WSOP Round-up Day 2

• Author: Ed
• Filed under: Tournaments
• Date: Jul 13,2008

Just like Day 1 has been split into various ‘sub-days’ to help make it easier for all of the 6844 entrants of this grandiose competition, so has day 2.  Today we’re going to cover the whole two days in "one".  Because, with this year being the largest in history, there is a lot to tell!

The total number of players in Day2A was a staggering 1251.  Of that number after approximately 10 hours of play – we had 465 very battered, bruised but victorious individuals.  Today saw witness to a large number of professional players taking the fall and amongst those included Scotty Nguyen, Barry Greenstein and Bill Edler. 

Top 5 players for today were:

Brian Schaedlich with a staggering 8011,000  chips
Hunter Frey followed in second amassing 397,000 chips
Jeremiah Smith trails with 386,000

All in all 465 have survived to earn their day off and return after tomorrow.

Day 2B saw 2,378 players come into the fray yet again, and only 842 will manage to survive to see Day 3.  Today also saw the previous winner – Mr.Jerry Yang fall out of the contest, as well as many bracelet holders.  Top 3 players for today were:

Peter Biebel 531,000
Alex Outhred 486,800
Baja Kattamuri 411,100

As you can see no one took a significant lead compared to Day 2A.  This just goes to show how fierce the fight is, and how the 2008 WSOP will be the most competitive yet.

Stay tuned and enjoy!

WSOP Main Event – Day 1D Round up

• Author: Ed
• Filed under: General, Tournaments
• Date: Jul 8,2008

This is the grand final for Day 1.  The Day 1D is the last chance people get to join the tournament, and as a result stands to be the busiest day in the tournament.  Today saw aggressive play from many well-known players as well as many ‘amateurs’ or should I say soon to be Pros.

Today’s grand total of entrants was a staggering 2,461.  This is more players than Day 1A and Day 1B combined – and it just goes to show how popular this tournament is, and how many people were ‘waiting’ to judge the field before they stepped in with their $10,000 buy-in.  Now we know today’s figure we can tell you how many people are going to be in the main competition.

Are you ready? 6844.  This gives a staggering total of over $64 million dollars in the prize pool and it looks set to be a very fierce competition this year, as only the top 666 players will win any money.  The good news is however, we have a lot of poker to play and hands to deal before we get anywhere near the good stuff.

So With Day 1D being the largest, was it the fiercest also? It looks set to be, with many professional players coming into the fold today.  With Phil Hellmuth making his ‘grand’ entrance today as well as Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey and Johnny Chan.

Today’s competition ended at nearly 1AM and the top six were

Steve Austin 149,000
David Oppenheim 123,000
Victor Ramdim 121,000
Carlos Mortenson 109,000
Gus Hanson 105,000

Surprisingly Phil Hellmuth’s wondrous entrance did not seem to help much, as he managed to finish the day with a mediocre 75,800 chips.  Enough to qualify, but certainly not enough to lead.  Surprisingly, last year’s champion Mr. Jerry Yang – managed to scrape by with a very mediocre 26,600 chips. 

This really was an aggressive and a well played day by everyone.

Congratulations, and enjoy your well-deserved one day vacation!

WSOP Main Event. Day 1B and Day 1C Round up

• Author: Ed
• Filed under: General, Tournaments
• Date: Jul 7,2008

This is the second official day of the World Series of Poker, and today sees more entrants than yesterday, with a grand total of 1158 entries into the competition.  It is still unclear as to just how many people will enter, but we will soon find out as the four days draw to a close.

Day 1B hosted inside the Amazon room of the Rio in Las Vegas.  In the end it came down to 615 players – surprisingly so far the competition has been remarkably vicious and numerous poker stars have already been eliminated. 

Amongst the current fold – the leading top six include
Brian Schaedlich $160,725
Robert Mizrachi $142,400
Nick Caltabiano $127,700
Liya Gerasimova $111,050
Robert Eckstut $110, 275

Being hosted on the fourth of July, we saw a large number of American flags being waved.  Every player on the field was given a miniature U.S.A flag but it has to be noted that at least a third of all players are foreign.

Sadly the number of players today was a little below expectations, but the play was still fierce and at the end of the day there was a spectacular fireworks ensemble.

Day 1C

Day 1C drew a much larger field of players than the previous few days. With 1928 entrants it is the largest so far.  Today saw a large number of poker pros in the field names including Max Pescatori, Huck Seed, T.J Cloutier, Larry Flynt, Sammy Farha, Kirk Morrison and Tony G to name a few, they were also sadly almost all eliminated by the players.  Former WSOP Champion Chris Moneymaker also graduated from Day 1C alongside some other well-known’s, but today saw a large number of players survive ready and waiting for Day 2.

In total – there are now 1,026 players that survived Day 1C currently ready for the next stage of the competition.

Good luck, you’ll all need it!