(Way) Outside the WSOP – Day 34
Recapping Sunday night’s action:
Bracelet Winners go 1-2-4 in Limit Shootout
Greg Mueller becomes the fourth double bracelet winner at this year’s WSOP, taking down the $1,500 Limit Holdem Shootout, good for $194,854 as he denied Marc Naalden his second bracelet this year. The only year where more players have won more at least two bracelets was 2003 (Ivey, Juanda, Men Nguyen, Ferguson, Chan and Flack) . Millie Shiu finished in 3rd, tied for the highest placing woman in an open WSOP event this year(Ming Reslock in the $1,500 Omaha-8 and Laurence Grondin in the $2,000 NL Holdem). David Williams finished in thirdfourth..
Lunkin Looking to Make it Five in $50k HORSE
Vitaly Lunkin, winner of the first open bracelet ($40,000 NL Holdem) leads the remaining 19 players in the $50,000 HORSE event going into day 4. Three players will make zero on their investment, as they play down to the final table today starting around 2pm. Here’s how the remaining players will be seated:
(Table 58)
Seat 1: Erik Sagstrom – 1315000
Seat 2: Erik Seidel – 464000
Seat 3: Steve Billirakis – 576000
Seat 5: David Chiu – 397000
Seat 6: Mike Wattel – 779000
Seat 7: Chau Giang – 616000
(Table 60)
Seat 1: Huck Seed – 672000
Seat 2: Ray Dehkharghani – 262000
Seat 4: Brett Richey – 671000
Seat 6: Todd Brunson – 145000
Seat 7: Vitaly Lunkin – 1527000
Seat 8: Frank Kassela – 499000
(Table 62)
Seat 1: Tony G – 642000
Seat 2: David Bach – 1265000
Seat 3: John Hanson – 815000
Seat 5: Ville Wahlbeck – 842000
Seat 6: John Kabbaj – 678000
Seat 7: Freddy Deeb – 1300000
Seat 8: Gus Hansen – 801000
Durand Looking for Durability in $1,500 NL Holdem
Day 3 of the $1,500 NL Holdem starts with 30 players remaining, with Thibaut Durand (1,650,000) holding the chip lead when play resumes around 1pm PT. Owen Crowe (1,025,000), Josh Schlein (875,000), and Alex Jacob (274,000) are the most recognizable names remaining. When the final table is eventually reached, bluffmagazine.com and wsop.pkr.com will stream all the action.
Australians go 1-2 in Triple Chance
Day 1 of the $3,000 Triple Chance NL Holdem ended with 149 players remaining and it’s two Australians who hold the top spots when play resumes around 2pm today. Tim Horan is the chip leader (149,000), followed by Harris Pavlou (137,300). Notables returning on day 2 include Jeff Lisandro, Antonio Esfandiari, Shane Schleger, Nick Binger, Mike Caro, Noah Schwartz and Praz Bansi.
Prescott Gives Field Allie Can Handle in Stud 8
Day 2 of the $1,500 Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Betterevent resumes around 2pm with 146 players remaining, with Allie Prescott leading the field with 52,500 in chips. Notables returning include Jim Geary, Annie Duke, Marcel Luske, Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Jon Turner, Matt Savage and Norman Chad.
Monday’s Tournaments
The 12pm $1,500 NL Holdem Donkament is already sold out, although there’s always the slim chance they’ll open a few more seats during the day. This is the seventh event of the $1,500 NL Holdem of this year’s WSOP, so it’s a “new” event, not having a winner last year. The 5pm (if it starts on time) event is the $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball event, won last year by John Phan for just over $150,000 in a field of 238. The WSOP Staff Guide projects a field of 262 entries.
Today and tomorrow will both be extremely busy with six tournaments going on at the same time, so check out www.wsop.com for live updates, and Pokerati for other stuff during the day.
BJ Nemeth says:
June 29th, 2009 at 11:22am
There’s an error in the official report from Nolan — David Williams actually busted in fourth place, not third. (Millie Shiu tied for the highest 2009 finish by a female by busting in third.) This can be confirmed both in the PokerNews live updates and via David Williams’ Twitter feed:
http://www.pokernews.com/wsop/2009/event-50/day3/page3.htm
http://twitter.com/dwpoker/status/2383456532
I’ve emailed Nolan about it so he can correct the official report. (This obviously changes one of the headlines, because former bracelet winners didn’t finish 1-2-3 in this event.)
You also wrote “Lunkin Looking to Make it Five in $50k HORSE.” What does that mean? It would be his third WSOP final table and his fourth cash this year — but I can’t figure out what he could make five of.
Kevin Mathers says:
June 29th, 2009 at 11:23am
5 multiple bracelet winners
BJ Nemeth says:
June 29th, 2009 at 11:36am
Okay, that makes sense. I usually don’t focus on that possibility until they make the final table. (One step at a time!) 🙂
Kevin Mathers says:
June 29th, 2009 at 11:40am
Point taken, he hasn’t even cashed yet. I’ll be happy enough when it’s Wednesday afternoon.
BJ Nemeth says:
June 29th, 2009 at 12:04pm
Oops … one more omission. Laurence Grondin is also tied for highest finish by a female this year — she finished third in Event #36 ($2,000 No-Limit Hold’em). Yes, she has a very masculine name, but she’s French Canadian, and you know how they are. 🙂
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=130640