Event 16 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-07-2009 16:53 UTC-12

Play Resumes

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Cards are back in the air. 22 players remain. Will we finish before 3am?

Level: 15

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

06-07-2009 17:12 UTC-12

Levi Eliminated; Enright Crippled

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David Levi is out of the tournament. He went all the way to the river with "Miami" John Cernuto. Cernuto drew into a board of {q-Spades}

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, a pair of sixes. Levi couldn't beat that (he mucked his hand) and was out soon afterwards.

Barbara Enright is also on life support. She went all the way to the river with Jason Mercier (who already has one gold bracelet this WSOP). Mercier bet every street after raising third street, and Enright check-called the whole way. She started with split tens and couldn't improve to beat Mercier's buried aces.

Enright has just 8,000 chips.

Tags: Barbara Enright David Levi Jason Mercier John Cernuto

06-07-2009 17:15 UTC-12

Soulier Next Out the Door

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At one time today, Fabrice Soulier was the chip leader. Now he's out. He started with three spades, {5-Spades}

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, but never improved from there. Jeffrey Lisandro started with split aces and took down the pot to knock Soulier out.

06-07-2009 17:20 UTC-12

Checking in on the Champ (Redux)

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The winner from this event in 2008, Mike Rocco, is still in the field. He started the day with 7,500 chips and has worked those chips up to 85,000, about an average stack. He remarked that he feels the field this year is tougher than last year.

On the other end of the room are Eric and Rod Pardey. Eric is the nephew of Rod; Rod is a former bracelet winner, having taken down the $2,500 Seven-Card Stud event in 1991 and 1994. Not only are the two Pardeys related, they're sitting next to each other!

06-07-2009 17:24 UTC-12

Huge Pot to Juanda

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Chips upon chips were splashing into the pot on Brasilia #181. The action was started by Nick Frangos, who completed the {J-Diamonds}

. Dutch Boyd and John Juanda called. Boyd raised fourth street after Frangos bet, earning a call from Juanda and Frangos both.

Fifth street is where everything went crazy. Boyd's board showed x-x / {10-Hearts}

. He bet and was raised by Juanda's x-x / {3-Clubs}

. That raise folded Frangos but brought a three-bet from Boyd. Juanda put in the fourth bet with another raise; this time Boyd just called.

Boyd check-called sixth street ( {6-Hearts}

for him,

for Juanda) and the river. Juanda showed down {9-Diamonds}

in the hole for a full house, nines full of eights. That massive pot pumped him up to 138,000 in chips and dropped Boyd all the way to 58,000.

Tags: Dutch Boyd John Juanda

06-07-2009 17:39 UTC-12

Enright Finally Knuckles Under

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Even a small double-up through Dutch Boyd was not enough to save Barbara Enright in the end. A few hands later she was all in again, this time with split queens. Jason Mercier got in there with split eights. Once all the cards were out, Mercier rivered three eights and Enright had two pair, aces and queens. It was a tough hand to exit on for one of the class acts of poker.

Eighteen players remain.

Tags: Barbara Enright Jason Mercier

06-07-2009 17:43 UTC-12

Koch Plays the Knaves; Can't Make Them Work

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Helmut Koch is the next player out. He started with buried jacks and was all in with them by fifth street; unfortunately for Koch, Steven Stencil started with buried kings and improved to a full house, fives full of kings.

The march towards the final table continues!

Tags: Helmut Koch Steven Stencil

06-07-2009 17:46 UTC-12

Charlie Townsend Eliminated

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It's been a flurry of eliminations here in the pink section of the Brasilia room. Charlie Townsend was rocking the short stack for a long time; he finally made a stand with {Q-Hearts}

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and was called by Jason Mercier, who started with {3-Hearts}

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. When neither player improved, Mercier's lowly pair of threes was enough to eliminate Townsend.

The tournament has once again paused for another re-draw. Two tables remain.

Tags: Charlie Townsend Jason Mercier

06-07-2009 17:52 UTC-12

New Seat Assignments

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Table 181

Seat 1: Eric Pardey
Seat 2: Nick Frangos
Seat 3: Mitch Schock
Seat 4: Steven Stencil
Seat 5: Simon Yee
Seat 6: John Cernuto
Seat 7: John Juanda
Seat 8: Jason Mercier

Table 182

Seat 1: Mike Rocco
Seat 2: Dutch Boyd
Seat 3: Rod Pardey
Seat 4: Thor Hansen
Seat 5: Gerard Rechnitzer
Seat 6: Daniel Studer
Seat 7: Jeff Lisandro
Seat 8: Max Troy