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WSOP Main Event – Day 2B
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2009-07-10 09:22
Having yielded a field of 2,924 players, Day 2B eclipsed Day 2A from every angle. Although the field may not seem like a huge one compared to the total number of entrants the four day ones had recorded, it is still statistically quite impressive: it was a larger field than all the WSOP Main Events between 1970 and 1995 managed to attract combined. The Day 2B field of the 2009 WSOP was also bigger than that of any Main Event prior to 2005.
When the dust settled in the wake of Day 2B action, Amir Lehavot led the survivors with 610,500 chips, almost twice as much as the Day 1A chip leader, Eric Cloutier had managed to muster.
The field was definitely not short on name pros: Tom Dwan, Jennifer Harman and Phil Ivey were there as well as online multi-tabling record holder Bertrand Grospellier, Dave Ulliott, Alexander Kostritsyn and Nicolas Levi.
There were several former world champions in the field as well, like Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Peter Eastgate, Dan Harrington, not to mention the “Poker Brat” Phil Hellmuth, Scotty Nguyen and John Juanda.
Though several professional athletes had busted out during the Day 1 hostilities, some had managed to hold on. LA Laker Jordan Farmar was still playing as well as actor Marlon Wayans and Diamond Phillips.
As you could probably tell from the massive stack the chip leader, Amir Lehavot, managed to accumulate, a great many players busted out on Day 2B. As a matter of fact, when the day was called, almost half of the initial 2,924 players were gone.
Erick Lindgren was among those whose WSOP dreams ended on this day. He suffered a bad beat at the hands of Craig Ivey to become one of the early victims. He got all his money in on a flop of 9,8,4 following a bet from Ivey and turned over Q,Q to dominate Ivey’s pocket Js. Unfortunately for Lindgren though, the 7 on the turn and the J on the river gave Ivey a set which meant that Lindgren’s WSOP run had come to an abrupt halt.
Several other name players hit the rail early on too. Scotty Nguyen and Isabelle Mercier saw their WSOP dreams go up in smoke too and so did Bill Chen, Vanessa Rousso, Victor Ramdin and Michael Mizrachi. The first dinner break was held about 4 hours into the action, and by that time, around 900 players have already said good-bye to their WSOP aspirations.
Marlon Wayans played well all through the event and his final hand wasn’t one that he should find any shame in either. He managed to get Fergal Nealon all-in on a K,K vs Q,Q match-up, before the flop, but Lady Luck took over from there and she obviously wasn’t fond of the actor as she gave Nealon a Q on the river to send Wayans to the rail.
Ylon Schwartz and Gavin Griffin hit the rail too, together with Tom Dwan and Nenad Medic.
Peter Eastgate had a rollercoaster of a day. Clawing his way back several times from the brink of extinction, the reigning champ eventually made it through to Day 3. Other survivors were: Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Jeffrey Lisandro and Dan Harrington.
