Day 2A Table Draw

Ahlberg, Tom Vasa Sweden 5,200 B29 2
Boyette, Robert Archer FL 38,950 B29 7
Brokos, Andrew Catonsville MD 16,350 B29 5
De Bon, Cedric Suisse Switzerland 22,725 B29 9
Levy, Grant Sydney Australia 52,225 B29 8
Ludovic, Lacay Paris France 53,425 B29 3
Pagano, Luca Treviso Italy 40,125 B29 6
Warne, Shane Victoria Australia 87,625 B29 1
Wissler, Mike St. Louis MO 48,725 B29 4

Not a lot of chips at the table, but that could change quickly if one of those short stacks (the other one please!) busts. Here’s what my research team (read: girlfriend) has produced so far:

Tom Ahlberg: Not much

Robert Boyette: May or may not be the same guy, but shares a name with the producer of Full House! Please oh please let it be him.

Cedric De Bon: Not much

Grant Levy: Live tourney player, has had like 10 cashes, one of them big

Lucay Ludovic- French pro with a rarely updated blog. I can read French decently well, but the blog didn’t seem to contain any strategy thoughts. If you can read French, here’s an interview with him from the end of Day 1A.

Luca Pagano: Italian pro, the only guy at the table I’d heard of. He was the EPT Player of the Year in 2008 and blogs in Italian.

Shane Warne: Though I’ve never heard of him, Shane may actually be the most famous guy at the table. Apparently he’s a well-known Cricket player in Australia.

Mike Wissler: Not much.

If you happen to be one of my opponents reading this because you googled my name… good luck today!

7 thoughts on “Day 2A Table Draw”

  1. Tom Ahlberg seems to have played 1 WPT event (did not cash); looks like he’s a Swedish inventor. He also cashed at the 2008 EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo (10,000 euro buy-in): http://www.iamranked.com/poker/ept/playerDetail/id-40375/Tom.Ahlberg.html

    Robert Boyette made it to day 2 of the 2006 WSOP ( http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/result13637.htm ) — not the Full House guy, sadly. Doesn’t seem to have played in ’07 or ’08.

    Good luck, if I have more time I’ll see what other digging I can do.

  3. Best of luck Andrew,

    The blog is always a good read and looks better than ever.

    It’s kind of funny that Americans have never have heard of Shane Warne. If cricket is our baseball then Warne is our Roger Clemens. I think he’s a sponsored sports pro for Pokerstars or 888 now he’s retired.

    I’d say in cricket playing countries there is not a single male alive who has not heard of Shane Warne. I’d set the over/under spread at around the 2 billion people mark ;-D

    Anyway good luck. I’m very jealous you’re playing with such a legend, more so than even say Ivey or someone like that!

    Take care,

    Nick

  4. I think my previous comment hit your spam filter, so here’s the summary–

    1) Good luck!

    2) Ahlberg is a Swedish inventor who’s played 1 WPT event (did not cash) and cashed at the 2008 EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo (10,000 euro buy-in). Can’t tell if he’s a dilettante playing over his head or not.

    3) I don’t think Boyette is the Full House guy, but he did make it as far as Day 2 of the ’06 WSOP but nothing since then. My guess would be weak-tight tourney player but that’s mostly a stab.

    kick some butt today,
    -Andrew

    • Sorry about the spam filter, it defaults to hold for moderation anything with 2 links or more, I’ll up that a couple to avoid future difficulties…

  5. The lack of sports celebrity knowledge goes both ways, as illustrated by this official news update from one of the day 1s:

    “Orel Hershiser Eliminated – After a flop of Orel Hershiser was all in with against the of Luke Patten. The board filled out giving Patten the better two pair. Hershiser gave Patten a signed baseball incased in glass after his elimination. Patten appreciated the gesture,
    however, the englishman admitted that he had no idea who Orel Hershiser was.”

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