Poker Player Blog

This week saw the beginning games of the 2010 WSOP main event and as I write this on Sunday evening we are already into Event four of the most prestigious tournament around. With 57 bracelets to distribute, this is only the beginning. Here’s a recap of the action so far.

Friday was opening day and say 722 players sat down for the beginning of the $500 casino employee No limit Hold ‘Em tournament. By the close of action that first day there were only 53 that made it into the second day of play. 2008 winner Jonathan —– was one of my favorites and was in the high chip count with Kent Washington and ——-. Washington was far ahead of the others and looked good going back into battle. In the end it was Hoai Pham and his pocket Aces that took home the bracelet as his heads up opponent Arthur Vea lost it with a pair of fours. Pham went home with over $70,000.

Friday evening saw the beginning of the $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship when the poker heavyweights had their first shot at a bracelet. With multi game play, the first day saw only six of the 116 players going down. Swedish player Erik Sagstrom closed out the first day on top with over 329,000 chips. At the end of day two of play Sagstrom dropped to fifth position with the new leader Kirk Morrison holding on to a healthy 741,000 chips. Before thee dinner break on day three there are approximately 35 players left.

Event Three started Saturday. It is a $1,000 buy in No Limit Holdem. Day one came to a close with the following chip leads:

Terry Fleischer 119,300

Nancy Todd Tyner 103,000

Jerrymee Jose 96,100

Drew Crawford 95,000

Anders Taylor 93,200

The day started with 2061 players and ended with around 208 going through to the second day of play. They are still playing as I write this so we’ll check tomorrow for chip counts.

Event Four started today (Sunday) and is $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo.  Thang Luu is the obvious favorite for the event with two previous wins and one second in the last three years. There are 780 players in today’s play. We’ll check back on this game tomorrow.

Its starting to get good.