Another Long Night at the WSOP

Posted by pokerguru on July 1, 2009

Most of tournaments have been going at it for at least 10 hours and we still have not had a bracelet winner crowned in any of the three events that are going for a championship tonight. The biggest tournament is obviously the $50k H.O.R.S.E Event. The field has been taken down to six and the fearless Russian has finally taken a small chip lead. Vitaly Lunkin is now sitting at 3,760,000. Huck Seed is also still alive and gradually climbing back into this thing. We stated earlier that Sagstrom was going to have a problem holding off this field and Lunkin is now in full overdrive.

The Triple Chance NL Hold’em Tourney also has 6 players remaining and Jorg Peisert has built a monster chip lead. He is currently holding 3,065,000 and is nearly 3:1 over second place. A lead like that is going to be very difficult to overcome unless the second or third place players catch him on an all in. He is playing very aggressively and that could happen, but it appears as though he is timing his aggression perfectly right now. This one should be fun to watch down to the end.

While there are only 2 players left in Event 53, we are still a long way from figuring out who is going to win this one. The chips are fairly even as William Kohler has 1,290,000 and David Halpern has 810,000. When you add in the fact that this is a hi/low game, they may be here longer than either of the other two tournaments.

Event 54 has about 40 players and with any luck, they will make it down to the final table tonight. That is probably wishful thinking, but you never know. Event 55 is also trucking along and has less than 40 players remaining. Triple draw can have some large pots, so you may still see a lot of railing going on. The one thing that could slow this down is the fact that they are very close to the bubble.