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| 2008 WSOP World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em (Event 54) (Main Event) (Canada) |
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The WSOP Main Event - 2008 World Series of Poker World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em (Event 54) (But-In: $10,000)
This is the big event that gets all the attention. Even celebrities show up to play in it.
It got under way Thursday and Day 1 is split into 4 days.
July 3,2008 12:00 PM Day 1A
July 4,2008 12:00 PM Day 1B
July 5,2008 12:00 PM Day 1C
July 6,2008 12:00 PM Day 1D
July 8,2008 12:00 PM Day 2A
July 9,2008 12:00 PM Day 2B
July 10,2008 12:00 PM Day 3
July 11,2008 12:00 PM Day 4
July 12,2008 12:00 PM Day 5
July 13,2008 12:00 PM Day 6
July 14,2008 12:00 PM Day 7
November 9, 2008 10:00 AM FINAL TABLE
November 10, 2008, 10:00 PM FINAL TABLE
Feel free to use this as the WSOP Main Event discussion thread.
Post your predictions. BUT, Keep in mind Daniel Negreanu, Ted Forrest, Andy Black, David Benyamine and various other poker pros HAVE ALREADY BEEN KNOCKED OUT ;-)
~MoneyM8 - "Praying to the River Gods, while I do the River Dance." |
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| Re: 2008 WSOP World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em (Event 54) (Main Event) (Canada) |
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The final Day of Day 1 is today and more big names are gone...Andy Bloch, David WIlliams, Annie Duke to name a few.
Phil Hellmuth made a fool of himself as he arrived dressed as an Army General in a convoy of military vehicles.
The word is that they surpassed last year's total number of entrants.
~MoneyM8 - "Praying to the River Gods, while I do the River Dance." |
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| Re: 2008 WSOP World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em (Event 54) (Main Event) (Canada) |
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Tons of poker pros are out of the main event after the day 1 heats.
Daniel Negreanu OUT
Annie Duke OUT
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson OUT
Phil Ivey OUT
Micheal "The Grinder" Mizrachi OUT
Doyle Brunson OUT
Andy Bloch OUT
Andy Black OUT
David Williams OUT
Scotty Nguyen OUT
Humberto Brenes OUT
David Benyamine OUT
Jennifer Tilly OUT
...and many more. |
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| Re: 2008 WSOP World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em (Event 54) (Main Event) (Canada) |
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Today was a day off for the main event.
Tomorrow will be Day 2a where the remaining players from Day 1a and 1b will play.
Wednesday the players remaining from Day 1c and 1d will play.
Here's a video update of Day1a of the WSOP Main Event.
~MoneyM8 - "Praying to the River Gods, while I do the River Dance." |
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So there were 6,844 players who entered the 2008 WSOP Main Event and out of those, 666 will make it into the money.
When Day 2a started today there were 3928 players that remained from Day 1a, 1b, 1c, and 1d. The 1,252 players that played today were the ones that survived to the end of Day 1a and 1b. Tomorrow ,on Day 2b, the remaining 2,676 players that made it through from Day 1c and 1d will play.
~MoneyM8 - "Praying to the River Gods, while I do the River Dance." |
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There are approx 1760 players remaining out of the 6844 entered. The remaining players from Day 2a and today's DAy 2b will combine and play tomorrow in Day 3.
~MoneyM8 - "Praying to the River Gods, while I do the River Dance." |
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| Re: 2008 WSOP World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em (Event 54) (Main Event) (Canada) |
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For the 666 that make it throught the grind....
Here are the 2008 WSOP Main Event Payouts:
1: $9,119,517
2: $5,790,024
3: $4,503,352
4: $3,763,515
5: $3,088,012
6: $2,412,510
7: $1,769,174
8: $1,286,672
9: $900,670
10-12: $591,869
13-15: $463,201
16-18: $334,534
19-27: $257,334
28-36: $193,000
37-45: $154,400
46-54: $135,100
55-63: $115,800
64-72: $96,500
73-81: $77,200
82-90: $64,333
91-99: $51,466
100-162: $41,816
163-225: $38,600
226-288: $35,383
289-351: $32,166
352-414: $28,950
415-477: $27,020
478-540: $25,090
541-603: $23,160
604-666: $21,230
~MoneyM8 - "Praying to the River Gods, while I do the River Dance." |
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Just checking to see how many are left and there are 676 players left. 10 more to go until the money. It'll suck to go out now!
Here are the top 19 chip leaders:
1. Sigurd Eskeland 950,000
2. Jeremiah Smith 946,000
3. Robert Georato 759,000
4. Alberto Font 696,000
5. Karle Wilson 690,000
6. Jeff Kimber 685,000
7. Sarkis Akopyan 682,000
8. Owen Crowe 644,000
9. Edward Roger 590,000
10. Dustin Holmes 575,000
11. Alan Jaffray 573,000
12. Cornel Pazara 552,000
13. Chris Barrile 550,000
14. James Mills 550,000
15. Mark Ketteringham 543,000
16. Alexander Borteh 530,000
17. Dag Martin Mikkelsen 530,000
18. Geert Jans 530,000
19. Cristian Dragomir 525,000
~MoneyM8 - "Praying to the River Gods, while I do the River Dance." |
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| Re: 2008 WSOP World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em (Event 54) (Main Event) (Canada) |
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Steve Chung was the bubble boy this year, but thanks to Milwakee's Best Light he will get something for not making it into the money - a seat for the 2009 WSOP Main Event. |
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At the start of today (Day 4) the chip leaders were...
1. Jeremy Joseph 1,458,000
2. Jeremiah Smith 1,079,500
3. Mark Ketteringham 950,000
4. Kyle Carlston 932,500
5. Dag Martin Mikkelsen 931,000
6. Alan Jaffray 908,500
7. Owen Crowe 900,000
8. Alexander Kostritsyn 887,000
9. James McManus 875,000
10. Chris Barrile 873,500
11. Sarkis Akopyan 858,000
12. Peter Traply 828,000
13. Cristian Dragomir 824,000
14. Matt Matros 822,500
15. Karle Wilson 785,000
16. Kevin Mason 770,500
17. Steven Landfish 764,500
18. James Mills 757,000
19. Robert Georato 747,000
The current chip leaders are below...
1. Jeremy Joseph 2,650,000
2. Andrew Rosskamm 1,800,000
3. Brandon Cantu 1,800,000
4. Geoffrey Herzog 1,700,000
5. Alfredo Fernandez 1,670,000
6. James McManus 1,600,000
7. Phi Nguyen 1,600,000
8. Lanini Davor 1,580,000
9. Darus Suharto 1,500,000
10. Suresh Prabhu 1,470,000
11. Mark Ketteringham 1,465,000
12. Albert Kim 1,450,000
13. David Benefield 1,430,000
14. Shawn Sheikhan 1,400,000
15. Anthony Scherer 1,400,000
16. Terry Lade 1,400,000
17. Cristian Dragomir 1,360,000
18. Victor Ramdin 1,350,000
19. Nikolay Losev 1,350,000
202 players are remaining in the 2008 WSOP Main Event.
~MoneyM8 - "Praying to the River Gods, while I do the River Dance." |
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