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

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The Main Event Continues
 
-- The 2009 WSOP Main Event continued with the second of two flights of the jointly designated “Day Twos.”  Day One was played over the initial four days of the tournament, which began on July 3rd.  Day 2-A and 2-B (Day Two) were played July 7-8.   
 

-- Day 2-A began with 1,478 players.  The day ended with only 607 survivors.  Day 2-B began with 2,922 players.  The day ended with only 1,436 survivors.  This means 2,044 players remain in contention for the 2009 world poker championship.
 

-- This day included the largest number of restarts ever in WSOP history.  Normally, the field is reduced to about half the starting size after one full day of play.  But due to larger starting stacks this year (30,000 in chips) combined with a larger-than-expected turnout for Days 1-C and 1-D, this created a record carryover for Day 2-B.
 

-- This is the 42nd day of the WSOP.  Play continues for seven more days, plus the finale to be played in November.
 

-- Tomorrow (Thursday) is an off day.  This is the first day of the WSOP with no official tournaments, other than the Media Invitational.  A media press conference is also scheduled for 11 am at the Rio.
 

-- Any player dealt four jacks in this year’s Main Event receives a special prize from Jack Link’s Beef Jerky valued at $100.  So far, 27 packages have been given away (through six completed days).
 

-- Play on Day 2-B began on July 8, 2009 at 12:15 pm.
 
 

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Play on Day 2-B
 
-- Defending champion Peter Eastgate remains very much alive in the 2009 Main Event.  He was down to just 8,000 in chips late in the day but went on a fortuitous rush during the final hour of Day 2 and ended up with about an average-sized stack entering Day 3.
 

-- Former world champions who continued play on Day 2-B included – Bobby "the Owl" Baldwin (1978), Phil Hellmuth (1989), Dan Harrington (1995), Scotty Nguyen (1998), Robert Varkonyi (2002), Joe Hachem (2005), and Peter Eastgate (2008).
 

-- Notable celebrities who continued play on Day 2-B included – Lou Diamond Phillips, Robert Iler, Sam Simon, and Marlon Wayans.
 

-- Phil Hellmuth was placed at ESPN’s feature table.
 

-- Players competed for four complete levels.  Play ended after Level 9.  When play resumes at Level 10, blinds will be 600-1,200 with a 200 ante.  The average stack size is about 105,000.
 

-- Day 2-B started with a field of 2,922 players and ended with 1,436 survivors.  This means only 49 percent of starters survived past the second day.
 

-- Players who survived Day 2-B will return to continue their quest for the 2009 world poker championship gold bracelet and $8.5 million in prize money on July 10th, starting at noon.  They will merge into one combined field with the survivors of Day 2-A (played on the previous day).  Day 3 will be the first time this year all players play in the same day.
 

-- Play on Day Two ended at 10:40 pm.  This is expected to be the last "short day" of the Main Event.  Most remaining days are predicted to go at least five levels.
 

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Day 2-B Chip Leaders (More about Amir Lehavot) –
 
-- The overall chip leader is Amir Lehavot.  He is a 38-year-old poker pro who lives in Weston, Florida -- near Ft. Lauderdale.  Lehavot was born in Israel.  He arrived in the U.S. at the age of 16.  Prior to playing poker for a living, Lehavot worked as an engineer, specializing in design.
 
Although all players started the tournament with 30,000 in chips, during his low point on Day 1-D, Lehavot was down to 7,000 in chips.  He crawled back up the leaderboard and ended the day with 80,000 in chips.  On Day 2-B, Lehavot took his initial stack of 80,000 and ran it up to 610,500.  He is currently ranked first out of the 2,044 remaining players.
 
This marks Lehavot’s third consecutive year to play in the Main Event.  He has yet to cash in a WSOP tournament.  However, he did go deep last year (without cashing).
 
Lehavot recently started a poker website (with strategy content) which can be found at:  www.pokerwit.com.  The site contains Lehavot’s comments about key hands he played at various times during the WSOP.
 
Lehavot’s poker nickname is “AmirSF.”  Prior to moving to Florida, Lehavot lived in San Francisco, CA.

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QUOTES:
 
"During Day One, I was at 7,000 (in chips).  So, it really feels nice to come back.  I even had to make a suck out on Day One.  So, it feels nice."
 
"I had some really nice hands most of the day, and (30 minutes before Day 2 ended), I had a huge hand.  I got another 250,000 in chips.  I had just moved to this table and had just sat down.  There was this other big stack that had 250,000.  I had pocket threes and flopped a set.  Most of my chips came from that one pot."
 
"Last year (I played at the WSOP), I got up to 200,000.  But I got too aggresive and lost it."
 
"It feels great.  But I have played in a lot of tournaments and I know.  There is a long way to go and it does not necessarily mean that much (to be chip leader) at this point.  It's nice, but there is still a long way to go."
 
"If I cash, it is really not lk\ife-changing for me.  I am looking to go deep."
 

-- The highest-ranked former WSOP gold bracelet winner from Day 2 is Phil Ivey, from Las Vegas, NV.  Ivey is now in the top 20, with 346,200 in chips.

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Combined Notes –
 
-- Here is the current status of all former WSOP Main Event champions who played in this year’s championship:
 
1972:   “Amarillo Slim” Preston – eliminated on Day 2
1975/1976: Doyle Brunson – eliminated on Day 1
1978:  Bobby Baldwin – STILL ALIVE (below average stack)
1983:  Tom McEvoy – eliminated on Day 1
1986:  Berry Johnston – eliminated on Day 2
1987/1988: Johnny Chan – eliminated on Day 2
1989:  Phil Hellmuth – STILL ALIVE (average stack)
1993:  Jim Bechtel – STILL ALIVE (below average stack)
1995:  Dan Harrington – STILL ALIVE (above average stack)
1996:  Huck Seed – eliminated on Day 1
1998:  Scotty Nguyen – eliminated on Day 2
2000:  Chris “Jesus” Ferguson – STILL ALIVE (average stack)
2001:  Carlos “the Matador” Mortensen – STILL ALIVE (below average stack)
2002:  Robert Varkonyi – eliminated on Day 2
2003:  Chris Moneymaker – eliminated on Day 1
2004:  Greg “Fossilman” Raymer – STILL ALIVE (average stack)
2005:  Joe Hachem – STILL ALIVE (average stack)
2006:  Jamie Gold – eliminated in Day 1
2007:  Jerry Yang – eliminated on Day 1
2008:  Peter Eastgate – STILL ALIVE (average stack)

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- Here is the current status of all former WSOP “Player of the Year” champions who played in this year’s championship:
 
2005:  Daniel Negreanu – eliminated on Day 1
2006:  Allen Cunningham – eliminated on Day 2
2007:  Tom Schneider – STILL ALIVE (average stack)
2008:   Erick Lindgren – eliminated on Day 2
 

-- Here is the current status of those players with notable results from this year’s WSOP:
 
David Bach (winner of HORSE World Championship) – eliminated on Day 2
Alex Bolotin (winner of “Ante-Up for Africa” championship) – STILL ALIVE (below average stack)
Darryll Fish (cashed 7 times at this year’s WSOP) – eliminated on Day 2
Jeffrey Lisandro (won three gold bracelets this year) – STILL ALIVE (above average stack)
Ville Wahlbeck (finished 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 6th in four events) – STILL ALIVE (below average stack)
Vitaly Lunkin (finished 1st, 2nd, and 4th in three events) – STILL ALIVE (above average stack)
Greg Mueller (won two gold bracelets this year) – STILL ALIVE (above average stack -- in top 100)
Phil Ivey (won two gold bracelets this year) – STILL ALIVE (above average stack -- in top 100)
 

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-- Here is the current status of notable non-pro celebrities from this year’s Main Event:
 
Jason Alexander (actor) – STILL ALIVE (below average stack)
Shane Warne (world famous cricket player) – STILL ALIVE (above average stack)
Torrie Wilson (female wrestler) – eliminated on Day 1
John Salley (former NBA basketball player) – eliminated on Day 1
Patrick Bruel (French actor and singer) – STILL ALIVE (below average stack)
Lou Diamond Phillips (actor and singer) – STILL ALIVE (above average stack)
Marlon Wayans (actor) – eliminated on Day 2
Jordan Farmar (NBA basketball player) – STILL ALIVE (above average stack)
Sam Simon (Hollywood writer and producer) – STILL ALIVE (below average stack)
Joseph Kahn (music video producer) – eliminated on Day 1
Ray Romano (actor) – eliminated on Day 1
Sully Erna (musician) – eliminated on Day 1
Shannon Elizabeth (actor) – eliminated on Day 1
Brad Garrett (actor) -- eliminated on Day 1

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-- Here is the current status of last year’s “November Nine” (the 2009 Main Event Final Table participants):
 
Ivan Demidov – eliminated on Day 2
Peter Eastgate – STILL ALIVE (average stack)
Kelly Kim – STILL ALIVE (below average stack)
Craig Marquis – eliminated in Day 1
Scott Montgomery – eliminated on Day 2
Dennis Phillips – STILL ALIVE (average stack)
David “Chino” Rheem – eliminated on Day 1
Ylon Schwartz – eliminated on Day 2
Darus Suharto – STILL ALIVE (average stack)
 

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 Daily elimination percentages are as follows:
 
DAY ONE:  68 percent of the original starters in this tournament survived the first day / 32 percent were eliminated.
DAY TWO:  31 percent of the original starters survived the second day / 27 percent more were eliminated.
DAY THREE:  TBA
 

-- The Top-12 overall chip leaders going into Day 3 are:
 
1.  Amir Lehavot  USA   610,500
2.  Peter DeBaene  USA   465,000
3.  Tropy Weber  USA   453,200
4.  Dan Bizzerian  USA   439,500
5.  Gabe Walls  USA   417,900
6.  Mikael Thuritz  USA   395,400
7.  Andrew Gaw  Philippines  386,000
8.  Eric Cloutier  Quebec  383,000
9.  Jason Brice  USA   376,100
10.Ed Perry   USA   370,000
11.Brandon Demes  USA   369,800
12. Miika Puumalanien Finland  361,200

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Putting Day Two into Perspective
 
-- In 2008, at the conclusion of Day 2, the eventual champion Peter Eastgate was ranked in 484th place.
 

-- In 2007, at the conclusion of Day 2, the eventual champion Jerry Yang was ranked in 26th place.
 

-- In 2006, at the conclusion of Day 2, the eventual champion Jamie Gold was ranked in 155th place.
 

-- Based on WSOP figures during the mega-era (2006 to present), five out of six Day Two chip leaders have cashed.  The previous results are as follows:
 
2008 2-A – Brian Schaedlich finished in 456th place
2008 2-B – Peter Biebel finished in 273rd place
 
2007 2-A – Jeff Banghart finished in 41st place
2007 2-B – Gus Hansen finished in 61st place
 
2006 2-A – Yuriy Kozinskiy did not cash
2006 2-B – Dmitri Nobles finished in 76th place

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World Series of Poker Statistics
 
-- The 2009 WSOP Main Event now ranks as the third-largest live poker tournament in history.  Only the 2006 and 2008 Main Event championships drew larger numbers.  It should be noted that if the Rio had greater seating capacity (Day 1-D sold out), this year's tournament would have unquestionably surpassed last year's attendance figures.
 

-- The total prize pool for this year's Main Event totals $61,043,600.  However, this figure is not final.  Since interest is added to payouts for players who will constitute the November Nine, the final figure will actually be slightly higher.
 

-- The number of female participants in this year's Main Event is estimated to be 187, which amounts to 2.8 percent of the field.  There is no official record since entrants are not designated by sex.  However, it has been customary in recent years to count every player at the start of Day One (actually all flights A-D) and take a head count of female players.  Oddly enough, despite the low percentage of female players, there were three different tables with three females in the tournament.
 

-- All players who make it to the final table this year (the November Nine) will earn at least $1 million.  The 2009 world champion will collect $8,546,435 for first place (plus slightly more money in added interest).
 

-- With registration for this year’s Main Event, the World Series of Poker crossed the $1,000,000,000 threshold in total prize money awarded to players.  During its 40-year history, the WSOP has paid out $1,041,265,271.  Incredibly, more than $600,000,000 has been paid out just in the last five years alone, since Harrah’s Entertainment assumed control of the tournament.  Here is the historical prize pool information for the World Series of Poker.
 
2009 -- $174,011,894
2008 -- $180,774,427
2007 -- $159,796,918
2006 -- $159,599,815
1970-2005 -- $354,000,000
 

-- This is the 57th and final event on the 2009 WSOP schedule which is played in Las Vegas.  Four more gold bracelet events will take place later this year in London, England at the Empire Casino, to be held from September 19th through October 1st.   
 

-- Players have come to the WSOP from at least 115 different nations and territories.  By contrast, only 80 nations were represented at the most recent Winter Olympic Games.
 

-- This marks the fifth consecutive year the WSOP has been held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.  Prior to 2005, the WSOP was held at Binion’s Horseshoe in downtown Las Vegas.  More money has been awarded to winners within the Rio during the past five years than during the entire proceeding 35-year period at the Horseshoe.  This is a testament to the expansion of the WSOP since Harrah’s Entertainment assumed ownership and control of the world most prestigious poker event.
 
 

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New Records Set at the 2009 WSOP
 
MOST WSOP SELL OUTS
Ten tournaments reached maximum capacity at this year’s WSOP.  This is the most gold bracelet events ever to sell out within a single year.  A complete “sell out” means every seat at every available table is sold and additional players are/were turned away at registration.  Sell-outs are based on various numbers, which include the total tables and seats available for tournament use.  Events which sold out this year included:  4, 7, 22, 24, 28, 29, 39, 43, 51, and 54.  Note that the Main Event also partially sold out, since Day 1-D reached full capacity – which means 11 events reached the maximum, in part.   
 

MOST MILLION-DOLLAR TOURNAMENTS IN HISTORY
This year’s WSOP had more tournaments with more than $1 million in prize money than any other.  There were 39 events out of 57 which crossed the million-dollar mark.
 

MOST TOURNAMENT ENTRANTS IN A SINGLE YEAR
The 2009 WSOP attracted 60,875 tournament entries overall.  This mark eclipses the previous record set last year which was 58,720.  These figures do not include WSOP-Europe.
 

FIRST NON-MAIN EVENT, NON-MEGA BUY-IN EVENT PRODUCES A $1 MILLION FIRST PRIZE
Every single gold bracelet winner won at least $165,000.  Most winners won in excess of $300,000.  However, for the first time ever – the winner of a non-Main Event/non-mega buy-in tournament won more than $1 million.  Matthew Hawrilenko’s victory in the $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament (Event #56) netted him a cash prize totaling $1,003,218.
 

LARGEST NON-WSOP MAIN EVENT TOURNAMENT IN HISTORY – FIFTH-BIGGEST OVERALL
The $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament (Event 4) is the largest non-WSOP Main Event tournament in poker history.  The previous record was set at the 2008 WSOP when the first No-Limit Hold’em competition ($1,500 buy-in Event #2) attracted 3,929 entrants.  The number of players in the $1,000 buy-in “Stimulus Special” – 6,012! – demolished the previous mark and represented a whopping 53 percent increase in attendance over the previous record many initially thought might not be broken for some time!
Note:  LARGEST WSOP EVENTS IN HISTORY:  Here is a ranking of the six largest live poker tournaments in history:
 
8,773 players -- 2006 WSOP Main Event
6,844 players -- 2008 WSOP Main Event
6,358 players -- 2007 WSOP Main Event
6,494 players – 2009 WSOP Main Event
6,012 players -- 2009 WSOP Event 4
 

YOUNGEST FINAL TABLE IN HISTORY
The $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout (Event 41) was the youngest final table composition in WSOP history, with player ages ranging from 21 (youngest) to 24 (oldest).
 

SECOND-LONGEST FINAL TABLE IN POKER HISTORY
The $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. World Championship (Event 49) was the second-longest finale in poker history – both by time and number of hands:
Longest WSOP Final Tables (Time Duration)
19 hours/9 minutes -- 2008 WSOP-Europe Championship
18 hours/44 minutes – 2009 H.O.R.S.E. Championship
16 hours (estimated) -- 2005 $1,500 Razz Championship
14 hours/30 minutes – 2005 WSOP Main Event
14 hours – 2006 H.O.R.S.E. Championship
 
Longest WSOP Final Tables (Number of Hands)
484 – 2008 WSOP-Europe Championship
480 – 2009 H.O.R.S.E. Championship
354 – 2006 H.O.R.S.E. Championship
341 – 2007 H.O.R.S.E. Championship
314 – 2008 H.O.R.S.E. Championship
 
(Note:  Number of hands was not recorded for WSOP events prior to 2003)
 

FIRST-EVER BINION’S CUP ATTRACTS MOST FORMER WORLD CHAMPIONS EVER TO PLAY IN ONE EVENT
The winner of the inaugural “Binion’s Cup Champions Invitational was designated “The Champion of Champions.”  The honors belongs to Atom McEvoy, the winner.  It was the largest collection of WSOP current and former world champions ever in history.  There were 19 former champions entered in last year’s Main Event, but this tournament had twenty.
 

LARGEST SEVEN-CARD STUD HIGH-LOW SPLIT PRIZE IN HISTORY
Event 37 was the richest Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split prize pool in poker history at $1,541,600.  It eclipsed last year’s previous record by more than $300,000.  This was only the second million-dollar prize pool ever for any Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split tournament.
 

LARGEST SENIORS POKER EVENT IN HISTORY
The Seniors Championship was the largest such event in poker history.  The turnout of 2,707 this year shattered last year's record of 2,218 (then, a record high).  The 2009 figure represents a 22 percent increase over 2008.  Records were also smashed for largest prize pool and biggest cash prize ever paid in a seniors’ poker event.
 

LARGEST OMAHA-HIGH LOW SPLIT TOURNAMENT IN HISTORY
This was the largest live Omaha High-Low Split tournament in history.  The previous record was set at the 2008 WSOP when the same event attracted 833 players.  The number of entrants this year – 918 – smashed the previous mark and represented a nine percent increase in attendance over the same tournament held last year.
 

LARGEST 2-7 LOWBALL TOURNAMENT IN HISTORY
Last year's event attracted 238 entries. Entries increased by 8 percent to 258 players in 2009.  Event 55 was the largest Limit Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw Lowball tournament in poker history.
 

LARGEST POT-LIMIT OMAHA TOURNAMENT IN HISTORY
The $1,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha event (Event 5) attracted 809 entrants.  This is the largest live Pot-Limit Omaha tournament in poker history.
 

LARGEST LIVE SIX-HANDED POKER TOURNAMENT IN HISTORY
Event #9 was the largest live Six-Handed tournament in history – with 1,459 players.
 

MOST CASHES IN WSOP HISTORY
Phil Hellmuth added to his status as the all-time leader in WSOP cashes, now with 74 career in-the-money finishes.
 

MOST CONSECUTIVE YEARS TO CASH AT WSOP
Berry Johnston’s in-the-money finish in a gold bracelet tournament this year gives the 1986 World Champion cashes for 27 Straight WSOP Years -- the most in history.
 

MOST GOLD BRACELET WINS IN A SINGLE YEAR
Jeffrey Lisandro tied the mark for most wins in a single year, with three.  He is the fifth player to accomplish this feat.
 

FIRST HUNGARIAN WSOP WINNER IN HISTORY
Peter Traply became the first Hungarian WSOP champion in history.  The best previous finish by a Hungarian player was Richard Toth, who finished second in 2006.
 

IVEY MOVES INTO TIE FOR SIXTH-PLACE IN WSOP WINS
With his two victories this year, Phil Ivey joins Billy Baxter with seven WSOP titles, which ranks sixth on the all-time wins list.  Still 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).
 
 

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Good Morning.

Go the blondes! And Will Brewin.

And Henryk, proper Old School Gent. Raplh will know him.

Day 2a, by Chip Count.

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   2009 World Series of Poker                  
   Tuesday, July 7 2009                  
   Day 2A Results                  
   Event #57   2A Results (1A and 1B restarts)               
   Buy-In   $10,000                
   Game   World Championship No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT               
   # of Players Remaining   607 (Day 2A Only)               
   Total # of Players Left   3,530               
   Total Main Event Entries   6,494               
   Net Prize Pool   $61,043,600                
   First Place Prize   $8,546,435               
   Total Spots Paid Out   648               
                     
   Chip Count                  
   Last Name, First Name   City   State/Country   Chip Count   Table   Seat   
1   Gaw, Andrew      Philippines   386,800   BR231   2   
2   Cloutier, Eric   Quebec   ON,Canada   383,500   B15   2   
3   Perry, Ed   Beechwood   OH   370,000   BR180   4   
4   Demes, Brandon   Tempe   AZ   369,800   B23   2   
5   Puumalainen, Miika   Kuopio   Finland   361,200   B13   8   
6   Brown, Jamie   London   United Kingdom   360,400   BR162   8   
7   Wong, Jerry   Plattsburgh   NY   348,100   G150   3   
8   Rahman, Samer      Sweden   334,700   BR220   6   
9   Hansen, Brian   Norman   OK   333,500   BR239   6   
10   Wilson, Kyle   Vancouver   BC, Canada   306,000   BR158   8   
11   Barabino, Rick   New York   NY   301,100   B31   4   
12   Mueller, Greg   Vancouver   BC, Canada   287,300   BR219   6   
13   Kremenliev, Peter   Las Vegas   NV   281,800   BR236   6   
14   Schaffel, Kevin   Coral Springs   FL   279,600   BR212   6   
15   Bisutti, Mike   Los Angeles      274,000   B4   6   
16   Brooks, Mike   Greensboro   NC   273,400   BR163   4   

I currently live in Greensboro, NC but I'm from Worthing, U.K.

I guess I should have registered with my passport rather than my NC driving licence!

-Mike Brooks

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Good luck Mr Brooks

[AlexMartin]

Gl Kevin Allen, James Keys and Jamie Brown. Pretty sure Jamie Browns gonna go v deep in this, given he sold his soul to the devil to buy crazy poker powers.