June 11, 2008 marked the thirteenth day of WSOP action at the Rio. The big story tonight was Mike Matusow winning his third WSOP bracelet, but we also saw four other events played and Vanessa Selbst, Eugene Todd and Daniel Negreanu all found themselves table bound. A couple of events kicked off today including the $5K NLHE and $3K HORSE. To get caught up on all the days WSOP action visit www.poker-prop.net/news/
Mike Matusow was over come with emotion last night, and thanked the fans two times as he’d just won the third WSOP bracelet of his career. This was not just any WSOP bracelet though, this was the coveted $5K with rebuy 2-7 No Limit Lowball Single Draw event which each year has a field made up primarily of only of high stakes poker’s more elite players. Last night his final table opponents included Jeff Lisandro, Tom Schneider, Erick Lindgren, Barry Greenstein, TonyG and David Benyamine.
June 10, 2008 marked the twelfth day of action at the 2008 WSOP. Today we saw Svetlana Gromenkova, Andrew Brown and Jason Young all score their first WSOP Bracelets. We also saw Mike Matusow, Jeff Lisandro, Tom Schneider, Erick Lindgren, Barry Greenstein, TonyG and David Benyamine all qualify for the 2-7 Lowball final table. Last but not least we saw two events get started today in both the $1500 PLO event and the $2000 fixed limit Holdem event.
Jason Young is a 26 year old poker player with ten years cash game experience. It was not until a few years ago that he began grinding up the stakes at local Atlantic City card rooms and was able to quit his Parks and Rec. job to pursue a career as a professional poker player. This decision and his decision to come out to Vegas and try his World Series of Poker luck proved to be great ones as he is now $335,565 richer and in his own words “more importantly” has won some new bling in a 2008 WSOP bracelet
Andrew Brown won WSOP Event 16, $2K Omaha Hi/Lo last night to capture his first WSOP bracelet. A player who only had 2 chips when the day began managed to make it all the way to third place after countless all ins, and the post match interview with Brown was a bit strange, you’ll need to read it yourself to decide.
The 2008 WSOP Ladies World Championship is the books and its Bodog Main Event qualifier Svetlana Gromenkova who is the world champion. Her name might sound familiar as she final tabled the 2007 US Poker Championship, has been deep in several other tournaments had had cashed previously three other times at the WSOP.
World Poker Tour has found itself in serious trouble regarding their television future. GSN has let another deadline pass and from the sounds of it, unless its buy-rate TV, their days on that network are over. With the companies stock approaching penny-stock status, their loss of Budweiser sponsorship, and now having been cancelled by two networks: Where does the WPT go from here? Might we see something like “FullTiltPoker.net Presents WPT Season VII Championship on FSN” or might WPT find another television deal or sponsor to do the same, or could WPT’s days be numbered? To think this once powerhouse show could soon turn into a buy-rate TV program (like infomercials use) is perplexing, but in reality WPT has no one to blame but themselves. This company has perhaps stolen from the hand that fed them one to many times. To refresh your memory it was online poker rooms such as PokerStars and PartyPoker that helped make the WPT big, what did they do? They decided they were popular enough now, and launched their own online poker room, which of course failed. Also Shana Hiatt got to expensive and she was let go as well, there was also the deal with player wavers, the video games etc, but we’ll let those ones go for now. The big thing now is WPT needs to merely find a way to survive before it starts looking to rebuild. They have some money to do so, but they won’t have that money forever if trends continue.., It will be interesting to see how this all turns out.
Our June 9, 2008 WSOP report covers the eleventh day of action at the Rio. Today we saw 2 bracelets awarded, we saw the Ladies Championship and $2000 Omaha Hi/Lo final tables determined and we saw the $1500 shootout get started as well as the prestigious $5000 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Single Draw with Rebuy tournament get under way. Our June 8th report was filled with gossip and today it was hard to match but we had an interesting Doyle Brunson interaction to report on, a few woman luck boxes to point out and a few other side reports to share. This report came from Stuffpay who will be covering a few more events for us before resuming his 2008 WSOP run.
If you happened to say when the Event 14 $10.000 7 Card Stud Championship final table started that Eric Brooks was an underdog, the most common responses would probably of been “duh” “obv” or a sarcastic “zomg really?”. After all he had started the final table just 6th in chips, had never cashed in a major tournament before and was up against superstars Erik Seidel, Alexander Kostritsyn, Minh Ly, and David Oppenheim. Even more impressive than the fact he’d come from behind and win the event was his announcement afterwards that he is donating all of his winnings to charity, for himself he keeps the championship bracelet to which he can look at reminding himself of the time he took on 157 of the world’s best 7 Card Stud players, and Won!
Duncan Bell is the winner of 2008 WSOP event #13. Last night he found himself at the final table sitting right next to his close friend Shawn Buchanan. Most poker mates dream about the opportunity to play against one another for WSOP gold at a final table, and for these two, that dream came true. Buchanan finished in fourth receiving $218,491 and Duncan Bell received $666,777 top place prize money and his first WSOP bracelet.
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