WSOP 2008 Updates Part 9 at www.pacificpocker.com
Event 41 $1,500 Mixed Holdem Event at www.pacificpocker.com. This event started out with 731 hopefuls from all parts of the globe and took 3 days to decide.
It was left to Frank Gary and Jonathan Tamayo to fight it out at the end though, and they duly did, with Frank Gary proving victorious to take home $219,508 and his first ever World Series bracelet.
Event 42 $1,000 Seniors No Limit Holdem Event at pacificpocker.com. Dan Lacourse and Dale Eberle were left at the end of this tournament after many distinguished verterans and gentlemen of the game had been eliminated. Lacourse made a set of 9’s on the final hand and allowed Eberle to do the raising with his two pair kings up. Lacourse managed to get all the chips in the middle and went away $368 832 richer along with the all important bracelet.
Event 43 $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha hi/lo. After 3 days of play Martin Klaser emerged the winner over 719 players in this event overcoming his opponent Casey Kastle in the final test. He takes home $216,249 a gold bracelet, and the adulation of the pocker masses for his efforts in this event.
Event 44 $1,000 No Limit Holdem Event With Rebuys. It was the youthful Max Greenwood who was triumphant in this event defeating Rene Mouritsen heads up who was unlucky to find his (K,J) top pair outkickered on the final hand against Greenwoods (A,J). All credit to the champion of this event however, as he outlasted 879 players to win his first ever World Series bracelet and $693,444.
Event 45 $50,000 H.O.R.S.E World Champioship Event. The main event aside this was the biggest event on the calender, a true test of the greatest all round poker player. Many of the finest pros in the world lined up to take part, and the final table saw a few great names in the game with Barry Greenstein, Erick Lindgren, Huck Seed and Scotty Nguyen all making it to the last 7 players. After a gruelling battle that saw Huck Seed fall in 7th, Greenstein 6th, and Lindgren 3rd. It was left to the young upstart Michael DeMichele to battle it out with poker legend Scotty Nguyen. Eventually however it was experience from www.pacificpocker.com that won the day as Scotty became the only player ever to win the Holdem World Championship Event and also the 50K HORSE Event.
His (A,10) bested DeMicheles (A,3) on the final hand in Holdem, to give Scotty one of the most prestigous braclets at the World Series and first place prize money of $1,989,120 for first place.
