2006 WSOP - August 9th Coverage

  August 9th was supposed to be the second to last day of play for the Main event of the 37th annual World Series of Poker. Instead, the final table players will get a day off. The reason for the change in schedule started on Friday, August 4th, for the first time during Even 39 all flights were playing together as one. The play was supposed to end at 600 players, but tournament's organizers decided to keep playing through another level or two. Despite the chant of " Six Hundred Players! Six Hundred Players!" the tournament directors decided to end the play with a little over 400 players. This snowballed into Tuesday, August 8th where 27 participants played down to 9, which was supposed to happen on August 9th. As a result, Richard Lee, Erik Friberg, Paul Wasicka, Dan Nassif, Allen Cunningham, Michael Binger, Douglas Kim, Jamie Gold, and Rhett Butler was having a Poker free day - unless they wanted to play in the one-day $1500 No-Limit Texas Holdem Event 45.Event 43 - No-Limit Texas Holdem  As the fourth of the six "second chance" events wrapped up in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, one man was certainly glad he decided to stick around Las Vegas long enough to play in yet another Texas Holdem Event. Kevin Nathan became the newest WSOP champ.  The last group of players, and their chip counts, were as follows:Player, LocationChip Count  Table  Seat #Jonathan Caplan, London, UK40,600851Bill Chen, Lafayette Hill, PA47,200852Kevin Koch, Poughquag, NY37,800853Can Hua, Rosemead, CA79,700854Stephen Stockton, Roseburg, OR23,800855Marc Naalden, Antwerpen, Belgium  64,500856Joel Devries, Columbia90,900841Juan Carlos Alvarado, McAllen, TX37,700842Kevin Nathan, Roseville47,100843Tom McEvoy, Las Vegas, NV21,500844Randy Holland, Winnetka, CA36,500845JC Tran, Sacramento, CA91,200846Bob Feduniak, Las Vegas, NV15,500847  Event 44, another "second chance" event, also took place on Wednesday. By the end of Day One of the event the battlefield looked like this:Player, LocationChip Count  Table  Seat #Marcus Collins, Perth, Australia70,400853Joe Brandenburg, Portland, OR61,800864Jim Nguyen, St. Petersburg, FL60,000866Eric Baldwin, Beaver Dam, WI58,600868Don Rihn, Wisconsin47,600848John Michael, Henderson, NV46,900852Kevin Cover, Oyster Bay Cove44,100843Josh Tieman, Bloomingdale37,200841Nelson Tum, San Diego, CA35,000865JJ Joanne Liu, Las Vegas, NV32,200849Lloyd Shinn, Coppell, TX32,000859Peter Smyth, Wigan, UK30,100857Thayer Rasmussen, Orlando, FL29,100855Stephen Ladowsky, Toronto, Ontario27,900867Matthew Hilger, Atlanta, GA24,700858Davood Mehrmand, Frankfurt, Germany  23,700862Robert Perry, Las Vegas, NV21,200869David Babione, Fremont, CA18,800845Tommy Chaney, Marble Falls, TX15,500845Brent Carter, Oak Park, IL8,600863Mel Judah, London, England7,500842Denise Molloy, La Jolla, CA5,600854  Emerging from the mists as the victor of the second to last event of the World Series of Poker was Kevin Cover claiming $196,968 and the bracelet as his spoils.