Event #15: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship Day 2 | 2010 World Series of Poker

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06-07-2010 11:51 UTC-7

The Second Day of Highs, Lows and Chopped Pots

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Marco Johnson leading the way into Day 2

Yesterday saw 170 of the biggest high-profile poker players take to the felt for Event No. 15: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship. Play began at 5:00 p.m. local time in Las Vegas and was completed after eight levels were in the books. When things were all said and done, young gun Marco Johnson stood atop the leaderboard with 121,500 chips.

Johnson will have to watch out today when he returns as not to far behind him are Alexander Dovzhenko with 116,600 chips and Phil Ivey with 109,800 chips. Jennifer Harman and Barry Greenstein can also be found in the top ten of the remaining pack, sitting on 93,500 and 88,700, respectively.

Today's action will surely be much more stress-free than yesterday's thanks for Tom Dwan coming up just short of his first-ever WSOP gold bracelet in Event No. 11. Numerous pros in the field for this event had hefty portions of their bankrolls on the line in bracelets bets with the man referred to as "durrrr" and they were sweating his every move from a few feet away in the Amazon Room. The closer Dwan got to the title, the more beads of sweat dribbled off the foreheads of the top players in the game. When Dwan eventually busted in second place just as things were wrapping up for this event at the end of the night, Daniel Negreanu and Mike Matusow began running around like little girls. Most of the others put aside their poker faces and smiled as brightly as they have in years. On top of that, many of the players were sweating game two of the NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers with large sums of money riding on it.

Although Dwan may have taken the spotlight for the day, you can't overlook this event itself. The numbers in this event grew from last year by six and also eclipsed that of the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship that Men "The Master" Nguyen won a couple days ago. Who would've thought that Stud Hi-Low is more popular than straight Stud? First place is worth a whopping $447,442 and the top 16 finishers will receive at least $28,221.

Some of the other notable names part of the returning 107 players are Eli Elezra, Gus Hansen, Alexander Kostritsyn, Scott Clements, David Benyamine and Phil Hellmuth. Defending champion Jeffrey Lisandro also remains, keeping his title-defense hopes alive. He has a little bit under average chips with 40,500.

Play resumes later today at 3:00 p.m. local time here at the home of the 2010 WSOP - the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. There's only four events on the schedule today, but this one is a big one. Stay tuned to PokerNews for all the scoops, chopped pots and seventh-street miracles you can handle! We'll see you in a bit.

06-07-2010 11:26 UTC-7

Day 2 Table and Seat Draw

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Table 358
Seat 1: Eli Elezra - 78900
Seat 2: David Benyamine - 58700
Seat 3: Robert Mizrachi - 33800
Seat 4: Huck Seed - 43600
Seat 5: Shannon Shorr - 39300
Seat 6: Dario Minieri - 53000
Seat 7: Ray Dehkharghani - 65000
Seat 8: Pat Poels - 47100

Table 359
Seat 1: Scott Clements - 59700
Seat 2: David Sklansky - 20600
Seat 3: Suk Min Sung - 5200
Seat 4: Adam Roberts - 27900
Seat 5: Mikhail Smirnov - 21200
Seat 6: John Hoang - 61300
Seat 7: Josh Arieh - 12800
Seat 8: --empty--

Table 361
Seat 1: Max Pescatori - 63100
Seat 2: Howard Lederer - 22000
Seat 3: Michael Watson - 11200
Seat 4: John Monnette - 14100
Seat 5: Alexander Kostritsyn - 76400
Seat 6: Chris Ferguson - 15900
Seat 7: David Grey - 31600
Seat 8: --empty--

Table 362
Seat 1: Nick Schulman - 44000
Seat 2: Arthur Cobb - 15000
Seat 3: Stephen Su - 53600
Seat 4: Ralph Perry - 39600
Seat 5: Ron Ware - 33600
Seat 6: Erik Seidel - 42300
Seat 7: Simon Kearney - 51300
Seat 8: Sirious Jamshidi - 103100

Table 362
Seat 1: Kristy Gazes - 18600
Seat 2: Todd Barlow - 47400
Seat 3: Francisco Hernandez - 89000
Seat 4: Gary Benson - 62700
Seat 5: Cyndy Violette - 35000
Seat 6: Keith Sexton - 33400
Seat 7: George Lind - 76700
Seat 8: Blair Rodman - 17100

Table 364
Seat 1: Hasan Habib - 50500
Seat 2: John Juanda - 28400
Seat 3: Phil Ivey - 109800
Seat 4: John Racener - 15300
Seat 5: Farzad Bonyadi - 56800
Seat 6: Mel Judah - 19700
Seat 7: David Singer - 63100
Seat 8: --empty--

Table 366
Seat 1: George Hardie - 59300
Seat 2: Sorel Mizzi - 25800
Seat 3: Barry Shulman - 39100
Seat 4: Michael Sexton - 48300
Seat 5: Michael Patrick - 30800
Seat 6: Owais Ahmed - 29300
Seat 7: Richard Ashby - 87300
Seat 8: Chip Jett - 49000

Table 367
Seat 1: Frank Kassela - 66500
Seat 2: Suzan Landrum - 7800
Seat 3: Glenn Cozen - 74600
Seat 4: Dennis Seagle - 72500
Seat 5: Hernan Salazar - 44700
Seat 6: Brandon Adams - 66600
Seat 7: Jeffrey Lisandro - 40500
Seat 8: --empty--

Table 368
Seat 1: Dan Heimiller - 44300
Seat 2: Bruce Yamron - 74600
Seat 3: Eugene Katchalov - 59400
Seat 4: Matt Grapenthien - 50200
Seat 5: Jennifer Traniello - 93500
Seat 6: Vladimir Schmelev - 32900
Seat 7: Edouard Bonnefous - 16500
Seat 8: Christopher George - 103500

Table 369
Seat 1: Daniel Negreanu - 37700
Seat 2: Matt Lefkowitz - 61200
Seat 3: Joe Cassidy - 25100
Seat 4: Jason Mercier - 24900
Seat 5: Yuval Bronshtein - 52500
Seat 6: Eric Rodawig - 71700
Seat 7: Tom Schneider - 25500
Seat 8: Thomas Koral - 29500

Table 370
Seat 1: Jeffrey King - 42500
Seat 2: Sergey Altbregin - 56500
Seat 3: Brian Goddard - 42800
Seat 4: Marco Johnson - 121500
Seat 5: Dan Kelly - 22600
Seat 6: Dario Alioto - 31600
Seat 7: Scotty Nguyen - 54500
Seat 8: Brian Townsend - 35000

Table 371
Seat 1: Gus Hansen - 76700
Seat 2: Robert Lauria - 63600
Seat 3: Ryon Nicholson - 39400
Seat 4: Phil Hellmuth - 48000
Seat 5: Larry Bernstein - 71400
Seat 6: Neal Friets - 62700
Seat 7: David Bach - 65500
Seat 8: Allen Kessler - 40900

Table 373
Seat 1: Toto Leonidas - 27800
Seat 2: Tommy Vedes - 37700
Seat 3: Kirill Rabtsov - 82200
Seat 4: Barry Greenstein - 88700
Seat 5: Stuart Rutter - 49300
Seat 6: Bill Chen - 17300
Seat 7: Marc Karam - 75800
Seat 8: --empty--

Table 374
Seat 1: Tom Dwan - 17200
Seat 2: Abe Mosseri - 9000
Seat 3: Alexander Dovzhenko - 116600
Seat 4: Daniel Shak - 39300
Seat 5: Steve Zolotow - 46400
Seat 6: Mike Matusow - 40000
Seat 7: Alessio Isaia - 77200
Seat 8: Norman Chad - 5800

Event #15: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship

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