Event 9 - $1,500 Six-handed No Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-03-2009 06:41 UTC-12

Event 9: $1,500 Six Handed No-Limit Hold'em

MarcC

Welcome to Event 9 at this year's WSOP. This is the first short handed event to take place this year and with a lower buy-in, we expect it to be very popular with around 300 tables being set up for today's play. There's an awful lot of 6-max played online, so we expect a fair share of internet players in today's field. Play starts at midday.

06-03-2009 06:58 UTC-12

Yawns All Around

MarcC

Players are filtering in through the doors looking for their tables. Not everyone is finding it that easy but it's understandable as it's not even the afternoon yet, so what poker players are normally awake at this time?

Level: 1

Blinds: 25/50

Ante: 0

06-03-2009 07:02 UTC-12

Champion of Champions

MarcC

Our Champion of Champions, Tom McEvoy, has just had the privilege of announcing, "Shuffle up and deal".

06-03-2009 07:16 UTC-12

Spotted So Far

MarcC

So what name players have shown themselves so far?

Tim Vance
Neil Channing
Bill Chen
Ciaran O'Leary
Liya Gerasimova
Chad Batista
Jon "PearlJammer" Turner
Ludovic Lacay
Maria Ho

Tags: Tim Vance

06-03-2009 07:28 UTC-12

Ho Down

MarcC

A player on the button raises and Maria Ho calls from the SB. The flop comes {J-Hearts}

and Ho check calls a 150 bet. She does the same on the {3-Diamonds}

turn but this time it's for 550. When the river comes {5-Clubs}

, the bet is 1,100 from the button and Ho calls but mucks when she is shown {K-Spades}

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She's on 2,000 now.

06-03-2009 07:38 UTC-12

Poker Tweets

MarcC

Players who have reported they're playing today:

Jeff Williams
Adam Levy
Jonathan Little
Clonie Gowen
Amit Makhija
Eric Froehlich
Kevin Saul
Jeff Madsen
Bryan Micon
Joe Sebok
Evelyn Ng

I'll do my best to spot them in the crowd.

06-03-2009 07:47 UTC-12

Sing Along

MarcC

Just spotted David Singer and he was involved in a pot at the river stage with the board reading {A-Hearts}

. Singer was in the small blind and fired out 1,000. He was facing a player in the cut off who announced a call like he was in a lot of pain and mucked upon seeing Singer's {A-Clubs}