Eastgate Crippled
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Eastgate moved all in and his opponent called for his tournament life.
Eastgate:
Opponent:
The board ran out
and Eastgate was left crippled with 2,800.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 41 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$5,000
Entries
280
Level
15
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Eastgate moved all in and his opponent called for his tournament life.
Eastgate:
Opponent:
The board ran out
and Eastgate was left crippled with 2,800.
Schulman Waves Goodbye
was all in against an opponent's 
on the flop of 
.The turn fell the
and river the 
to see Schulman head to the rail.
The Champ is Here
Even having position on the 2000 Main Event champion doesn't mean an easy ride for the current champion, as just two seats to his left is 2007 final tablist Hevad Khan.
Down and Out in Rome
and then got it in on a low board containing two spades. He found an opponent willing to go all the way with pocket jacks that held up.He got his last 700 in with
, but ran in to Rob Hollink's that stayed ahead on a 
board. Dario wished everyone luck and said his goodbyes.
Little Mercy Here
flop. All the chips went in and Mercier had flopped a set with 
to Hinkle's over pair with 
. The turn came
to swing the pot away from Mercier and it would stay that way as the river came 
.
Weird Mood for Negreanu
.One opponent looked visibly ill at the decision he was faced with.
"Bet you didn't expect that!" quipped Negreanu, as he leaned over to our PokerNews reporter and whispered, "I know exactly what he has!"
His opponent eventually folded, as did Brett Richey and his
. "Oh I had an eight," stated Negreanu and tabled his followed by a slowly squeezed out before he mucked."I was way ahead!" muttered his opponent as he shook his head and explained to the table that he had folded
."That was a weird bet," he muttered once again. "I'm in weird mood," stated Negreanu as he went back to exchanging friendly banter with Richey.
Some More Interesting Tables
Table 29
Victor Ramdim
Jasom Mercier
Alexander Kostritsin
JC Tran
Table 27
Marco Traniello
Brock Parker
Eric Froehlich
Mark Seif
Table 30
Gavin Smith
Phil Ivey
Erik Cajelais
Bloch Busto
, Steve Billirakis put Andy Bloch all in for his tournament life.Bloch mulled it over a little before making the call, only to muck when he saw Billirakis table his
for a turned set of trips.As Bloch headed to the rail, Billirakis raked in the pot to move to over 38,000 in chips.
How This is Going to Work
This will ensure that all winners will come back with 150,000 tomorrow, where they will play one of five six-handed tables. Then the five winners of those tables will return the next day to play out for the bracelet.
Interesting Tables
Table 4
Michael Gracz
Chad Batista
Mark Teltscher
Jon Kalmar
Table 5
Quinn Do
Jason Gray
Nicolay Losev
Dennis Phillips
Table 9
Steve Billirakis
Andy Bloch
Terrence Chan
Jeremy Joseph
Table 10
Carlos Mortensen
James Mackey
Scott Montgomery
Allen Cunningham
Table 11
Neil Channing
Amnon Filippi
Nick Schulman
Other players spotted around and about include Jared Hamby, David Pham, Brett Richey, Daniel Negreanu, Kathy Liebert, Hevad Khan, Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson, Bertrand 'ElkY' Grosspellier, Huck Seed, Joe Sebok, Jen Harman, David Singer, Jonathan Little, Jason Somerville, Cody Slaubaugh and David 'Chino' Rheem.