Event #36: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Giorno 1 iniziato
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #36: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Giorni 1
Event Info
Risultati finali
Event Info
Informazioni livello
2011 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$2,500
Montepremi
$3,944,850
Entries
1,734
Livello
32
Bui
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Time For the Nooner
Good morning from the Amazon Room, and welcome to Event #36, the $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em event. It's the only nine-handed $2,500 no-limit tournament on the calendar this year, and the buyin allows for a near-homogenous mix of top-tier pros, up-and-comers, and relative amateurs. Last year, Tomer Berda walked away with $825,000 for winning this thing.
We're about twenty minutes from the shuffle-up-and-deal, and the board shows 1,126 players registered so far. Last year's field topped 1,900, and we'd expect to see easily that number packed into the Pavilion by the time the window shuts. The dealers are just taking their seats and shuffling the chips, and the players are next.
We're camped out along the rail, and we've got up-to-the-minute updates on the way. Don't wander off!
Livello: 1
Bui: 25/50
Ante: 0
Cards Are In The Air
The announcements have been made and cards are in the air for the start of Day 1.
A Full House
The registration number is approaching 1,400, and we've got a full house in the Pavilion. Tables are starting to form over in the Amazon Room, and there are already about fifteen of them in play.
Notables
As you'd imagine, the list of notables in our field is a long one. We'll start with a pair of Brazilians (Andre Akkari, Alex Gomes), a trio of ladies (La Sengphet, Beth Shak, Erica Schoenberg), three Dans (Kelly, Smith, O'Brien), a 2011 bracelet winner (Jason Somerville), a funny guy (Brad Garrett), a stoner (Matt Stout), a dragon (David Pham), a poker CEO (Dan Fleyshman), a math whiz (Paul Magriel), the defending champ (Tomer Berda), and the last two Main Event winners (Joe Cada, Jonathan Duhamel).
Faces Around the Room
After taking a stroll through the field we've seen such notables in the White section of the Pavilion Room. They include Dan Smith, Ludovic Lacay, Shannon Shorr, Tim Finne, Tsubasa Manabe and Jeff Williams.
Joining the field in the Yellow section of the Pavilion Room we've spotted Scott Montgomery, Jason Potter, Jordan Young, Steve O'Dwyer, Beth Shak, Brad Garrett, and Vivek Rajkumar.
Some of the field has started of in the Purple section of the Amazon Room. There are only 15 tables now and will be first in the breaking order. We spotted Lars Bonding, Eric Baldwin, John Hoang and David Pham.
Table O' Death
We're too far away to see the number, and we forgot to look before we walked back here. But whatever table that is in the yellow section, we're going to be watching it.
It's the toughest table in town right now, and it includes Corwin Cole (Seat 1), Dan Kelly (Seat 3), Steve O'Dwyer (Seat 4), Beth Shak (Seat 6), and Joe Cada (Seat 8). Former PokerNews-er Anthony Yeh has just taken his seat in the nine hole. Good luck, Anthony...
Man Down!
We have another 2011 bracelet winner in the field this afternoon. Well, had. Had another bracelet winner in the field.
Andy Frankenberger just took down the 2,500-player $1,500 no-limit hold'em event the other day, good for close to $600,000. He's found a way to spend $2,500 of that rather quickly here today as we just spotted him walking right back out the doors he came in. Word on the street is he and another opponent both flopped trips, but Frankenberger apparently had the bad end of it.
He gone.
Baker Jumps Out of the Gate
Livello 1
: 25/50, 0 ante
We just caught the tail end of the pot, walking up as the dealer put the last card down on a 
board. Amanda Baker was first to act from the blinds, and she shoved all in for 3,400 into a pot of about 7,500. Her opponent called off all but the last 400 of his own chips, and Baker tabled 
for the flush.
It was good, and she's doubled up to 14,000 here in the early going.