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:: One of the big stories today is Event #21 ($1,500 NLH Shoot-Out), where Erick Lindgren and Daniel Negreanu (seen in pic pulling his) face off for a bracelet. The two good friends compete against seven other runners, all stacked at 300,000. Lindgren is looking for his first bracelet. Yesterday, he told Lance at thepokerbiz.com that he plans to, "Stay in the moment, focus, and with this frickin’ bracelet man."
:: A woman actually did win the Ladies Only Event, as Sally Boyer of Midway, Utah, banked over $260k. Congrats to our good friends over at the WSOP Academy, the best damn poker camp that has ever bought us dinner, as Boyer went from being one of their students just a day before this event to a World Champion bracelet holder, besting the largest ladies only field in tournament poker history.
:: The final table is set for Event #19 ($2,500 NLH). Lars Bonding is the chip leader, stacked at 882,000. Also at the final table, stacked at 445,000, is John "The Razor" Phan (click here for his interview in the RawVegas.tv Daily News) and the insufferably annoying (yet…dare we say…amazingly consistent) Humberto Brenes (343,000).
:: After plowing through 11 bottles of Dom (at a cost of nearly $10k), Phil Hellmuth was back to talk about his WSOP record 11th bracelet. Watch his vlog below.
After working his way through a field of over 2,700 participants, Phil Hellmuth (at right, photo by Flipchip at lasvegasvegas.com.) masterfully dominated final table play to win his 11th WSOP bracelet yesterday.
The win moves Hellmuth out of his three-way tie with Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan for most all-time WSOP bracelets.
Love him or hate him, there’s no denying Hellmuth is the best tournament hold’em player ever in the history of the world, possibly the universe. And he’ll be the first to tell you that too.
For the win, Hellmuth banks $637,254. Hellmuth defeated Andy Philacheck ($394,594) heads-up for the title. Rick Fuller, who used to bang date Clonie Gowen, finished third ($247,518). Morgan Machina, whose inability to finish in the top two denied us the opportunity to run with the headline "Man vs. Machina," landed in fourth ($161,425). Scott Clements came in fifth ($112,997), and Fabrice Soulier finished seventh ($64,570).
It was ingenius. Jockey John Velazquez, seconds before the Belmont Stakes began, whispered, "Rags, there’s a shoe sale at Nordstrom’s I promise I’ll take you to as soon as you finish this race."
And in an ironic twist, FOWCP Michele Lewis and a few other beauties look to become the first female to do the same, but this time, the competition is poker. At the Rio. In the Ladies Only $1,000 NLH Event.
Now some of you might be thinking, "Heeeeeey, wait a minute. By nature, isn’t a ‘Ladies Only’ event mean that only a woman could possibly win the event?"
While in most cases that might be true, in this case, not so much. Lotta dikes walking around the Rio today. Lotta dikes. Not the hot kind (like at right) either. No, they’re all the kind that look like dudes.
:: During a WSOP break, WCP fave Brandi Hawbaker issued a statement on 2+2 pulling a Peter Cetera and defending her honor. In it, Brandi says:
"What troubles me the most is that very few people know me, yet I am continually referred to as being a ‘theif’ and a ‘whore’. This could not be further from the truth."
This is somewhat disappointing to us, cause we kind of dig morally casual thiefy chicks. Probably explains the 147 times one of us has woken up in a Vegas hotel, handcuffed to the bed, with our wallets missing after some girl told us she wanted to knock boots and listen to us talk about ourselves for a few hours. As we’ve said before, fool us once, shame on you…fool us 147 times, shame on us. Read the full 2+2 thread here.
:: The Vinnie Vinh rumor mill continues to swirl, with the latest grill for the mist (or whatever that fucking phrase is) coming from Shane "Shaniac" Schlegler. In a 2+2 post, Shaniac says:
"I heard from his backer that he’s alive and that he’s done this before. If I had to guess, I would say his current substance problem is meth not crack. Crack doesn’t hasten the physical changes that were evident in Vinnie the way I understand meth does."
We’ve spoken with numerous pros about this (off the record), all who’ve lamented they think Vinh is currently "on meth." They all noted how thin Vinh appeared at the start of the WSOP, some not even recognizing him until he referred to himself in third person. Trust us*, meth is bad. And by "bad" we mean "fucking rad."
Read the full 2+2 thread here and view photos of her at the 2007 WSOP here.
At the end of his latest RawVegas.tv video diary (below), FORMER World Champion Phil Hellmuth chucks the microphone as he walks away in disgust, obviously still reeling from the bad beat he took in the $2,000 No Limit Hold’em event at the 2007 WSOP. We must say, we feel his pain. Even want to give him a hug, tell him its gonna be ok. That life can be tough sometimes and you have to take the good with the bad and keep hoping for the best and know that tomorrow is another day to go try our best. Or at least do what we do after a bad beat, which is head over to our Bellagio suite, strip down to nothing but our socks and favorite pirate hats, pop some pills, dial up the midget hookers and break out the body oil and plastic sheets, hoping that when we wake up three days later it was all a bad dream.
It was all a bad dream, right?
Link to Phil Hellmuth Video explaining why he didn’t win his 11th WSOP bracelet.
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:: One of the big stories today is Event #21 ($1,500 NLH Shoot-Out), where Erick Lindgren and Daniel Negreanu (seen in pic pulling his) face off for a bracelet. The two good friends compete against seven other runners, all stacked at 300,000. Lindgren is looking for his first bracelet. Yesterday, he told Lance at thepokerbiz.com that he plans to, "Stay in the moment, focus, and with this frickin’ bracelet man."
:: During a WSOP break, WCP fave 
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