WSOP update 6
Event 44 June 25th – June -27th
No-Limit Hold'em w/re-buys
Buy-in $1,000
Entrants 879
Prize Pool $3,240,174
Result- Canadian Max Greenwood saw off Dane Rene Mouritsen to win the $693,392 first prize. Incredibly this means that Mouritsen has now had three second place finishes at the WSOP and no win.
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World Championship H.O.R.S.E
Buy-in $50,000
Entrants 148
Prize Pool $7,104,000
Result – In the tournament that was billed as the "real" World Championship of Poker a true legend of the game came through to win the title. Scotty Nguyen came through a small but stellar field to win the event and to take the first prize of $1,989,120. He beat American Michael Demichele heads-up and there were in total 5 former champions on the final table.
Event 46 June 26th- June 28th
No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed
Buy-in $5,000
Entrants 805
Prize Pool $32,783,500
Result – American Joe Commisso beat fellow countryman Richard Lyndaker head-up to win the $911,855 first prize. This was Commisso's first ever WSOP cash and even more surprising only the 5th time he had ever played live.
Event 47 June 26th - June 28th
7-Card Stud Hi-Lo 8-or-Better
Buy-in $1,500
Entrants 543
Prize Pool $741,195
Result – Americans Ryan Hughes and Ron Long battled it out heads-up for the $183,368 first prize and it was former winner Hughes who won the tournament to become the first two-time winner of this event.
Event 48 June 27th- June 29th
No-Limit Hold'em
Buy-in $2,000
Entrants 2,317
Prize Pool $4,216,940
Result – Brazilian Alexandre Gomes beat American Marco Johnson to win the $770,000 first prize. Gomes became not only the first Brazilian to win a bracelet but also the first person from South America to do so.
Event 49 June 28th – June 30th
No-Limit Hold'em
Buy-in $1,500
Entrants 2,718
Prize Pool $3,710,070
Result – American J.C. Tran finally won his first WSOP bracelet when he defeated Dane Ramus Nielson heads-up to take home the $631,170 first prize. Tran came into this year's WSOP having achieved almost everything except win a WSOP bracelet; he now has that monkey off his back.
Event 50 June 29th – July 1st
World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha
Buy-in $10,000
Entrants 381
Prize Pool $3,581,400
Result – Northern Ireland's Marty Smyth beat Canadian Peter Jetten heads-up to win his first bracelet and the first prize of $859,549. This was Smyth's first bracelet win and in winning he was the receiver of the biggest prize ever given out for a Pot-Limit Omaha tournament.
Event 51 June 29th – July 1st
H.O.R.S.E
Buy-in $1,500
Entrants 803
Prize Pool $1,096,095
Result – American James Schaff came through a tough field including having to face Phil Hellmuth Jnr (3rd) on the final table to eventually win and take home $256,412 first prize and his first WSOP bracelet.
Event 52 June 30th – July 2nd
No-Limit Hold'em
Buy-in $1,500
Entrants 2,693
Prize Pool $3,675,945
Result – American David Daneshagar came through a huge field to win the $625,443 first prize when he defeated American Scott Sitron heads-up.
Event 53 July 1st – July 2nd
Limit Hold'em Shootout
Buy-in $1,500
Entrants 823
Prize Pool $1,123,395
Result – American Matthew Graham made it through the 3 tables he sat on to win the $278,180 first prize as he saw off fellow American Jean-Robert Bellande heads-up.
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