Posted by pokerguru on July 9, 2009
We all knew this was going to be a marathon and that the biggest names in poker were going to have a target on their heads. The survivors from Day 1a and Day 1b sat down at the tables yesterday and some of the names that had managed to build up formidable stacks were shown [...]
Posted by pokerguru on July 7, 2009
While he wasn’t the first one out of the tournament, he was pretty close. There is no arguing the fact that he got a couple of really bad beats, but that is not going to make it any easier as he sits and watches the next 2 weeks pass by from the sidelines. It took [...]
Posted by pokerguru on July 3, 2009
It is hard to believe that the Main Event of the WSOP is here, but it has finally arrived. The last two bracelets were won late Wednesday Night and Thursday night. The card room at the Rio is silent for the first time in weeks as the banquet staff hustles to move all of the [...]
Posted by pokerguru on July 2, 2009
In what has to go down as one of the greatest final tables and heads-up matches in WSOP history, David Bach finally ended the tournament at 10:00am Tuesday morning. It took 13 hours to get down to the final two and then an incredible 7 hours of heads-up play before we could crown a winner. [...]
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 [...]
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The game has been going on for four long days and these players have to be exhausted. When you are playing a multi-day tourney and only have to worry about one game, you can get into a zone at times and almost go on auto-pilot. When the game changes at every level, you have to [...]
Posted by pokerguru on June 30, 2009
All of a sudden, second bracelet is becoming a common headline theme in this year’s WSOP. Not only that, but Full Tilt Pros in particular are constantly showing up on leader boards and winning tournaments. The latest addition is of course Greg Mueller as he took down the Limit Hold’em Shootout event. He now has [...]
