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- Buy In:
$10,000
- Top Prize:
N/A
- Entrants:
1116
- Pos. Paid:
N/A
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N/A
Players Remain
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Top Notables:
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Jason Alexander
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89,575
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Dragan Galic
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88,000
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Lex Veldhuis
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84,000
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Eli Elezra
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83,375
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Tom Schneider
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77,000
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Jeff Williams
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73,000
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Jimmy Fricke
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70,000
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John Hennigan
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70,000
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Ludovic Lacay
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61,000
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Vitaly Lunkin
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52,000
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Average Stack: 0
Last Update
Top Chip Counts
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:34:17
Day 1a is History
Amidst a sandstorm of pomp and ceremony, the Main Event of the 2009 WSOP has finally arrived, and Day 1a is already in the books.
Play began at high noon with the first round of 1,116 players taking their seats to begin this long quest for glory. As expected, we had a homogenous mix of top-tier pros and hopeful amateurs, and there's about a one-in-four chance that our 2009 Main Event Champion was in the room somewhere today. Among those who chose the first starting day were former World Champions Johnny Chan and Jerry Yang, 2009 bracelet winners Jason Mercier, Vitaly Lunkin, Roland de Wolfe, Greg Mueller, Keven "Stammdog" Stammen, Jordan Smith and a whole grab bag of A-list pros. Also in the field were a slew of faces from the entertainment world: baseball pitcher Orel Hershiser, actors-turned-pro Jennifer Tilly and Gabe Kaplan, rapper Nelly, and funnymen Brad Garrett and Jason Alexander.
Along the way, a number of notables found an early end to their Series. John Phan, Jan Von Halle, Davidi Kitai, Nick Frangos, Freddy Deeb, Matt Glantz, Mark Vos, Pieter de Korver, Isaac Haxton, David Grey, Steve Billirakis, Allen Cunningham, and Andy Bloch have all had their World Series cut short on Day 1 of this final event.
At the end of the night, it looks like Redmond Lee has worked his way to the top of the leader board, stuffing his bag with 134,275 technicolor chips. Among the other big stacks are Jason Riesenberg (93,650), Jason Alexander (89,575), Lex Veldhuis (84,000), and Eli Elezra (83,375).
The next group of Main Eventers will be here at noon tomorrow to try their luck at their own Day 1. If history is any indication, the number of runners should be a tad lower tomorrow as it's the Fourth of July. Thanks for joining us here today, and we hope you'll join us right back here tomorrow as we continue this epic. Until then, goodnight from the Rio!
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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:22:59
What a Way to End the Evening
Two players got all in before the flop. Let's call them "Happy Man" and "Not-So-Happy Man." Not-So-Happy had Happy covered.
Happy Man  
Not-So-Happy Man  
The flop came down a positively grotesque    , both players flopping sets. The turn was the  and the river fell the  ... Happy Man thusly earning his new moniker as his played to make him a flush and earn him a double-up back to his 30,000 starting stack just as Day 1A came to an end.
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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:19:08
Three More Hands
As is customary at the World Series of Poker, the tournament clock has been paused with 10 minutes to go in the day. The tournament staff have drawn a card to determine that three more hands will be played at each table before the chips are bagged for the night.
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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:18:11
Mercier's Aggression Costs Him Chips
Sometimes aggression backfires. The pot was raised preflop to 775, with two callers coming along for a    flop. Jason Mercier bet 1,575 and was called by Matt Vengrin before the third player raised to 6,000. Mercier reponded by moving all in for 50,000 total. That raise folded Vengrin, but the third player called all in with   . Mercier was drawing,   , and missed when the board came running fours,  and  .
Paying off that pot undid all of Mercier's work for today. He's down to 29,000.
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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:15:01
A Curious Hand Late in the day
We wish we had seen the preflop action for this hand on Table 69. On a flop of    , Tony G checked to his opponent, who bet 5,200. The G then check-raised to 35,200. His opponent open-folded !
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| 1. Redmond Lee |
134,275 |
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| 2. James Navolanic |
100,000 |
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| 3. Bryan Colin |
98,000 |
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| 4. Jason Riesenberg |
93,650 |
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| 5. Domen Pinteric |
90,000 |
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| 6. Jason Alexander |
89,575 |
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| 7. Dragan Galic |
88,000 |
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| 8. Lex Veldhuis |
84,000 |
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| 9. Eli Elezra |
83,375 |
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| 10. David 'Doc Sands' Sands |
80,000 |
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| 11. Chris Demaci |
80,000 |
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| 12. Scott 'stpauli111' Hall |
77,000 |
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| 13. Tom Schneider |
77,000 |
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| 14. Jeremy Ausmus |
76,000 |
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| 15. Shane Warne |
73,000 |
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| 16. Jeff Williams |
73,000 |
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| 17. Michael Kamran |
72,000 |
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| 18. Jimmy Fricke |
70,000 |
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| 19. John Hennigan |
70,000 |
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