June 14 marked the sixteenth day of action at the 2008 WSOP in Vegas. Today we saw history made as Blair Hinkle picked up a bracelet just two days after his brother had done the same. We also saw Max Pescatori pick up his second career bracelet, Barry Greenstein make another final table and a couple more events get their start. For full recaps of the day’s action visit www.poker-prop.net/news
Max the Italian Pirate Pescatori was off to a decent World Series with 2 cashes before coming into tonight’s final table, but event so it had carried with it much disappointment. Deep into another event he had flopped top set with queens while his two all in opponents had nothing, but a couple running cards sent him to the rail in that event. All previous tough beats from this WSOP are now distant memories as last night the Pirate took down Event #24 winning his second career bracelet while outlasting fellow Full Tilt Poker pro Allen Cunningham and tournament veteran Mihn Ly at the final table.
Event #23 defied odds in many ways last night, it was nothing short of a magical event, it’s a true shame it was not a televised final table as ESPN is missing out big time having not selected this one. First of all what are the odds of AA vs KK on back to back final table hands? This occurred early. Also in the end Blair Hinkle took both his final two opponents out on separate hands both while holding 66 and hitting a 6 on the second door card of the flop, odds of that? Last but not least Blair Hinkle became the second in his family to win their first WSOP bracelet in 2008. His brother Grant, who had never played a live high stakes tournament before, topped Chris Ferguson in Event #2 just ten days earlier to score himself a bracelet as well. ESPN must be kicking themselves for having not filmed this one.
Ladbrokes Poker dealt their one billionth poker hand this morning. While its short notice players who earn 50 poker points by midnight tonight UK time will be invited to a $300K WSOP freeroll to be held on June 16. Earning 50 points is simple as a $30+$3 SNG or MTT tournament does the trick, or simply raking $2.00 in a NL cash game should also be enough to reach the required points. There is not much time left to get started head over to the Ladbrokes Poker website.
Today marked the fifteenth consecutive day of action at the 2008 WSOP. Today we saw Jens Voertmann outlast one of the Series’ toughest final tables win his first career WSOP bracelet. Blair Hinkle also won his first career bracelet, and it happened just 10 days after his brother had won a first as well. The $10K heads-up championship started today and after 3 rounds of play the field has been narrowed from 256 down to 32 players. The year’s only Razz event started today as well and a couple final tables were determined Cunningham will be in the hunt tomorrow for a sixth bracelet. It was an exciting day of action and you can catch it all at www.poker-prop.net/news
Jens Voertmann has had some recent success since taking up poker seriously in 2005. He was recently signed as Full Tilt Poker pro, had won a major tournament and cashed in a few others, but last night he faced the biggest challenge of his poker career. He was at a $3K buy-in H.O.R.S.E WSOP final table against the likes of The Flying Dutchman Marcel Luske, Team Brunson’s Hoyt Corkins, Team Full Tilt’s Jennifer Harmon, fellow Full Tilt Poker Pro Steve Zolotow, and Jared Davis who had a WSOP runner up finish under his belt. In the end he did the improbable and walked away with his first career bracelet and the $298,253 top place prize money.
Top internet pros such as J.C. Alvarado, Stephen O’Dwyer, Justin Marsh and Justin Bonomo gathered around the final table last night as they watched Scott Seiver, better known online as Gunning4you and as Mastrblastr take down 2008 WSOP Event #21. This was Seiver’s fist final table; he had cashed three times at last years WSOP and also had 22nd and 13rd place finish this past week at the 2008 WSOP. He received $755K and the WSOP bracelet for his performance.
2008 WSOP day fourteen was an exciting one with Negreanu making history winning his fourth career bracelet while becoming just the fifth player in history to eclipse $10 million in career winnings. We also saw Vanessa Selbst win her first while becoming the first woman to win a 2008 WSOP bracelet in an open event. Four other tournaments were played today and you can catch up on all the WSOP action at www.poker-prop.net/news/
Daniel Negreanu captured the fourth WSOP bracelet of his career tonight when he won Event 18 a $2K buy-in Limit Holdem tournament. His third WSOP bracelet had come in hat same event back in 2004. With his win tonight he became the fifth player in history to reach $10 million n career winnings, leapfrogging both Phil Hellmuth and Allen Cunningham Negreanu is now third on the all time money list.
Vanessa Selbst won her first WSOP bracelet last night in Event #19, $2000 Pot Limit Omaha, making her the first woman to win a 2008 WSOP event in an open entry event. It was a wild and crazy finish as her heads up opponent had been enjoying cocktails and taking shots and then decided to just play for the bracelet blind. That right he angled, tanked, raised, potted and called all in all without even looking at his down cards.
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