2009 World Series of Poker

Event 37 - $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8-or-better
Day: 2
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Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Prize
$431,656
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
164
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
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Day 2 Seat Assignments and Chip Counts

[user22113]
[user22113]
Cards will be in the air at 2:00pm.

(Table 157)
Seat 1: David Chiu - 35700
Seat 2: Farzad Bonyadi - 13800
Seat 3: Young Phan - 13500
Seat 4: Ilia Bulichev - 22200
Seat 5: James Van Alstyne - 50200
Seat 6: Zac Fellows - 24700
Seat 7: Pawel Andrzejewski - 62900
Seat 8: Andrey Zaichenko - 13800

(Table 158)
Seat 1: Howard Lederer - 57500
Seat 2: Yuebin Guo - 23200
Seat 3: Mickey Appleman - 23300
Seat 4: Eric Brix - 90000
Seat 5: Tom Koral - 71600
Seat 6: Sabyl Cohen-Landrum - 44100
Seat 7: Dan Heimiller - 47000
Seat 8: Frank Mariani - 111300

(Table 159)
Seat 1: Scott Clements - 36700
Seat 2: Claudio Rinaldi - 61600
Seat 3: Erik Seidel - 23900
Seat 4: Chris Ferguson - 38300
Seat 5: Tony Cousineau - 38000
Seat 6: Aurangzeb Sheikh - 72900
Seat 7: Dan Harmetz - 12900
Seat 8: Jon 'PearlJammer' Turner - 47200

(Table 160)
Seat 1: William Buckley - 37300
Seat 2: Daniel Alaei - 79900
Seat 3: Alessio Isaia - 22500
Seat 4: Steve Sung - 47900
Seat 5: Bill Chen - 35500
Seat 6: Markus Golser - 39200
Seat 7: Lonnie Heimowitz - 24900
Seat 8: John Hoang - 45100

(Table 161)
Seat 1: John Juanda - 37200
Seat 2: Doug Saab - 66000
Seat 3: Joe Tehan - 62600
Seat 4: Mike Wattel - 35800
Seat 5: Dutch Boyd - 45400
Seat 6: Frank Kassela - 90600
Seat 7: Joe Serock - 31800
Seat 8: Tuan Le - 234000

(Table 162)
Seat 1: Richard Anthony - 61600
Seat 2: Justin 'Boosted J' Smith - 26400
Seat 3: Toto Leonidas - 58600
Seat 4: Tim Marsters - 30400
Seat 5: Jerry Buss - 67800
Seat 6: Bob Lauria - 39600
Seat 7: Ray Dehkharghani - 3300
Seat 8: Scotty Nguyen - 26400

(Table 163)
Seat 1: Homan Houshiar - 59600
Seat 2: Anthony Rivera - 59000
Seat 3: Norman Chad - 30300
Seat 5: Josh Mountain - 45900
Seat 6: Tian Fu - 28100
Seat 7: George Lind III - 62400
Seat 8: Jeff Lisandro - 105400

(Table 164)
Seat 1: Yuval Bronshtein - 41000
Seat 2: David Singer - 14700
Seat 3: Kirill Gerasimov - 9600
Seat 4: Tom Schneider - 83300
Seat 5: Farzad Rouhani - 51000
Seat 6: Richard Sklar - 96200
Seat 7: Brett Richey - 15500
Seat 8: Chris Reslock - 28800

(Table 165)
Seat 1: Michele Limongi - 59500
Seat 2: Tim Phan - 63100
Seat 3: David Sklansky - 19300
Seat 4: Neal Friets - 30600
Seat 6: Kirill Rabtsov - 17800
Seat 7: Mike Sexton - 53400
Seat 8: Danny Dang - 22700

(Table 166)
Seat 1: 'Miami' John Cernuto - 27900
Seat 2: Joseph Michael - 44100
Seat 3: Greg Raymer - 45000
Seat 4: Todd Brunson - 79500
Seat 5: Dustin Sitar - 59600
Seat 6: Matt Grapenthien - 69900
Seat 7: Chris Bell - 34700
Seat 8: Doyle Brunson - DNR

(Table 167)
Seat 1: Cyndy Violette - 29000
Seat 2: Dario Minieri - 81500
Seat 3: Tad Jurgens - 82500
Seat 4: Lyle Berman - 109500
Seat 5: Abe Mosseri - 42600
Seat 6: Daniel Negreanu - 33100
Seat 7: Jerri Thomas - 18600
Seat 8: Chip Jett - 77700

(Table 168)
Seat 1: Chau Giang - 9900
Seat 2: Chris Amaral - 5000
Seat 3: Huck Seed - 11700
Seat 4: Yueqi 'Rich' Zhu - 4000
Seat 5: Tom Chambers - 40000
Seat 6: Steve Billirakis - 27700
Seat 7: Annie Duke - 43500
Seat 8: Karen Longfellow - 25500

(Table 169)
Seat 1: Nick Schulman - 73000
Seat 2: Pat Rao - 21600
Seat 3: David Benyamine - 65400
Seat 4: Mike 'The Mouth' Matusow - 15000
Seat 5: Phil Hellmuth - 11200
Seat 6: David John - 23200
Seat 7: Chad Brown - 14500
Seat 8: John Hennigan - 64900

(Table 170)
Seat 1: Eli Elezra - 39700
Seat 2: Harry Thomas - DNR
Seat 3: Yan Chen - 26300
Seat 4: Mark Dickstein - 18700
Seat 5: Jimmy Fricke - 35800
Seat 6: Amnon Filippi - 68400
Seat 7: Perry Friedman - 45300
Seat 8: Alexander Jung - 57000

Day 2 Kicks Off Shortly

donpeters
donpeters
Soooooo many chips!
Soooooo many chips!
Day 2 of the $10,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo World Championship kicks off in a short while at 2:00 PM local time. We're still located in the Brasilia room, but have moved to the red section in the front. Out of the 164 players that entered the event, 110 remain. The field is still jam-packed with the top players in the world as you can see from the seating list posted below.

Tuan Le stormed to the top and holds the chip lead with 234,000 chips. To give you a perspective on how amazing that is, Le holds almost eight times the amount of chips he started with, over doubled his next closest competitor, and more than five times the average chip count!

Action is set to begin soon, so be sure to stay tuned! The plan is to play until the final table or 3:00 AM, and we're guessing it's going to be the latter, making this a nice, long day of stud eight-or-better.

Tags: Tuan Le

Level: 9

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

Gloomy Start for Brown

donpeters
donpeters
Pat Rao just scooped a pot worth 25,000 chips in the early goings of today. Rao held a nice combo hand that played for the high and the low when he showed a straight, three through seven. He scooped the pot from Chad Brown, leaving Brown with only 1,700 chips.

Tags: Chad BrownPat Rao

Case Three Straightens Hellmuth

donpeters
donpeters
Hellmuth: ({6-Spades} {4-Spades}) {7-Hearts} {10-Hearts} {5-Clubs} {Q-Hearts} ({3-Clubs})
Schulman: (X-X) {4-Clubs} {5-Spades} {K-Hearts}-FOLD
Benyamine: ({2-Spades} {3-Hearts}) {3-Diamonds} {8-Clubs} {3-Spades} {7-Spades} ({Q-Diamonds})

Phil Hellmuth completed the action and both Nick Schulman and David Benyamine called. Everyone checked fourth street. On fifth, Hellmuth bet, Schulman folded, and Benyamine raised. Hellmuth then called all in for his last 400 before the boards ran out.

Hellmuth caught the case three on seventh street to make a straight. Upon doing so, Mike "The Mouth" Matusow clapped his hands together and announced, "Phil Hellmuth everyone!"

Hellmuth - 18,500

Tags: "The Mouth"David BenyamineMike MatusowNick SchulmanPhil Hellmuth

Hellmuth on Life Support

[user25067]
[user25067]
Nick Schulman (X)(X) {A-Diamonds} {Q-Clubs} {J-Clubs} {8-Diamonds} (X)
Phil Hellmuth (X)(X){6-Hearts} {3-Spades} {3-Diamonds} {9-Clubs} (X)

Nick Schulman completed on third street and Phil Hellmuth made the call. Schulman check-called a bet on fourth street, then raised after Hellmuth led on fifth with his open pair of threes. Hellmuth called, then check-called Schulman's sixth street bet. {10-Clubs} Schulman led out again on seventh and Hellmuth folded.

After the hand, Hellmuth was down to only 4,100.

Richey Busts

donpeters
donpeters
Brett Richey and David Singer find themselves betting and raising back and forth before they are all in. Richey ended up making a Broadway straight, but Singer pulled an ace-high flush to crippled Richey down to just 500 chips. Singer catapulted himself to 48,000.

On the next hand, Richey busted. Before he exited the tournament room, he was sure to make his way around and pay up some last-longer bets he made.

Tags: Brett RicheyDavid Singer

Phil Hellmuth Eliminated

[user25067]
[user25067]
Phil Hellmuth ({7-Clubs})({7-Spades}){3-Clubs} {9-Hearts} {2-Spades} {3-Diamonds} (X)
Nick Schulman ({2-Diamonds})({3-Hearts}){2-Clubs} {6-Clubs} {8-Diamonds} {8-Hearts} (X)

Phil Hellmuth was all in against Nick Schulman by fourth street with a pair of sevens against Schulman's pair of deuces. Though Hellmuth made sevens and treys by sixth street, Schulman made eights and deuces by seventh to send Hellmuth to the rail.
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