Players have bagged their chips up for the night and Day 1D of the 2009 World Series of Poker is now complete. A record field of 2,809 filled the Rio and around 500 players were turned away as registration closed this morning. Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet told us that he received one af the last [...]

The eliminations are becoming frequent as we approach the end of the day. Several P5ers have hit the rail as the blinds and antes have increased to 200/400/50 here in Level 5. Scott “BigRiskky” Clements, Alex “EC10″ Venovsky, Ben “Shankingyou” Palmer, Scott “emptyseat88″ Fischman, Brent “Astrolux85″ Roberts and two-time bracelet winner Brock t_soprano” Parker are [...]

Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy (pictured at left) has trended up the entire day. Josephy hit six figures after dinner break after flopping trips against an opponent’s two pair. Cliff’s opponent check-called 1K on the T66 flop and led for 3.2K when the J fell on the turn. Bax raised to 8K and his opponent called. The [...]

Before dinner break the official prize pool and payouts were announced by Jack Effel at the secondary feature table. Each member of the 2009 “November Nine” will receive a minimum of $1,263,602 and the winner will not only receive the most coveted bracelet of them all, they will also bank $8,546,435. Of the 6,494 players, [...]

We caught three bustouts over in the Brasilia and Miranda Rooms just before the players left for their 90-minute dinner break.
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby was facing a raise of 1,025 on the button from the player in the cutoff. Hamby re-raised to 3.5K and after a short time the cutoff made it 9.5K. Hamby moved in [...]