WSOP Updates

 

Hello everyone this is my first post on my poker news blog. I’ll be recapping the first week in the WSOP.

Event #1 Casino Employees No Limit Hold’em 866 entries $500 buy in. Andrew Cohen wins the event taking home $83,833.

Event #2 40th Annual No Limit Hold’em there was a whopping 201 entries for this $40,000 buy in. Vitaly Lunkin takes home $1,891,012 for first in this back and forth heads up match with Isaac Haxton who took home $1,168,566. When heads up play began, Haxton had a bit more than a 2-to-1 chip advantage over his Russian counterpart. It only took Lunkin seven hands to wrest the advantage away from Haxton. About an hour later, Haxton won nine straight hands and retook the lead. A sequence of huge, dramatic hands followed. First Lunkin doubled up to take the lead. Then Haxton hit a five-outer on the river to top Lunkin’s pocket aces and retake the advantage. Then Lunkin doubled again. Finally, a short-stacked Haxton ran into Lunkin’s aces, and this time couldn’t catch the needed cards to crack them.

Event #3 Omaha Hi Low Split 8 or Better 918 entries $1500 buy in for a Omaha Hi Low Split event is a crazy turnout and they said with the economy down there wouldn’t be a great turnout at the WSOP. Incredibly Thang Luu repeated in this event, he won this event last year and also came in 2nd the year before that. Unreal performance by Luu. He takes home $263,190 for his effort. Runner up Ed Smith takes home $162,109.

Event #4 No Limit Hold’em “Stimulus” Special unofficially termed 6,012 entries wow $1000 buy in. Dan Heimiller currently leads with 2,800,000, Panayote Vilandos 2nd with 2,600,000, Danny Fuhs 3rd with 2,250,000, Steve Sung 4th with 2,200,000, Eric Chhor 5th with 1,655,000, Jeff Oakes 6th with 1,650,000, Nathan Mullen 7th with 1,550,000, Larry Sidebotham 8th with 1,250,000, James Matz III 9th with 1,200,000, and rounding out the final 10 with 900,000 in chips is Phong Huynh. They will play down to the final table tonight and finish tomorrow. Good luck everyone.

Champions Invitational 20 entries $0 buy in past champions of the main event only. First place goes to Tom McEvoy the 1983 main event champion, Tom takes home a Classic 1970 Corvette SWEET!!!

Event #5 Pot Limit Omaha 809 entries $1500 buy in. 26 players remain with Jonathan Tare currently holding the top spot with 345,000 in chips. Notables : Jason Mercier Bluff – ESPN Power Ranking 7th has 280,000. Former bracelet winner Dario Alioto has 200,000. Former bracelet winner An Tran has 190,700.

Event #6 World Championship Seven Crad Stud 142 entries $10,000 buy in. Currently there are 48 players remaining with Max Pescatori holding the top spot with 427,000. Notables include Chad Brown with 180,000. Daniel Negreanu with 173,000. Greg Mueller with 160,000. Miami John Cernuto with 152,000. Matt Glantz with 96,000. Alexander Kravchenko with 85,000. Jeff Lisandro with 68,000. Keith Sexton with 54,000. Hasan Habib with 45,000. David Chiu with 26,000.

Event #7 No Limit Hold’em 2,791 entries $1500 but in. Jonathan Little holds the chip lead with 31,700.

Event #8 Deuce to Seven Draw Lowball No Limit is just underway, updates later.

Well that’s it for my first blog. Very informative lol. Thanks for checking it out and I’ll be updating the WSOP events tomorrow and puting up some new stuff. Later.