Around the Empire
by Court on 09.27.09, 1:00 pm
The 150 / 300 level of play at the WSOPE is complete, but players will come back for another 90 minutes of similar blinds with a 25 ante tacked on to up the pot sizes. After that level is complete the players will then be off to take a 90 minute dinner break before returning to play out the final two levels of day 1 play.
Once the night is complete the full field will be combined tomorrow, but with a later start time for those interested in observing Yom Kippur. The 5:30pm start time should work for most everyone and with only 4 levels of play scheduled and no dinner break play will still finish up about the same time as the other days.
For the players still in the action today thinking ahead to tomorrow is not their focus. Three more levels of play with the blinds steadily increasing are top priority, and for now here is a look at some of the chip counts from around the casino with Shaun Deeb picking up another pot to add to his stack near the end of the level. After Deeb opened Noah Boeken raised to 2050 and Shaun called. The flop came Q
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and both players checked to the 6 turn where Deeb led out for 2,650 and was called. On the A river Deeb led for 4,450 and Noah again called. Shaun turned up his A3 and Boeken mucked his hand.
Chip Counts:
Shaun Deeb - 65k
Nick “fu_15″ Maimone - 55k
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 48k
Justin “Boosted J” Smith - 44k
Eric “P3eachy_keen” Liu - 39k
James “Andy McLeod” Obst - 36k
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi - 35k
Matt “All In At 420″ Stout - 35k
Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger - 35k
Yevgeniy “Atimos” Timoshenko - 34k
Steven “TheZadester” Levy - 34k
Michael “Martine23″ Martin - 30k
Christian “ckruel” Kruel - 28k
Shawn “jordankickz” Busse - 16k
Mike “Timex” McDonald - 14k
The shortstacked McDonald was all in with AK, but was up against another player with AK and the pot was split. Alexandre “Allingomes” Gomes looks to have been eliminated from the tourney and though we can see that Mohsin “ChicagoCards1″ Charania, Barry Greenstein and Annette Obrestad are all still in over at the feature table there is no way to get close enough for chip counts.
