Poker Player Blog

Last week we discussed the events up to the 47^th tournament. Now let’s recap the five following. There was a lot of action, a lot of plays and a few surprises.

Event 48: This was the $2,500 Mixed Event. The game consisted of eight different styles of poker. There were a total of 453 entrants but only 192 players came back for the second day of play. The winning hand was an A 9 and belonged to Sigurd Eskeland of Norway. It’s was Steve Sung who’s pairs of Queens got knocked out in the heads up competition and allowed Eskeland to go home with $260,497.

Event 49: Another round of $1,500 No Limit Hold ’Em took place at the end of June. There were a total of 2,543 entrants but in the end in came down to the heads up match between Michael Linn and Taylor Larkin. It was three days of hard slog for the winner Michael Linn. But Linn survived several problems low chip counts and terrible river cards to bring home a whopping $609,493.

Event 50: $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha took place the last two days in June and started out with 460 days. The end of the first day took out some big players such as Vanessa Selbst and Daniel Negreanu leaving only 45 in play for day two. It ended up in a heads up match between Chance Kornuth and Kevin Boudreau with Kornuth’s 6 Q 8 9 beating Boundreau K 4 4 A. Kornuth earned himself a hefty $508,090.

Event 51: The $3,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold ‘Em was the first event of the third month of the WSOP.  Ryan Welch took home the gold (or more exactly the gold bracelet and over half a million in cold hard cash) after beating Jon Eaton in the heads up game.

Event 52: The $25,000 No Limit Hold’em/Six Handed brought out the big guns. There were only 191 entrants including some well known names such as Daniel Negreanu, Isaac Haxton, Dan Kelly and Nick Schulman. 69 players went on to finish out day 2. Day 3 saw only 18 players. The final table had the crow and the media on pins and needles. It all came down to heads up play between Dan Kelly and Shawn Buchanan. Unfortunately Buchanan’s pair of Jacks was not enough to beat Dan Kelly’s A 10.  That humble A 10 gave Kelly a whopping $1,315,518 as well as a gold bracelet.