Event 15 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Completed
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 15 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$3,078,500
Total Entries
655
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Players Left 1 / 655
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A number of big names fell throughout the day, with pros like Howard Lederer, Scotty Nguyen and Humberto Brenes leaving early and others like Tiffany Michelle and Phil Hellmouth nursing short stacks for as long as possible.
While many departed, others built massive chip stacks that will serve them well when we start Day 2 at 2PM tomorrow. Some of the healthier stacks belong to pros like Nenad Medic, Victor Ramdin, Gavin Griffin, and Vanessa Rousso and Jimmy Fricke who spent much of the day at the Killer Table which was packed with talent from the very first hand of the day.
The biggest stacks of the day are all well over 100,000 chips and are, in order:
Alexander Toryanski - 175,000
Faraz Jaka - 170,000
Brian Lemke - 160,000
Fabian Quoss - 135,000
Luke Staudenmaier - 133,000
Join us tomorrow as we play our way toward the final table and see which of the 165 returning players finishes the day on top.
After stealing the blinds from Bari, Victor complimented his level of play. "You Internet kids are really something. You're making me take my game to another level to try and keep up."
Bari's response - "I'm not an Internet kid anymore. I'm a live guy. There are too many Swedes on the Internet."
Gracz raised to 2,600 from middle position and got called by Anh Van Nguyen in the big blind. Both players checked the flop of
and Gracz called Nguyen's 5,100 chip bet when the 
fell on the turn. Both players checked the 
on the river, and Nguyen mucked after Gracz turned over 
for a pair.Gracz now has 45,000.
"I've got 72," he said. "I turned 40 into 2 bluffing, and turned 2 into 72. I'm OK."
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
