Posted by pokerguru on June 3, 2009
Tom McEvoy may not be a household name for the new poker fans, but rest assured, he is a dominant player with an impressive history in WSOP Events. Tom won the World Championship in 1983 and has 3 other WSOP bracelets on his wrist as well. Now he can add The Binion Cup to his prestigious collection. In a competition of the poker elite, McEvoy came out on top.
The winning hand was a simply 10c9d that he turned into a straight leaving Varkonyi only one out left in the deck. If the 4c didn’t show, McEvey was walking with the hardware. He got a club, but it was the K of clubs and that was all she wrote. The cash payday for this event was a mere $1,970, but the winner also received The Binion Cup and a fully restored 1970 Corvette Stingray Convertible. More importantly, McEvoy now has the right to brag about beating every past WSOP Champion that was seated at the table.
In other tournaments…
Event #4 continued on from the field of 6012 and we are not looking at the final day of the tournament. With only 50 players left, we will hopefully have a champion of The Stimulus $1,000 NL Hold’em event early in the evening. Top prize for the event is $771,106 and play will resume at 1:00pm on Tuesday.
Event 5 wrapped up its first day by eliminating an impressive 90% of the field. Only 81 players remain from the original 809. Jason Mercier appears to be the chip leader in the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Event, but official counts have not yet been released.
Event 6, the $10,000 7 Card Stud World Championship Event, will continue on, but still has a long way to go. 142 players started the day and there are still 101 remaining. The top 16 positions will be played and Matt Glantz is the current chip leader with 100,000 in his stack. Todd Brunson and Eli Elezra are also some of the bigger names on the Day 1 leader board.
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Posted by Dan on May 29, 2009
The elimination list for Event #2 at the WSOP, the $40,000 40th Annual NL Hold’em Event, looks like a who’s who in poker. Hellmuth, Dwan, Minieri, Juanda, Negreanu, Chan, Duke, Greenstein, Ferguson, Elezra, Lindgren, Harmon, Deeb, Laak and Nguyen are all out. However, there are still some major players left in this field and it still looks very good for a notable pro to take this one down.
Hellmuth, as always, was one of the more entertaining eliminations. Ivey had been bullying him all day long and Hellmuth was just waiting for an opportunity to fight back. He finally drew a hand, AJh, and made a move on an Ivey raise and looked across the table at AK. Phil headed to the rail and was ranting the entire time.
Mike “The Mouth” Matusow has been noticeably quiet all day long as the cards have just not been coming his way. He has managed to stay alive though and while he is short stacked at $87,000, if the cards change, you would have to think that he is going to be have to be dealt with.
Big Papa has been hanging tough the entire day. While his stack has been up and down, he seems to be in true form and licking his chops at the $1.8 million dollar payday that goes to the winner. He will start day two at $244,000 in chips.
However, the story of the day has to be that Chris Moneymaker has not only made it past day one, but he is sitting in second place overall with $805,000 in chips. He has made some big calls, most notably against Ferguson, and may finally breakthrough in a major WSOP tournament for the first time since his WSOP win in 2003.
He has been about as big a bust as any World Series winner in the past. Literally being the one responsible for the current day poker boom, he has not had a major cash since the $2,500,000 payday 6 years ago. You often see him getting railed early on in day one, but not this time. He is still playing typical Moneymaker poker, but his cards are holding and the questionable calls are paying off.
The true test will come as this field narrows down. He is not afraid to call with any kicker, he makes huge bluffs and will chase down just about any hand. He is just as likely to go on a huge run as he is to go broke in the first fifteen minutes of the second day. However, if he starts to get cards, he will be dangerous because of the action that he gets when he is in a hand.
In addition to Day 2 of the 40th Annual NL Hold’em Event, the Omaha Hi-Low Split 8 or Better $1,500 tournament starts today. This is a 3 day event and the players will start off with $4,500 in chips. Levels in both tournaments go for 60 minutes and the action kicks off at 12 noon PST.
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