Beneath the stage of the $50K HORSE final yesterday was the $2K no limit hold'em event, smaller in stature perhaps but no less significant in terms of there being a bracelet at stake. It featured among others PokerStars sponsored player Kirill Gerasimov but also Alexandre Gomes, the first ever Brazilian winner. Naturally the Brazilians in town went … [Read more...]
2008 World Series: The pony club
June 30, 2008 By
When the poker explosion occurred some time earlier this decade, long-time players of the game could be heard sneering that it wasn't poker that was taking over the world, it was no limit Texas hold 'em. "There's more to poker than just two-card chicken," they'd sometimes add, before hastening to toss in a bring in in a stud game, or fanning a four-card … [Read more...]
2008 WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Event #45 Final: Scotty Nguyen Claims Trophy
June 30, 2008 By
It took five days and an amazing final-table performance to do it, but Scotty Nguyen claimed his fifth World Series of Poker bracelet with his victory in Event #45, the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship. He outlasted a final table... … [Read more...]
2008 World Series: Here yesterday, gone today
June 30, 2008 By
The pot limit Omaha started and the pot limit Omaha ended as far as Team PokerStars Pro were concerned. It was a lesson in short-and-sweet for our three returnees, each of whom busted in a slippery 15 minute period, one after the other like ducks in a shooting gallery, before the first hour of play had ticked by. Humberto Brenes Neither Humberto … [Read more...]
2008 WSOP Event #50 $10,000 PLO Championship Day 1: Josh Arieh Leads
June 30, 2008 By
The $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship, Event #50 on the schedule, drew 381 predictably well-known and arguably well-heeled players. And since the buy-in included one rebuy, it was a wild and raucous beginning as players pushed... … [Read more...]
2008 World Series: Coren making up for lost time
June 30, 2008 By
As we mentioned earlier in the week, Victoria Coren has finally made it Vegas and is itching to play as much as she can. Today, she very well may be playing a move out of Barry Greenstein's book. Today, she returns for Day 2 of the $1,500 HORSE event, and, if we're to believe a late-night dispatch from her, she is in this massive field of $1,500 No-Limit … [Read more...]
2008 WSOP Event #51, $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. Day 1: Phil Hellmuth Leads Field
June 30, 2008 By
Event #51 at the 2008 World Series of Poker, $1,500 H.O.R.S.E., drew 803 entrants, making it possibly the largest live mixed-game event in history. The end of Day 1 eliminated more than three quarters of the field, and at night's end... … [Read more...]
2008 WSOP Event #49, $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Day 2: Nielsen Leads Tran, Pelton
June 30, 2008 By
Starting Day 2 of Event #49, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em., the 215 remaining players knew they were already in the money, so their focus was on making it to the final table where one of them will win $631,170 and the WSOP bracelet... … [Read more...]
PokerStars Sunday Tournament Results 6-29-08
June 30, 2008 By
I'll admit it. Once your here in Vegas with thousands of poker players, it's easy to forget there is another world out there. The reminder comes when we take a look at the folks who cashed huge in this week's PokerStars Sunday tournaments. GoMukYaSelf took down the Sunday Million for more than $135,000. Dickson007 won the monthly Turbo Takedown … [Read more...]
2008 World Series: LOL Walkaments
June 30, 2008 By
Not that it matters, but I'm staying at the Palms. Every day, I walk over here to the Rio. It's rare that anything changes along the way. The poker room in the main casino is generally half-full with low-limit players. the area in front of Buzios seafood restaurant is usually empty, and the long walk from the casino to the convention hall is usually … [Read more...]