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Alike to observe Yom Kippur turned out to be a real blessing for Ian Munns at the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event.

Munns finished the day with an astonishing 528,300 and he’s 229,300 ahead of his nearest competitor, Praz Bansi who bagged up 299,000. That’s right, no other player finished with a stack larger than 300,000 but Munns managed to crest the 500,000 chip mark on Day 2.

Munns’ lead is quite impressive but there is one name in the top ten that will have poker fans and historians excited. Doyle Brunson finished with 210,900. The day started with 178 players and ended with only 92 survivors including the 76-year-old Godfather of Poker.

Also in the top ten are Amnon Filippi (4th - 216,500), Ram Vaswani (9th - 202,500) and Jason Mercier (10th - 202,300). Mercier would be the fifth player to win two bracelets this year should he manage to navigate the remaining 78 players and go on to win.

Two members of the November Nine still have a shot at the Ivan Demidov-like double. James Akenhead finished with the 17th largest stack (178,000) while Antoine Saout has some work to do from the 50th spot (90,100). The average chip stack at the start of Day 3 will be 109,000. With half the field being sent home on Monday there had to be some casualties.

Despite a grand entrance and a seat at the ESPN feature table on Day 1b Phil Hellmuth will have to wait to conquer London. The 11-time bracelet winner was sent to the rail on Day 2 along with Howard Lederer, Erik Seidel and Mike Matusow.

The players will return for a full six levels of play on Tuesday at Noon BST.

2009 WSOP Europe Main Event Top 10 Chip Counts

1.Ian Munns - 528,300
2.Praz Bansi - 299,000
3.Oyvind Riisem - 255,300
4.Amnon Filippi - 216,500
5.David Docherty - 216,200
6.Doyle Brunson - 210,900
7.Shandoi Demjan - 209,000
8.Markus Ristola - 205,000
9.Ram Vaswani - 202,500
10.Jason Mercier - 202,300

After eight grueling days of the Main Event and two months of WSOP action we fi nally have reached our second November Nine. All eyes will certainly be on Phil Ivey for the next four months, as we wait with bated breath to see if he can fi nish off what would become the most legendary World Series of Poker ever, with two preliminary WSOP bracelets and potentially a Main Event title. In the coming months BLUFF will be there every step of the way to introduce each of the November both in print and on BluffMagzine.com. Stay tuned… It’s gonna be a heck of a ride.

Seat 1: Darvin Moon - 58,930,000 Seat 2: James Akenhead - 6,800,000 Seat 3: Phil Ivey - 9,765,000 Seat 4: Kevin Schaffel - 12,390,000 Seat 5: Steven Begleiter - 29,885,000 Seat 6: Eric Buchman - 34,800,000 Seat 7: Joe Cada - 13,215,000 Seat 8: Antoine Saout - 9,500,000 Seat 9: Jeff Shulman -

I do like the new rules for playing in ix fr tournies. But looking 10 minutes before a freeroll on bodog only 5 people have signed up. Is this right? Only 5 people are eligible or care to play out of all these people who have fulfilled the trial membership rules? Makes me question this change.

Again I do agree with the rule but I find it amusing. Here is a question to a moderator or adm. How many members are actually eligible to play?

I'm pretty excited to watch this. Good luck to IVY and all, but I want another NEW up and comer to win. =)

I do like the new rules for playing in ix fr tournies. But looking 10 minutes before a freeroll on bodog only 5 people have signed up. Is this right? Only 5 people are eligible or care to play out of all these people who have fulfilled the trial membership rules? Makes me question this change.

Again I do agree with the rule but I find it amusing. Here is a question to a moderator or adm. How many members are actually eligible to play?
[FONT="Franklin Gothic Medium"]As has been explained, I'm fairly sure, in other threads, or responses to posts, around the forum that the process for deciding who has access to the password area is highly manually intensive. It is NOT just a matter of hitting a magic number of posts and it unlocks by itself. Someone has to flip the switch for you "by hand". . .[/FONT]

I say just go say hello to everyone you can and then go comment on some hands and then you will become active.

Hope to see you in the upcoming free rolls on IX on FTP 😄

Because not to place, a calendar that it indicates to us, during the month the Tournaments as much Freerolls as BuyIn, in which the Partners we take note to participate. 😁

Won todays affiliates freeroll on Poker Heaven for 24 euros:dance:
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Um i can't see it because of small! thats 960x632! you need make big picture.

I can see it just fine,I can recommend a good optician if you need one lol :dance:

Just wanted to say hello
havent been on the site for a while
im missing the freerolls so im postin like crazy want to play the freerolls
ix has some of the best games and friendly people

see you on the felts hopefully soon😄

Well hello back to you . can't say much for the games since i just started here . but the games will come when i'm active enough . but there is friendly people here , yes indeed , so look forward to seeing you at the tables soon , gl till then , weeeeeeeeeeeeeee , lol .

crazzvette

Finished 4th in the Canadian Card Player invitational tourney for 21.50 euros ($32)😄

I made the Final Table in the Grand Slam tonight. Finished 6th out of 121 entrants for $6.60. Had my last hand tracking for a big pot.. over 70k in it (would have put me in the chip lead) with 3 callers to my all in with 9,9. Got rivered with a 10 that paired a bigger stack... 3 of us went out with that hand lol. Got hammered a few times with bad beats earlier too. Had J,J.. flop hits me with a set.. then a guy catches runner runner 4's for quads! Crippled me and was down to 725 chips at one point.. lol.

Nice work there:thumbsup:dance:
that can be a very tough field
from begining to end

I went out early
I found that it is better to sit down to the table 20-25 minutes after it starts
didn't do that last night , think I was put out @ about 110 - LOL
its a freeroll - gotta expect some bad players

looking at the top 10 list, on your s-shot, though

doesn't look like I took a hit at the league standings
I am still in contention
but I'd better go check & make sure

Still hangin in the top 10
(currently 7th)

riverrookie, seems to make it to the points
ALMOST everytime😡!

ovfranklin, makes it there pretty often, too!!

I won the GoHard Step It Up Tourney tonight! Won a Step 4 Voucher for my trouble. I went into heads up.. down about 32k to 20k... won a big showdown.. and didn't look back. Supposed to be a $30+$3 value if you buy in to it. Now the challenge might be to hope to get enough to show up when I can play.. lol!:thumbsup

Would like to know how to find out the next ixgame freeroll, i new in this

I was wondering could i be active so i could play the freerolls on till off of this site? muy nick is -sb2k8-

i was wondering could i be active so i could play the freerolls on till off of this site? muy nick is -sb2k8-

of course you could!
but it might be an idea to start at the beginning.....member introduction

then maybe read some of the posts on the forum

then maybe make some interesting posts

all the info you need is on the site....you just need to look for it