Howard Wolper Leads Field After Day 1
Of Horseshoe Council Bluffs Championship
Council Bluffs, IA—With 70 percent of the starting field eliminated on Day 1, the 27 remaining players will return on Tuesday for the championship event of the WSOP Circuit at Horseshoe Council Bluffs to play down to last nine. Final table action will then be Webcast, with a one-hour delay, by Bluff Media. It can be viewed at WorldSeriesofPoker.com.
The colorful Howard Wolper, an artist/poker player with major wins at Tahoe and the Trump Classic within five days of one another, will arrive with the chip lead of 88,400. Also at his table will be Bernard Lee, a successful player with a 13th-place finish in the 2005 WSOP main event who writes for ESPN and the Boston Herald and has a poker radio show. Also still in action is Omaha high-low bracelet winner Bob Slezak.
Here is the seating and the chip counts:
Table 19
Seat 1. Tony Merksick 56,400 Council Bluffs, IA
Seat 2. Clint Lilienthal 17,300 Lincoln, NE
Seat 3. Samuel Shamburg 38,100 Lincoln, NE
Seat 4. Tom Farnsworth 21,300 Sioux Falls, SD
Seat 5. Robert Wisiak 44,100 Queens, NY
Seat 6. James Jelinek 9,600 Alliance, NE
Seat 7. Greg Monaldi 27,800 Davie, FL
Seat 8. Howard Wolper 88,400 Atlantic City, NJ
Seat 9. Bernard Lee 42,400 Wayland, MA
Table 20
Seat 1 Michael Sortino 13,900 Papillion, NE
Seat 2. Keith Murrell 57,900 Kansas City, MO
Seat 3. Demetri Sengos 13,600 Sioux Falls, SD
Seat 4. Alan Wiles 38,000 Murdock, NE
Seat 5. Ben Hock 22,300 Brookfield, WI
Seat 6. Blake Cahail 29,100 Columbia, MO
Seat 7. Jesse Bowman 44,900 Moline, IL
Seat 8. Josh Harshbarger 80,700 Lincoln, NE
Seat 9. John Kincaid 54,900 Omaha, NE
Table 21
Seat 1. Scott Veitzer 20,700 Omaha, NE
Seat 2. Bob Slezak 22,400 Omaha, NE
Seat 3. Michael Martin 31,600 Washington Crossing,PA
Seat 4. Dan Jensen 27,100 Omaha, NE
Seat 5. Ron Koenemann 41,700 Omaha, NE
Seat 6. Mark Eddleman 66,300 Charlotte, NC
Seat 7. David Kerrigan 12,200 Omaha, NE
Seat 8. Nick Bickey 40,800 Belleair Beach, FL
Seat 9. Nicholas Manganaro 27,000 Omaha, NE
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