Event 45 - $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Completed
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 45 - $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
275
Level
29
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
0
Day 1 Concludes
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Among those who've already come and gone are Chau Giang, Vitaly Lunkin, Peter Eastgate, Barry Greenstein, Johnny Chan, J.C. Tran, Lex Veldhuis, Andy Black, Daniel Negreanu, Chris Ferguson, and the list goes on and on. In fact, it's easier to talk about who's still left.
Chino Rheem was riding the short stack all day, and he'll have some work to do tomorrow. Also down there in the danger zone are Nam Le, J.C. Alvarado, and Mohsin Charania. Moving up a little bit we see Kathy Liebert, Juha Helppi, Matt Brady, Lee Markholt, Vanessa Rousso, and Bill Chen all in the middle of the pack. Even further up the board we have Bertrand Grospellier, defending champion Nenad Medic, Alex Jacob, David Steicke, Isaac Haxton, Erik Seidel, and David Pham.
And now we get to the top of the board. Young pro Darryll Fish was the first man to really take control of this tournament in the first few levels. He held pretty steady for most of the late night, bagging up a top ten stack. Masaaki Kagawa charged late in the day to move ahead of Fish, and Toto Leonidas is ahead of them both. The top spot is occupied by Dutchman Michiel Brummelhuis. Thanks to a few huge pots in the last two levels, Brummelhuis surged past the field, bagging up an impressive 330,200 chips.
Brummelhuis will be back to defend his monster stack tomorrow at 2:00pm. We'll be here too, and it'll be a long day of poker as we press toward the final table. See you tomorrow!
A Call with Queen High...and It's Good
from Juha Helppi.Although it was a relitivly small bet, Alvarado went into the tank for several minutes. Finally he decided to make the call.
Helppi showed
for complete air. Alvarado's hand? 
Queen high.
Alvarado takes the pot and ends the night with 102,000.
Three To Go
The floor man pulled a
, and we'll play three more hands before we call it a day.
Nenad Medic Doubles Through Luke Staudenmaier
Luke Staudenmaier bet 11,500 from the big blind and Nenad Medic reraised all in for 37,000. Staudenmaier called.Staudenmaier:
Medic:
Staudenmaier was drawing dead.
Nenad Medic doubled up and is now at 93,000.
The Cowboy Rides Away
. Action was on Hoyt Corkins, and he moved all in for 30,000. Langmann went deep into the tank, pump-faking a call several times. Finally, a player at the table called the clock, and the floor man came scurrying over. After only a few seconds of his time though, Langmann made the call to put Corkins at risk.Corkins was just fine with that; Langmann's
was in bad shape against the Cowboy's 
. But Corkins was not going to like the river card. The 
peeled off the deck, improving Langmann to the winning trip tens and sending Corkins out of the ring.
A (Dutch) Chip Leader Emerges
On the first one, Brummelhuis and one other player called a raise of 4,000, and the flop came
. After checking to the raiser, Brummelhuis and the third man both called a continuation bet of 7,000. Fourth street was the 
with all three players checking, and the river came the 
. Brummelhuis led out with 25,000 chips now, getting action from the original raiser. The Dutchman showed down pocket eights for the winning set to move up a bit. "I was so close to folding," lamented his opponent. "It was either ten-jack or a set."Very shortly thereafter, Brummelhuis opened a pot to 5,000 and the small blind called. They both checked a flop of
, and the small blind bet out 10,200 on the turn . Brummelhuis made the call, and the last card off was the 
. The small blind checked this time, and Brummelhuis instantly bet 26,000. Just as quickly, his opponent called.Brummelhuis tabled
for the nuts, and he has skyrocketed up to the top spot on the leader board with 310,000.
Ivan Demidov Eliminated
against Channing's pocket tens.Neil Channing - 87,500
Vanessa Rousso More Than Triples Up
and action was checked around to Nam Le on the button, who bet 12,500. Vanessa Rousso moved all in for 16,500 from the small blind. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier called from the big blind. Markholt folded and Nam Le called for just 4,000 more.
The board filled out
with ElkY and Nam checking it down on the turn and river.Rousso showed
for the straight. Nam mucked his 
for a set face up while Elky tossed his cards into the muck face down.Rousso: 64,000
Nam Le - 21,000
ElkY - 87,000
Markholt - 60,000
Where's The Champ?
Although 35,000 below the chip average, Nenad is not even close to being out of contention. He has already cashed twice at this year's WSOP including an 18th place finish at the $10,000 PLO championship event.