2008 World Series of Poker

Event 53 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day: 1
12
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Matt Graham
Winning Hand
a♦j♦
Prize
$278,180
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,123,395
Entries
823
Level Info
Level
19
Blinds
30,000 / 50,000
Ante
0
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New Seating Assignments

donpeters
donpeters
Here are the new seating assignments.

Table 1 -

Seat 1: Simon Sagstuen
Seat 2: Allen Le
Seat 3: Blair Rodman
Seat 4: Samuel Lee
Seat 5: Hansu Chu
Seat 6: Will Durkee
Seat 7: Cristiano Blanco
Seat 8: Rick Shepurd
Seat 9: Jean-Robert Bellande
Seat 10: Jesse Martin

Table 2 -

Seat 1: JC Tran
Seat 2: Danny Wong
Seat 3: Craig Crivello
Seat 4: Connie Kim
Seat 5: Anthony Bloom
Seat 6: Davood Mehrmand
Seat 7: David Orvis
Seat 8: Coralee Greebe
Seat 9: Frederick Berger
Seat 10: Andy Bloch

Table 3 -

Seat 1: Ben Fineman
Seat 2: Mikael Norinder
Seat 3: Richard Walter
Seat 4: John Myung
Seat 5: Lorenzo Guarin
Seat 6: Terry Borer
Seat 7: Robert Kovar
Seat 8: Benjamin Yu
Seat 9: Spencer Lawrence
Seat 10: Charles McCormick

Tabel 4 -

Seat 1: Jeffrey Kimber
Seat 2: Duane Graff
Seat 3: Josh Jorgensen
Seat 4: Kenna James
Seat 5: Matt Graham
Seat 6: Stefan Rapp
Seat 7: Greg DeBora
Seat 8: Yuegi Zhu
Seat 9: Jonathan Tamayo
Seat 10: Michael Watson

Table 5 -

Seat 1: Jelger Wiegersma
Seat 2: Rhett Butler
Seat 3: John Pires
Seat 4: Jacob Petersen
Seat 5: Andrew Rock
Seat 6: Imari Love
Seat 7: Tino Lechich
Seat 8: Claudio Rinaldi
Seat 9: Mike Wattel
Seat 10: Jordan Smith

Table 6 -

Seat 1: Terrance Chan
Seat 2: Kevin Song
Seat 3: Joe Deniso
Seat 4: Gregory Giannokostas
Seat 5: Kirby Rogers
Seat 6: Blake Purvis
Seat 7: Robert Lipkin
Seat 8: Christopher Virch
Seat 9: Sol Mammon
Seat 10: Zvi Stern

Table 7 -

Seat 1: Aliaksandr Dzianisau
Seat 2: Sasha Rosewood
Seat 3: Michelle Ankenman
Seat 4: David Gee
Seat 5: Jannick Wrang
Seat 6: Mike Kachan
Seat 7: Jason Smith
Seat 8: Jesse Correa
Seat 9: Steve Kim
Seat 10: Sebastian Bauer

Table 8 -

Seat 1: Eric Rivkin
Seat 2: Michael Leah
Seat 3: Eric Arreca
Seat 4: Randy Ritterbush
Seat 5: Primoz Adamic
Seat 6: Tony Tan
Seat 7: Eric Wellman
Seat 8: Hoyt Corkins
Seat 9: Steve Stolzmann
Seat 10: Brandon Wong

Table 9 -

Seat 1: David Bach
Seat 2: Eddylee Martin
Seat 3: Mark Klecan
Seat 4: David Olson
Seat 5: Markus Stranzkinger
Seat 6: Jay Bloom
Seat 7: John Kranyak
Seat 8: Colin Miners
Seat 9: James Fricke
Seat 10: Joel Diaz

Level: 9

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 0

Payout Woes

donpeters
donpeters
The players don't seem too thrilled with the way the payouts are structured for this event. Everyone in places 10-90 will receive the same amount of money and the final table is only a little bit more once you get there. The players would like the structure to be a little more progressive and increase depending how deep you finish.

Table Chatter

[user42991]
[user42991]
David Orvis is telling his table mates at table two that the only reason he is playing this event is because he was not allowed to register for the $1,500 event on Monday.

So far it's working out well for him as he is here in round two and will leave with no less than $5,000.

Tags: David Orvis

Mike Wattel Picks Up a Pot

[user42991]
[user42991]
Mike Wattel bet from under the gun preflop and was raised by Jelger Wiegersma. Wattel made the call. On a flop of {K-Spades} {4-Spades} {8-Diamonds} , Wattel checked, Wiegersma bet and Wattel check-raised. Wiegersma made the call. On the turn of the {2-Clubs}, Wattel bet out and Wiegersma mucked.

After the hand, Wattel moved up to 31,000 in chips.

Tags: Jelger WiegersmaMike Wattel

Not Much Going On

donpeters
donpeters
No one really wants to budge here. The pots have been small and the chip stacks don't seem to be fluctuating too much. A lot of players are also up and down from the table and walking around the room.

Bellande Wants to Gamble

donpeters
donpeters
Jean-Robert Bellande just tossed out a suggestion to his table. It was, that whoever gets the top four in the event, they all pool together the money and take 70% of it and just tossed it on the craps table. They have to commit to four hours of play and according to Bellande, "We either win big or we go bust. Just go for it!"

Tags: Jean-Robert Bellande

Poker or Story Time?

donpeters
donpeters
Jean-Robert Bellande seems to not be playing any hands because he is preoccupied with story telling. He's been telling stories from parties and gambling since the break and chatting his table up nicely.

One table over, Davood Mehrmand and Andy Bloch are telling some stories of previous WSOP events and other poker games. At the same table, JC Tran seems to want to know every second how Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi is doing at the pot-limit Omaha final table.

Tags: Andy BlochDavood MehrmandJC TranJean-Robert Bellande

Level: 10

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 0

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