Jimmy Shultz had only been playing poker five years and the closest he had previously gotten to a live high stakes poker tournament was a vacation trip to last year’s series where he’d only watch, not entering any events. Well this year he came to the WSOP with a purpose, wearing a Charleston South Carolina fire department T-shirt throughout the event to remember his friend and eight other firefighters who lost their lives in a tragic accident one year ago. He came to this event for them, with a pledge to donate 25 percent of his winnings to the same fire department. In the end this high stakes tournament virgin would cash for over $250K in top place prize money and have a WSOP bracelet to show for his accomplishments

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June 8, 2008 marked the tenth day of WSOP action at the Rio. Today was a great day for sub stories as we saw Erik Lindgren going for a second bracelet, Theo Tran going for a 3rd 2008 WSOP final table, Negreanu and Ivey go deep with their prop bet on the line, Vassilios Lazarou coughing up blood profusely but refusing treatment, tournament staff bring Phil Ivey a second TV, Kathja Thater cursing it up in German, Phil Hellmuth falling victim to the “UB Suit” curse and much much more. Of course you can read all about these sub stories while catching up on all the days key hands, chip counts, cashes and results at poker-prop.net/news.

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Phil Tom won his first bracelet last night during Event 11 of the 2008 WSOP which was a $5K buy-in No Limit Holdem Shoot Out tournament. After his victory he admitted to a member of the media that he is the father of Scott Tom, who in case you don’t remember is the former Absolute Poker executive and co-founder believed to have been behind the POTRIPPER account which had access to player’s hole cards.

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We previously reported that PartyGaming PLC had risen as much as ten percent after investors had speculated they were close to a settlement with the US DOJ. The stock has now returned t its previous pricing as Numis Securities has said such talk is premature and a settlement might be months away.

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In addition to seeing events 13 and 14 get their starts we saw event 12 and 13 return for a second day where the final tables where determined and we also saw Farzad Rouhani and Rep Porter each capture their first WSOP Bracelets as events 9 and 10 concluded. For full WSOP reports and other poker news visit poker-prop.net/news

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Poker old timers who still follow the poker circuit would find last nights Event 10 WSOP final table to be an interesting one. The known names at the table were Michael Mizrachi and John Cernuto, but old timer who played in New England Poker Classics at Foxwoods when that was a circuit hot spot prior to the poker boom would most certainly recognize Greg Pappas. Also at the table were rising star John Racener and the eventual champion Farzad Rouhani who is also one of the nicer guys you’ll meet and had come close to winning bracelets in the past, but had not earned one until last night. This perhaps will go down in our minds as the WSOP event where the players had the most fun. The player chatter through out the night resembled more a home game atmosphere then it did a WSOP final table with a bracelet on the line.

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Event #9 featured two players with the sir name Porter, both had had the opportunity to eclipse the $1 million dollar career tournament winnings milestone with tonight’s $372,843 top place prize. In the end it would be Rep Porter outlasting John Conkright, Michiel Brummelhuis 883,000,Nathan Templeton, Devin TranquilChaos” Porter, and Anthony Shilyuk to earn himself his first WSOP bracelet.

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June 6 marked the eight day of action at the 2008 WSOP is Las Vegas Nevada. Today we saw a couple bracelets awarded to both Matt Keikoan (event 7) and Anthony “tongi” Rivera (event 8), final tables of events nine and ten determined and events eleven and twelve get their start. For full WSOP reports visit poker-prop.net/news

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The inaugural Event #8 $10,000 buy-in WSOP Mixed Game Championship concluded last night with Tongi (real name: Anthony Rivera) on top. He headed into the nights final table as a short stack but Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan doubled him up on the first hand. Having not played many tournaments it was 22 year old Tongi’s experience at mixed cash games at both the Bellagio and Commerce Casino in Los Angeles that helped propel him to victory. Other final table players included Matt Glantz, James Mackey, Mike DeMichele, Sam Farha, Jeff Madsen and Eli Elezra.

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Matt Keikoan captured his first WSOP bracelet last night at a table which included noteworthy professionals such as JC Tran, Chris Bjorin, Alex Bolotin, Shannon Shorr, and PokerStars sensation devinr12 whose real name is Carter Gill. Along with the Event #7 WSOP bracelet he received $550,601 first place prize money.

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