2009 World Series of Poker

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

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Carsten Joh
Winning Hand
6♦6♣
Prize
$664,426
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,796,065
Entries
2,781
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
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Event 51 - $1,500 NLHE

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Players are entering the room for Event 51 – a $1,500 No Limit Texas Hold’em tournament. It looks like the WSOP will have a capacity crowd, as the number of registered entrants is near it’s cap at 2,790 players.

Players will start the event with 4,500 in tournament chips with starting blinds of 25-50. Action will be under way at 12:00pm.

Level: 1

Blinds: 25/50

Ante: 0

Early Player Sightings

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This is truly a massive field, with players filling every section of the Amazon and Brasillia Rooms. Early sightings in this sea of players includes Mark Newhouse, Michael Carroll, Beth Shak, Mohsin "chicagocards1" Charania, Jason and Craig Gray, and Shawn Rice. More to come shortly.

More Early Sightings

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- Michael Binger
- Jeff "yellowsub86" Williams
- Neil Channing
- Men "The Master" Nguyen
- Noah Boeken
- Tony Cousineau
- Justin Young
- Mark "scrubbyz" Zajdner
- David "TheMaven" Chicotsky
- Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin
- James "mig.com" Mackey
- Andre Akkari
- Isaac Haxton
- Theo Tran
- Scott Seiver
- Mark Seif
- Bryan Devonshire

This is Why You Never Muck Your Hand Before the River

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After a jack-high flop, two players are all in. The first player to show flips over pocket aces and his opponent tosses his cards into the muck. The dealer retrieves his card out of the pile and turns over two kings.

The players with aces was furious, saying the cards can not be pulled out, but after a floor person ruled that in an all-in both hands must be shown, the cards stayed out of the muck as the remainder of the hand was played out.

The turn was a complete blank, however....

The river brought a king.

More Level 1 Sightings

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- J.C. Tran
- Kathy Liebert
- Chris Moore
- Jason Somerville
- Kenna James
- Nick Frangos
- Jordan Morgan
- Hevad Khan
- Katja Thater
- Grant Hinkle
- Blair Hinkle
- Jonathan Little
- Jason Potter

Amit Makhija was also in this event, however, he was eliminated after running his {A-?} {K-?} into pocket aces on his second hand.

Level: 2

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

A Sell Out

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Event 51 is has sold out today, meaning first prize for this event will be somewhere close to $700,000.

Not too bad for a $1,500 investment.

Official prizepool information will be posted as soon as it becomes available.
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