ESPN continues its coverage of the 2009 WSOP this week presenting the Ante Up for Africa Tournament.

Can’t watch? Spoiler–> Results of the Ante Up for Africa charity tournament. Don’t click if you don’t want to know.

Aug 11, 8 – 10pm – Ante Up For Africa celebrity-charity tournament played July 2. The 3rd annual no limit Texas hold’em tournament was hosted by Annie Duke and Don Cheadle, and was well attended by celebrities including Ray Romano, Adam Sandler, Charles Barkley, Jason Alexander, Brad Garrett, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck.

Note: For those of you who cannot see the shows at the published times, I have noticed that they have been re-broadcast later in the same week. Check  the ESPN schedule.

This Tuesday, ESPN continues presenting its coverage of the 2009 WSOP. TWENTY former WSOP Main Event Champs contend for the 2009 WSOP Champions Crown <– IMHO, doesn’t get much better than that!

Can’t watch? Spoiler–> Results of the Champions
Invitational. Don’t click if you don’t want to know.

Aug 4, 8 – 10pm – WSOP Champions Invitational event played May 31 – June 1. As the name suggests, participation was by invitation only, and invitations went out to 20 former Main Event champions. Winner received the Binion Cup, presented by Jack Binion, and a Classic 1970 Corvette.

ESPN has announced its schedule of TV episodes of its coverage of the 2009 WSOP events. The episodes will air on Tuesday nights beginning July 28. Most of the shows are two-hour installments beginning at 8pm, but, check the details below so you don’t miss out. All times are EST.

Can’t watch? Spoiler–> Results of the 40K NLHE tournament. Don’t click if you don’t want to know.

July 28, 8 – 10pm - ESPN debuts its coverage of the 2009 WSOP events. The first show will feature Event 2 of the 2009 WSOP, the $40k No Limit Hold’em 40th Anniversary tournament played May 28 – May 31.
 

Can’t watch? Spoiler–> Results of the Champions
Invitational. Don’t click if you don’t want to know.

Aug 4, 8 – 10pm – WSOP Champions Invitational event played May 31 – June 1. As the name suggests, participation was by invitation only, and invitations went out to 20 former Main Event champions. Winner received the Binion Cup, presented by Jack Binion, and a Classic 1970 Corvette.

Can’t watch? Spoiler–> Results of the Ante Up for Africa charity tournament. Don’t click if you don’t want to know.

Aug 11, 8 – 10pm – Ante Up For Africa celebrity-charity tournament played July 2. The 3rd annual no limit Texas hold’em tournament was hosted by Annie Duke and Don Cheadle, and was well attended by celebrities including Ray Romano, Adam Sandler, Charles Barkley, Jason Alexander, Brad Garrett, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck.

On August 18, ESPN begins its coverage of the 2009 WSOP Main Event.  Over 20 hours! Schedule is:

• Aug 18, 8 – 10pm – Coverage of the WSOP Main Event begins 
• Aug 25,  8 – 10pm – WSOP Main Event coverage continues
• Sept 8, 8 – 10pm – WSOP Main Event coverage continues
• Sept 15, 8 – 10pm – WSOP Main Event coverage continues
• Sept 22, 8 – 10pm – WSOP Main Event coverage continues
• Sept 29, 8 – 11pm – Three-Hour Special, “Poker Night on ESPN”
• Oct 6, 10 – 11pm – One-hour episode of WSOP Main Event coverage
• Oct 13, 9 – 11 pm – Two-hour installment of Main Event coverage,
• Oct 20, 9 – 11 pm – Two-hour installment of Main Event coverage
• Oct 27, 9 – 11 pm – Two-hour installment of Main Event coverage
• Nov 3, 9 – 11 pm – Two-hour installment of Main Event coverage
• Nov 10, 9 – 11:30 pm – 2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table coverage

 Sources:

1. ESPN –  2009 World Series of Poker Highlights
2. ESPN Will Begin Their Coverage of 2009 World Series of Poker Next Week
3. 2009 World Series of Poker begins airing on ESPN July 28th
4. @denverpokerdude on Twitter

As the 2009 WSOP November Nine were crowned earlier this week, I couldn’t help but wonder how the 2008 WSOP November Nine did on their journeys to the 2009 WSOP Final Table. Of course, since Phillips and Eastgate went pretty deep, I knew what they were doing.  But how did the others do?

From about 4 different sources, this is the picture I was able to put together. 

The 2008 WSOP November Nine in order of 2009 earnings…

1. Dennis Phillips eliminated day 7, earning $178,857
   2008 finished 3rd.
    
2. Peter Eastgate - eliminated day 6, earning $68,979
   2008 finished 1st.
    
3. Kelly Kim eliminated day 4, earning $27,469
   2008 finished 8th.
    
4. Darus Suharto eliminated day 3, earning $4,318
   2008 finished 6th.
    
5. Ylon Schwartz eliminated day 2
   2008 finished 4th.
    
6. Craig Marquis eliminated day 1
   2008 finished 9th.
    
7. Scott Montgomery eliminated day 1
   2008 finished 5th.
    
8. Ivan Demidov eliminated day 1
   2008 finished 2nd.
    
9. David ‘Chino’ Rheem eliminated day 1
   2008 finished 7th.

Yesterday, Day 8 of the 2009 WSOP Main Event, the 27 players played down to 9.  The WSOP November Nine who will be playing at the WSOP final table are:

1. Darvin Moon – 58,930,000
2. Eric Buchman – 34,800,000
3. Steven Begleiter – 29,885,000
4. Jeff Shulman – 19,580,000
5. Joseph Cada – 13,215,000
6. Kevin Schaffel – 12,390,000
7. Phil Ivey – 9,765,000
8. Antoine Saout – 9,500,000
9. James Akenhead – 6,800,000

Who do you think will win the 2009 WSOP Final table?  

Day 8 of the 2009 WSOP Main Event will begin with 27 players…playing down to the NOVEMBER NINE. Action starts at Noon PST.

One female remains and she is very short stacked. Good luck to Leo Margets!

1. Darvin Moon – 20,160,000
2. Billy Kopp – 15,970,000
3. Steven Begleiter – 11,885,000
4. Phil Ivey – 11,350,000
5. Kevin Schaffel – 11,245,000
6. Antoine Saout – 11,135,000
7. Jeff Shulman – 10,170,000
8. Eric Buchman – 10,005,000
9. Jamie Robbins – 9,795,000
10. Ben Lamb – 9,410,000
11. James Akenhead – 8,615,000
12. Joseph Cada – 6,565,000
13. James Calderaro – 6,475,000
14. Andrew Lichtenberger – 5,625,000
15. Ludovic Lacay – 5,610,000
16. Warren Zackey – 5,485,000
17. Marco Mattes – 5,285,000
18. Tommy Vedes – 5,070,000
19. Jordan Smith – 4,510,000
20. Antonio Esfandiari – 4,470,000
21. Ian Tavelli - 4,385,000
22. Jonathan Tamayo – 3,300,000
23. Jesse Haabak – 2,750,000
24. George Caragiorgas – 1,615,000
25. Nick Maimone – 1,545,000
26. Leo Margets – 1,530,000
27. Francois Balmigere – 1,440,000

Day 7 of the 2009 WSOP Main Event will begin with 64 players. 20% of the players have over 4M in chips and 12% have less than 1M. 27% of the starting stacks are in the 3Ms. Players eliminated today will earn at least $90,344. Action starts at Noon PST.

Bravo to Benjamin Jensen who went from 183rd place on Day 6 with 132K in chips to 50th place at the start of Day 7 with 1.5M in chips!

1. Darvin Moon – 9,745,000
2. Billy Kopp – 8,245,000
3. Phil Ivey – 6,345,000
4. Steven Begleiter – 6,315,000
5. Ludovic Lacay – 5,965,000
6. Antonio Esfandiari – 5,610,000
7. Tommy Vedes – 5,430,000
8. Antoine Saout – 5,195,000
9. Ben Lamb – 4,975,000
10. Nick Maimone – 4,900,000
11. Hieu Luu – 4,755,000
12. Jeff Shulman – 4,745,000
13. Charlie Elias – 4,190,000
14. Jeff Duvall – 3,935,000
15. Joseph Cada – 3,880,000
16. Luis Nargentino – 3,825,000
17. Kevin Schaffel – 3,685,000
18. Leo Margets – 3,650,000
19. Adam York – 3,515,000 
20. Marco Mattes – 3,470,000
21. Steve Sanders – 3,360,000
22. Jesse Haabak – 3,345,000
23. Adam Bilzerian – 3,305,000
24. Eugene Katchalov – 3,300,000
25. Miika Puumalainen – 3,200,000
26. Andrew Lichtenberger – 3,190,000
27. Scott Cook – 3,095,000
28. John Martin – 3,080,000
29. Fabrice Soulier – 3,025,000
30. George Saca – 3,020,000
31. Ryan Fair – 2,940,000
32. Marc McLaughlin – 2,895,000
33. Jamie Robbins – 2,895,000
34. Tom Schneider – 2,895,000
35. Jason Brice – 2,825,000
36. Christopher Bach – 2,765,000
37. Jonathan Tamayo – 2,680,000
38. George Caragiorgas – 2,670,000
39. Joseph Ward – 2,575,000
40. Eric Buchman – 2,495,000
41. Thai Tran – 2,495,000
42. Bradley Craig – 2,445,000
43. Dennis Phillips – 2,305,000
44. Blair Rodman – 2,130,000
45. Francois Balmigere – 2,025,000
46. Ian Tavelli - 1,985,000
47. James Calderaro – 1,810,000
48. James Akenhead – 1,655,000
49. Mark Ader – 1,610,000
50. Benjamin Jensen – 1,553,000
51. Warren Zackey – 1,415,000
52. Scott Sitron – 1,330,000
53. Gabriel Vezina – 1,250,000
54. Grayson Ramage – 1,215,000
55. Hung Pham – 1,006,000
56. Joe Sebok - 1,000,000
57. Martin Lapostolle – 940,000
58. Scott Bohlman – 865,000
59. Montagna Corrado – 860,000
60. Prahlad Friedman – 840,000
61. Jordan Smith – 830,000
62. Michael Jansen – 820,000
63. Manuel Labandeira – 765,000
64. Craig Boyd – 650,000

This fits in the category, “You know it wasn’t meant to be when…”

In the last hand of Day 5, Lou Diamond Phillips went all in with pocket Kings. Two players called – both with pocket Aces. The board brought no help for Phillips and he was eliminated. The other players split the pot.

Day 6 of the 2009 WSOP Main Event will begin with 185 players. 10% have over a 2M in chips, 42% have over 1M, and 21% have less than 500K. Players eliminated today will earn at least $36,626. Action starts at Noon PST.

1. Warren Zackey – 4,872,000
2. Kasper Cordes – 4,352,000
3. Darvin Moon – 3,218,000
4. Tom Schneider – 3,168,000
5. Bernhard Perner – 3,022,000
6. Miika Puumalainen – 2,894,000
7. Matt Affleck – 2,882,000
8. Charlie Elias – 2,780,000
9. James Akenhead – 2,692,000
10. Steven Begleiter – 2,621,000
11. Eugene Katchalov – 2,544,000
12. Noah Boeken – 2,338,000
13. Ben Lamb – 2,271,000
14. Jamie Robbins – 2,251,000
15. Hieu Luu – 2,181,000
16. Kevin Schaffel – 2,141,000
17. Billy Kopp – 2,100,000
18. Reed Hensel – 2,091,000
19. Andreas Flakstad – 2,090,000
20. Dag Palovic – 1,896,000
21. Marc McLaughlin – 1,881,000
22. Francois Balmigere – 1,871,000
23. Grayson Ramage – 1,842,000
24. Ludovic Lacay – 1,817,000
25. Tian Shou – 1,802,000
26. Elad Magidov – 1,762,000
27. Tommy Vedes – 1,728,000
28. Thai Tran – 1,707,000
29. Joel Patchell – 1,701,000
30. Anh Van Nguyen – 1,687,000
31. Hamid Nourafchan – 1,664,000
32. Fabrice Soulier – 1,663,000
33. Alex Prendes – 1,661,000
34. Jason Brice – 1,637,000
35. Nichoel Peppe – 1,630,000
36. Paul Johnson – 1,606,000
37. Joseph Ward – 1,583,000
38. Gabriel Vezina – 1,552,000
39. Craig Boyd – 1,545,000
40. Chuck Clark – 1,543,000
41. Jordan Smith – 1,486,000
42. Cristian Tardea – 1,475,000
43. Hung Pham – 1,463,000
44. Bob Whalen – 1,400,000
45. Phil Ivey – 1,380,000
46. Ryan Fair – 1,372,000
47. Scott Cook – 1,365,000
48. Jesse Haabak – 1,357,000
49. Nasr El Nasr – 1,329,000
50. Randy Propson – 1,326,000
51. Tim Kahlmeyer – 1,315,000
52. Brennan Hanson – 1,288,000
53. Hac Dang – 1,286,000
54. Blair Hinkle – 1,284,000
55. Steve Levy – 1,278,000
56. Jeff Shulman – 1,266,000
57. Jose Manuel Gomez – 1,260,000
58. Antonio Esfandiari – 1,227,000
59. Eracles Panayiotou – 1,212,000
60. Julien Brecard – 1,211,000
61. Theo Tran – 1,205,000
62. Jordan Morgan – 1,202,000
63. Royal Wiseman – 1,198,000
64. Steve Sanders – 1,169,000
65. Marco Mattes – 1,119,000
66. Jamie Brown – 1,109,000
67. Jeff Duvall – 1,087,000
68. Manuel Labandeira – 1,087,000
69. Andrew Lichtenberger – 1,086,000
70. George Saca – 1,061,000
71. Eric Buchman – 1,057,000
72. Adam Bilzerian – 1,056,000
73. Fernando Gordo – 1,052,000
74. Adam Latimer – 1,052,000
75. Jonathan Tamayo – 1,040,000
76. Joe Serock – 1,014,000
77. Montagna Corrado – 1,012,000
78. Dennis Phillips – 1,009,000
79. Ian Woodley – 1,005,000
80. Joe Sebok – 992,000
81. Michael Casella – 982,000
82. Bertrand Grospellier – 973,000
83. Peter Eastgate – 927,000
84. Vesa Leikos – 906,000
85. Blair Rodman – 905,000
86. Frank Rusnak – 903,000
87. Christopher Bach – 901,000
88. Aaron Coulthard – 901,000
89. Scott Bohlman – 893,000
90. Antoine Saout – 893,000
91. Sarne Lightman – 889,000
92. Lapostolle Martin – 860,000
93. Michael Jansen – 852,000
94. Maurizio Saieva – 837,000
95. Loic Degrou – 801,000
96. Ryan Gifford – 800,000
97. Marty Zabib – 799,000
98. Ryan Hart – 789,000
99. Scott Sitron – 778,000
100. Wesley Ismay – 773,000
101. David Benyamine – 764,000
102. Kenny Tran – 752,000
103. James Calderaro – 745,000
104. Joseph Cada – 736,000
105. Karl Mahrenholz – 731,000
106. J.C. Tran – 720,000
107. Prahlad Friedman – 715,000
108. Thierry van den Berg – 703,000
109. Brian Powell – 702,000
110. Chris Bjorin – 693,000
111. Alper Sar – 691,000
112. Joe Luht – 687,000
113. Nick Maimone – 684,000
114. David Diaz – 682,000
115. Alex Gurevich – 674,000
116. John Martin – 673,000
117. Cole South – 670,000
118. Michael Merichko – 667,000
119. Tony McGlone – 659,000
120. Mark Abrantes – 656,000
121. Luis Nargentino – 655,500
122. George Caragiorgas – 655,000
123. Owen Crowe – 640,000
124. Jose Rosenkrantz – 630,000
125. Jim Routos – 630,000
126. Jim Hartley – 619,000
127. Mark Ader – 611,000
128. Abraham Mourshaki – 608,000
129. Salvatore Bonavena – 596,000
130. Eli Adler – 578,000
131. Adam York – 572,000 
132. Jake Abdalla – 571,000
133. Rifat Palevic – 571,000
134. Brian Hansen – 549,000
135. Leo Margets – 544,000
136. Carter Swidler – 542,000
137. Joe Hachem – 540,000
138. John Monnette – 531,000
139. Michael Greco – 518,000
140. Don Tran – 516,000
141. Billy McMahon – 515,000
142. Alex Jalali – 505,000
143. Harry Kazazian – 501,000
144. Kent Goulding – 500,000
145. Mihail Stoykov – 498,000
146. Dan Bilzerian – 491,000
147. Ian Tavelli – 470,000
148. Bolivar Palacios – 444,000
149. Roy Vazquez – 444,000
150. Daniel Neilson – 439,000
151. Michael Comer – 430,000
152. Joey Lawrence – 428,000
153. Edward Teens – 421,000
154. Brent Catalano – 413,000
155. Dwayne Stacey – 410,000
156. Bob Lauria – 405,000
157. Herbie Gelman – 404,000
158. Leonard Greer – 397,000
159. Minh Nguyen – 387,000
160. Cristian Heich – 381,000
161. Viet Nguyen – 363,000
162. Scott Blackman – 356,000
163. Mike Minetti – 351,000
164. Paul Smith – 348,000
165. Bryan Kerr – 344,000
166. Joseph Sanders – 341,000
167. Igor Sharaskin – 337,000
168. Cary Katz – 335,000
169. Bradley Craig – 320,000
170. Ludovic Lachance – 302,000
171. Seth Thomsen – 302,000
172. Jamin Stokes – 292,000
173. Taher Alisheik – 281,000
174. Scott Eskenazi – 270,000
175. Craig Crivello – 253,000
176. Paul Baron – 249,000
177. Clayton Newman – 244,000
178. Greg Thompson – 240,000
179. Danny Smith – 214,000
180. Eric Cloutier – 212,000
181. Robert Allen – 173,000
182. Bobby Law – 163,000
183. Benjamin Jensen – 132,000
184. Bob Riley – 122,000
185. Alessandro Longobardi – 109,000

WOW – I can’t believe it! Poker pros and poker reporters are tweeting that day 1D of the WSOP Main Event (ME) has been sold out and somewhere between 500 – 1,000 people have been locked out. Those inside are tweeting about how stunned and surprised they are.

Poker Pro Lee Childs (@leechilds) tweets that among those locked out are TJ CLoutier, Patrik Antonius, Sully Erna, & Brandon Adams.

Evidently, there are angry crowds in the hall…

4:08 pm EST @UltimateBet tweets:

Mike Sexton, who was appointed ambassador by the crowd and Jack Effel are discussing the matter.

It will be interesting to learn who else was left out and what Harrah’s is going to do in the future.

4:45 pm EST @taopauly tweets:

Lots of conflicting reports of favoritism. Sully Erna got in now & players in the Diamond Registration line were told to return at 3pm [Vegas time].

4:55 pm EST –> Latest Rumor: Day 1e to play at same time as Day 2a

……………………

5:12pm EST – @taopauly tweets:

Correction… Antonius is in the field according to ESPN…

5:15pm EST @bluffmagazine tweets:

Jeffrey Pollack to update shutout players @ 2:30 pm at the Pavilion [Vegas time].

5:38pm EST @taopauly tweets:

“we are unable to accomodate any more entrants” said commish in meeting. about 150 players in meeting

Related Story by Gene Bromberg at UltimateBet.com:

“The big story today isn’t that there are over 2,700 people playing in the Main Event–it’s the 500 (or more) who WANTED to play in the Main Event today and weren’t able to because Day 1D sold out.” … Read the whole story,  No Room at the Inn

6:00pm EST Poker Pro Joe Sebok (@joesebok) tweets:

players shut out will NOT be allowed to play @ wsop. issues on both sides. i want them to play, but get the logistical problems it raises.

6:12pm EST - Benjo DiMeo (@BenjoDiMeo) tweets that poker master Minh Ly confirmed that he is one of the players locked out of day 1D.

7:35pm EST – Waiting on more news. Lots of rumors flying. Reputable reporters are chasing down the truth and I’ll post it when it is available.

9:05 pm EST – Bluff Magazine article reports that the number of hopefuls turned away from WSOP Event 57 is closer to the low end of the estimated 500 – 1,000 range : WSOP: Riot at the Rio – Players Shut Out of Main Event Day 1d