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UPDATE: Some photos of Destiny and Rafaela, the bowling Bodog Girls, along with longtime WCP fave Andrea Tiede. Another video with them here.
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Justin Bonomo (left foreground) is one of the young pros looking capture the $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E. title.
While the big poker news today at the 2009 WSOP is that the three winners of our Dream Team Poker freeroll are all women (seriously… we’re being punked right?), the other big news is that only 95 players ponied up the steep buy-in for Event #49, the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship. This was after only 50 had reportedly registered by tournament start, prompting an hour delay to allow more players time to scrounge up the cash to buy-in.
This is a huge drop from last year’s field of 148 and brings the total prize purse to just over $4.5 million, a $2.6 million decrease from last year’s purse.
Only 16 will get paid with first taking home $1,276,802, compared to the $1,989,120 Scotty Nguyen won in 2008.
The poor turnout is no doubt a disappointment for WSOP officials and a step back for this prestige event, but isn’t surprising considering no ESPN coverage, the hit a lot of players have taken this past year and with deep pocket pros keeping smaller stables of players they stake.
While the field is still loaded with many of the biggest pros in the game — and we’re not just talking about Greg Raymer and David Benyamine kind of big — some notable absences today include Phil Hellmuth, Ted Forrest, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Hoyt Corkins, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond and last year’s runner-up Michael DeMichele.
Only two women are in the field: Jennifer Harman, a woman, and Annie Duke, a woman. Noticeably absent: Isabelle Mercier’s breasts.
Follow the action here.
* Fuck. We went there.
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Hey Lizzy, is that a digital voice recorder in your pocket or are you just happy to see us? And what is Rhynie Campbell doing in the background in a dealer outfit?
While Phil Ivey capturing his sixth WSOP bracelet was definitely the story of the day, there was plenty of other action going on in the Rio Amazon Room. Here’s the round-up:
:: Event #7 ($1,500 NLH): Travis Johnson defeated a friends and familyTM final table (and a total field of 2,791) to capture his first bracelet and $666,853. Johnson defeated Steven Karp (not this one though) heads-up for the title. Get full results here.
:: Event #9 ($1,500 NLH Six-Handed): This one is shaping up to be another friends and family final table. Play was stopped at 3am PT with 8 remaining. They’ll come back today at 1pm PT to lose two, then play out the final table. Charles Furey currently leads with 1,690,000. Praz Bansi is the only bracelet winner in the field, having captured one of those lame $1,000 buy-in events played after the Main Event started back in 2006. Full chip counts here.
:: Event #10 ($2,500 PLH/PLO): Just 18 now remain of the 453 starting field. A couple of online gurus lead, with Daniel ‘amichaiKK’ Makowsky (561,000) and Rami ‘arbianight’ Boukai (508,000) as big stacks. Also remaining include but are certainly not limited to Surinder (French?) Sunar (213,000), recent WPT winner Cornel Cimpan (157,000), Amit ‘amak316′ Makhija (126,000), and Hevad Khan (63,000). Get full chip counts here.
:: Event #11 ($2,000 NLH): Man there were a lot of events going on yesterday. This one had 1,646 entrants with 232 making it to Day 2. Scott Hall is the overnight chip leader with 144,000. Phil Hellmuth and T.J. Cloutier still remain. Also alive is UFC ring announcer Bruce Buffer, who is putting the ladies aside for a bit to concentrate on winning his first bracelet. Watch his WSOP vlog here.
:: Event #12 ($10,000 World Championship Mixed Event): An impressive 194 person field ponied up $10k for the most diverse tourney in this year’s WSOP, consisting of eight different poker variants. After busting out (in the money) of the PLH/PLO event, Daniel Negreanu swung over to this one and quickly built up to big stack. Negreanu ended Day 1 as chip leader with 120,000. Plenty of big names among the 126 remaining, including Justin Bonomo, who vlogs about it in the below vid. Get full chip counts here.
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Watch Justin Bonomo is Killing the $40,000 NLH at the 2009 WSOP on RawVegas.tv
Team Bodog member Justin Bonomo has been right at the chip lead for the entire $40k NLH event. As of post-time, he’s third overall, stacked at 1,273,000.
In his first vlog with RawVegas.tv (kid is a natural at this) and in between Chris Moneymaker trying to eavesdrop on the convo, Bonomo talks about the general ease he’s had with the tournament.
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We stopped following WSOP-Cevents about the same time all of you did (2006ish), but occasionally a stellar final table pops up that is worth reporting on. Like this one.
Justin Bonomodefeated a field of 187 to capture his first WSOP-C title, banking $227,692. He defeated Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi heads-up. And finishing third was Men "The Master" Nguyen, who we didn't even was still playing anything other than $500 seven card stud tourneys that for some reason still count to him getting Card Player Player of the Year Points.
Get full payouts here.
And since that's all we got, some pictures of the South African hottie Gerda-Marie Mare.
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Just getting Part II of our podcast up. No poker here. 100% discussing and debating The Walking Dead. We’re joined by an esteemed panel, including Jason Newitt, Dave “F-Train” Behr, Jeff Holsey, and Entities Chops and Colin. If you were a fan of the show, you’ll like the debate. We discuss problems with the show, [...]
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We recorded a two-parter podcast yesterday. Part I is now live and discusses The Rise and Fall of Ray Bitar WCi feature with its author, Dave “F-Train” Behr. In it, F-Train details the interview process for the feature, as well some conclusions that could be drawn about the man who helped make Full Tilt Poker the [...]
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