Ryan Hughes won his second career 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo bracelet in 2008 WSOP Event #47. Making his story even more remarkable is that this is the second year in a row he had no intention of playing this event and then a friend convinced him otherwise, and both times this happened to him he pocketed a bracelet and a nice payday.

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2008 WSOP Event #46 is now in the books and the winner of this $5,000 buy-in NLHE 6-max is a former day trader from New Jersey named Joe Commisso. What is most impressive about his performance is this was only his fifth live tournament period he went on to say afterwards he might never play another live tournament again, choosing to perhaps just retire on tops with his bracelet while returning his focus to online cash games. In any cases it was quite the performance which involved a marathon heads up session, you can read it all in our poker news section.

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Scotty Nguyen outlasts the field and makes history as the first player to win both the main event and the big event. Erick Lindgren earns top place in the Player Of the Year standings with a third place finish.

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John Bonetti had a lot of WSOP success with 1.74 million in career winnings, 19 final tables (3 of them in the Main Event) and three career bracelets. It was at the WSOP this afternoon that tournament director Nolan Dalla addressed the crowd of players and asked for a moment of silence as he broke the unfortunate news that Bonetti had died in his home in Hoston Texas early this morning.

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Denmark’s Rene Mouritsen once again finished as the runner up in a WSOP event, his third time in 3 years. He was defeated heads up in 2008 WSOP Event #44 – $1,000 NLHE w/ rebuys by Canada’s Max Greenwood. The night’s sole bracelet winner is a recent graduate of Toronto University and did not have much planned for his future just yet other than an upcoming trip to Europe where he’ll have a lot more spending money considering his $693,444 top place cash in tonight’s event.

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When the 2007 WSOP kicked off last year, there were only two German bracelet winners, since this time we’ve seen the list of German bracelet winners more than triple. A couple nights ago Martin Klaser was the latest to score gold when he took down Event 43 becoming the third German bracelet winner of the 2008 Series, last year there were two German bracelet winners.

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2008 WSOP Event 42 was one of the few events of the Series that had a special requirement to enter; this was the senior’s event so participants needed to be age 50 or older to enter. While this ruled out all the internet young-guns it still attracted an impressive 2,218 entrants including Men “The Master” Nguyen, Tom Franklin, Humberto Brenes, Chris Platt, Tom McEvoy, Paul “Eskimo” Clark, Mike Caro, Johnny Chan, Billy Baxter, and Amarillo Slim. In the end it was a retired member of the Lucas County Deputy Sheriff Department in Toledo, Ohio named Dan Lacourse who used skills he picked up from his time heading the polygraph examination team to win the event’s bracelet and the $368,832 top place prize money.

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42 year-old retired software engineer Frank Gary has been traveling the country in his RV playing poker tournaments, after four WSOP circuit events his best cash came during a 19th place finish in Indiana, but last night his luck ran much further as he pulled the Bus up to the Rio walked in and took down the first WSOP bracelet of his Career. It was 2008 WSOP Event #41 $1500 buy-in Mixed Limit Holdem and in addition to the bracelet he scored himself $219,508 top place prize money.

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Young gun John “The Razor” Phan was the last man standing after surviving a rollercoaster ride with his chips and catching some much needed luck in key situations to capture his second WSOP bracelet within a week in Event #40 – $2,500 2-7 triple draw.

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30 year-old American poker pro David Woo first caught the attention of the poker world when he was the day four chip leader at the ’06 Main Event, and he proved it was no fluke the following year when he final tabled a $1500 buy-in event. Any remaining doubt whether or he is the real deal or not can now be put to rest now as a few nights ago he took down 2008 WSOP Event 39 earning himself $631,656 top place prize money and his first career WSOP bracelet.

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