WSOP Update, Mizrachi's Top, Hellmuth Flop

30.05.2010, Event #2: The Poker Player's Championship

The Bags are Out Again

Yesterday's Day 1 of Event #2 - The $50,000 Player's Championship, produced only 6 eliminations. Things moved with a bit more pace today on Day 2. The field of 110 survivors was cut in half to 54 by the end of the night.

In a tournament like this, almost everyone that is eliminated is a notable name. But a smattering of the departed includes Chad Brown, Tony G, Hoyt Corkins, Patrik Antonius, Ashton Griffin, Brian Hastings, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow and Shawn Buchanan. At the end of the night our survey of the remaining seven tables revealed Kirk Morrison as the chip leader with 741,000 chips. He's followed by The Best Player Never To Win a Bracelet (tm), Andy Bloch, with 716,500 and Nick Schulman, who bagged 683,000. There are still three whole days to go in this tournament, however. Anything can happen between now and the end of Tuesday's final table. Re-join us at 3pm tomorrow when the chip bags are brought back out and the remaining 54 players resume their journey towards inscription on the Chip Reese trophy and the receipt of one of the first gold bracelets of the 2010 World Series of Poker. Until then, you can find us at the bar.

Chipcount • 1 Kirk Morrison 741,000 • 2 Andrew Bloch 716,500 • 3 Mikael Thuritz 697,500 • 4 Nick Schulman 683,000 • 5 Erik Sagstrom 656,000 • 6 Robert Mizrachi 625,500 • 7 Daniel Alaei 605,500 • 8 Brett Richey 578,000 • 9 Alexander Kostritsyn 525,000 • 10 Steve Zolotow 495,000 • 11 Ilya Bulychev 490,500 • 12 Vladimir Schmelev 451,500 • 13 Michael Mizrachi 439,000 • 14 Scott Clements 438,000 • 15 Chris Ferguson 430,500

• 23 Doyle Brunson 350,000 • 24 Phil Ivey 330,000

Ende der Rangliste

• 62 Scotty Nguyen 55,500 • 63 Barry Greenstein 36,000 •

Out Tod Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Howard Lederer, Daniel Negreanu, Patrik Antonius, Greg Fossil-Man

Phil Hellmuth Eliminated Phil Hellmuth might want to ring up his life coach and ask for a new mantra.

Hellmuth's bustout-in-two-acts began in a hand against Andy Bloch. Hellmuth held Ac, Ks and Bloch two red sevens. There were two hearts on the flop, another on the turn and a fourth on the river, Bloch making a flush to claim the pot.

"Of course, it's Andy f**kin' Bloch. Of course he's going to beat me with sevens," Hellmuth exclaimed, his blood pressure rising.

On the next hand, Hellmuth and Chris Ferguson each put three bets in on the Kh, 6c, 3d flop. When the 4d hit the turn, Hellmuth check-called all-in, turning up Ac, 6d for second pair. Ferguson, however, had turned top pair with Kc, Qh and it held up on the river, which fell the 7h, eliminating Hellmuth.

Ferguson is up to 470,000.

Über World Series of Poker (WSOP):

Die World Series of Poker, oder kurz WSOP, ist eine Reihe von Pokerturnieren, die jedes Jahr in Las Vegas ausgetragen werden.

Die World Series of Poker finden jährlich im Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas statt.

Die World Series of Poker ist die grösste und prestigeträchtigste Pokerveranstaltung der Welt. Mit einer umfassenden Liste von Turnieren in allen wichtigen Pokervarianten ist die WSOP das am längsten laufende Pokerturnier der Welt und geht auf das Jahr 1970 zurück.

Darüber hinaus hat die WSOP bahnbrechende Allianzen in den Bereichen Rundfunk, digitale Medien und Unternehmenssponsoring gebildet und die Marke mit der Einführung der WSOP Europe im Jahr 2007 und der WSOP Asia-Pacific im Jahr 2013 sowie der WSOP International Circuit Series im Jahr 2015 erfolgreich international ausgebaut.

Ursprünglich wurden die Tourniere in Las Vegas Downtown im Binion's Horseshoe Casino ausgetragen. Im Jahre 2005 kaufte Caesars den Brand WSOP. Seit diesem Datum werden die Pokermeisterschaften im Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino durchgeführt.

Gewinner der letzten Jahre des WSOP-Championship-Mainevent

2020: Damian Salas 2019: Hossein Ensan 2018: John Cynn 2017: Scott Blumstein 2016: Qui Nguyen 2015: Joe McKeehen 2014: Martin Jacobson 2013: Ryan Riess 2012: Greg Merson 2011: Pius Heinz 2010: Jonathan Duhamel 2009: Joe Cada 2008: Peter Eastgate 2007: Jerry Yang 2006: Jamie Gold 2005: Joe Hachem 2004: Greg "Fossil Man" Raymer 2003: Chris Moneymaker 2002: Robert Varkonyi 2001: Carlos Mortensen 2000: Chris "Jesus" Ferguson 1999: J.J. "Noel" Furlong 1998: Scotty Nguyen 1997: Stu Ungar 1996: Huck Seed 1995: Dan Harrington 1994: Russ Hamilton 1993: Jim Bechtel 1992: Hamid Dastmalchi 1991: Brad Daugherty 1990: Mansour Matloubi 1989: Phil Hellmuth Jr. 1988: Johnny Chan 1987: Johnny Chan 1986: Berry Johnston 1985: Bill Smith 1984: Jack Keller 1983: Tom McEvoy 1982: Jack Strauss 1981: Stu Ungar 1980: Stu Ungar 1979: Hal Fowler 1978: Bobby Baldwin 1977: Doyle Brunson 1976: Doyle Brunson 1975: Sailor Roberts 1974: Johnny Moss 1973: Puggy Pearson 1972: Amarillo Slim Preston 1971: Johnny Moss 1970: Johnny Moss

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