2008 World Series of Poker

Event 31 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six-handed
Day: 2
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
qq
Prize
$528,418
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$2,327,600
Entries
1,012
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000

Day 2 Seat Assignments Announced

Dario Minieri begins Day 2 in second place
Dario Minieri begins Day 2 in second place
With 73 players shown as having chips for the resumption of play, the WSOP has released its database of seat assignments for Day 2 of Event 31, $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em. The incomplete list of assignments is as follows:

(Table 53)
Seat 1: Igor Panchenko – 34,900
Seat 2: Manelic Minaya – 46,800
Seat 3: Michael Chrisanthopoulos – 70,000
Seat 4: Matt Hawrilenko – 78,700
Seat 5: John O'Shea – 66,000
Seat 6: Jason Mercier – 110,500

(Table 54)
Seat 1: Edmond Park – 93,200
Seat 2: Shannon Shorr – 58,200
Seat 3: Scott Augustine – 35,200
Seat 4: Keven Stammen – 50,200
Seat 5: James Haver – 16,000
Seat 6: Todd Terry – 62,900

(Table 55)
Seat 1: Larry Jaffee – 27,700
Seat 2: Kenneth Smaron – 57,200
Seat 3: Gary Haglund – 85,900
Seat 4: Stuart Marshak – 113,700
Seat 5: Eric Lucas – 68,700
Seat 6: Ian Johns – 43,000

(Table 56)
Seat 1: Daniele Cuomo – 18,000
Seat 2: Max Pescatori – 71,500
Seat 3: Jesse Chinni – 104,000
Seat 4: Shankar Pillai – 57,300
Seat 6: Randall Brueckner – 131,100

(Table 57)
Seat 1: Paul Foltyn – 20,000
Seat 2: Cory Albertson – 120,500
Seat 3: John Chou – 57,700
Seat 6: Paul Smith – 51,700

(Table 58)
Seat 1: Tom Bentham – 51,600
Seat 2: Bill Chen – 108,100
Seat 5: Alon Shahar – 264,100

(Table 59)
Seat 1: Justin Filtz – 180,200
Seat 2: Patrick Goulding – 16,200
Seat 3: Sam Hiatt – 69,400
Seat 4: Sebastian Ruthenberg – 21,900
Seat 5: Noah Jefferson – 37,000

(Table 60)
Seat 1: Billy Westom – 70,300
Seat 2: Frank Rusnak – 127,800
Seat 3: Roy Vandersluis – 25,700
Seat 4: Ed Fernandez – 121,800
Seat 6: Andrew Emory – 121,400

(Table 61)
Seat 1: George Veach – 16,600
Seat 2: Kyle Burnside – 66,500
Seat 3: Michael Skomac – 123,700
Seat 4: Jose Barbero – 34,700
Seat 5: Chris Dombrowski – 13,900
Seat 6: Sebastian Soares – 19,900

(Table 62)
Seat 1: Scotty Nguyen – 118,600
Seat 2: Russ Floyd – 52,100
Seat 3: Scott Zakheim – 87,800
Seat 4: Leo Fernandez – 35,800
Seat 5: Gabe Costner – 89,100
Seat 6: Zachary Clark – 52,900

(Table 63)
Seat 1: Brendan Keenan – 119,100
Seat 2: Terry Boyd – 62,700
Seat 3: Jonathan McGowan – 67,100
Seat 4: Thomas Hover – 25,700
Seat 5: Danny Walker – 103,600
Seat 6: Seth Fischer – 76,500

(Table 64)
Seat 1: Jess Yawitz – 66,700
Seat 2: Jonathan Honig – 71,000
Seat 3: Anthony Roux – 115,900
Seat 4: Aditya Agarwal – 46,300
Seat 5: Alex Michaels – 91,200
Seat 6: Bruno Fitoussi – 52,300

(Table 65)
Seat 1: Michael Glasser – 58,000
Seat 2: Aliaksandr Dzianisau – 34,500
Seat 3: Robert Lipkin – 20,600
Seat 4: Kevin Song – 28,700
Seat 6: Jonathan Tamayo – 32,400

In addition, the data file for these players included seatings at non-existent Day 2 tables:

Seat 6 (Table Unknown): Kyle Hoffman – 95,600
Seat 5 (Table Unknown): Dario Minieri – 191,600
Seat 4 (Table Unknown): Roland Isra – 13,300
Seat 6 (Table Unknown): Stephen Pierson – 23,500

Tags: Dario Minieri

Restart Pushed Back

Morning all, and welcome back to the rather smaller Brasilia Room today, where we will be playing down to our final table. Play has been pushed back to 2.30 for some reason, but we will remain tensed as wary cats awaiting that restart.

Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

Beam Me Up, Scotty

One player who has yet to arrive is former World Champion Scotty Nguyen... baby. He may already know about the delayed start, but either way, a late entry could prove costly with the short six-handed structure.

Let's hope we hear the jingle-jangling of jewelry and the much loved Scotty chuckle shortly.

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Early Eliminations

Eliminations are coming thick and fast. Among those gone so far is George Veach, who shoved {J-Spades} {10-Hearts} into Jose Barbero's {A-Diamonds} {K-Clubs} only for Barbero to go on to make a flush on the {3-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} {3-Hearts} board to send him to the rail.

Also gone is Paul "Pab" Foltyn, who open-shoved with pocket sixes and got himself called by John Chou holding pocket nines, no help from the board.

Tags: George VeachPaul Foltyn

Roy Vandersluis Eliminated

We've seen more departures than Paddington Station so far today, the next player to fall from the platform being Roy Vandersluis.

All in preflop with K-J, Vandersluis will have been relieved to have two live cards against the A-Q of Billy Westom, but alas, neither a king nor a knave emerged, and he was also gone.

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Astonishing Pace

Even taking into account that this is a six-handed event, the pace of exits has been impressive. However, the average stack with 66 left and the blinds at 800/1600 is currently around 77,000 -- that's 50 big blinds -- so we may well see some tightening up as the prospect of the big money approaches.