Event 2 - $40,000 No Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

Event 2 - $40,000 No Limit Hold'em

Day 1 Completed

05-28-2009 22:28 UTC-12

End of Day 1 Chip Counts and Day 2 Seat Assignments

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(Table 58)
Seat 1: Andrew Barta - 223500
Seat 2: Jess Yawitz - 202500
Seat 3: Kyle 'krisqueen' Wilson - 611500
Seat 4: Noah Schwartz - 168000
Seat 5: Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond - 443000
Seat 6: JC Tran - 155500
Seat 7: William Molson - 108000
Seat 8: Justin Bonomo - 738000
Seat 9: Steve Billirakis - 353000

(Table 60)
Seat 1: Alec Torelli - 345500
Seat 2: Hoyt Corkins - 104500
Seat 3: Ville Wahlbeck - 354500
Seat 4: Greg Raymer - 213000
Seat 5: David 'Devilfish' Ulliott - (Unknown)
Seat 6: Andy Black - 449500
Seat 7: Bruno Fitoussi - 812500
Seat 8: Steve Zolotow - 172500
Seat 9: Brian 'tsarrast' Rast - 139000

(Table 62)
Seat 1: Matt Gianetti - 174500
Seat 2: Sami 'LarsLuzak' Kelopuro - 126500
Seat 3: Alan Sass - 491000
Seat 4: Marco 'CrazyMarco' Johnson - 365500
Seat 5: Mark Dickstein - 95000
Seat 6: David Pham - 192500
Seat 7: Barry Schwartz - 174500
Seat 8: David Singer - 168000
Seat 9: Chance Walker - 174000

(Table 64)
Seat 1: Lee Markholt - 184000
Seat 2: Neil Channing - 296500
Seat 3: Unknown Player - Did not report count
Seat 4: Scott Seiver - 124500
Seat 5: Evan McNiff - 276500
Seat 6: Ali Eslami - 444000
Seat 7: Kenny Tran - 226000
Seat 8: Andrew Lichtenberger - 108000
Seat 9: Vitaly Lunkin - 289000

(Table 66)
Seat 1: Phil Ivey - 279000
Seat 2: Nam Le - 359500
Seat 3: Lex 'RaSZi' Veldhuis - 646500
Seat 4: Sorel Mizzi - 431000
Seat 5: David 'WhooooKidd' Baker - 446000
Seat 6: Adam Junglen - 144000
Seat 7: Michael DeMichele - 519500
Seat 8: David Benefield - 70500
Seat 9: Dani 'Ansky' Stern - 386000

(Table 68)
Seat 1: Amit 'amak316' Makhija - 88500
Seat 2: Mike 'SirWatts' Watson - 92500
Seat 3: Robert Suer - 136000
Seat 4: Shawn Buchanan - 62000
Seat 5: James Mackey - 205500
Seat 6: Chris Moorman - 57500
Seat 7: Mike Matusow - 87000
Seat 8: Clark Hamagumi - 159000
Seat 9: Tony G - 306500

(Table 70)
Seat 1: Markus Lehmann - 229000
Seat 2: Isaac Haxton - 392500
Seat 3: Vanessa Rousso - 165500
Seat 4: Doshi Suresh - 353000
Seat 5: Chad Batista - 140000
Seat 6: Frank Kassela - 339500
Seat 7: John Duthie - 188000
Seat 8: Dale Pinchot - 188000
Seat 9: Kirill Gerasimov - 149000

(Table 72)
Seat 1: Doyle Brunson - 244000
Seat 2: Neil Chriss - 315000
Seat 3: Ted Forrest - 401500
Seat 4: Russell Rosenbloom - 102000
Seat 5: Antonio Esfandiari - 292500
Seat 6: Chris Moneymaker - 805000
Seat 7: Keith Lehr - 206000
Seat 8: Matthew "adz124" Marafioti - 375000
Seat 9: Alex Jacob - 357000

(Table 74)
Seat 1: Mark Seif - 411500
Seat 2: Jason Mercier - 331000
Seat 3: Brian Townsend - 609000
Seat 4: Chris Moore - 110500
Seat 5: Humberto Brenes - 269500
Seat 6: Steve Weinstein - 246500
Seat 7: Bill Chen - 141000
Seat 8: Johannes Strassmann - 143500
Seat 9: Chau Giang - 87500

(Table 79)
Seat 1: Jeff Lisandro - 124500
Seat 3: Andrew 'good2cu' Robl - 260500
Seat 4: Huck Seed - 274000
Seat 5: Josh Arieh - 339000
Seat 6: Matthew Glantz - 238000
Seat 7: Emil "whitelime" Patel - 494500
Seat 8: David Chiu - 245000
Seat 9: Terrence Chan - 109500

05-28-2009 20:13 UTC-12

Day 1 Concludes, 89 to return tomorrow at 2 p.m.

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Of the 201 players that ponied up the forty dime buy-in, 89 will move on to Day 2. Currently, Bruno Fitoussi leads the field with 812,500 in chips while 2003 Main Event champion Chris Moneymaker is right behind him with 805,000. Also sporting healthy stacks are Michael DeMichele, Lex "RaSZi" Veldhuis, Emil "whitelime" Patel, Brian Townsend and Justin Bonomo.

In a field of greats, the greats must fall and we saw just that with the departures of bracelet winners Howard Lederer, Phil Hellmuth, John Juanda, Daniel Negreanu, Annie Duke, Jennifer Harman, Kathy Liebert, Johnny Chan, Barry Greenstein, and Chris Ferguson. Also making a Day 1 exit were the top three finishers in the 2008 Main Event (Peter Eastgate, Ivan Demidov, and Dennis Phillips), Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Isaac Baron, Jonathan Little, David Benyamine, Eric Liu, Aaron Been, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Erick Lindgren and Gavin Griffin.

Join us again tomorrow at 2 p.m. PDT for continuing coverage of this event. Until then, good night and good luck from Las Vegas!

05-28-2009 20:08 UTC-12

Scotty Nguyen Eliminated

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Steve Billirakis raises to 10,500 and Scotty Nguyen moves all in for 72,000. Billirakis makes the call and shows {A-Diamonds}

while Nguyen shows pocket jacks.

The board comes {A-Spades}

giving Billirakis a flush and eliminating Scotty Nguyen late in Day One.

Tags: Scotty Nguyen Steve Billirakis

05-28-2009 20:04 UTC-12

Another Double Up for Arieh

Shamus

This last round of hands is working out quite well for Josh Arieh.

On a flop of {J-Spades}

, Andrew Lichtenberger led out for 38,000, Arieh pushed all in, and Lichtenberger instacalled. Lichtenberger showed {J-Diamonds}

for trip jacks, but was outkicked by Arieh's {J-Hearts}

. The turn was the {8-Hearts}

and the river the {10-Spades}

, and after toiling as the short stack much of the night,
Arieh has now chipped up to 339,000.

Meanwhile, Lichtenberger slips to 108,000.

Tags: Andrew Lichtenberger Josh Arieh

05-28-2009 19:55 UTC-12

Arieh Doubles Through Wilson

Shamus

As play winds down, Josh Arieh just doubled through Kyle Wilson.

After a flop of {7-Diamonds}

, Arieh bet 20,000, and Wilson raised enough to put Arieh all in. Arieh called, showing {A-Clubs}

for ace-high. Wilson showed {5-Spades}

for an open-ended straight draw. The turn was the {K-Spades}

and the river the {2-Clubs}

, and Arieh moved back up to 175,000. Wilson slips a bit to 520,000.

Tags: Josh Arieh Kyle Wilson

05-28-2009 19:46 UTC-12

ElkY Eliminated

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Scotty Nguyen opens the pot from early position for an 11,000 chip raise. Alec Torelli reraises from the small blind to 130,000 - a bet which has both Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier in the big blind and Scotty covered.

Grospellier makes the call and Scotty gets out of the way.

ElkY - {10-Clubs}

Torelli -

The board comes {K-Diamonds}

giving Torelli a set and the pot. He eliminates ElkY and climbs to 297,000.

05-28-2009 19:45 UTC-12

Wilson Knocks Out Gould

Shamus

Kyle "krisqueen" Wilson raised to 11,000 from middle position and got three callers: Peter Gould (cutoff), Dani Stern (button), and John Duthie (big blind). The flop came {A-Hearts}

. Duthie checked, Wilson bet 30,000, Gould called, and Stern and Duthie folded.

The turn was the {2-Spades}

. Wilson bet 75,000, and after some deliberation Gould pushed all in for 172,700. Wilson called, turning over {8-Clubs}

for two pair. Gould showed {A-Spades}

for a pair of aces. The river was the {9-Spades}

, and Gould was eliminated.

Wilson now has 595,000.

Tags: Kyle Wilson Peter Gould

05-28-2009 19:45 UTC-12

Nine More Hands

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There's a new policy in place at the end of the day here at the WSOP. With ten minutes remaining in the final level, the tournament clock will be stopped and one card will be drawn from a deck to determine the number of hands each table will play before the surviving players bag and tag their chips. This policy, designed to deter stalling, is already in place on other poker tours including the EPT and the LAPT.

Neil "Bad Beat" Channing had the card-drawing honors and pulled a nine from the deck. Ergo, nine more hands will be dealt at each table before we wrap up for the night.

05-28-2009 19:39 UTC-12