Newsblog: Event #3 - D1

Hi! Seeing how every blogger is naming their posts as "event x day x" I thought about changing our blogs posts titles, so you can know the difference about ours posts (that are not from vegas), and the vegas posts.

Event 3 of the WSOP is the $1.500 Pot Limit Hold'em. Despite having a 6 times smaller buy-in, the turnout was only the double of the registered at the $10,000 Pot Limit event. 713 players registered for the tournament, shorter than last year's 780ish, but that's still a good number. From those 713, 72 are gonna get paid and 63 are still alive, chasing the bracelet.

Before we talk a bit about the tourney, check the prizes:


1st $214,131
2nd $136,643
3rd $82,725
4th $67,640
5th $55,474
6th $43,796
7th $34,063
8th $26,764
9th $19,464
10th-12th $12,165
13th-15th $9,732
16th-18th $7,299
19th-27th $5,547
28th-36th $4,574
37th-45th $3,601
46th-54th $3,309
55th-63rd $3,017
64th-72nd $2,725


As you can see, we've already burst the bubble. All of the 63 players alive have secured at least $2,725, so play will be a little more loose during day 2, as everyone want's to arrive with a nice stack at the final table. Among the top players that entered this tournament are Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Humberto Brenes, David Sklansky and Jimmy "gobboboy"

Some of those who are still alive are FTP $25k HU Champion David Singer, Tom McEvoy, who has more than $2,500,000 in poker winnings, and Lou Esposito, winner of the New Orleans WSOP Circuit Event 2007. Andy Bloch, runner-up at event #1 of this year's WSOP, registered for the tournament but went busto pretty soon.

Since not many "interesting" guys are left alive in the tournament, this post will be merely informative about results, so relax and take a look at the 10 chipleaders of the event.

Robert Workman 146,800
Philip Yeh 143,000
David Singer 123,600
Bobby Law 85,500
Scott Seiver 71,200
Jacobo Fernandez 69,100
Ryan Fair 67,700
Al Barbieri 63,500
Justin Young 63,200
Russell Harriman 61,800

During day two, players are going to play until the final table, so 63 down to 9. The Play resumes at 2pm, Vegas time. We will have a better post on day 2, hopefully

By: Raidern