2008 World Series of Poker

Event 27 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
$628,417
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,693,690
Entries
2,706
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000

Day 2 Seating Assignments

Chip leader Bernard Lee
Chip leader Bernard Lee
224 players return for Day 2 action in Event 27, $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em. All of the players remaining have already made it into the money, and can now set their sights on tomorrow’s final table and, ultimately, the $628,290 winner’s share of a prize pool well over $3 million.

Bernard Lee leads the pack overnight, stacked at 166,400. As released overnight by the WSOP, these are the seat assignments for today’s Day 2 session. Chip leaders at each table are boldfaced:

(Table 40)
Seat 1: Adam Paulsen – 27,700
Seat 2: Harold Akiona – 42,700
Seat 3: Tuan Vu – 28,500
Seat 4: Eric Larsen – 3,400
Seat 5: Benjamin Zamani – 77,300
Seat 6: Davidi Kitai – 8,900
Seat 7: Andrew Goddard – 20,600
Seat 8: Harry Grant – 8,000
Seat 9: Malyshev Nikolay – 11,700

(Table 41)
Seat 1: Jason Gray – 29,900
Seat 2: Eric Nakache – 41,600
Seat 3: Pete de Best – 15,700
Seat 4: Danny Dang – 65,000
Seat 5: Andrew Barton – 37,900
Seat 6: Tsuyoshi Okawa – 10,700
Seat 7: Morgan Steckler – 13,000
Seat 8: Gary Cooper – 29,300
Seat 9: Bashar Ramahi – 25,600

(Table 42)
Seat 1: Bill Ingram – 18,600
Seat 2: Jason Brice – 44,700
Seat 3: Marc Aubin -- did not report
Seat 4: Ronald Berding – 33,700
Seat 5: Ann Escobedo – 15,200
Seat 6: Gabriel Andrade – 9,400
Seat 7: Dan Heimiller – 20,700
Seat 8: Sarah Bilney – 26,800
Seat 9: Alan Jaffray – 65,800

(Table 43)
Seat 1: Justin Filtz – 43,000
Seat 2: Yoshitaka Oku – 29,400
Seat 3: Stephen Venable – 18,200
Seat 4: John Boyette – 31,800
Seat 5: Mikael Larsson – 85,300
Seat 6: KU Davis – 16,300
Seat 7: Kevin Staudenmayer – 14,900
Seat 8: Grayson Physioc – 13,000
Seat 9: Chris Homewood – 14,800

(Table 44)
Seat 1: Kristian Haslov – 40,900
Seat 2: Darrell New – 73,700
Seat 3: Thomas Reese – 10,900
Seat 4: Kenneth Terrell – 28,400
Seat 5: Rob Topham – 22,500
Seat 6: Garry Smith – 14,000
Seat 7: Nick Theoharis – 18,600
Seat 8: Pascal Boillot – 38,900
Seat 9: Richard Alm – 39,000

(Table 45)
Seat 1: Mike Reagan – 9,900
Seat 2: Albert Iverson – 98,500
Seat 3: Brett Kimes – 67,400
Seat 4: Daniel Sindelar – 24,000
Seat 5: Jean-Robert Bellande – 65,500
Seat 6: Jeffrey Brown – 23,500
Seat 7: Chris Chang – 13,500
Seat 8: Tom Lee – 41,700
Seat 9: Mihai Manole – 44,100
Seat 9: Carl Jerome – 34,300

(Table 46)
Seat 1: Sean Johnson – 19,600
Seat 2: Joe Awada – 108,200
Seat 3: Tony Tan – 5,400
Seat 5: Francois Billard – 54,800
Seat 6: Paul Smith – 22,700
Seat 7: Aaron Kweskin – 17,400
Seat 8: Nicholas Lockhart – 21,800
Seat 9: Jonathan Krela – 46,100

(Table 47)
Seat 1: Duane Van Keulen – 39,600
Seat 2: Jeffery Henry – 27,100
Seat 3: Fernando Perez – 30,600
Seat 4: Christopher Smith – 37,000
Seat 5: Neil Channing – 29,700
Seat 6: Greg Cox – 24,400
Seat 7: Paul Schear – 8,000
Seat 8: Hao Liu – 32,700

(Table 48)
Seat 1: George Metaxakis – 14,000
Seat 2: Robert MacPherson – 15,800
Seat 3: Ali Salman – 73,700
Seat 4: Bruce Wolfson – 21,800
Seat 5: Trey Robinson – 4,700
Seat 7: Samuel Oberlin – 33,300
Seat 8: Robert Brown – 67,900
Seat 9: John Myung – 53,900

(Table 49)
Seat 2: Tony Gama-Lobo – 42,700
Seat 3: Aliaksandr Dzianisau – 32,600
Seat 5: Greg Masters – 9,700
Seat 6: Jeremie Carr – 23,900
Seat 7: Denise Grove – 17,800
Seat 8: Conor Tate – 58,300
Seat 9: Brian Ree – 28,400

(Table 50)
Seat 1: Shavarsh Pirijanian – 26,500
Seat 2: Terry Prince – 49,100
Seat 4: Don Zewin – 34,700
Seat 5: Jerry Hunter – 38,100
Seat 6: Frank Wolf – 46,600
Seat 7: Michael Welch – 25,700
Seat 8: Philip Yeh – 155,200
Seat 9: Todd Bernstein – 49,700

(Table 51)
Seat 1: Eric Baldwin – 20,500
Seat 2: Patrick Mitchell – 46,900
Seat 3: Pragnit Thakor – 39,400
Seat 4: Edmund Liu – 8,600
Seat 5: Nathan Smith – 47,300
Seat 6: Keven Stammen – 61,500
Seat 7: Bruce Bowlby – 17,800
Seat 8: Sven Malek – 45,100
Seat 9: Vitaly Lunkin – 39,900

(Table 52)
Seat 1: Kent Washington – 64,600
Seat 2: Keith Kato – 30,000
Seat 3: John Alm – 16,700
Seat 4: Mike Tran – 34,100
Seat 5: Sacha Ordelheide – 21,700
Seat 6: Nicholas Benisek – 28,400
Seat 7: William Maguire – 20,600
Seat 8: Roger Payne – 36,900
Seat 9: Nghia Nguyen – 22,200

(Table 53)
Seat 1: Humberto Brenes – 50,200
Seat 2: Ilan Lewinger – 10,600
Seat 3: Lionel Lefevre – 21,100
Seat 4: Bruce Admission – 18,600
Seat 5: Billy Westom – 32,400
Seat 6: Benjamin Sherlund – 26,500
Seat 7: Patrick Stemper – 58,800
Seat 8: Ken Liebscher – 4,500
Seat 9: Deric Fitzgerald – 18,400

(Table 54)
Seat 1: Jerry Pruitt – 14,100
Seat 2: Richard Papst – 18,900
Seat 3: Salim Zakhem – 23,100
Seat 4: Robert White – 45,600
Seat 5: Brian Olsson – 34,700
Seat 6: Deb Blair – 71,600
Seat 7: Jens Jensen – 47,200
Seat 8: Gary Pihlstrom – 7,500
Seat 9: Chris Platt – 10,100

(Table 55)
Seat 1: Lance Kamin – 20,000
Seat 2: Matthew McAllister – 27,000
Seat 3: Mark Gershof – 19,100
Seat 4: Patrick Sills – 57,000
Seat 5: Jay Smith – 14,000
Seat 6: Donna Huynh – 43,600
Seat 7: Tobias Davis – 1,200
Seat 8: Hyon So – 6,200
Seat 9: Ken Evanowski – 14,600

(Table 56)
Seat 1: Thomas Scarber – 15,100
Seat 2: Kazuki Ikeuchi – 20,500
Seat 3: Marc Bergida – 36,900
Seat 4: Tony Gargano – 53,300
Seat 5: Danny Ryan – 65,600
Seat 6: Yongli Jin – 12,400
Seat 7: Bob Yamaguchi – 59,000
Seat 8: Mark Erickson – 42,300
Seat 9: Kyle Wilson – 133,300

(Table 57)
Seat 1: Mark Seif – 65,700
Seat 2: Daniel Favreau – 10,400
Seat 3: Bryan O'Connell – 54,800
Seat 4: Dominic Sinagra – 11,900
Seat 5: Bernard Lee – 166,400
Seat 6: Taylor Douglas – 23,700
Seat 7: Michael Cap – 13,400
Seat 8: Brandon Lee – 34,800
Seat 9: Jie Shi – 19,100

(Table 58)
Seat 1: Gary Muglach – 50,200
Seat 2: Micheal Williams – 57,700
Seat 2: Greg Mueller – 15,200
Seat 4: Brian Horton – 38,000
Seat 5: Juan Ramirez – 27,600
Seat 6: Jan Von Halle – 29,600
Seat 8: Frank Simpson – 57,700
Seat 8: Osmin Dardon – 10,200
Seat 9: Peter Christensen – 53,600

(Table 59)
Seat 1: Don Kahn – 59,000
Seat 2: Christian Blech – 14,300
Seat 3: Chiel Van Den Heuvel – 14,500
Seat 4: Joshua Bird – 39,000
Seat 5: Bobby Wisiak – 26,500
Seat 6: Lawrence Labanowski – 18,100
Seat 7: Dean Bui – 57,300
Seat 8: John Petela – 77,900
Seat 9: Brian Aleksa – 46,300

(Table 60)
Seat 1: Morgan Machina – 49,200
Seat 2: Nicolas Ragot – 57,700
Seat 3: Zachary Finkelstein – 50,500
Seat 4: Tony Abesamis – 56,800
Seat 5: John Permejo – 40,700
Seat 6: Bobby Firestone – 11,100
Seat 7: Gerald Akahoshi – 19,100
Seat 8: David Rudsinski – 46,100
Seat 9: Casey McCarrel – 40,800

(Table 61)
Seat 1: Jake Mendell – 20,000
Seat 2: Ho Hoang – 51,000
Seat 3: Terry Quinn – 94,200
Seat 5: Justin Pechie – 53,100
Seat 6: Danny Rabinowitz – 33,000
Seat 7: William Gee – 45,500
Seat 8: Lindsay Jones – 13,900
Seat 9: Joe Tehan – 9,200

(Table 62)
Seat 1: Tom Frohbieter – 13,500
Seat 2: Mike Abbott – 95,600
Seat 4: Preston Derden – 29,900
Seat 5: Tony Lay – 54,400
Seat 6: Russell Fox – 11,500
Seat 7: Rainer Meyer – 139,600
Seat 8: Robert Thain – 20,700
Seat 9: Michael Skomac – 108,900

(Table 63)
Seat 1: Felipe Montenegro – 38,300
Seat 2: Varn Chavez – 10,000
Seat 3: Lenny Duvdivani – 32,200
Seat 4: Marc Tschirch – 145,100
Seat 5: Bryan Berc – 47,600
Seat 6: Francisco Silva – 13,900
Seat 7: Quint Feenstra – 13,500
Seat 9: Jordan Smith – 26,100

(Table 64)
Seat 1: Travis Twining – 23,900
Seat 2: Tim Anstine – 17,300
Seat 3: Trevor Donaldson – 12,900
Seat 4: Douglas Ingle – 12,300
Seat 5: Elijah Berg – 42,400
Seat 6: Shawn Hamamoto – 22,500
Seat 8: Jeffrey Hakim – 29,600
Seat 9: Alexander Schluter – 36,200

(Table 65)
Seat 1: Matt Rosen – 88,000
Seat 3: Jason Duffy – 74,400
Seat 4: Romeo Valentino – 16,600
Seat 5: Barry Schultz – 33,700
Seat 6: Steve Kapsaskis – 27,600
Seat 7: James Schnitzer – 61,100
Seat 8: Court Harrington – 79,400
Seat 9: Steve Matulac – 22,500

Action resumes this afternoon at 2pm PDT. Check in here at PokerNews.com for the latest live updates.

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Day Two Kickoff

Day two is starting now at level 11. Blinds are 800-1600 with an ante of 200. With 224 competiitors remaining, we are in for a great day as we work our way all the way to the final nine players.

Cards are in the air!

The Field is Shrinking

We are less than 15 minutes into day two, and the field is shrinking very quickly. Over 20 players have called it a day and the pace doesn't seem to be slowing at all, as the cash-out line continues to grow.

Wrong Turning

Firstly I witness Neil Channing make a raise from the cutoff but have to lay his hand down to a reraise all in from the big blind.

As I swivel round, I notice Terry Prince has made a raise from under the gun to 3,200. Nicholas Benisek is in the hijack and reraises all in for 19,700 more. After Prince receives the count he makes the call.

Prince flips over{J-?} {J-?} and is up against Benisek's {A-?} {K-?}.

The flop comes {K-?} {10-?} {2-?} seeing Benisek take the lead.

The turn then comes {J-?} like a dagger in the heart before {9-?} river comes. Benisek heads off to join the long cash-out line.

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Bilney Bids Farewell

Australian poker star Sarah Bilney has left on a disappointing note today. Her first disappointment came when her opponent's {K-?} {J-?} beat her {A-?} {K-?}. Her second and final upsetting hand came when she was all-in preflop with pocket queens and was snapped by {A-?} {9-?}.

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Eli's Not So Fast

Eli Berg has just been eliminated after being on the wrong side of two races.

First up he doubled up a short stack holding {4-?} {4-?} to his {A-?} {K-?}. No ace or king arrived to help Berg.

Next up Berg was the short stack and he was holding the pocket pair to an opponent's over cards of {A-?} {K-?}. This time though the overcard appeared on the flop to send Berg home early on day 2.

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Unusual Break

The tournament supervisor has just announced that we will be taking a 20 minute break at the end of this level.

"Due to the length of the payout line" first break is coming early.

As it stands right now about 35 people are standing in line, frustrated and impatient. It takes about 2 minutes per player to process through the system and the lines is growing at a slightly faster pace.

Bernard Lee Gives Back

After starting the day as chip leader, Bernard Lee has lost a large portion of his chips, the majority of which occurred when he doubled up another player at his table.

The board read {3-Diamonds} {K-Hearts} {7-Hearts} and Lee's opponent bet 11,000. Lee made the call and the turn came {Q-Spades}. His opponent bet out for 14,000 and Lee came over the top all in.

His opponent made the call and the cards were tabled. Lee showed{K-Clubs} {J-Diamonds} and his opponent {A-Clubs} {K-Spades} . The river brought the last remaining king but the ace kicker played and Lee lost about 50,000.

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Double Down

Greg 'FBT' Mueller is down to just 10,500 chips after doubling up an opponent.

It all went in preflop and Mueller was holding a weak-looking {A-Spades} {6-Diamonds}. He was ahead of his opponent's {K-Clubs} {J-Clubs}, though.

The board came {8-Clubs} {9-Hearts} {J-Hearts} {3-Diamonds} {4-Spades}.

The jack was enough to seal the deal.

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Bobbing Along Out of the Room

An all-in preflop encounter just happened between Robert White and Brian Olsson. White's tournament was on the line as he was the all-in player.

Olsson tabled {J-Hearts} {J-Spades} and was in good shape against White's {J-Diamonds} {K-Clubs}.

The three-outer didn't come and White leaves with the hoardes of eliminations.

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