Bahador Ahmadi Take Down Event 47

Posted by pokerguru on June 27, 2009

The mixed holdem event is always a fun one to watch as you have two totally different styles of poker going on at the same time. There are few players that can master both limit and no limit poker and the winner of this event can truly call themselves a great poker player. The final hand had McGuiness waiting far too long to make a move as he did not have enough chips to fight off Ahmadi with his pockets 10’s. Ahmadi ended up drawing out a flush and scooping the championship. He will collect a first place prize of $278,793.

In other tournaments…

There are only 20 players left in the Omaha Split tourney, but nobody is even close to Brandon Cantu at this point. He has had an unbelievably dominating day and is almost seems as though he is the only player winning big hands. While he entered this day with a very close leader board, he has since taken over the tournament and accumulated almost a million in chips. With the next closest player only having 280,000, this is his tournament to lose.

The $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E. Tournament may have a short field, but the first place prize is anything but. The winner of this very prestigious tournament will walk away with $1,276,802 and the title of the best all around player in the game. Justin Smith has made some early moves and currently leads the tournament with 290,000, but he is going to have to fight off the likes of Jeff Lisandro, Daniel Negreunu and Scotty Nguyen if he wants to take down this tournament. Nobody has been eliminated yet, but there are some amazingly short stacks from the 150,000 starting point.

The Limit Hold’em Shootout tournament has gotten underway and has a surprisingly small field of 571 players. This format is very popular and you would have thought that they would have hit the 1,000 player max on this one. Perhaps everyone is catching some rest before the Main Event gets here or they are enjoying the H.O.R.S.E. tournament. This one has just gone to dinner break.

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Filed Under: WSOP 2009

Tags: Bahador Ahmadi, Brandon Cantu, Daniel Negreunu, H.O.R.S.E., Jeff Lisandro, McGuiness, Mixed Hold’em, Omaha Split, Poker, Scotty Nguyen, The Limit Hold’em Shootout, World Championship

Tom McEvoy Wins Champions Invitational

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.