Event 11 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout Day 2 | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-07-2008 06:01 UTC-7

Shootout Round 2 on Saturday

[user33020]

John Juanda is one of the 36 players already in the money in Event #11

36 players have survived into Round 2 of Event #11, the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout. The 36 survivors will be placed at six tables of six players each, with the seating assignments as follows:

TABLE 1
Seat # Player:
1 Evan McNiff
2 John Murphy
3 Eugene Katchalov
4 Thomas Roupe
5 Joe Sebok
6 William Palmer

TABLE 2
Seat # Player:
1 Mats Gavatin
2 Pier Ruscalla
3 Christopher Howard
4 Leo Wolpert
5 Maciek Gracz
6 Jacobo Fernandez

TABLE 3
Seat # Player:
1 Isaac Haxton
2 Greg Mueller
3 Burt Boutin
4 Adam Levy
5 Paul Roper
6 Ryan Thurlow

TABLE 4
Seat # Player:
1 Tony G
2 Robert Firestone
3 Sirous Jamshidi
4 Elton Beebe
5 Alex Jacob
6 John Monnette

TABLE 5
Seat # Player:
1 John Juanda
2 Eric Froehlich
3 Andrey Zaichenko
4 Gabriel Costner
5 Timothy West
6 Erik Seidel

TABLE 6
Seat # Player:
1 Biechel Remy
2 Gregg Turk
3 William Blanda
4 Phil Tom
5 Richard Kirsch
6 Ariel Schneller

Each player starts the day with 100,000 in chips. The winner of each six-player table moves on to Sunday's final, where the $477,990 first-place money awaits the ultimate winner. Each of the players eliminated in Saturday's action -- 30 of the 36, in all -- will receive a consolation $16,920 payday. Check in at 2pm as what is sure to be a power-packed shootout final comes together.

Tags: John Juanda

06-07-2008 13:52 UTC-7

T-minus Ten

Shamus

They've made the announcement directing the 36 remaining players to their tables. We should be underway just about ten minutes from now.

Level: 1

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300

06-07-2008 14:05 UTC-7

Shuffle Up and Deal

Shamus

The first hands are being dealt at our six tables.

06-07-2008 14:08 UTC-7

100,000 to Start

Shamus

Today players are each starting with 100,000 chips (i.e., all the chips they accumulated yesterday). The blinds are 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante.

06-07-2008 14:10 UTC-7

Jamshidi Takes Small Pot

Shamus

An early hand from Table #3:

Tony G raised to 5,000 from the button, and Sirous Jamshidi called from the big blind. The flop came {6-Clubs}

. Jamshidi checked, Tony G bet 7,000, and Jamshidi called. The turn was the {9-Spades}

, and both players checked.

The river brought the {3-Spades}

. Jamshidi bet 12,000, and Tony G folded.

06-07-2008 14:12 UTC-7

Notable Players

[user38368]

There are several interesting tables that are now facing off at these short-handed tables. This is where skill at 6-max play really comes in handy.

Table 1 has Eugene Katchalov, who won the WPT Five Diamond last December for a cool 2.5 million. John Murphy made the top 2 tables at the 2004 WSOP. Joe Sebok of PokerRoad has made several high WPT finishes and is seeking that elusive first WSOP bracelet.

Table 2 has Maciek Gracz, also known as Michael, who has a bracelet in the 2005 $1,000 No Limit Rebuy event. He also took 11th at the WPT World Championship. Jacobo Fernandez took second in the Pot-Limit Hold'em event just five days ago.

Table 3 has Isaac Haxton, who took second in the 2007 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for $860,000. Greg "FBT" Mueller has a ton of online credits and a second place finish in last year's $5,000 Mixed event. Burt Boutin is a member of the legendary Hendon Mob and owns two bracelets, in 2007 for pot-limit omaha and 2001 for pot-limit hold'em. Adam Levy is known as "Roothlus" online and is one of the world's most well known online players.

Over at Table 4, Tony G is the founder of PokerNews and has won Moscow Millions, the Asian Poker Tour event in Singapore, and the European Poker Championships. Alex Jacob won the Ultimate Poker Challenge in 2007 and the U.S. Poker Championship in 2006.

Table 5 has John Juanda, who plays the highest stakes online, won the speed poker event at the 2006 Aussie Millions and owns three WSOP bracelets. Eric "E-Fro" Froehlich is a red Full Tilt pro and owns two WSOP bracelets. Erik Seidel, immortalized in the movie Rounders for his second place finish to Johnny Chan in the 1988 WSOP Main Event, recently won his first WPT event at Foxwoods and took second at Aussie Millions.

Finally, table 6 has Bill Blanda, who has won numerous preliminary WPT events and recently won the $2,000 No Limit event at the Wynn Classic, and Richard Kirsch, who took fourth at the WPT Mirage Poker Classic.

06-07-2008 14:14 UTC-7

A Reminder (Chip Counts)

Shamus

We won't be updating chip counts over in the "Chip Counts" section, other than to indicate players having busted or moving on. We will, however, be giving chip count updates here in the blog, more so once tables get down to three-handed and heads up.

06-07-2008 14:21 UTC-7

Pier Ruscalla Eliminated

Shamus

We have our first elimination already, over at Table #2.

In Pier Ruscalla's penultimate hand, we picked up the action on the river. With a board showing {8-Hearts}

and a pot already up to 50,000, Mats Gavatin bet 40,000 and Ruscalla made the call. Gavatin showed {A-Hearts}

for top two, and Ruscalla mucked. Ruscalla was down to 8,000 after the hand.

On the very next hand, Gavatin raised to 5,500 from the small blind, Ruscalla reraised his last 8,000 from the big blind, and Gavatin called.

Gavatin {A-Spades}