ESPN Day2 coverage features Jason Alexander and Greg Raymer

The WSOP Main Event 2009 first of two Day 2s were being focused ESPN on Tuesday night. Greg Raymer and Jason Alexander were the main players at the feature table. Norman Chad who is the announcer of ESPN discussed on Day 2A- According to him the Main Event was having some of the best players like Greg Raymer who faced George Costanza. Soon Gus Hansen was pushed out from $10,000 buy-in tournament when he called all-in with nut straight on the run.

On Table Two there were Roland de Wolfe and Chris Ferguson. Over the period of ten years, Chris has managed five bracelets win and five runner-up finishes at World Series of Poker. The same table was also joined by Brad Garrett and Todd Brunson. At 96 years old, Jack Ury is the oldest contender and after flopping a boat he doubled along with pockect sevens on 6-6-7 board. But soon he got eliminated. Ex-boxer Kili Madrid and Eli Elezra sat together where Kili had 8-0 record along with four knockouts. Jason informed ESPN the reason of his lead at the table- He always say to his opponents that if he loses from to you then he will not losing his self-respect.

On Day2A field poker couple Phil Laak and Jennifer Tilly could be easily be spotted and there were father and son also, father Joe Sebok and father Barry Greenstein. Mike Matusow also moved to Greg Mueller which helped in creating an all star line-up. Deal Me In which is sponsored by Full Tilt Poker featured Mike Matusow explained at WSOP Tournament of Champions in 2006. He executed bet bluff on river in order to eliminate Daniel Negreanu to set down a pair. Soon after Lex Veldhuis called all-in on the draw intended for blinds and he was then eliminated.

The Jack Link’s Beef Jerky Wild Card Hand had raised action towards the flop of 2A-5, all clubs. Greg Raymer who had mystic cards, he bet out 2,500, Jason raised to six thousand along with A-9 and Greg made a call. Norman said that he really liked the Jason’s raise and he should be proficient enough to realize if he is having the best hand. Greg raised to 1,600 pre-flop and Jason along with pocket threes made the call. Dennis Baltz knocked the action to 4,500 with his pocket kings. Greg came up with the hand except pocket aces to 20,000 and this made both Greg and Dennis to fold.

Straight from the Pros which is sponsored by PokerStars featured relieving a hand of Greg at WSOP Main Event 2004. He deceived following the picking up a tell at his challenger. As for the second episode’s Wild Card Hand ‘Fossilman’ one more time picked up unidentified cards and raised to 1,600 pre-flop. Jason with the help of pocket nines made 3,500 and Greg executed the call on the way to see the flop of A-Q-6 along with two spades. Greg check-called a six thousand chip bet from Greg and for the turn it was five. Greg was led out for seven thousand and Jason called. For the top pair, Greg turned over A-K and he pushed his chip stack to 140,000.

In the end it was all about the last hole, if it is won by Norman then he would be the winner of the bet but unfortunately he missed a putt. Once De Wolfe was down at 3,600 chips and it doubled twice throughout Steve Gee to reach more than 30,000. In the last pot Jason raked at feature table.