WSOP Update

 

Hello WSOP fans. How are all of you tonight? I hope everyone’s good. I’m doing alright, have been running incredibly bad lately playing online poker, but it happens. Here’s the update. WSOP update as of 11:37 PM EST on July 1st 2009.

Event # 49 World Championship H.O.R.S.E. 95 entries $50,000 buy in. Congratulations to David Bach on winning his first WSOP bracelet and $1,276,806. John Hanson finished 2nd for $789,199. Erik Sagstrom finished 3rd for $522,393. 2 time bracelet winner and winner of event # 2 this year Vitaly Lunkin finished 4th for $368,812. 4 time bracelet winner and winner of the main event in 1996 Huck Seed finished 5th for $276,609. Bracelet winner this year in event # 12 Ville Wahlbeck finished 6th for $219,655. 3 time bracelet winner Chau Giang finished 7th for $184,087. 8 time bracelet winner Erik Seidel finished 8th for $162,381.

Event # 52 Triple Chance No Limit Hold’em 854 entries $3,000 buy in. Congratulations to Jorg Peisert on winning his first WSOP bracelet and $506,800. Jason Dewitt finished 2nd for $313,227. Ben Gilbert finished 3rd for $205,180. Michael Noda finished 4th for $142,035. Jason Somerville finished 5th for $103,591. Michael Katz finished 6th for $79,385. Karga Holt finished 7th for $63,781. William Erickson finished 8th for $53,622. Warren Watson finished 9th for $47,070.

Event # 53 Seven Card Stud Hi Lo 8 or Better 467 entries $1,500 buy in. Congratulations to David Halpern on winning his first WSOP bracelet and $159,390. William Kohler finished 2nd for $98,550. 3 time bracelet winner Max Stern finished 3rd for $64,484. Chad Brown finished 4th for $44,589. Matt Savage finished 5th for $32,465. Zak Gilbert finished 6th for $24,828. Brian Swinford finished 7th for $19,901. Allie Prescott finished 8th for $16,682.

Event # 54 No Limit Hold’em 2,818 entries $1,500 buy in. Currently 7 players remain. Christopher Bonita leads with 2,400,000 chips. Sergey Konkin is 2nd with 2,300,000 chips. Jason Wheeler is 3rd with 1,950,000 chips. Tony Veckey is 4th with 1,600,000 chips. Andrew Malott is 5th with 1,500,000 chips. Joseph Chaplin is 6th with 1,300,000 chips. Christopher DeMaci is 7th with 700,000 chips. Good luck to the remaining players.

Event # 55 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball 258 entries $2,500 buy in. Currently 2 players remain. Abe Mosseri leads with 1,550,000 chips. Masayoshi Tanaka is 2nd with 385,000 chips. Good luck to the 2 remaining players.

Event # 56 No Limit Hold’em / Six Handed 928 entries $5,000 buy in. Currently 31 players remain. Robert Kay leads with 1,100,000 chips. Notables are: Bracelet winner Blair Hinkle with 630,000 chips. Shaun Deeb with 575,000 chips. Darrell “GigaBet” Dicken with 450,000 chips. Bluff – ESPN Power Ranked # 10 Shannon Shorr with 340,000 chips. Matt Hawrilenko with 250,000 chips. 11 time bracelet winner and winner of the main event in 1989 Phil Hellmuth with 220,000 chips. 4 time bracelet winner David Chiu with 210,000 chips. Peter Feldman with 195,000 chips. 2 time bracelet winner Bill Chen with 170,000 chips. Bracelet winner Bill Edler with 90,000 chips. Good luck to the remaining players.

That’s it for another WSOP update. Main event starts on Friday. Next update tomorrow night. Take care everyone and goodnight.