Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Play is back underway!
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 2
Event Info
2011 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$2,959,200
Entries
2,192
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 2,192
Filter
Level: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
The remaining 44 players are now on another 20-minute break.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
320,000
281,300
|
281,300 |
|
|
260,000
203,900
|
203,900 |
|
255,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
||
|
230,000
175,300
|
175,300 |
|
220,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
|
200,000
153,500
|
153,500 |
|
150,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
||
|
110,000
71,400
|
71,400 |
|
|
90,000
66,500
|
66,500 |
|
60,000
14,600
|
14,600 |
Here are the latest chip counts from tables 370 and 369.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
457,000 | |
|
|
390,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
375,000
210,000
|
210,000 |
|
176,000
135,100
|
135,100 |
|
|
135,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
111,500
16,500
|
16,500 |
|
76,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
Busted |
With the field now down to less than 54 players, the PokerNews Live Reporting Team are buzzing through the tables to make sure everyone that remains is present and accounted for. Below are all the names and chip counts for tables 364 and 365:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
570,000
105,000
|
105,000 |
|
530,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
|
440,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
390,000
285,000
|
285,000 |
|
230,000 | |
|
|
||
|
|
230,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
|
|
230,000 | |
|
185,000
4,500
|
4,500 |
|
|
||
|
|
180,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
|
180,000
149,300
|
149,300 |
|
160,000 | |
|
155,000
245,000
|
245,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
150,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
140,000
96,700
|
96,700 |
|
|
113,000
87,000
|
87,000 |
While the remaining players in the field have been engaging in mental warfare, attacking each other with precise raises and calculated bluffs, Marc Steel has been engaged in an epic battle of his own.
For a period spanning more than four hours, Steel has been grinding a micro-stack of just two or three big blinds. He has accomplished this Herculean feat through a combination of subtle stalling methods, such as asking the dealer pointless procedural questions, along with sheer grit and determination. Steel told PokerNews that his goal has been to reach the next pay jump scheduled at 54th place, and during the last twenty minutes or so, he reached the summit.
This was accomplished over the course of three hands, with the tournament screens showing 58 players remaining and Steele holding just 10,000 chips, good for under two big blinds. In the first hand, half of Steel's stack went into the pot as the big blind, and he nearly received a walk before being raised off by the small blind. In the next hand, he folded his small blind away after the same player raised preflop.
This left Steel with just 2,000 chips on his button, and each successive hand chiseled 500 away in the form of antes. With calls of "Payout!" heard around the Amazon Room, and just a single 500 chip in front of him, Steel watched as the TV screens flashed his magic number: 54 remaining players. He had reached his goal and earned an extra $1,420 for his work.
Steel later told us that "while that kind of money doesn't mean anything to these guys, it means alot to me and my wife," adding "this validates to her why I play the game." With the railbirds and even his opponents celebrating Marc "Survivor Man" Steel's chip-and-a-chair grind, Day 2 of this tournament has provided all the validation Steel will ever need.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
500 |
It appears that the last Australian in the field, Martin Comer, has just been taken out of this tournament by Jamie Armstrong, who now tops the chip counts with 435,000.
Comer committed the last of his chips into the middle pre-flop with 
, but was unable to improve on the 
of Armstrong's pocket jacks. That'll be all she wrote, sports fans.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
465,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
Busted |
All the money was in the middle before the flop between John Snedegar and Michael Doyle; Doyle was at risk with 
but needed a lot of help against the 
of John Snedegar.
The flop of 
wasn't of any help to Doyle and he had no hope when the 
appeared on the turn. The river 
was just an afterthought.
With that, Doyle bites the dust and Snedegar is now up to 79,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
79,000
58,700
|
58,700 |
|
|
Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
435,000
403,800
|
403,800 |
|
|
400,000
320,000
|
320,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
390,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
|
370,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
280,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
|
|
257,000
62,000
|
62,000 |
|
|
235,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
180,500
60,500
|
60,500 |
|
|
||
|
|
95,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
Busted | |
