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Event 34 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Completed
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 34 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Total Entries
2,095
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 2,095
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Warned the announcer as players began the end-of-night ritual of counting and then bagging up their hard-won chips.
Play has concluded for Day 1. According to the big board, there are 240 players remaining from our original starting field of 2,095. We'll have the official numbers overnight, as well as chip counts for all of those who will be continuing with the quest for that $521,932 first prize and the WSOP gold bracelet.
Thanks for following along today, and be sure to rejoin us tomorrow at 2 p.m. Vegas time for the restart of Event No. 34!
Next he won a modest-sized pot with pocket eights after flopping a set. He has about 75,000 as the night draws to a close.
. It checked to a player in middle position who bet 3,600, then Eugene Katchalov raised to 11,200. It folded back around and the original raiser thought for a while, then pushed all in, and Katchalov called.Katchalov turned over
for top two, and his opponent 
. The turn was the 
and the river the 
, and another player hit the rail. Katchalov chips up to about 85,000.
It does not appear we'll be bursting that cash bubble until early tomorrow.
A short-stacked player just pushed all in with pocket deuces and got called by a player holding ace-jack. The dealer burned a card then spread out the flop: ace... jack... deuce. The turn and river were blanks, and the short stack survived.
Another one tenuously holding on as we approach the cash bubble.
James "sirgamble11" Taylor -- 172,000
Scott Dorsch -- 150,000
Martin Jacobson -- 120,000
Steve Bredbury -- 110,000
Randy Pheifer -- 110,000
The board came
, which meant Fernandez' ace-high straight was best. He's up to 60,000, Gerasimova is down to 6,000, and Baker is out.
Ferguson currently has a stack of 14,000. The average at the moment (with 279 players left) is 33,790.
The flop came
. Darden quickly tossed out four (500) light blue chips for a bet of 2,000, and without much hesitation his opponent raised to 4,600. Darden wasted no time pushing his remaining chips in the middle, and his opponent went into the tank.Finally, after a long look inward, the big blind let it go. Darden is up to 28,000.
