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Esposito Looking to Repeat at World Series of Poker New Orleans CircuitWed, May 21st, 2008 @ 12:00am The Harrah's New Orleans Bayou Poker Challenge WSOP Circuit Championship resumed Tuesday for Day 2, with just 69 players surviving the action that was Day 1. Several short stacks had to get into the action early and were hitting the rail before their chairs got warm. The first notable player to depart was Chef Paul Prudhomme, who is a regular here in New Orleans. He plays every year, but has yet to cash. The next notable to leave was the WSOP Circuit's most decorated player, Doug 'Rico' Carli. Doug has 34 cashes, 19 final table appearances (four in the championship event) and two preliminary event wins in WSOP Circuit events, but was unable to improve on those numbers today, departing well short of the money.
Jimmy Ngoc Tran, Joseph 'JoeyTheB' Brooks, Allen 'Chainsaw' Kessler, and EPT Copenhagen winner Tim Vance were among the 25 players busted during the first level of play.
Beverly Cheney was the last woman sitting in this event. Her stack was crippled when she got all in with pocket kings against a player holding A-J. The flop was three jacks, giving her opponent quads. Beverly was eliminated soon after in 33rd place, just six shy of the money.
Day 1 co-chip leader David Fox, who finished third in this event last year, was busted in 30th place, just three short of a payday. The money bubble popped just a few minutes after 5 p.m. Eighteen more players had to go before day two would end. Among those were Jonathan 'FieryJustice' Little, who has been tearing up the tournament trail for the last couple of years, earning a WPT title and almost $2.5 million. Jonathan had to settle for 18th place. The final table was set just before midnight with the departure of Fatolla Shahen in 10th place.
The big story for this final table is the return of Lou 'The Big Easy' Esposito. He won this event last spring, finished 9th in the winter circuit event here last December and tomorrow he will appear at his third consecutive championship final table. There are also two WPT final-tablists still in the hunt. Gabe Costner finished 5th in the WPT World Poker Open in January of this year and Charles Kelley, who finished second in the WPT 2007 Borgata Poker Open.
Final table action will get underway at 2 p.m. central time Wednesday and will be covered live by PokerPages.com. These are the final table players and what they are playing for:
Player - Seat - Chips Tim Miles - 4 - 687,000 Ed Jatho - 6 - 406,000 Jeff Tims - 5 - 345,000 Marc Fratter - 7 - 311,000 Nick Ceci - 9 - 256,000 Gabe Costner - 8 - 166,000 Charles Kelley - 2 - 142,000 Lou Esposito - 3 - 116,000 Floyd Vanderford - 1 - 65,000 Total chips in play 2,490,000 Players remaining 9 Average stack 276,667
Place Payout 1 $382,928 2 $210,610 3 $107,699 4 $83,766 5 $71,799 6 $59,833 7 $47,866 8 $35,900 9 $23,933
Here are today's money results:
Place Payout Player 10 $14,360 Fatolla Shahen 11 $14,360 Jason Brice 12 $14,360 Mike Browne 13 $11,967 Matt Stout 14 $11,967 Blake Purvis 15 $11,967 Cory Albertson 16 $9,573 Suju Abraham 17 $9,573 Daryll Fish 18 $9,573 Jonathan Little 19 $7,180 Devin Jarreau 20 $7,180 Charles Wright 21 $7,180 Lee Wilson 22 $7,180 Rick Drury 23 $7,180 Robert Quin 24 $7,180 Jonathan Nathan 25 $7,180 Michael J. Cohen 26 $7,180 Gary Friedlander 27 $7,180 Dana Diephouse
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