Event 31 - $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-15-2009 00:34 UTC-12

Day 2 Seat Assignments and Chip Counts

[user22113]

Play resumes at 2:00pm.

(Table 176)
Seat 1: Chris Wilcox - 6100
Seat 2: John Racener - 17300
Seat 3: Seth Bluman - 11800
Seat 5: Mickey Appleman - 3600
Seat 6: Jonathan Green - 34800
Seat 7: Andrew Black - 54300
Seat 8: Paul Darden - 19600

(Table 177)
Seat 1: Frankie Odell - 26500
Seat 2: Joe Bolnick - 9100
Seat 3: Sarharib Karatas - 29100
Seat 5: Derek Raymond - 15500
Seat 6: Richard Brodie - 11800
Seat 7: Fuad Koubi - 23100
Seat 8: Kenny Shei - 25000

(Table 178)
Seat 1: John Comer - 8200
Seat 2: Pete Moore - 25900
Seat 3: Kathy Baxter - 4100
Seat 4: Barry Greenstein - 6400
Seat 6: Magnus Persson - 15900
Seat 7: Allen Bari - 7200
Seat 8: Jason Roth - 15400

(Table 179)
Seat 1: Jessica Cobbe - 8600
Seat 2: Ross Mallor - 8200
Seat 3: Devin Hanneman - 16000
Seat 4: Rollo Johnson - 10500
Seat 5: Anna Wroblewski - 14300
Seat 6: Mark Gregorich - 12500
Seat 7: Sirous Baghchehsaraie - 14600

(Table 180)
Seat 1: Walter Browne - 8200
Seat 2: Charles Foehl - 5500
Seat 3: Rolando Lozano - 23200
Seat 4: Marcandrea Trevisanato - 1800
Seat 5: Alexander Burkart - 23000
Seat 7: Vanessa Rousso - 30900
Seat 8: Bryan Micon - 23600

(Table 181)
Seat 1: Greg Mascio - 12800
Seat 2: Matt Kelly - 18100
Seat 3: Ryan Plusch - 17700
Seat 4: Timothy Burt - 18900
Seat 5: Romik Vartzar - 3100
Seat 7: Michael DePietro - 6700
Seat 8: William Eichel - 34100

(Table 182)
Seat 1: John Armbrust - 14000
Seat 2: Marco Traniello - 55000
Seat 4: Thor Hansen - 15900
Seat 5: Jim Silveira - 55000
Seat 6: Harvey Gurwitz - 8200
Seat 7: Allen Kim - 7000
Seat 8: Mitch Schock - 19700

(Table 183)
Seat 1: Jordan Rich - 8600
Seat 2: Lonnie Heimowitz - 17700
Seat 3: Alan Myerson - 24400
Seat 4: Rob Deacon - 2000
Seat 5: Christoph Niesert - 11500
Seat 6: Shannon Shorr - 20200
Seat 7: Jim Balestrere - 3600
Seat 8: Reginald Simmons - 10900

(Table 184)
Seat 1: Archie Karas - 28800
Seat 2: Bob Lauria - 11400
Seat 3: Benjamin Landowski - 23500
Seat 4: Peter Feldman - 5200
Seat 6: Kevin Stacy - 10500
Seat 7: Mark Stubbs - 16600
Seat 8: Dave Schneyer - 9800

(Table 185)
Seat 1: Dustin Bryan - 29800
Seat 2: Greg Monaldi - 16600
Seat 3: Brian Malcolm - 21700
Seat 4: Minh Nguyen - 15000
Seat 5: Annie Duke - 23700
Seat 6: Vassilios Lazarou - 30100
Seat 7: Marcel Luske - 11100
Seat 8: Ryan Hughes - 24300

(Table 186)
Seat 1: Chad Brown - 16500
Seat 2: Ivo Donev - 15100
Seat 3: Doug Saab - 51400
Seat 4: David Golding - 18500
Seat 5: Ken Krouner - 30300
Seat 6: Melioli Marco - 6700
Seat 8: Bryan Devonshire - 15800

(Table 187)
Seat 1: Mike Nelson - 14300
Seat 2: Kenneth Middleton - 10400
Seat 3: Tim Acker - 17000
Seat 4: Vincent Lonardo - 27200
Seat 5: Chris Bjorin - 31100
Seat 6: Bonnie Leinhos - 29600
Seat 7: Steven Schulman - 10000
Seat 8: Von Altizer - 21900

(Table 188)
Seat 1: Raymond Mcclure - 7300
Seat 2: Ronald Schiffman - 13100
Seat 3: Mark Bershad - 8900
Seat 4: Lacey Jones - 23400
Seat 5: Steven Stencil - 19900
Seat 7: Gavin Writer - 7500
Seat 8: Edson Pap - 8300

(Table 189)
Seat 1: Tristan Wade - 14400
Seat 2: Esther Taylor - 3400
Seat 3: Shannon Elizabeth - 11600
Seat 4: Justin Young - 17600
Seat 5: Torstein Iversen - 20700
Seat 6: Ray Marin - 1200
Seat 7: Tom West - 11900
Seat 8: Rich Zhu - 1100

(Table 190)
Seat 1: Mark Bartlog - 3200
Seat 2: Keith Sexton - 12400
Seat 3: Fabrice Soulier - 32200
Seat 4: Eddie Fishman - 25300
Seat 5: Jason Yano - 14400
Seat 6: Blair Rodman - 11500
Seat 7: Jason Dollinger - 34400
Seat 8: Robert Delamare - 10700

(Table 191)
Seat 1: Ronnie Hofman - 35800
Seat 2: Eric Kurtzman - 57800
Seat 3: Denny Axel - 5300
Seat 4: Tianxiong Fu - 41500
Seat 5: John Repetti - 8200
Seat 6: David Singer - 15100
Seat 7: Hernan Salazar - 26200
Seat 8: Diego Cordovez - 3500

(Table 192)
Seat 1: Mimi Tran - 19800
Seat 2: Phillip Marmorstein - 14000
Seat 3: Jonathan Weekley - 9400
Seat 4: Amir Nematinia - 18200
Seat 5: Ming Lee - 32500
Seat 6: Clyde Hinton - 20000
Seat 7: William Buckley - 43300
Seat 8: Alan Boston - 12800

(Table 193)
Seat 1: Damon Shrader - 19400
Seat 2: Mike Puskarich - 18100
Seat 3: Eric Levine - 8700
Seat 4: Peter Gelencser - 27600
Seat 5: Quincy Crawford - 17100
Seat 6: Jarrod Brogdon - 13100
Seat 7: Corey Carone - 3300
Seat 8: Robert Lewis - 11400

(Table 194)
Seat 1: Jean Gaspard - 40300
Seat 2: Sabic Sebastien - 72700
Seat 3: Jeffrey Kacir - 23600
Seat 4: Keith Ezykowich - 22700
Seat 5: Mike Krescanko - 10300
Seat 6: Jakub Dylewski - 11600
Seat 7: Jim Pechac - 11800
Seat 8: Bill Seber - 10400

(Table 195)
Seat 1: Farina Valter - 5900
Seat 2: Tad Jurgens - 11800
Seat 3: Chris Reslock - 10000
Seat 4: Brian Gray - 10200
Seat 5: Zak Gilbert - 5000
Seat 6: Jameson Painter - 17000
Seat 7: Ed Tonnellier - 7200
Seat 8: Kyle Anderson - 22000

(Table 196)
Seat 1: Josh Crawford - 12800
Seat 2: Bill Blanda - 30300
Seat 3: Greg Dyer - 10600
Seat 4: Pat Peercy - 13400
Seat 5: James Van Alstyne - 24500
Seat 6: Nathan Hagens - 17100
Seat 7: Charlie Ng - 9200
Seat 8: Farzad Rouhani - 21000

(Table 197)
Seat 1: Pfister Hans - 11900
Seat 2: Jeff Wagner - 12900
Seat 3: Frank Selberis - 10200
Seat 4: Kyung Han - 5200
Seat 5: Kirk Oshiro - 6800
Seat 6: Manuel Labandeira - 7300
Seat 7: Scott Ettinger - 18500
Seat 8: Paul Rose - 16500

(Table 198)
Seat 1: Pat Pezzin - 14000
Seat 2: Marc Glickman - 16400
Seat 3: Matt Grapenthien - 4800
Seat 4: Toto Leonidas - 7100
Seat 5: Paul Evans - 5900
Seat 6: Tony Losey - 9600
Seat 7: Jonathan Vuong - 13500
Seat 8: Eric Kettner - 3300

(Table 199)
Seat 1: Benjamin Yu - 24500
Seat 2: Richard Digiorgio - 19500
Seat 3: Perry Friedman - 17300
Seat 4: Kevin Haney - 7700
Seat 5: Seth Bluman - 1200
Seat 6: Lana Maier - 14400
Seat 7: Vito Barone - 42300
Seat 8: Peter Costa - 7600

(Table 200)
Seat 1: Joe Serock - 12700
Seat 2: Matt Savage - 6200
Seat 3: Adam Heller - 7500
Seat 4: Jay Hong - 32000
Seat 5: Richard Atkinson - 6300
Seat 6: Carlos Fuentes - 9300
Seat 7: Brian Taylor - 14700

(Table 201)
Seat 2: Katja Thater - 4100
Seat 3: Eric Friedman - 5000
Seat 4: Seth Hippensteel - 16900
Seat 5: Farzad Bonyadi - 4900
Seat 6: Bruno Fiorenza - 36100
Seat 7: Patrick Comeau - 3600
Seat 8: James Schaaf - 20700

(Table 202)
Seat 1: Thomas Hunt - 16100
Seat 2: Rodney Pardey Sr - 15700
Seat 3: John Centeno - 14400
Seat 4: David Scheer - 12200
Seat 5: Jim Wheatley - 20600
Seat 6: Trent Gundrum - 11300
Seat 7: Desmond Portano - 18800
Seat 8: Sean Snyder - 4000

(Table 203)
Seat 1: Mark Provenzano - 13000
Seat 2: Lawrence Birk - 13600
Seat 3: Kathy Raymond - 16500
Seat 4: Glen Engelbert - 13900
Seat 5: Thomas Bihl - 11900
Seat 6: Ralph Catania - 11300
Seat 7: Art Duncan - 10300
Seat 8: Raviv Shevach - 3700

(Table 204)
Seat 1: David May - 18600
Seat 2: Danny Hofer - 17000
Seat 3: Al 'Sugar Bear' Barbieri - 30000
Seat 4: David Taylor - 25100
Seat 5: Steve Diano - 7100
Seat 6: Adam Kipnis - 21000
Seat 7: Rostislav Tsodikov - 10200
Seat 8: John Womack - 4600

06-15-2009 07:40 UTC-12

Whinny and Neigh, It's Another Dose of H.O.R.S.E.

[user75032]

Kurtzman was not the chip leader, but he was close.

Welcome back, H.O.R.S.E. fans, for Day 2 of Event 31 at the 2009 World Series of Poker, $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. An impressive 770 players bought into this tournament yesterday to prove their mettle in one of poker's most grueling tests, the five-game mixed games event. By the end of the day, that number had been reduced via eliminations to roughly 225.

When the chips were all bagged and tagged last night, our two presumptive chip leaders -- Andy Black and Eric Kurtzman -- were in fifth and second places respectively, separated by just two big bets. The overnight chip leader turned out to be Sabic Sebastien, stacked at 72,700. He's followed in order by Kurtzman, Jim Silveira, Marco "Hey Look!" Traniello and Black.

The original plan today was to play down to the final table, but with so many players remaining in the field there's no way that's going to happen. The over/under for the number we'll have left when 3am hits is 36.5, which will set this tournament up for a very, very long Day 3 tomorrow.

Play is underway at 2pm local time, in about eighty minutes.

06-15-2009 09:01 UTC-12

Shuffle Up and Deal!

[user75032]

Cards are in the air.

Level: 9

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

06-15-2009 09:16 UTC-12

Tough Start for the Mighty Thor

[user75032]

Omaha Hi/Lo:

Even Thor Hansen can't overcome the nut-nut. All tables started on the Omaha Hi/Lo round. With the board showing {A-?}

, Hansen check-called a river bet from his opponent, then prepared to throw his cards into the muck. Sure enough, Hansen's opponent showed down {A-?}

for the nut low and the nut high (no flushes on the board).

Tags: Thor Hansen

06-15-2009 09:23 UTC-12

Situation Crticial for Appleman

[user75032]

Omaha Hi/Lo:

Mickey Appleman started the day with just 3,600. He won an early pot, but is now down to just 1,800 after losing a hand that went to showdown. Appleman led out on a board of {7-Spades}

and was called by Gavin Writer. Writer raised the turn {9-Spades}

after Appleman bet again. Appleman called that raise, then check-called one more bet on the {8-Clubs}

river. Writer turned up {A-Hearts}

for a ten-high straight and the nut low.

"Even a blind squirrel," said Writer with a smile as he dragged the pot.

Tags: Mickey Appleman

06-15-2009 09:34 UTC-12

Introductions on Brasilia 177

[user75032]

"I can't believe I get to play with Micon," said Richard "the Quiet Lion" Brodie when Bryan Micon joined Table 177.

"I can't believe I get to play with the Quiet Lion," replied Micon.

"Do you know Kenny?" Brodie asked, pointing to Kenny Shei. Introductions were made, with Micon then asking if Shei knew Micon's friend, Dustin Wolfe.

Fixed-limit tournaments are so much friendlier than no-limit tournaments.

06-15-2009 09:38 UTC-12

The Music Man Sings No More

[user75032]

We didn't see the action. What we saw was that Barry Greenstein is now occupying the seat formerly occupied by Marcel Luske, two seats to the left of Annie Duke.

06-15-2009 09:48 UTC-12

Rousso's Three Pair Fall to Sexton's Two

[user75032]

Stud:

Rousso: {J-?}

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Sexton:

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Soulier: x-x / {k-Clubs}

FOLD

A big pot started developing early in a hand contested among Vanessa Rousso, Keith Sexton and Fabrice Soulier. After one player limped in, Rousso completed. Sexton raised and Soulier three-bet. Rousso thought things over before calling. Sexton also called.

Soulier still had the lead on fourth street. He bet and was called by both players. On fifth street Rousso made an open pair and took over the lead. Her bet was raised by Sexton, chasing Soulier out of the pot. Rousso called.

On sixth street, Rousso made two open pair. She bet and was called by Sexton. Both players checked the river, where Rousso's two pair, jacks and nines, was no good against Sexton's aces and tens.

"Where were the jacks, man?" Rousso complained after the hand.

"Or the nines and fives," another player helpfully pointed out.

Tags: Fabrice Soulier Keith Sexton Vanessa Rousso

06-15-2009 09:54 UTC-12

Appleman Eliminated

donpeters

Stud:

Mickey Appleman was all in on third street facing Lacey Jones and Steven Stencil. Jones brought in with the {5-Clubs}

showing and then Stencil completed before Appleman put the last of his chips in. Jones came along for the ride. She and Stencil checked the action down on every street from there on and here's how their boards ran out.

Jones: (X-X) {5-Clubs}