It appears we probably won't be reaching 18 today, so we should expect two more full levels of play. Whether or not we get to 27 and the cash by the end of the night remains to be seen.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 2 - $40,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$40,000
Entries
201
Level
30
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Players Left 1 / 201
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It appears we probably won't be reaching 18 today, so we should expect two more full levels of play. Whether or not we get to 27 and the cash by the end of the night remains to be seen.
Level: 17
Blinds: 9,000/18,000
Ante: 2,000
Justin Bonomo -- 1,525,000
Lex "RaSZi" Veldhuis -- 1,235,000
Vitaly Lunkin -- 1,150,000
Brian Townsend -- 990,000
Tony G -- 990,000
Noah Schwartz -- 955,000
Sorel Mizzi -- 940,000
Matthew "adz124" Marafioti -- 930,000
Matthew Glantz -- 926,000
Ted Forrest -- 920,000
Isaac Haxton -- 810,000
Brian "tsarrast" Rast -- 800,000
Dani "Ansky" Stern -- 790,000
Keith Lehr -- 760,000
Neil Chriss -- 620,000
Vanessa Rousso -- 612,000
David Pham -- 610,000
Andy Black -- 470,000
Doshi Suresh -- 465,000
Clark Hamagami -- 457,000
Evan McNiff -- 450,000
Alec Torelli -- 425,000
Nam Le -- 405,000
David "WhooooKidd" Baker -- 400,000
Andrew "good2cu" Robl -- 350,000
Neil Channing -- 265,000
Marco "CrazyMarco" Johnson -- 260,000
Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond -- 260,000
Alan Sass -- 250,000
Kirill Gerasimov -- 250,000
Sami "LarsLusak" Kelopuro -- 210,000
J.C. Tran -- 190,000
Frank Kassela -- 185,000
David Chiu -- 120,000
Ali Eslami -- 82,000
Raymer showed A-9 and Chiu A-K. The board came
, and Chiu has doubled up to 260,000. Raymer is still well out in front with nearly 2.5 million -- about a million chips more than his nearest competitor.
against the 
of Neil Channing.The flop came
giving Eslami the lead, but when the 
came on the turn, he was all but gone. The 
on the river sealed his fate and Eslami hit the rail nine spots out of the money.Neil Channing - 345,000
Ali Eslami - 36th place ($0)
Kelopuro showed
, and Veldhuis 
. The flop came 
, and Kelopuro is out in 35th place. Veldhuis now has 1.4 million.
"I don't mind a fold," said Tran.
"I understand," replied Forrest, who indeed made the call.
Tran had Forrest dominated, with
to Forrest's 
. The board ran out 
and Tran doubled his stack to 280,000. "Visions of K-J and K-Q were running through my head," quipped Forrest, who is still well-stacked at 920,000.
against David "The Dragon" Pham's . The board came 
, and Sass is out in 34th place.Pham now has 860,000.
against the of Tony G. With about one million in the pot, Tony G looked poised to climb close to the chip lead until the board came 
giving Suresh jacks full. Tony G drops down to 518,000 while Suresh surges to 1,000,000.
