Mit dem $1.500 No Limit Hold’em stand das nächste Massenevent auf dem Programm. Unter den 2.521 Startern waren auch einige deutschsprachige Spieler, aber nur Markus Feurle und Alexander Burkart schafften es in Tag 2.
Nicht allzu groß war die deutschsprachige Beteiligung. Unter anderem waren (erstmals) PokerStars Pro Jan Heitmann, PartyPoker Pro Dragan Galic, Full Tilt Pro Markus Lehmann, Davor Bendin, Andreas Krause, Alexander Burkart, Andreas Martens, Rainer Meyer, Huykhiem Nguyen, Hanno Offen, Marvin Rettenmaier, Tarek Riester, Thorsten Schuler, Frank Stumpf, Jürgen Sternad, Felix Bleiker, Sam El Sayed, Vladimir Geshkenbein, Ronald Grauer, Dani Studer und Stefan Huber angetreten.
Auch die internationalen Pros hielten sich ob der Konkurrenz der anderen Events doch in Grenzen. Aber ein paar durften auch nicht fehlen – die PokerStars Pros Humberto Brenes und Bertrand Grospellier, Jeff Madsen, Jonathan Little, Neil Channing, Jennifer Tilly, Shannon Elizabeth, Antonio Esfandiari, Joe Sebok und so weiter.
Für Bertrand Grospellier war auch bald Feierabend, als er mit
gegen Pocket 4s auf dem Flop
das Nachsehen hatte. Auch Jonathan Little verabschiedete sich früh gegen ein Flush, ebenso gingen auch Maria Ho, Kara Scott und John Phan.
Humberto Brenes katapulitierte sich in einer der letzten Hände weit nach vorne, als er mit
das All-in eines Spielers am Flop
callte. Sein Gegner hielt
, aber am River
und damit konnte Humberto Platz 2 im Chipcount erobern.
Als der Tag zu Ende ging, waren nur noch 278 Spieler übrig und heute geht es damit direkt um die Bubble, da 270 Plätze bezahlt werden. Markus Feurle und Alexander Burkart sind die einzigen deutschsprachigen Spieler, die heute um den Einzug ins Finale kämpfen.
| 1 | Jackson Zheng | 151.000 |
| 2 | Humberto Brenes | 146.400 |
| 3 | Darren Spurlock | 142.400 |
| 4 | Grayson Ramage | 130.000 |
| 5 | James Sowers | 124.300 |
| 6 | Jerry Wong | 122.500 |
| 7 | Carter Phillips | 122.100 |
| 8 | Bryan Paris | 117.100 |
| 9 | Luigi Caramatti | 108.100 |
| 10 | Arnaud Mattern | 107.500 |
| 11 | Michael Finstein | 104.200 |
| 12 | Matthew Berkey | 97.500 |
| 13 | Michael Glasser | 96.500 |
| 14 | Nicholas Harvalis | 95.800 |
| 15 | Thomas Johnson | 93.700 |
| 16 | Alexander Fitzgerald | 92.300 |
| 17 | Jason Burt | 91.800 |
| 18 | Bahador Ahmadi | 90.300 |
| 19 | Jon Ho Christensen | 89.700 |
| 20 | Alexander Barlow | 89.200 |
| 21 | Herril Hoeg | 86.700 |
| 22 | Dean Hamrick | 86.000 |
| 23 | Reed Hensel | 86.000 |
| 24 | Elliott Zaydman | 85.300 |
| 25 | Ryan Hemmel | 84.800 |
| 26 | Jay Houston | 83.000 |
| 27 | Joseph Hanna | 79.400 |
| 28 | Michael Kabilio | 79.200 |
| 29 | Carl Carlsson | 78.400 |
| 30 | Jesse Cohen | 76.400 |
| 31 | Stephen Chidwick | 74.800 |
| 32 | Marc Levy | 74.600 |
| 33 | Zachary Fahmie | 73.900 |
| 34 | Raul Gonzales | 72.800 |
| 35 | Jason Gray | 72.700 |
| 36 | Matthew Vance | 72.000 |
| 37 | Marco Fantini | 71.900 |
| 38 | Charles Leroi | 70.000 |
| 39 | Mark Zajdner | 69.300 |
| 40 | Jason Whiddon | 68.900 |
| 41 | Vig Karoly | 68.600 |
| 42 | David Miscikowski | 67.900 |
| 43 | Darren Elias | 67.500 |
| 44 | Leonard Levenson | 66.900 |
| 45 | Robert Koss | 66.700 |
| 46 | Jeffery Elhami | 65.300 |
| 47 | Richard Webb | 64.600 |
| 48 | Daniel Johnson | 64.500 |
| 49 | Alessio Isaia | 64.200 |
| 50 | Karec Terrell | 64.100 |
| 51 | Kevin Schulz | 63.800 |
| 52 | Kurt Uhler | 62.700 |
| 53 | Ragnar Astrom | 62.200 |
| 54 | Aram Zerounian | 61.700 |
| 55 | Andrew Rosskamm | 60.600 |
| 56 | Joseph Fraulob | 60.400 |
| 57 | Nathan Tuthill | 60.200 |
| 58 | Brian Mintz | 59.600 |
| 59 | Aaron Gustavson | 59.500 |
| 60 | Dmitriy Shilnikov | 59.400 |
| 61 | David Zeitlin | 58.600 |
| 62 | Mark Sykes | 58.500 |
| 63 | John Orr | 57.800 |
| 64 | Michael Fong | 57.600 |
| 65 | Ian Wiley | 57.300 |
| 66 | Jesse Fulmer | 57.200 |
| 67 | Bernard Ko | 56.100 |
| 68 | Dominik Cantore | 55.600 |
| 69 | Craig Crivello | 55.500 |
| 70 | William Looper | 55.500 |
| 71 | Rick Schwartz | 55.100 |
| 72 | Juan Ramirez | 55.000 |
| 73 | Conrad Monica | 54.900 |
| 74 | Frank Rusnak | 54.600 |
| 75 | Klein Bach | 54.300 |
| 76 | Aaron Charles | 54.100 |
| 77 | Alfredo Ceballos | 53.400 |
| 78 | Tomas Alenius | 52.800 |
| 79 | Alex Smith | 52.300 |
| 80 | Mario Cordero | 52.200 |
| 81 | Kim Sherlin | 51.000 |
| 82 | Alexi Lammi | 51.000 |
| 83 | Fergal Nealon | 49.800 |
| 84 | Michael Shelton | 49.400 |
| 85 | Aaron Lambert | 49.000 |
| 86 | Craig Bergeron | 48.500 |
| 87 | John Reinhold | 48.100 |
| 88 | Peter Granlund | 47.900 |
| 89 | Jefferson James | 47.800 |
| 90 | Arnaud Gailleurd | 47.800 |
| 91 | Luke Trotman | 47.400 |
| 92 | Aditya Agarwal | 47.400 |
| 93 | Daniel Buzgon | 47.300 |
| 94 | Ira Marcus | 47.200 |
| 95 | Thomas Kruger | 46.600 |
| 96 | Emanuel Failla | 46.500 |
| 97 | Dan Santoro | 46.400 |
| 98 | Samir Zoudo | 46.100 |
| 99 | Philip Jacobsen | 46.000 |
| 100 | Bryan Sneed | 46.000 |
| 101 | Chris McCormack | 45.000 |
| 102 | Martin Fynbo | 44.900 |
| 103 | Juan Manuel Pastor Baez | 43.300 |
| 104 | David Perry | 43.300 |
| 105 | Markus Feurle | 43.300 |
| 106 | Michael Shklover | 43.100 |
| 107 | Ken McKay | 42.900 |
| 108 | Jason Wheeler | 42.300 |
| 109 | Ron Haeri | 41.900 |
| 110 | Jose Obadia | 41.300 |
| 111 | Ricardo Sousa | 41.200 |
| 112 | Evan McNiff | 41.000 |
| 113 | Philip Meulyzer | 40.600 |
| 114 | Adam Adler | 40.200 |
| 115 | Andy Yassa | 40.200 |
| 116 | Joe Tehan | 40.000 |
| 117 | Brett Michael Askins | 39.800 |
| 118 | Saar Wilf | 39.600 |
| 119 | William Prieto | 39.600 |
| 120 | Ravi Raghavan | 39.300 |
| 121 | Monte Hoover | 39.200 |
| 122 | Scott Haraden | 38.900 |
| 123 | Bryan Piccioli | 38.900 |
| 124 | Steven Fung | 38.700 |
| 125 | Lawrence Sharp | 38.300 |
| 126 | Sean Riley | 38.300 |
| 127 | Dustin Pattinson | 38.200 |
| 128 | Alan Schottenfeld | 38.000 |
| 129 | Antonio Miranda | 37.900 |
| 130 | Gregg Merkow | 37.800 |
| 131 | Daniel Skolovy | 37.800 |
| 132 | Veronica Dabul | 37.200 |
| 133 | Rodeen Talebi | 37.000 |
| 134 | Mile Karangelovski | 36.800 |
| 135 | Jonathan Neckar | 36.600 |
| 136 | James Schaaf | 36.600 |
| 137 | Patrick Barth | 36.600 |
| 138 | Brian Razo | 36.400 |
| 139 | Chad Siu | 35.600 |
| 140 | Jeffrey Balsewich | 35.600 |
| 141 | James Adams | 35.300 |
| 142 | Jeff Madsen | 35.100 |
| 143 | Justin Iovanne | 35.000 |
| 144 | Matt Marafioti | 34.900 |
| 145 | Marc Miller | 34.900 |
| 146 | Nikolaj Simonsen | 34.400 |
| 147 | Michael Blocksidge | 34.400 |
| 148 | Gary Murrey | 34.300 |
| 149 | Ishak Noyan | 34.100 |
| 150 | Adriano Santa Ana | 33.400 |
| 151 | Darren Lacy | 33.100 |
| 152 | Michael Vaccarello | 32.200 |
| 153 | Andre Boer | 32.200 |
| 154 | Hirofumi Suzuki | 31.700 |
| 155 | Chris Cornell | 31.400 |
| 156 | Ken Kao | 31.100 |
| 157 | Eric Kline | 31.000 |
| 158 | John Dombroski | 30.900 |
| 159 | Robert Vaghefi | 30.200 |
| 160 | Robert Valentine | 30.100 |
| 161 | Kim Kelly | 30.000 |
| 162 | Steven Gross | 29.700 |
| 163 | Matthias Nilsson | 28.900 |
| 164 | William Jones | 28.500 |
| 165 | Donizetti Ferreira | 28.400 |
| 166 | Mitchell Gillespie | 28.300 |
| 167 | Stephen Miczak | 28.000 |
| 168 | Kevin Schaffel | 27.700 |
| 169 | Joanne Dorin | 27.600 |
| 170 | Richard Golzio | 27.400 |
| 171 | Alexander Burkart | 27.300 |
| 172 | C Gary Krakower | 26.700 |
| 173 | Giovanni Pollini | 26.500 |
| 174 | John Kurtzeborn | 26.400 |
| 175 | Scott Horowitz | 26.400 |
| 176 | Nam Le | 25.700 |
| 177 | Getty Mattingsley | 25.600 |
| 178 | Sharonne Hapuarachy | 25.500 |
| 179 | Eric Lynch | 24.800 |
| 180 | Christopher Goo | 24.600 |
| 181 | Frank Guida | 24.500 |
| 182 | Thomas Oneal | 24.300 |
| 183 | Michael Swick | 24.100 |
| 184 | Kelly Edwards | 24.000 |
| 185 | Bernard Lee | 23.500 |
| 186 | Dmitry Vitkind | 23.400 |
| 187 | Daniel Smyth | 23.200 |
| 188 | Nick Voyatzis | 23.000 |
| 189 | Michael Palumbo | 22.800 |
| 190 | Andre Boyer | 22.600 |
| 191 | Eric Bolinder | 22.100 |
| 192 | Richard Allen Jr. | 22.100 |
| 193 | William Durkee | 22.000 |
| 194 | Romuaid Pycior | 21.400 |
| 195 | Justen Miller | 21.000 |
| 196 | Christopher Chau | 20.900 |
| 197 | Andrew Eiger | 20.900 |
| 198 | James Charbonneau | 20.900 |
| 199 | Kyle Shigano | 20.500 |
| 200 | Fatima Moreira De Melo | 20.500 |
| 201 | Timothy Taft | 20.200 |
| 202 | Derek Murray | 19.900 |
| 203 | Richard Talerico | 19.700 |
| 204 | Casey Caldwell | 19.700 |
| 205 | Tyler Cornell | 19.400 |
| 206 | Marc Lome | 18.700 |
| 207 | Kevin Moore | 18.600 |
| 208 | David Siegel | 18.400 |
| 209 | Gladys Landegger | 18.200 |
| 210 | Michael Faterkowski | 18.100 |
| 211 | William Daymon | 17.900 |
| 212 | Michael Lytle | 17.800 |
| 213 | Pejman Niyati | 17.500 |
| 214 | John Centeno | 17.200 |
| 215 | Maciek Gracz | 17.200 |
| 216 | John Hice | 17.100 |
| 217 | Brian Small | 17.100 |
| 218 | Aaron Kaiser | 16.700 |
| 219 | Javier Fernandez | 16.300 |
| 220 | Eddylee Martin | 16.200 |
| 221 | Clifford Pappas | 16.200 |
| 222 | Rodger Azadganian | 16.100 |
| 223 | Kenneth Finch | 16.100 |
| 224 | Michael Chirnside | 16.100 |
| 225 | Anthony Thompson | 16.000 |
| 226 | Brian Morris | 16.000 |
| 227 | Tu Ta | 15.800 |
| 228 | Jeffery Clayton | 15.800 |
| 229 | Jason Lavallee | 15.800 |
| 230 | Robert Hempkins | 15.700 |
| 231 | Narinder Singh Khasria | 15.500 |
| 232 | Norris Wong | 15.400 |
| 233 | Artur Szczupak | 14.600 |
| 234 | Michael Moore | 14.300 |
| 235 | Sadany Hevia | 14.000 |
| 236 | Dmitry Stelmak | 13.900 |
| 237 | Hussein Harb | 13.700 |
| 238 | Mitsuhiro Nakao | 13.600 |
| 239 | Ramon Lopez | 13.500 |
| 240 | Lennart Konst | 13.500 |
| 241 | Brandon Petersen | 13.300 |
| 242 | Michael Colarusso | 13.200 |
| 243 | Michael Mariakis | 13.100 |
| 244 | Maurice Millares | 12.600 |
| 245 | Gregory Esgar | 12.000 |
| 246 | Edward Shade | 11.700 |
| 247 | Tommi Ranttila | 11.600 |
| 248 | Suzanne Carrillo | 11.300 |
| 249 | Daniel Ross | 11.300 |
| 250 | Nicholas Avena | 11.200 |
| 251 | Brian Sandmann | 10.900 |
| 252 | Tarun Ravi | 10.900 |
| 253 | Stanislav Zavoyskiy | 10.900 |
| 254 | Mark Roberts | 10.800 |
| 255 | Kevin Currey | 10.500 |
| 256 | Paul Sharbanee | 9.700 |
| 257 | Michael Myers | 8.900 |
| 258 | Vito Racanelli | 8.800 |
| 259 | Mario Silvestri | 8.600 |
| 260 | Andrew Newitt | 8.400 |
| 261 | David Vaillancourt | 8.200 |
| 262 | Bobby Binsky | 8.100 |
| 263 | Shuan Chavez | 8.100 |
| 264 | Roberto Betbese | 8.100 |
| 265 | Steven Dezelich | 8.000 |
| 266 | Kenneth Duggan | 7.900 |
| 267 | Ken Moss | 7.900 |
| 268 | Dennis Nordman | 7.700 |
| 269 | Bradford Neilson | 7.600 |
| 270 | Matt Widdoes | 6.700 |
| 271 | Gregory Masters | 6.100 |
| 272 | Shannon Kelly | 5.600 |
| 273 | Jeff Hakim | 5.600 |
| 274 | Seth Liebert | 4.800 |
| 275 | Terry Gaines | 3.200 |
| 276 | Charlie Ramirez | 2.600 |
| 277 | Jon Chartley | 2.300 |