PokerStars Pro Sebastian Ruthenberg ist der einzige richtige Weltmeister. Doch sein Projekt Titelverteidigung beim $10.000 World Championship Seven Card Stud High-Low läuft gar nicht so nach Plan, wie es sollte.
164 Spieler waren zum World Championship angetreten. Neben Sebastian waren auch Alexander Jung und die beiden Full Tilt Pros Thomas Bihl und Markus Golser am Start. Erwartet hochkarätig war die Konkurrenz – David Sklansky, Chris Ferguson, Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Mike Sexton, Scott Clements, Jeff Lisandro, Dario Minieri, David Benyamine, John Juanda, Tony G. und viele andere mehr.
Mit rund 110 Spielern wurde der erste Tag beendet. Phil Ivey musste es bei seinem All-in sogar mit drei Spielern aufnehmen. Chau Giang nahm sich den Low Pot, Farzad Bonyadi das High und Phil Ivey den Weg zum Ausgang.
Auch Thomas Bihl war unter den Glücklosen von Tag 1. Er war in guter Gesellschaft, denn auch Shawn Sheikhan, Carlos Mortensen, Max Pescatori, Jennifer Harman, Andy Black, Dario Alioto, Erick Lindgren, Thor Hansen und viele andere mehr schafften es nicht heil durch Tag 1.
Für Sebastian Ruthenberg fand das Projekt „Titelverteidigung“ ebenfalls ein Ende an Tag 1. Wiederkommen dürfen dagegen Markus Golser, Alex Jung und auch der Schweizer Claudio Rinaldi.
Rang | Name | Stadt | Land | Chip Count | Table | Seat |
1 | Le, Tuan | Los Angeles | CA | 234.000 | 161 | 8 |
2 | Mariani, Frank | Los Angeles | CA | 111.300 | 158 | 8 |
3 | Berman, Lyle | Las Vegas | NV | 109.500 | 167 | 4 |
4 | Lisandro, Jeff | Salerno | Italy | 105.400 | 163 | 8 |
5 | Sklar, Richard | Las Vegas | NV | 96.200 | 164 | 6 |
6 | Kassela, Frank | Rossville | TN | 90.600 | 161 | 6 |
7 | Brix, Eric | Saint Cloud | MN | 90.000 | 158 | 4 |
8 | Schneider, Tom | Scottsdale | AZ | 83.300 | 164 | 4 |
9 | Jurgens, Tad | Phoenix | AZ | 82.500 | 167 | 3 |
10 | Minieri, Dario | Rome | Italy | 81.500 | 167 | 2 |
11 | Alaei, Daniel | Los Angeles | CA | 79.900 | 160 | 2 |
12 | Brunson, Todd | Las Vegas | NV | 79.500 | 166 | 4 |
13 | Jett, Chip | Las Vegas | NV | 77.700 | 167 | 8 |
14 | Schulman, Nick | New York | NY | 73.000 | 169 | 1 |
15 | Sheikh, Aurangzeb | Houston | TX | 72.900 | 159 | 6 |
16 | Koral, Thomas | Skokie | IL | 71.600 | 158 | 5 |
17 | Grapenthien, Matt | Chicago | IL | 69.900 | 166 | 6 |
18 | Filippi, Amnon | New York | NY | 68.400 | 170 | 6 |
19 | Buss, Jerry | Los Angeles | CA | 67.800 | 162 | 5 |
20 | Saab, Doug | Birmingham | AL | 66.000 | 161 | 2 |
21 | Benyamine, David | Las Vegas | NV | 65.400 | 169 | 3 |
22 | Hennigan, John | Las Vegas | NV | 64.900 | 169 | 8 |
23 | Phan, Tim | Westminster | CA | 63.100 | 165 | 2 |
24 | Andrzejwski, Pawel | Park Ridge | IL | 62.900 | 157 | 7 |
25 | Tehan, Joe | Las Vegas | NV | 62.600 | 161 | 3 |
26 | Lind, George III | Gilbert | AZ | 62.400 | 163 | 7 |
27 | Anthony, Richard | New York | NY | 61.600 | 162 | 1 |
28 | Rinaldi, Claudio | Rancate | Switzerland | 61.600 | 159 | 2 |
29 | Houshiar, Homan | Calgary | AB, Canada | 59.600 | 163 | 1 |
30 | Sitar, Destin | Las Vegas | NV | 59.600 | 166 | 5 |
31 | Limongi, Michele | Termoli | Italy | 59.500 | 165 | 1 |
32 | Rivera, Anthony | St. Louis | MO | 59.000 | 163 | 2 |
33 | Leonidas, Toto | Los Angeles | CA | 58.600 | 162 | 3 |
34 | Lederer, Howard | Las Vegas | NV | 57.500 | 158 | 1 |
35 | Jung, Alexander | Neue Uppiu | Germany | 57.000 | 170 | 8 |
36 | Sexton, Mike | Henderson | NV | 53.400 | 165 | 7 |
37 | Rouhani, Farzad | Germantown | MD | 51.000 | 164 | 5 |
38 | Van Alstyne, James | Las Vegas | NV | 50.200 | 157 | 5 |
39 | Sung, Steve | Torrance | CA | 47.900 | 160 | 4 |
40 | Turner, Jon | Henderson | NV | 47.200 | 159 | 8 |
41 | Heimiller, Dan | St. Charles | MO | 47.000 | 158 | 7 |
42 | Mountain, Josh | Oceanside | CA | 45.900 | 163 | 5 |
43 | Boyd, Dutch | Columbia | MO | 45.400 | 161 | 5 |
44 | Friedman, Perry | Las Vegas | NV | 45.300 | 170 | 7 |
45 | Hoang, John | Fountain Valley | CA | 45.100 | 160 | 8 |
46 | Raymer, Greg | Raleigh | NC | 45.000 | 166 | 3 |
47 | Michael, Joseph | Austin | TX | 44.100 | 166 | 2 |
48 | Landrum, Sabyl | Folsom | CA | 44.100 | 158 | 6 |
49 | Duke, Annie | Portland | OR | 43.500 | 168 | 7 |
50 | Mosseri, Abraham | New York | NY | 42.600 | 167 | 5 |
51 | Bronshtein, Yuval | Charleston | SC | 41.000 | 164 | 1 |
52 | Chambers, Tom | Chicago | IL | 40.000 | 168 | 5 |
53 | Elezra, Eli | Henderson | NV | 39.700 | 170 | 1 |
54 | Lauria, Bob | Norwich | United Kingdom | 39.600 | 162 | 6 |
55 | Golser, Markus | Anthering | Austria | 39.200 | 160 | 6 |
56 | Ferguson, Chris | Pacific Palisades | CA | 38.300 | 159 | 4 |
57 | Cousineau, Tony | Las Vegas | NV | 38.000 | 159 | 5 |
58 | Buckley, William | Phillipsburg | NJ | 37.300 | 160 | 1 |
59 | Juanda, John | Las Vegas | NV | 37.200 | 161 | 1 |
60 | Clements, Scott | Mt. Vernon | WA | 36.700 | 159 | 1 |
61 | Wattel, Mike | Phoenix | AZ | 35.800 | 161 | 4 |
62 | Fricke, James | Las Vegas | NV | 35.800 | 170 | 5 |
63 | Chiu, David | Las Vegas | NV | 35.700 | 157 | 1 |
64 | Chen, Bill | Lafayette Hill | PA | 35.500 | 160 | 5 |
65 | Bell, Chris | Raleigh | NC | 34.700 | 166 | 7 |
66 | Negreanu, Daniel | Las Vegas | NV | 33.100 | 167 | 6 |
67 | Serock, Joe | Albuquerque | NM | 31.800 | 161 | 7 |
68 | Friets, Neal | Keene | NH | 30.600 | 165 | 4 |
69 | Marsters, Tim | Brisbane | CA | 30.400 | 162 | 4 |
70 | Chad, Norman | Los Angeles | CA | 30.300 | 163 | 3 |
71 | Violette, Cyndy | Las Vegas | NV | 29.000 | 167 | 1 |
72 | Reslock, Chris | Atlantic City | NJ | 28.800 | 164 | 8 |
73 | Fu, Tian | Cypress | CA | 28.100 | 163 | 6 |
74 | Miami, John | Las Vegas | NV | 27.900 | 166 | 1 |
75 | Billirakis, Steve | Chicago | IL | 27.700 | 168 | 6 |
76 | Nguyen, Scotty | Las Vegas | NV | 26.400 | 162 | 8 |
77 | Smith, Justin | Orlando | FL | 26.400 | 162 | 2 |
78 | Chen, Yan | Irvine | CA | 26.300 | 170 | 3 |
79 | Longfellow, Karen | Indian Shores | FL | 25.500 | 168 | 8 |
80 | Heimowitz, Lonnie | Monticello | NY | 24.900 | 160 | 7 |
81 | Fellows, Zac | Vancouver | BC, Canada | 24.700 | 157 | 6 |
82 | Seidel, Erik | Henderson | NV | 23.900 | 159 | 3 |
83 | Appleman, Mickey | Fort Lee | NJ | 23.300 | 158 | 3 |
84 | John, David | Las Vegas | NV | 23.200 | 169 | 6 |
85 | Guo, Yuebin | New York | NY | 23.200 | 158 | 2 |
86 | Dang, Danny | Whittier | CA | 22.700 | 165 | 8 |
87 | Isaia, Alessio | Roccobruna | Italy | 22.500 | 160 | 3 |
88 | Bulichev, Ilia | Moscow | Russia | 22.200 | 157 | 4 |
89 | Rao, Pat | Huntington Beach | CA | 21.600 | 169 | 2 |
90 | Sklansky, David | Teaneck | NJ | 19.300 | 165 | 3 |
91 | Dickstein, Mark | New York | NY | 18.700 | 170 | 4 |
92 | Thomas, Jerri | Hamilton | OH | 18.600 | 167 | 7 |
93 | Rabtsov, Kirill | Moscow | Russia | 17.800 | 165 | 6 |
94 | Richey, Brett | New York | NY | 15.500 | 164 | 7 |
95 | Matusow, Mike | Las Vegas | NV | 15.000 | 169 | 4 |
96 | Singer, David | Las Vegas | NV | 14.700 | 164 | 2 |
97 | Brown, Chad | Las Vegas | NV | 14.500 | 169 | 7 |
98 | Zaichenko, Andrey | Moscow | Russia | 13.800 | 157 | 8 |
99 | Bonyadi, Farzad | Los Angeles | CA | 13.800 | 157 | 2 |
100 | Phan, Young | Irvine | CA | 13.500 | 157 | 3 |
101 | Harmetz, Dan | Sacramento | CA | 12.900 | 159 | 7 |
102 | Seed, Huck | Las Vegas | NV | 11.700 | 168 | 3 |
103 | Hellmuth, Phil | Palo Alto | CA | 11.200 | 169 | 5 |
104 | Giang, Chau | Las Vegas | NV | 9.900 | 168 | 1 |
105 | Gerasimov, Kirill | Moscow | Russia | 9.600 | 164 | 3 |
106 | Amaral, Chris | Fall River | MA | 5.000 | 168 | 2 |
107 | Zhu, Rich | Rowland Heights | CA | 4.000 | 168 | 4 |
108 | Dehkharghani, Ray | Huntington Beach | CA | 3.300 | 162 | 7 |
109 | Brunson, Doyle | Las Vegas | NV | DNR | 166 | 8 |
110 | Thomas, Harry | Hamilton | OH | DNR | 170 | 2 |