Event 53 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout Day 1 | 2008 World Series of Poker

Event 53 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout

Day 1 Completed

07-02-2008 03:54 UTC-8

End of Day 1 Standings

[user33020]

Play was halted for the day part way through Round 2, with plenty of play left to go before the final table is reached. Official counts show that 72 players remain. Dave Orvis at Table 2 reported an end-of-day chip count of 88,000, but no player has a dominant edge over his table at the present time, and at least six players remain at all nine tables.

Here's the table-by-table breakdown, with the overnight leaders highlighted:

(Table 1)
Seat 1: Simen Sagstuen – 20,000
Seat 3: Blair Rodman – 37,500
Seat 5: Hansu Chu – 31,500
Seat 6: Will Durkee – 62,500
Seat 7: Cristiano Blanco – 35,500
Seat 8: Rick Shepherd – 29,500
Seat 9: Jean-Robert Bellande – 67,500
Seat 10: Jesse Martin – 26,000

(Table 2)
Seat 2: Danny Wong – 83,000
Seat 3: Craig Crivello – 17,500
Seat 5: Tony Bloom – 2,500
Seat 6: Davood Mehrmand – 69,000
Seat 7: Dave Orvis – 88,000
Seat 8: Coralee Grebe – 21,000
Seat 9: Fred Berger – 19,000

(Table 3)
Seat 1: Ben Fineman – 21,500
Seat 2: Mikael Norinder – 60,500
Seat 3: Richard Walter – 47,000
Seat 5: Lorenz Guarin – 40,500
Seat 6: Terry Borer – 51,000
Seat 8: Ben Yu – 14,000
Seat 9: Spencer Lawrence – 65,500

(Table 4)
Seat 1: Jeff Kimber – 12,000
Seat 2: Duane Graff Jr – 25,000
Seat 3: Kenna James – 24,000
Seat 4: Matt Graham – 70,000
Seat 5: Stefan Rapp – 32,500
Seat 6: Greg Debora – 26,000
Seat 7: Jonathan Tamayo – 80,000
Seat 8: Michael Watson – 30,500

(Table 5)
Seat 1: Jelger Wiegersma – 38,000
Seat 2: Rhett Butler – 18,500
Seat 4: Jacob Petersen – 14,500
Seat 5: Andrew Prock – 73,500
Seat 6: Imari Love – 13,000
Seat 7: Tino Lechich – 30,000
Seat 8: Claudio Rinaldi – 17,000
Seat 9: Mike Wattel – 70,000
Seat 10: Jordan Smith – 25,500

(Table 6)
Seat 1: Aliaksandr Dzianisau – 22,500
Seat 2: Sasha Rosewood – 22,000
Seat 3: Michelle Ankenman – 47,000
Seat 4: David Gee – 24,500
Seat 5: Jannick Wrang – 38,500
Seat 6: Mike Kachan – 59,500
Seat 9: Steve Kim – 47,500
Seat 10: Sebastian Bauer – 48,500

(Table 7)
Seat 1: Eric Rivkin – 65,500
Seat 2: Mike Leah – 35,000
Seat 3: Eric Arreca – 29,500
Seat 5: Primoz Adamic – 33,500
Seat 6: Tony Tan – 37,500
Seat 7: Jason Smith – 16,000
Seat 8: Hoyt Corkins – 24,000
Seat 9: Steve Stolzmann – 14,500
Seat 10: Brandon Wong – 44,500

(Table 8)
Seat 1: David Bach – 23,000
Seat 3: Mark Klecan – 25,500
Seat 4: David Olson – 17,500
Seat 5: Markus Stranzinger – 79,000
Seat 6: Jay Bloom – 38,500
Seat 7: John Kranyak – 77,500
Seat 8: Colin Miners – 6,000
Seat 9: Jimmy Fricke – 14,000
Seat 10: Joel Diaz – 19,000

(Table 9)
Seat 3: Joe DeNiro – 51,000
Seat 4: Gregory Giannokostas – 46,500
Seat 5: Kirby Rogers – 53,500
Seat 7: Robert Lipkin – 55,000
Seat 8: Chris Vitch – 53,500
Seat 9: Sol Mammon – 13,000
Seat 10: Zvi Stern – 26,500

Action resumes at 2pm PDT on Wednesday and will likely stretch into the early morning hours before the event's winner is determined.

07-02-2008 01:37 UTC-8

End of the Day

donpeters

We're still in the second round of the shootout and have ended play for the day. Things in the second round went somewhat slow without too many bust outs occurring. Players are really trying to grind it out to that final table.

We'll return tomorrow at 2:00 PM local time with the remaining 75 players left in the field. The tournament is scheduled to come to a completion tomorrow. We'll see you all then.

07-02-2008 01:30 UTC-8

Recent Eliminations

[user42991]

Randy Ritterbuck and Connie Rim have been eliminated from today's event.

Tags: Connie Rim Randy Ritterbuck

07-02-2008 01:27 UTC-8

Fricke Doubles Through Kranyak

donpeters

Jimmy Fricke was all in preflop holding pocket sixes, {6-Diamonds}

. He was up against John Kranyak's pocket tens, {10-Spades}

, and things weren't looking too good for him.

The flop came {4-Hearts}

and Fricke still trailed.

The turn came a bright light for Fricke, the {6-Hearts}

. The river was the {5-Spades}

and Fricke was able to get lucky and double up through Kranyak.

Tags: Jimmy Fricke John Kranyak

07-02-2008 01:21 UTC-8

McCormick Done On the River

donpeters

Terry Borer just eliminated Chuck McCormick when his {J-?}

rivered a queen-high straight. The flop gave Borer an open-ended straight draw and he hit an eight on the river to knock his opponent out.

Tags: Chuck McCormick Terry Borer

07-02-2008 01:15 UTC-8

Andy Bloch Eliminated

[user42991]

Andy Bloch raised under the gun and was called by both Danny Wong and David Orvis.

On a flop of {A-Clubs}

, Bloch checked and Wong bet out. Both Bloch and Orvis made the call.

On the turn of the {8-Diamonds}

, Bloch check-called a bet from Danny Wong. Orvis folded.

On the river of {Q-Hearts}

, Bloch bet out, which was enough to put him all in, and Danny Wong called.

Wong showed {K-Spades}

for two pair, and Bloch mucked.

As Bloch was leaving, the dealer called "seat open." Bloch, referring to himself, responded by saying, "Loser on Blue 2! Loser on Blue 2!"

Tags: Andy Bloch