2009 World Series of Poker

Event 24 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
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Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♥5♣
Prize
$607,256
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,420,690
Entries
2,506
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Day 1 Begins; Many Runners Expected

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Good morning, No Limit Hold'em fans, and welcome back to the eerily empty Amazon Room. The only people in sight so far are one dealer per table looking like a bunch of well-organized penguins, but the board assures us that an absolute minimum of 2,100 runners will be paying their monies and taking their chances.

Join us back here at noon for kickoff.

Level: 1

Blinds: 25/50

Ante: 0

Who's Here So Far?

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Wow, a nice little hike through all three tournament rooms has turned up some pretty big names -- and bear in mind that the really cool kids usually show up late.

In uninspired list form, here are a few of the more famous faces.

- Neil Channing
- Jan von Halle
- Eric Liu
- Hevad Khan
- T.J. Cloutier
- Kara Scott
- Surinder Sunar
- Padraig Parkinson, currently the loudest man in the room, but most likely only until Phil Hellmuth arrives
- Mark Teltscher
- Jesper Hougaard
- Dennis Phillips
- Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier
- Adam Junglen
- Arnaud Mattern
- Liv Boeree
- Humberto Brenes
- Tiffany Michelle
- Chad Batista
- Kathy Liebert
- Dragan Galic

Giving Something Back

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Among those who have been doing well so far this Series, the following have made the excellent decision to recycle some of their winnings into the buy-in for this tournament:

- Praz Bansi
- Anna Kantor
- Mari Lou Morelli
- Jason Mercier
- Jim Geary

Dropping Like Flies?

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For a while the board was claiming that of 2,449 runners, only 2,098 remained. Though eminently possible, it did seem a little unlikely midway through level one -- and indeed, the latter figure has since disappeared from the board, suggesting that it was merely some sort of typo. Nevertheless, extreme carnage is expected today...

Poker Media Represent

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Among today's impressive field, we have the imposing figures that are PokerNews' own Anthony Yeh, and from an evil rival media outlet (nah, it's all love in the press room), we have one Marty Derbyshire. Drinks are on them if they go deep!

Who Else Is Here?

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We fully expect players to continue trickling in for the first couple of levels, but some more who made it into the Amazon Room only slightly late are Jimmy Fricke, Mark Seif, Lee Watkinson, J.J. Liu, Isaac Haxton, Ivan Demidov and Alex Jacob.

Level: 2

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

Rule Britannia

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An excellent turnout for Britain today. As well as luminaries Neil Channing and Surinder Sunar, we have well-known circuit players Mark Teltscher, Andrew Teng, Jerome Bradpiece, Sunny Chattha, Michael Greco, Mike Ellis, Priyan de Mel and Praz Bansi, the latter fresh off his 7th place finish in the $1,500 no-limit six-max event last week.
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