Mueller Fuels Off of Crowd and Wins World Championship of Limit Hold’em

Posted by pokerguru on June 19, 2009

Greg Mueller is always fun to watch, but Wednesday was just something different and special. Every time he wins a hand his cronies start the infamous “Sui” call and you just have to laugh. However, there was nothing funny about his performance as he obliterated one of the tougher fields that we have seen and finished first in the World Championship of no limit poker. His pocket 5’s held up on the final hand for him to win his first WSOP bracelet and yet another millionaire club member in WSOP and Circuit Tour Event winnings.

Angel Guillen also won his first bracelet in Event 32 in only his second WSOP cash ever. He bested a field of 1534 and won over a half million dollars for the three day tourney. He didn’t have the chip lead when he started the day, but all that matters is that he had every chip in play at around 1:00am. Mika Paasonen finished in second and won $326,203.

In other tournaments…

Event 34 is now down to 221 players with Jonas Klausen (920,000) leading the way. While day one was one of the bloodiest we have seen yet, day 2 continued the trend of not being able to get down to the final table once again. There are still 22 players remaining and they are going to have to dig in for a long session on Thursday to decide the winner. The good news is that they will start out on short tables so that should hopefully move play along a little quicker in the beginning.

Event 35 is bringing some fresh meat to the table. There are plenty of players left alive in this one that we have heard barely a word from so far in this year’s WSOP. Robert Mizrachi (15,000) is holding on for dear life, but David ‘Devilfish’ Ulliot (107,000) is making some noise at the top of the leader board. Jeffrey Lisandro (153,000) continues to have a great WSOP in anything but hold’em. His very impressive run in the other variations continues and he is amount the tournament leaders once again and poised to make a run at another final table.