2009 World Series of Poker

Event 54 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
9j
Prize
$673,276
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,846,570
Entries
2,818
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Day 2 Seating Assignments and Chip Counts

Play resumes at 2:00pm.

(Table 157)
Seat 1: Peter Kjaer - 24600
Seat 2: Eugene Tito - 19200
Seat 3: Mauro Piacentino - 23700
Seat 4: Olivier Decamps - 26800
Seat 5: Brian Mullins - 29500
Seat 6: Costantino Rao - 16800
Seat 7: Nersan Naidoo - 59100
Seat 8: Keoki Ho - 9900
Seat 9: Kevin Eyring - 35700

(Table 158)
Seat 1: Jack Powell - 41300
Seat 2: Bahram Mouzoon - 8600
Seat 3: Charalampos Tsaoussis - 29700
Seat 4: Terry Brackenbury - 15100
Seat 5: Rossignon Benoit - 30500
Seat 6: Claudia Roberts - 33000
Seat 7: Matt Polishuk - 17400
Seat 8: Adrian Ridner - 14200
Seat 9: Peter Jelinek - 31400

(Table 159)
Seat 1: Geno Foschi - 21800
Seat 2: Jose Deandrade - 32500
Seat 3: Craig Hower - 12900
Seat 4: Marat Mudriyan - DNR
Seat 5: Theo Tran - 16000
Seat 6: Anthony Varriano - 20500
Seat 7: Chad Tinney - 19600
Seat 8: Chad Butterfield - 13100
Seat 9: Suzanne Lussier - 51100

(Table 160)
Seat 1: Dmitry Amiryan - 18000
Seat 2: Victoriya Taranova - 41800
Seat 3: Dan Larsen - 40200
Seat 4: Aaron Crislip - 10000
Seat 5: Eric Knodler - 64000
Seat 6: Jason Collins - 31100
Seat 7: George Yutuc - 42100
Seat 8: Roberto Machado - 36300
Seat 9: Paulo Branco - 53900

(Table 161)
Seat 1: Julien Lanne - DNR
Seat 2: Alexander Sixt - 10400
Seat 3: Todd Arnold - 19400
Seat 4: Andrew Teng - 63800
Seat 5: Diana Grimme - 25700
Seat 6: Shane St John - 11800
Seat 7: Dallas Flowers - 7400
Seat 8: Gustavo Nazario - 4400
Seat 9: Danny Falkenstein - 72300

(Table 162)
Seat 1: Mike Sica - 24000
Seat 2: Claude Narcisse - 17500
Seat 3: Mike Durand - 27100
Seat 4: Randal Gibson - 11200
Seat 5: Nadav Benjosef - 98900
Seat 6: Zsombor Gall - 114300
Seat 7: Tom Daly - 42000
Seat 8: Victor McDevitt - 43000
Seat 9: Frank Sinopoli - 24000

(Table 163)
Seat 1: Chris Heintschel - 10200
Seat 2: Michael Tabarelli - 21800
Seat 3: V Erswig - 18400
Seat 4: Anthony Harb - 23400
Seat 5: Francisco Musalem - 76800
Seat 6: LJ deVries - 40500
Seat 7: Jeffery Murphy - 9700
Seat 8: Clyde Harper - 8400
Seat 9: Eric Adornetto - 30200

(Table 164)
Seat 1: Vanna Tea - 51100
Seat 2: Florian Ristl - 4600
Seat 3: Martial Blangenwitsch - 37700
Seat 4: Omar McFarlane - 35900
Seat 5: Harri Stromberg - 27100
Seat 6: Gerald Eberle - 40800
Seat 7: Eric Vaughn - 4600
Seat 8: Raymond Rahme - 51800
Seat 9: Peter Yu - 27200

(Table 165)
Seat 1: Sergey Pomerantsev - 72000
Seat 2: Bruce Stern - 10500
Seat 3: Henrik Tollefsen - 50300
Seat 4: Chad Martin - 30500
Seat 5: Tom Inuie - 28800
Seat 6: Sanford Lee - 84400
Seat 7: Eric Hayes - 98400
Seat 8: Jerry Flannigan - 16300
Seat 9: Bhupinder Singh - 29600

(Table 166)
Seat 1: Nathan Root - 15800
Seat 2: Richard Chen - 8600
Seat 3: Peter Raimondi - 55300
Seat 4: Philip Brautigam - 8300
Seat 5: Timothy McKernan - 11600
Seat 6: Matthias Kuerschner - 53000
Seat 7: Tom Percy - 31700
Seat 8: Samuel Lemoine - 17600
Seat 9: John Houtsma - 21800

(Table 167)
Seat 1: Jerry Skelton - 30200
Seat 2: Mario Rodriguez - 10600
Seat 3: Carlos Mortensen - 32800
Seat 4: Henric Strath - 22100
Seat 5: Lily Bui - 40200
Seat 6: Donald Boivin - 100700
Seat 7: Chistopher DeMaci - 35400
Seat 8: Thomas Fuller - 64700
Seat 9: Ernesto Basa Jr - 32300

(Table 168)
Seat 1: James Keys - 76000
Seat 2: Wooka Kim - 31000
Seat 3: Russell Baumbach - 13800
Seat 4: Howard Smith - 49300
Seat 5: Michael Yang - 28700
Seat 6: Paul Jansen - 13300
Seat 7: Jason Hodges - 87100
Seat 8: Paul Birman - 6400
Seat 9: Tom Jones - 24400

(Table 169)
Seat 1: Tony Veckey - 74400
Seat 2: Antonino Karman - 52000
Seat 3: Daniel O'Brien - 16400
Seat 4: William Sheridan - 16800
Seat 5: Marcel Magnate - 10500
Seat 6: Sandro Thalmann - 36700
Seat 7: Aaron Kweskin - 58000
Seat 8: Gregory Chambon - 23000
Seat 9: Michael Jones - 17700

(Table 170)
Seat 1: Dmitriy Yegorov - 60000
Seat 2: Frank Lingscheit - 11900
Seat 3: Jeff Gore - 9800
Seat 4: Daniel Brown - 16200
Seat 5: Carl McCullough - 32100
Seat 6: James Monteveci - 59100
Seat 7: Jon Christensen - 160800
Seat 8: Feming Chan - 18600
Seat 9: Biagio Morciano - 20400

(Table 171)
Seat 1: Adrian Crededio - 38800
Seat 2: John Farrell - 44400
Seat 3: Mario Escobosa - 16400
Seat 4: Jim Pechac - 32900
Seat 5: Kenny Nguyen - 27000
Seat 6: Robert Breeden - 9000
Seat 7: Denise Molloy - 6800
Seat 8: Bryan Paris - 46000
Seat 9: Chris Alchenberger - 18400

(Table 172)
Seat 1: Jody Howe - 126600
Seat 2: Paul Koeppl - 47100
Seat 3: Lance Yuen - 22800
Seat 4: Jeremy Ausmus - 22400
Seat 5: Andres Rey - 10500
Seat 6: Christopher Meinertsen - 39500
Seat 7: Tom Blackwell - 26600
Seat 8: Mike Dietrich - 28900
Seat 9: Scott Black - 52300

(Table 173)
Seat 1: Matt Stern - 49900
Seat 2: David Bownds - 24600
Seat 3: Robert Finlay - 62800
Seat 4: Alexandre Gomes - 76000
Seat 5: Dane Steele - 10000
Seat 6: Andrew Shepherd - 40600
Seat 7: Daniel Cote - 62400
Seat 8: Alexander Borteh - 42000
Seat 9: Mark Zen - 40100

(Table 174)
Seat 1: Vince Lacariere - 22700
Seat 2: Haysam Chiniara - 22800
Seat 3: Cynthia Griffin - 16600
Seat 4: Michael Foley - 14700
Seat 5: Eric De Grande - 51100
Seat 6: Julian Rembert - 20200
Seat 7: Jason Pohl - 26500
Seat 8: Josh Mammon - 24000
Seat 9: Bryan Bechard - 56600

(Table 1705)
Seat 1: Mick Kokkeler - 30100
Seat 2: Scott Reese - DNR
Seat 3: Lauren Kling - 49000
Seat 4: Steen Vester - 48700
Seat 5: Bruce Pirie - 7600
Seat 6: Harvey Nudelman - 24100
Seat 7: Hunter Frey - 32500
Seat 8: Alex Mass - 23300
Seat 9: Bruce Perry - 45200

(Table 176)
Seat 1: Lee Biddulph - 28000
Seat 2: Craig Hartman - 48500
Seat 3: Kenny Chuor - 10200
Seat 4: Todd Richardson - 6300
Seat 5: Mark Compton - 31700
Seat 7: Felix Lambertz - 85400
Seat 8: Matthew Mille - 24500
Seat 9: Tuong Eddie Le - 50700

(Table 177)
Seat 1: Keith Steffens - 6500
Seat 2: Rose Cooney - 9500
Seat 3: Dangkhoa Nguyen - 75000
Seat 4: Vivek Rajkumar - 31800
Seat 5: Michael Lehmann - 35100
Seat 6: Mclean Karr - 19100
Seat 7: Willi Flemming - 39500
Seat 8: Taylor Shpur - 40800
Seat 9: Randy Pfeifer - 70700

(Table 178)
Seat 1: Morten Lovdal - 36900
Seat 2: Alexey Tkachenko - 63300
Seat 3: Florian Blumel - 18100
Seat 4: Richard En - 41700
Seat 5: Dwayne Vetter - 47400
Seat 6: Jason Wheeler - 47800
Seat 7: Brandon Wong - 59800
Seat 8: Michael Ium - 26000
Seat 9: Rip Fritzer - 64600

(Table 179)
Seat 1: Jan Romate - 29100
Seat 2: Trent Wyatt - 7000
Seat 3: Pasi Motsakov - 60600
Seat 4: Philip Starner - 35600
Seat 5: Greg Alston - 48500
Seat 6: Richard Sorenson - 22600
Seat 7: Rick Osso - 8800
Seat 8: Philippe Narboni - 24900
Seat 9: Bernard van Dijk - 44600

(Table 180)
Seat 1: Ronaldo Uliana - 15600
Seat 2: Robert Thrane - 35700
Seat 3: Ronald Stebbins - 15000
Seat 4: Gary Fenchuk - 3000
Seat 5: Amit Makhija - 28800
Seat 6: Dau Ly - 59000
Seat 7: Men Nguyen - 14800
Seat 8: Kenneth Skidmore - 16900
Seat 9: Eric Larcheveque - 57700

(Table 181)
Seat 1: Van Nguyen - 16800
Seat 2: John Shipley - 15100
Seat 3: In Kwon - 14100
Seat 4: Mike Maher - 40600
Seat 5: Enrico Lazzari - 42000
Seat 6: Allyn Shulman - 20700
Seat 7: Joshua Norris - 27400
Seat 8: James Husain - 15700
Seat 9: Michael Batell - 31100

(Table 182)
Seat 1: Miha Remic - 6700
Seat 2: Rasmus Nielsen - 53500
Seat 3: Craig Corcoran - 35400
Seat 4: Julien Andre - 17200
Seat 5: Daniel Minor - 17100
Seat 6: Craig Ripley - 33700
Seat 7: Travis Allen - 31300
Seat 8: Lawrence Shawe - 28000
Seat 9: Joe Kozlowsky - 13100

(Table 183)
Seat 1: Paul Nunes - 50500
Seat 2: Douglas Carli - 11600
Seat 3: Sean Furfaro - 8500
Seat 4: Jason Thomas - 30800
Seat 5: Vincent Chung - 59300
Seat 6: Alex Bolotin - 24100
Seat 7: Ed Stafsholt - 16200
Seat 8: Hevad Khan - 25300
Seat 9: Andrew Malott - 41700

(Table 184)
Seat 1: Kevin Rosini - 84700
Seat 2: Jeffrey Chotikul - 39500
Seat 3: Nicolas Vogel - 13300
Seat 4: Monique Fisher - 37500
Seat 5: Glenn Cooper - 18000
Seat 6: Chris Wunderlich - 21600
Seat 7: Christopher Campbell - 31200
Seat 8: John Reinhold - 19800
Seat 9: Daniel Webb - 18300

(Table 185)
Seat 1: Heriot Mungo IV - 16000
Seat 2: Antonio Maestro - 40300
Seat 3: Mike Allis - 37600
Seat 4: Tycho Vandenbergh - 24700
Seat 5: Jeffrey Lewis - 4000
Seat 6: Jorge Arias - 96200
Seat 7: John Richardson - 11800
Seat 8: Christian Sabio - 44900
Seat 9: Jules Dreamell - 26800

(Table 186)
Seat 1: William Ladyman - 18300
Seat 2: Evgeny Serebryakov - 36700
Seat 3: Christopher Bonita - 96000
Seat 4: Gavin Tamashiro - 14100
Seat 5: David Chang - 16700
Seat 6: Michael Noon - 21400
Seat 7: Alex Keating - 72100
Seat 8: Charles Rowan - 58300
Seat 9: Joseph Kouaho - 33200

(Table 187)
Seat 1: Chen Liang - 17500
Seat 2: Henry Merchan - 108700
Seat 3: Thad Mitchell - 31300
Seat 4: Steven Rubinfeld - 30700
Seat 5: Kim Andre Svarstad - 25000
Seat 6: Tom Scudieri - 21900
Seat 7: Jeffrey Casas - 26700
Seat 8: Jennifer Richie - 13500
Seat 9: Bob Hohenwalter - 55500

(Table 188)
Seat 1: Andras Kovacs - 24700
Seat 2: Dat Luu - 24400
Seat 3: Richard Lee - 34300
Seat 4: Jesus Salerno - 50600
Seat 5: Adrian Vizmanos - 6600
Seat 6: Franck Calonnec - 31900
Seat 7: Bernard Dunning - 14400
Seat 8: Jonathan Dull - 47900
Seat 9: Wayne Chow - 31000

(Table 189)
Seat 1: Christian Bowerman - 28800
Seat 2: Frederick Jensen - 12900
Seat 3: Eddie Seliga - 70000
Seat 4: Julien Legros - 47400
Seat 5: Stephen Outram - 65400
Seat 6: Jaoui David - 59800
Seat 7: Qui Ho - 56900
Seat 8: David Huete - 12900
Seat 9: Russ Krueger - 23500

(Table 190)
Seat 1: Steve Simer - 32600
Seat 2: Patrick Shane Devan - 17900
Seat 3: Ryan Eckhart - 12100
Seat 4: Joseph Singer - 5600
Seat 5: Brett Nalder - 18300
Seat 6: Sergey Kishnev - 33700
Seat 7: Jamie Kerstetter - 27700
Seat 8: Jos Urhausen - 20200
Seat 9: Arkadiy Tsinis - 84800

(Table 191)
Seat 1: Kenneth Terrell - 35100
Seat 2: John Spagnuolo - 36300
Seat 3: Klaus Schwarz - 17000
Seat 4: Michael Bernstein - 14000
Seat 5: Jason Reed - 17400
Seat 6: Alan Steer - 53400
Seat 7: Randy McKay - 20300
Seat 8: John Hom - 16600
Seat 9: John Lee - 17100

(Table 192)
Seat 1: Mark Gearhart - 37800
Seat 2: Raymond Hicks - 22100
Seat 3: Mike Halioua - 6400
Seat 4: Joseph Chaplin - 49300
Seat 5: John Lawson - 35000
Seat 6: Daniel Dawson - 33600
Seat 7: Scott Dorsch - 18300
Seat 8: Robert Wiercinski - 31600
Seat 9: Ut Nguyen - 57000

(Table 193)
Seat 1: Chris Dolan - 56000
Seat 2: Steven Serle - 17400
Seat 3: Johnny D'Silva - 4700
Seat 4: Jack Converse - 16800
Seat 5: Kiran Desai - 79900
Seat 6: GR Brooks - 31100
Seat 7: Dallin Pender - 25600
Seat 8: Scott Epstein - 20400
Seat 9: Jeppe Mikkelsen - 56700

(Table 194)
Seat 1: Brian Green - 54300
Seat 2: Frank Muller - 25200
Seat 3: Darren Griffiths - 43500
Seat 4: Richard Wyrick - 27800
Seat 5: Kyle Zartman - 20600
Seat 6: Matt Zoorob - 23800
Seat 7: Craig Gray - 104300
Seat 8: Toni Ojala - 54700
Seat 9: Kristof Leyns - 36500

(Table 195)
Seat 1: Peter Voltz - 4200
Seat 2: John Leggett - 42000
Seat 3: Scott Stage - 10100
Seat 4: Istvan Ratkai - 33300
Seat 5: Jinyun Lin - 17600
Seat 6: Kaj Emanuel - 39700
Seat 7: Todd Lundwall - 53900
Seat 8: Ingo Becker - 30000
Seat 9: Paul Garbedian - 34300

(Table 196)
Seat 1: Roy Shimada - 25900
Seat 2: Jeffrey Joseph - 27100
Seat 3: Brent Joost - 15800
Seat 4: David Woo - 35000
Seat 5: Daniel Hirleman - 46100
Seat 6: Randy Kritzer - 8600
Seat 7: Steven Zarifis - 14100
Seat 8: Jonathan Mcgowan - 54600
Seat 9: Xavier Jacquet-Duval - 23800

(Table 197)
Seat 1: Jamie Cohen - 67400
Seat 2: Joe Morneau - 100300
Seat 3: Robert Seaton - 23500
Seat 4: Mike Ratcliff - 58200
Seat 5: Dennis January - 20000
Seat 6: Ben Palmer - 74700
Seat 7: Richard Ra - 8100
Seat 9: David Warady - 25000

(Table 198)
Seat 1: Kevin Kelsey - 40500
Seat 2: Robert Edenshaw - DNR
Seat 3: Patrick Madden - 41800
Seat 4: Dean Hamrick - 39500
Seat 5: Gary Burks - 32900
Seat 6: Thomas Maguire - 38100
Seat 7: Thai Tran - 35100
Seat 8: Wendeen Eolis - 33400
Seat 9: Gabriele Lepore - 37900

Getting Ready for Day 2

Dealers are setting up their tables. Players are milling around the hallways. There's a buzz in the air, and cards are nearly ready to fly as Day 2 of the $1,500 No-Limit Hold 'em tournament draws near.

We have 376 players returning to the felt as they battle their way toward a final table and a shot at WSOP glory. Cards will be in the air shortly, so stick around for all of the action.

Level: 11

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 100

Dawson Off To Great Start

Mike Halioua pushed his last 6,200 into the middle and was called by Daniel Dawson.

Halioua: {Q-Hearts}{Q-Spades}
Dawson: {7-Hearts}{7-Spades}

The board ran out {2-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}{6-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds} to a sick beat fall for Halioua as Dawson raked in the pot while stating "that's a good start!"

Christensen Launches To 250,000

Jon Christensen in action
Jon Christensen in action
With around 16,000 in the pot and a flop of {Q-Hearts}{4-Hearts}{J-Diamonds} out, Jon Christensen led out for 12,000 before Dmitriy Yegorov pushed all in for 50,000 more.

Christensen made the call and tabled his {A-Clubs}{A-Diamonds} to be in great shape against Yegorov's {K-Diamonds}{K-Hearts}.

The turn and river fell the {3-Diamonds} and {2-Diamonds} to see Yegorov hit the rail as Christensen soars to 240,000 in chips.

D'Silva D'oubles

Dallin Pender made it 3,100 to go from middle position and action folded back to Johnny D'Silva in the small blind who pushed in for his last 4,700. Pender made the call.

Pender: {A-Hearts}{9-Clubs}
D'Silva: {A-Spades}{J-Diamonds}

A flop of {6-Clubs}{4-Clubs}{9-Hearts} was bad news for D'Silva, as was the {6-Hearts} on the turn. The river was kind though, bringing the {J-Hearts} and a much needed double up.

Cohen Calls Heads, Flips Tails

Joe Morneau in action
Joe Morneau in action
Jamie Cohen opened to 2,800 from the hijack before Joe Morneau made it 6,800 to go.

Cohen then pushed it to 8,000 more before Morneau moved all in to put Cohen to a decision for his tournament life.

After nearly three minutes in the tank, Cohen made the call to see the cards tabled.

Cohen: {10-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}
Morneau: {A-Clubs}{Q-Diamonds}

The board ran out {A-Spades}{4-Clubs}{7-Clubs}{9-Spades}{8-Spades} to see Cohen hit the rail as Morneau soars to 175,000 in chips.

Lee Risks it All

On a flop of {6-Clubs}{5-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}, Richard Lee pushed all in for his last 16,100 and sent Jonathan Dull deep into the tank.

Dull aggravated over his decision for nearly three minutes before reluctantly mucking his hand and saving the remainder of his short stack. Lee climbed to nearly 30,000 after the pot.

Bui Bullied By Mortensen

Crippled by Carlos
Crippled by Carlos
Lily Bui has been crippled by 2001 WSOP Main Event champion Carlos Mortensen.

With all the money going in on the turn, it would be Bui's {8-Clubs}{8-Spades} against Mortensen's {K-Hearts}{9-Hearts} when the eventual board ran out {6-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}{K-Clubs}{Q-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds}.

As Mortensen doubled through to 49,000, Bui slipped to 6,5000 in chips.