Event 34 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day 2 Completed
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 34 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
2,095
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Play Adjourned For the Night
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The action began at a good clip, and we found our way to the money bubble within just a few minutes. It took just a few hands to find our bubble boy -- actually two bubble boys who will split the prize money for 216th place. With the floodgates now burst, the action progressed at a furious pace, and more than half of the field would be sent home before the dinner break.
Among those who snuck into the money were Allen Cunningham, Chris Ferguson, Dennis Phillips, Thor Hansen, Paul Wasicka, and Matt Keikoan. Within the next two hours or so, Alex Kravchenko, Alex Jacob, Devin Porter, Pat Poels, and Phil Hellmuth would also take that walk of shame, but not before stopping by the payout desk to pick up a couple thousand bucks. The dinner bell sounded with just over 100 players left.
Over the course of the long night, a few players began to really distance themselves from the field. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier was ripping through the room for much of the evening, building a towering castle of chips when most were scrounging around on their last few big blinds. After a table change that put him on Roland de Wolfe's right though, ElkY was forced to slow down a bit, ending the night in the middle of the pack with 420,000 chips. Jared "TheWacoKidd" Hamby was also running strong for much of the evening, but a late tumble would send him out the door in 27th place. At the end of the night, it was Jonas Klausen who would claim the title of chip leader, stuffing 935,000 technicolor chips into the clear plastic bag. It's not a runaway by any means though, with players like Roland de Wolfe, James Taylor, James "mig.com" Mackey, and the aforementioned ElkY all in the hunt.
Since we didn't make it all the way down to the final nine, the action will resume at 1:00pm tomorrow. After a night of rest, the remaining players will come back then to play it out the rest of the way. By this time tomorrow, we expect to have just one man left standing with a whole lot of prize money and a new piece of jewelry.
Until then, goodnight from the Amazon Room.
Bui Floats Away; Plens Plummets
, and he found action from Joseph Cada who put him at risk with 
.The flop was dramatic, coming down
to give Cada his top pair but leaving Bui with outs to the flush. The 
on the turn was a blank though, as was the river 
.Failing to hit a heart, Dean Bui has made his exit in 23rd place.
Shortly afterwards, in one of the last hands of the night, Jonathan Plens was eliminated in 22nd place.
My Name is Jonas
Showdown
Ayoub:
Klausen:
The board ran dry for the all-in player, coming
. Klausen's ace-king high is plenty good to win the pot, chipping him all the way up to 920,000 and sending Steven Ayoub out the door in 25th place.Robert Merulla followed Ayoub to the payout desk, going out right behind him in 24th place.
Topias Hits the Wahlbeck
Showdown
Wahlbeck:
Ayoub:
Kevorkian:
The board would run
. Kevorkian wins the whole pot with his pair of aces, more than doubling up to 145,000. Ayoub has taken a step back to 375,000, and Topias Wahlbeck is out in 26th place, walking away with just over $15,000.
Roland Rolling
Big One for Baldwin
, and the two players revealed their hands. Kevorkian had pocket tens for middle set, but Baldwin had pocket kings for top set. The turn brought the
, giving Baldwin quads and the large pot. He's up to 540,000 now, while Kevorkian is now down below 100,000. After all of that action, the remaining 26 players are presently redrawing for seats around the final three tables.
Hamby Fades Away
Jared Hamby had been whittled all the way down to about 140,000, and he got the rest of that stack into the pot before the flop. Steven Bradbury was his foe for this fateful hand, tabling
. Hamby was drawing slim with 
.The board would run down
, holding Bradbury's aces and sending Hamby to the payout desk a little earlier than he'd hoped in 27th place.
Welcome Turn for Roland
and about 55,000 already in the pot, Roland de Wolfe got the last of his 125,000 chips in the middle with 
, and was up against Marc Whitford's .The turn brought de Wolfe his needed heart --
-- giving him the flush. The river was the , and de Wolfe is back up to 300,000. Whitford is now down to 40,000.
"Good Raise, Buddy"
as he did."Good raise, buddy," Mullaghy told Klausen afterwards, once the other two players' hands were revealed. That's because Klausen had
, and Tran 
.The board came
, and Klausen knocked out Tran in 29th place. Klausen is now the new chip leader with 780,000.