WSOP Updates – Event # 38, $ 1500 NLHE – Banducci chip leader on Day 1! |
Posted by texasholdemplayer on July 4, 2009
Incredible 2780 participants took on Saturday at the Event # 38, $ 1500 No Limit Hold 'Em, and each of them, of course, has only one goal – he wants the WSOP in history, and a gold WSOP bracelet to take home. Since the tournament was officially sold out, and all tables were fully occupied, the field of participants was very impressive. Despite the early launch of the $ 50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Tournament, had given the prize for the winner in the amount of $ 673,628 a lot of poker celebrities gathered at the tables: Kenna James, Scott Clements, David Plastik, Even Vanessa, Kathy Liebert, Steve Paul-Ambrose, Jennifer Tilly, Amnon Filippi, Lee Watkinson, Isaac Haxton, Mikael Thuritz, JC Tran, Eugene Todd, Burt Boutin, John Murphy, Joe Sebok, Davidson Matthew, and Michael Binger. Some well-known players were also at the tables in its poker Pavillion find this included: Mary Jones, Joe Hachem, David 'The Dragon' Pham, Rolf Slotboom, Mimi Tran, Jimmy Tran, Ben Kang, and John Gale.
The list of players who had to be eliminated on day was very long and it was on her find some familiar names: Shannon Elizabeth, Filippi, Matthew, Antonio Esfandiari, Mark Seif, Dutch Boyd, Thomas Wahlroos, Amir Vahedi, and Hachem three 'Phils,' Laak, Gordon and Hellmuth.
Despite the large number of participants were at the end of Day 1 only 171 players left, and thus simultaneously ITM-"in the money." The names of Marcel Luske and Tom Schreiber could scratch in the rankings can be found, as well as the names of some well-known online players and some younger newcomers: Michael Banducci, Eric 'Rizen' Lynch, Ryan Daut, Sorel Mizzi and Alex Jacob. The chip leader at the end of Day 1, Michael Banducci with 184,600 chips. The Top 10 at the end of Day 1 was as follows:
Michael Banducci 184.600
Timothy Dolan 184.300
Mitchell Hecht 178.600
Mark Utterbank 160.700
Joe Jaijar 124.400
Jason Kallivokas 120.300
Jeff Kimber 120.200
Marcel Luske 106.800
Thomas Schreiber 105.900
Julian Lefevre 102.000
In addition, the following players up front with it and were good in the race:
Chris Bjorin, Men Nguyen, Kathy Liebert, Anna Wroblewski, Burt Boutin and Chris Ferguson. You should not miss our news Poker Event # 38, $ 1500 No Limit Hold 'Em – Day 2 Live Reporting watch as the tournament at 2:00 pm PDT has started.
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