May 29th, 2009 
Scott First off I would like to continue where I finished off yesterday. The first event at this year’s World Series of Poker was the Casino Employees Event which had a $500 buy-in. We talked yesterday about the progress in that tournament and they finished it up last night after almost playing twelve hours of poker on the second day. Andrew Cohen who was amongst the leaders throughout most of the tournament ended up winning and taking home the grand prize of $83,778. Cohen was awarded the 1st WSOP bracelet of 2009 so there is now 56 more bracelets left to hand out this year.
The second event on the 2009 WSOP schedule is the $40K No Limit Holdem tournament which is featuring some of the biggest names in poker. There were a total of 201 poker players who started the tournaments and after the first day the tournament was down to just 89 players. The action for day two will kick off today so I’ll keep you updated as progress is made in the event.
Some of the poker players who are playing in this event consist of Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan, Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, John Juanda, Peter Eastgate and Chris Moneymaker. The field of past champions is huge in this event and it should make for an excellent final table once it gets down to that point. The current leader in the event at the completion of day one is Bruno Fitoussi although it’s still anyone’s game as there is still plenty of action to be played. Chris Moneymaker is currently not very far behind the leader and is sitting in second place right now so we might have some big news from Moneymaker if he can managed to complete the victory in this event with a massive prize pool.
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