World Series of Poker's main event Day 10

[clevfan]

World Series of Poker's main event Day 10

The Associated Press
Monday, July 14, 2008
DAY: 10 (Officially known as Day 6).

BIG NEWS: Phil Hellmuth was eliminated from the World Series of Poker main event on Sunday, ensuring that the no-limit Texas Hold 'em tournament will have a new champion.

Hellmuth, who won the main event in 1989 and has won a record 11 events at the world series, pushed in his last 405,000 chips with an ace and a queen but found himself up against the jacks of New York poker player Andrew Rosskamm.

Hellmuth had an ace-high flush draw after the turn, the fourth community card. But a two of spades fell on the river, and Hellmuth was eliminated in 45th place. He won $154,400.

STUD OF THE DAY: Tiffany Michelle, an actress and poker player from Los Angeles, who started the day in fifth place and won pot after pot on Sunday, building a stack of more than 5 million chips. Michelle was one of two women remaining in the tournament at the start of play Sunday. The other, Lisa Parsons of Franklin, Tenn., quickly busted out. Tournament officials estimate that 209 women played in the main event this year. The last time a woman made the final table was in 1995, when Barbara Enright finished fifth of 273 players, winning $114,180.

BUSTED OUT: 11-time gold bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, H.O.R.S.E. final table player Victor Ramdin, 2004 gold bracelet winner Thomas "Thunder" Keller, onetime chip leader Jeremy Joseph.

UP NEXT: On Monday, the 27 players remaining will play as long as it takes to determine the main event's final table.

POKER TALK: Check in the dark: When a player announces he will make no bet to start the round as the dealer turns over the flop, turn or river. Checking in the dark can confuse opponents about the strength of a player's hand. David Saab of Melbourne, Australia, checked in the dark as the dealer turned over an ace, king and eight on the flop. Joe Bishop of Cincinnati also checked, and called bets by Saab on the turn and river. Bishop won the hand with an ace-queen for a pair of aces.

HE SAID WHAT?: "This could be it, honey. ... Really scary stuff, but I'm not giving up." — Phil Hellmuth, complaining to his wife that each time he picked up a hand Sunday, an opponent hit a larger hand when they should have folded before seeing the flop.

[clevfan]

Phil Hellmuth eliminated from World Series of Poker, two Canadians remain

July 14, 2008
The Canadian Press

LAS VEGAS — Phil Hellmuth was eliminated from the World Series of Poker main event on Sunday, ensuring that the no-limit Texas Hold 'em tournament will see a new person crowned champion in November.

Hellmuth, who won the main event in 1989 and has won a record 11 events at the world series, pushed in his last 405,000 chips on Sunday with an ace and a queen and found himself against the jacks of New York poker player Andrew Rosskamm.

Hellmuth, who was a slight underdog in the hand, had an ace-high flush draw after the turn, the fourth community card. But a two of spades fell on the river, and Hellmuth was eliminated in 45th place. He won US$154,400.

"I never win a coin flip at the world series," said Hellmuth, the last remaining main event winner in the tournament field. "And I don't play coin flips because I'm the best."

"That's the first time I've been (all-in) in like two days," Hellmuth said.

Play started Sunday with 79 players remaining from a starting field of 6,844 players. Four hours into play, 35 rounders had been eliminated. Tournament spokesman Seth Palansky said the field would be whittled down to 27 by the end of the day.

Only two Canadians remained in the hunt with the field whittled down to 37 players. Scott Montgomery of Perth, Ont., led the way, sitting seventh overall with 5.65 million chips. Darus Suharto of Toronto boasted 1.9 million chips, giving him one of the smaller stacks among the remaining players.

Three other Canadians cashed out in the top 50. Mauro Lupo of Barrie, Ont., and Jonathan Plens of Toronto finished 40th and 42nd overall, respectively, and each earned $154,400. Aaron Keay of Vancouver cashed out $135,100 for a 49th-place finish.

On Monday, the 27 remaining entrants would play down to the final nine. A champion won't be crowned until November, as the tournament planned to take a four month break before playing the final table.

The title was worth $9.12 million, and the top eight players will win at least $1.28 million. Players paid $10,000 to enter the tournament.

Hellmuth spent much of his day short-stacked at his table, but was able to get up to 1.6 million in chips within the first hour of play.

Hellmuth complained that each time he picked up a hand, an opponent who should have folded earlier hit a larger hand once the community cards came out.

"Really scary stuff, but I'm not giving up," he said.

Hellmuth, nicknamed "Poker Brat," met with tournament director Jack Effel and commissioner Jeffrey Pollack before play began Sunday after he blew up at another player for calling Hellmuth's raise with a bad starting hand.

Hellmuth was assessed a one-orbit penalty, meaning he would have had to sit out play Sunday for the first round of action around the table. But tournament officials decided the penalty was too excessive and gave Hellmuth a warning instead.

"In this instance, the punishment did not fit the crime," Pollack said. "Phil has now been warned and put on notice in a way that he has never been."

[Hartley]

One girl left at the table - sitting in 3rd place

World Series of Poker - Official Tournament Coverage and Results

[Bobby C]

Am I the only one who thinks a two-week-long poker tournament is a dumb idea?

[StarnetGypsy]

Originally Posted by Bobby C

Am I the only one who thinks a two-week-long poker tournament is a dumb idea?

lol ... not so sure i'd say it's dumb considering the high dollar value of the prize pool, but i've watched it grow from a few hundred players to over 6,000 entrants these days, and have attended it the past few years. i will say it's definately a zoo Bobby, and takes a huge toll on the players emotionally & physically.

i do miss the early days when it was mostly pros playing. when i was watching Scotty Nguyen last year, i was really hoping he'd make the final table just so we could see a pro in there again, but he just couldn't bite the bullet and sit on his stack until some other players cashed-out ...

got a few good shots of him about mid-way through the event, and then one with Johnny Chan at the featured table just before the final table ...

[littleogre]

The wsopme is nothing more then a luck fest at this point has been for years now. The few really good players that enter have no shot against the thousands of donks that rely on luck. Thats not to say the pro players don't have a long term advantage but as far as actually wining the whole thing well to paraphrase a top pro you might beat the guy that gets lucky once and you might beat the guy that gets lucky twice but good luck beating the guy that gets lucky 5 or more times in a row. On a side note as bad as most of the players in the event are they look like ivey compared to the players in the ept.