2009 World Series of Poker

Event 16 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Prize
$124,959
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$490,035
Entries
359
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0

Day 2 Starting Seat Assignments and Chip Counts

(Table 76)
Seat 1: Anthony Mosholder - 3900
Seat 2: Raymond Gerst - 7000
Seat 3: Andrew Howard - 20000
Seat 4: Jeremiah Degreef - 16400
Seat 5: Eugene Lang - 10200
Seat 6: Barbara Enright - 17900
Seat 7: Mallory Smith - 21600
Seat 8: Ben Akiva - 19900

(Table 77)
Seat 1: Fabrice Soulier - 26000
Seat 2: Brent Bibby - 22000
Seat 3: John Ditto - 1700
Seat 4: Robert Rose - 17500
Seat 5: Robert Clark - 20800
Seat 6: Edward Nilosek - 13700
Seat 7: Charlie Townsend - 22300
Seat 8: Jeffrey Lowenhar - 19400

(Table 78)
Seat 1: Jim Paluszek - 21900
Seat 2: Mitch Schock - 15000
Seat 3: Chad Burum - 37300
Seat 4: Marc Floss - 13700
Seat 5: Yuebin Guo - 8500
Seat 6: Scott Adaska - 4200

(Table 82)
Seat 2: Joe Brandenburg - 5300
Seat 3: John Miami - 8400
Seat 4: John Coyle - 7000
Seat 5: Massimiliano Lupi - 17000
Seat 6: Jason Walsh - 12400
Seat 7: David Levi - 49600
Seat 8: Lewis Lipsey - 9800

(Table 83)
Seat 1: Larry Wright - 21900
Seat 2: Robert Goldfarb - 24400
Seat 3: John Hong - 1800
Seat 4: Simon Yee - 13700
Seat 6: Steven Stencil - 22300
Seat 7: Eric Afriat - 44400
Seat 8: Brian Mckain - 20100

(Table 84)
Seat 2: Hendricks Silva - 9400
Seat 3: Charles Schutz - 900
Seat 4: Mel Judah - 9500
Seat 5: Jeff Lisandro - 40700
Seat 6: Jason Mercier - 35000
Seat 7: Mark Bershad - 7900
Seat 8: Frank Debus - 25700

(Table 88)
Seat 1: George Rechnitzer - 10500
Seat 2: Jerry Mccullough - 4600
Seat 3: Eli Elezra - 31100
Seat 4: Helmut Koch - 8300
Seat 5: Larry Kantor - 7200
Seat 6: Keith Correll - 14100
Seat 7: Seyed Sarkeshik - 14400
Seat 8: Dutch Boyd - 47700

(Table 89)
Seat 1: William Buckley - 21300
Seat 2: Gary Benson - 13800
Seat 3: Severin Walser - 15200
Seat 4: Craig Kaufman - 9600
Seat 5: Thor Hansen - 33300
Seat 6: Michael Rocco - 7400
Seat 7: Toma Kalaj - 7800

(Table 90)
Seat 1: Nick Frangos - 27800
Seat 2: David Bach - 31800
Seat 3: Rodeen Talebi - 24500
Seat 4: Giao Nguyen - 4900
Seat 5: Chris Reslock - 23800
Seat 6: Tulchinskiy Mikhail - 20300
Seat 7: Peter Gelencser - 7200
Seat 8: Rodney Pardey - 20400

(Table 93)
Seat 1: Victor Shkurka - 4100
Seat 2: Timothy Finne - 21000
Seat 3: Joy Garcia - 14200
Seat 4: Felix Osterland - 11400
Seat 5: Bob Pinella - 18000
Seat 7: Did not report - 6300
Seat 8: Gerard Rechnitzer - 2700

(Table 94)
Seat 1: Chris Mchugh - 16900
Seat 2: Allen Kessler - 5100
Seat 3: Christoph Wolters - 11100
Seat 4: Alan Boston - 15300
Seat 5: James Hoeppner - 14500
Seat 6: Rep Porter - 37600
Seat 7: Eric Friedman - 28000
Seat 8: Edouard Mignot - 26000

(Table 95)
Seat 1: John Juanda - 30400
Seat 2: Abraham Basen - 6300
Seat 3: Eric Pardey - 26600
Seat 4: Max Troy - 20900
Seat 5: Sam Grizzle - 31000
Seat 6: Jack Mcclelland - 3800
Seat 7: Shawn Ryan - 4700
Seat 8: Michael Mizrachi - 14500

(Table 96)
Seat 1: Farhoosh Yazdanpanah - 7000
Seat 2: Brian Devonshire - 7900
Seat 3: Denise Molloy - 14100
Seat 4: Daniel Studer - 24500
Seat 5: Ted Phillips - 4000
Seat 6: Toni Gatz - 5700
Seat 7: Russell Salzer - 4700
Seat 8: John Richardson - 9500

Welcome Back, Stud Fans

Chip leader David Levi
Chip leader David Levi
Today is Day 2 of Event 16 - $1,500 Seven-Card Stud. Yesterday a surprising 359 players put up the buy-in for this event. By day's end the field had been whittled down to about a quarter of that number

The top of the chip counts are full of notable names. Juanda. Grizzle. Elezra. Bach. Hansen. Mercier. Porter. Lisandro. Boyd. All of those players have a top-fifteen stack, but none of them is at the top. That honor belongs to David Levi, who finished Day 1 with 49,600 chips.

Play is underway in twenty minutes. See you then!

Level: 9

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

One Down...

...95 to go. Charles Schutz started the day with the shortest of short stacks. It didn't take him long to get it in with split eights. Jeff Lisandro called with {9-?} {J-?} {10-?} and made a king-high straight by sixth street. Schultz could only come up with two pair.

"96 players," said Schutz as he left the table.

Tags: Charles SchutzJeff LIsandro

Mercier Gets Richer

Jason Mercier already has one gold bracelet to his credit at the 2009 World Series of Poker. He's going for number two in this event and has built up a head of steam. He raised a {Q-Diamonds} door card after Mel Judah completed the {4-Diamonds}. A third player behind Mercier re-raised the {A-Clubs}, bringing a prolonged tank from Judah before he folded.

Mercier called the raise on third, then called bets on fourth, fifth and sixth streets. At the river, the boards were:

Mercier: x-x / {Q-Diamonds} {9-Clubs} {J-Hearts} {A-Hearts} / x
Opponent: x-x / {A-Clubs} {2-Clubs} {7-Spades} {10-Spades} / x

Mercier led out with a bet that was called, then turned over {A-Spades} {J-Diamonds} {k-Clubs} in the hole for two pair, aces and jacks. They were good.

Tags: Jason MercierMel Judah

Jabberjaw Grizzle

"You ever played Stud before?" Sam Grizzle asked Michael Mizrachi after watching Mizrachi concede a small pot to John Juanda. "Or are you just playing for the bracelet?"

Mizrachi made a disgusted face at first, then conceded that he was playing for the bracelet. "What are you playing for?" he asked Grizzle.

"I'm trying to get my money back playing with you geniuses!" Grizzle replied.

Tags: John JuandaMichael MizrachiSam Grizzle

Dutch Goes Up at Eli's Expense

Dutch Boyd -- yes that Dutch Boyd -- is in the field and doing well to start the day. He tangled with Eli Elezra and emerged victorious. We picked the action up on fifth street, with Boyd showing x-x / {8-Hearts} {8-Spades} {4-Hearts} and Elezra showing x-x / {A-Clubs} {2-Diamonds} {2-Hearts}. Boyd check-called a bet to sixth street, where each player caught ten. Boyd check-called again.

On the river, it was a third check for Boyd. Elezra fired one more time, and Boyd clled one more time with {8-Diamonds} {Q-Hearts} {J-Hearts} for trip eights. That beat Elezra's aces up to give Dutch the pot and a total count of 51,000.

Elezra is down to 29,000.

Tags: Dutch BoydEli Elezra

Mel Judah Eliminated

Mel Judah knew he didn't have many hands left in his stack. He decided to go with a board of x-x / {8-Diamonds} {Q-Spades} {10-Diamonds} {3-Hearts} against Jeff Lisandro's x-x / {Q-Hearts} {6-Clubs} {A-Hearts} {A-Diamonds}. It turned out to be a case of bad timing for Judah; Lisandro had a third ace in the hole. At showdown, his trip aces took the pot and knocked Judah out of the tournament.

Tags: Jeff LIsandroMel Judah

"Nasty" John Cernuto

We picked up the action on sixth street between "Miami" John Cernuto and overnight chip leader David Levi. Levi showed a board of x-x / {2-Diamonds} {A-Diamonds} {k-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds} and bet out. Cernuto called with x-x / {A-Hearts} {3-Clubs} {4-Hearts} {2-Clubs}.

On the river, Levi checked to Cernuto, who fired out a bet. "I know you straightened," said Levi. He folded his hand. Cernuto then flashed {8-Clubs} {6-Clubs} {Q-Hearts} in the hole for ace-high!

"I didn't know you're nasty," remarked Levi.

Tags: David LeviJohn Cernuto