Event 7 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em is now in the record books. Matt Keikoan laid claim to the elusive WSOP bracelet and oh yeah $550,601 in cash. He came out on top after 3 hard days of play against a field of 1,592 total players. Congratulations Matt!
Event 8 - $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event was taken down by relative unknown and 22-year-old Anthony Rivera. Of course he's only unknown to the tournament world, having typically favored the cash game world primarily at Bellagio and the Commerce Casino. The final table was no walk in the park as Rivera faced off against 4 former WSOP bracelet winners. The young man is to be congratulated and has a right to enjoy both the new piece of jewelry and the $483,688 pay day. Congratulations Anthony!
Event 10 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better narrowed the field down to the final 8 players before they called it a "night." I say that because I was reading about it before I left for Cole's baseball practice this morning at 9:00am EST. Sheesh, that's grueling. 388 players began the saga. A top prize of $232,911 will await one of the lucky few tomorrow/today (whatever.) Easily recognizables among the hopeful are Michael Mizrachi and John Cernuto. Hang in there guys!
Event 11 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout Day one ended last night narrowing the field to 36 of the original 360. Recall that these are 6-handed tables which play down to last man standing at the table and then recombine. Action picks back up today. Shamus and shorton will continue to "blog" it up for us over at http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2008-world-series-of-poker/event-11-5000-nlhe-shootout/ so stay tuned.
Event 12 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em thinned the herd down to 179 of the original 880 on Day 1. As you can tell I'm a little behind in posting today, as Big Red has had me working my fingers to the bone today, and sweating my ass off in this 95+ degree heat here in West by-god Virginia. (pant pant.) Day 2 has already gotten started. Notables still in it to win it include Marco Traniello (Jennifer really has brought him over to the dark side,) Vinny Vinh, Erick "E-Dog" Lindgren, and Marcel Luske. C'mon "E-Dog go for TWO!!!
Event 13 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em is under way, but very early on, so it's pointless for me to speculate at this point... but I'll keep you posted. MeanGene is covering this one.
Event 14 - $10,000 Seven-Card Stud World Championship doesn't fire up until tomorrow, but this will bring out some of the legends of the game. Stay tuned for that one.
BUT, as for me I'm leaving for the evening to head out to eat and have a few drinks with my wife, and JR and Nikki, plus whomever happens along. There's a lot of other stuff I wanna talk about and update you on, but for now this'll have to do. Honest, I've been trying to get this post out ALL DAY LONG, but the damn "honey-do" list has been the bane of my existence today. I'll update tomorrow, I promise letting you in on the poker action from last night, NOT as you might think, in Las Vegas... but instead bringing you closer to home. I'm referring to the Shuman game which... well there's just A LOT to recap. I'll post it up. I'll cover a few hands that I was involved in, and some of the goings on that made it a GREAT NIGHT.
Thanks for stopping by, but for now, call me out-of-here!
Regards,
cheer_dad
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The $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event win by Anthony Rivera is definitely a big win for him.
I am also looking forward to the $10K 7-card stud event. I have a feeling another big final table of poker pros could emerge for that one.
It has been a pretty good WSOP for the first week!
I'm really looking forward to the $10K 7-card stud event too. Aside from the Main Event of course, I'm really beginning to enjoy the H.O.R.S.E. event. Many of the people I play with have expressed interest in having one of our own in the near future.
Regards,
cheer_dad
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