WSOP 2009. Info, Chip Counts, & & stuff. Feed your wild side.

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WSOP Statistics –

 

·        Through the conclusion of Event #23, the 2009 WSOP has attracted 22,600 entries.  $45,345,698 in total prize money has been awarded to winners.

 

·        Top Ten Ranked WSOP Players (Ratio Cashes/Entries) – Through Event 23:

 

Ville Wahlbeck           4 cashes / 5 tournaments entered         80 percent

Wade Woeful             3 cashes / 4 tournaments entered         75 percent

Jeffrey Tunkel            3 cashes / 4 tournaments entered         75 percent

Mitchell Schock         3 cashes / 4 tournaments entered         75 percent

Wolbert Bartlema       3 cashes / 4 tournaments entered         75 percent

Darryll Fish                4 cashes / 6 tournaments entered         67 percent

Motoyuki Mabuchi     3 cashes / 5 tournaments entered         60 percent

Brock Parker              4 cashes / 7 tournaments entered         57 percent

 

 

·        Through Event #23 – the nationalities of winners reads as follows:

 

United States – 18

Russian Federation – 1

Finland – 1

Australia – 1

United Kingdom – 1

Canada – 1

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With JP and Roland winning bracelets, now Duthie HU to win another, Jaffa Cake finalling the latest..its looking like a good year for the Brits, when you consider last year brought us no bracelets and the year before only Ram Vaswani brought one back

Coincidence you think, or something more meaningful about the standard of UK poker?

Or just that our top few are as good as anybody?

At what point do we have enough UK gongs to declare it a vintage WSOP for the UK?

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With JP and Roland winning bracelets, now Duthie HU to win another, Jaffa Cake finalling the latest..its looking like a good year for the Brits, when you consider last year brought us no bracelets and the year before only Ram Vaswani brought one back

Coincidence you think, or something more meaningful about the standard of UK poker?

Or just that our top few are as good as anybody?

At what point do we have enough UK gongs to declare it a vintage WSOP for the UK?

Coincidence. This is just variance at work, imo.

It already is a vintage year for the Brits, though.

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I know most of the Newcastle lads, but Steve Wang is not a name that rings any bells with me. Anyone know him?

   2009 World Series of Poker         
   Final Results         
   Event #   25      
   Buy In   $2,500      
   Date   Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8 or Better      
   Game   12/06/2009      
   Number of Entries   376      
   Net Prize Pool   $864,800      
   First Place Prize   $220,538       
   Players to Cash   40      
            
   Final Results         
            
   Name   Prize   City   State/Country
1   Ivey, Phil   $220,538   Las Vegas   NV
2   Lee, Ming   $136,292   Natick   MA
3   Mortensen, Carlos   $89,342   Henderson   NV
4   Boyd, Dutch   $61,919   Las Vegas   NV
5   Turner, Jonathan   $45,237   Henderson   NV
6   Buchman, Eric   $34,747   Hewlett    NY
7   Koral, Thomas   $27,993   Skokie    IL
8   Gelencser, Peter   $23,600   Budapest   Hungary
9   Wang, Steve   $16,517   Newcastle    United Kingdom
10   Kelly, Matthew   $16,517   Fort Worth    TX
11   Rodman, Blair   $13,274   Las Vegas    NV
12   Debus, Frank   $13,274   Hamburg   Germany
13   Scott, Mark   $10,481   Las Vegas    NV
14   Brown, Chad   $10,481   Margate    FL
15   Emerson, Alan   $8,198   Phoenix   AZ
16   Davis, Raymond   $8,198   Bell   CA
17   Brownstein, Peter   $6,434   Scottsdale   AZ
18   Javani, Javid   $6,434   Los Angeles   CA
19   Spivack, Stuart   $6,434   Tucson   AZ
20   Rosario, Shirley   $6,434   Downey   CA
21   Sitar, Dustin   $6,434   Las Vegas   NV
22   Tran, Loi   $6,434   Irvine   CA
23   Smith, Gavin   $6,434   Las Vegas   NV
24   Kassela, Frank   $6,434   Rossville   TN
25   Toft, Robert   $5,197   Yardley   PA
26   Zuo, Xiaowei   $5,197   Cerritos   CA
27   Presby, Colin   $5,197   Wernersvile   PA
28   Sorensen, Jan   $5,197   Odense   Denmark
29   Bac, Dao   $5,197   San Diego   CA
30   Mascio, Gregory   $5,197   Fullerton   CA
31   Saab, Douglas   $5,197   Birmingham   AL
32   Chau, Giang   $5,197   Las Vegas   NV
33   Tenner, Mark   $4,393   Henderson   NV
34   Isra, Roland   $4,393   Forest Hill   NY
35   Taylor, Esther   $4,393   Las Vegas   NV
36   Vuong, Alexandra   $4,393   Rancho Palos Verdes   CA
37   Hohn, Steven   $4,393   Overland Park   KS
38   Thomas, Darin   $4,393   Carlsbad   CA
39   Kline, Carol   $4,393   Las Vegas   NV
40   Corkins, Hoyt   $4,393   Las Vegas   NV

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He has a lovely look, somewhere between mischief, & the cat that stole the cream.

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Official Report 

Event #25

Omaha High-Low Split / Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split

Buy-In:  $2,500

Number of Entries:  376

Total Net Prize Pool:  $864,800

Number of Places Paid:  40

First Place Prize:  $220,538

June 11-13, 2009

 

 

Tournament Highlights:

 

Event Headlines –

 

1.  Phil Ivey Wins Seventh WSOP Gold Bracelet

 

2.  Ivey Joins Billy Baxter in Tie for Sixth on All-Time WSOP Wins List

 

3.  Ivey Becomes Second Player this Year to Win Multiple Gold Bracelets – Joining Brock Parker

 

4.  2009 WSOP “Player of the Year” Race Now Wide Open – as Ville Wahlbeck, Brock Parker, and Phil Ivey Battle for Honors

 

 

The Winner --

 

·        The 2009 World Series of Poker $2,500 buy-in Omaha High-Low Split / Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split champion is Phil Ivey, from Las Vegas, NV.

 

·        Ivey collected $220,538 for first place.  He was also awarded his seventh WSOP gold bracelet.

 

·        With this victory, Ivey joins Billy Baxter with seven WSOP titles, which ranks sixth on the all-time wins list.  Remaining ahead of Ivey are Phil Hellmuth (11 wins), Doyle Brunson (10 wins), Johnny Moss (10 wins), Johnny Moss (9 wins), and Erik Seidel (8 wins).

 

·        According to the official records, Ivey now has 7 wins, 19 final table appearances, and 33 in-the-money finishes at the WSOP.

 

·        Ivey currently has $3,439,386 in WSOP winnings. 

 

·        Ivey won three of his WSOP gold bracelets at the 2002 WSOP. 

 

·        Ivey has never won a WSOP gold bracelet in Hold’em.

 
 

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Minor pedants point. Newcastle player is Steve Wong, not Steve Wang..if that helps anybody

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Ivey is a scratch golfer. There's a thing.


Previously Posted Biographical Material on Phil Ivey --


· Ivey is one of the world’s best-known and most-respected poker players.  He is one of the rare few players who excels at both tournaments and cash games.

· Ivey is 32-years old. He is married to wife Luciaetta.

· Ivey has become a near mythological figure in the poker world and is unquestionably one of the game’s most enigmatic personalities. Considered by many to be the most publicity-shy poker star in the world, he rarely gives out interviews or reveals much about his private life. Yet the further Ivey runs away from the spotlight, the more it seems to shine upon him.  Ivey’s numerous wagering exploits – many unfathomable to the average person -- have become part of the popular modern folklore, making it difficult at time to separate fact from fiction.

· Ivey routinely makes stratospheric-sized prop and sports bets.  He reportedly bet $1 million on last year’s Super Bowl.  He won.

· Ivey was born in California, and moved to New Jersey at a very young age.  He began playing Seven-Card Stud daily in Atlantic City casinos.  By the time Ivey was in his early 20s, he was already acknowledged as one of the East Coast’s best cash game players.  At the time, opponents used the words “prodigy” and “savant” to describe Ivey.

· Ivey’s “poker office” was the Trump Taj Mahal until the age of 24, when he moved to Las Vegas.  He then started playing tournament poker and gradually attained superstar status.  In his first-ever WSOP gold bracelet victory in 2000 and perhaps emblematic of poker’s generational and cultural shift, Ivey defeated legend “Amarillo Slim” Preston in heads-up play.  That marked Ivey’s first-ever final table appearance, and Slim’s last.

· In a previous post-tournament interview after winning WSOP gold bracelet number five (2005), Ivey stated: “I think I can win thirty (gold bracelets).  Tournaments are much tougher to win now because the fields are (so big).  I don’t play as many tournaments for that reason, but I still think I can get to 30.”

· To get to 30 gold bracelets, based on the average life expectancy of a healthy American male aged 32-years old (according to actuarial tables), he would have to win a WSOP event about once every 1.5 years.

· Ivey insists that he does not want to be famous.  He has no desire to be a celebrity.  Ivey has told those who know him best that what he enjoys most is competing and winning.  He is driven by a fierce obsession to win and succeed in everything he does.  Ivey’s other pursuits include golf.  He started out playing only a few years ago and is reportedly close to be a scratch golfer.

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Minor pedants point. Newcastle player is Steve Wong, not Steve Wang..if that helps anybody

Thanks Rich, I reproduced the official Release. But I'm none the wiser, be it Wong, Wang or Wung, I still don't know of him.

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Winner Quotes (Phil Ivey) --

 

Verbatim interview conducted at 12:20 am with Phil Ivey, about 15 minutes after winning his seventh WSOP gold bracelet:

 

Question:  The first question you were asked last time was, ‘How does it feel to win gold bracelet number six?’  You answered, ‘Well, it’s one closer to number seven.’  Now, you’ve got number seven….

Ivey:  Now, it’s one closer to Erik.

Question:  Erik?

Ivey:  Seidel.

Question:  Is there some personal wager going between you and Erik Seidel?

Ivey:  No, there’s nothing personal between me and him.  It’s nice to catch people.  This is poker history, as you like to say.  And so, to have the chance to catch someone like Erik who is (fifth) in the bracelets, to get into his category would be nice.

Question:  Many people may not understand the culture that you run around in, with all the stars and wagers that go on between you.  Are there rivalries that take place between all of you for bracelets?

Ivey:  Well, before last year I pretty skipped a couple of years at the World Series.  I didn’t play in as many tournaments as I used to because I figured, it’s doesn’t really make much difference, you know.  But then, as I started getting older I started to realize this does matter.  Winning bracelets, it does matter.  Just having the chance to put myself in poker history and I know I have the chance to win and be the all-time bracelet leader if I can continue at this pace.  So, I’m looking forward to the opportunity.

Question:  How cool would it be to get to number 12 before Phil Hellmuth makes it?

Ivey:  That’s a long way away.  That’s a long way from now, so we’ll worry about that when the time comes.

Question:  Last year, I think most poker fans were aware you had side action going on how well you would perform.  But it was not a year up to Phil Ivey standards.  By contrast, this is turning into a pretty good Series for you.  Did you do anything different this year, either preparation wise or mentally?

Ivey:  I think (last year) I really wasn’t into it.  I don’t know, I am just feeling good right now.  I think last year I had a lot of distractions, especially in my personal life.  And there were a lot of things going on outside of poker.  I wasn’t able to focus as well.  Also, I think I am a better tournament player now than I was a year ago.

Question:  How can you say that?

Ivey:  I think I am a little more patient.  I take my time.  I’m trying in every pot.  I’m trying to stay focused and recognize that every pot does matter.  I think (before) I was making major mistakes than ended up costing me the tournament.  It would cost me chips in a tournament.  This year I am not making as many mistakes.

Question:  In both of your wins this year, you were in third place at one point-during three-handed play.  Many players might have given up in those spots.  How were you able to overcome those kinds of disadvantages? 

Ivey:  Really, when you get down to the end and the blinds and antes are so high, most of the hands play themselves.  I was fortunate in a couple of spots where I made full houses and got paid off because (Lee) had a flush or a straight.  That’s just the way poker goes. 

Question:  There are still 32 more events to go at this year’s WSOP.  What’s the Over/Under on your next victory.

Ivey:  Tomorrow.

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Just noticed Dutch Boyd cashed - there's a notorious blast from the past. He has some history, that boy.


The Final Table --

 

·        The final table contained three former WSOP gold bracelet winners – Phil Ivey (6 wins at start), Carlos Mortensen (2 wins), and Russ “Dutch” Boyd (1 win).

 

·        The runner up was Ming Lee, from Natick, MA.  Lee has been an avid gamesman and poker player for twenty years.  This was his second WSOP final table appearance.

 

·        The third-place finisher was Juan Carlos Mortensen, from Las Vegas, NV (and Madrid, Spain).  “The Matador” held the chip lead when play was three-handed, but went card dead late.  For Mortensen, the 2001 WSOP Main Event champion, this was his best WSOP finish in three years.

 

·        The fourth-place finisher was Dutch Boyd, from Columbia, MO.  Boyd won the Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em title in 2006, when he defeated Joe Hachem in heads-up play.



·        The fifth-place finisher was Jon Turner, from Henderson, NV.  He now has eight WSOP cashes, this being highest finish to date.

 

·        The sixth-place finisher was Eric Buchman, from Hewlett, NY.  Buchman was the runner up in the $1,500 Limit Hold’em tournament at the 2006 WSOP.

 

·        The seventh-place finisher was Thomas Koral, from Skokie, IL.   This was Koral’s second final table appearance this year.  He finished seventh in the $10,000 Omaha High-Low Split world championship.

 

·        The eighth-place finisher was Peter Gelencser, from Budapest, Hungary.  He previously won the 2008 European Poker Challenge.  This is believed to be the highest WSOP finish ever by a Hungarian player.

 

·        The ninth-place finisher was Steve Wang, from Newcastle, UK. 

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Note that this Event is designed for High-Low specialists......


Odds and Ends --

 

·        Attendance for this tournament has held steady for three consecutive years.  In 2007, there were 327 entries.  In 2008, a record turnout of 388 players participated.  In 2009, the number of entries was slightly lower, at 376.

 

·        This event has only been a part of the WSOP schedule since 2007.  The event is designed for High-Low specialists.  There are Mixed Games events and HORSE tournaments which include these two games, but this is the only High-Low Split game combination on the WSOP menu.

  

·        The tournament was played over three consecutive days.  On Day Three, the final table was dealt out on ESPN’s secondary table.  

 

·        This final table generated the biggest crowd of spectators yet, even more than the Champions Invitational played the first week of this year’s Series.  The finale was played on the more intimate secondary stage, which created an intense experience for both players and spectators.  Fans stood ten deep around the rail following Ivey’s historic victory.  
 

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The Event --

 

·        The $2,500 Omaha High-Low Split / Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split attracted 376 entries.  The total prize pool amounted to $864,800.  The top 40 finishers collected prize money.

 

·        The chip leader after Day One was Can Kim Hua, from Las Vegas, NV.  He did not cash.

 

·        The chip leader at the start of the final table was Jon Turner.  He ended up as the fifth-place finisher.

 

·        Phil Ivey was ranked seventh out of eight in chips at the start of the final table.  He seized the chip lead when play became five-handed.  When Dutch Boyd was eliminated fourth, Ivey had more than half of the total chips in play.  But Ivey went cold for a spell and was actually third in chips to Mortensen and Lee when play was three-handed.  Ivey remained patient and regained the advantage and eventually polished off both of his opponents one by one.

 

·        When play was three-handed, Ming Lee was the relative unknown player in comparison to two bona fide poker superstars, Ivey and Mortensen.  Yet Lee had his own cheering section, made up of BARGE colleagues (a poker group).  In his corner was J.P. Massar, the mastermind of the M.I.T. blackjack teams of the 1990s (he was played by actor Kevin Spacey in the movie “21”).

 

·        The final table lasted about six hours.

 

·        When heads-up play began, Ivey enjoyed nearly a 2 to 1 chip lead over Lee.  Ivey never appeared to be in serious danger of losing his chip lead, although the final duel lasted nearly an hour.

 

·        In both his WSOP victories this year, Ivey was ranked third in chips (at one point) when play was at three-handed.  He came back to win both times.

 

·        The final hand of the tournament came when playing Stud-Eight.  Ivey made trip queens (high) with Q-Q-3-5-8-7-Q (no low).  Lee made a pair of jacks (high) with J-6-7-Q-J-5-K (no low).

 

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What's the Dutch Boyd history you talk of Monsieur Kendall?

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   2009 World Series of Poker         
   End of Day Two Results         
   Event #   26      
   Buy In   $1,500       
   Game   Limit Hold'em      
   Date   12/06/2009      
   Number of Entries   643      
   Net Prize Pool   $877,695       
   First Place Prize   $197,509      
   Total Spots Paid Out   63      
   Players Remaining    15      
            
   Table 150         
   Name   Chip Count   City   State/Country
1   Al " Barbieri   400,000   Philadelphia   PA
2   Demetrios Arvanetes   350,000   Las Vegas   NV
3   Kim Phong Duong   272,000   Port Perry   ON, Canada
4   Rep Porter   196,000   Woodinville   WA
5   Andrew Kerstine   161,000   Orange   CA
6   Jason Tam   144,000   Markham   ON, Canada
7   Dominik Kulicki   131,000   Amsterdam   Netherlands
8   John Varner   110,000   Beauercreek   OH
            
   Table 151         
   Name   Chip Count   City   State/Country
1   Tomas Alenius   322,000   Stockholm    Sweden
2   Ken Dickenson   230,000   Cypress   TX
3   Glenn Engelbert   173,000   Gloucester Township   NJ
4   Richard Brodie   152,000   Kirkland   WA
5   Mike Schiffman   110,000   Henderson   NV
6   Yan Li   85,000   Las Vegas   NV
7   Cole Miller   67,000   Auburn   CA
            
   In the Money Finishers         
   Name   Prize   City   State/Country
1      $197,509      
2      $121,999      
3      $80,072      
4      $55,575      
5      $40,681      
6      $31,324      
7      $25,312      
8      $21,415      
9      $18,931      
10      $13,542      
11      $13,542      
12      $13,542      
13      $10,075      
14      $10,075      
15      $10,075      
16   Burner, Dale   $7,706   Los Angeles   CA
17   Corning, Douglas   $7,706   Portland   OR
18   Yu, Benjamin   $7,706   Henderson   NV
19   Argyros, Vasilios   $5,994   Melbourne   Australia
20   Seber, Billy   $5,994   Houston   TX
21   Lopez, Jacinto   $5,994   Grand Prairie   TX
22   Keikoan, Matthew   $5,994   San Rafael   CA
23   Horrocks, John   $5,994   Henderson   NV
24   Burkart, Alexander   $5,994   Heilbronn   Germany
25   Tom, Philip   $5,994   Las Vegas   NV
26   Boeken, Noah   $5,994   Amsterdam   NL
27   Rood, David   $5,994   Brantford    ON, Canada
28   Morgan, Douglas   $4,871   Martinez   CA
29   Levine, Joshua   $4,871   Portland   OR
30   Bonomo, Justin   $4,871   Las Vegas   NV
31   Darden, Paul   $4,871   Las Vegas   NV
32   Eichel, William   $4,871   Parker   SD
33   Buckley, James   $4,871   Los Angeles   CA
34   Tam, David   $4,871   San Diego   CA
35   Chen, William   $4,871   Lafayette Hill   PA
36   Yek, Kuong   $4,871   Woodbury   MN
37   Harris, Nicole   $4,046   Oceanside   CA
38   Cowley, Steven   $4,046   Midlothian   VA
39   Smith, Jason   $4,046   Chandler   AZ
40   Von Halle, Jan   $4,046   Hamburg   Germany
41   Bromberg, Corey   $4,046   Tarzana   CA
42   Cicconi, Guy   $4,046   Las Vegas   NV
43   Hart, Daniel   $4,046   Las Vegas   NV
44   Defusco, Mark   $4,046   Mesa   AZ
45   Manfrede, Karen   $4,046   St Louis   MO
46   Meek, James   $3,405   Mississauga   ON, Canada
47   Blanco, Cristiano   $3,405   Roma   Italy
48   Chi, Qi   $3,405   Las Vegas   NV
49   Ramdin, Annand "Victor"   $3,405   Bronx   NY
50   Reed, Michael   $3,405   Export   PA
51   Clemento, Jack   $3,405   Philadelphia   PA
52   Devonshire, Bryan   $3,405   Henderson   NV
53   Greenstein, Barry   $3,405   Rncho Pls Vrd   CA
54   Ebenhoeh, Timothy   $3,405   Chesaning   MI
55   Damany, Paul   $2,896   Beckenham   United Kingdom
56   Drucker, Linda   $2,896   Las Vegas   NV
57   Cordone, Joseph   $2,896   Las Vegas   NV
58   Ellis, Michael   $2,896   Culford Gardens   London
59   Harroch, Richard   $2,896   San Francisco   CA
60   Thomas, Larry   $2,896   San Leandro   CA
61   Price, Craig   $2,896   Phoenix   AZ
62   Dunning, Jerry   $2,896   Sarasota   FL
63   Shamseddin, Soheil   $2,896   Houston   TX