Event 24 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-11-2009 13:02 UTC-12

Counting Counting Counting, Keep Those Chipstacks Counting

Michael Greco: 16,000
Chris Moorman: 15,000
Phil Hellmuth: 11,000
Bill Gazes: just 3,000
Anna Wroblewski: 31,000
Sunny Chattha: 30,000
Eric Liu: 21,000
Pilar Tucker: pretty shaky on 5,000
James Mackey: also not great on 5,150
Sorel Mizzi: 21,000
Graham Wheldon: 9,000
Pieter de Korver: 23,000
David Chicotsky: 31,000 -- he awkwardly left his table for a while, but now he's back
Gavin Griffin: busto

06-11-2009 12:56 UTC-12

Marty's No Chicken

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Poker media stalwart Marty Derbyshire is down to 11,000 and loudly complaining on all sorts of bad beats, real or imagined. Most recently he doubled up a short-stacked player in that classic coinflip, {A-Spades}

against the shorty's {Q-Hearts}

. No help at all on the {9-Diamonds}

board and a big sigh from Derbyshire.

Level: 6

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

06-11-2009 12:32 UTC-12

How Much Do They Get?

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Wow, there is some serious money to be won here in the next three days. The total prize pool amounts to an extremely juicy $3,420,690 with first place paying a delicious $607,256. In fact six places will be paying out six figures, and 270 happy people will be leaving this tournament with more money in their pockets than they arrived with, barring accidents in the casino and so on.

Please check the Prizepool and Payouts page shortly for full info.

06-11-2009 12:17 UTC-12

Frickin' Marvellous

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Jimmie Fricke is up to 17,000 after calling another player's shove on a {6-Diamonds}

flop. Fircke's opponent turned over {A-Diamonds}

for bottom pair and a flush draw but failed to improve on the {K-Hearts}

turn or

river, and Fricke's pocket {8-Hearts}

took the pot and sent his hapless adversary to the rail.

Tags: Jimmie Fricke

06-11-2009 12:12 UTC-12

A Few More Counts

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So terribly easy to typo, that. Nevertheless:

Erica Schoenberg: 14,000
Alex Jacob and his awesome hairdo: 5,075
Nik Persaud: 7,000 -- "I donked off half my stack."
Soren Kongsgaard: 8,000
Kara Scott: 10,000
Tom Franklin and his Captain Tom hat: 3,700
Anna Wroblewski: 27,000

06-11-2009 12:02 UTC-12

How Many Players Are There, and How Many Are Going to Get Paid?

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By the by it looks as though we got 2,506 runners in this event, of whom 1,340 currently remain. 270 places will pay out, the full prize list coming shortly...

06-11-2009 12:00 UTC-12

Minh-Raise

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A couple big stacks have emerged during the break.

One of them is well-known UK circuit player Sunny Chattha -- he neglected to let us know how it happened, but he's up to 35,000.

Also doing very well indeed is Minh Luu. She raised under the gun and got two callers to see an {A-Diamonds}

flop and then a {9-Spades}

turn; by the time the betting was done she found herself involved in a massive three-way all in between herself, a gent in late position and the big blind.

Luu: {9-Clubs}