Event 2 - $40,000 No Limit Hold'em Day 3 | 2009 World Series of Poker

05-30-2009 13:56 UTC-12

Keith Lehr Eliminated in 11th Place ($172,120)

Greg Raymer opened from late position, Keith Lehr moved all in for 800,000 from the small blind and Raymer made the call.

Lehr {A-Diamonds}

Raymer

Lehr didn't improve on the {6-Diamonds}

board, hitting the rail in 11th place.

Raymer is now up to 4.6 million.

Tags: Greg Raymer Keith Lehr

05-30-2009 13:58 UTC-12

Action Paused

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With 4:22 remaining in Level 22, the tournament clock has been paused while our ten remaining players re-draw for seats on a single table.

05-30-2009 14:00 UTC-12

Seating Assignments for the Ten-Handed Table

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Here's how the remaining ten players have been seated around Table #144:

Seat 1 -- Ted Forrest
Seat 2 -- Noah Schwartz
Seat 3 -- Alec Torelli
Seat 4 -- Isaac Haxton
Seat 5 -- Greg Raymer
Seat 6 -- Justin Bonomo
Seat 7 -- Lex Veldhuis
Seat 8 -- Dani Stern
Seat 9 -- Tony G
Seat 10 -- Vitaly Lunkin

05-30-2009 14:08 UTC-12

Action Resumes

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Cards are back in the air for our final ten.

05-30-2009 14:12 UTC-12

Lunkin Doubles through Raymer

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On the first hand of the ten-handed, not-quite-final-table, Greg Raymer raised to 100,000 from early position, and Vitaly Lunkin reraised to 300,000 from the button. It folded back to Raymer who pushed his 4 million-plus chip stack all in, and Lunkin didn't think very long before making the call.

Raymer {6-Clubs}

Lunkin

"Wow, I didn't think you'd call," said Raymer.

The board came {A-Spades}

, and Lunkin doubled up to 3.26 million. Raymer is now down close to 3 million.

Tags: Greg Raymer Vitaly Lunkin

05-30-2009 14:14 UTC-12

Dinner Break

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Several of the players expressed a desire to play through and go ahead and determine our final nine, but at least one or two wanted to break for dinner, and so we are taking a one-hour break.

Updated chip counts coming shortly!

05-30-2009 14:22 UTC-12

Chip Counts at Break, Ten Players Remain

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Alec Torelli -- 5,375,000
Lex "RaSZi" Veldhuis -- 4,030,000
Vitaly Lunkin -- 3,500,000
Isaac Haxton -- 3,145,000
Greg Raymer -- 2,995,000
Justin Bonomo -- 2,045,000
Dani "Ansky" Stern -- 1,275,000
Ted Forrest -- 815,000
Noah Schwartz -- 550,000
Tony G -- 445,000

Play should resume at about 8:10pm Vegas time.

Level: 23

Blinds: 25,000/50,000

Ante: 5,000

05-30-2009 15:11 UTC-12

Cards Are in the Air

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Players have returned to play until there is one more elimination.

05-30-2009 15:28 UTC-12

Cautious Play

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The first dozen hands since the dinner break have been almost exclusively raise-and-take-the-blinds, with only a single flop thus far. None of these ten wants to be the one to miss out on tomorrow's televised final table.