Newsblog: E11 FT $5000 NLHE Shootout

The $5000 NLHE Shootout event is one of those new events of the WSOP. It's basically a single table tournament. You beat your table and then move to another with the winners of other tables. This tournament started with 360 players. So it means they formed 36 tables of 10 players, and the winner of each would make 6 tables of 6 players, and the winners of those tables would be the ones seating at the final table. So, in short words, its a 3 rounds single table sng.

The prizepool for this tournament is $1,692,000, and the winner gets $477,990. The tournament paid for the last 36. So, every 1st round winner was in the money already. As you can imagine, LOTS of great players signed up. I'll start with two LPers, rainkhan and frinkx, and then the others Durrr, Nenad Medic, Antonius, Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, Phil Hellmuth, Seidel, Matusow, and a lot more, believe me.

Frinkx, aka Evan McNiff, was the winner of his table, so it means he advanced to the 2nd round and guaranteed himself some cash. As you can read in his blog, he was in the same table as Steve Billirakis (MrSmokey1) and Andy Bloch. Khan, on the other hand, didn't have much luck and was eliminated still in the first round.

Most of the great pros I mentioned were out during day 1, some few like Seidel, and Isaac Haxton made it through tho.

On day 2, this was Evan's table:

1 Evan McNiff 2 John Murphy 3 Eugene Katchalov 4 Thomas Roupe 5 Joe Sebok 6 William Palmer

But well, he was the 2nd eliminated on his table. First he lost a lot of chips when he went all-in (but had Joe Sebok covered) with . Sebok had , and sadly for Frinkx, the flop gifted a straight to Sebok, with . And then, some hands later, he was eliminated with A4 vs AK . He believed that 6handed favoured him more than fullring, but things didn't work out his way. Anyway, he earned a little bit less than $17,000 for advancing to the 2nd round. Congratulations Evan!

On day 3, that was the final table. Everyone started with 1,000,000 chips.

Seat 1: Greg Mueller
Seat 2: Thomas Roupe
Seat 3: Phillip Tom
Seat 4: Leo Wolpert
Seat 5: Timothy West
Seat 6: Sirous Jamshidi

Phillip Tom was the winner of that table and won his first bracelet! That was also his 4th cash at the world series of poker. Two last year and two this year. Second place went to Greg Mueller, that with the prize ($298,000) managed to break the $1,000,000 mark in prizes. Nice accomplishment, eh?

By: Raidern