Event 50 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-26-2009 21:33 UTC-12

Four More Advance

Shamus

Michel Halioua, Clint Keown, Roman Ginzburg, and Andreas Hagen have all made it through.

That makes 48 winners thus far tonight. There are just 16 more spots remaining at tomorrow's eight-handed tables.

06-26-2009 21:39 UTC-12

Battles Continue

Shamus

Brock Parker, Humberto Brenes, and David Baker are each still involved in lengthy heads-up matches on their respective tables.

06-26-2009 21:40 UTC-12

Patelidas Victorious

Shamus

Antonio Patelidas has knocked out William Erickson. On the final hand, Patelidas raised from the button, and Erickson called with the last of his chips.

Patelidas had {A-Spades}

and Erickson {K-Hearts}

. The board came out {7-Spades}

, and Patelidas moves on.

06-26-2009 21:45 UTC-12

Mucked Up

Shamus

Scott Kittle just won his match, with the last hand providing a somewhat unusual finish.

The community cards for the final hand together constituted an A-2-3-4-5 straight. Kittle tabled his cards, but his short-stacked opponent who had been all in didn't see the straight and mucked. He realized it afterwards, but by then it was too late, and Kittle moves on.

Tags: Scott Kittle

06-26-2009 21:49 UTC-12

Five More Advance

Shamus

Vadim Shlez, Steve Kim, Brian Goddard, Michael Byrne, and Alan Snow have all won their matches.

06-26-2009 21:51 UTC-12

Panos Wins

Shamus

Peter Panos just knocked out Odette Tremblay after their long heads-up match to move on to Round 2.

06-26-2009 21:56 UTC-12

Qinghai Pan Advances

Shamus

Qinghai Pan has just won his table, meaning we have seven tables still ongoing -- all of which are heads up.

06-26-2009 21:57 UTC-12

Break Time

Shamus

The 14 players who are still here are now taking a quick 10-minute break before getting back to their heads-up matches.

Level: 9

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

06-26-2009 22:09 UTC-12

Time to Pick Up Some Hands

Shamus

With the new stakes, the two players at each of our remaining tables should have something like 13-14 big bets between them -- meaning this shouldn't take that long to settle these last seven matches.