Event 39 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-20-2009 12:38 UTC-12

Bonomo Running Over His Table

Justin Bonomo was broken a while back to Blue #7, and he's been running wild ever since. With Bonomo's stack already up to 28,000, he defended his big blind against a button raise to 600. Both players checked all the way to the river on a board of {3-Clubs}

. Bonomo but 1,100 there; his opponent reluctantly tossed a call into the pot. Bonomo showed down two clubs, {6-Clubs}

, for a club flush (clubs always come, you know). That pot push Bonomo to roughly 30,000 in chips.

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06-20-2009 12:45 UTC-12

Chips Ahoy

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Allen Kessler - 6,500
Matt "allinat420" Stout - 21,000
Darryll Fish - 8,500
Eddie Sabat - 7,800
Catherine Calhoun - 8,000
Marco Traniello - 12,000
Brandon Cantu - 29,000
Adam "Roothlus" Levy - 9,800
Todd Terry - 13,500

Missing from their assigned seats are Allen Bari and Victor Ramdin. It's difficult to say for sure, but it's likely they've both been eliminated.

Level: 6

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

06-20-2009 12:59 UTC-12

1-2-3 Break!

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We're still spread across three rooms, which is making it very difficult to track players. There's a breaking order priority here at the WSOP, which goes something like this:

1. Break tables out of Amazon Red (cash games!)
2. Break tables out of the back of Amazon Orange (2pm restart)
3. Break tables out of the back of Miranda (daily tournaments)
4. Break tables out of the back of Brasilia Yellow (5pm bracelet event)
5. Break tables out of the front of Brasilia Yellow (single-table satellites)
6. Break tables out of Miranda
7. Break tables out of Brasilia
8. We're all in Amazon.

That means a player can be bounced anywhere among the three rooms for the better part of the first six levels as tables are balanced and broken. Players we did spot on our last pass included Alexandre Gomes, rocking a roughly average stack at 14,500, and Eddy Sabat, who's sitting on 12,000 and appears to be heating up.

Al Barbieri's been at the same table all day and absolutely crushing his opponents. He is close to 60,000 chips -- which is the biggest stack we've seen.

06-20-2009 13:12 UTC-12

One Player Re-Discovered

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For a while there, we thought Event 39 might be one wolf less. Roland de Wolfe's seat was empty with no chips in front of it. But we've re-spotted de Wolfe in the Miranda Room sitting behind roughly 17,000 chips.

06-20-2009 13:28 UTC-12

Musical Chairs

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Poor Mike Sowers. He's been broken to three or four different tables just in the last half hour. He was broken into Amazon Orange first. After un-bagging his chips (chips are bagged for the walk from Miranda or Brasilia) and stacking them up, Sowers was only able to play two hands before his table broke.

Sowers' new seat assignment was one table away. He racked up his chips and moved to the new table, only to be broken off of *that* table before even playing a hand. He's finally landed in Amazon Blue and presumably will stay put for the rest of the night.

Some counts:

Sowers - 12,500
Nam Le - 13,000
Brett Parise - 11,500
Chris Moorman - 8,000
Jonathan Little - 13,000
Peter Rho - 4,800
Matt Matros - 35,000
Theo Tran - 2,625
Darus Suharto - 5,000
Alex Jacob - 27,500
Roland de Wolfe - 6,350

06-20-2009 13:33 UTC-12

Sixes Wild for Sabat

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First in from early position, Eddy Sabat made his move, shoving all in for what looked like 3,325. A few seats down the line, a player with a big stack looked him up, matching the bet to put Sabat at risk.

Showdown
Sabat: {6-Diamonds}

Opponent:

The first card was the {6-Spades}

, bailing Sabat out. The board would end up reading {6-Spades}

, and Sabat staves off elimination for the time being. He's doubled up to 7,200.

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06-20-2009 13:49 UTC-12

Roland de Wolfe Busto

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We can say with certainty now that Roland de Wolfe is eliminated. With the board showing {7-Diamonds}

, de Wolfe moved all in for 4,000. His opponent tanked for a minute before calling.

De Wolfe did not open his hand right away, choosing instead to say, "I think you are good. I have a pair. If you have a pair of aces, you are good." His opponent then opened {A-Hearts}