WSOP Main Event

Ukgatsby · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject: WSOP Main Event

Out of all the events in Vegas the following are classed as World Championship events

54 different events.
The main World Championship status events listed below...

World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em (Event 1)
1st Nenad Medic
2nd Andy Bloch
3rd Kathy Liebert

World Championship Mixed Event (Event 8)
1st Anthony Rivera
2nd James Mackey
3rd Matt Glantz

World Championship Seven Card Stud (Event 14)
1st Eric Brooks
2nd Fu Wong
3rd Alexander Kostritsyn

Ladies No-Limit Hold'em World Championship (Event 15)
1st Svetlana Gromenkova
2nd Anh Le
3rd Patricia Till

World Championship Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em (Event 25)
1st Kenny Tran
2nd Alec Torelli
3rd Vanessa Selbst

World Championship Limit Hold'em (Event 30)
1st Rob Hollink
2nd Jerrod Ankenman
3rd Tam Hang

World Championship Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better (Event 33)
1st Sebastian Ruthenberg
2nd Chris Ferguson
3rd Robert Lauria

World Championship Omaha Hi-Low (Event 37)
1st David Benyamine
2nd Greg Jamison
3rd Jason Gray

Seniors No-Limit Hold'em World Championship (Event 42)
1st Dan Lacourse
2nd Dale Eberie
3rd Marc Fluss

World Championship H.O.R.S.E. (Event 45)
1st Scotty Nguyen
2nd Mike DeMichele
3rd Erick Lindgren

World Championship Pot Limit Omaha (Event 50)
1st Marty Smith (BELFAST)
2nd Peter Jetten
3rd Michael Mizrachi

Thu, Jul 3rd
World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em *** MAIN ***(Event 54)
1st ?????
2nd ?????
3rd ?????
4th ?????
5th ?????
6th ?????
7th ?????
8th ?????
9th ?????

The "MINOR" event bracelet winners so far are....
Event 02 - Grant Hinkle
Event 03 - David Singer
Event 04 - Erick Lindgren
Event 05 - Michael Banducci
Event 06 - Thang Luu
Event 07 - Matt Keikoan
Event 09 - Ralph Porter
Event 10 - Farzad Rouhani
Event 11 - Phillip Tom
Event 12 - Jimmy Schultz
Event 13 - Duncan Bell
Event 16 - Andrew Brown
Event 17 - Jason Young
Event 18 - Mike Matusow
Event 19 - Vanessa Selbst - 1st Female winner of a mixed event
Event 20 - Daniel Negreanu
Event 21 - Scott Seiver
Event 22 - Jens Voertmann
Event 23 - Blair Hinkle
Event 24 - Max Pescatori
Event 26 - Barry Greenstein
Event 27 - Vitally Lunkin
Event 28 - Philip Galfond
Event 29 - John Phan
Event 31 - Dario Minieri
Event 32 - Jose-Luis Velador
Event 34 - Layne Flack
Event 35 - Michael Rocco
Event 36 - Jesper Hougaard
Event 38 - Davidi Kitia
Event 39 - David Woo
Event 40 - John Phan (2nd bracelet - also won Event 29)
Event 41 - Frank Gary
Event 43 - Martin Klaser
Event 44 - Maxwell Greenwood
Event 46 - Joe Commisso
Event 47 - Ryan Hughes
Event 48 - Alexandre Gomes
Event 49 -

Tran
Event 51 - James Schaaf
Event 52 - David Daneshgar
Event 53 - Matt Graham

The quest for the illusive Event 54 (Main) starts today
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AcesJones · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject:

I see that the main event Days 1 A & B have had some big name casualties already.

The early exists include this years WSOP bracelet winners Daniel Negreanu (with set over set Shocked

) and David Benyamine (AJ v AA when the case Ace hit on the turn), EPT favourites Juha Helppi and Roland De Wolfe, Brit favourites Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot and Ram Vaswani, Past main event winners "Action" Dan Harrington, Greg "Fossil Man" Raymer and lastly online phenonima Tom "Durrr" Dwan had AA cracked on the turn by A8 to a 8-J-5-8-Q board.

Players still in and fairing a little bit better are,

Day 1A Chip Leaders:

Mark Garner $194,900
Brandon Adams $176,450
Kellen Hunter $155,200
Stefan Mattsson $154,275
Patrick Fortin $145,275
Jeff Frerichs $138,025
Soren Peterson $135,475
Adam Hudson $127,750
Wayne Brown $124,575
Todd Rebello $123,925

Day 1B Chip Leaders:

Ben Sarnoff $165,000
Brian Schaedlich $156,000
Nicholas Caltabiano $133,000
Robert Mizrachi $131,000
Rob Eckstut $115,000
Marc Karam $113,000
Liya Gerasimova $111,000
Giles Smadia $110,000
Sigurd Eskeland $106,000
Haibo Chu $102,000

Will try to keep it updated.... Fingers Crossed

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fairfranco · At Stud Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 4760

the final of the WSOP has just completed and they've got a new youngest ever winner.

22 year old Dane Peter Eastgate takes the title beating Igor Demidov heads up.

The Shark · At Stud Read My Blog! Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 3257

Well done Eastgate - just over $9 mill he takes. I'm sure Demidov will be a bit dissapointed at second for a while - but just under $6 mil should help him get over it!

Come on OLBG superheros - get practicing we want to see you there next year!

Murph1984 · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:41 pm Post subject:

I chatted to him a bit in the Ladbrokes lounge and he seemed intnsely focused.

He was actually there with Ladbrokes but like me chose not to sign their exclusivety contract and look at him now,the youngest ever World Champion and only a matter of time before his sponsorship deal with Poker Stars is upgraded to make him a full member of Team PokerstarsPro.

WP GG! Win

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scottishlad · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject:

Dont know about the set-up this year after 7 days hard playing you are going to be on your A game and then have such a long break.Fair enough people could have used it to there advantage i know Dennis was getting coaching from a pro etc, but when it came to the finale table its not going to be the same.
I agree with promoting the game etc but im not sure if this is the right thing to do.

Also i thought it would be televised i had to listen to it on the radio and its not the same is it.

Well played Eastgate he had the nuts a few times and played them perfect flat calling,checking the turn value betting the river and getting paid off all the time slowly grinding away at demidov's chip stack.Excellent lowball strategy.

Last hand:
Blinds: 500,000/1,000,000
Ante: 150,000

Flop: 4 K 3
Turn: 2
River: 7

Ivan Demidov moved all-in with 8,000,000 (not much details from actions - post-flop, etc.. But the pot was about 12,000,000)

Eastgate called.
Showdown!

Demidov: 2 4 (2 pair)
Eastgate: A 5 (straight)

fairfranco · At Stud Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 4760

I think they probably don't show it live because it's so drawn out, when ever you see the Poker on telly it's been very condensed getting rid of the many hands where not much happens.

Showing it live would go on for a long long which is why I think they don't show it.

scottishlad · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject:

Yip longest final table in wsop history