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World Series Of Poker Main Event Lottery Expected
Wednesday 02 July 2008 at 09:02
 Punters should be expecting the World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event, which gets underway on July 3rd, to be "a bit of a lottery".
At least this is the opinion of PokerPlayer magazine's editor-in-chief Dave Woods, who suggested it is a highly unpredictable competition because so many people take part.
Giving a possible explanation for why two relatively unknown players, Jerry Yang and Jamie Gold, won cards' richest competition in 2007 and 2006 respectively, Mr Woods remarked: "I think that you definitely need a lot of luck to get through a field that big."
"You also need to play very, very well," he added.
Phil Ivey is currently the favourite to the win the competition, with Sportingbet offering 66/1 on the five-time WSOP bracelet holder - despite him failing to reach a final table in any event so far.
David Pham and Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott are also well backed with Sportingbet at 100/1 and 150/1 respectively.
Meanwhile, Stan James offers 200/1 on some of the sports biggest stars coming out on top, including Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen and Allen Cunningham.
Hellmuth and Ferguson have both won the tournament before.
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