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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Vitaly Lunkin wins event No. 27, $1,500 No-Limit Hold Chip counts for the final table: PhilipYeh- $1,360,000 Jeffrey Brown- $310,000 Vitaly Lunkin- $1,030,000 Trevor Donaldson- $265,000 Barry Schultz- $1,340,000 Kenneth Terrell- $650,000 Richard Alm- $500,000 Bobby Firestone- $920,000 Brett Kimes- 1,500,000 Yeh opened the hand by going all-in preflop and Vitaly Lunkin called him. Their […]
Rob Hollink won event No. 30, $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold’em: Here were the chip counts and seat assignments for the final table: Seat 1): Andy Block- $370,000 Seat 2) Rob Hollink- $893,000 Seat 3) Tommy Hang- $578,000 Seat 4) Cy Jassinowsky- $231,000 Seat 5) Jerrod Ankeman- 441,000 Seat 6) Chris Vitch- $201,000 Seat 7) […]
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 […]
John Phan is not a new face to the realm of poker. He’s finished runner-up twice previously at WSOP, but never has he walked away with a bracelet until this year. Phan won $434,789 and his long sought after gold bracelet. Here were the chip counts and seat assignments starting the final table: Seat 1) […]
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 […]
The chips counts and seat assignments went as follows: Seat 1) John Juanda- $694,800 Seat 2) Phil Hellmuth- $119, 000 Seat 3) David Benyamine- $1,014,000 Seat 4) Gerasimov Kirill- $558,000 Seat 5) Phil “OMGClayAiken†Galfond- $1,393,000 Seat 6) Daniel Negreanu- $460,000 Seat 7) Brian Rast- $1,176,000 Seat 8) Adam Hourani- $300,000 Seat 9) Johnny Chan- […]
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 […]
