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: […]
The starting chip counts for the final table were as follows: Kyle Kloeckner- $494,000 Allen Cunningham- $484,000 Lennart Holtkamp- $253,000 Max Pescatori- $212,000 Kyle Hegeman-$198,000 Greg Hurst- $197,000 Jonathan Depa- $185,000 Minh Ly- $177,400 John-Paul Kelly-$79,000 Kelly was the first to get eliminated. Kloeckner raised to 25,000 and Kelly went all in for 64,000. Kloeckner […]
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 […]
Blair Hinkle wins event No. 23, $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em: This was an historic event. Blair Hinkle won his first WSOP bracelet and $507, 563 in prize money, an impressive achievement but not historic. Grant Hinkle, Blair’s older brother won Event No. 2 this summer. That makes the Hinkle brothers the first brothers in the history […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
