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WSOP waffle, news, goss & Tweets, Day 8 - Shaun Deeb well placed to win a bangle
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Event #9: Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship ($10,000 entry)
Play resumed with just 5 remaining, & short stack Phil Hellmuth was first to depart as expected, unable to spin up his short stack & win Bracelet # 16.After a marathon 6 hour Heads Up it was Canadian Ari Engel who eventually won his 2nd bracelet - both of them, interestingly, in Limit games. Amazingly, he has over 200 WSOP cashes to his name, dating back to 2006.
1 Ari Engel Canada $317,076
2 Zachary Milchman United States $195,968
3 Andrew Yeh United States $143,988
4 Eddie Blumenthal United States $107,204
5 Phil Hellmuth United States $80,894
6 George Wolff United States $61,877
7 Robert Mizrachi United States $47,987
8 Ben Landowski United States $37,738
9 Khamar Xaytavone United States $30,102
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Event #11: Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship ($25,000 entry)
Hot favourite Jason Koon prevailed here & I doubt anyone will begrudge him his win, he's one of the most popular players out there & perhaps the best who had never previously won a Bracelet.
It was his 3rd FT of this Series too, which is quite something.
1 Jason Koon United States $243,981
2 Gabor Szabo Hungary $150,790
3 Henri Puustinen Finland $89,787
4 Daniel Zack United States $89,787
5 Mikita Badziakouski Belarus $36,280
6 Bin Weng United States $36,280
7 Benjamin Reason United States $36,280
8 Jake Daniels United States $36,280
The moment when he knew he'd broken his duck;
Event #12: Limit Hold'em ($1,500 entry)
Very rare to see an Isreali win a Bracelet, & this was the 2nd that Yuval had won. A pretty spectacular win too, as at one point when heads Up he had a 1;20 chip deficit. Runner-up Kevin Erickson must have felt terrible.
1 Yuval Bronshtein Israel $124,374
2 Kevin Erickson United States $76,868
3 Tom McCormick United States $53,588
4 John Bunch United States $38,011
5 Ian Glycenfer United States $27,488
6 Zachary Gruneberg United States $20,262
7 Guy Cicconi United States $15,230
8 Tony Nasr United States $11,677
9 Anh Van Nguyen Canada $9,137
Now this is a smile....
Event #13: Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em ($3,000 entry)
7 left in this including a Belgian;
1 Harvey Mathews United States 2,520,000 21
2 Gabriel Andrade United States 4,900,000 41
3 David Lolis United States 2,295,000 19
4 Girish Apte United States 2,425,000 20
5 Michael Gathy Belgium 6,700,000 56
6 Craig Mason United States 2,780,000 23
7 Brandon Caputo United States 7,200,000 60
For night owls, you can watch the conclusion of this on Poker Go starting at around 1am on Saturday morning.
Three Brits cashed.....
12th Niall Farrell $18,815
85th Sam Grafton $5,294
95th Adrian State $4,940
Here's the affable Michael Gathy;
Event #14: Seven Card Stud ($1,500 entry)
Just 6 left here but in includes none other than Shaun Deeb.
1 Rafael Lebron Puyallup, WA, US 1,690,000 Amazon / 2 / 6
2 Shaun Deeb LAS VEGAS, NV, US 1,195,000 Amazon / 2 / 5
3 David Moskowitz SUNSET BEACH, CA, US 1,150,000 Amazon / 2 / 1
4 David Williams LAS VEGAS, NV, US 1,050,000 Amazon / 2 / 4
5 Nicholas Seiken Ft Worth, TX, US 970,000 Amazon / 2 / 3
6 Christina Hill DALLAS, TX, US 435,000 Amazon / 2 / 2
Here's Mr Deeb. Don't think we can describe him as affable, but I actually find him quite entertaining.
No Brits cashed, but I did notice Tom McEvoy did. Tom is 76 years old, has authored numerous poker books, & has 4 Bracelets including the WSOP Main which he won 38 years ago. Bet he could tell a story or two. Sadly, he sold his Main Event Bracelet a few years ago as he was a bit busto.
A few other Events are in progress, but just the early stages so we'll pick those up tomorrow.
Melanie Weisner - complete with new hair colour - Tweeted this today.
She's, well, "not shy" & I can't help but think that the finger she chose & it's position was sending a message, though I've no idea to whom.
@MARK277
Wow, that's incred.
Ooh, good find Sherlock Bates.
I fancy this story has a long way to run.
Can't say I've ever heard anything bad about Ms Minken.
My favourite Kelly Minkin clip;