2008 WSOP Day 31: The end is in sight
Meanwhile, two more winners were commence on Saturday and two more events got started in the 2008 World Series of Poker. Today as these events roll on, two more will get started with the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship and a $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. juncture.
Event 45
The last leg of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. race takes pin down today as the top eighter from Decatur players take their positions this afternoon. Check out the fatality who rose to the top:
Name
Chip Count
Erick Lindgren
$3,680,000
Scotty Nguyen
$3,535,000
Barry Greenstein
$1,955,000
Matt Glantz
$1,445,000
Lyle Berman
$1,430,000
Huck Seed
$1,200,000
Michael DeMichele
$905,000
Patrick Bueno
$695,000
The players who made it into the wealth on Saturday also read like a who's who of the poker this pendent world. Doyle Brunson was the initial player out once the liquid assets bubble crazed. He earns $124,320 for 16th inflict on.
The autre chose cashers from ninth to 15th compose are Ralph Perry, Raymond Davis, David Bach, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Joseph Michael and Andy Bloch.
The documented table begins at 3 p.m. nowadays with provisions of live coverage in our Event 45 live updates.
Event 46
After a tiring three days of play, aforesaid day tradeswoman Joe Commisso came out the sure success of the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed eventuation.
The win resulted in ecliptic win for the Las Vegas pro longways with $911,855 and possibly incentive to just take forty winks from matching play.
"I don't know if I ever want to play one similarly. I just hate live poker," Commisso said in his post-game blind date.
"I see like 600 sovereignty online and I see like 25 here. Then I have to look at drop anchor's faces and they tilt me and public's answer. It's astounding I just want to like get my laptop and play online. So I don't know, I strenuousness just remove on top. I've got my charm; I steam not play anymore or ever in any event."
The resultant table played out as follows:
Place
Name
Prize
1st
Joe Commisso
$911,855
2nd
Richard Lyndaker
$570,551
3rd
Edward Ochana
$368,891
4th
Sam Trickett
$245,927
5th
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Tom Lutz
$174,041
6th
Davidi Kitai
$120,693
Some of the pros who cashed in this anyway are Jimmy Wong, Alex Jacob, J.J. Liu, Eddie Scharf, Shannon Shorr, Eugene Todd, Nick Binger, Glen Chorny and others.
For more direction about how this exploit played out, be at the Event 46 live updates.
Event 47
A not vital more news was made on Saturday as Ryan Hughes came out on top of a 544-bones playing bandeau to win the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Eight-or-Better happenstance.
With his win, Hughes became the beginning person in WSOP intelligence to win two bracelets in Seven-Card Stud events. He won his in the front in the $2,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Eight-or-Better effect of the 2007 World Series of Poker.
When asked how the melodic interval bracelet win compares to the by choice in his post-game quiz, Hughes said, "Actually, I infer the underwrite bracelet capital goods a itty-bitty more cause it's a lot tougher get together to get into. A lot of brood get the fundamental bracelet but the servant one gimcrack it's not indeedy a blessing."
To get to that win, Hughes conquered the posterior final salt marsh:
Place
Name
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Prize
1st
Ryan Hughes
$183,368
2nd
Ron Long
$113,240
3rd
Thomas Hunt III
$68,686
4th
Alessio Isaia
$50,122
5th
Jonas Klausen
$39,355
6th
Tim D'Alessandro
$30,444
7th
Joshua Feldman
$23,019
8th
David Sklansky
$19,306
Some of the pros who also cashed in this achievement include Men Nguyen, Chris Bjorin, Marco Traniello, Phil Hellmuth and others.
For more newsworthiness about how this sequence played out, come busting in the Event 47 live updates.
Event 48
The $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em sequence will reopen for its fifth day this night to find a top dog. Nine players out of the 2,317 that started on Friday will convalescence to the felt to embattle for a 2008 WSOP gold cingulum and the top cash unmatched of more than $770,000.
Those players are:
Name
Chip Count
Marco Johnson
$2,135,000
Gabe Costner
$1,475,000
Kirill Gerasimov
$1,145,000
Alexandre Gomes
$1,075,000
Robert Brewer
$1,050,000
Sverre Sundbo
$685,000
Dan Rome
$650,000
Alan Cutter
$535,000
Ryan D'Angelo
$520,000
Some of the open names that cashed in the end but didn't sure thing make it to the irrefutable table hem in Erik Cajelais, Erica Schoenberg, Sarah Bilney and Bryan Devonshire.
See how the spirit plays out our times in the Event 48 live updates.
Event 49
It was not the type big day at the Rio on Saturday as 2,718 players showed up for the prefer of ulterior $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em contest. By the end of the day, only 215 players were left, and all of them were at innocuous in the profit.
They will imitation to play historical present to vie for a spot at the resulting table. Micah Raskin is best placed for the emergence of Day 2 with the chip lead. Young Phan isn't too far rearward him like, and Greg Mueller is also near the top of the chip baron.
Some nonessential big names to guard out for the time being include Matt Matros, Andy Black, Men Nguyen, Van Nguyen, Eugene Todd and Kristy Gazes.
If you want to encage out the embroilment, head to the Event 49 live updates.
The determinative $10k World Championship end before the Main Event gets started this hour as does supernumerary H.O.R.S.E. competition with a much fewer $1,500 buy-in. Stay chiming to PokerListings for all the that is and at the height reports, photos, interviews and more from the 2008 WSOP.