Main Event - day 1b
Here are the chip counts for day 2
NAME CHIPS
Safieddine, Francois 165400
Morgan, Jordan 153900
Mepobyan, Alfred 136100
Schneider, Tom 128300
O'Donnell, Kevin 127000
Sarkeshik, A 123700
Le, Tuan 116400
Nguyen, Thu 116400
Hamadani, Kia 108800
Tran, Theo 102400
Wong, Danny 100300
Flug-Entin, Jonas 95,000
Cheung, Robert 93700
Fuhs, Danny 89700
Bryan, Mark 87000
CHUOR, KENNY 86900
Chang, Jay 86000
Shulman, Barry 77,400
Lund, Hans "Tuna" 76700
Kizirian, Armenak 76400
Chu, Michael 75900
Voulgaris, H 75000
Halay, Jack 70500
Monnette, John 70400
Fineman, Ben 68300
Khalil, Joseph 64100
Brunson, Pamela 63,600
Siler, Jeff 63600
Teranie, Behzad 61400
Grevlich, Brandon 60900
Goldfarb, Robert 58900
Sebok, Joe 57600
McCollom, Clinton James 57100
Suer, Robert 57000
Tran, Kenny 56000
Smith, Danny 55700
Dowdy, James 55,500
Phan, Young 55300
Abesamis, Tony 54800
Nguyen, Men "the Master" 52800
LeBlanc, Trish 51300
Wattel, Mike 50,600
Arieh, Josh 50100
Feldman, Peter 49800
Klonsly, Gary 49600
Engel, Alan 49300
Greenstein, Barry 49200
Newhouse, Mark 49,200
Vahedi, Amir 47900
Farmer, Jason 47200
Tran, JC 47000
Kim, Yoon Soo 46400
Salem, Naseem 46400
Liu, Shijia 46100
Pilossoph, Billy 44200
Ng, Evelyn 44100
Leoni, Eugene 42000
Goldberg, Fred 42000
Hauptman, Mike 42000
Woo, Michael 41600
Doudney, Nathan 40500
Gromenkova, Svetlana 40000
Hoover, BJ 39700
Geyer, Adam 38600
Orvis, William Kyle 38000
Brook, Jon 37,700
McCabe, Sen 37,200
Yutuc, George 34600
Noam, Danny 33500
Kasabyan, Gevork 32300
Jefferson, Noah 32000
Duarte, Marvin 31600
Barstow, Rick 31600
Koshi, Jason 31200
Phan, Loi 29700
Rezec, Omar 29400
Luong, Dat 27900
Nakano, Yosh 26600
Jenkins, Ron 25400
Brunson, Doyle 24,600
Doitch, Alon 24400
Matusow, Mike 23300
Campbell, Rhynie 23300
Asmo, Louis 20800
Faltinsky, Ron 20700
Sprengers, Ben 20400
Mizrachi, Robert 20100
Nguyen, Scotty 18400
Kamoei, Hassan 18300
Schleger, Shane 17400
Daweshgar, David 17100
Jacobs, Lawrence 16600
Brunetti, Franco 15300
McCormack, Chris 15000
Frommer, Carl 14100
Talebi, Rodeen 13600
Unknown Scribble 12300
Minh, Nguyen 9600
Farmer, Donald 8800
Siegel, Jordan 8500
Bui, Todd Thuan 8400
McLaughlin, Robert 8300
Daniel, Ramzi 7400
Sunday, 26th of August 2007 11:47 PM
We are almost to the end of the day. I will try my best to put up a chip count of the players as soon as I can. As for the tournament, the players are bagging up their chips and getting ready to go home for the evening. We will pick up action tomorrow when the two day 1's combine and we play for 6 levels or to the money, whichever comes first. Action will resume at 2 p.m., here in California. For all you east coasties, that will be 5 p.m.
Sunday, 26th of August 2007 11:03 PM
George Yutuc just doubled through Shane Schleger when his J 10 flopped a king high straight versus the set of K's of Shane's. The turn and river were bricks and George is up to 34k.
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| George Yutuc | |
Sunday, 26th of August 2007 10:51 PM
The players have returned from a break and are now at 400-800 with a 100 ante.
Here are the current chipleaders:
Alfred Megrabyan - 126k
Robert Cheung - 94k
Joe Sebok - 87k
Theo Tran - 82k
Mike Wattel - 75k
Jordan Morgan - 68k
Tuan Le - 67k
Jonas Entin - 67k
Evelyn Ng - 63k
Danny Wong - 60k
On a sad note, Cindy Violette has been eliminated from the tournament. She moved all-in with her shortstack and got a call from an opponent who held K-Q. Violette's pocket 10's got crushed on a flop of K-Q-8. the turn and river were blanks and she's been voted off the poker island.
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| Cindy Violette | |
Sunday, 26th of August 2007 09:16 PM
The players just took a break and have returned to 300-600 blinds with a 75 ante.
John Juanda has been eliminated from the tournament when his pocket 9's ran up aginst his opponents overpair.
Erick Seidel has also been taken out earlier in this last round
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Hans Lund has been grinding it out all day. He's around 34k
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I talked to Amir Vahedi during the break and he's been up and down in the tournament. He did tell me that he'd had pocket A's cracked several times, but managed to keep from losing his stack on those occaisions.
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| Amir Vahedi | |
Chris "The Armenian Express" Grigorian is doing well. He's holding 62k.
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Jordan Morgan says his table has been soft and that's why he's at 68k.
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Sunday, 26th of August 2007 08:04 PM
Alfred Megrabyan - 86k
Robert Cheung - 65k
Tom Schneider - 64k
Mike Wattel - 59k
Danny Wong - 58k
Barry Greenstein - 53k
Gavin Smith - 51k
Matt Lefkowitz - 49k
Kristy Gazes - 48k
Brandi Hawbaker - 45k
Sunday, 26th of August 2007 07:31 PM
A couple of weeks ago I had the fortune of meeting Pamela Brunson, who was fresh off her victory at The Ladies Night at The Bike event. We talked about her short tournament career, her "Queen Kitty Pawsee" and of course, her dad. She never really came out and said that Doyle would be at this event, but after we parted that night, I knew that he would show up. Not just to play, but for moral support of his daughter who is new to the tournament circuit. She is currently holding 28k
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| Pamela Brunson | |
Doyle is on the downward spiral with 14k.
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| Doyle Brunson | |
Evelyn Ng has been moved from her first table to the table with Mike Matusow, Gavin Smith, and Erick Lindgren. She has a modest 35k stack.
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| Evelyn Ng | |
Tuan Le says he's been riding the chip rollercoaster all day. I have a feeling that's an average day for him.
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Sunday, 26th of August 2007 07:04 PM
Blinds are up to 200-400 with a 50 ante. We are down to 218 players at this point. Some of the bustouts include:
Phil Hellmuth
Vinny Vinh
Tuan Lam
Chantel Mcnulty
Maria Ho
Sunday, 26th of August 2007 06:40 PM
The payouts have been announced and here they are:
| 2 | $800,185 | | 3 | $388,660 | | 4 | $228,660 | | 5 | $182,900 | | 6 | $137,175 | | 7 | $114,310 | | 8 | $91,450 | | 9 | $68,590 | 10-12
| $57,155 | | 13-15 | $43,440 | | 16-18 | $34,295 | | 19-27 | $25,150 | | 28-36 | $20,575 | | 37-45 | $16,005 |
Some chip counts of note include:
Joe Sebok 50k
Brandi Hawbaker 45k
Barry Greenstein 47k
Tom Schneider 49k
Sunday, 26th of August 2007 05:50 PM
We are in the 3rd level with a 25 ante and 100-200 blinds. I overheard Joe Sebok telling that he's up over 50k during the break and that makes him the chipleader.
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As I walked past Gavin Smith's table earlier I noticed that's he's around the 42k mark.
Sunday, 26th of August 2007 05:05 PM
Sunday, 26th of August 2007 04:50 PM
The blinds are up to 100-200. The tournament is still in small ball mode. The play so far for today has been a bit more aggressive than yesterday at this time.
Our chipleader at this point seems to be Tom Schneider, who holds over 42k. He has the Phil Laak look going and seems to be very comfortable at his table.
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"The Prince of Poker" Scotty Nguyen is here and has been in very high spirits since his amazing run at this year's WSOP main event.
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Speaking of WSOP, the strange occurences around Vinnie Vhinh and his absences at some of the events have rumors swirling here. I do hope he has a good run at this tournament!
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| Vinnie Vinh | |
A tough table today has to be the one where Erick Lindgren is. he's in seat 9...
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| Erick Lindgren | |
And then he has these two at seat 6 and 7 to contend with.
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| Gavin Smith and Mike Matusow | |
Mike was telling me during the break about a deal he's made with a clothing company that will start a new line of clothing that will be out early next year. Mike "The Mouth" clothing? Interesting.
Sunday, 26th of August 2007 03:10 PM
The cards are in the air and we have a total of 485 from both days with 266 playing today. Some other names that are lste getting here include: Gavin Smith, Cyny Violette, Jamie Gold, Erick Lindgren, John Juanda, Hasan Habib, Tom Schneider, Tuan Le, Phil Hellmuth, and 2007 WSOP main event winner Jerry Yang.
The blinds are starting out at 50-100 with 90 minute levels.
Sunday, 26th of August 2007 01:43 PM
Action is about to get underway. The players are just getting in their seats and getting situated.
Last year, Joe Pelton came from out of nowhere to claim The Legends of Poker title and over $1.5 Million top prize money. This year we might see that varitable unknown emerge from out of the shadows to repeat Joe's success. Regaurdless of the outcome, Pokerpages.com will stay on top of all of the action to bring you the real stories that are to follow.
So far, we have 150 seats taken for the day 1b heat which will play 6 levels of 90 minutes before ending the day. Some of the names include:David Daneshgar, Antonio Esfandiari, John Esposito, Barry Greenstein, Chris "The Armenian Express" Grigorian, Michael Hauptman, Brandi Hawbaker, Hans "Tuna" Lund, jordan Morgan, Scotty Nguyen, Shane Schleger, Joe Seebok, Barry Shulman, Amir Vahedi, and Mike Matusow.
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