Alex Bolotin Leads After Day 1
Jun 29, '11
Day 1 of the $1,500 no-limit hold’em event is officially in the books. A total of 2,713 players put up the buy-in, meaning the winner of this tournament will leave the Rio with
$650,223.
Alex Bolotin will lead the overnight chip counts, but he is followed closely behind by notables such as Jonathan Little, Laurence Houghton and Corey Burbick.
Here are the overnight chip counts.
| Player Name |
Chip Count |
| Alex Bolotin |
129,800 |
| Sebastian Winkler |
123,800 |
| Jonathan Little |
120,300 |
| Adolfo Pereira De Souza |
94,500 |
| Laurence Houghton |
91,200 |
| Corey Burbick |
90,500 |
| Michael Bisutti |
89,000 |
| Eugene Castro |
88,300 |
| Christopher Gonzales |
87,200 |
| Christopher Valenzuela |
87,000 |
| Aleksandr Mozhnyakov |
85,900 |
| Antoine Guyetant |
78,100 |
| Brandon Becker |
76,700 |
| William Dorey |
73,900 |
| Sven Niklas Heinecker |
73,700 |
| Adam Bitker |
73,300 |
| Jason Seitz |
73,100 |
| Blake Purvis |
71,800 |
| Chino Rheem |
71,300 |
| Vladimir Kochelaevskiy |
71,300 |
| Yevgeniy Timoshenko |
70,700 |
| Jacob Toole |
70,200 |
| Mattia Orlandi |
69,700 |
| Anthony Gregg |
68,300 |
| Casey Ross |
66,600 |
| Michael Linn |
66,000 |
| Marcos Palermo |
65,600 |
| Luke Staudenmaier |
65,500 |
| Tor Welo |
65,000 |
| Gregory Nolin |
64,800 |
| Daniele Amatruda |
64,100 |
| Matt Brady |
63,100 |
| Christopher Kolla |
62,600 |
| Billy Huynh |
59,900 |
| Ben Lefew |
58,000 |
| Brian Powell |
57,700 |
| Simeon Sundelius |
57,200 |
| Tam Nguyen |
56,900 |
| Ashton Berner |
56,600 |
| Sorel Mizzi |
56,000 |
| Alex Manzano |
55,900 |
| Jacob Bazeley |
55,600 |
| Michele Koerner |
55,600 |
| Joseph James |
55,500 |
| Alexander Kuzmin |
55,400 |
| Kenny Nguyen |
55,100 |
| Bodo Sbrzesny |
54,700 |
| Natale Albanese |
54,300 |
| Athanasios Polychronopoulos |
54,100 |
| Nichoel Peppe |
54,000 |
| Heinz Pius |
53,500 |
| Jason James |
53,100 |
| Nicholas Lanzi |
53,000 |
| Timothy Gallegos |
52,600 |
| Edward Ross |
51,500 |
| Mike DeMichele |
51,100 |
| Thomas Miller |
51,100 |
| Justin Conley |
51,100 |
| Alvin Staana |
50,900 |
| Edmond Barna |
50,700 |
| Leonard Tannenbaum |
50,300 |
| Edward Fitzgerald |
50,000 |
| Garrett Utt |
50,000 |
| Frank Jordan |
49,900 |
| Joe Gotlieb |
49,800 |
| Michael Michnik |
49,700 |
| Inesa Paberzs |
49,700 |
| Roland Suen |
49,600 |
| Kelly Mcgowen |
49,600 |
| Paul Loh |
49,400 |
| Ricky Crandell |
49,300 |
| Mark Herm |
49,300 |
| Boyd Plowman |
48,600 |
| Orson Young |
48,400 |
| Josh Tharayil |
48,000 |
| Ilkin Amirov |
48,000 |
| Aneris Adomkevicius |
47,900 |
| Dror Michaelo |
47,600 |
| James King |
47,500 |
| Everett Carlton |
47,300 |
| Mark Dumonski |
47,300 |
| Patrick Madden |
47,000 |
| Rafael Kalife |
46,300 |
| Zhen Cai |
46,300 |
| Marco Bianquin |
46,200 |
| Park Yu Cheung |
46,100 |
| Minh Nguyen |
46,000 |
| Eoghan Odea |
45,900 |
| Matthew Smith |
45,500 |
| Cameron Wiley |
45,400 |
| Jay Hong |
45,200 |
| Todd Palmateer |
44,600 |
| Enoch Nadler |
44,400 |
| Alexander Queen |
44,400 |
| Bruce Lentz |
44,000 |
| Geroge King |
43,900 |
| Christian Gligmann |
43,900 |
| Andrew Barber |
43,500 |
| Patrick Eskandar |
43,400 |
| Andreas Klatt |
43,200 |
| Stanislav Kriventsov |
43,200 |
| Mackenzie Fulton |
42,800 |
| Yuji Masaki |
42,700 |
| Thomas Nicotera |
42,100 |
| Steven Brown |
42,000 |
| John Yatrakos |
42,000 |
| Dane Lomas |
41,900 |
| Tanner Millen |
41,900 |
| Peter Ippolito |
41,400 |
| Raul Pino Arza |
41,300 |
| Paul O’brien |
41,300 |
| Simon Charette |
41,200 |
| Francis Boothby |
41,000 |
| Harry Bienenfeld |
40,700 |
| Robert Nordine |
40,500 |
| Karl Fenton |
40,100 |
| Howard Andrew |
40,000 |
| Mario Hudson |
40,000 |
| James Keane |
39,900 |
| Greg Jacobson |
39,800 |
| Timothy Tuveson |
39,800 |
| Michael Minetti |
39,500 |
| Milad Jorshari |
39,000 |
| Stefan Kolossow |
38,600 |
| Johannes Karlsson |
38,300 |
| Raphael Rocher |
38,200 |
| Richard Alati |
38,100 |
| Brian Burney |
37,900 |
| William Romaine |
37,600 |
| Ty Reiman |
37,300 |
| Rasmus Sibast |
37,200 |
| Dmitry Vitkind |
37,000 |
| Jorge Ortuzar |
37,000 |
| Sergio Coutinho |
36,900 |
| Matt Stout |
36,300 |
| Kevin To |
35,700 |
| Michael Ryan |
35,600 |
| Richard Fuller |
35,300 |
| David Pecaski |
35,000 |
| Raffaele Bruno |
34,700 |
| Anders Taylor |
34,400 |
| John Roh |
34,400 |
| Eric Place |
34,200 |
| Gaylin Schmidt |
34,100 |
| Christopher Hatton |
34,000 |
| Christopher Ellis |
33,900 |
| Marek Blasko |
33,800 |
| Paul Botelho |
33,000 |
| Jason Deutsch |
32,700 |
| Jean Ferreira |
32,700 |
| Jean Paul Seatelli |
32,500 |
| Tyler Robbins |
31,900 |
| Christopher MacNeil |
31,900 |
| Steven Wapenaar |
31,800 |
| Victor Haynes |
31,600 |
| Sascha Walterx |
31,500 |
| Ronald Crabtree |
31,500 |
| Ronan Collet |
31,500 |
| Chris Dombrowski |
31,400 |
| Timothy Koester |
30,900 |
| Ryan Wilson |
30,700 |
| Michael Brown |
30,700 |
| Scott Oreilly |
30,700 |
| Marcus Cates |
30,600 |
| Arkadiy Tsinis |
30,600 |
| Jeffrey Gibralter |
30,400 |
| Izakron Young |
30,200 |
| Kyle Myers |
30,100 |
| Wai C Cheng |
30,100 |
| Joseph Cappuccio |
29,900 |
| David Plastik |
29,600 |
| Peter Mendelsohn |
29,000 |
| Ricco Quintana |
29,000 |
| Todd Sisley |
28,800 |
| Ronnie Bardah |
28,200 |
| Lewis Hunter |
28,000 |
| Roy Carter |
27,900 |
| Frederick Marcell |
27,800 |
| Vagner Casatti |
27,800 |
| Christoph Kwon |
27,600 |
| Jean Stpierre |
27,600 |
| William Speir |
27,500 |
| Scott Shelley |
27,500 |
| Andras Stumpf |
27,500 |
| Sergey Konkin |
27,200 |
| Samuel Greenwood |
27,200 |
| Clement Givry |
27,000 |
| Maxwell Fritz |
26,800 |
| Steven Miller |
26,500 |
| Kyle Frey |
26,400 |
| James Mackey |
26,300 |
| Saeed Ghasemimehr |
26,200 |
| Leo Wolpert |
26,200 |
| Christopher Moon |
26,100 |
| Marvin Glusac |
25,900 |
| Wlodzimierz Panasiuk |
25,800 |
| Kakra Kyei |
25,800 |
| Alfred Stempien |
25,800 |
| George Saca |
25,700 |
| Philip Collins |
25,700 |
| Vincent Chahley |
25,500 |
| Jonathan Jaffe |
25,300 |
| Robert Rosengarten |
25,300 |
| Yat Cheng |
25,200 |
| John Baca |
25,100 |
| Shankar Pillai |
25,100 |
| Garry Gates |
24,400 |
| Collin Moshman |
24,400 |
| Marc Foggin |
24,400 |
| Cameron Jiggins |
24,200 |
| Randolph Lanosga |
24,200 |
| Xavier Laszcz |
24,000 |
| Jamie Kerstetter |
23,900 |
| Jason Clarke |
23,900 |
| Mark Cochran |
23,800 |
| Michael Ruane |
23,800 |
| Tim Schenning |
23,700 |
| Randy Burstein |
23,700 |
| Jeremie Guez |
23,600 |
| Donys Angelli |
23,500 |
| Brian Weiss |
23,500 |
| Rutger Hoekerd |
23,400 |
| John Lawson |
23,400 |
| Margaret Bertini |
23,300 |
| Marco Bich |
23,300 |
| David Cline |
23,300 |
| Phung Ngo |
23,100 |
| Neil Maier |
22,900 |
| Daniel Lobato |
22,900 |
| Ville Hiltunen |
22,800 |
| Michael Patterson |
22,800 |
| Francois Cardinal |
22,700 |
| William Kakon |
22,500 |
| Sergio Grosso |
22,500 |
| Norson Shiniti |
22,300 |
| John Russo |
22,300 |
| Sherry Ryan |
22,200 |
| Primoz Cimerman |
22,200 |
| Elvin Penner |
21,900 |
| Douglas Winters |
21,900 |
| Federico Stivoli |
21,800 |
| Rob Harris |
21,800 |
| Matthew Batoon |
21,800 |
| Carlos Sanchez-Vegas |
21,800 |
| Kelsey Hendriks |
21,800 |
| Alon Shahar |
21,300 |
| Alex Luxenburg |
21,100 |
| Juan Caridad |
21,100 |
| Troy Hagen |
20,900 |
| Sean Ripp |
20,800 |
| Francisco Torres |
20,800 |
| Derek Gomez |
20,800 |
| Rodney Mori |
20,700 |
| Jason Brice |
20,600 |
| Alex Smith |
20,500 |
| Nghi Van Tran |
20,400 |
| David Quang |
20,300 |
| Mark Zajdner |
20,200 |
| Bryan Pena |
19,900 |
| Teresa Duck |
19,800 |
| George Konkle |
19,500 |
| Emmanuel Suire |
19,500 |
| Justin Lowe |
19,300 |
| Robert Flowers |
19,100 |
| Claire Reneaut |
19,000 |
| Justin Truesdell |
18,900 |
| Stewart Yancik |
18,600 |
| Timothy Slater |
18,400 |
| Pedro Maia |
18,200 |
| Eric Eichelmann |
18,100 |
| Brandon Hall |
18,000 |
| Tom Christopher |
17,900 |
| Douglas Collins |
17,900 |
| Nathan Tuthill |
17,800 |
| Zachary Humphrey |
17,700 |
| Devin Porter |
17,600 |
| Ronald Lauzon |
17,500 |
| Charles Mitchell |
17,400 |
| James English |
17,300 |
| Scott Morton |
17,300 |
| Yakir Elkayam |
17,300 |
| Preston Derden |
17,300 |
| Peter Rho |
17,000 |
| Daniel Johnson |
17,000 |
| Vineet Pahuja |
16,800 |
| Albert Furst |
16,700 |
| Larry Mchale |
16,700 |
| Frederik Jensen |
16,700 |
| Joshua Pollock |
16,700 |
| JJ Liu |
16,500 |
| Charles Nelson |
16,400 |
| Kevin Goodman |
16,400 |
| Mikko Hakala |
16,400 |
| Dean Campardo |
16,300 |
| Jeremy Burleson |
16,200 |
| Jeff Sluzinski |
16,100 |
| John Kim |
16,000 |
| Min Kim |
15,900 |
| Andrea Ambroggi |
15,800 |
| Nathan Amar |
15,700 |
| Ernest Keller |
15,500 |
| Galen Peiskee |
15,400 |
| Denis Murphy |
15,400 |
| Benjamin Palmer |
15,400 |
| Theos Rippis |
15,300 |
| John Woods |
15,200 |
| Daniel Mertz |
15,100 |
| Francois Billard |
15,000 |
| Jared Ingles |
15,000 |
| Evgeniy Zaytsev |
14,900 |
| Motoyuki Mabuchi |
14,600 |
| Vincent Rubianes |
14,400 |
| DNR |
14,300 |
| Jason Drysdale |
14,200 |
| Anna Marcie |
14,100 |
| Johnny D’Silva |
14,100 |
| Stephanie Musella |
14,000 |
| Robyn Im |
14,000 |
| John Buglion |
14,000 |
| Edgar Nuqui |
14,000 |
| Allie Prescott |
13,800 |
| Loren Jorgensen |
13,800 |
| Peter Kim |
13,800 |
| Ky Badgley |
13,800 |
| James Arseneault |
13,500 |
| Isaac Settle |
13,500 |
| Kevin Kung |
13,200 |
| Bastian Blum |
13,100 |
| Kevin McBride |
13,100 |
| Matthew Amen |
13,100 |
| Dang Hai |
13,000 |
| Celso Garcia |
12,900 |
| Simon Phillipponneau |
12,700 |
| Dragan Galic |
12,700 |
| Paul Sokoloff |
12,300 |
| Shane Martin |
12,300 |
| Bret Winograd |
12,200 |
| David Singer |
11,800 |
| Andrey Pateychuk |
11,700 |
| Santosh Vijayakumar |
11,500 |
| Darya Hulyk |
11,400 |
| Sean LeFort |
11,100 |
| Pablo Chacra |
11,000 |
| Perry Chou |
10,900 |
| Jarrod Lucero |
10,800 |
| Maxim Tyurin |
10,800 |
| Scott Sitron |
10,700 |
| Douglas Suffel |
10,100 |
| Charlie Xu |
10,100 |
| Hyunbong Jang |
9,700 |
| Jonathan Fountain |
9,600 |
| Edward Holyoke |
9,400 |
| Gioi Luong |
9,300 |
| Bertil Samuelsson |
9,000 |
| Mario Adam |
9,000 |
| Michael Adamo |
8,700 |
| Chengxuan Shi |
8,500 |
| Dmitry Kuzmin |
8,300 |
| Stacee Evans |
8,300 |
| Samuel Fayzakov |
8,200 |
| Adam Hartle |
8,200 |
| Drew Sheffield |
8,100 |
| Soi Nguyen |
7,900 |
| Belley Philippe |
7,900 |
| Hewitt Poland |
7,500 |
| James Degirolamo |
5,700 |
| Nigel Clifford |
5,500 |
| Barry Mcfadden |
4,000 |
| Jason Poland |
2,500 |
| Nicholas Almonte |
DNR |
Player Tags: Alex Bolotin
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Hour 1 - Mike Lisanti 9th ($50,705), Alex Bolotin 8th ($72,436)
Jun 06, '08
Blinds/Antes: 8,000-16,000 with a 2,000 ante (Level 19)
Players Left: 7
Chip Counts:
Theo Tran: 260,000
Matt keikoan: 1,290,000
Mihai Manole: 1,130,000
Carter Gill: 640,000
Shannon Shorr: 360,000
J.C. Tran: 275,000
Chris Bjorin: 165,000
Eliminations:
Mike Lisanti Eliminated in 9th Place ($50,705)
Alex Bolotin Eliminated in 8th Place ($72,436)
Big Hands:
J.C. Tran Doubles Through Alex Bolotin
Just over thirty minutes into the final table and we had our first big hand when J.C. Tran moved all in for just over 100,000 from middle position. Alex Bolotin came over the top to isolate for roughly 200,000, and everyone else folded.
Tran: Q 9
Bolotin: A J
Board: 7 5 3 9 3
Tran paired his nine on the turn and doubled up to just over 250,000 including the blinds and antes.
Mike Lisanti Eliminated in 9th Place ($50,705)
Matt Keikoan raised to 41,000 from under the gun and Shannon Shorr called behind him. Mike Lisanti moved all in for a little more than 275,000 and Keikoan called while Shorr called.
Lisanti: A K
Keikoan: K K
Board: 9 8 4 J J
The board offered no help to Lisanti who was eliminated in 9th place ($50,705).

Alex Bolotin Eliminated in 8th Place ($72,436)
J.C. Tran raised to 42,000 from the cutoff position when Alex Bolotin moved all in from the button. Theo Tran made the call while and J.C. Tran folded.
Bolotin: 9 9
T. Tran: A J
Board: A Q 7 J 6
Theo Tran flopped top pair, trumping Bolotin's nines and sending him home in 8th place ($72,436).
Player Tags: J.C. Tran, Theo Tran, Alex Bolotin
2,000 NLHE - Day 2 - End of Day
Jun 05, '08
Play has ended for the day after Manny Minaya was busted out in 10th place with eight minutes remaining in level 18. The tournament had a field of 1592 players, and the final nine return Friday for their chance at a gold bracelet.
Blinds: 6000/12000 with 1000 ante.
Players Left: 9
Chip Count:
Theo Tran - 1,884,000
Mihai Manole - 1,020,000
Matt Keikoan - 1,011,000
Carter Gill - 652,000
Shannon Shorr - 627,000
Mike Lisanti - 358,000
Alex Bolotin - 345,000
J.C. Tran - 273,000
Chris Bjorin - 205,000
Eliminations: Manny Minaya, Thong Tran, Tim Taft, Issam Abbas.
Big Hands:
Tran Busts Minaya in 10th
Theo Tran was already sitting as chip leader, but padded his count at the expense of Manny Minaya when play was 10-handed. Tran raised to 40,000 and Minaya moved all-in from the big blind for 185,000 more. Tran was in trouble, his A K up against Minaya's K K , but the flop proved product falling A 9 8 . The 4 came on the turn and 10 on the river wrapped up play for the day.
Bolotin Survives All-in
The previous hand to Minaya's exit, it was Alex Bolotin's turn to sweat. Bolotin raised from early position, going all-in for 159,000. He drew a call from Matt Keikoan, who showed 10 10 . Bolotin was ahead with Q Q , and dodged the flop when the A K 3 hit. Bolotin hit a set with the Q on the turn, but that also gave Keikoan a straight draw. But the 4 came on the river and Bolotin doubled up to 345,000.
Final Table Familiar Territory for Tran
Two final tables in the 2007 World Series of Poker, and already a final table appearance in the 2008 WSOP. And Theo Tran is worried.
"I hope it's not a trend," said Tran, who will be the runaway chip leader when his second final table of the 2008 WSOP begins Friday. "I was second in the ($1000 w/rebuys) last year, fourth in the ($3000 limit), and this year I was fourth in the $1,500 two days ago. I hope this is the one. I want it pretty bad."
If he catches cards like he did in Day 2 of the $2000 tourney, his chances are pretty solid.
"I ran like God today," said Tran. "I had kings six times, aces once, ace-king about five times. I've never run like this in my life. But to my credit, I felt I played them really well. All my kings, I played them different. Once I knew the other guy was steaming, so I just smooth called and acted weak. I knew it was going to be a good chance to squeeze."
Tran entered the second day of play as the chip leader but spilled a significant number of chips in the early going when his pocket sixes fell to pocket eights. From there he turned on the aggression.
"I stumbled bad there at the start, but I was able to double up. I knew I was going to try to get those chips back. I wasn't going to sit around with a short stack."
One player at the final table who is short stacked is J.C. Tran, but the veteran nursed it through the final four tables and remains an imposing presence at the final table.
"It's great," says Theo. "He's been like a big brother to me. I'm very happy he's going to the final table with me. And he's a player who can adjust to any situation. He's great, I've learned so much from him."
Player Tags: J.C. Tran, Matt Keikoan, Theo Tran, Alex Bolotin, Mihai Manole
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