Event 52 - $3,000 Triple Chance No Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-28-2009 06:49 UTC-12

Triple Your Chips, Triple Your Chance

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We've seen it before in pot-limit omaha tournaments, now it's come to no-limit hold'em. It's the triple chance format, where players are given one-third of their stack straight away and two "buttons" that that they can redeem for additional chips at any time in the first few levels of a tournament. Some players will redeem those buttons right away; some will use them as a save to overcome bad beats; and some will wait until the end of the redemption period to acquire their extra chips.

There are no additional fees for these rebuy chips. One buy-in gets you all the chips whenever you want them. Players will start redeeming them at noon local time, in ten minutes. We'll see you then.

06-28-2009 07:03 UTC-12

Shuffle Up and Deal!

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Cards are in the air.

Level: 1

Blinds: 25/50

Ante: 0

06-28-2009 07:16 UTC-12

Who's Here?

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We weren't sure what sort of a turnout we'd get for this event. Turns out it's an excellent one. Notables we've spotted so far:

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
Dennis Phillips
Tony Cousineau
Jason Mercier
Mike Sexton
Jonathan Little
Al Barbieri
Scott Bohlman
Jordan Morgan
Humberto Brenes
Antonio Esfandiari
Beth Shak
Marc Convey
Kathy Liebert
Gavin Griffin
J.C. Alvarado
Erick Lindgren
Eli Elezra

Tags: Elky Grospellier

06-28-2009 07:23 UTC-12

Cousineau Off to a Rocky Start

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With the board showing {A-Diamonds}

, Tony Cousineau led out for 600. He was raised to 2,000 by the player in the Seat 6.

"Did you really flop the joint?" Cousineau asked. "Well I gotta raise you," he added. He moved all in. The player in the Seat 6 quickly called. Cousineau showed a small flush, {8-Diamonds}

. His opponent turned over the nuts, {Q-Diamonds}

.

Since Cousineau already redeemed his rebuy chips, he's down to just 3,000 chips with no barrels left.

Tags: Tony Cousineau

06-28-2009 07:27 UTC-12

More Notables Filter In

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The next wave of notables has been spotted:

Barny Boatman
Russell Rosenblum
Ivan Demidov
Jason Somerville
Nikolay Evdakov
Ylon Schwartz
Roy Winston
Isaac Haxton
Mike Sexton
Eric Froehlich
Jon Van Halle
Christiane Klecz
Kathy Liebert
Berry Johnson
Chad Batista
Neil Channing
David Singer
Chad Brown
Jeff Lisandro
Eugene Todd

06-28-2009 07:46 UTC-12

Up, Up and Up

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We're forty minuets into the level, with the tournament clock showing 741 entrants so far. We still have about an hour and a half of late registration; expect that number to increase.

In the meantime, here's who else we've spotted:

Noah Schwartz
Steve Topakas
Vicky Coren
Rob Hollink
Maria Ho
Dwyte Pilgrim
Dag Palovic
Roland de Wolfe
Sorel Mizzi
Theo Tran
Archie Karas
Sam Chartier
Tony Dunst
J.J. Liu
Peter Feldman
Daniel Negreanu
Vanessa Rousso
Maria Mayrinck
Ted Lawson
Sam Khouiss
David Pham
Tom McEvoy
Liya Gerasimova
Toto Leonidas
Allie Prescott
Brandon Cantu
Kevin Saul
Christian Harder
John Juanda
Kelly Kim
Jacobo Fernandez
Mark Seif
Michael Mizrachi
Terrence Chan
Jason Lester
Marco "Hey! Look!" Traniello

Tags: Vanessa Rousso

06-28-2009 07:53 UTC-12

Cousineau Not Robusto - He's Busto

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As we were scanning the crowd for faces, we overheard this brief exchange between David Plastik and Tony Cousineau.

"Hey Tony, you out already?" Plastik asked as Cousineau made a beeline for the rail.

"Heh yeah, been brutal" Cousineau replied. "First I flopped the nut flush draw against top pair and hey, I gotta gamble. Then I flopped a flush out of the big blind with {8-Diamonds}

and the other guy flopped a bigger flush. Third, I flopped top pair queens and was outkicked. What can ya do?"

Plastik nodded his head in sympathy. "Well you still got chips in the other one eh?" he asked, referring to Event 51.

"Yeah, I got 42,000," Cousineau replied. He'll get to start playing those chips in about an hour.

Tags: David Plastik Tony Cousineau