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Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 11 - $2,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$2,000
Prize Pool
$2,995,720
Total Entries
1,646
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 1,646
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A few breaktime chip counts...
T.J. Cloutier: 32,000
Thanh Chau: 112,500 and still our chip leader
Phil Hellmuth: 28,000
Captain Tom Franklin: 22,000
Tommy Pope: 85,000
William Martin: 22,000
Tom McEvoy: 12,500
Kathy Liebert: 9,100
Maridu Mayrinck: 27,000
We'll be back in 20 to play ouy the last two levels of the night.
Mercier:
Other Player:
Board:
With the average stack at around 23,500, though, 40,000 still constitutes a very healthy stack and he won't be going anywhere for a while.
Liya Gerasimova is our latest casualty, getting her chips in most confidently with
but finding herself up against some rather unexpected pocket aces. A queen-free board later, and we are down one Russian.
against Eric Neal's 
-- already drawing thin, and drawing dead come the flushalicious 
flop. The Seabeast swims away none the richer.
held up nicely against her opponent's 
down an exciting but ultimately no-cigar sort of 
board.
board. With a number of chips already in the pot that can only be described as a lot, Tommy Pope announced all in, and after some rather tense dwelling time, Faraz Jaka announced call.Jaka:
Pope:
Yikes.
With that rather cruel river, Pope doubled up to a chip lead contesting 92,000, while Jaka's healthy stack was decimated. Don't feel too sorry for Jaka, though -- he managed to make a straight flush the very next hand to knock out a player, and is on a very respectable 28,000.
"What's that for?" he asked suspiciously as I asked him his name. "It's because you're chip leader," said I. "Oh," he said. Then, happy as Larry, "Am I really chip leader?" Yes he is. That's why we do this job. It's for those little bits of happiness we can spread across a card room.
flop. No miraculous re-binking for the gent with queens, and Meehan is now the proud possessor of 17,000 in chips.
