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2008 WSOP Main Event: Day 1B
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2008 WSOP Day 32: Danish domination
However, that's not all that's going on at the 2008 World Series of Poker at the Rio today. Two more events will play down to a final table today while the final $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event gets underway. Event 49 Players are dropping like flies in the sixth installment of the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em events. The final table began play today at 2 p.m. with the top nine players and already four have had to bow out. Rasmus Nielsen started the day with a fairly commanding chip lead of nearly $3 million to his nearest competitor's $1.4 million. He has since built that chip stack to about $5 million, and he hasn't gotten there by just sitting on his chip stack. Nielsen, from Denmark, is showing the rest of the table that Danes know how to handle a big stack at a final table, bullying and pushing players around with his chips. Meanwhile Christoph Kohnen, Robert Kalb, Jesper Hoog and Chad Siu have all been sent to collect payments for ninth through sixth places respectively. That just leaves Peter Nguyen, J.C. Tran and Joe Pelton representing the United States and John Conroy from Ireland to try to defeat the Dane. All the action can be found in the Event 49 live updates. Event 50 Eighty-six came to play today and 36 will get paid as the $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha event continues its second day of play. They will continue to play down to the final table of nine, but at the moment, the battle is to just stay in it to make it into the money. Some of the pros who just couldn't make it that far are Leif Force, Robert Williamson III, Humberto Brenes, Noah Boeken, Scott Clements, Ross Boatman, Bill Chen and more. Josh Arieh is still enjoying being the chip leader for the time being, and other pros still among the 50-plus still alive include David Singer, Kido Pham, Michael Mizrachi, Eddy Scharf, Johnny Chan, David Williams and Jeffrey Lisandro. See for yourself who will make it through the day and who will inevitably have to just collect some cash as consolation for missing out on a bracelet win again. There will be plenty of coverage in the Event 50 live updates. Event 51 There's never too much H.O.R.S.E.ing around at the WSOP. The $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. continues for its second day of play today. It could be a long day of play as 179 of the initial 803 players returned today, and after a couple hours of play, there's still more than 120 players battling. They need to get down to a final table of eight sometime today and the money starts paying out at 80th place. At the moment, Victor Ramdin seems to be at the top of the leaderboard. Phil Hellmuth started the day with the lead, but has slipped a bit to ninth place while Ramdin moved up to his spot and now Chad Brown is settled into second place on the leaderboard as well. Some of the players not so lucky to still be in contention include Mary Jones, Chip Jett, Bryan Devonshire and Shannon Shorr. Check out the action in the Event 51 live updates. Event 52 The numbers are in for the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event that got started today and 2,694 brave souls were willing to take another crack at the event. That field has already been narrowed to less than half with a few pros to report among the casualties. Justin Bonomo, Antonio Esfandiari, J.C. Alvarado, Chris Moneymaker, Marco Traniello, Isaac Haxton, Jennifer Tilly, Chad Batista, Max Pescatori, Sarah Bilney, Erik Seidel, Shannon Shorr and Roland De Wolfe are all. Vanessa Rousso is off to a good start on Day 1, however, as she's already run her starting stack up to about $190,000 according to the worldseriesofpoker.com. Some other pros to keep an eye out for are Erica Schoenberg, Phil Laak, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, David Pham, Mimi Tran, David "Devilfish" Ulliott, Humberto Brenes, Alex Jacob, Kathy Liebert, T.J. Cloutier, Erick Lindgren and others. Catch all the action in the Event 52 live updates. Related Articles: 2008 WSOP Day 32: H.O.R.S.E. win for Nguyen2008 WSOP Day 31: The end is in sight2008 WSOP Day 31: Last $10k before the Main EventVisit PokerListings.com
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However, that's not all that's going on at the 2008 World Series of Poker at the Rio today. Two more events will play down to a final table today while the final $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event gets underway. Event 49 Players are dropping like flies in the sixth installment of the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em events. The final table began play today at 2 p.m. with the top nine players and already four have had to bow out. Rasmus Nielsen started the day with a fairly commanding chip lead of nearly $3 million to his nearest competitor's $1.4 million. He has since built that chip stack to about $5 million, and he hasn't gotten there by just sitting on his chip stack. Nielsen, from Denmark, is showing the rest of the table that Danes know how to handle a big stack at a final table, bullying and pushing players around with his chips. Meanwhile Christoph Kohnen, Robert Kalb, Jesper Hoog and Chad Siu have all been sent to collect payments for ninth through sixth places respectively. That just leaves Peter Nguyen, J.C. Tran and Joe Pelton representing the United States and John Conroy from Ireland to try to defeat the Dane. All the action can be found in the Event 49 live updates. Event 50 Eighty-six came to play today and 36 will get paid as the $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha event continues its second day of play. They will continue to play down to the final table of nine, but at the moment, the battle is to just stay in it to make it into the money. Some of the pros who just couldn't make it that far are Leif Force, Robert Williamson III, Humberto Brenes, Noah Boeken, Scott Clements, Ross Boatman, Bill Chen and more. Josh Arieh is still enjoying being the chip leader for the time being, and other pros still among the 50-plus still alive include David Singer, Kido Pham, Michael Mizrachi, Eddy Scharf, Johnny Chan, David Williams and Jeffrey Lisandro. See for yourself who will make it through the day and who will inevitably have to just collect some cash as consolation for missing out on a bracelet win again. There will be plenty of coverage in the Event 50 live updates. Event 51 There's never too much H.O.R.S.E.ing around at the WSOP. The $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. continues for its second day of play today. It could be a long day of play as 179 of the initial 803 players returned today, and after a couple hours of play, there's still more than 120 players battling. They need to get down to a final table of eight sometime today and the money starts paying out at 80th place. At the moment, Victor Ramdin seems to be at the top of the leaderboard. Phil Hellmuth started the day with the lead, but has slipped a bit to ninth place while Ramdin moved up to his spot and now Chad Brown is settled into second place on the leaderboard as well. Some of the players not so lucky to still be in contention include Mary Jones, Chip Jett, Bryan Devonshire and Shannon Shorr. Check out the action in the Event 51 live updates. Event 52 The numbers are in for the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event that got started today and 2,694 brave souls were willing to take another crack at the event. That field has already been narrowed to less than half with a few pros to report among the casualties. Justin Bonomo, Antonio Esfandiari, J.C. Alvarado, Chris Moneymaker, Marco Traniello, Isaac Haxton, Jennifer Tilly, Chad Batista, Max Pescatori, Sarah Bilney, Erik Seidel, Shannon Shorr and Roland De Wolfe are all. Vanessa Rousso is off to a good start on Day 1, however, as she's already run her starting stack up to about $190,000 according to the worldseriesofpoker.com. Some other pros to keep an eye out for are Erica Schoenberg, Phil Laak, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, David Pham, Mimi Tran, David "Devilfish" Ulliott, Humberto Brenes, Alex Jacob, Kathy Liebert, T.J. Cloutier, Erick Lindgren and others. Catch all the action in the Event 52 live updates. Related Articles: 2008 WSOP Day 32: H.O.R.S.E. win for Nguyen2008 WSOP Day 31: The end is in sight2008 WSOP Day 31: Last $10k before the Main EventVisit PokerListings.com
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2008 WSOP Event #47 $1,500 Stud Hi/Low, Day 1: Tang Leads, Traniello Near Top
What does a player do after busting out in Day 2 of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event? They roll right into the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low tourney, Event #47 on the WSOP calendar. At least that's what Chris Ferguson, Kathy Liebert...
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What does a player do after busting out in Day 2 of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event? They roll right into the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low tourney, Event #47 on the WSOP calendar. At least that's what Chris Ferguson, Kathy Liebert...
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2008 WSOP Day 27: Senior moment
The event is playing out its final table today, but at 5 p.m. that attention will probably shift to one of the WSOP's most prestigious events, the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship. Before that happens, though, let's check out what's been happening in today's action. Event 42 At about 2 p.m. the finalists in the Senior No-Limit Hold'em World Championship returned to the felt to begin playing down to a bracelet. One might think that being a table full of 50-and-older players, the name of the game was going to be tight, old-school playing. That theory has party held up as the players haven't seen many flops so far, but the few that they've seen have been important with two resulting in players being busted out. The first player to head to the rail was Marty Wilson. Fred Berger had raised to $90,000 and play folded around to Wilson who moved all-in for his last $439,000. It took Berger about five minutes of thinking, but he eventually made the call to show #Ah#Qc to Wilson's #8h#8d. The flop came #Qh#Qd#Kh, and only an eight could save Wilson from the muck. When the board played out #Jh#7s, he was done. Ed Clark was the next to be eliminated. The board had folded around to Marc Fluss on the button. Fluss raised to $150,000 and Clark went all-in from the big blind. Fluss made the call, and the race was on as he flipped up pocket nines to clarks #As#7d. The board came #Qd#5s#Qh#Jc#9h to give Fluss the hand. Clark departed in eighth place. That leaves Dale Eberle sitting with the chip lead and Dan Lacourse and Fluss not too far behind him. Jerry Yamachika, Berger, Peter Silverstein and Charles Wood are hanging in as well. Check out more details and action in the Event 42 live updates. Event 43 All the players returning for the second day of play today in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Split Eight-or-Better event were in the money, so the goal of the day is for them to survive to make it to the final table. Several players have already had that dream dashed, including Chris "Jesus" Ferguson. However, there are still plenty of players to check in on and see how they're doing. Chip Jett, Shannon Shorr, Erik Seidel and Joe Hachem are among those still in. Check out our live coverage of Event 43 for all the juicy details and find out who will make it through another day of play. Event 44 The $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em with Rebuys event got underway at noon today, and the words of the day for the first couple hours were "all-in" and "rebuy." There's still no official word on how many players showed up and what they shelled out extra in rebuys to boost the prize pool. However, we can tell you about some of the pros who took a seat in the event at noon and which ones have already had to head to the rail. Some of the pros already busted include Antonio Esfandiara, Ted Lawson, Jeff Madsen, Nam Le and Alex Jacob. Jimmy "Gobboboy" Fricke also made an appearance, but busted early. Fricke has two cashes so far in his first-ever WSOP. The pros still in it include Mark Seif, J.C. Tran, Brandon Cantu, Sorel Mizzi, Scott Clements, Shannon Elizabeth, Kathy Liebert, JJ Liu, Vanessa Rousso, Men "The Master" Nguyen, and more. For our coverage of the event, visit the Event 44 live updates. Event 45 At 5 p.m. the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship will get underway and is sure to draw in some of the biggest names in poker. You're not going to want to miss our live coverage of the event as the WSOP's biggest buy-in tournament gets underway. Related Articles: 2008 WSOP Day 27: Twin wins for the Razor2008 WSOP Day 26: The Nick Binger show2008 WSOP Day 26: Woo-ing a bracelet winVisit PokerListings.com
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The event is playing out its final table today, but at 5 p.m. that attention will probably shift to one of the WSOP's most prestigious events, the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship. Before that happens, though, let's check out what's been happening in today's action. Event 42 At about 2 p.m. the finalists in the Senior No-Limit Hold'em World Championship returned to the felt to begin playing down to a bracelet. One might think that being a table full of 50-and-older players, the name of the game was going to be tight, old-school playing. That theory has party held up as the players haven't seen many flops so far, but the few that they've seen have been important with two resulting in players being busted out. The first player to head to the rail was Marty Wilson. Fred Berger had raised to $90,000 and play folded around to Wilson who moved all-in for his last $439,000. It took Berger about five minutes of thinking, but he eventually made the call to show #Ah#Qc to Wilson's #8h#8d. The flop came #Qh#Qd#Kh, and only an eight could save Wilson from the muck. When the board played out #Jh#7s, he was done. Ed Clark was the next to be eliminated. The board had folded around to Marc Fluss on the button. Fluss raised to $150,000 and Clark went all-in from the big blind. Fluss made the call, and the race was on as he flipped up pocket nines to clarks #As#7d. The board came #Qd#5s#Qh#Jc#9h to give Fluss the hand. Clark departed in eighth place. That leaves Dale Eberle sitting with the chip lead and Dan Lacourse and Fluss not too far behind him. Jerry Yamachika, Berger, Peter Silverstein and Charles Wood are hanging in as well. Check out more details and action in the Event 42 live updates. Event 43 All the players returning for the second day of play today in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Split Eight-or-Better event were in the money, so the goal of the day is for them to survive to make it to the final table. Several players have already had that dream dashed, including Chris "Jesus" Ferguson. However, there are still plenty of players to check in on and see how they're doing. Chip Jett, Shannon Shorr, Erik Seidel and Joe Hachem are among those still in. Check out our live coverage of Event 43 for all the juicy details and find out who will make it through another day of play. Event 44 The $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em with Rebuys event got underway at noon today, and the words of the day for the first couple hours were "all-in" and "rebuy." There's still no official word on how many players showed up and what they shelled out extra in rebuys to boost the prize pool. However, we can tell you about some of the pros who took a seat in the event at noon and which ones have already had to head to the rail. Some of the pros already busted include Antonio Esfandiara, Ted Lawson, Jeff Madsen, Nam Le and Alex Jacob. Jimmy "Gobboboy" Fricke also made an appearance, but busted early. Fricke has two cashes so far in his first-ever WSOP. The pros still in it include Mark Seif, J.C. Tran, Brandon Cantu, Sorel Mizzi, Scott Clements, Shannon Elizabeth, Kathy Liebert, JJ Liu, Vanessa Rousso, Men "The Master" Nguyen, and more. For our coverage of the event, visit the Event 44 live updates. Event 45 At 5 p.m. the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship will get underway and is sure to draw in some of the biggest names in poker. You're not going to want to miss our live coverage of the event as the WSOP's biggest buy-in tournament gets underway. Related Articles: 2008 WSOP Day 27: Twin wins for the Razor2008 WSOP Day 26: The Nick Binger show2008 WSOP Day 26: Woo-ing a bracelet winVisit PokerListings.com
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