2009 World Series of Poker

Event 2 - $40,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aa
Prize
$1,891,012
Event Info
Buy-in
$40,000
Entries
201
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Another Double Up for Arieh

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

On a flop of {J-Spades}{J-Clubs}{6-Spades}, Andrew Lichtenberger led out for 38,000, Arieh pushed all in, and Lichtenberger instacalled. Lichtenberger showed {J-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds} for trip jacks, but was outkicked by Arieh's {J-Hearts}{10-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 LichtenbergerJosh Arieh

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

Chris Moneymaker
Chris Moneymaker
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!

End of Day 1 Chip Counts and Day 2 Seat Assignments

(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

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

Day 1 Completed