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Johnny Chan
Ok, they really are multiplying.
We’ve dubbed this The Year of the ProTM and The Year of Hot Girls Going DeepTM, but the 2008 WSOP Main Event may really be The Year of The Gingers’ RevengeTM.
This is out of control.
First, we have Jon “Pearljammer” Turner, who is so sly in his gingerness he’s actually gotten us to like him. He ran it up to over a mil but recently busted.
Then we have the Super Ginger, Cory Albertson. Super Ginger was wearing orange shades, jacket, and was even sitting at an “orange” table yesterday. He’s doing well at 640,000.
Next to him is James McManus. James is responsible for sucking the soul out of Positively Fifth Street author, James McManus. See, they’re not even the same guy. Creepy. What did he do with the real McManus? We may never know. Ginger McManus is among the big stacks with 1.6M.
Then there’s WSOP bracelet winner Mark Vos. With a disposition that some may call “fiery,” Vos has been among the chip leaders from the get go, and is currently stacked at 1,115,000.
And it gets worse. Below is a ginger who we don’t even know. Plus we saw this guy again. He’s still in. And there’s more where he came from. Even Johnny Chan is going ginger (although you can’t tell with the cap on, but remember, he has red hair). Yes, as we all know, Asians are immune to the ginger gene, but being ginger is so “cool” right now during the 2008 WSOP Main Event, even legends like Chan have decided to “go orange.” It’s like when Will & Grace and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy were popular in 2003. Everyone followed the trend. Let’s just say we did some things that year that we don’t talk about. Ever. Fucking trends.
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Ok, a couple things:
1) As our site has grown over the past couple years, we get more and more of our stories from reader tips. We also occassionally get photos from them too. Like this one of Johnny Chan. It’s why we love our readers so, so much.
2) There is absolutely nothing funny about this photo. We can’t think of anything humorous about it at all. We’re not even sure why we posted it. Nothing good can be gained from posting this photo. What is it even of? We’re not sure. But whatever it is, it’s not funny. Anyone who thinks it’s funny is seriously fucked up in the head. There is something wrong with you if you find something like the above photo funny.
Caption this photo.
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11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth (above) was out-
There will be no 12th WSOP bracelet for Phil Hellmuth. At least not today.
Severely out-
Hellmuth’s 8th place finish does add to his record-setting number of WSOP cashes, now at 64.
He also holds the record for number of WSOP final tables: 40.
Also eliminated from the final table so far: Brian "tsarrast" Rast – 9th place, Daniel Negreanu – 7th and John Juanda – 6th.
Still in and sitting with the second most chips last we checked is Johnny Chan (
Keep track of chip counts here.
Hear what Daniel Negreanu has to say about OMGClayAiken
David Benyamine looking his best
UPDATE: Chan is choking, down to 330k. Some guy named Adam Hourani is apparently still in at the final table, with over 1.2 mil in chips.
UPDATE: Chan canned. OMGClayAiken, Benyamine and Adam Who?-rani remain.
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Shannon Elizabeth (above) is among the millions of poker players not included in this WSOP update.
The Entities decided to take it a little easy this weekend, but only because we love you. As we’ve all learned through our respective marriages, the best way to make someone grow fonder of you is through a steady diet of ignoring them and neglect. And here you are thinking to yourself, "I thought it was through bringing them flowers, listening to their problems, and being a strong emotional rock of support." And that’s why you’re a pussy.
:: Event #24 ($2,500 Pot Limit Omaha/Hold’em) - Listen, we know sometimes people have no control over what their nicknames are, but there’s nothing cool about being called "The Italian Pirate." However that didn’t stop Max Pescatori from denying Allen Cunningham a WSOP bracelet for the 47th consecutive year. Pescatori banks his second bracelet and $246,471. Get full results here.
:: Event #25 ($10,000 No Limit Hold’em Heads-Up) - Many people consider Kenny Tran the best no limit hold’em cash player in the world. He doesn’t play many WSOP events, but the ones he does, he does well. Tran won his first bracelet over the weekend by beating, as Dr. Pauly would say, a "redunkulous" field in the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em Heads-Up World Championship at the
:: Event #26 ($1,500 Razz) - Barry Greenstein is the absolutely most perfect person in the world to win a Razz tournament. Razz is generally detested by most players and Greenstein often doesn’t look like he’s enjoying playing poker at all (even though it’s quite the opposite). For the win, Greenstein banks $97,389 and his third bracelet. Archie Karas, yes this guy, came in seventh. Get full results here.
:: Event #27 ($1,500 No Limit Hold’em) - Over 2,700 entered and 17 remain. And it’s an absolutely "friend and family" final 17. Get chip counts here.
:: Event #28 ($5,000 Pot Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys) - Big name final table on this one. Online poker legend Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond is the chip leader stacked at 1,393,000. The final table also includes David Benyamine (1,041,000), John Juanda (694,000), going for a record tying 11th WSOP bracelet Johnny Chan (624,000), Daniel Negreanu (460,000), and going for a record 12th WSOP bracelet Phil Hellmuth (119,000). First pays $817,781 and final table play begins at 3pm PST.
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