A Lot Is Going On At The 2009 WSOP Right Now

Sweet poker gods, there's a lot going at the Rio right now. A total of five events are in different stages of play throughout the many event rooms here, and the crowds, yelling and sound of shuffling chips is now almost overwhelming as we start to wrap up Day 37,654 of the 2009 WSOP.

$1,000 No Limit Holdem - The monstrous starting field of 6,012 has now been narrowed down to the paltry nine players who will make up the final table. Dan Heimiller is currently the chip leader for this event, followed by the only notable player left in the running, Steve Sung. The final table will get underway at 2pm Vegas time tomorrow, and they will play down until they award the $770k first-place prize.

$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha - To be honest, we're not entirely sure we knew that this event was going on. However, they are down to 12 players out of a starting field of 809 with two well-known players still in the field, Dario Alioto and Jason Mercier. Top prize is $237,415 and will be awarded at some point tomorrow, we think.

$10,000 Seven Card Stud - Still 14 players left out of 142 and several well-known players, including Daniel Negreanu, Greg "FBT" Mueller, Max Pescatori, Mel Judah and Jeff Lisandro. They will play down to a nine-person final table tonight and will award the $373,744 first-place prize tomorrow.

$1,500 No Limit Holdem - An astounding 2,791 players turned out for this event and the field shed most of them pretty rapidly, narrowing down to only 338. We'd let you knwo who the chip leaders are except that PolerNews cut back on their budget by eliminating Day 1 chip counts, so….. yeh. We can tell you that Bodog poker pros Evelyn Ng and Justin Bonomo were out in the field, but fell victim to the quality of play one only finds in WSOP donkaments and your cousin's home game. However, we're pretty sure that by tomorrow Evy will have purchased a Vespa, so there's always that. We'll have to see if we can get a ride on it and maybe some video, hmmmm.

$2,500 No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw - Another event that completely snuck up on us, and by "snuck up on us" we mean another event that could've finished up without us noticing if we hadn't heard someone mention it. Looks like it snuck up on some others as well as there were only 147 players registered and only 56 players remaining. As it is Day 1 of this event, and factoring in PokerNews' aforementioned reticence when it come to Day 1 chip counts, we can tell you that there are some players with names left competing for the top prize of more than we make in a year.