Event #4 has Hit the Brakes and May be Extended for Another Day

Posted by pokerguru on June 3, 2009

It is surprising that it took this long with some of the fields that we have seen, but a tournament may finally be extended for an additional day. Event #4, the $1,000 Stimulus NL Hold’em Event still has 12 players remaining and tournament officials are going to offer the players the option to pay through tonight until a winner is decide or to come back at 2:00pm tomorrow to finish. As of this posting, the leader is Jeff Oakes with 2.4 million in chips.

Event #5, the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Event, is now down to 27 players. This was supposed to be the game that was going to be featured on the live stream, but they have already stated that they will change the game to the NL Event #4 if that gets extended. The current leader is Jason Mercier with 262,000 in chips.

Event #6, The $10,000 7 Card Stud World Championship, is the third event that is being played down to f final table tonight. There are still 48 players remaining from the 142 man field and play in this one has been dragging for both days. Greg Mueller has a huge chip lead at 206,000. The next closest player is Hoyt Corkins with 148,000. Todd Brunson is still on the leader board, but he is slowly slipping. However, the bulk of the chips in play are sitting in front of the top 8 players so anyone on the front page is still very much in this to make it to the final table.

Two events started today, the $1,500 NL Hold’em event and the always fun $2,500 Deuce to Seven Lowball No Limit tournament. The leader board in the NL Hold’em event is once again littered with names that most people will not recognize. The big name pros are having an extremely hard time in the NL Hold’em events as every one of them has a huge target on their head. With the fields being so large, it is hard to imagine that we are going to see any major pros hoisting a NL bracelet.

The Deuce to Seven Lowball event seems like it is the place to be for a good time tonight. The sheer nature of the game lends itself to a fun time and the pros are eating it up. Just about every major player in the game has signed up for this one. If you are looking for a pro to take this one down, the money would have to be on Ivey or Negreanu. Both players are among the best in the world at this off the wall game and the amateurs are going to have a hard time keeping up with these two.

With all of the events going on, there are quite a few players that have been multi-tabling. It is not something that you see very often, but everyone is looking for a bracelet and players like Negreanu seem to be entered in every event on the board. The tournament staff is doing an incredible job of keeping everything moving and all of the players straight. Tomorrow could be pure insanity though with 3 final tables going and a total of 7 tournaments in all. Should be a fun day!