Event 4 - $1,000 No Limit Hold'em Day 1a | 2009 World Series of Poker

05-30-2009 09:03 UTC-12

Must Try Harder

Christian Harder is down to just 1,075 with about 5 minutes of level 2 remaining. Chris Moorman isn't fairing any better, he's got about 1,200 and both will need to double up soon.

05-30-2009 09:14 UTC-12

First Break of the Day

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A chance to grab a late breakfast for those late sleepers or talk to buddies about their first taste of the WSOP. Whatever their fancy players are on a short break.

Level: 3

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

05-30-2009 09:33 UTC-12

Back from break.

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The remaining players have squeezed back into the main rooms past the lines of those complaining to their families about already being knocked out.

Cards are in the air.

05-30-2009 09:34 UTC-12

Two players doing well after the first two levels are Kevin Saul with 8,600 and Lee Childs at 5,450.

Doing less well is Jeff Williams on 1,800 and Shannon Shorr with 975. Both doing better that Bill Gazes though who has busted.

05-30-2009 09:46 UTC-12

A Few More Counts

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Greg Mueller -- 6,000
Chris Moorman -- 2,400
Christian Harder -- 1,725
Matt Woodward -- 2,750
Count Von Count -- Seven, Seven Bats!

05-30-2009 09:55 UTC-12

Jesus, He's Happy

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Chris Ferguson is in a very jovial mood today, talking away to fellow players and the dealer. He's at the corner of a section so is being railed on two sides by spectators. One spectator just realized it was him and let out a little yelp and reached for her camera. Being in such a good mood, Chris was only too happy to pose.

He's currently got about his starting stack and it's easy to see why as he didn't play one hand whilst I was there.

Tags: Chris Ferguson

05-30-2009 10:04 UTC-12

Not the Per You Want to See

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High stakes Swedish gambler Per Ummer has just busted. Facing a raise from early position, Ummer moved all in from the small blind and was quickly called.

Ummer tabled {A-Clubs}

but was in trouble against his rival's {K-Clubs}

. The board came {5-Spades}

.

No help for the likable Swede who's off back to Cyprus where he resides. He'll be back for the main event, but high stakes table game rooms around Vegas would've liked to see him stay for the duration.

Tags: Per Ummer

05-30-2009 10:04 UTC-12

More Counts

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Eric Froehlich -- 5,900
Amir Vahedi -- 8,200
Soren Kongsgaard -- 2,225
Maya Antonius -- 2,900
James 'mig.com' Mackey -- 4,800
Jason Young -- 2,900
Dewey Tomko -- 2,700
Steven McCoy -- 1,700

05-30-2009 10:11 UTC-12

Lost His Stack And Now He's Back

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A situation just occurred on table 230 in the Brasilia room where there was an all-in showdown between {A-?}

and

and the board came out {A-?}

. The player with {A-?}

thought he had lost and the dealer began to push the pot to the other player's stack.

It wasn't until he was half-way out of the door that one of the other players realised the pot should've been a chop and managed to get him to come back. The floor was called and eventually the short stack got his 925 chips back, no doubt he'll have put them all back in shortly though...