Bellagio - Festa al Lago V
WPT Championship
No Limit Hold’em
$10,000 + $300 Buy-in

433 Entries 10/16/05

End of Day 2 Total Prize $4,200,100

Prize Money

* Includes $25,500 seat in WPT Championship Event at Bellagio on April 21, 2007 .

Play has haulted for a moment. The floor is instructing dealers to deal a final set number of hands for the night. Once they have played the final six hands, players will be done for the night. Play will resume tomorrow at noon pacific. They will play five more levels tomorrow, starting at the 1,500-3,000/400 level.

Jennifer Harman is check-raised on a flop of A 7 9 . She finally makes the call for all of her remaining chips. Her opponent shows pocket kings, which fail to improve, and Jennifer's A Q holds up.

69 players remain. We will have a full list of money finishers & official chip counts later tonight when they are made available. I'll be here for the next 23 minutes, when play haults for the night.

Johan Storakers has been eliminated. He tried to outrun Can Kim Hua's As Jx, which made the nut flush.

70 players remain.

Webber Kang 225k
Tim Phan 80k
Dan Harrington 70k
Chris Bigler 120k
Victor Ramdin 250k
Nick Schulman 180k
Jennifer Harman 120k
Joe Teehan 25k
Alan Ghoering 100k
Brandi Hawbaker 560k

72 players still remain. 36 minutes left tonight.

Matusow is eliminated. It folds to him on the button, and with his last 7k, he moves all in with K 5 . The big blind calls with two nines, and they hold up.

72 players remain.

Chip Jett doubles through Mike Matusow. Matusow had two queens but they were no match for a flopped set of jacks for Jett.

Bigler triples up with pocket aces.

Victor Ramdin calls Steve Zolotow's all in bet. Both show a flush draw on a flop of A Q 5 , but Ramdin's K 4 has Steve's T 6 high carded. The T comes on the turn and is enough to give Zolotow the pot, doubling him up in the process.

Al Zeidenfeld has been eliminated. 77 remain.

David Benyamine has been eliminated.

81 players remain. 80 minutes until play ends for the night.

Tim Phan 115k
Dan Harrington 30k
Jennifer Harman 135k
Al Zeidenfeld 25k
Joe Teehan 25k
Alan Ghoering 120k
Brandi Hawbaker 560k
Steve Zolotow 90k

Play has resumed at the 1,000-2,000/300 level. 82 players remain. This is the final level of the night.

84 players still remain. Action has slowed a bit. There's just a few seconds remaining in this level, and then we play 1,000-2,000 with a 300 ante.

Bob Stupak doubles up when his 7's win a cointoss against KJ offsuit.

There's 84 players remaining.

Dan Harrington 30k
Tim Phan 135k
Jennifer Harman 85k
Joe Teehan 35k
Chris Bigler 60k
Jeff Schulman 240k
Steve Zolotow 75k
Alex Jacobs 190k
Alan Ghoering 90k
Brandi Hawbaker 450k
Erik Seidel 240k
Victor Ramdin 140k
Webber Kang 230k
Juan Carlos Mortensen 90k

All of these players earned $12,525.

100th Chad Layne
99th Tony Cousineau
98th Isabelle Mercier
97th James English
96th Flaminid Malaguti
95th Phillipe Rouas
94th Gerson Mosbacter
93rd Elia Ahadian
92nd David Pham
91st Clint Kretzmein
90th Thor Hansen
89th Adam Jones

Mike Matusow is HOT. He's fuming about the fact that every 9 players we're breaking tables and redrawing. Layne Flack suggest to Mike that everyone refuses to move and to see what Jack McLelland will do. Mike won't stop ranting about how upset he is. Then, out of nowhere, Mike literally screams "THIS IS FURIOUS, I'M F'ING PISSED, I DON'T CARE IF I GET A PENALTY!"

Loi Phan 200k
Jason Lester 80k
Johan Storakers 220k
Webber Kang 170k
David Benyamine 30k
John Hoang 170k
Billy Baxter 25k
Al Zeidenfeld 30k
Chris Bigler 80k
Jennifer Harman 70k
Juan Carlos Mortensen 70k
Joe Teehan 55k
Victor Ramdin 120k
Can Kim Hua 80k
Alex Jacobs 220k
Brandi Hawbaker 370k
Erik Seidel 225k
Peter "Nordberg" Feldman 50k
Nick Schulman 210k
Tim Phan 140k
Brandon Cantu 200k
Mimi Tran 115k
Scott Fischman 190k

As soon as I got done typing this blog entry out, Jack McLelland polled the players if they wanted to keep the rule. They all voted no (with a few exceptions). As a result now they are going to only redraw at the money changes. Soon after, players began chanting "let Mike live!" in reference to Matusow who was now serving a penalty. One of the floormen, John, came out and said "I thought Mike said he wanted a penalty?" Mike agreed "no more profanity, ever again" and was allowed back into play. I'm not quite sure Mike will hold up his end of that.

Tony Cousineau has been eliminated in 99th. He moved all in with K 5 , and ran into pocket tens. A ten flopped and Cousineau collects $12,525 for his efforts.

Scott Fischman 170k
Amnon Filippi 25k
Alan Ghoering 65k
Layne Flack 90k
Steve Zolotow 80k

99 players are left. They're now redrawing for new tables. Apparently they are going to redraw after every table break? Not quite sure why, I've never heard of something like that.

We're in the money. 100 remain. Everyone is guaranteed at least $12,525.

102 players remain. 72 minutes left in this level. Play is still very slow. I'm working on getting photos from today up.