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PokerStars welcomes Brazilian to team
Gomes became the first Brazilian to win a World Series of Poker gold bracelet this year when he won the $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em event. The event had more than 2,300 players from around the world, including Kirill Gerasimov from Russia who also made the final table. With the win, Gomes picked up his first major event cash and pocketed $770,540. "Alexandre is a fantastic addition to the world champions of Team PokerStars Pro. Through a mix of card playing skills and competitive spirit, he has exploded on the poker circuit and we believe he will continue to be a player to watch." said Andre Akkari, Team PokerStars Pro. Gomes, 25, was born in Curitiba, Brazil, and was a partner in a corporate law office in his home city until he discovered online poker. Previously he'd just been a social player, playing poker as a hobby with his friends, and then he discovered tournament play on PokerStars. Eventually he was doing well enough with online poker to be able to quit his job as a lawyer and become a full-time professional player. According to PokerStars, Gomes was making regular cash finishes in some of the biggest PokerStars tournaments by early 2007. In February 2008, he made one of his biggest wins on the poker site when he cashed in the Wednesday Hundred Fifty Grand for $65,333. Gomes also started taking on live tournaments in Brazil with some success and had taken on previous WSOP events before finding success this year. "I've always dreamed about playing on Team PokerStars Pro and winning a golden bracelet," Gomes said. "Now, I have realized both dreams at the same time. I don't want to wake up!" Gomes, who plays at PokerStars as Allingomes, joins a stable of pros at the poker sit ethat includes Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Barry Greenstein, Isabelle Mercier, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Bertrand Grospellier, Humberto Brenes and more. For more information about Gomes or what else the poker site has in store for players, visit PokerStars. Related Articles: No deals for PokerStars Sunday eventsPokerStars claims Million Dollar MenPokerStars doubles money on SundayVisit PokerListings.com
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Gomes became the first Brazilian to win a World Series of Poker gold bracelet this year when he won the $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em event. The event had more than 2,300 players from around the world, including Kirill Gerasimov from Russia who also made the final table. With the win, Gomes picked up his first major event cash and pocketed $770,540. "Alexandre is a fantastic addition to the world champions of Team PokerStars Pro. Through a mix of card playing skills and competitive spirit, he has exploded on the poker circuit and we believe he will continue to be a player to watch." said Andre Akkari, Team PokerStars Pro. Gomes, 25, was born in Curitiba, Brazil, and was a partner in a corporate law office in his home city until he discovered online poker. Previously he'd just been a social player, playing poker as a hobby with his friends, and then he discovered tournament play on PokerStars. Eventually he was doing well enough with online poker to be able to quit his job as a lawyer and become a full-time professional player. According to PokerStars, Gomes was making regular cash finishes in some of the biggest PokerStars tournaments by early 2007. In February 2008, he made one of his biggest wins on the poker site when he cashed in the Wednesday Hundred Fifty Grand for $65,333. Gomes also started taking on live tournaments in Brazil with some success and had taken on previous WSOP events before finding success this year. "I've always dreamed about playing on Team PokerStars Pro and winning a golden bracelet," Gomes said. "Now, I have realized both dreams at the same time. I don't want to wake up!" Gomes, who plays at PokerStars as Allingomes, joins a stable of pros at the poker sit ethat includes Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Barry Greenstein, Isabelle Mercier, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Bertrand Grospellier, Humberto Brenes and more. For more information about Gomes or what else the poker site has in store for players, visit PokerStars. Related Articles: No deals for PokerStars Sunday eventsPokerStars claims Million Dollar MenPokerStars doubles money on SundayVisit PokerListings.com
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WSOP: History -- 2005 Recap
The 2005 World Series of Poker continued to see unprecedented growth fueled by online amateurs that had been inspired by the win of Chris Moneymaker in 2003. Forty-four preliminary events were on the schedule and despite the major presence of amateurs many of those events were won by professional...
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The 2005 World Series of Poker continued to see unprecedented growth fueled by online amateurs that had been inspired by the win of Chris Moneymaker in 2003. Forty-four preliminary events were on the schedule and despite the major presence of amateurs many of those events were won by professional...
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2008 WSOP Day 42: Sneak a peek at Main Event Day 3
Brian Schaedlich started the day with the chip lead, but it hasn't been going so well for him so far today. He's had to hand out more than $400k in chips, but that still leaves him near the top of the pack with about $387,000. He's not the only one handing out chips, either. Jon "PearlJammer" Turner got into an early hand when a player made it $4,100 under the gun and a girl to that player's left went all-in for her last $5,300. Turner called and so did the small blind, so all four players saw a flop of #Qh#Qs#8h. The player under the gun checked and Turner bet $9,500. The small blind called and the big blind shoved for $55,000 more. Turner called, turning up #Ac#Qc, the opponent who had shoved after the flop showed #Ah#Th, and the girl who was all-in pre-flop flipped up #Kh#5h. After the board brought #6c and then #3h, Turner had to watch his chips float to another player and the girl had to hit the road. At least he's still got some chips to play with - not everyone has been so lucky. Patrik Antonius was unable to get his short stack to grow today, and he's out. Perhaps he'll take some consolation from his wife, Maya Geller-Antonius, still being in it so far. Amanda Baker, Erik Seidel, Scott Clements, Barney Boatman, Darrell Dicken, Chris Moneymaker and Noah Boeken are also among the players who've headed to the rail today. Some notable players still managing to hang on, and perhaps to even chip up a bit, are Mark Vos, Alex Borteh, Matt Matros, Robert Mizrachi, Phil Hellmuth, Brandon Adams, Alexander Kostritsyn, Kido Pham, Cliff Josephy, Hoyt Corkins, Brandon Cantu, Chip Jett, Steve Billirakis, Gus Hansen, Nenad Medic, Jean-Robert Bellande, Johnny Chan, Jeff Madsen, Allen Cunningham and many more. To keep up with how the event is playing out head to the 2008 WSOP Live Tournaments section. Related Articles: 2008 WSOP Day 42: Surviving Day 2b2008 WSOP Day 41: Day 2b out of the gates2008 WSOP Day 41: 466 make Main Event Day 2a cutVisit PokerListings.com
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Brian Schaedlich started the day with the chip lead, but it hasn't been going so well for him so far today. He's had to hand out more than $400k in chips, but that still leaves him near the top of the pack with about $387,000. He's not the only one handing out chips, either. Jon "PearlJammer" Turner got into an early hand when a player made it $4,100 under the gun and a girl to that player's left went all-in for her last $5,300. Turner called and so did the small blind, so all four players saw a flop of #Qh#Qs#8h. The player under the gun checked and Turner bet $9,500. The small blind called and the big blind shoved for $55,000 more. Turner called, turning up #Ac#Qc, the opponent who had shoved after the flop showed #Ah#Th, and the girl who was all-in pre-flop flipped up #Kh#5h. After the board brought #6c and then #3h, Turner had to watch his chips float to another player and the girl had to hit the road. At least he's still got some chips to play with - not everyone has been so lucky. Patrik Antonius was unable to get his short stack to grow today, and he's out. Perhaps he'll take some consolation from his wife, Maya Geller-Antonius, still being in it so far. Amanda Baker, Erik Seidel, Scott Clements, Barney Boatman, Darrell Dicken, Chris Moneymaker and Noah Boeken are also among the players who've headed to the rail today. Some notable players still managing to hang on, and perhaps to even chip up a bit, are Mark Vos, Alex Borteh, Matt Matros, Robert Mizrachi, Phil Hellmuth, Brandon Adams, Alexander Kostritsyn, Kido Pham, Cliff Josephy, Hoyt Corkins, Brandon Cantu, Chip Jett, Steve Billirakis, Gus Hansen, Nenad Medic, Jean-Robert Bellande, Johnny Chan, Jeff Madsen, Allen Cunningham and many more. To keep up with how the event is playing out head to the 2008 WSOP Live Tournaments section. Related Articles: 2008 WSOP Day 42: Surviving Day 2b2008 WSOP Day 41: Day 2b out of the gates2008 WSOP Day 41: 466 make Main Event Day 2a cutVisit PokerListings.com
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2008 WSOP Day 42: Surviving Day 2b
Among those who played on Wednesday were former world champions Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth, Carlos Mortensen, Brad Daugherty, Chris Moneymaker and Joe Hachem, and reigning world champ Jerry Yang. Yang was the first of the champions to bust out on Day 2b. He had started the day fairly low in chips but got all his money in with the best hand. He was holding A-J versus his opponents A-9, but a nine fell on the flop and nothing came to help Yang. The last time someone was able to win back-to-back Main Events was when Johnny Chan did it in 1987 and 1988. Greg "Fossilman" Raymer came close after his 2004 Main Event win. In 2005 he made it down to the final three tables of the Main Event but couldn't pull off the win. Daugherty was eliminated mid-afternoon after he committed his short stack with pocket nines and lost to A-Q when and ace hit on the flop. Mortensen and Hachem both lasted until late in the day, but still couldn't quite hang on to make it to Day 3. Mortensen busted when his set of deuces ran into a set of queens. Hachem missed a flush draw in a three-handed pot to see the rest of his chips shipped away. That just leaves Chan, Hellmuth and Moneymaker to represent for the former champs when Day 3 action begins today at noon. The player with the most chips coming out of Day 2b was Peter Biebel, from Oshkosh, Wisc., who finished the day with $531,000 in chips. That's not enough to be the overall leader, however, since Brian Schaedlich amassed just over $800,000 in Day 2a. Schaedlich is a recreational poker player who works full times as a special education teacher at Shaker Heights Middle School and Mercer Elementary School in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. "If I somehow win, I will not give up what I do for a living," Schaedlich said. "I think what I do is far too important for me to stop just because I won a lot of money. It's all about the kids." The odds are pretty low for Schaedlich being able to pull off a win even with the chip lead going into Day 3. There are still several more days of play just to get down to the final table, which makes for plenty of time for players to chip away at his stacks if he isn't able to continue his dominating play. To illustrate how hard it is to maintain a chip lead and go on to win the Main Event, WSOP officials said no end of Day 1 chip leader has ever won the championship since the series instated a four-day or more format. The highest finisher ever was John Bonetti, who amassed the biggest Day 1 stack percentage of anyone in the history of the WSOP in 1993 and managed to hang onto that chip lead during the first three days that year but ended up taking third place. A combined 1,308 players will return to action today at noon. Along with the players already listed, there is a laundry list of pros who've made it to Day 3.#img: alex-outhred_8144.jpg: left: Outhred often uses his skills to teach others, but this time he's schooling players in the Main Event.# Alex Outhred, who was also on Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader, is sitting third in the chip count. There is also Brandon Adams and Victor Ramdin with more than $300,000 in chips. Sitting in the $200k range today are Nenad Medic, Robert Mizrachi, Kido Pham, Cliff Josephy, Alexander Kostritsyn, Jean-Robert Bellande and Brandon Cantu. Phil Hellmuth sits in the $100,000 range along with Matt Matros, Johnny Chan, Team Bodog's Evelyn Ng, Phil Gordon, Jeff Madsen, Kirill Gerasimov, Mark Vos, Bertrand Grospellier, Tony Hachem, Chau Giang, Thayer Rasmussen, Maya Geller-Antonius, Hoyt Corkins, Allen Cunningham, Darrell Dicken, Dave Colclough, Hevad Khan, Rolf Slotboom, Erik Seidel and Shane Warne. The notable players with less than $100k in chips to start today include Mike Matusow, Gus Hansen, Amanda Baker, Barney Boatman, Scott Clements, Noah Boeken, John Duthie, Steve Zolotow, Rhett Butler, Chris Reslock, Alex Kravchenko, David Williams, Patrik Antonius and more. PokerListings will have all the action in the 2008 WSOP Live Tournaments section, so stay tuned to see how your favorite players are doing. Event 55 While the 2008 WSOP Main Event was taking a break on Monday, the Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em tournament got off to a start and then completed play on Tuesday. With 930 players putting up the $500 buy-in, they were playing for a $418,500 prize pool. The eventual winner was Jonathan Kotula, who works at O'Sheas in Las Vegas. He takes home an $87,929 top prize. The final-table results for the event were: Place Name Hometown Casino Property Prize 1st Jonathan Kotula Las Vegas O'Sheas $87,929 2nd Kevin O'Harra Tunica, Miss. Harrah's Tunica $56,748 3rd Glenda Harrell Seattle, Wash. Roxbury and Magic Lanes $34,107 4th Daniel Kohnen Springboro, Ohio Argosy Casino $28,667 5th Andrew Brock Las Vegas Wynn $23,435 6th Michael Anderson Gilbert, Ariz. Casino Arizona $18,414 7th Elaine Graham Las Vegas Sunset Station $14,229 8th David Dietrich Las Vegas Boyd Gaming Corp $11,090 9th Monica Conrad Hemet, Calif. Soboba Casino $7,951 Related Articles: 2008 WSOP Day 41: Day 2b out of the gates2008 WSOP Day 41: 466 make Main Event Day 2a cutVisit PokerListings.com
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Among those who played on Wednesday were former world champions Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth, Carlos Mortensen, Brad Daugherty, Chris Moneymaker and Joe Hachem, and reigning world champ Jerry Yang. Yang was the first of the champions to bust out on Day 2b. He had started the day fairly low in chips but got all his money in with the best hand. He was holding A-J versus his opponents A-9, but a nine fell on the flop and nothing came to help Yang. The last time someone was able to win back-to-back Main Events was when Johnny Chan did it in 1987 and 1988. Greg "Fossilman" Raymer came close after his 2004 Main Event win. In 2005 he made it down to the final three tables of the Main Event but couldn't pull off the win. Daugherty was eliminated mid-afternoon after he committed his short stack with pocket nines and lost to A-Q when and ace hit on the flop. Mortensen and Hachem both lasted until late in the day, but still couldn't quite hang on to make it to Day 3. Mortensen busted when his set of deuces ran into a set of queens. Hachem missed a flush draw in a three-handed pot to see the rest of his chips shipped away. That just leaves Chan, Hellmuth and Moneymaker to represent for the former champs when Day 3 action begins today at noon. The player with the most chips coming out of Day 2b was Peter Biebel, from Oshkosh, Wisc., who finished the day with $531,000 in chips. That's not enough to be the overall leader, however, since Brian Schaedlich amassed just over $800,000 in Day 2a. Schaedlich is a recreational poker player who works full times as a special education teacher at Shaker Heights Middle School and Mercer Elementary School in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. "If I somehow win, I will not give up what I do for a living," Schaedlich said. "I think what I do is far too important for me to stop just because I won a lot of money. It's all about the kids." The odds are pretty low for Schaedlich being able to pull off a win even with the chip lead going into Day 3. There are still several more days of play just to get down to the final table, which makes for plenty of time for players to chip away at his stacks if he isn't able to continue his dominating play. To illustrate how hard it is to maintain a chip lead and go on to win the Main Event, WSOP officials said no end of Day 1 chip leader has ever won the championship since the series instated a four-day or more format. The highest finisher ever was John Bonetti, who amassed the biggest Day 1 stack percentage of anyone in the history of the WSOP in 1993 and managed to hang onto that chip lead during the first three days that year but ended up taking third place. A combined 1,308 players will return to action today at noon. Along with the players already listed, there is a laundry list of pros who've made it to Day 3.#img: alex-outhred_8144.jpg: left: Outhred often uses his skills to teach others, but this time he's schooling players in the Main Event.# Alex Outhred, who was also on Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader, is sitting third in the chip count. There is also Brandon Adams and Victor Ramdin with more than $300,000 in chips. Sitting in the $200k range today are Nenad Medic, Robert Mizrachi, Kido Pham, Cliff Josephy, Alexander Kostritsyn, Jean-Robert Bellande and Brandon Cantu. Phil Hellmuth sits in the $100,000 range along with Matt Matros, Johnny Chan, Team Bodog's Evelyn Ng, Phil Gordon, Jeff Madsen, Kirill Gerasimov, Mark Vos, Bertrand Grospellier, Tony Hachem, Chau Giang, Thayer Rasmussen, Maya Geller-Antonius, Hoyt Corkins, Allen Cunningham, Darrell Dicken, Dave Colclough, Hevad Khan, Rolf Slotboom, Erik Seidel and Shane Warne. The notable players with less than $100k in chips to start today include Mike Matusow, Gus Hansen, Amanda Baker, Barney Boatman, Scott Clements, Noah Boeken, John Duthie, Steve Zolotow, Rhett Butler, Chris Reslock, Alex Kravchenko, David Williams, Patrik Antonius and more. PokerListings will have all the action in the 2008 WSOP Live Tournaments section, so stay tuned to see how your favorite players are doing. Event 55 While the 2008 WSOP Main Event was taking a break on Monday, the Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em tournament got off to a start and then completed play on Tuesday. With 930 players putting up the $500 buy-in, they were playing for a $418,500 prize pool. The eventual winner was Jonathan Kotula, who works at O'Sheas in Las Vegas. He takes home an $87,929 top prize. The final-table results for the event were: Place Name Hometown Casino Property Prize 1st Jonathan Kotula Las Vegas O'Sheas $87,929 2nd Kevin O'Harra Tunica, Miss. Harrah's Tunica $56,748 3rd Glenda Harrell Seattle, Wash. Roxbury and Magic Lanes $34,107 4th Daniel Kohnen Springboro, Ohio Argosy Casino $28,667 5th Andrew Brock Las Vegas Wynn $23,435 6th Michael Anderson Gilbert, Ariz. Casino Arizona $18,414 7th Elaine Graham Las Vegas Sunset Station $14,229 8th David Dietrich Las Vegas Boyd Gaming Corp $11,090 9th Monica Conrad Hemet, Calif. Soboba Casino $7,951 Related Articles: 2008 WSOP Day 41: Day 2b out of the gates2008 WSOP Day 41: 466 make Main Event Day 2a cutVisit PokerListings.com
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2008 WSOP Day 41: Day 2b out of the gates
Some of the pros that make up the throw-away pile of players already today include Doyles Room sponsored Shannon Elizabeth, Bill Chen, John Juanda, Clonie Gowen, Matt Savage, Eric Herschler and Danny Wong. Defending champion Jerry Yang also exited today. He ended up short stacked and went all-in with #Ac#2c only to run into an opponent with #Ad#Qc. God still loved him on that hand as two pair showed on the board and he and his opponent chopped. However, when Yang shoved again with #Ad#Jc and ended up against #As#9c, a nine fell on the board to eliminate him. More important, however, is who is still in play today. Cliff Josephy, Carlos Mortensen, David Singer, Johnny Chan, Steve Billirakis, Nenad Medic, Alex Outhred, Brad Booth, Gus Hansen, Victor Ramdin, Hevad Khan, Jeff Madsen, Chip Jett, Chris Moneymaker, Bertrand Grospellier, Phil Hellmuth, Antonio Esfandiari, Evelyn Ng, Men "The Master" Nguyen, Jennifer Harman and more are still in. Mike Matusow, who has cashed in three events so far with one of those being a bracelet win and another being a second final table, is still in it so far despite not having the luck go his way yet today. He remains positive, however, as PokerListings reporters overheard him say, "My first plan was to draw a table full of donks and pick up all their chips. That plan went out of the window after like three minutes. Plan two was to get smacked in the face by the deck. That's working out pretty well. Plan three is to bust some of you nits on this table. I foresee great things here!" There's plenty more from the floor of the Rio direct to your computer screens in the Main Event live updates. Once play ends today, the remaining players will finally merge into one field to play Day 3 on Thursday. As always, PokerListings will be there every step of the way to provide the most comprehensive coverage of the 2008 WSOP on the Web. Related Articles: 2008 WSOP Day 41: 466 make Main Event Day 2a cut2008 WSOP Day 40: Day 2a runners are off2008 WSOP Day 40: Main Event back in actionVisit PokerListings.com
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Some of the pros that make up the throw-away pile of players already today include Doyles Room sponsored Shannon Elizabeth, Bill Chen, John Juanda, Clonie Gowen, Matt Savage, Eric Herschler and Danny Wong. Defending champion Jerry Yang also exited today. He ended up short stacked and went all-in with #Ac#2c only to run into an opponent with #Ad#Qc. God still loved him on that hand as two pair showed on the board and he and his opponent chopped. However, when Yang shoved again with #Ad#Jc and ended up against #As#9c, a nine fell on the board to eliminate him. More important, however, is who is still in play today. Cliff Josephy, Carlos Mortensen, David Singer, Johnny Chan, Steve Billirakis, Nenad Medic, Alex Outhred, Brad Booth, Gus Hansen, Victor Ramdin, Hevad Khan, Jeff Madsen, Chip Jett, Chris Moneymaker, Bertrand Grospellier, Phil Hellmuth, Antonio Esfandiari, Evelyn Ng, Men "The Master" Nguyen, Jennifer Harman and more are still in. Mike Matusow, who has cashed in three events so far with one of those being a bracelet win and another being a second final table, is still in it so far despite not having the luck go his way yet today. He remains positive, however, as PokerListings reporters overheard him say, "My first plan was to draw a table full of donks and pick up all their chips. That plan went out of the window after like three minutes. Plan two was to get smacked in the face by the deck. That's working out pretty well. Plan three is to bust some of you nits on this table. I foresee great things here!" There's plenty more from the floor of the Rio direct to your computer screens in the Main Event live updates. Once play ends today, the remaining players will finally merge into one field to play Day 3 on Thursday. As always, PokerListings will be there every step of the way to provide the most comprehensive coverage of the 2008 WSOP on the Web. Related Articles: 2008 WSOP Day 41: 466 make Main Event Day 2a cut2008 WSOP Day 40: Day 2a runners are off2008 WSOP Day 40: Main Event back in actionVisit PokerListings.com
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2008 WSOP Day 41: 466 make Main Event Day 2a cut
By the end of the day, all eyes were on Brian Schaedlich, from Cleveland, Ohio, who was sitting with one of the most impressive chip leads for a player at the end of a Day 2 that the WSOP has seen in years. He ended the day with about $801,000 in chips, and his closest rival is sitting with just $397,000. Brandon Adams is sitting in a strong position as well after Day 2a with $353,600. The Full Tilt Poker pro had a good stack of more than $70k after his Day 1 and said he played a lot of smaller and mid-size pots on Day 2a to continue his climb. "Today I started out playing very fast but then treaded water for a while," Adams said in his interview with PokerListings. "I think I ended up the second level of the day with around $160,000. I just had a good level and got it all the way up to $207,000." As he continued to accumulate chips, Adams landed at the ESPN feature table as well, where he had to play under the watchful eyes of the cameras. Adams is a renowned cash-game player who has managed to keep a fairly low tournament profile so far, but his exposure in the Main Event if he goes deep could change all that. Some other pros who are sitting well with more than $100k after two days of player are Robert Mizrachi, Kido Pham, Alex Borteh, Tony Hachem, Chau Giang, Hoyt Corkins, Darrell Dicken, Erik Seidel, Dave Colclough, and 888 sponsored pro Shane Warne, who is heading up Pacific Poker's online qualifiers. Maya Geller-Antonius has also moved her stack up to about $135,000 after Day 2, leaving her in much healthier shape to start Day 3 on Thursday than her husband Patrik Antonius who just barely clings to life with $29,500 in chips after Day 2a. He's not the only one looking a little low in chips from Day 2a. Tony Cousineau, Toto Leonidas and Alex Kravchenko are all under the $50,000 mark, while Chris Reslock, John Duthie, Barney Boatman and Mickey Appleman sit between there and the $100,000 mark. Unfortunately, the two former Main Event champions, Scotty Nguyen and Robert Varkonyi, who were playing in Day 2a were both eliminated. Nguyen, who is this year's $50k H.O.R.S.E. champion, busted out about mid-afternoon when his pocket nines were topped by Alexandre Schwab's pocket kings. Varkonyi didn't last much longer than Nguyen, busting out a short time later. That leaves seven former Main Event champs left in it who will be playing their second day today. They are Jerry Yang, Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth, Carlos Mortensen, Brad Daugherty, Chris Moneymaker and Joe Hachem. Some other notables who will play today from Day 1c are David Singer, Brad Booth, Evelyn Ng, Nenad Medic, Brian Townsend, Liz Lieu, Rolf Slotboom, Mike Matusow, Minh Nguyen, Bertrand Grospellier, Bill Chen, Matt Graham, Mike Binger, Eric Lynch, Clonie Gowen, Lacey Jones and Mel Judah. Some of the pros who survived Day 1d to return to play today are David Oppenheim, Gus Hansen, Cliff Josephy, Antonio Esfandiari, Brandon Cantu, Nam Le, Steve Billirakis, Jean-Robert Bellande, Jennifer Harman, Phil Gordon, Hevad Khan, Allen Cunningham, Men Nguyen, Scott Clements, Van Nguyen, Shannon Elizabeth, Nick Binger, Eric Mizrachi and Johan Storakers. Because more players showed up for Days 1c and 1d, there are 2,378 players returning to the felt today. Once they've finished play for the day, all the players will converge at the Rio on Thursday finally as one playing field for Day 3. The action gets started at noon today, and poker fans can check it all out in the Live Tournaments section. Related Articles: 2008 WSOP Day 40: Day 2a runners are off2008 WSOP Day 40: Main Event back in actionVisit PokerListings.com
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By the end of the day, all eyes were on Brian Schaedlich, from Cleveland, Ohio, who was sitting with one of the most impressive chip leads for a player at the end of a Day 2 that the WSOP has seen in years. He ended the day with about $801,000 in chips, and his closest rival is sitting with just $397,000. Brandon Adams is sitting in a strong position as well after Day 2a with $353,600. The Full Tilt Poker pro had a good stack of more than $70k after his Day 1 and said he played a lot of smaller and mid-size pots on Day 2a to continue his climb. "Today I started out playing very fast but then treaded water for a while," Adams said in his interview with PokerListings. "I think I ended up the second level of the day with around $160,000. I just had a good level and got it all the way up to $207,000." As he continued to accumulate chips, Adams landed at the ESPN feature table as well, where he had to play under the watchful eyes of the cameras. Adams is a renowned cash-game player who has managed to keep a fairly low tournament profile so far, but his exposure in the Main Event if he goes deep could change all that. Some other pros who are sitting well with more than $100k after two days of player are Robert Mizrachi, Kido Pham, Alex Borteh, Tony Hachem, Chau Giang, Hoyt Corkins, Darrell Dicken, Erik Seidel, Dave Colclough, and 888 sponsored pro Shane Warne, who is heading up Pacific Poker's online qualifiers. Maya Geller-Antonius has also moved her stack up to about $135,000 after Day 2, leaving her in much healthier shape to start Day 3 on Thursday than her husband Patrik Antonius who just barely clings to life with $29,500 in chips after Day 2a. He's not the only one looking a little low in chips from Day 2a. Tony Cousineau, Toto Leonidas and Alex Kravchenko are all under the $50,000 mark, while Chris Reslock, John Duthie, Barney Boatman and Mickey Appleman sit between there and the $100,000 mark. Unfortunately, the two former Main Event champions, Scotty Nguyen and Robert Varkonyi, who were playing in Day 2a were both eliminated. Nguyen, who is this year's $50k H.O.R.S.E. champion, busted out about mid-afternoon when his pocket nines were topped by Alexandre Schwab's pocket kings. Varkonyi didn't last much longer than Nguyen, busting out a short time later. That leaves seven former Main Event champs left in it who will be playing their second day today. They are Jerry Yang, Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth, Carlos Mortensen, Brad Daugherty, Chris Moneymaker and Joe Hachem. Some other notables who will play today from Day 1c are David Singer, Brad Booth, Evelyn Ng, Nenad Medic, Brian Townsend, Liz Lieu, Rolf Slotboom, Mike Matusow, Minh Nguyen, Bertrand Grospellier, Bill Chen, Matt Graham, Mike Binger, Eric Lynch, Clonie Gowen, Lacey Jones and Mel Judah. Some of the pros who survived Day 1d to return to play today are David Oppenheim, Gus Hansen, Cliff Josephy, Antonio Esfandiari, Brandon Cantu, Nam Le, Steve Billirakis, Jean-Robert Bellande, Jennifer Harman, Phil Gordon, Hevad Khan, Allen Cunningham, Men Nguyen, Scott Clements, Van Nguyen, Shannon Elizabeth, Nick Binger, Eric Mizrachi and Johan Storakers. Because more players showed up for Days 1c and 1d, there are 2,378 players returning to the felt today. Once they've finished play for the day, all the players will converge at the Rio on Thursday finally as one playing field for Day 3. The action gets started at noon today, and poker fans can check it all out in the Live Tournaments section. Related Articles: 2008 WSOP Day 40: Day 2a runners are off2008 WSOP Day 40: Main Event back in actionVisit PokerListings.com
PokerListings.com – Jul 9, 2008 6:36 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Wise: Surviving the odds
Donald Hobbs wasn't supposed to see the 2007 WSOP. When he sits down to play on Sunday, he'll know that poker and Chris Moneymaker have led his rehabilitation.
ESPN – Jul 5, 2008 5:43 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Donald Hobbs wasn't supposed to see the 2007 WSOP. When he sits down to play on Sunday, he'll know that poker and Chris Moneymaker have led his rehabilitation.
ESPN – Jul 5, 2008 5:43 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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