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2009 40th Annual World Series of Poker

Friday, July 03, 2009 to Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship

  • Buy-in: $10,000
  • Prizepool: $61,043,600
  • Entries: 6,494
  • Remaining: 0

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Monday, July 6, 2009 9:34 AM Local Time
Chips Counts are also available in the Chip Counts page. Joe Cada 187225 Tyler Patterson 179500 Sebastian Stier 160050 Chance Kornuth 150025 Ariel 'DaEvils' Schneller 147275 Jeff Lisandro 146950 Timothy Little 133650 Kelly Kim 132475 Raul Mestre 131575 Matthew Palmucci 131550 Raymond Latinsky 130800 Jeremy Kottler 128425 Shane Howeth 127525 Brett Shaffer 126650 Ian Johns 126425 Marc Naalden 126150 Francois Balmigere 125300 Martin El-Kher 124200 Kyle Rowe 119950 Eric Cohen 118400 Igor 'Jr Parlay' Borukhov 118075 Robert Dodge 117925 Edward Harris 116650 Josh Kay 116375 Marc-Etienne McLaughlin 116075 Erik Hafner 115875 Max Greenwood 111925 Tri Le 111350 James Keys 110950 Jan Nordly 110800 Andrew Batkin 110250 Jamie Roberts 110075 Tuan Le 110000 David Hong 109200 Anthony Newman 108875 George Lind III 108150 Robert Russ 108000 Scott Baumstein 106700 John Martin 105400 Sol Bergren 105325 Justin Bonomo 103425 Ivan Lehoczky 102450 Rick Fuller 101850 Richard Tatalovich 101400 Randy Edwards 99800 Brett Feder 99700 Waren Zackey 99400 John Seiter 98700 Jasen Henderson 98475 Hevad Khan 97800 Brandon Meyers 97600 Rifat Palevic 97500 Charles Chrysostomou 96800 Derek Raymond 96225 Shawn Moore 95375 Thomas Gabriel 95325 Joao Lima 94875 David Damianthe 93725 Eliyahu Levy 93400 Royal Wiseman 93275 Thai Tran 93175 Michael Comer 93000 Rodeen Talebi 93000 Jason Brice 92950 Jeremiah DeGreef 92700 Alex Bolotin 92500 Feng Chen 92200 Ross DiBello 91925 Tom Hu 91650 Miguel Gutierrez 91525 Igor Kurganov 91525 Ken Liu 91500 Thierry van den Berg 91375 Joe Morneau 91300 Christian Heich 91050 Lee Watkinson 91050 Payman Arjang 91025 Tom West 90400 David 'WhooooKidd' Baker 90350 Tai Nguyen 90200 John Kincaid 90150 Antoine Saout 89425 Stuart Schrenzel 89025 Kyle Brossia 88525 Yan Chen 88500 Vinh Nguyen 88475 Yngve Anderson 88075 Kevin Saul 87850 Zerbib Jerome 87800 Keith Wintermans 87575 Pat Poels 87200 Chris Walsh 86850 Joe McGowan 86625 Adam York 86475 Shawn Buchanan 86350 Christopher Molica 86250 Legros Julien 86050 John Monnette 85650 Craig Swick 85525 Franklin Caldwell 85200 Herbie Gelman 85175 Mike Minetti 85100 Philip Boer 84825 Joe Hachem 84550 Anthony Roman 84550 Jasper Wetemans 84250 Borge Lindoe 83675 Mihail Stoykov 83650 Ali Sarkeshik 82925 Fredrik Robin Hellstrom 82900 James Van Alstyne 82900 Buelent Uzun 82800 Staffan Fagelberg 82800 Hans Winzler 82650 Wilbur Camargo 82500 Christopher Gerhardt 82500 Preben Norup 82475 Thomas Fuller 82325 David Postar 82150 Kenneth Friedman 81875 Josh Jones 81700 Adam Latimer 81000 Adam Junglen 80475 Alper Sar 80450 Franklin Grigsby 80350 Anders Taylor 80350 Mark Shoichet 79900 James Rohan 79825 Timothy Miles 79800 Brandon Leeds 79675 Boyd Plowman 79625 Oliver Klatt 79425 Jerry Connor 79150 Trevor Hackworth 79000 Jason Maxwell 79000 Mike Phan 78825 James Campbell 78775 Kenny Hsiung 78650 Mike Brain 78325 Jeffrey Norman 78325 Vince Bartello 78275 Saso Petrovski 77900 Eric Sagne 77850 Brett Dawson 77775 Waseem Tarawneh 77550 Steve Numoto 77475 Michel Leibgorin 77400 Sal Mawani 77375 Warren Woodall 76525 Mehrdad Yousefzadeh 76500 Kenneth Kessler 76175 Jonathan Collins 76125 Steve Gahaghan 76075 Dan Harrington 76025 Cuq Simon 75650 Zvi Groysman 75550 Siew Bickell 75450 Di 'Urindaner' Dang 75300 Ronald Lee 75175 Kyle Allen 74775 John Moore 74575 Ruslan Gazlaev 74350 Mike Sica 74200 Tom Lutz 74050 Matthew Hoffman 73425 Chris MacNeil 73125 Mark Dickstein 73025 Jodie Sanders 73000 Hasan Habib 72800 Chad Thomsen 72750 Jack Powell 72425 Dmitrii Valouev 72200 Andy 'BKiCe' Seth 71800 Roy Vazquez Jr 71650 Justin Clark 71325 James Akenhead 71050 Pernille Ravn 71025 Gregory Burns 70900 Donnacha O'Dea 70650 Ryan Buckholtz 70600 Marc Whitford 70525 Steven Silverman 70250 Joe Gordon 70150 Darren Keyes 70125 Jimmy Blevins 70100 Anthony Forsyth-Forrest 69950 Michael Holmes 69850 Ryan Kun 69825 Edward Teems 69675 Coen Maurizio 69325 Yuejian Wang 69150 Perino Smith 69025 David Stefanski 68950 Anton Knutar 68875 Anders Rasmussen 68875 Hoyez Sebastien 68850 Jim Vonderhaar 68800 Ron Amos 68725 Manfred Wahlers 68700 Spencer Mohler 68650 Hakan Andersson 68550 Diogo Borges 68550 Steven Dunkelberg 68450 Scott Cook 68400 Anders Skellaridis 68300 Dilip Das 67750 David Pepperney 67500 Chad Mizner 67475 Jeff Gibralter 67425 Cort Kibler-Melby 67300 Jimmy Nickens 67275 Matt Hawrilenko 67150 Petter Hammer 67100 Michael Noor 67100 Terrence Chan 67075 Shaun Craig 67050 Brian Tanasi 67050 Wesley Ismay 67000 David Johansson 66650 Oliver Fink 66400 Dustin Benda 66350 Minh Nhat Nguyen 66325 Clint Rodriguez 66100 Ian Woodley 65850 Joe Zappia 65800 David Zeitlin 65750 Kevin McGavan 65725 Ken Aldridge 65600 Olusegun Martin 65600 Jacob Naquin 65600 Allen Kessler 65525 David Ventura 65375 James McMonlgle 65225 Tony Abesamis 65200 Va Shon Watkins 65200 Manuel Tamez 65050 John Zillmer 65025 Jesse Martin 64975 Russell Rosenblum 64850 Jeff Bryan 64575 Rob Akery 64400 Mark De Martino 64125 Djon Palushaj 64100 Dan Dyke 64075 Nobuhira Yabuuchi 64000 Rick LeNoble 63900 Brandy Savage 63825 John Baca 63800 William Frymer 63450 Andrew Tuttle 63450 Cynthia May 63100 Todd Bui 63050 Jaroslaw Osinski 62975 Jacob Nielsen 62925 Taylor Raines 62850 Benjamin Straate 62800 Joshua Fox 62600 Dennis Phillips 62325 Natalia Orlova 62250 Thijis Huijgers 62100 Florin Haiduc 61800 Justin Gerardo 61775 Peter Lubrano 61750 Richard Washinsky 61725 Wilson Jung 61475 Jonathan Driscoll 61400 Stuart Pearson 61400 David Welch 61400 Reed Hensel 61275 HyunJin Lee 61225 Ben Yerushalaim 61225 Craig Fiebe 60550 Brian Hodhod 60325 Marc Wolpert 60300 Jack Zhang 60275 Chris Bell 60150 George Abdallah 60100 Stu Nicholson 60000 Brian Jensen 59950 Piergiacomo Fontana 59700 Tristan McDonald 59525 Tommy Chen 59500 Kenny Nguyen 59225 Steve Ryan 59000 Glenn Slater 59000 Mark Sykes 59000 David Wickham 58650 Melanie Banfield 58625 Jason Melnick 58575 Joe Tehan 58500 Howard Lederer 58300 Scott Vener 58200 Andreas Doss 58175 Nick Brancato 58000 Leslie Kearney 58000 Jason Skeans 58000 James Tapp 57950 Luis Jaikel 57600 Zachery Coelius 57575 David Tighe 57500 Bryan Barrile 57450 Thomas Ross 57450 James Campbell 57400 Scotty Nguyen 57075 Nersan Naidoo 57025 Alex 'Assassinato' Fitzgerald 57000 Ben Haun 56950 Steven Rothstein 56950 Rosalind Juarbe 56850 Allan Le 56850 Sean Davis 56750 Thomas Marchese 56750 Rasmus Hansengandrup 56675 Yueqi Zhu 56625 Michael Chiang 56125 Douglas Roby 56100 Lonnie Heimowitz 56075 Daniel Buzgon 56025 Felix Bleiker 55825 Ryan Beckwith 55800 Steve Goodemote 55700 Thomas Koo 55625 Keith Lehr 55550 Dave Nutini 55200 Dan Shak 55200 Jody Phillippo 55125 Kent Senter 55025 Tim Burke 54925 John Juanda 54875 Pilato Fabio 54675 Brian Hurt 54525 Dmytro Khakhaliev 54500 Stephan Kohlstetter 54475 Brian Banvard 54450 Mike Schneider 54450 Josh Treman 54450 Anthony Campagna 54375 Uffe Holm 54325 Jimmy Jackson 54125 Daniel Neilson 54100 Mark Bonsack 54025 Michael Dentale 54000 Tommy Hang 54000 Mark Stubbs 54000 Ylon Schwartz 53925 Guy Calvert 53850 Nelson Dantas 53825 James De Santis 53775 David Stamm 53775 Carsten Persson 53725 Richie Crocker 53700 David Mclaws 53550 Richard Lee 53450 Michael Jansen 53425 Michael Young 53425 Ben Bagamery 53350 Joseph Bagyanszky 53325 Kevin O'Leary 53325 Cory Zeidman 53325 Jonathan Little 53125 Mika Paasonen 53100 Kevin Tokimesa 53026 Robert Cheung 53025 John Esposito 53000 Amnon Filippi 53000 Nick Voyatzis 53000 Steven Maurouard 52975 Tracee Hayward 52900 Davin Kubo 52900 Ben Lefew 52750 Jae Pak 52575 Allen Natt 52550 Phil Green 52375 Todd Hunter 52350 Gabe Walls 52325 Daniel Nutt 52225 Antonio Battisti 52150 Charlie Dawson 52125 Adam Hourani 52125 Rob Hollink 52075 Nemesio Carracedo 52050 Jean-Robert Bellande 51950 Kenny Shei 51800 Sergey Vishnev 51775 Chul Woo Park 51750 Davis Bowen 51725 Julius Malzanini 51650 Stephen Devlin 51625 Paul McHenry 51550 Ira Marcus 51125 Brian Mintz 51100 Joseph Eppolito 50975 Justin 'Boosted J' Smith 50900 Jim Pritchard 50800 Chris Gamble 50775 Reagan Silber 50725 Phillip Wisser 50700 Christina Lindley 50650 Jeremy Harkin 50575 Marko Vainio 50575 Binh Nguyen 50500 John White 50475 Kristjan Abakanov 50450 Ronnie Mills 50425 Joel Casper 50400 Jeremy Renz 50400 Louis Russo 50325 Amir Marmar 50275 Susumu Toge 50225 Alfonso Amendola 50200 Robert Jackson 50175 Joel Patchell 50175 Michael Mayhood 50150 Mark Zika 50000 Eddie Ochana 49950 Elad Magidov 49850 Istva'n Ra'ticai 49800 William Panzetta 49775 John Bunch 49675 David Freitag 49650 Charles Grande 49575 Ken Weiner 49500 Stefan Kahlert 49350 Garbarino Stefand 49300 Darus Suharto 49300 Stan Wasserkrug 49250 Zoltan Kovacs 49225 Derek Snyder 49175 Stephanie Blouin 49100 Gregg Gregg 49100 Aaron Been 49050 Aaron Lim 49050 Timo Trems 49050 Jody Howe 49025 Andrew Sayegh 49000 Mike Parisi 48875 Dennis Chavis 48850 Randy Gil 48775 Daniel van Kalhereh 48750 Oliver Carosella 48675 Steve Karp 48675 Franco Di Pietro 48600 Vinny Pahuja 48600 Bill Tzotzolis 48525 Scott McKernan 48500 Jason Wang 48475 Alan Dvorkis 48450 Mihai Manole 48450 William Richardson 48375 Justin Warner 48375 Joe Bartholdi 48200 Rick Mathews 48175 Randy Binning 48000 Christopher Johns 48000 Joe Kuether 47975 James Siwik 47900 Aude Pascal 47875 Sanghyon Cheong 47825 Marcelo Dabus 47500 Marc Davis 47400 Paul Dlugozima 47350 Fredrik Andren 47300 Matt Mezvinsky 47100 Matt Downing 46975 James Lester 46950 Jan Paul Bradley 46875 Mark Hazlett 46850 David Olson 46675 Philip Starner 46675 Mathias Welz 46675 Dean Heltemes 46575 Ronit Chamani 46375 Keven Latendresse 46200 Bob Lauria 46125 'Miami' John Cernuto 46075 Stephan Buchanan 45950 Nuno Goncalves 45925 Adam Ross 45750 Dmitry Vernitsky 45725 Craig Boyd 45600 Kirill Gerasimov 45600 Trevor Savage 45600 Fred Hanna 45500 Kevin Allen 45425 Bruce Corman 45425 Blair Rodman 45275 Robin Sevastik 45275 Isabelle Mercier 45150 Cristian Tardea 45150 Wai Ng 45075 Ron Jenkins 45025 Jim Kilarjian 44850 Tracey Nguyen 44850 Spencer Cossette 44800 Scott Lazar 44800 Edmond Majka 44750 Roy Swindle 44700 Hung Pham 44625 Dennis Drescher 44575 Clayton Newman 44500 Jason Su 44450 Jeremy Clemons 44425 Matt Livingston 44300 Yaron Malki 44250 Eoghan Odea 44225 Jeff Oakes 44150 Sylvain Mazza 44025 Stijn Kruijssen 43700 Daniel Ohayon 43650 Vijay Krishna 43550 Jesse Mutiger 43475 Eric Lynch 43425 Nicholas Duffort 43100 Mark Costello 43050 Don Mountryvong 43025 Justin Pechie 43000 Thomas Berg 42950 Michael Ellis 42750 Rich Kane 42750 Frank DiMeglio 42625 Brandon Steven 42600 Peter Mendelsohn 42550 Salvador Villaluz 42450 Fred Willumsen 42400 Bianchi Fabio 42375 Feming Chan 42250 John Hoppmann 42250 Harvey Milstein 42225 Bradky Soshea 42100 Bernard Ko 42050 Michael Merkovich 42000 Armando Pagliari 41950 Quinn Do 41925 Martin Bertschi 41825 Ziad Alameddine 41800 David Ottosen 41725 Peter Clive 41700 Ken McKusick 41650 Viktoria Szilasi 41550 Matthew Benson 41450 Albert McClaskey 41375 James Hudson 41350 Praz Bansi 41200 Joseph Bolduc 41200 Jim Hartley 41150 Cero Zuccarello 41150 James Chapman 41125 Oskar Silow 41025 Christopher George 40875 Brian Clark 40800 Mats Iremark 40725 Kenny Weinstein 40700 Ryan Hall 40675 Michael Drummond 40475 Chris Verherle 40475 Andrew Teng 40450 Chia Hung Hsu 40400 Dan McGuire 40375 Thomas Corder 40300 Tim Sullivan 40250 Michael Tabarelli 40250 Scott Reid 40230 Ryan Dodge 40150 Bobby Poe 40100 Danny Lee 40000 Glenn Mullen 39750 Timo Annala 39625 Rep Porter 39575 Donnie Duncan 39525 Angus Lynn 39525 Francis McCormack 39450 Babak Razi 39375 Ed Papaietro 39300 Tad Jurgens 39275 Andre Pereira 39275 Robert Mizrachi 39225 James Bills 39175 David Sklansky 39175 Christina Orth 39050 Nikhil Persaud 39050 Jukka Kokkonen 39025 Ruben Kar 38925 Lamar Wilkinson 38875 Chris Poirier 38700 Matthew Doyle 38525 Chris Bjorin 38500 Matthew Grapenthien 38450 David Pacheco 38450 Eugene Tito 38425 Michael Crowe 38250 Lee Salem 38150 John Richardson 38050 Paul Coughlan 38025 Paul Magriel 37975 Robert Tarantola 37975 Chris Tufford 37800 Chuck Sansbury 37775 Armen Kara 37675 David Adornetto 37500 Andrew Fields 37450 Jay Ginsbach 37400 Salvatore Sidoti 37400 Seth Cohen 37325 Richard Rice 37300 Claus Andersen 37200 Sam Ganzfried 37150 CY Benavides III 37125 Fred Kennedy 37125 Chad Mille 37125 Todd Sisley 37125 Eugene du Plessis 37075 Khorev Anton 37025 Carroll Holland 37000 Alfonso Cammarota 36850 Hannu Seppala 36850 Jonny Dallo 36825 Reid Loi 36775 Matthew Smith 36775 David Kaleel 36700 James Viglizzo 36500 Mark Owens 36450 Bill Wood 36400 Dennis Cronin 36250 Danny Wong 36250 Alexander Case 36175 Greg Kaplan 36150 Nicholas Cannon 36100 Ken Holcombe 36100 Derek Tomko 36100 Gabriel Gouttiere 36050 William Klein 35975 Roberto Betbese 35925 Isidro Martinez 35900 Carl Maddy 35800 Susan Joseph 35725 Martin Hanitz 35650 Sam Dickson 35600 Cornelis Duijn 35600 J Troy Dodge 35525 Bobby Lafleur 35500 John Ma 35475 Tyler Netter 35350 Andrew Qiu 35075 Billy Frame. 35000 Luis Villarreal 35000 Richard Guttman 34950 Chad Siu 34950 Paul Stanchewski 34925 Christopher Bath 34900 Mark Ferraro 34750 Joseph Hanna 34575 Mohamed Hammoud 34525 Stephan Kjerstad 34375 Carlos Curi 34275 Steve Topakas 34275 Frank Ward 34275 Jean-Philippe Matte 34175 Danny Siegal 34100 Fernando Ciliberto 34075 Jonathan Gross 34075 Maya Gellar 34050 Mike Chiappetta 33850 David Tran 33850 Sandy Koor 33825 Francis Mariani 33800 Stephen Purser 33700 Yossi Strasser 33700 Richard Milne 33600 Havard Frenning Sorensen 33550 Steven Mac 33525 Jonathan Duhamel 33500 Ilkham Mamedov 33450 Polina Ivanenko 33425 Juan Ramirez 33375 Blancy Mitchell 33325 John Frantz 33100 Joel Abramson 33025 Kinesh Pather 33000 Arjan van Bavel 32950 Anthony Fraser 32875 Vance Minter 32875 Ed Jordan 32850 John Nicklas 32850 Cameron Velott 32800 Brian Edmonds 32725 Taher Alisheik 32625 Gregory Brown 32575 Sarne Lightman 32575 Gary Bonnyman 32525 Lucas Zuppinger 32500 Tristan Wade 32425 Govert Metaal 32350 Holly Gemme-Sansbury 32300 Justin Lee 32225 Joshua Schiffman 32225 Nick Binger 32050 Chairud Vangchailued 31875 Eric Larcheveque 31750 Yun Fan 31650 Karl Mahrenholz 31650 Marco Carreira 31625 Ronaldo Bochi 31575 Daniel Sindelar 31550 William Blake 31425 Larry Sidebotham 31350 Tom Koral 31300 Jason Paster 31300 Gianluca Cedolia 31250 Philip Sam 31250 Jason Thomas 31225 Matt Turk 31225 Jeremy Rodgers 31200 Craig Stein 31200 Anthony Lansdell 31150 Joachim Wendelin 31100 Robert Griffin 31050 Peter Seager 31050 JD Newitt 31025 Don Zewin 31000 Kyle Carter 30900 Clarence Chao 30900 Diogo Mariani 30850 Francesco Cirianni 30825 Cesar Serrano 30800 Joe Bolnick 30800 Pawel Andrzejwski 30725 Jason Calacanis 30725 Boyko Konstantin 30700 Casey Sobczewski 30700 Brent Butler 30575 Ralph Kalman 30550 Andrew McGill 30500 Chris Podlewski 30500 Melissa Brown 30375 Matthew Casterella 30275 Steven Milligan 30200 Robin Keston 30125 Bryan Pimlott 30100 George Saca 30100 James Swain 29925 Chuck Pacheco 29825 Troy Hamilton 29675 Gavin Griffin 29525 Brian Lee 29500 John George 29425 Per Hildebrand 29425 Gabe Thaler 29425 Huub Verdonschot 29375 Frank Helm 29350 Tim van de Riet 29350 Colin Cool 29300 Sebastian Panny 29300 Jeff Flannery 29275 Aidan Quin 29250 Frank Cremen 29200 Chamath Palihapitiya 29200 Steve Dolezel 29150 Aaron Haid 29100 Pieter Gils 29025 Jordan Boyes 28975 Josh Spiegelman 28900 Adam French 28850 Andrew Seabright 28850 Ryan Sheehan 28850 Justin Phillips 28775 Aliaksandr Yalouskikh 28725 Zachary Fritz 28700 Randy Lewis 28600 Zbigniew Pakleza 28575 Rich Belsky 28400 Robert Hamilton 28375 Thomas Mercier 28300 Steve Chadwick 28275 Frederico Dabus 28250 Pedro Dias 28150 Jon Stamm 28150 Stevon St. Martin 28125 Jonathan Depa 28050 Ken Harbaugh 28050 Tommy Rosenthal 28050 Adriano Giuliani 27975 Rasmus Vogt 27950 Jeremy Jagoda 27875 Brian Malcolm 27875 Anna Kantor 27850 Haralabos Voulgaris 27800 Jeff Griffiths 27725 Andy Achillea 27700 Kambiz Kashi 27575 Rufus Nagel 27550 Phil Hellmuth 27475 Jim Pechac 27425 Frankie Gay 27400 John Xenos 27400 Tim Haecker 27350 Casey Yontz 27275 Alberto Salvatierra 27175 Keith Brookes 27150 Ari Goott 27150 Vincent Profili 27150 Rick Dimmitt 27100 Ben Starkweather 27100 Carsten Jakobsen 27025 Lee Childs 26950 Aaron Glover 26900 Kevin McCarthy 26900 Claudio Bottan 26850 Augie Lee Martinho 26850 Rebecca Campbell 26825 Darryll 'Dfish' Fish 26700 Robert Kosiba 26700 Norman Assam 26675 Mark Salinaro 26600 Edgars Veigurs 26600 Kenton Baker 26525 Paul Testud 26525 Derek Gibb 26300 Paul Desgrippes 26275 Roneen Shaffer 26175 Joe Geisler 26125 Joseph Klemash 26100 James Calhoun 26075 Johannes Arets 26025 Sasa Stancic 26000 Unknown Player 25700 Stephan Kalhamer 25650 Robert Yamamoto 25650 Jonas Gutteck 25575 Sebastian Ruthenberg 25550 Alex Hodgdon 25475 Ed Boehler 25275 Randy Armitage 25200 Bryan Pope 25200 Paul Siem 25200 Maridu Mayrinck 25125 Matt Calhoun 25000 Millie Shill 24900 Gerald Graham 24700 George Mess 24600 Bogucki Dariusz 24450 Jesper Kristensen 24450 Robert Bruce Martin 24375 Dieter Albrecht 24325 Elliot Smith 24250 Bill Seber 24225 David McDermott 24100 Mark Provencher 24100 Rick Merritt 24075 Helen Martynov 24025 Jason White 23925 Mark Mitchell 23900 Matthew Viox 23800 Devon Biehn 23775 Michael Dolan 23750 Volodymyr Amelin 23650 Alton Jones 23575 Nils Bardsley 23550 Heung Yoon 23550 Javier Garcia 23500 Matthew Kelly 23500 Aliaksandr Marchanka 23400 Steve Phung 23400 Terry Vincent 23275 Lance Gettler 23250 Olivier Lacoste 23250 Justin Newton 23225 David Liu 23200 Dennis Daly 23175 Frank Muetzel 23150 Angela Pingel 23125 Rhett Butler 23000 Allen Kennedy 22900 Travis Nixon 22800 Jose Puerta 22800 Samer Khuri 22750 Nick Davies 22650 Renaud Desferet 22650 Christopher Chung 22625 Maik Schmidt 22625 Amerigo Santoro 22450 Michael J Woods 22450 Brian Doyle 22425 Gregory Brooks 22350 Michel Provencher 22300 Kenneth Nay 22250 Michael Simpson 22200 Michael Douthit 22025 Jim Feist 22000 Dhiya Majeed 21900 Mike Sanocki 21800 Steve Hesse 21775 Scott Zakheim 21650 Vincent Eley 21550 Leonard Cortellino 21500 Joel Dodds 21500 John Olds 21500 Marty Vetrano 21450 Ottavio Tassone 21425 Kleij Iveiv 21400 Paul Wasicka 21375 David Patent 21125 Alan Brodsky 21050 Alejandro Passy 21050 Robert Zlatkiss 20950 Barry Reitman 20850 Jeffrey Vanchiro 20800 Ricky Tang 20725 Kurt Hoffert 20700 Henry Jacobson 20700 Ed Odell 20700 Mcilhel van Reeuwen 20625 Christopher Defforey 20600 Franz Fischer 20475 Yugeshwarcha Rajkumar 20225 Frank Schneider 20225 Kenneth Bryant 20125 Keith Burt 20125 Lass Simola 20075 Tony Cousineau 20000 Tommy Le 20000 Jukka Petri Pietila 19975 Gary Friedlander 19950 Roger Suter 19900 John Koliner 19875 Jack Coletta 19850 Kristian Kofoed 19825 Zion Ben-Yishay 19800 Roy Gunther 19675 Tony McGlone 19625 William Leffingwell 19500 Mark Speed 19500 Brian Suttle 19475 John Matwey 19350 Arkadiy Tsinis 19300 Dustin Claypool 19125 Bruce Morelan 19100 Jim Geary 19050 Karl Nilsson 18875 Kurt Hagen 18500 Leitner Dominik 18425 Manuel Kuriger 18425 Randel Brown 18400 Katrina Lewis 18400 William Hickey 18350 Michael Fiorelli 18225 Mark Miley 18200 Ricardo Sibelo 18200 Nick Eisel 18175 Cianci Giuseppe 18175 Stephen Birkett 18150 Marcos Palermo 18125 Dan Hirleman 18075 Scott Cole 18000 Wayne Newton 18000 Andrew Li 17750 Ian Frazer 17525 Bill Chen 17250 Jon Friedberg 17175 Leonard Nicoletta 17150 Robert Sher 17150 Johnny Nicklas 17100 Lloyd Pethoud 16900 Brandon Schaefer 16900 Allan Monterroza 16725 Andrew Fegan 16700 Maurizio Biasini 16675 Gary Fisher 16625 Andrew Boccia 16600 George Anscomb 16550 Neil Channing 16475 Alexandre Turc 16350 Morten Christensen 16250 Jeff Tims 16125 Valeriy Ossipov 16075 Ben Blackmore 15900 Charles Cruce 15900 Aaron Georgelos 15850 Dennis Sargent 15775 Michael Liberman 15725 Jason Sackler 15700 Adam Joens 15625 Richard Lyndaker 15600 Michael Cinefra 15475 Mikkel Bennedsen 15425 Michael Wehner 15400 Harry Davis 15300 Richard Goerner 15200 Vernon Green 15200 Kyriacos Dionysiou 15150 Erik Haakenson 15150 Mark Deleonardis 15025 Jared Jaffee 15025 Shelley Burt 14950 Liz Lieu 14600 Rob Redman 14600 Marlis Sawicki 14550 Kathy Jamison 14525 Karen Manfrede 14500 Joakim Olsson 14475 Damian Salas 14325 William Malloy 14075 Martin Corpuz 14000 Chris Barrile 13950 Sylvester Geoghegan 13950 Forrest Reardon 13800 Charles Ehrig 13700 Brad Helm 13700 Colin Burton 13575 Roy Cook 13450 Flehmet Wisolnev 13450 Felix Alvarado 13425 Konstantinos Dragotinlis 13400 Ivan Mamuzic 13400 Michael Sortino 13375 Dale Baum 13175 Eli Cohen 13125 Peter Murphy 13050 Nestor Punay 12875 Doug Paxton 12800 Rafael Caiaffa 12575 David Lewis Jr. 12500 Thomas Boekhoff 12450 Ron Basch 12175 Cristiano De Sousa 12075 Andrea Larosa 12050 Ariel Adda 12000 Pablo Peralta 11950 Nauhiko Yamazaki 11950 Christina Renz 11875 Thomas Larsson 11675 Antonius van Sleeuwen 11675 Kim Creek 11650 Alexander Borteh 11575 Jeff Allen Dambrosia 11500 Nathan Smith 11500 David Manserra 11450 Ross Boatman 11400 Christopher Godbey 11375 Bobby McClelland 11375 Aaron Armstrong 11325 Andrew Robl 11300 Gabriel Nassif 11175 Howard Simon 11150 Josh Chait 11075 Bobby Toye 11075 Duy Le 10975 Charles Kuruzovich 10825 Jeff Roper 10550 Ethan Foulkes 10375 Joseph Teanotoga 10325 Ilias Vrettos 10325 Brett Jungblut 10300 Ryan Paquette 10250 Sarnow Florian 10100 Patrick Karst 10050 Roger Brooks 9975 Jason Brown 9925 Lukas de Kryger 9900 Charles Lowery 9875 Tae Ho Balk 9850 Catherine Dever 9800 Serena Liu 9775 HG Houston 9700 Todd 'Dan Druff' Witteles 9625 Johan Patrik Hirvonen 9475 DJ Le Baron 9350 Janos Molnar 9350 Tom Torley 9350 Kaleb Hager 9100 Michael Glasser 9000 Robert Starkey 8975 Earl Holmes 8825 Jeff Cohen 8725 Todd Linkous 8300 Roger Lu 8275 Brendon Keen 8200 Evgeny Shevelev 8100 Stuart Elkin 8025 Eric Stanley 7950 Jesse Kincaid 7900 Genaro Fraustro 7525 Raif Arigie 7350 Chad Freid 7000 Steve Kim 6825 Dennis Dwyer 6700 Will Haydon 6525 William Burdick 6400 Mark Reynolds 6225 Henri Kettunen 5850 Sammy Dallal 5800 Dara O'Kearney 5475 David Ritter 5250 Lukas Magaver 5200 Lawrence 4600 Karl Fulde 4525 Vinh Nguyen 4225 Yarom Limor 3825 Steve Gehr 3225 Doug Ruegsegger 1750 Battisti Alfio DNR Metin Antar DNR Charles Chattha DNR Marcello Delgrosso DNR Errol Eagan DNR David Farber DNR
Sunday, July 5, 2009 11:45 PM Local Time
Ok! We've reached the end of the third of our 2009 World Series of Poker Day 1 flights. Day 1c saw the biggest field so far, with 1,696 players descending on the Amazon and Brasilia Rooms at the Rio Convention Center, with 1,106 surviving the day. Tucked among those 1,696 were some of the biggest names in the poker world: Hellmuth. Negreanu. Duke. Lederer. We had a change in scheduling today. In order to accomodate the sure-to-be larger Day 2b field, the tournament staff elected to play five levels to try to get the field down to a manageable size. That Day 2b field will play four levels on Wednesday in order to sync themselves with the Day 2a field (which will play five levels). With one extra level of play, we saw some slightly larger end-of-day chip stacks today than we did the last two days. The player that we believe leads all Day 1c runners is Joe Cada with about 187,000 chips, but there are several other people all within striking distance of that total. One name lurking at 145,000 chips is a man who already has three gold bracelets this summer -- Jeff Lisandro. We'll be keeping a very close eye on his stack over the next several days to see what kind of a run he can make at poker history. Tomorrow, the last of the hopefuls will kick off Day 1d play at noon local time. We have heard unsubstantiated reports that already more than 2,400 players have registered for Day 1d. That number is sure to climb overnight and into the early hours of the morning. The tournament staff may be faced with the unenviable problem of having to cut off registrations due to simple space limitations. Be sure to join us again tomorrow at noon for Day 1d!
Sunday, July 5, 2009 11:37 PM Local Time
Before the flop, Phil Hellmuth raised to 1,200 from the cutoff seat. The small blind made the call, heads up to the flop. It showed up      . The small blind checked and called a bet of 1,350 from Hellmuth, and the turn came the  . After another check, Hellmuth fired a second bullet, 2,200 this time, and his opponent called once again. The river card was the  , and this time the small blind led out with a healthy bet of 8,500. Hellmuth snap-mucked and started talking. It was difficult to make out his exact words, but the word "buddy" was in there more than a few times. The jist of the conversation was Phil saying, "I promise I'll have the chance to bust you." A spectator on the rail told Phil that there were only a few minutes left in the day. Phil replied with something to the effect of, "It doesn't matter. He's on a mission to have me bust him." ***** Just a few hands later, Hellmuth again opened the pot for 1,200, and again his 'buddy' called from the cutoff seat. The flop ran down      , and Hellmuth led out with a bet of 1,800. His opponent raised to 5,300, and Hellmuth hemmed and hawed and called. The turn card came the  , and Hellmuth passed the bet. His opponent made it 5,600, and Hellmuth put in the call. Both players checked the   on the river. Hellmuth showed down     for the flopped straight. But alas, his opponent had run down the four-flush with    , sending Hellmuth spinning off into one of his world-famous tirades. He's back down around 25,000 just as play wraps up.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 11:29 PM Local Time
With ten minutes remaining in Level 5 the tournament clock was paused and a card drawn to determine the number of hands that will be played on each table before wrapping for the night. It was a three, ergo, three more hands.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 11:25 PM Local Time
We told you earlier about the story of Kent Senter, the man who was recently diagnosed with a rare illness and is with us today to fulfill his lifelong dream of playing in the Main Event. Media Director Nolan Dalla just took a quick pause to recognize Senter and present him to the room. Senter looks like he's headed for Day 2, and his introduction drew the largest applause that we've seen so far in this event as the entire room stood and cheered enthusiastically to lend their support to Senter and his lovely wife who is with us as well. Many times it's issues away from the felt that remind people what a true and special occasion the WSOP is. Everyone's rooting for you, Kent.
Playtika - Jason Alexander
Sunday, July 5, 2009 11:23 PM Local Time
There were 11,000 chips in the pot already when the dealer placed the river card out, completing a board of          . Brett Jungblut's opponent checked, then called a bet of 11,000. Jungblut showed down    , but was rivered by his opponent's    , a rivered set of nines. Jungblut retains just 14,000 chips.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 11:15 PM Local Time
On a board of    , Liz Lieu bet out for 2,600 after her opponent checked. He went into the tank for nearly a minute before min-raising Lieu to 5,200. That move put the decision on Lieu, and she took more than a minute before three betting for an additional 6,000. More than another minute passed before her opponent came over the top again, moving his last 17,300 into the middle. Calling would cost Lieu most of her stack and she again went into the tank, taking another two minutes before finally mucking her hand. She's left with about 19,000.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 11:12 PM Local Time
On a board of        , Gabe Thaler fired 2,500 into his opponent from the position of the small blind. The other player was acting out of the big blind and made the call. After the river came the  , Thaler began playing with his chips for a minute or two. He then tapped the table for a check. His opponent checked behind after a moment of hesitation. "Queen high." announced Thaler, but didn't flip over his hand. His opponent nodded his head and waited for Thaler to turn up his hand. Thaler then turned up     for exactly what he said, queen high. The opponent waited to see this and then rolled over his hand,     for a pair a sixes and the winning hand.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 11:03 PM Local Time
Five levels of play instead of four tonight have led to some larger end-of-night stacks than we've seen over the last two days. Here are a few of the players pulling away from the pack as the evening comes to a close: Tyler Patterson 165,000 Igor 'Jr Parlay' Borukhov 150,000 Ariel 'DaEvils' Schneller 146,000 Jeff Lisandro 145,000 Marc Naalden 135,000 Chance Kornuth 125,000 Jamie Roberts 120,000
Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:59 PM Local Time
The end result of a pot between Scotty Nguyen and the player to his right wasn't that exciting, but the hand itself was interesting enough. With the board showing       and sitting in the small blind, Nguyen check-raised the button player's flop bet, adding 6,000 chips on top. The button called. The turn   filled a potential draw. Nguyen, undeterred, bet another 12,000. Again the button called. The river fell   to put a straight on board. Nguyen put 20,000 chips in the middle. His opponent wasn't happy about that bet. "You got some of that?" Nguyen asked, pointing at the board. "I've got a straight on the board," his opponent replied. "Ok, I call. You got a nine?" "No, baby, chop it up." Nguyen showed down     and the button showed    . It was indeed a chop. "Why you gotta bluff me like that?" the button asked as Nguyen laughed and took another sip from his Michelob Ultra.
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Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:55 PM Local Time
On a flop of      , the big blind checked, Jeff Lisandro bet 4,400 from UTG, a middle position player folded and the big blind called. Both players checked the   on the turn. When the   hit the river, the big blind quickly fired out 10,000. Lisandro called immediately. The big blind insta-mucked his hand rather than show it down. Lisandro raked in the pot and is now up to 145,000.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:52 PM Local Time
In a heads-up battle, the two blinds saw a flop of       in a raised pot. After those first three cards hit the board, both players ended up all in. Allen Bari was in the big blind with    . The small blind had Bari slightly covered and totally dominated with    . The turn was a useless  , and the   on the river was no help to Bari either. After working a medium to low stack all day, he's out.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:41 PM Local Time
Tables are slowly breaking over here in Brasilia. About every 10-15 minutes another table breaks and the players are relocated to another part of the room. A lot of times last year, the players would break from a table only to be moved over to the Amazon room. The staff this year has kept the players in Brasilia with the plan to move them over once all the tables get broken down here. A few tables were moved to the Amazon room early on, but that has since stopped. It's somewhat like there's two separate tournaments going on. While we've lost the likes of Liv Boeree, Brandon Cantu, and David "Chino" Rheem throughout the day, Jean-Robert Bellande, Steve Topakas, Gabe Thaler, Jeff Tims, and Alex "Assassinato" Fitzgerald are still going strong. Jamie Roberts and Igor "Jr Parlay" Borukhov have emerged as two of the biggest stacks in the room. Borukhov looks to be the chip leader of the entire event right now with slightly over 150,000 chips. If you remember back to the WSOP Circuit event at Caesars Atlantic City, Borukhov stormed to the chip lead early in that event as well, only to barely eek into the money.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:35 PM Local Time
Brett Richey moved all in for his last 4,500 from the cutoff and the big blind asked for a count before deciding on his action. After about 15 seconds, he called. Richey showed    and his opponent took his time before flipping over his   . The board went Richey's way through the turn as the cards fell     , but the river changed course, bringing the   and giving Richey's opponent the nut flush.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:30 PM Local Time
A short stacked J.J. Liu is all in after a flop of       with     against her opponents     . The turn and river fail to improve Liu's hand, eliminating her from the Main Event.
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Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:28 PM Local Time
It's getting to be the time of night when players start gambling for stacks. Isabelle Mercier's opponent was all in for 20,000 with     and called by the slightly-bigger stacked Mercier, who showed down    . The board ran out ten-high,          , to knock Mercier's opponent out of the tournament. Mercier now has 50,000 chips.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:27 PM Local Time
After some preflop action, Igor "Jr Parlay" Borukhov bet 2,000 with the board reading       with two hearts. According to Borukhov, his opponent and him got in a raising war that found the shorter player all in. Borukhov held     for top pair, top kicker, but his opponent was looking at a hefty amount of outs with the     for the nut flush draw. The turn and river both blanked, allowing the pot to be passed to Borukhov, who now has amassed himself 150,000 chips.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:24 PM Local Time
Gavin Griffin's chip stack has slowly but steadily dwindled over the course of the day. Down to 12,700 chips, he found himself all in with     and called by a player who tabled    . Following standard Main Event protocol, the dealer called out "All in and call on Orange 82!" A floor came over to the table and held up play while an ESPN camera got itself into position to film the action. "Can we just get it over with?" asked an irritated Griffin. "What the ****." The dealer was finally instructed to run out the board. That board came           to give Griffin the rivered gutshot Broadway straight and the double-up. He's now sitting behind 26,000 chips.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:23 PM Local Time
Ken Aldridge raised to 1,100 from middle position and the big blind reraised to 3,400. Aldridge made the call. The flop came down       and both players checked. The turn brought the   and the big blind fired out 2,000. Aldridge folded rather quickly. "Oh my god! I picked up kings!" yelled the big blind, showing    . "I wanted the ace of diamonds. I can't really be worried about a diamond, I'd want one." Aldridge is down to about 40,000 chips.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:18 PM Local Time
Steve Goodemote opened the pot for a 1,100 raise from the cutoff. Action folded around to the big blind who reraised to 3,400. Goodemote made the call. The flop came       . The big blind led out for 4,200 and Goodemote called quickly. The turn brought the   and the big blind slowed things down by checking. Goodemote fired out two orange chips for 10,000 and the big blind just started shaking his head. He paused only momentarily before he tossed his cards into the muck. Steve Goodemote - 37,000
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