Event #50: $5,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em Giorno 1 | 2011 World Series of Poker

2011-06-30 07:53 UTC

Chip Counts

Giocatore	Chip	Avanzamento
Masaaki Kagawa	95,000 -13,000	-13,000
Men Nguyen	88,000 51,000	51,000

Andy Black	80,000 15,000	15,000
Tony Hachem	78,500 21,500	21,500
Carter Gill	73,000 13,000	13,000
Michael Leah	58,500 36,275	36,275
Eric Froehlich	47,000 -50,000	-50,000

Vitaly Lunkin	45,500 -4,900	-4,900

Shannon Shorr	36,000 11,000	11,000

Jason Somerville	26,200 -6,200	-6,200

Nick Binger	25,000 14,000	14,000

Joe Hachem	23,200 9,200	9,200

Andy Frankenberger	21,000 2,000	2,000

Steve O'Dwyer	Eliminato
Shaun Deeb	Eliminato

Andre Akkari	Eliminato

Vanessa Rousso	Eliminato
Frank Kassela	Eliminato

2011-06-30 07:58 UTC

No More Multitabling For Mercier

Livello 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

Jason Mercier is sort of busy trying to win another bracelet in the other room, but he is doing us the courtesy of stopping by on breaks. Just a moment ago, Mercier came running back to his table right in front of our desk. He sat down for about three minutes, then stood up.

"Wow, I run bad," he said, giving his chips a push forward and running back to Event #49 where he's just, you know, the chip leader with 21 players left.

Tags: Jason Mercier

2011-06-30 07:58 UTC

Four More Hands

Livello 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

We were given the call for four more hands a few minutes ago, and the action is wrapping up on the felt. We'll be right back with some closing words.

2011-06-30 08:20 UTC

Un-Shuffle Up Your Cards and Place Them Back in The Rack

Livello 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

James Akenhead is 2nd In Chips After Day 1

Day 1 of Event #50 is in the books, as is the dreams of winning a bracelet for almost 600 people. At least for tonight, anyway. Of the 814 players that entered today’s tournament, just 236 remain with chips.

Easily one of the most star-studded fields to date, the players we lost included Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth (in dramatic fashion, as always), Humberto Brenes, Tony Dunst, J.C. Tran, Vanessa Selbst, Shaun Deeb and Jonathan Duhamel. We were even lucky enough to have eight of the most recent November Nine in our field today, with the exception of Michael Mizrachi who is busy playing Heads Up for a bracelet as we speak in Event #47.

If you were skillful and lucky enough to make your way through today’s field onto Day 2, don’t expect to coast by tomorrow. Every table will most certainly be filled with at least a couple of notables, as well as some hidden gems the WSOP unearths every year. We will have a who’s who of talent coming back tomorrow including Andy Black, Lex Veldhuis, Josh Arieh, Gavin Smith, Carlos Mortensen, Jake Cody, Barry Greenstein and not one, BUT TWO, Hachem brothers, Joe and Tony.

However, they will all be chasing Mark Herm who was able to amass 148,400 chips. Not far behind him though are James Akenhead with 144,000 and PokerStars Team Pro Johnny Lodden with 132,600. More importantly, these players not only a lot of chips but plenty of skill to back them up.

This event will be paying 81 places, so with about three times that left starting in the field tomorrow, we should get into the money by mid-day. Be sure to join us before, during, and after the money-bubble pops as the action will be furious all day long. The cards are back in the air at 2:30 p.m. local time and as always, we will see you there with all the coverage!

2011-06-30 11:33 UTC

Official End-of-Day Chip Counts

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Giocatore	Chip	Avanzamento
Mark Herm	148,400
Vladimir Mefodichev	148,000
James Akenhead	144,100 49,100	49,100
Gregory Back	141,200
Daniel Reijmer	135,400
Joe Patrick	134,900
Johnny Lodden	132,600 83,600	83,600
Ryan Young	129,700
Tom Mclaughlin	125,200
Nicolas Yunis	120,300
Frederik Jensen	115,200
Richard Trigg	114,700 6,700	6,700
Ben Volpe	114,100
Masaaki Kagawa	113,500
Vanessa Peng	111,600 86,600	86,600
Ishak Noyan	111,000
Bolivar Palacios	107,100
Alexander Regler	106,000
Michael Benvenuti	105,300
Jannick Wrang	105,000
Allen Bari	104,900 71,600	71,600

Eric Haddad	104,100
Mikhail Petrov	103,800
Dylan Linde	102,100

Josh Arieh	101,800 6,800	6,800

Event #50: $5,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em

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