One More Time! The Final $1.5K Event
by Rachel on 06.29.09, 3:05 pm
The final $1.5K No-Limit Hold’em event of the 2009 World Series of Poker begins today. We’re expecting another sellout field here at the Rio and therefore a whole lot of PocketFivers hitting the felt.
Matt “mattster24″ Sterling (pictured at left), fresh off his final table finish in the $1.5K limit hold’em tournament, is expected to play today as is Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka, Craig “craigthedeac” Boyd and Michael “gags30″ Gagliano.
There are 2,824 players registered for the event and tournament officials have said there will not be any more seats made available.
We’ll bring all the photos and updates we can beginning when the action does at noon here in Las Vegas.
The 149 players remaining in the $3K NLHE Triple Chance event will return at 2 p.m. Blake “Balla-B13″ Cahail leads all PocketFivers with 120.8K at the end of day one, which is good enough for a tie for fifth place on the overall leader board.
Here is a list of the other P5ers expected back today:
Isaac “Mr. Menlo” Baron - 114K
Jonathan “apestyles” Van Fleet - 101.1K
Anthony “holdplz” Spinella - 106.7K
Shane “Shaniac” Schleger - 100.7K
Peter “Nordberg” Feldman - 93.1K
Lee “acumen53″ Childs - 91.6K
Eric “Rizen” Lynch - 66.5K
Kevin “ImALucSac” MacPhee - 58.6K
Eric “whitE_mAmbA” Ladny - 56.4K
Jason “JCarver” Somerville - 45.1K
Jason “TheMasterJ30″ Dewitt - 38.2K (pictured at right)
Scott “stpauli111″ Hall - 33.1K
Noah “fouruhaters” Schwartz - 27.3K
Steve “PiKappRaider” Burkholder - 22.7K
Andy “BKiCe” Seth - 17.2K
Thirty players will be back at 1 p.m. to play down to a winner in Event No. 51, another $1.5K NLHE tournament. Owen “ocrowe” Crowe is second in chips with 1,002,500. Josh “SDouble” Schlein will be seated at the same table as Crowe with his 875K while Alex Jacob will begin the day at another table with 274K.
Other events resuming today include the $50K HORSE event, which is down to 19 players including Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis, and day two of the 1.5K Stud Hi-Low tournament. Annie Duke is sixth in chips entering the day with 36.6K. Zak “traction” Gilbert is right behind her with 36.3K.
