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Day 2
Dealers were dealing at 2:00 PM to those players who were there. Fatigue was getting the best of
them which may be why players were going to the rail almost immediately. Vanessa Selbst and Tony G
went in the first 20 minutes. Matthew Greenwood lost to the nut straight of Stefan Mattson.
Freddy Deeb lost to the spade flush made by another player. Hoyt Corkins became a victim of the poker
gods anger when the Q J 10 9 he went all in with lost to the A A K 10 of his opponent when the board helped neither
player. Ben Grundy also went to the rail courtesy of the set of Kings made by Ferit Gabriellson.
Also gone are Erik Seidel, Steve Zolotow, Mikael Thuritz and John Hansen.
One player Nam Le who was in this event and the $1,500 No Limit Hold'Em has not been seen much today.
He did show up for a few minutes, but outside of that his stack has been blinded off most of the day.
He didn't show up soon after dinner break when at level 13, blinds are 1500/3000. But he did run back
and forth between events, running his stack up over 100K several times. Le kept going...until the
bubble was reached and he finished in bubble boy position number 28. Ouch! In true top pro fashion, Le got up
and ran back to the other tournament where he still had chips. Two more eliminations, namely
Erick Lindgren
in 27th and Jonas Entin in 26th meant it was time to bag the chips and the rest of
the players to come back tomorrow.
Payout schedule for final table players:
Day 3 -- Final Table
Read the final table comeback story from the WSOP news desk:
The 2009 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha world champion is Matt Graham.
Before he became a poker pro, Graham was a pre-med student. He dropped out of college to play
poker and has enjoyed tremendous success on the tournament circuit and at the WSOP the past
five years. Among Graham’s successes have been a win at the World Poker Open and in a $5,000
buy-in event at the Bellagio. Graham’s first WSOP gold bracelet came in last year’s $1,500
buy-in Limit Shootout event. With this victory, Graham became the 128th player in WSOP to
earn in excess of $1 million in World Series winnings. Graham collected $679,402 for first
place. He was also awarded his second WSOP gold bracelet.
The final table lasted about ten hours. The chip leader at the start of the final table
was Matt Graham. He ended up winning the tournament. The final table chip distribution
was one of the most even of any finale played this year. It took nearly three hours to
bust out the first player. Furthermore, during the first five hours of play, players
were separated by small margins. Vitaly Lunkin’s elimination of Barry Greenstein gave
him the chip lead, which he held during the majority of play. The heads-up match between
Vitaly Lunkin and Matt Graham was as entertaining as any finale played at this year’s
WSOP. Lunkin had his opponent on the ropes several times, but was never quite able to
put Graham away with a knockout punch. The American managed to overcome the feisty
Russian’s 9 to 1 chip lead and staged a dramatic comeback. In the midst of doubling
up three times and taking a slight chip lead, Graham won every hand of consequence
during the final 45 minutes of play. The key hand of the match took place on the final
hand of the tournament when Graham’s flopped set of tens held up against Lunkin, who
missed a flush draw with two cards to be dealt. Two blanks on the turn and river
gave Graham his second WSOP victory and the title, "2009 Pot-Limit Omaha World Champion."
Matt Graham