2009 World Series of Poker

Event 57 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em
Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
6,494
Players Left
9
Next Payout
Place 9
$1,263,602
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000

Luu Not Scared of Just a Cub

Hieu Luu raised in middle position to 20,000 and Joe Sebok called out of the small blind. The two players took the flop of {5-Spades} {3-Clubs} {3-Hearts}. Sebok checked and Luu bet 30,000. Sebok made the call.

The turn brought the {8-Hearts} and Sebok checked. Luu checked behind and then the river was dealt the {9-Hearts}. Sebok reached for chips and fired 70,000. Luu thought about it for a moment and then called.

Sebok tabled ace high with {A-Clubs} {10-Clubs}. Luu showed pocket tens and scooped the pot.

Tags: Hieu LuuJoe Sebok

Lovely Ladies Double Brancato

On the first hand of the day, Nick Brancato open-shoved for 251,000 from the cutoff and Ray DeBruyn, holding 445,000 in chips, made the call from the small blind.

Brancato {Q-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds}
DeBruyn {6-Clubs} {6-Spades}

Brancato's queens held on the {A-Spades} {7-Clubs} {4-Clubs} {5-Hearts} {10-Spades} board and he doubled up to 523,000 while DeBruyn slipped to 190,000.

No Grace for Emma

Viet Nguyen bet out on the {6-Diamonds} {3-Hearts} {9-Spades} flop and Emma Grace called. They saw a {6-Spades} turn and now Nguyen checked. Grace moved all in, Nguyen called, and it was the end of Grace.

Grace: {7-Clubs} {7-Hearts}
Nguyen: {K-Clubs} {K-Hearts}

River: {2-Spades}

Leo Labbe Eliminated

On the first hand of play, Steve Sanders min-raised to 16,000. Action folded around to Leo Labbe who moved all in for 113,000. Sanders called.

Labbe - {K-Spades} {J-Spades}
Sanders - {A-Spades} {A-Clubs}

The board ran out {Q-Clubs} {7-Spades} {4-Hearts} {A-Diamonds} {3-Spades} giving Sanders a set of aces to eliminate Labbe.

Steve Sanders - 1,060,000

Tags: Steve Sanders

Level: 18

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 1,000

2009 WSOP Main Event - Day 5

407 players come back today, the Amazon room having been drastically altered today with large spaces between each table.

The luxury of the space no doubt masks a high amount of tension that so many of these players will be feeling. They've survived over 90% of the field but if they last for just four more days and they'll be able to book a return ticket back to the Rio in November for the final table.

Play will be commencing shortly with the plan to play five levels or to 175 players, whichever occurs first.

Day 5 Seating Assignments and Chip Counts

Cards in the air at 12:00.

(Table Blue 2)
Seat 1: Jamie Shaevel - 336000
Seat 2: Bob Lauria - 210000
Seat 3: Ilosvay Zsolt - 533000
Seat 4: Carter Swidler - 654000
Seat 5: Prahlad Friedman - 484000
Seat 6: Andrew Lichtenberger - 487000
Seat 7: Vitaly Lunkin - 268000
Seat 8: Jimmy Tran - 220000
Seat 9: Jeff Cuccurullo - 296000

(Table Blue 4)
Seat 1: Pat O'Malley - 767000
Seat 2: Thor Hansen - 83000
Seat 3: Joseph Cada - 878000
Seat 4: Joe Monro - 198000
Seat 5: Rellie Sigua - 189000
Seat 6: Dennis Phillips - 414000
Seat 7: Saar Wilf - 341000
Seat 8: Benjamin Kang - 254000
Seat 9: Marla Schwartz - 151000

(Table Blue 6)
Seat 1: Joseph Ward - 1129000
Seat 2: Felix Osterland - 161000
Seat 3: Jose Manuel Gomez Rebenaque - 937000
Seat 4: Seth Thomsen - 207000
Seat 5: Andrew Li - 371000
Seat 6: Mihail Stoykov - 352000
Seat 7: Mikael Ay - 711000
Seat 8: Tommy Vedes - 610000
Seat 9: George Saca - 142000

(Table Blue 8)
Seat 1: Daniel Neilson - 721000
Seat 2: Royal Wiseman - 291000
Seat 3: Vinny Curry - 210000
Seat 4: Kevin O'Donnell - 912000
Seat 5: Scott Bausmstein - 404000
Seat 6: Salvatore Bonavena - 229000
Seat 7: CK Hua - 137000
Seat 8: Daryl Jace - 793000
Seat 9: Lou Diamond Phillips - 607000

(Table Blue 10)
Seat 1: Darvin Moon - 764000
Seat 2: Mauro Corsetti - 198000
Seat 3: Sven Mol - 305000
Seat 4: Jeff Papela - 507000
Seat 5: Matt Molina - 329000
Seat 6: Hung Phan - 689000
Seat 7: Bobby Law - 246000
Seat 8: Tyson Marks - 777000
Seat 9: Minh Nhat Nguyen - 200000

(Table Blue 12)
Seat 1: Jordan Rich - 762000
Seat 2: Chris Bjorin - 546000
Seat 3: [Removed:197] - 686000
Seat 4: Adam Sanders - 436000
Seat 5: JC Tran - 163000
Seat 6: Steven Doebler - 433000
Seat 7: Alper Sar - 372000
Seat 8: Jamie Roberts - 71000
Seat 9: Christopher Adlesh - 455000

(Table Blue 14)
Seat 1: Alex Gurevich - 444000
Seat 2: Thuy Doan - 261000
Seat 3: Amir Lehavot - 472000
Seat 4: Hans Hein - 494000
Seat 5: Miika Puumalainen - 1492000
Seat 6: Coba Cao Huynh - 240000
Seat 7: Richard Harrington - 233000
Seat 8: Marc Etienne McLaughlin - 707000
Seat 9: Chad Awerbuch - 351000

(Table Blue 16)
Seat 1: Matt Shchwarmann - 97000
Seat 2: Christian Heich - 830000
Seat 3: Nick Niergarth - 304000
Seat 4: T.J. Eggers - 242000
Seat 5: Mike Minetti - 212000
Seat 6: Antoine Saout - 589000
Seat 7: Fergal Nealon - 299000
Seat 8: Steven Levy - 433000
Seat 9: Benjamin Bilers - 362000

(Table Blue 18)
Seat 1: Mark Fisher - 532000
Seat 2: David Patent - 142000
Seat 3: Adam York - 402000
Seat 4: Remy Biechel - 130000
Seat 5: Michael Reed - 446000
Seat 6: Kenny Tran - 415000
Seat 7: Jarrod Holmes - 145000
Seat 8: Joseph Sanders - 457000
Seat 9: Nick Maimone - 1104000

(Table Blue 20)
Seat 1: Joseph Michael - 201000
Seat 2: Benjamin Jensen - 1394000
Seat 3: Scott Sitron - 378000
Seat 4: Ryan Fair - 304000
Seat 5: Amir Esfandiary - 322000
Seat 6: Arjan van Bavel - 185000
Seat 7: Corey Hochman - 499000
Seat 9: Noah Boeken - 499000

(Table Blue 22)
Seat 1: Lapostolle Martin - 827000
Seat 2: Henrik Warn - 266000
Seat 3: Ron Amos - 279000
Seat 4: Vijayan Nagarajan - 364000
Seat 5: Igor Holiday - 142000
Seat 6: Loic Degrou - 379000
Seat 7: Joe Serock - 700000
Seat 9: Robert Preston Lee III - 423000

(Table Blue 24)
Seat 1: Josh Chait - 146000
Seat 2: Gabriel Vezina - 434000
Seat 3: Erik van den Berg - 315000
Seat 4: David Hong - 155000
Seat 5: Don Tran - 483000
Seat 6: Cray Crivello - 225000
Seat 7: Brennan Hanson - 489000
Seat 8: Steve Phung - 228000
Seat 9: Craig Boyd - 761000

(Table Blue 26)
Seat 1: Francois Balmigere - 394000
Seat 2: Randy Propson - 598000
Seat 3: Jeff Shulman - 314000
Seat 4: Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospelier - 1253000
Seat 5: Rolf Slotboom - 229000
Seat 6: Andy Black - 374000
Seat 7: Tyler Patterson - 1168000
Seat 8: Tim Kahlmeyer - 840000
Seat 9: Scott Buller - 138000

(Table Blue 28)
Seat 1: Wayne Lewis - 598000
Seat 2: George Caragiorgas - 510000
Seat 3: David Diaz - 572000
Seat 4: Cary Katz - 410000
Seat 5: Jake Abdalla - 596000
Seat 6: Viet Nguyen - 345000
Seat 7: Brian Brubaker - 311000
Seat 8: Emma Grace - 194000
Seat 9: Jaroslaw Jaskiewicz - 239000

(Table Blue 30)
Seat 1: Paul Smith - 248000
Seat 2: Dwayne Stacey - 322000
Seat 3: Gjorgji Chuchuk - 86000
Seat 4: Meyer Rainer - 483000
Seat 5: Greg Thompson - 999000
Seat 6: Mike Shrartsman - 372000
Seat 7: Eracles Panayiotou - 1299000
Seat 8: Lasse Nielsen - 181000
Seat 9: James Akenhead - 1572000

(Table Blue 32)
Seat 1: Niklas Flisberg - 253000
Seat 2: Charlie Elias - 1540000
Seat 3: Eric Cloutier - 646000
Seat 4: Jeff Kimber - 97000
Seat 5: Brian Kennedy - 175000
Seat 6: Vesa Leikos - 349000
Seat 7: Thomas Koral - 77000
Seat 8: Tony McGlone - 239000
Seat 9: Brian Powell - 792000

(Table Blue 34)
Seat 1: Zhehao Zhang - 309000
Seat 2: Keith Burt - 237000
Seat 3: Alessandro Longobardi - 183000
Seat 4: Jose Rosenkrantz - 456000
Seat 5: Tom Schneider - 797000
Seat 6: Kevin 'BeL0WaB0Ve' Saul - 396000
Seat 7: Taher Alisheik - 745000
Seat 8: Josh Mancuso - 548000
Seat 9: Antonio 'Bagels' Cavezza - 824000

(Table Blue 36)
Seat 1: Ben Lamb - 1183000
Seat 2: Steve Garfinkle - 299000
Seat 3: Olivier Busquet - 1000000
Seat 4: Thadd Wolff - 409000
Seat 5: Michael Casella - 670000
Seat 6: Jason Ramirez - 385000
Seat 7: Anh Van Nguyen - 237000
Seat 8: Quentin Lae - 234000
Seat 9: Clayton Newman - 114000

(Table Blue 38)
Seat 1: Marco Mattes - 236000
Seat 2: Alex Prendes - 739000
Seat 3: Roy Vazquez - 175000
Seat 4: Carl Johnson - 179000
Seat 5: Richard Toth - 214000
Seat 6: Abraham Mourshaki - 1294000
Seat 7: John J. Martin - 555000
Seat 8: Todd Lundwall - 146000
Seat 9: Kent Goulding - 569000

(Table Blue 40)
Seat 1: Vincent Mack - 363000
Seat 2: Fabrice Soulier - 400000
Seat 3: John Bunch - 142000
Seat 4: Aaron Coulthard - 502000
Seat 5: Bobby Baldwin - 219000
Seat 6: Kevin Jenkins - 307000
Seat 7: David Zeitlin - 160000
Seat 8: Zach Walker - 111000
Seat 9: Julien Brecard - 938000

(Table Blue 42)
Seat 1: Matt Affleck - 1819000
Seat 2: Allen Kennedy - 369000
Seat 3: David Blatte - 81000
Seat 4: Fabian Ortiz - 502000
Seat 5: Manuel Labandeira - 1087000
Seat 6: Kenny Hsiung - 292000
Seat 7: Igor Sharaskin - 538000
Seat 8: Ludovic Lachance - 210000
Seat 9: Patrick Stemper - 269000

(Table Blue 44)
Seat 1: Waren Zackey - 732000
Seat 2: Harry Kazazian - 860000
Seat 3: Jacob Auital - 357000
Seat 4: Bolivar Palacios - 439000
Seat 5: Paul Houston - 371000
Seat 6: Jeremy Wien - 504000
Seat 7: Bradley Craig - 204000
Seat 8: Nichoel Peppe - 869000
Seat 9: Scott Eskenazi - 683000

(Table Blue 46)
Seat 1: Nick Binger - 162000
Seat 2: Montagna Corrado - 655000
Seat 3: Joe Sebok - 502000
Seat 4: Mike Linn - 1000000
Seat 5: Ashley Cheung - 220000
Seat 6: Michael Greco - 253000
Seat 7: Adam Latimer - 1082000
Seat 8: Hieu Luu - 762000
Seat 9: Erik Cohen - 512000

(Table Blue 48)
Seat 1: Rudy Carson - 117000
Seat 2: Kevin McLarthy - 408000
Seat 3: Cole South - 257000
Seat 4: Blair Rodman - 798000
Seat 5: Sarne Lightman - 865000
Seat 6: David Pacheco - 67000
Seat 7: Jonathan Wertheim - 196000
Seat 8: Dominik Kvlicki - 232000
Seat 9: David Benyamine - 405000

(Table Green 150)
Seat 1: Josh Tieman - 238000
Seat 2: Dag Palovic - 586000
Seat 3: Scott Blackman - 584000
Seat 4: Saieva Maurizio - 412000
Seat 5: Jordan Smith - 502000
Seat 6: Wesley Ismay - 570000
Seat 7: Todd Hunter - 353000
Seat 8: Paul Baron - 202000
Seat 9: Keith Lehr - 1190000

(Table Green 152)
Seat 2: Jerry Maher - 298000
Seat 3: Mads Andersen - 904000
Seat 4: Chuck Clark - 1295000
Seat 5: Michael Jansen - 756000
Seat 6: Elad Magidov - 858000
Seat 7: Luis Salinas - 157000
Seat 8: Phil Ivey - 1276000
Seat 9: Bob Riley - 281000

(Table Green 153)
Seat 1: Jim Hartley - DNR
Seat 2: Leo Labbe - 113000
Seat 3: Steven Begleiter - 849000
Seat 4: Hac Dang - 906000
Seat 5: Raul Paez - 232000
Seat 6: Michael Castaldo - 432000
Seat 7: Steve Sanders - 949000
Seat 8: Charles Wood - 545000

(Table Green 155)
Seat 1: Paul Johnson - 321000
Seat 2: Peter Eastgate - 397000
Seat 3: Billy McMahon - 655000
Seat 4: Peter DeBaene - 482000
Seat 5: Sean Lew - 300000
Seat 6: Kevin Schaffel - 1206000
Seat 7: Mark Ader - 863000
Seat 8: Grayson Ramage - 823000
Seat 9: Mike Lovelace - 305000

(Table Orange 61)
Seat 1: Nick Schulman - 746000
Seat 3: Jordan Morgan - 1489000
Seat 4: Joe Luht - 401000
Seat 5: Shawn Pilot - 204000
Seat 6: Andrew Tuttle - 130000
Seat 7: David Fox - 568000
Seat 8: Adam White - 492000
Seat 9: Dave Whalen - 117000

(Table Orange 63)
Seat 1: Gregg Turk - 208000
Seat 2: Dan Harrington - 659000
Seat 3: Soutchay Chansombath - DNR
Seat 4: Ken Harbaugh - 84000
Seat 5: Claudio Baptista - 506000
Seat 6: Scott Bohlman - 815000
Seat 7: David Russell - 254000
Seat 8: Tom Lutz - 1600000
Seat 9: Edward Teens - 333000

(Table Orange 65)
Seat 1: Robert Allen - 226000
Seat 2: Leo Margets - 464000
Seat 3: Jason Brice - 1069500
Seat 4: Herbie Gelman - 728000
Seat 5: Danny Smith - 140000
Seat 6: Mohamed Hammond - 340000
Seat 7: Daniel Rudd - 127000
Seat 8: Chris Viox - 201000
Seat 9: Matt Kurtz - 570000

(Table Orange 67)
Seat 1: Robert Lipkin - 234000
Seat 2: Sean Nolan - 306000
Seat 3: Nicky Power - 155000
Seat 4: Alex Jalale - 302000
Seat 5: Matthew Waxman - 252000
Seat 6: Marty Zabib - 174000
Seat 7: Patrick Hanoteau - 388000
Seat 8: Adam 'Nestegg' Bilzerian - 841000
Seat 9: Dan Bilzerian - 964000

(Table Orange 69)
Seat 1: Owen Crowe - 720000
Seat 2: Eugene Fouksman - 168000
Seat 3: Bruce Perry - 543000
Seat 4: Brian Taylor - 664000
Seat 5: Pedro Cavazos - 710000
Seat 6: Kasper Cordes - 1095000
Seat 7: Frank Rusnak - 278000
Seat 8: Ian Tavelli - 224000

(Table Orange 71)
Seat 1: Ed Perry - 251000
Seat 2: Ian Woodley - 864000
Seat 3: Carl Olson - 702000
Seat 4: William Robertie - 245000
Seat 5: Karl Mahrenholz - 710000
Seat 6: Bernhard Perner - 1426000
Seat 7: Mickey Mills - 727000
Seat 8: Sander Lylloff - 764000
Seat 9: Richard Washinsky - 428000

(Table Orange 73)
Seat 1: Jon Eaton - 320000
Seat 2: Osmin Dardon - 266000
Seat 3: Eugene Katchalov - 720000
Seat 4: Michael Comer - 420000
Seat 5: Cristian Tardea - 1015000
Seat 6: David Wickham - 185000
Seat 7: Jamie Robbins - 716000
Seat 8: Justin Henry - 564000
Seat 9: Niclas Elfstedt - 246000

(Table Orange 75)
Seat 1: Ray Deruyn - 445000
Seat 2: Jeffrey Anderson - 190000
Seat 3: Gabe Walls - 985000
Seat 4: Jose Paz - 81000
Seat 5: Ryan Hart - 631000
Seat 6: Samuel Edwards - 227000
Seat 7: Dieter Albrecht - 454000
Seat 8: Nick Brancato - 252000
Seat 9: Rifat Palevic - 1152000

(Table Orange 77)
Seat 1: Antoine Dugast - 88000
Seat 2: Brent Catalano - 477000
Seat 3: Joe Hachem - 490000
Seat 4: Eric Buchman - 474000
Seat 5: Ross Mallor - 156000
Seat 6: Eugene Castro - DNR
Seat 7: Jonathan Tamayo - 805000
Seat 8: Reed Hensel - 173000
Seat 9: Kara Scott - 399000

(Table Orange 80)
Seat 1: Adam Croffut - 526000
Seat 2: James Calderaro - 653000
Seat 3: Adam Knepp - 266000
Seat 4: Eli Adler - 550000
Seat 5: Donald Crabtree - 149000
Seat 6: Billy Kopp - 1385000
Seat 7: Vince Bartello - 101000
Seat 8: Roger Goa - 257000

(Table Orange 82)
Seat 1: Maxim Semisoshenko - 274000
Seat 2: Isidro Martinez - 300000
Seat 3: Blair Hinkle - 1399000
Seat 4: Cornel Cimpan - 165000
Seat 5: Kyle Bowker - 185000
Seat 6: Paul Lieu - 18300
Seat 7: Luis Nargentino - 239000
Seat 8: Oliver Klatt - 127000
Seat 9: Jesse Haabak - 580000

(Table Orange 84)
Seat 1: Benjamin Kramer - 122000
Seat 2: Battisti Alfio - 530000
Seat 3: Jamie Brown - 197000
Seat 4: Guy Calvert - 561000
Seat 5: Dariusz Paszkiewicz - 488000
Seat 6: Roger Pruzansky - 614000
Seat 7: Jesse Chinni - 531000
Seat 8: Scott Mayfield - 111000
Seat 9: Brian Hansen - 538000

(Table Orange 85)
Seat 1: Markus Gonsalves - 317000
Seat 2: Andreas Flakstad - 375000
Seat 3: Joel Patchell - 762000
Seat 4: Kyle Wilson - 537000
Seat 5: Kirk Banks - 282000
Seat 6: Kyriacos 'Greek Jack' Dionysiou - 271000
Seat 7: Craig Ivey - 101000
Seat 8: Frank Lomanno - 742000
Seat 9: Tome Moreira - 253000

(Table Orange 87)
Seat 1: James Keys - 272000
Seat 2: Rob Lederer - 555000
Seat 3: Leonard Greer - 108000
Seat 4: Huub Verdonschot - 838000
Seat 5: Jeremy Kottler - 105000
Seat 6: David Rubin - 86000
Seat 7: Mark Abrantes - 338000
Seat 8: Jim Routos - 370000
Seat 9: Peter Kremeliev - 845000

(Table Orange 89)
Seat 1: Burt Boutin - 230000
Seat 2: Brendan Taylor - 640000
Seat 3: Jamin Stokes - 320000
Seat 4: Denis Estelle - 415000
Seat 5: David Levi - 180000
Seat 6: Daniel Shak - 369000
Seat 7: Rebecca Campbell - 233000
Seat 8: Christopher Bach - 772000
Seat 9: Antonio Esfandiari - 496000

(Table Orange 92)
Seat 1: Casey Sobczewski - 239000
Seat 2: Jared Bluestein - 251000
Seat 3: Sorel Mizzi - 305000
Seat 4: Thai Tran - 968000
Seat 5: Scott Cook - 364000
Seat 6: James Bayer - 91000
Seat 7: Craig Zotter - 97000
Seat 8: Thierry van den Berg - 270000
Seat 9: John Monnette - 609000

(Table Orange 94)
Seat 1: Mike Bisutti - 70000
Seat 2: Bryan Kerr - 295000
Seat 3: Jeff Duvall - 401000
Seat 4: Ryan Gafford - 402000
Seat 5: Will Haydon - 346000
Seat 6: Theo Tran - 1000000
Seat 7: Tian Shou - 1042000
Seat 8: Joseph Baldwin - 870000
Seat 9: Bob Whalen - 719000

(Table Orange 96)
Seat 1: Joey Lawrence - 878000
Seat 2: Gordon Eng - 175000
Seat 3: Fernando Gordo - 745000
Seat 4: Hamid Nourafchan - 301000
Seat 5: Charles Chrysostomou - 254000
Seat 6: Ludovic Lacay - 1608000
Seat 7: Mike Brooks - 558000
Seat 8: Stan Jablonski - 782000
Seat 9: Michael Merichko - 1020000