£10,000 WSOPE Main Event Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker Europe

09-28-2009 18:07 UTC+1

Brunson Jr. Having a Nice Day

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By a curious coincidence, Todd Brunson has drawn the exact same seat today that he occupied on Day 1 -- and so far it seems to be bringing him good luck.

The action folded around to him in the small blind and he raised to 1,700. His opponent Christopher Bebzimra made the call from the big blind, and they saw a flop.

Flop: {10-Hearts}

Brunson bet out, and Bebzimra called. They saw a turn.

Turn: {2-Diamonds}

Brunson now bet out a nice round 5,000 -- and Bebzimra responded by moving all in for 21,500. A call, and they were on their backs.

Bebzimra: {Q-Diamonds}

for an up and down straight draw
Brunson: {K-Spades}

for top two pair

River: a very blank {4-Spades}

Bebzimra took his leave through the throng of various media personnel who had somehow silently materialized around the table while the hand was in progress. Brunson moved on up to around 70,000.

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09-28-2009 17:59 UTC+1

Negreanu Drawing Dead, Probably Loses Minimum

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Daniel Negreanu raised under the gun and got himself called by Tony Cousineau in the big blind. They saw an {A-Clubs}

flop, and Cousineau check-called another 1,000 from Negreanu.

They checked down the {8-Clubs}

turn and

river, at which point Cousineau turned over a surprisingly premium {A-Spades}

.

"Ace king?" said Negreanu, "Hang on." He checked his hole cards. "I needed... a king on the river," he continued, inexplicably. "No, I was drawing dead."

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09-28-2009 17:45 UTC+1

Off We Go

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Virtually all players have found their seats and their chip bags (despite, according to Jack Effel on the mic, certain naughty players not labelling their bags properly), and play is officially underway.

Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75

09-28-2009 17:29 UTC+1

Later Than Usual, But Back Nonetheless

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Greetings, and welcome back to the Empire Casino here at Leicester Square for this rare 5.30pm start. The current plan is to play four 90 minute levels sans dinner break, meaning we'll be looking at a 1am finish.

At time of writing, we're just one minute away from the scheduled start, although few players are in their seats and the ESPN crew are still making last minute adjustments. "Cards will be back in the air within about 10 minutes," announced Jack Effel. "About eight minutes would be my best educated guess."

09-28-2009 14:21 UTC+1

Day 2 Starting Chip Counts and Seat Assignments

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(Table 1)
Seat 1: Alex Wice - 92300
Seat 2: Raul Paez - 23750
Seat 3: Todd Brunson - 46050
Seat 4: Christopher Bebzimra - 24350
Seat 5: Saar Wilf - 22950
Seat 6: Ian Munns - 99475
Seat 7: Ian Frazer - 32750
Seat 8: Chris Elliot - 69125
Seat 9: Jari Aaltonen - 40500

(Table 2)
Seat 1: Daniel Drescher - 20075
Seat 2: Christian Harder - 134125
Seat 3: Willie Jung - 23125
Seat 4: Sami 'LarsLuzak' Kelopuro - 168925
Seat 5: Micheal Wang - 38850
Seat 6: Juha Helppi - 79200
Seat 7: David Williams - 25850
Seat 8: Julian Thew - 11475
Seat 9: Anthony Keogh - 19075

(Table 3)
Seat 1: Alex Keating - 70050
Seat 2: Karl Mahrenholz - 44300
Seat 3: Steve Zolotow - 166825
Seat 4: Sandra Naujoks - 40225
Seat 5: Daniel Smith - 52975
Seat 6: Jens Kyllonen - 84325
Seat 7: Jason Mercier - 189725
Seat 8: Tobias Reinkemeier - 108050
Seat 9: David Docherty - 81350

(Table 4)
Seat 1: Ilari Sahamies - 36050
Seat 2: Robert Campbell - 21850
Seat 3: David Gant - 35675
Seat 4: Matt Stout - 73100
Seat 5: John McNulty - 36750
Seat 6: Farzad Bonyadi - 75150
Seat 7: Henri Kettunen - 32975
Seat 8: Eli Berg - 72875
Seat 9: Oyvind Riisem - 60900

(Table 5)
Seat 1: Ashton Griffin - 74875
Seat 2: Noah Boeken - 87500
Seat 3: Nicholas Schulmann - 31000
Seat 4: Steven Fung - 118000
Seat 5: Tapani Unga - 21925
Seat 6: Robert Willis - 28250
Seat 7: Ram Vaswarni - 113625
Seat 8: Christer Bjorin - 73350
Seat 9: Josh Gould - 19275

(Table 6)
Seat 1: Andrew Lichtenberger - 89500
Seat 2: J Keys - 64200
Seat 3: Ray Dehkharghani - 31000
Seat 4: Thiago Nishijima - 12675
Seat 5: Jason Lavalee - 39475
Seat 6: Teddy Sheringham - 33350
Seat 7: Eric Liu - 37800
Seat 8: Richard Herbert - 61325
Seat 9: Michael Tureniec - 54625

(Table 7)
Seat 1: Benny Chen - 22000
Seat 2: Arkady Kilman - 26775
Seat 3: Tony Cousineau - 43000
Seat 4: Daniel Negreanu - 88925
Seat 5: Nikhil Persaud - 64425
Seat 6: Mark Dickstein - 47825
Seat 7: Jani Vilmunen - 80650
Seat 8: Stephen Kjerstad - 32200
Seat 9: Alex Kravchenko - 31100

(Table 8)
Seat 1: John Monnette - 78025
Seat 2: Kenny Hicks - 21100
Seat 3: Jason Summerville - 36900
Seat 4: Annette Obrestad - 52400
Seat 5: Brandon Cantu - 89000
Seat 6: Jacob Irsberg - 7150
Seat 7: Philip Tom - 44950
Seat 8: Ilkka Koskinen - 31400
Seat 9: Morten Erlandsen - 18000

(Table 9)
Seat 1: Barry Shulman - 80250
Seat 2: Joe Ebanks - 49175
Seat 3: Sargon Ruya - 66900
Seat 4: Ryan Milisits - 22150
Seat 5: Steven Levy - 56350
Seat 6: Danny Wong - 38000
Seat 7: Marc Goodwin - 50375
Seat 8: Daniel Alaei - 15075
Seat 9: Barry Greenstein - 6925

(Table 10)
Seat 1: Lawrence Jacobs - 50025
Seat 2: Shaun Deeb - 37500
Seat 3: Joel Nordkvist - 102850
Seat 4: Praz Bassi - 155450
Seat 5: Amnon Filippi - 76000
Seat 6: Rob Akery - 37025
Seat 7: David Oppenheim - 31525
Seat 8: James Obst - 40950
Seat 9: Chad Brown - 44975

(Table 11)
Seat 1: Christian Kruel - 114450
Seat 2: Johan Van Til - 26325
Seat 3: Michael Duerr - 40475
Seat 4: Tommy Vedes - 72625
Seat 5: Martin Hansen - 152775
Seat 6: Justin Smith - 41675
Seat 7: Mathias Kuerschner - 28875
Seat 8: Simon John - 76925
Seat 9: Tommy Pavlicek - 119825

(Table 12)
Seat 1: John Kabbaj - 104500
Seat 2: Kim Wooka - 42450
Seat 3: Erik Friberg - 49475
Seat 4: Michael Chapman - 34150
Seat 5: Markus Golser - 65025
Seat 6: Dave Ulliott - 49800
Seat 7: Fredrik Andersson - 45475
Seat 8: Dennis Phillips - 28800
Seat 9: Jonathan Reynolds - 17750

(Table 13)
Seat 1: Markus Ristola - 120750
Seat 2: Howard Lederer - 7675
Seat 3: Keith Hawkins - 72475
Seat 4: Brian Powell - 194600
Seat 5: Leo Margets - 19300
Seat 6: Kenna James - 37825
Seat 7: Samuel Chartier - 54425
Seat 8: Ben Roberts - 42450
Seat 9: Eric Seidel - 9925

(Table 14)
Seat 1: Brandon Adams - 72350
Seat 2: Yevgeniy Timoshenko - 29675
Seat 3: Peter Gould - 70400
Seat 4: Chalermchai mahagitsiri - 31100
Seat 5: Christer Johansson - 33075
Seat 6: Micheal Comer - 10325
Seat 7: Antoine Saout - 144400
Seat 8: Hativ Janneh - 33625
Seat 9: Jean Montury - 64925

(Table 15)
Seat 1: Terrence Chan - 44175
Seat 2: Andre Akkari - 34250
Seat 3: Sam Trickett - 44975
Seat 4: Andrew Chen - 49250
Seat 5: Fabrizio Baldassari - 33250
Seat 6: Alex Millar - 78800
Seat 7: Nick Bleeker - 52050
Seat 8: Matt Hawrilenko - 73175
Seat 9: Carl Johnson - 38875

(Table 16)
Seat 1: Lubor Dedic - 127450
Seat 2: Laurence Houghton - 78950
Seat 3: Antonio Esfandiari - 73550
Seat 4: Thomas McCormick - 32350
Seat 5: Thomas Bichon - 82575
Seat 6: Doyle Brunson - 92900
Seat 7: Nadeem Riaz - 40675
Seat 8: McNulty Thad - 8950
Seat 9: Jonathan Aguiar - 160100

(Table 17)
Seat 1: Jussi Nevanlinna - 35250
Seat 2: Marcelo Marigliano - 55725
Seat 3: Men Nguyen - 43200
Seat 4: Scott Montgomery - 18225
Seat 5: Ran Azor - 47200
Seat 6: Thor Drexel - 53900
Seat 7: Shandoi Demjan - 64000
Seat 8: John Juanda - 28525
Seat 9: Jonathan Plens - 6900

(Table 18)
Seat 1: Michael Fasco - 91050
Seat 2: Brian Potter - 30500
Seat 3: Alfred Decarolis - 63400
Seat 4: Moritz Schmejkal - 57975
Seat 5: Arnauld Mattern - 35200
Seat 6: Robin Keston - 67100
Seat 7: Richard Grace - 116850
Seat 8: Salman Behbehani - 44100
Seat 9: Joe Beevers - 101450

(Table 19)
Seat 1: Marco Traniello - 33000
Seat 2: John Tabatabai - 78850
Seat 3: Liz Lieu - 65600
Seat 4: Daniel Tafur - 34675
Seat 5: Mohsin Charania - 32325
Seat 6: Kassem Deeb - 56900
Seat 7: Konstantin Buecherl - 49000
Seat 8: James Akenhead - 77675

(Table 20)
Seat 1: Jesse Chinni - 86800
Seat 2: Van Hieu La - 34550
Seat 3: Viktor Blom - 163175
Seat 4: Mike Matusow - 28900
Seat 5: Micheal Binger - 10000
Seat 6: Craig Burgess - 66650
Seat 7: Phil Hellmuth - 18450
Seat 8: Joe Cassidy - 5600