Level: 3
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
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
Entries
1,646
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 1,646
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- Peter Eastgate, on 5,000 currently and enjoying a massage
- be-hatted Frenchman Nicolas Levi, fresh off his final table finish at the Grand Prix de Paris and right now sitting on 3,500
- Maridu Mayrinck: 4,000
- Allen Cunningham: 6,400
- Chris Ferguson: 5,600
- noticed earlier, but seems to fit in well with the chip count theme of the post, Sandra Naujoks: 6,600
Liya Gerasimova: well ahead on 19,500
Mike Ellis: 5,800, an excellent recovery
David "LeKnave" Jones: 10,000
Jason Mercier (now of course the proud owner of a Diamond rewards card after that little ceremony earlier): 13,500
Adam Levy: 5,000
There is also a remarkable prominence of hats over in the Miranda Room.
Cowboy hats: 3
Baseball caps: average 3 per table, so with 21 tables it's approximately 63
Yellow fisherman hat: 1
Not to mention the dude in the photo. Not really sure what he's dressed up as, but there you go.
There is also a curious aroma of hamster cage as one enters the room, but I would not like to speculate about its origins.
flop, and Will Fry bet 300. He looked somewhat surprised to get two callers. Fry started giggling, and all three proceeded to check down the 
turn and 
river. "Er... I have a four," volunteered Fry, but both his opponents turned over the mighty 
offsuit to win the pot. Hilarity all round.
- Nicky Evans
- Nicolas Levi
- Marc Naalden
Also missing in action is Neil Channing -- although curiously he has left his chips behind. A dwindling stack remains in the place where he ought to be, but he hasn't been back to his seat since the break. Yikes. If anyone sees him, send him back to the Amazon Room...
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Leba:
His Opponent:
Board: an incredibly exciting
to almost double Leba's stack and bust the hapless coinflipper.
"I sucked out," she said cheerfully, telling me that her pocket fours came good against pocket fives when a four came down on the flop. A few hands later she doubled up with pocket aces against
, and just now she took down a sizable pot after moving all in on the turn of a 
board, eliciting an eventual fold from her opponent.
Joe Sebok: 11,300
Lee Watkinson: 20,500
Scott Montgomery: 19,000
Chris Ferguson: just 2,000
Still on roughly their 6,000 starting stacks:
- Kelly Kim
- Tom McEvoy
- Brandon Cantu
- Sorel Mizzi
- Yevgeniy Timoshenko
- Phil Hellmuth
