Career Stats
| Earnings | $23,249 |
| Cashes | 1 |
| Final Tables | 0 |
| Titles | 0 |
| Tournaments Played | 5 |
Current Standings
Ranking
28th
Payout
$23,249
Chipcount History
Day 1
102,100
Day 2
465,100
Day 6
28th
World Poker Tour
STEVEN MERRIFIELD FOXWOODS WORLD POKER FINALS PROFILE
Steven Merrifield Eliminated in 28th Place ($23,249)
Level 15: 3,000-6,000, 500 ante
Steven Merrifield is all in preflop with A
Q
against Alexi Lammi's A
K
. Merrifield tells his friend on the rail that he ran into a cold deck.
The board comes J9839, and Lammi wins the pot with his king kicker. Steven Merrifield is eliminated in 28th place, earning $23,249.
Alexi Lammi - 518,000
Steven Merrifield - Out in 28th Place ($23,249)
08:14 PM, 11/07/09
A Battle of the Steves
Level 14: 2,500-5,000, 500 ante
Steven Merrifield raises from under the gun and both Lee Markholt and Matt Stout call in position. Steve Brecher defends from the big blind and the four players see a flop of KQ3. Brecher checks, Merrifield bets 45,000 and both Stout and Markholt fold. Brecher then check raises all-in for 212,000.
Merrifield goes in the tank for over five minutes. Eventually Lee Markholt politely calls the clock on Merrifield and he apologizes to Markholt and the table for taking so long.
Shortly after that, Merrifield throws his hand away and explains to the table that he really was thinking about calling since he just couldn't make any sense of how the hand went down.
Steve Brecher - 357,500
Steven Merrifield - 270,000
06:27 PM, 11/07/09
Robert McLaughlin Eliminated by Steven Merrifield
Level 14: 2,500-5,000, 500 ante
Robert McLaughlin is all in preflop with AK against Steven Merrifield's 106. The board comes J10459, and Merrifield pairs his ten on the flop to win the pot.
Robert McLaughlin is eliminated in 38th place. With 37 players remaining, it's time for hand-for-hand play on the money bubble. The final 36 players are guaranteed to earn at least $21,588.
05:46 PM, 11/07/09
Peter Sereni Eliminated
Level 13: 2,000-4,000, 400 ante
Action folds around to Peter Sereni in the cutoff who limps into the pot. Adam Levy limps his small blind and Steven Merrifield raises to 24,000 from the big blind. Sereni moves all in for about 50,000 and Levy gets out of the way. Merrifield calls.
Steven Merrifield: A10
Peter Sereni: AK
The board comes Q8210Q giving Merrifield two pair, queens and tens to eliminate Sereni from the tournament.
Steven Merrifield - 360,000
Peter Sereni - eliminated
03:45 PM, 11/07/09
Steven Merrifield Doubles Through Cornel Andrew Cimpan
Level 13: 2,000-4,000, 400 ante
We missed most of the action in this hand, but Merrifield was kind enough to provide a brief summary:
"I played like an idiot," Merrifield explains.
According to Merrifield, Cimpan checked the KQ4 and Merrifield checked back. The turn brought the 7 and Cimpan led out for a bet into the raised pot. Merrifield called and the two saw the river fall J.
We caught up with the action as Merrifield was contemplating Cimpan's all-in shove on the river.
"I hate the way I played this hand," Merrifield says to himself. "Especially the turn."
After several minutes of thinking, Merrifield calls. Before he can turn up his cards Cimpan tells him, "good call." Merrifield shows AA and Cimpan mucks.
Steven Merrifield - 310,000
Cornel Andrew Cimpan - 317,000
03:41 PM, 11/07/09
Chip Count Update
Level 12: 1,500-3,000, 400 ante
Chip Counts have just been updated in the Chip Count Tab.
With 56 players remaining, here is a look at the top five...
Terrence Chan - 870,000
Eric Froehlich - 580,000
Frank Calo - 490,000
Todd Terry - 480,000
Steven Merrifield - 370,000
Recent Eliminations:
Matt Graham
Danny Shiff
02:09 PM, 11/07/09
Eric Froehlich Doubles Up with Jack High
Level 11: 1,200-2,400, 300 ante
Eric Froehlich and Steven Merrifield see a flop of K42 and Froehlich bets 9,800 ino the raised pot from middle position. Merrifield calls from the cutoff and the two see a turn of 5. Froehlich checks, Merrifield bets 15,400 and Froehlich announces he is raising to 65,000 and, before he can even push his chips in the pot, Merrifield moves all-in having Froehlich covered.
Froehlich calls off his remaining 85,000 and shows JT for a jack-high flush draw. Merrfield flips up his 67 in frustration, showing a smaller flush draw with an open-ended straight draw. Froehlich's jack high holds as the river comes 5 and he doubles up to 340,000.
As the dealer is counting down Froehlich's stack Terrence Chan marvels at the hand. "That is a very big pot for jack high."
Eric Froehlich - 340,000
Steven Merrifield - 390,000
01:15 PM, 11/07/09
Chip Count Update
Level 11: 1,200-2,400, 300 ante
All of the chip counts have just been updated in the Chip Count Tab.
With 63 players remaining, here is a look at the top five...
Terrence Chan - 520,000
Steven Merrifield - 465,100
Todd Terry - 460,000
Sooheil Shamseddin - 400,000
Curt Kohlberg - 380,000
Recent Eliminations:
Dean Meyer
Jesse Lopez
01:08 PM, 11/07/09
Day 2 Ends with a Race for the Chip Lead
Level 11: 1,200-2,400, 300 ante
Day 2 of the Foxwoods World Poker Finals is in the books and over the course of the past five levels we have seen the field dwindle from 206 players at the start of the day to just 71 remaining runners who will return tomorrow to play on Day 3.
As the levels ticked by, several players fell by the wayside, including Day 1 big stacks Adam Lippert, Danny Illingworth, Chris Moore and ClubWPT.com qualifier Alan Sasser. As the field shrank and the end of the day was on the horizon the players left in the Sunset Ballroom had one thing and one thing only on their mind: almonds.
The final level of play saw the chip lead rapidly bounce from Christian Harder to Day 1 chip leader Todd Terry to Terrence Chan to Soheil Shamseddin to the end of Day 2 chip leader Steve Merrifield (better known online as SteveyMoney). Every time one of the big stacks took down a big pot, they would inquire first if they were the chip leader and second, whether or not they were in contention for the title of Blue Diamond Almond Bold Player of the Day.
Chan and Harder were seated at the same table and even went so far as to start calculating their "almond equity" in pots and jokingly offered to go all-in blind so one of the two could amass a giant chip lead that could not be overlooked by Amanda Leatherman. Terry, on the other hand, opted to double up with a dramatic flair, spiking a gutshot on the turn to crack his opponent's set of aces and amass nearly 400,000 chips.
The player who succeeded in accumulating both chips and almonds was Soheil Shamseddin, whose theatrical celebration after calling a big bet on the river with unimproved pocket fours earned him the year's supply of almonds in addition to the six figure pot. However, it was Merrifield who ended the day with the most chips at 465,100. Thanks to a big hand in which Merrifield made fours full of queens against Michael "The Grinder" Mizarachi and another pot in which his trip kings held up against a shorter stack's flush draw, Merrifield will be the biggest stack in the room when play resumes tomorrow at 12PM.
Here are the top five chip counts from the end of Day 2:
1. Steven Merrifield (465,100)
2. Soheil Shamseddin (401,000)
3. Todd Terry (396,500)
4. Terrence Chan (394,200)
5. Curt Kohlberg (370,000)
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09:50 PM, 11/06/09
