Event 41 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-21-2009 06:41 UTC-12

Event 41 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout

MarcC

Welcome to event number 41. As the title suggests, this is a unique event. For the players to advance past today they have to win their table. This will eliminate ninety percent of the field and everyone coming back tomorrow will be in the money and only one more table win away from the final table. Table draw will be a big factor as they'll be no table breaking and moving tables.

Play due to start at midday.

06-21-2009 06:57 UTC-12

Slight Delay

MarcC

The lack of players turning up on time means we are going to have a 12:15 start time.

Level: 1

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

06-21-2009 07:18 UTC-12

Shuffle Up and Deal

MarcC

Cards are in the air. Details of how the specifics of this tournament are to play out coming up shortly.

06-21-2009 07:33 UTC-12

Interesting Tables

[user80015]

Table formation is extremely important when it comes to shootout tournaments, and here are some of the groupings that we've spotted so far.

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.

06-21-2009 07:37 UTC-12

How This is Going to Work

MarcC

We have thirty tables in play, each with ten seats and 15,000 chips. Not all those stacks have players in front of them, as not all seats have been sold yet. Any late comers can buy in and take one of those seats, but they will be slightly depleted as the chips are all in play and subject to paying the blinds. If no one takes one of the seats, the chips will stay in play and be blinded away.

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.

06-21-2009 07:43 UTC-12

Bloch Busto

[user80015]

With around 6,000 in the pot on a board reading {8-Clubs}

, 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 {A-Diamonds}

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.

Tags: Andy Bloch Steve Billirakis

06-21-2009 07:49 UTC-12

Some More Interesting Tables

MarcC

These may get more interesting as late arrivals appear.

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

06-21-2009 07:54 UTC-12

Weird Mood for Negreanu

[user80015]

We walked over to find Daniel Negreanu all in for his last 9,575. The pot had 1,750 in it with the board reading {K-Clubs}

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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 {J-Diamonds}