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Day 2
Within the first 10 minutes of play, Carlos Mortensen was eliminated by Theo Tran. Mortensen
who started the day with 22,300 just hit bad luck when his pocket Q's met with Tran's paired
Aces. Grant Hinkle was also a casualty early on, as was Andy Black, Jimmy Fricke, Erick Lindgren,
Alexander Kostritsyn and Rob Hollink. Chau Giang also lost his all-in bid with A K when his opponent
hit a set of Jacks on the flop.
But these players were hot in today's action. Ludovic Lacay doubled up when he made quad 7's by
the river card. Cody Slaubaugh hit a big one sending him to 258K after a hand with Ryan Welch.
Kathy Liebert was also looking pretty with over 240,000 in her stack. Action went hand to hand
at the bubble, but afterwards there were 63 happy players left over who earned a minimum of
$10,159 for their efforts. Later on, Christian Iacobellis hit quad 8's which beat the full house
of his opponent resulting in his stack hitting 400,000. He was one of the 17 players that will
move on to Day 3 which will decide who will become champion and newest owner of a WSOP gold bracelet.
Day 3 -- Final Table
Here are notes from the WSOP on the final table:
The 2009 World Series of Poker $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em champion is Brian Lemke. Prior
to this victory, Lemke's biggest live poker win was about $8,000. He won about 80 times
that amount in this tournament. Lemke was emotional following his victory. At the table,
he wore a shirt in tribute to his late cousin – Justin Shronk – who sadly passed away at
the age of 27 on April 22, 2009. Shronk was a producer for the poker radio show "Poker Road."
Lemke collected $692,690 for first place. He was also awarded his first WSOP gold bracelet.
The defending champion from 2008 was Scott Seiver, from Cold Springs Harbor, NY. He entered
this year's tournament but did not cash.
Lemke commented that his final opponent, Fabian Quoss is a great player. Lemke stated
he sat with Quoss during much of the later stages of the tournament and developed a healthy
respect for his adversary. "I kind of feel bad for sucking out on him," Lemke said.
"But that’s poker – I’ll take it." Note: Lemke caught a three-outer on the final
hand of the night.
When heads-up play began, Fabian Quoss enjoyed slightly greater than a 4 to 1 chip lead over
Brian Lemke. But during the match, Lemke became the aggressor and gradually chipped away
at his opponent. Quoss was clearly unlucky on what turned out to be the final hand of the
night. When the final hand was dealt, the players were close to even in chips, with Lemke
holding the advantage. The final hand of the tournament came when all the money went into
the pot pre-flop. Quoss had A-Q. Lemke had A-8. Lemke appeared to be in big trouble,
but managed to hit a three-outer on the turn to make a straight. The final board showed
J-10-9-Q-x, giving Quoss top pair, but Lemke the straight.
Brian Lemke