Event 42 - $2,500 Mixed Event
Day 1 Completed
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 42 - $2,500 Mixed Event
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$2,500
Entries
412
Level
26
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
Day 1 Concludes
Chip counts for all remaining players will be posted overnight. Play resumes tomorrow at 2 p.m. Vegas time.
Kessler's Kings Kracked
Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler just lost a big pot versus Jonathan "Fatal Error" Aguiar in one of the last hands of the night. Aguiar was all in preflop. Once Kessler called him, Aguiar said "Please have kings." He got his wish, as Kessler indeed had K-K.
When Aguiar showed his hand -- A-3 -- Kessler had a comment as well: "Oh no."
The flop changed nothing, but the turn brought a trey, and the river another trey, and Aguiar survived. Kessler gets knocked back to 7,000 right before night's end.
1-2-3 Stop
Eight Games, Eight Levels
"I'll give everybody in here $200 a piece if they'll play another two rounds," said Sam Grizzle. No one seemed ready to jump at the offer.
Grizzle has about 17,500.
Checking the Chips (Part II)
J.C. Tran -- 38,000
Alexander Kostritsyn -- 36,000
Dario Alioto -- 30,000
Gavin Smith -- 30,000
Jerrod Ankenman -- 27,000
John Juanda -- 25,000
Esther Taylor -- 25,000
Justin Bonomo -- 24,000
Tuan Le -- 23,000
Terrence Chan -- 22,000
Jason Mercier -- 20,000
Daniel Negreanu -- 19,000
Jennifer Harman -- 19,000
Marcel Luske -- 18,000
Clonie Gowen -- 17,000
Sabyl Cohen -- 17,000
Michael Binger -- 17,000
Mel Judah -- 16,000
David Sklansky -- 15,000
Nick Schulman -- 15,000
Andy Bloch -- 10,000
Layne Flack -- 9,000
Isaac Haxton -- 9,000
Brock Parker -- 7,000
Mizzi Finds His Game
The button open-raised, then Sorel Mizzi, who finished runner-up after that wild last hand in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event (No. 35) a couple of nights ago, reraised pot to 2,700 from the small blind. The big blind folded, and the button called.
The flop came
, Mizzi bet 2,000, and the button folded. "Hearts?" he asked. Mizzi shook his head no. He's up to 31,000.
Checking the Chips
Nick Frangos -- 45,000
Jeffrey Lisandro -- 32,000
Robert Williamson III -- 23,000
Marco Johnson -- 23,000
Andy Black -- 22,000
Todd Brunson -- 21,000
Sorel Mizzi -- 20,000
Young Phan -- 18,000
Allie Prescott -- 17,000
Michael Mizrachi -- 16,000
Allen Kessler -- 15,000
Bryan Devonshire -- 13,000
Jason Potter -- 12,000
Jimmy Fricke -- 12,000
John Hennigan -- 11,000
Amnon Filippi -- 10,000
Steven Wong -- 5,500
David Chiu -- 5,000
Jason Somerville -- 5,000
Trying to Find the Lesser of Eight Evils
Lisandro, of course, just this week won a bracelet in the $10,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Eight-or-Better event, a point that was clarified for the benefit of Robert Williamson III.
"Oh, so that's why," said Williamson, finally getting why everyone was so impatient to get out of the Stud/8 round.
"What would you prefer, we play stud?" quipped Lisandro, the game in which he won his other two WSOP bracelets. Lisandro has also made WSOP final tables in H.O.R.S.E., Pot-Limit Omaha, 2-7 (the NL single-draw variety), and finished 17th in the 2006 WSOP Main Event, so there really isn't much place to hide when you're at his table.
Lisandro is doing well in the other six games today, too, having built his stack up to 28,000.
Last Level