A massive field of 3,289 players turned out for Event #24 of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP), a $1,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament. Now, just nine remain and leading the way is JD BubbaKGB McNamara, who works for the parent company of PocketFives.com. He’s assured a payday of at least $38,000 and will vie for a top prize of over $500,000 when play resumes at 2:30pm PT on Wednesday. Let’s recap all of the action from Tuesday at the 2010 WSOP.
McNamara entered the day as one of the short stacks, but quickly made his presence known. He sent Dean Schankin to the rails in 26th place after his A-K out-raced pocket tens. Then, McNamara doubled up with pocket aces against the pocket kings of James Jeffrey to move to 856,000 in chips. McNamara promptly dispatched of Yordan Mitrentsov in 19th place after his pocket kings held against A-K. The Canadian finished Tuesday’s session at 2.39 million in chips, just edging out Kiet Tuan’s second place tally of 2.31 million:
1. JD BubbaKGBMcNamara – 2,393,000
2. Kiet Tuan – 2,311,000
3. Blake Kelso – 1,166,000
4. John Tolbert – 925,000
5. David Cai – 844,000
6. Denis Murphy – 789,000
7. Greg Pohler – 660,000
8. Michael Gross – 535,000
9. Jeffrey Tebben – 466,000
McNamara took time out of his evening to address his fans lending support in a thread in Off Topic: “Thanks for all the support… it’s great knowing I have this many people behind me. I’ve played my absolute best so far and that’s what I plan on doing tomorrow. Everything else is out of my control and I’m not too worried about anything but playing solid poker. Hopefully things go my way at the FT.” McNamara has never cashed in the WSOP.
Playing down to 15 competitors on Tuesday was Event #26, $2,500 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max. Appearing in third place on the leaderboard is Jeff jpapola Papola (pictured), who owns a stack of 797,000 chips. He’s about 500,000 behind chip leader Steve Cowley and, in one of the more diverse fields we’ve seen so far, seven countries are represented in the final 15 players. Papola doubled up Tyler Witteman late in the day when his A-K could not draw out on pocket queens, which sent his stack diving below 400,000. However, he rebounded to end play and now sits in prime shape to bank the $630,000 top prize.
Also remaining in the hunt in Event #26 is Justin Boosted JSmith (pictured), who holds 641,000 chips entering the final day of play. Smith finished third in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bellagio Cup last year for $464,000 and took second to Victory Pokerpro Alec trahehoTorelli in the Main Event of the second ever Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) for $175,000. Here’s a look at the 15 players who will duke it out today for the bracelet in the $2,500 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max tournament:
1. Steve Cowley – 1,279,000
2. Martins Adeniya – 823,000
3. Jeff jpapolaPapola – 797,000
4. William Haydon – 776,000
5. Joe Baldwin – 707,000
6. Justin Boosted J Smith – 641,000
7. Jarred Solomon – 542,000
8. Javier Etayo – 505,000
9. Erik Cajelais – 345,000
10. Andrey Danilyuk – 335,000
11. Tyler Witteman – 326,000
12. Patrick Ricci – 284,000
13. Eduard Scharf – 211,000
14. Alexander Ivarsson – 105,000
15. Taurean Davis – 69,000
Finally, European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin winner Kevin ImaLuckSac MacPhee (pictured) is one of 23 players left standing in Event #27, $1,500 Seven Card Stud High-Low Eight or Better. Also representing the online poker community are WSOP bracelet winner Blair Rodman, Christopher indarivaTryba, and Regis ForcepsBurlot:
1. Maxwell Troy – 430,000
2. Christopher George – 375,000
3. David Levi – 216,000
4. Karina Jett – 187,000
5. Allyn Marshall – 150,000
6. David Warga – 138,000
7. Kevin ImaLuckSacMacPhee – 138,000
8. Jonathan Bascom – 138,000
9. Michael Foti – 137,000
10. Blair Rodman – 117,000
11. Odette Tremblay – 112,000
12. Robert Campbell – 110,000
13. Scott Lake – 105,000
14. Allen Bari – 98,000
15. Jason Estock – 89,000
16. Christopher indarivaTryba – 68,000
17. Thomas Hunt – 62,000
18. Regis ForcepsBurlot – 57,000
19. Topias Wahlbeck – 52,000
20. Brandon Cantu – 50,000
21. Dennis Seagle – 44,000
22. Bonnie Damiano Leinhos – 38,000
23. James Richburg – 23,000
Stay tuned to PocketFives.com for the latest WSOP coverage of online poker players. Plus, check out a partial list of member cashes.