Event 51 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

Event 51 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em

Day 1 Completed

06-27-2009 20:13 UTC-12

Play Ends for the Night

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Day one of Event #51 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em has ended for the night. The day started with 2,781 hopefuls, and after ten full levels of play approximately 349 players remain.

There is a cluster of players that appear to be at the top of the leaderboard anywhere in the 110,000 - 130,000 range. However, the Day 1 chip leader appears to be Christopher Bonita with 131,700.

Notable players that ended the night with large chip stacks include Men "The Master" Nguyen (71,200) Amnon Filippi (77,700), Jason "JP OSU" Potter (100,100), Steven Van Zadelhoff (118,000) and Cody "thugmoneymkr" Slaubaugh (125,900).

Play will resume tomorrow in the Brasillia Room of the Rio at 2pm PDT.

06-27-2009 20:01 UTC-12

Last Few Hands

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Just a few minutes ago the floor announced that seven more hands will be played until the night ends. Most tables are just about at that mark and play is starting to wrap up.

06-27-2009 19:41 UTC-12

Updated Chip Counts

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Phong Huynh - 145,000
Hon Le - 117,500
Christopher Bonita - 115,000
Jeffery Vanchiro - 112,000
Kenneth Shelton - 110,000
Steven Van Zadelhoff - 102,000
Amnon Filippi - 100,000
Cody Slaubaugh - 90,000
Men Nguyen - 78,000
Jason Potter - 77,000
Chris Floyd - 75,000
Thomas Braband - 62,000
Mike Benvenuti - 60,000
Steven Levy - 56,000
Tony Cousineau - 47,000
Scott Dorin - 43,000
Joe Reitman - 30,000
Alex Jacob - 31,000
Vinny Pahuja - 26,000
Josh Schlein - 26,000
Jason Gray - 26,000
Matt Brady - 25,000
Jonathan Aguiar - 24,000

06-27-2009 19:35 UTC-12

Amnon Filippi Sends A Player To the Rail

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Amnon Filippi and his pocket kings send a player holding pocket jacks to the rail. He takes down a nice sized pot and is approaching 100,000.

Tags: Amnon Filippi

06-27-2009 19:26 UTC-12

Paul Wasicka Eliminated by Hon Le

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In a blind vs. blind confrontation, Paul Wasicka is all in against Hon Le on the river on a board of {A-?}

.

Wasicka flips over pocket fours for a full house, but Le shows {A-?}

for the bigger boat.

With the hand, Hon Le shoots to the top of the leader board with 117,500.

Tags: Hon Le Paul Wasicka

06-27-2009 19:21 UTC-12

Micon Eliminated

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Bryan Micon has been eliminated from the tournament.

06-27-2009 19:20 UTC-12

Player Doubles through Tom Braband

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On a flop of {J-Hearts}

the big blind moves all in for 9,900 and Tom Braband calls from middle position.

Big blind: {J-Spades}

Braband:

The board fills out {J-Hearts}

allowing the big blind to double through Tom Braband.

Tom Braband - 72,000

Tags: Tom Braband

06-27-2009 19:05 UTC-12

Micon Comes Up Second Best

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Bryan Micon raises to 2,200 from early position and gets called in two spots.

The flop comes {A-Clubs}

and after a check from the big blind, Micon makes a bet of 3,600. The player in middle position folds and the big blind calls.

The turn is the {7-Diamonds}