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WPT Bicycle, Day 1a Recap By BJ Nemeth It's been more than a month since the WSOP and the WPT Bellagio Cup in Las Vegas, and there has been a lull in the schedule of major poker tournaments. But the break is over, and it's time for the players to get back in the game. The WPT Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino kicked off on Saturday with 161 players showing up for Day 1a, including defending champion Dan Harrington, who won more than $1.6 million here last year. There were 108 players who survived the five levels of play, and the chipleader is Adam Weinraub, the WPT Celebrity Invitational champion from Season IV. Notable players near the top of the leaderboard include Gavin Smith (84,000), John "The Razor" Phan (83,375), Erik Seidel (81,975), and WSOP "November Nine" finalist Scott Montgomery (80,400). Defending champion Harrington survived as well, but he will enter Day 2 (Monday) with a short stack of just 13,725. Sunday will see the start of Day 1b, and we are expecting a larger field than Saturday. It'll be interesting to see how close the field gets to matching last year's number: 485. Return to WorldPokerTour.com at 2:15 pm PT on Sunday afternoon for live coverage, chip counts, photos, and video interviews with Amanda Leatherman. Update: The official chip counts were released in the middle of the night, so this entry has been updated.
Sorted In: Tournaments, The Bicycle Casino, Season VII, Legends of Poker11:00 AM, 08/24/08
Day 1a Official Chip Counts
Level 29: 150,000-300,000, 40,000 ante
106 players made it to Day 2. Average chip count is 45,566. Adam Weinraub - 154,750 John Smith - 134,125 Alvin Zeidenfeld - 92,000 Roman Celusta - 87,425 Gavin Smith - 84,000 John Phan - 83,375 J.D. Gumpas - 82,675 John Villanueva - 82,050 Erik Seidel - 82,975 Scott Montgomery - 80,400 Craig Brennan - 80,150 Luis Velador - 79,775 Benjamin Nguyen - 77,000 Alec Torelli - 74,700 Jason Somerville - 73,600 Robert Moore - 71,500 Samuel Ngai - 79,975 Gabe Kaplan - 69,200 Tan Le - 69,200 Marco Johnson - 68,625 Erick Lindgren - 64,350 Philip Stark - 63,850 Chad Brown - 63,825 Matt Keikoa - 63,075 Bobby Firestone - 62,975 Jeff Madsen - 60,375 Mikiya Takitani - 60,325 P. Thiptinnakon - 59,575 Max Pescatori - 57,850 Toto Leonidas - 56,250 Devin Porter - 55,350 Benjamn Tang - 53,100 Antonio Esfandiari - 52,775 Isaac Baron - 52,600 Matt Stout - 51,850 Keith Ferrera - 51,575 Anthony Newman - 50,500 Mike Wattel - 50,450 Jay Takada - 50,050 Miami John Cernuto - 48,050 Greg Mueller - 47,750 Kevin McCormack - 47,325 Mike Baxter - 46,675 Kevin Blakey - 46,175 Average - 45,566 Louis Weman - 45,450 Ted Jivkov - 45,400 Bruce Lee - 45,125 Raymond Davis - 45,025 Zhehao Zhang - 44,650 Tim West - 43,850 Nichoel Peppe - 43,750 Ben Fineman - 43,475 Ted Jurgens - 43,450 Mike McClain - 42,500 Jonas Entin - 42,375 Luis Sanchez - 41,100 Patrick Walsh - 40,975 Jeff Shibley - 40,925 Michael Dolan - 40,000 Ryan Young - 39,300 Greg Gayheart - 38,900 Richard Harroch - 37,700 Yosh Nakano - 37,700 John Monnette - 36,675 David Tran - 35,950 David Foldy - 35,250 Chris McCormack - 35,000 Randy Holland - 34,000 Steve Reitzfeld - 33,300 Lee Markholt - 32,175 Fred Goff - 31,925 Eddie Villareal - 31,425 Luan Phan - 30,550 Steve Simmons - 30,425 Peter Placey - 29,775 Matt Vengoin - 29,775 Kevin Zhu - 28,325 Florentino Omelas - 27,750 Andrew Shack - 27,425 Daniel Fuhs - 27,125 Sudo Le - 26,850 Kevin Schaffel - 26,800 Jason Gray - 26,750 Eugene Tito - 25,150 Men Nguyen - 24,800 Andre Dyonisio - 24,000 Melanie Sue - 23,650 Zachary Clark - 23,450 Jonathan Aguiar - 21,475 Osmin Dardon - 20,600 Jinyun Lin - 19,825 Mark Ketteringham - 19,000 Henryk Leszkiewicz - 17,450 Richard Scioto - 17,250 Jon Friedberg - 16,650 David Ritter - 16,650 Bryan Devonshire - 16,600 David Moskowitz - 16,650 Dan Harrington - 13,725 David "The Dragon" Pham - 13,175 Glenn Hughes - 12,725 Will Haydon - 12,500 Amit Makhisa - 11,350 Lee Watkinson - 11,250 Raymond Lapitan - 11,000 Thor Hansen - 9,475 Vanessa Rousso - 7,100 Henry Antanessian - 5,400
Sorted In: Tournaments, The Bicycle Casino, Season VII, Legends of Poker10:51 AM, 08/24/08
Day 1a Comes to an End
Level 29: 150,000-300,000, 40,000 ante
Level 5 comes to an end, and that's it for Day 1a. There are a few more than 100 players remaining, and we will post the official chip counts as soon as they are released by the Bicycle Casino.
Sorted In: Tournaments, The Bicycle Casino, Season VII, Legends of Poker10:49 PM, 08/23/08
Hasan Habib Eliminated
Level 29: 150,000-300,000, 40,000 ante
Video description: After a flop of [5h4s3s], Gavin Smith checks from the small blind, Hasan Habib checks from under the gun, and a player in middle position (seat 6) bets 3,600. Gavin calls, and Habib moves all in for 13,500. Seat 6 and Gavin both call. The turn card is the [10s], Gavin checks, and Seat 6 bets 11,100. Gavin folds, and the other two players show their cards. Seat 6 shows [AsKs] for the nut flush, and Habib flashes pocket queens -- he's drawing dead. The meaningless river card is the [3d], and Hasan Habib is eliminated from the tournament.
Sorted In: Tournaments, The Bicycle Casino, Season VII, Legends of Poker
10:48 PM, 08/23/08
The Chip Bags are Coming Out
Level 29: 150,000-300,000, 40,000 ante
With three and a half minutes left in the day the chip bags are coming out and the seating cards are being collected. After seven and a half hours of play all the players appear to be tired and ready for a good one day break before heading in for day two.
Sorted In: Tournaments, The Bicycle Casino, Season VII, Legends of Poker10:45 PM, 08/23/08
Madsen Calls the Clock on Himself
Level 29: 150,000-300,000, 40,000 ante
With a pot of 27,000 and a board of K
933
Seat 9 moves all in for 19,000. After two minutes passes Jeff Madsen calls the clock on himself.
The tournament director comes over and starts laughing when he finds out that the clock he is counting down is requested by Madsen. Upon the last second the tournament director announces Madsen's hand dead. Madsen pleading to see the players hand convinces Seat 9 to show AK for top pair nut flush draw.
10:39 PM, 08/23/08
Phan Sends One to the Rail
Level 29: 150,000-300,000, 40,000 ante
After a number of preflop raises between two other opponents, John Phan saw the flop of 8
52. Phan led out for 4,000 getting one caller from seat 5. The turn brought the 5
where Phan bet out 9,000, getting the question put to him "How much you have left John?"
After a three minute deliberation Seat 5 moves all in for 27,500. Phan instantly yells out "CALL" flipping over two black aces as his opponent tables two black jacks. The river brings an inconsequential 7 and Phan sends another to the rail building his stack up to 80,000.
10:25 PM, 08/23/08
Some Tables Have More Action Than Others
Level 29: 150,000-300,000, 40,000 ante
|:img:5795,R:|Greg "FBT" Mueller wandered over to another table, talking about how he's stuck with roughly the number of chips he started the day with. Ray Davis laughed and said, "You should have been at our table, Greg. You'd either have 100,000 or you'd be out. But you definitely wouldn't have 30,000." Davis shares a table with John Phan and a few other action players.
Sorted In: Tournaments, The Bicycle Casino, Season VII, Legends of Poker10:19 PM, 08/23/08
I'm Kind of a Big Deal
Level 29: 150,000-300,000, 40,000 ante
09:54 PM, 08/23/08
E-Dog Builds and Builds
Level 29: 150,000-300,000, 40,000 ante
In a five way pot with 7,000 and on a flop of Q43 Erick Lindgren calls the bet of 2,200 to get heads up with Seat 6. The turn brings the Qpairing the board, where upon E-dog quickly fires 3,100, a smallish bet into a pot containing 11,400. His opponent folds and Lindgren takes down the pot building his stack up to 58,000.
09:52 PM, 08/23/08
