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  WSOP -- Day 1B of the Main Event

   

  

  by Steve Schult

  While most people spent the day barbecuing in their backyard to celebrate the Fourth of July, there were still 873 people that wanted to spend America’s birthday in the Rio’s Amazon Room, as day 1b of the World Series of Poker main event kicked off. The 873 players is a considerable drop from the 1,158 players Continued ...

   

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  Look Out: Jimmy Fricke

  Jimmy Fricke, a player to look out for in this Main Event, more than doubled his starting stack on day 1A and stopped by the CPTV studio to discuss play so far.

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  Primarily a cash game player before winning the 2008 World Series of Poker, Peter Eastgate stepped it up to the highest-staked cash games offered with his newly padded bankroll. He was recently featured on the latest season of High Stakes Poker on GSN. Eastgate talked to Card Continued...

   

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  	Player	2009 POY Points	2009 POY Winnings
  1	Vitaly Lunkin	4,337	$3,140,037
  2	Eric Baldwin	4,060	$1,029,892
  3	Angel Guillen	3,492	$943,268
  4	Cornel Andrew Cimpan	3,450	$1,773,374
  5	Brock Parker	3,132	$776,433
  6	Jeffrey Lisandro	3,018	$781,252
  7	Poorya Nazari	3,000	$3,000,000
  8	Jude Ainsworth	2,840	$1,009,885
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  10	James Van Alstyne	2,756	$549,057
  11	Chris Moore	2,710	$563,822
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  13	Panayote Vilandos	2,640	$1,080,539
  14	Martin Jacobson	2,608	$477,536
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  1	Shaun Deeb	6,690	$662,181
  2	Steve Gross	6,108	$841,591
  3	Aditya Agarwal	5,428	$472,997
  4	Nick M.	5,386	$474,429
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  6	David Sands	4,860	$551,424
  7	Chris Moorman	4,808	$537,479
  8	Jeremiah Vinsant	4,806	$542,091
  9	Thayer Rasmussen	4,684	$373,275
  10	Dan Martin	4,536	$373,701
  11	Jonathan Delong	4,472	$495,520
  12	Hunter Frey	4,428	$360,345
  13	David Baker	4,324	$573,061
  14	Casey Jarzabek	4,290	$357,358
  15	Jason Koon	4,226	$641,921

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  	United States	174	171	182	527
  	Australia	16	16	20	52
  	Canada	13	15	8	36
  	United Kingdom	12	14	13	39
  	Germany	12	7	5	24
  	Italy	9	4	2	15
  	Denmark	6	8	3	17
  	Russian Federation	5	5	4	14
  	Sweden	4	6	7	17
  	France	2	7	5	14

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