Event 46 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Six-handed Day 2 | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-27-2008 07:50 UTC-7

Day 2 Seat Assignments Announced

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Bertrand Grospellier finished Day 1 in the top ten in chips

The seat assignments for Day 2 of Event 46, $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-handed have now been released. The 96 Day 1 survivors are led by Jesper Petersen, with Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and recent bracelet winner Davidi Kitai among those close behind. The seats for the start of Friday's play:

(Table 1)
Seat 1: Devin Lake – 106,500
Seat 2: Magnus Persson – 77,600
Seat 3: Glen Chorny – 85,800
Seat 4: Eduard Scharf – 93,300
Seat 5: Andrey Zaichenko – 57,500
Seat 6: Craig Duffy – 124,300

(Table 2)
Seat 1: Martin Wiklund – 51,900
Seat 2: Oliver Berman – 59,700
Seat 3: Nick Binger – 82,800
Seat 4: Fredrik Halling – 74,900
Seat 5: Joe Commisso – 170,200
Seat 6: Mike Glasser – 39,900

(Table 3)
Seat 1: Ferit Gabriellson – 150,300
Seat 2: Keith Tilston – 84,200
Seat 3: Jason Paster – 90,200
Seat 4: Justin Kramer – 15,000
Seat 5: Davidi Kitai – 176,200
Seat 6: Jimmy Wong – 41,800

(Table 4)
Seat 1: Robert Deppe – 43,400
Seat 2: Craig Fishman – 23,000
Seat 3: Scott Dorin – 17,500
Seat 4: Will Failla – 141,300
Seat 5: Chris Dombrowski – 71,000
Seat 6: Jens Klaning – 109,700

(Table 5)
Seat 1: Alex Millar – 114,600
Seat 2: Patryk Hildebranski – 94,600
Seat 3: Ryan Daut – 72,400
Seat 4: Cliff Pappas – 32,300
Seat 5: Shannon Shorr – 145,400
Seat 6: Christopher Kline – 16,900

(Table 6)
Seat 1: Johannes Strassmann – 69,200
Seat 2: Aaron Wilt – 181,500
Seat 3: Jonathan Aguiar – 40,400
Seat 4: Matt Keikoan – 28,100
Seat 5: Alan Smurfit – 25,800
Seat 6: Richard Lyndaker – 44,300

(Table 7)
Seat 2: Riku Koivurinne – 140,400
Seat 3: Samuel Trickett – 127,100
Seat 4: Greg Pierson – 29,000
Seat 5: Chad Batista – 52,800
Seat 6: Leo Kam – 93,000

(Table 8)
Seat 2: Steven Goosen – 19,000
Seat 3: Jason Gray – 52,800
Seat 4: Paul Foltyn – 167,300
Seat 5: Keith Hawkins – 39,100
Seat 6: Jon Heath – 155,800

(Table 9)
Seat 1: Jason Dewitt – 16,200
Seat 2: Elliot Smith – 158,000
Seat 3: JJ Liu – 64,500
Seat 4: Jonas Entin – 66,800
Seat 5: Joe Le – 23,500
Seat 6: Nathan Sumrall – 34,700

(Table 10)
Seat 1: Tom Lutz – 102,700
Seat 2: Chris McCormack – 65,000
Seat 3: Tony Hachem – 97,100
Seat 4: Steve Ware – 59,900
Seat 5: Roberto Romanello – 94,000
Seat 6: Ken Einiger – 113,300

(Table 11)
Seat 1: Philip Sparta – 114,700
Seat 2: Steven Weusten – 64,400
Seat 3: James Burgoine – 45,900
Seat 4: Philip Yeh – 55,100
Seat 5: Bertrand Grospellier – 172,400
Seat 6: Michael Goldberg – 176,600

(Table 12)
Seat 1: Jason Mercier – 49,700
Seat 2: Ben Hamnett – 95,600
Seat 3: Jesper Petersen – 204,000
Seat 5: Phil Tom – 51,500
Seat 6: Alex Jacob – 82,600

(Table 13)
Seat 1: Jan Forsman – 118,800
Seat 2: Bill Elliott – 102,500
Seat 3: Per Mikael Hogbom – 50,200
Seat 4: Bryn Kenney – 139,200
Seat 5: Darrell Dicken – 54,900
Seat 6: Stephen Pearce – 96,000

(Table 14)
Seat 1: Christo Vlassis – 135,100
Seat 2: Nikolay Evdakov – 28,200
Seat 3: Yuri Bokkel – 96,300
Seat 4: Robert Eckstut – 90,800
Seat 5: Ray Henson – 64,900
Seat 6: Guy Sitbon – 42,700

(Table 15)
Seat 1: Dan Shak – 131,400
Seat 2: Adam Elpayaa – 23,200
Seat 3: Eugene Todd – 121,200
Seat 4: Richard Murnick – 51,300
Seat 6: David Farber – 157,400

(Table 16)
Seat 1: Bryan Pope – 165,500
Seat 2: Al Adler – 25,700
Seat 3: Edward Martin – 57,900
Seat 4: Jimmy Fricke – 40,800
Seat 6: Eric Mutrie – 34,700

(Table 17)
Seat 1: Mike McClain – 101,900
Seat 2: Edward Ochana – 103,300
Seat 4: Maurizio Biasini – 167,500
Seat 5: Richard Ashby – 61,400
Seat 6: Jason Lester – 77,500

Event 46 action resumes at 2pm PDT. We'll have the latest reports right here on PokerNews.

Tags: Bertrand Grospellier Davidi Kitai ElkY Jesper Petersen

06-27-2008 14:01 UTC-7

Shuffle Up and Deal

Shamus

Players are in their seats and cards are in the air. 96 remain. We'll be playing down to the final six-handed table today.

Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

06-27-2008 14:06 UTC-7

Fricke Down Early

donpeters

Jimmy Fricke ran his {A-?}

into Eric Mutrie's {A-?}

in a 70,000 pot all in preflop on the first hand of the day. The {A-?}

of Mutrie held up and Fricke is crippled to 6,000. Mutrie is at 70,000.

Tags: Eric Mutrie Jimmy Fricke

06-27-2008 14:12 UTC-7

Fricke Eliminated

donpeters

Eric Mutrie raised to 4,100 and then Jimmy Fricke moved all in from the small blind. Mutrie held {K-Hearts}

and Fricke went in with the best hand {9-Clubs}

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The board ran out {K-Clubs}

and Mutrie's two pair was good.

Tags: Eric Mutrie Jimmy Fricke

06-27-2008 14:16 UTC-7

Hamnett Bests Lester

Shamus

Ben Hamnett raised to 3,300 from the cutoff, and Jason Lester called from the small blind. The flop came {6-Spades}

. Lester checked, Hamnett bet 6,000, then Lester check-raised to 20,000. Hamnett called.

The turn was the {3-Diamonds}

. Lester pushed his remaining 51,000, and Hamnett made the call. Lester showed {A-Hearts}

for top pair, but Hamnett had flopped a set with his {6-Clubs}

. The river was the {3-Hearts}

, and Lester is out.

Hamnett is now up to 116,000.

Tags: Ben Hamnett Jason Lester

06-27-2008 14:29 UTC-7

Wait, Wat?

Shamus

Roberto Romanello raised to 4,100 from the cutoff, and Chris McCormack called from the big blind. The flop came {8-Spades}

. McCormack checked, Romanello bet 4,200, McCormack raised to 21,000, and Romanello reraised all in. McCormack snap-called, showing {A-Clubs}

for the nut flush draw. Romanello turned over {Q-Hearts}

for two pair.

The turn was the {9-Diamonds}

and Romanello was still ahead. The river brought the {10-Spades}

, and Romanello initially clapped his hands, seeing the flush had not arrived. Then he saw that ten had made McCormack a straight. "Aw, shit," said Romanello.

McCormack is up to 118,000, while Romanello has slipped to 38,000.

Tags: Chris McCormack Roberto Romanello

06-27-2008 14:34 UTC-7

Pearce-d

donpeters

The board read {A-Diamonds}

when Stephen Pearce shoved all in for 19,000. The big blind, Jan Forsman, wasted little time in calling and tabled {J-Spades}

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Pearce mentioned that it was bad luck that he hit the river with the {7-Spades}

and was eliminated just out of the money.

Tags: Jan Forsman Stephen Pearce

06-27-2008 14:35 UTC-7

Smurfiting on the River Smurfit

Shamus

Short-stacked and seeing a flop of {6-Clubs}

, Alan Smurfit just shoved his last 17,500 with {5-Diamonds}

. Jonathan Aguiar made the call with {J-Diamonds}

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The turn was the {K-Spades}

and Smurfit was in need of help. However, the river brought the {8-Spades}

, giving Smurfit the straight and continued life in the tourney. He's doubled to just under 40,000.

Tags: Alan Smurfit

06-27-2008 14:42 UTC-7

Binger Gets Frisky

donpeters

After Martin Wiklund raised from the button, Nick Binger moved all his chips in to put the pressure on Wiklund. Wiklund wasn't falling for it and quickly called.

Wiklund: {A-Diamonds}

Binger:

Binger said, "Two live cards." as he rolled his hand over.

The flop had the door card of an ace, but also brought a scare to Wiklund with two spades. {A-Clubs}

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The turn was a really crazy card, the {A-Spades}