What\’s happening at the WSOP while GSN considers picking up a new show, High Stakes Dice.
Speaking of Ivey, he\’s currently in the top 10 at the $5,000 NL 2-7 KC Lowball event. Tom Dwan currently is chip leader at 238,900 with about half of the field remaining. In third is Pokerati\’s own Tom Schneider with 153,500. Play resumes at 3pm this afternoon as they\’ll play down to their final table of 7.
Final tables and what starts today after the jump:
Today there will be three final tables today, starting at 2pm for ESPN360.com is the $1,000 Ladies NL Holdem World Championship. Here\’s the ladies final table:
Seat 4: Svetlana Gromenkova 553,000
Seat 7: Christine Priday 448,000
Seat 1: Patty Till 312,000 (Attended WSOP Academy – Ladies, like Sally Anne Boyer, 2007 winner)
Seat 6: Debbie Mitchell 224,000
Seat 5: Sue Porter 211,000
Seat 8: Yesenia Garcia 210,000
Seat 9: Anh Le 191,000 (Lost to Jennifer Tilly heads-up in 2005)
Seat 3: Marla Crumpler 163,000
Seat 2: Roslyn Quarto 73,000
The second final table of the day is the $1,500 NL Shootout, which went from 1000 to 10 in only 19 hours. Here\’s how that final table will look like, now with seat assignments:
Seat 1: Casey Coleman
Seat 2: Matt Giannetti
Seat 3: Tom West
Seat 4: Rory Monahan
Seat 5: Kyle Bowker
Seat 6: John Strzemp III
Seat 7: Mike Schwartz
Seat 8: Sergey Rybachenko
Seat 9: Jason Young
Seat 10: Alexander Triner
The third final table is the $2,000 Omaha 8 tournament which ended play earlier today when they reached the last 18. They get to return at 3pm to finish sometime Wednesday morning in all likelihood. Here\’s their final two tables:
14 1 Michael Sohayegh 119,000
14 2 Ralph Rudd 184,000
14 3 Mallory Smith 125,000
14 4 Andrew Brown 234,000
14 5 Jim Pechac 2,000
14 6 Pat Poels 44,000
14 7 Allan Enciso California) 182,000
14 8 Lee Grove 132,000
14 9 Kia Hooshmand 83,000
15 1 Scott Clements 228,000
15 2 Jimmy Fricke 33,000
15 3 Joe Aronesty (Miami Beach, Florida) 72,000
15 4 Ralph Perry 160,000
15 5 Ted Forrest 204,000
15 6 James Richburg 66,000
15 7 Michael Reed 46,000
15 8 Jose Paz 86,000
15 9 Soheil Shamseddin 243,000
The two new tournaments on today\’s calendar are the $1,500 PLO event at noon, and the $2,000 Limit Holdem event at 5:00pm. I\’ve made a long enough post, so more from me later in the day.
