 222500 |
| 43 | 9 | Kevin Calenzo | 56500 |
| 51 | 1 | Benny Chen | 50900 |
| 51 | 2 | Mark Jeans | 170700 |
| 51 | 3 | Amanda Baker | 186300 |
| 51 | 4 | Luther Lewis | 298400 |
| 51 | 5 | Jeremy Heartberg | 180700 |
| 51 | 6 | Chad Brown | 98700 |
| 51 | 7 | Stepan Dzhigarkhanyan | 151800 |
| 51 | 8 | Marv Glusac | 92100 |
| 51 | 9 | Alex Santiago | 210600 |
| 52 | 1 | Drazen Ilich | 86000 |
| 52 | 2 | David Pham | 93900 |
| 52 | 3 | Chris Johnson | 155000 |
| 52 | 4 | JJ Liu | 113000 |
| 52 | 5 | Jeff Siler | 114300 |
| 52 | 6 | Cody Slaubaugh | 401900 |
| 52 | 7 | Jason Eakes | 27100 |
| 52 | 8 | Andrew Jeffrey | 67200 |
| 52 | 9 | Scott Wood | 126300 |
| 53 | 2 | Brian England | 303600 |
| 53 | 3 | Ann Mong | 44800 |
| 53 | 4 | Stan Quinn | 111900 |
| 53 | 5 | David Byer | 103700 |
| 53 | 6 | Jeff Bond | 59000 |
| 53 | 8 | Shawn Green | 73200 |
| 53 | 9 | Asheesh Boyapati | 109400 |
On to Day 2!
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Yesterday the WSOP-C Las Vegas Main Event had its best turnout in the six-year history of the event, with 496 players taking a seat at the tables to play for the title. By the end of the day, Las Vegas local Cody Slaubaugh had amassed the biggest stack, increasing his original count 20 times over by bagging up 401,900 chips, good for a lead of almost 100,000 over Adam Hui, Mary Jones and Brian England, his next closest competitors.
Today the tournament starts to stretch out by increasing the levels from 40 minutes to 60 minutes. With blinds starting at 15k / 30k and an average stack of roughly 120k, the tournament is at that magic "rubber band" average stack size of 40 big blinds that it will maintain all the way through the final table.
The plan for the 84 players who return for Day 2 is to play 10 levels or to the final table of nine, whichever comes first. With 54 places being paid, more than half of the room will go home happy today (or at least, not as disappointed as they might otherwise have been).
Play starts at noon local time, in about 15 minutes.
Level: 17
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
Shuffle Up and Deal!
Level 17
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
The cards are in the air for Day 2 of the Main Event.
Hui Picks Up Where He Left Off
Level 17
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
Adam Hui's Day 2 started about the way his Day 1 ended. Hui opened pre-flop with a standard raise, then called the all in of short stack Kevin Calenzo. Calenzo was dismayed to see that his pocket 7s were up against Hui's pocket 8s. The board blanked out to send Calenzo off to the rail and Hui up to about 350,000.
Billirakis Cut in Half
Level 17
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
A battle of the blinds turned out poorly for Steve Billirakis. He started the day with more than 150,000 but has been cut in half after Lance Oliver limped the small blind, then jammed over Billirakis' big-blind raise. Billirakis leaned forward to glance at Oliver's stack, then called the all in with 
. Oliver showed 
, which stayed best all the way on a board of 
.
Oliver is up to about 145,000, while Billirakis has been cut in half to about 75,000.
Whither Chad Brown?
Level 17
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
Of the 84 players who returned for Day 2 of this event, all have turned up to play their stacks -- except one. Local poker pro Chad Brown's seat is mysteriously empty 20 minutes into the day. His last tweet from yesterday stated, "made day 2 of the wsop circuit at caesars palace. i am about avg in chips. we had 496 players and are now down to about 90. back at noon", so clearly Brown was aware of the starting time. We'll update with more details as they're available but for now Brown's stack sits in a jumbled pile in front of his empty chair with the chip bag draped over top.
Schoenberg Puts Nickens to the Test
Level 17
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
Over on Table 32, Erica Schoenberg and Jimmy Nickens checked through to the turn on a 
board. Schoenberg, the big blind, took a stab with a bet of 10,000. Nickens raised that bet to 25,000, only to see Schoenberg re-raise all in over the top. Nickens pursed his lips, counted down his stack a few times, and then mucked his hand.
"I played with you in the Bahamas and you were so tight," said Lenny Nguyen to Schoenberg after the hand. "Today you're so aggressive!"
"She had bad hands in the Bahamas," deadpanned Dave Stann.
Nguyen provided his own comedic relief ten minutes ago when an alarm started going off in his backpack. He didn't realize it until the whole table started staring at him and Stann said, "Really?" Nguyen then pulled an iPad out of his backpack but for more than a minute couldn't figure out how to shut the alarm off.
Suffice it to say he's awake now.
Chad Brown Arrives
Level 17
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
The field is now complete. Chad Brown strode into the tournament room a few moments ago and took his seat at Table 51, just in time to catch the next hand being dealt at his table.