Massive $1.5K Field Fills Rio
by Brett on 06.11.09, 4:50 pm
The number of participants has reached 2,500 players in today’s $1.5K NLHE event. We noticed some interesting table draws while scoping out the Amazon Room during the first level. Bracelet winner Rami “arbianight” Boukai (pictured left), Tony “Bond18″ Dunst and Bryan Micon are seated together right near the room’s entrance. Scott “gunning4you” Seiver and Jordan Morgan are at the same table with Tiffany Michelle. Jon Wein, switching it up and wearing a hoodie today, pointed out that Thayer Rasmussen is seated to his left.
Justin “lockdownpokah” Allen made an early exit when his pocket kings couldn’t hold up against an opponent’s pocket jacks after all of the chips went in prelop. Nick “fu_15″ Maimone has also been knocked out.
Josh “pbdrunks” VanDuyn, Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul, Court Harrington and Jon “sketchy1″ Eaton all took hits early on. Van Duyn had pocket queens but was able to get away rather cheaply when an ace fell on the flop. He folded on the turn and his opponent showed a set of aces.
WSOP 2009 Event #22: $1.5K NLHE Shootout
The $1.5K NLHE Shootout gets underway in a few moments. Here are the players we’ll be covering today:
Table 58
David “Bakes” Baker
Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers
Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman (pictured right)
Table 59
Mike “shipitthisway” McNeil
Matt “All In At 420″ Stout
Table 60
JC “prtypsux” Alvarado
Tom “titantom32″ Braband
Table 61
Nathan “darkcheck” Tuthill
Table 62
Kyle “dumpingkgb” Brossia
John “JRD312″ Dolan
Table 63
Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks
Table 64
Matt “berkey11″ Berkey
Steve “gboro780″ Gross
Table 67
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby
Jason “JCarver” Somerville
Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki
WSOP 2009 Event #21: $3K HORSE
The $3K HORSE Event kicked off at 1:00 p.m. and three players have already been eliminated. Zac “Zacpacker” Fellows, Stewart “StuMan23″ Yancik and Aaron “ndgrinder59″ Steury are still alive. Steury is working with a short stack.
