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Event 36 - $2,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Completed
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 36 - $2,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$2,000
Prize Pool
$3,084,900
Total Entries
1,695
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 1,695
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As usual, a number of big names were visible throughout the field, with pros like Kathy Liebert, Joe Sebok, Scott Seiver, Jonathan Little and Andy Black all making appearances. Most of the pros - like most of the field - failed to make Day 2, with just 213 returning when we restart tomorrow.
Corwin Cole will own the big stack tomorrow with nearly 185,700 chips. He'll be followed closely by Guillaume de la Gorce and Chino Rheem, who was chip leader for most of the day.
Join us again at 2PM tomorrow as we play our way down toward a final table.
Gray bet 3,600 more on a flop of
, and Gerasimov called before both players checked the rest of the board which finished 
. When Gray showed 
for top pair, Gerasimov mucked.Gray now has 108,000 while Gerasimov has 24,000.
There are still some fireworks around the room as shorter stacks try to improve their positions before play resumes tomorrow, but overall, most hands are being one with just a preflop raise at this stage of the night.
Rheem's opponent got all in on a flop of
and showed 
for top set while Rheem held 
for a flush draw. When Rheem bricked out with the 
and 
, his stack shrunk back to 68,000.
versus 
.Binger took the lead with a flop of
, and held on as the board finished 
. He now has 23,000.
Liebert showed
and couldn't beat Barbieri's on a board of 
. Barbieri now has a stack worth 33,000.
, O'Dwyer bet 1,200 and got check-raised to 3,200. When O'Dwyer shoved for 9,000, he got the call and saw the bad news as his pocket kings were drawing almost dead to his opponent's flopped straight with
. A 
on the turn ended the hand and a meaningless 
on the river sent O'Dwyer home.
When Deeb couldn't connect, his opponent doubled and Deeb's stack fell to 63,000.
