Jimmy Schultz wins event #12, $1,500 Limit Hold’em The chip counts for the final table started as follows: Jimmy Shultz- $830,000 Ali Eslami- $400,000 Zach Fellows- $320,000 Brendan Taylor- $280,000 Markus Golser- $235,000 Vinny Vinh- $150,000 Teddy “Iceman” Monroe- $130,000 Chung Law- $90,000 Christoph Niesert: $80,000 The first to get eliminated in event #12 of […]
Svetlana Gromenkova wins event #15, $1,000 Ladies No-Limit World Championships: The tournament started off full of warm welcomes and smiling faces. But all that was gone as the number of opponents dwindled . This was not Le’s first to walk away in second place, she also finished second to Jennifer Tilly in the 2005 WSOP. […]
WSOP event #16, Limit Omaha Hi/Lo goes to Andrew Brown This year’s #16 event may best be remembered for the player who came in 3rd. Jim Pechac started the final day with 2,000 in chips; less than 1% of the chip leader Soheil Shamseddin, but battled his way back to a final table finish. Final […]
Jason Young wins WSOP event #17, $1,500 No-limit Hold’em Shootout Seat 1: Casey ColemanSeat 2: Matthew GiannettiSeat 3: Thomas WestSeat 4: Rory MonahanSeat 5: Kyle BowkerSeat 6: John Strzemp IIISeat 7: Mike SchwartzSeat 8: Sergey RybachenkoSeat 9: Jason YoungSeat 10: Alexander Triner Each player started out with 300,000 chips. Casey Coleman was the first to […]
“The Mouth†wins event #18, No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball One of poker’s most vocal players, Mike Matusow, won his third WSOP bracelet, beating the 84 other entries in this smallest of WSOP events. The seven players in the final table held a combined total of 8 WSOP bracelets. The players, seats and chip counts […]
Vanessa Selbst wins Event #19 Pot Limit Omaha Selbst became the 12th woman to win an open event at the WSOP, when she outlasted a field of 758 competitors. Seat 1: Jamie Pickering — 329,000Seat 2: Eugene Todd — 127,000Seat 3: Mel Randolph — 117,000Seat 4: Jamie Robbins — 70,000Seat 5: Vanessa Selbst — 1,047,000Seat […]
Daniel Negreanu wins Event #20: $2,000 Limit Hold’em Six of the final nine players were sitting at their first WSOP final table, giving a huge edge to Negreanu, who had won three previous WSOP bracelets over all. The final nine players with their seats and chip totals starting the day were as follows: Seat 1: […]
Scott Seiver won event #21, $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em: The chip count information were as follows: Scott Seiver- $2,512,000 Rejesh Vohra- $1,040,000 Jacobo Fernandez- $848,000 Dave Seidman- $653,000 Adam Geyer- $645,000 Ben Sprengers- $441,000 Chuck Sklar- $439,000 Scott “SCTrojans†Freeman- $423,000 Anders Henriksson- $311,000 Scott Freeman was the first to go on just the second hand […]
Event #22, $3,000 H.O.R.S.E, is won by Jens Voertmann A total of 414 players vied to win a tournament that rewards players with skill in the four most popular games in poker: hold’em, Omaha, razz and stud. First time bracelet winner Jens Voertmann was able to out last final table superstars Jennifer Harman and Marcel […]
Barry Greenstein wins event #26: $1,500 Razz Barry Greenstein has been a fixture at the WSOP in recent years, and has been cashing in events since 1992. His third cash of 2008 would bring him the third bracelet of his career, after he topped a field of 453 players. Seats, players and chip totals for […]
