2009 World Series of Poker

Event 34 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
1010
Prize
$521,932
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
2,095
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Day 2 Seat Assignments and Chip Counts

Play will resume at 2:00pm.

(Table 58)
Seat 1: Edelzito Ferreira - 51900
Seat 2: Benjamin Scherner - 60400
Seat 3: Tom Dobrilovic - 32400
Seat 4: Ray Spencer - 98800
Seat 5: Pete Kevorkian - 47300
Seat 6: Michael O'Brien - 32200
Seat 7: Roland de Wolfe - 61300
Seat 8: Yin-Hur Lai - 29200
Seat 9: Jude Ainsworth - 81800

(Table 59)
Seat 1: John McGuinness - 24100
Seat 2: Adam Geyer - 50900
Seat 3: Jeff Mills - 9400
Seat 4: Gordon Lamb - 17300
Seat 5: Thiago Nishijima - 21800
Seat 6: Matthews Schlicher - 21000
Seat 7: Roberto Correa - 26800
Seat 8: Jon Brenneman - 32500
Seat 9: Marcel Vonk - 24300

(Table 60)
Seat 1: Benjamin White - 19900
Seat 2: Steven Wagner - 17200
Seat 3: Elliott Merlin - 36100
Seat 4: Oliver Patzel - 41100
Seat 5: Catherine Colelli - 29200
Seat 6: Brent Hanks - 29300
Seat 7: Martsev Andrey - 28700
Seat 8: Steven Bradbury - 108700
Seat 9: Larry Kozlove - 17400

(Table 61)
Seat 1: Amie Martini - 43700
Seat 2: Al Rapoport - 20000
Seat 3: Paul Darden - 28800
Seat 4: Victor Lento - 51200
Seat 5: Julian Becquart - 32500
Seat 6: Thanhdat Tran - 36400
Seat 7: Mark Utterback - 42500
Seat 8: Michael Fetter - 49100
Seat 9: Mike Conway - 13600

(Table 62)
Seat 1: Phil Hellmuth - 88100
Seat 2: Matt Heiligenthaler - 42300
Seat 3: Scott Dorsch - 172100
Seat 4: Eric Baldwin - 96300
Seat 5: Jeff Blenkarn - 30400
Seat 6: Alex Kravchenko - 59200
Seat 7: Benjamin Scholl - 86800
Seat 8: Domenico de Notaristefani - 28200
Seat 9: Susan Rockwell - 34000

(Table 63)
Seat 1: Anh Van Nguyen - 57800
Seat 2: Rodeen Talebi - 78000
Seat 3: Ben Korte - 60400
Seat 4: Ed Tatro - 36900
Seat 5: Brian Cospolich - 29900
Seat 6: Sammy Elkassir - 17300
Seat 7: Josh Kirtland - 16500
Seat 8: Ben Haun - 52800
Seat 9: Frank Sarubbi - 35700

(Table 64)
Seat 1: Peter Blei - 21100
Seat 2: Jason Manggunio - 12500
Seat 3: Dan Schmiech - 17300
Seat 4: Ben Sriqui - 15800
Seat 5: Ken Mckay - 12500
Seat 6: Sean Mullaghy - 24600
Seat 7: Jeff Duvall - 63100
Seat 8: Jody Howe - 19100
Seat 9: Nick Howard - 51200

(Table 65)
Seat 1: Oddvar Brendo - 24000
Seat 2: Steven King - 37100
Seat 3: Joseph Cada - 69900
Seat 4: Christian Kruel - 40000
Seat 5: David Rohrbach - 17000
Seat 6: Colby Calonica - 62300
Seat 7: Tony Steward - 18500
Seat 8: Jeffrey Madsen - 17000
Seat 9: David Bauman - 26500

(Table 66)
Seat 1: Mark Wilds - 48600
Seat 2: Andrew Youngblood - 47000
Seat 3: Jonas Klausen - 68100
Seat 4: Joel Shulruf - 22100
Seat 5: Dennis Moore - 10800
Seat 6: Travis Green - 7600
Seat 7: Ben Alcober - 25400
Seat 8: Marc Berens - 38000
Seat 9: Phyllis Meyers - 14600

(Table 67)
Seat 1: Bill Kontaratos - 40800
Seat 2: Tony Ma - 19200
Seat 3: Martin Jacobson - 127300
Seat 4: Ken Daniels - 13400
Seat 5: Peter Nguyen - 80300
Seat 6: Tim Racine - 13600
Seat 7: Quinn Do - 80600
Seat 8: Dean Bui - 37400
Seat 9: Mahir Cengil - 44200

(Table 68)
Seat 1: William Myers - 26600
Seat 2: Tom Antonucci - 56000
Seat 3: Marc Whitford - 41000
Seat 4: Andrew Lichtenberger - 20700
Seat 5: Michael Haag - 14800
Seat 6: Joe Pelton - 42500
Seat 7: Mark Brockington - 39000
Seat 8: Mikael Olsson - 24200
Seat 9: David Patent - 21800

(Table 69)
Seat 1: Gabriel Torres - 50600
Seat 2: Dana Davidson - 32000
Seat 3: James Taylor - 174400
Seat 4: Ken Koski - 10100
Seat 5: Steve Hohn - 53700
Seat 6: Andrew Touchette - 8800
Seat 7: Eugene Katchalov - 90600
Seat 8: Matt Keikoan - 26000
Seat 9: Trent Cherry - 15800

(Table 70)
Seat 1: Eric Arroyo - 6700
Seat 2: Gavin Polone - 63300
Seat 3: Brad Steinberg - 26500
Seat 4: Alex Jacob - 21800
Seat 5: Franklin Grigsby - 28500
Seat 6: Dylan Linde - 22000
Seat 7: Priyan De Mel - 36400
Seat 8: Kevin Sherrill - 27800
Seat 9: Kent Washington - 43500

(Table 71)
Seat 1: Robert Mason - 16000
Seat 2: Joseph Miranda - 22300
Seat 3: Tim Vance - 1200
Seat 4: Dennis Bender - 39600
Seat 5: Matt Vance - 65000
Seat 6: Duane Weaver - 25100
Seat 7: Luke Vrabel - 42300
Seat 8: Young Phan - 40000
Seat 9: Reginald Simmons - 22700

(Table 72)
Seat 1: Chris Ferguson - 17300
Seat 2: Eric Peterson - 11400
Seat 3: Morris Goldstein - 11100
Seat 4: Buck Ramsay - 14000
Seat 5: Cristiano Galeazzi - 20100
Seat 6: Andrew Teng - 32400
Seat 7: Justin Pechie - 62800
Seat 8: Michael Knight - 23600
Seat 9: Eric DeFontes - 16400

(Table 73)
Seat 1: Kenny Hallaert - 48600
Seat 2: Santtu Leinonen - 64100
Seat 3: Omar Hikary - 79900
Seat 4: Kim Frederiksen - 73500
Seat 5: Yves Grenon - 80600
Seat 6: Allen Cunningham - 60200
Seat 7: Topias Wahlbeck - 53100
Seat 8: Jin Liu - 68300
Seat 9: Phong Ly - 36000

(Table 74)
Seat 1: Randy Pfeifer - 103600
Seat 2: Jeremiah Vinsant - 58400
Seat 3: Donna Lawton - 33000
Seat 4: Pete Lockwood - 22600
Seat 5: Chris Woodbury - 46800
Seat 6: Josh Stadelmyer - 6500
Seat 7: Jeff Gressard - 57600
Seat 8: Jared Hamby - 64400
Seat 9: Scott O'Leary - 20600

(Table 75)
Seat 1: Saul Requenez - 29400
Seat 2: Mike Labarbera - 27700
Seat 3: Roberto Romanello - 89400
Seat 4: Chris Petrick - 8900
Seat 5: Brandon Meyers - 20300
Seat 6: Leonid Yanovski - 65700
Seat 8: Leeroy Fernandez - 39300
Seat 9: Helge Stjernvang - 43100

(Table 79)
Seat 1: Steve McNally - 23300
Seat 2: Bertrand Grospellier - 27200
Seat 3: Praz Bansi - 25800
Seat 4: Dennis Phillips - 48800
Seat 5: Evan Jarvis - 36000
Seat 6: Dean DeGross - 21700
Seat 7: David Cline - 41100
Seat 8: Jeremiah Plager - 14800
Seat 9: David Pleat - 22800

(Table 80)
Seat 1: Adrian Vizmanos - 45200
Seat 2: Troy Hall - 16200
Seat 3: Jose Gallegos - 18700
Seat 4: Pete Sawitzki - 36000
Seat 5: Kurt Maier - 26300
Seat 6: Ryan Milisits - 17300
Seat 7: Andrew Seden - 45800
Seat 8: Raymond Steinmetz - 39400
Seat 9: Steven Rubinfeld - 5200

(Table 81)
Seat 1: Jonathan Plens - 64500
Seat 2: Michael Tadina - 16100
Seat 3: Robert Little - 79000
Seat 4: Binh Nguyen - 45800
Seat 5: Kurt Klanderud - 2300
Seat 6: Mario - 61800
Seat 7: Darren Elias - 53700
Seat 8: David Kronick - 51800
Seat 9: Gareth Derbyshire - 12400

(Table 85)
Seat 1: Shawn Glines - 35100
Seat 2: Dale Hackney - 21800
Seat 3: Andras Nemes - 48800
Seat 4: John Lowry - 20300
Seat 5: Pat Poels - 84500
Seat 6: Ryan Karp - 65600
Seat 7: Steven Ayoub - 68400
Seat 8: Paul Taylor - 38500
Seat 9: Ronald Pall - 41700

(Table 86)
Seat 1: Michael Hong - 67300
Seat 2: Paulo Sun - 22500
Seat 3: Rolando Lozano - 14500
Seat 4: Steven Damico - 37900
Seat 5: Shawn Delciotto - 29300
Seat 6: Nelson Mirabal - 31800
Seat 7: Bill Burton - 72800
Seat 8: Chris Platt - 17200
Seat 9: Melchor Taclan - 37600

(Table 87)
Seat 1: Robert Merulla - 23500
Seat 2: James Mackey - 53900
Seat 3: Jordan Harris - 14700
Seat 4: Nils Bardsley - 33500
Seat 5: Patricia Cardner - 19100
Seat 6: Eddie Tuong - 44700
Seat 7: Robert Fett - 17100
Seat 8: Michael Harrold - 29300
Seat 9: Robert McLaughlin - 47600

(Table 91)
Seat 1: Thor Hansen - 10900
Seat 2: John Buettner - 19400
Seat 3: Robb Glietz - 14400
Seat 4: Brandon Prust - 26700
Seat 5: Stian Stabell - 10100
Seat 6: Mike Souza - 28400
Seat 7: Gary Gibbs - 35500
Seat 8: Paul Wasicka - 49400
Seat 9: Chris Miller - 7700

(Table 92)
Seat 1: Clerc Yann - 39100
Seat 2: Cody Slaubaugh - 140200
Seat 3: Joseph Cappello - 38100
Seat 4: Sean Chen - 15600
Seat 5: Tyler Patterson - 35200
Seat 6: David Chicotsky - 89100
Seat 7: Anthony Nguyen - 79200
Seat 8: Devin Porter - 38800

(Table 93)
Seat 2: Toni Ojala - 29100
Seat 3: Benjamin Jensen - 71200
Seat 4: Scott Pendergrast - 42200
Seat 5: Zachary Clark - 15200
Seat 6: Bud Lehmkuhler - 27800
Seat 7: Daniel Tupper - 59200
Seat 8: Ed Perry - 36300
Seat 9: Mark Friedman - 59400

Tags: Fabian Quoss

Poker Is Coming

Welcome back to Day 2 of Event No. 34, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. Just 240 players made it from the original starting field of 2,095. The cash bubble will burst shortly, as only the top 216 finishers get paid.

We're just about 10 minutes from the cards going back into the air.

Level: 11

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 100

Early Exit for Madsen

Among the early casualties here in the first hands of the day was a short-stacked Jeff Madsen.

We are about 17 eliminations away from the money. Depending on how rapidly the eliminations come, hand-for-hand play will begin when we are either one or two spots from the cash.

Tags: Jeff Madsen

Kravchenko Doubles Through Hellmuth

Barely one orbit into play, and Phil Hellmuth and Alex Kravchenko just had a huge confrontation when Hellmuth picked up pocket queens on the same hand Kravchenko was dealt {A-Spades}{A-Diamonds}.

They got all of Kravchenko's chips in the middle before the flop, after which the community cards came {8-Hearts}{9-Hearts}{4-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}{J-Spades}. Hellmuth tumbles back to 30,000, while Kravchenko doubles to 112,000.

Tags: Alex KravchenkoPhil Hellmuth

Double Flush Draw

From the cutoff seat, Joel Shulruf opened with a raise, and Travis Green moved all in from the small blind for his last 5,200 chips. When it came back to Shulruf, he called. Both players turned over ace-queen, with Shulruf's {A-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds} in slightly better shape than Green's {A-Hearts} {Q-Clubs}.

Or so he thought. Green realized the benefit of having two flush draws preflop though, as the board ran out {5-Clubs} {10-Clubs} {10-Hearts} {6-Clubs} {J-Clubs} to favor the at-risk player and give him the winning four-flush. He's doubled up to around 13,000.

Tags: Joel ShulrufTravis Green

Wasicka and Prust Chop

With the board showing {Q-Hearts}{J-Hearts}{10-Spades}{A-Clubs}, Brandon Prust bet 4,500 from the small blind, Paul Wasicka raised, Prust reraised all in, and Wasicka called. Prust turned over {A-Hearts}{K-Clubs} -- he'd flopped Broadway -- while Wasicka had gotten there on the turn with {K-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds}.

The river was the {9-Diamonds}, and the pair chopped the pot. Wasicka is at 45,000, and Prust at 27,000.

Porter Avoids Disaster

Devin Porter managed not to lose all of his chips in a hand versus David "The Maven" Chicotsky in which Porter had pocket jacks, Chicotsky had pocket queens, and the board ended up coming out ten-high.

Some preflop action had built a pot of about 10,000. On the {7-Spades}{7-Clubs}{6-Diamonds} flop, Porter check-called Chicotsky's bet of 4,200. Both checked the {10-Clubs} on the turn. Then Porter check-called a bet of 6,500 after the river brought the {5-Diamonds}.

Chicotsky is up to 125,000. Porter still has 28,000.

Tags: David ChicotskyDevin Porter

Hand for Hand

There are 217 players still alive in the tournament. The tournament will be played hand for hand until another is eliminated. If two players are knocked out during the same hand, those two will be splitting the prize money for 216th ($2,745).