Early Double Up for Tony G
With the board showing , Tony G just got it all in with versus Erik Cajelais' . The turn was the , further improving Tony G's hand. And the river was the , giving Tony G the large pot. Tony G is quickly up to 248,000, while Cajelais falls to 3,800.
A player in middle position opens the pot for a raise of 3,200 (5.3x the big blind). Tom "Durrrr" Dwan calls from the cut off, as does Phil Ivey from the big blind. The flop comes and all three players check. The turn is the and the original raiser leads out for a minuscule 1,000 into the 10,000+ pot. Dwan folds and Ivey makes the call. The river brings the and the player in middle position bets 5,000. Ivey announces a raise and tosses out a single 25,000 chip. His opponent quickly folds and Ivey takes down the pot.
yes, durr is out, noooooooooooo one of my picks, ffs
Durrr Eliminated
After a flop of Tom "Durrrr" Dwan checks from middle position and David "The Dragon" Pham bets 8,200. Durrrr makes the call. The turn is the [2d and Durrr checks again. Pham continues to push the action by betting 28,000. Durrrr moves all in for 54,000 total and Pham makes the call. Pham shows an over pair with . Durrrr shows is drawing to only six outs. The river is the giving Pham a set and the pot. Durrrr is eliminated from the tournament while Pham shoots up to 185,000
At last, with registration closed we have the numbers you've all been waiting for. 201 players bought in to the $40,000 No-Limit Hold'em event creating a prize pool of $7,718,400. 27 players will be paid with first place receiving $1,891,012. Here's a full look at the payouts: 1 $ 1,891,012 2 $ 1,168,566 3 $ 774,927 4 $ 548,315 5 $ 413,166 6 $ 329,730 7 $ 277,940 8 $ 246,834 9 $ 230,317 10-12 $ 172,120 13-15 $ 128,666 16-18 $ 96,171 19-27 $ 71,858
wooohooooooooo ivey still in, looks like the update got fkd up, good job pokernews you fkn idiots
Hellmuth Joins An Already Stacked Table
No race car crash. No crazy get up. In fact, no publicity stunt at all. A simple entrance of handshakes and Phil Hellmuth starts playing poker. He is joins the following lineup at table 70:
Scott Seiver
Scotty Nguyen
Phil Ivey
Brett Richey
David "The Dragon" Pham
Alan Sass
Phil Hellmuth
Corwin Cole
Unfortunate unknown player
might have to change my pick phil galfond for tomorrows event, if he stays up there, heading up to rama tomorrow so within the next hour or so i will have to make my mind up.
Wish i could have a job doing this, doing updates and such, that would be sweet, still time for you to send me down Graham:)
Brett Richey opened for 3,500 from late position and Phil Hellmuth three-bet to 14,300 from the button. Richey called and they saw a flop of . Richey led out for 18,000 and Hellmuth called. Both players checked the on the turn, but Richey fired again when the hit the river. Hellmuth flat-called and rolled over , having turned two pair. Richey's was toast and Hellmuth raked in the pot, increasing his stack to 237,000. Richey was left with 51,000.
Brett Richey opened for 3,500 from late position and Phil Hellmuth three-bet to 14,300 from the button. Richey called and they saw a flop of . Richey led out for 18,000 and Hellmuth called. Both players checked the on the turn, but Richey fired again when the hit the river. Hellmuth flat-called and rolled over , having turned two pair. Richey's was toast and Hellmuth raked in the pot, increasing his stack to 237,000. Richey was left with 51,000.
Comments
With the board showing
Mike Watson (SirWatts) on Twitter
Also noticed he is on Shaun Deeb's table according to Deeb's twitter:
shaun deeb (shaundeeb) on Twitter
And Gavin Smith who you can follow here:
Gavin Smith (oleGSmith) on Twitter
Phil Laak
265,000
Barry Schwartz
252,000
Scott Seiver
250,000
David Chiu
240,000
Tony G
240,000
Evan McNiff
215,000
Michael DeMichele
196,000
Andy Black
185,000
Antonio Esfandiari
180,000
Chad Batista
176,000
Nenad Medic
175,000
Isaac Haxton
175,000
Jeff 'ActionJeff' Garza
167,000
Markus Lehmann
150,000
Tim Phan
150,000
Nikolay Evdakov
150,000
Jason Mercier
147,000
Jonathan Little
145,000
Jeff Lisandro
145,000
Nam Le
145,000
Sami 'LarsLuzak' Kelopuro
145,000
Thu, 28 May 2009 13:57:24
Ivey Sees Through Opponent's Strange Play
A player in middle position opens the pot for a raise of 3,200 (5.3x the big blind). Tom "Durrrr" Dwan calls from the cut off, as does Phil Ivey from the big blind. The flop comes
Durrr Eliminated
After a flop of
anyways, you can follow players' tweets here as well:
Updates - WSOP 2009 - PokerRoad Nation - PokerRoad.com
At last, with registration closed we have the numbers you've all been waiting for. 201 players bought in to the $40,000 No-Limit Hold'em event creating a prize pool of $7,718,400. 27 players will be paid with first place receiving $1,891,012. Here's a full look at the payouts: 1 $ 1,891,012 2 $ 1,168,566 3 $ 774,927 4 $ 548,315 5 $ 413,166 6 $ 329,730 7 $ 277,940 8 $ 246,834 9 $ 230,317 10-12 $ 172,120 13-15 $ 128,666 16-18 $ 96,171 19-27 $ 71,858
Hellmuth Joins An Already Stacked Table
No race car crash. No crazy get up. In fact, no publicity stunt at all. A simple entrance of handshakes and Phil Hellmuth starts playing poker. He is joins the following lineup at table 70:
Scott Seiver
Scotty Nguyen
Phil Ivey
Brett Richey
David "The Dragon" Pham
Alan Sass
Phil Hellmuth
Corwin Cole
Unfortunate unknown player
Ted Forrest
310,000
Antonio Esfandiari
302,000
Justin Bonomo
275,000
Scott Seiver
270,000
Tony G
260,000
Vivek Rajkumar
255,000
Barry Schwartz
252,000
Lex 'RaSZi' Vedlhuis
243,000
Michael DeMichele
242,000
Brian Townsend
225,000
David Chiu
220,000
Matthew Glantz
220,000
Johannes Strassmann
218,000
Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond
215,000
Andy Black
215,000
Doyle Brunson
207,000
Terrence Chan
200,000
Erick Lindgren
200,000
Greg 'FBT' Mueller
200,000
Joe Hachem
195,000
Noah Schwartz
190,000
Kyle Wilson
190,000
Dan 'Ansky' Stern
180,000
Mark Seif
177,000
Nenad Medic
175,000
Evan McNiff
172,000
Isaac Haxton
170,000
Chris Moneymaker
170,000
Huck Seed
165,000
daniel negreanu is out looks like
Wish i could have a job doing this, doing updates and such, that would be sweet, still time for you to send me down Graham:)
Thu, 28 May 2009 17:32:07
Hellmuth Reraised with... What?
Brett Richey opened for 3,500 from late position and Phil Hellmuth three-bet to 14,300 from the button. Richey called and they saw a flop of
LOL donkaments...
Moneymaker 2nd, 'nuff said.
As much as it pains me to say it he's actually playing some good poker.
only 3 picks left, not the best start
(Table 58)
Seat 1: Andrew Barta - 223500
Seat 2: Jess Yawitz - 202500
Seat 3: Kyle 'krisqueen' Wilson - 611500
Seat 4: Noah Schwartz - 168000
Seat 5: Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond - 443000
Seat 6: JC Tran - 155500
Seat 7: William Molson - 108000
Seat 8: Justin Bonomo - 738000
Seat 9: Steve Billirakis - 353000
(Table 60)
Seat 1: Alec Torelli - 345500
Seat 2: Hoyt Corkins - 104500
Seat 3: Ville Wahlbeck - 354500
Seat 4: Greg Raymer - 213000
Seat 5: David 'Devilfish' Ulliott - (Unknown)
Seat 6: Andy Black - 449500
Seat 7: Bruno Fitoussi - 812500
Seat 8: Steve Zolotow - 172500
Seat 9: Brian 'tsarrast' Rast - 139000
(Table 62)
Seat 1: Matt Gianetti - 174500
Seat 2: Sami 'LarsLuzak' Kelopuro - 126500
Seat 3: Alan Sass - 491000
Seat 4: Marco 'CrazyMarco' Johnson - 365500
Seat 5: Mark Dickstein - 95000
Seat 6: David Pham - 192500
Seat 7: Barry Schwartz - 174500
Seat 8: David Singer - 168000
Seat 9: Chance Walker - 174000
(Table 64)
Seat 1: Lee Markholt - 184000
Seat 2: Neil Channing - 296500
Seat 3: Unknown Player - Did not report count
Seat 4: Scott Seiver - 124500
Seat 5: Evan McNiff - 276500
Seat 6: Ali Eslami - 444000
Seat 7: Kenny Tran - 226000
Seat 8: Andrew Lichtenberger - 108000
Seat 9: Vitaly Lunkin - 289000
(Table 66)
Seat 1: Phil Ivey - 279000
Seat 2: Nam Le - 359500
Seat 3: Lex 'RaSZi' Veldhuis - 646500
Seat 4: Sorel Mizzi - 431000
Seat 5: David 'WhooooKidd' Baker - 446000
Seat 6: Adam Junglen - 144000
Seat 7: Michael DeMichele - 519500
Seat 8: David Benefield - 70500
Seat 9: Dani 'Ansky' Stern - 386000
(Table 68)
Seat 1: Amit 'amak316' Makhija - 88500
Seat 2: Mike 'SirWatts' Watson - 92500
Seat 3: Robert Suer - 136000
Seat 4: Shawn Buchanan - 62000
Seat 5: James Mackey - 205500
Seat 6: Chris Moorman - 57500
Seat 7: Mike Matusow - 87000
Seat 8: Clark Hamagumi - 159000
Seat 9: Tony G - 306500
(Table 70)
Seat 1: Markus Lehmann - 229000
Seat 2: Isaac Haxton - 392500
Seat 3: Vanessa Rousso - 165500
Seat 4: Doshi Suresh - 353000
Seat 5: Chad Batista - 140000
Seat 6: Frank Kassela - 339500
Seat 7: John Duthie - 188000
Seat 8: Dale Pinchot - 188000
Seat 9: Kirill Gerasimov - 149000
(Table 72)
Seat 1: Doyle Brunson - 244000
Seat 2: Neil Chriss - 315000
Seat 3: Ted Forrest - 401500
Seat 4: Russell Rosenbloom - 102000
Seat 5: Antonio Esfandiari - 292500
Seat 6: Chris Moneymaker - 805000
Seat 7: Charles Lehr - 206000
Seat 8: Matthew "adz124" Marafioti - 375000
Seat 9: Alex Jacob - 357000
(Table 74)
Seat 1: Mark Seif - 411500
Seat 2: Jason Mercier - 331000
Seat 3: Brian Townsend - 609000
Seat 4: Chris Moore - 110500
Seat 5: Humberto Brenes - 269500
Seat 6: Steve Weinstein - 246500
Seat 7: Bill Chen - 141000
Seat 8: Johannes Strassmann - 143500
Seat 9: Chau Giang - 87500
(Table 79)
Seat 1: Jeff Lisandro - 124500
Seat 3: Andrew 'good2cu' Robl - 260500
Seat 4: Huck Seed - 274000
Seat 5: Josh Arieh - 339000
Seat 6: Matthew Glantz - 238000
Seat 7: Emil "whitelime" Patel - 494500
Seat 8: David Chiu - 245000
Seat 9: Terrence Chan - 109500
Table 66 looks deadly...
Definitely, and so does Table 67:
Seat 1: Amit 'amak316' Makhija - 88500
Seat 2: Mike 'SirWatts' Watson - 92500
Seat 3: Robert Suer - 136000
Seat 4: Shawn Buchanan - 62000
Seat 5: James Mackey - 205500
Seat 6: Chris Moorman - 57500
Seat 7: Mike Matusow - 87000
Seat 8: Clark Hamagumi - 159000
Seat 9: Tony G - 306500
I'll take this over 66 any day. But obv I'm not playing
lol if I had the choice I would too, but I'm just saying both are scary tough!
But any table right now in this tourney has a few landmines...there isn't exactly any soft tables in this tourney.