Phil Galfond wins $5k PLO with rebuys

Event 28, the $5000 Pot Limit Omaha with rebuys, had a very nice final table once again. Woud Phil Hellmuth win his first non-hold'em bracelet and his 12th in total? At least he gets to share another record, he made his 40th final table, as much as TJ Cloutier. Or would Johnny Chan get his 11th to share the record with Hellmuth once again? Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond started the day as chipleader, just ahead of other high-stakes internetpro Brian "tsarrast" Rast:

John Juanda (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 694,800
Phil Hellmuth (Palo Alto, California) -- 119,000
David Benyamine (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 1,041,000
Kirill Gerasimov (Moscow, Russia) -- 558,000
Phil Galfond (Madison, Wisconsin) -- 1,393,000
Daniel Negreanu (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 460,000
Brian Rast (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 1,176,000
Adam Hourani (East Lansing, Michigan) -- 300,000
Johnny Chan (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 624,000

We see a lot of action, double-ups, most through the stack of Brian Rast who exits the table first in 9th place, after a few "awful plays" according to who else but Phil Hellmuth. I guess the other players weren't sad to see Hellmuth leave just after that with AKT4 against AAK4 of Benyamine.

Daniel Negreanu wont win another 200k from Phil Ivey this time (they made a bet of 200k per bracelet) when he got knocked out by Galfond in 7th place. The same Phil Galfond that later on cripples Johnny Chan (whose haircolor makes you wonder wether the guy is actually colorblind, see picture) before David Benyamine knocks him out with aces up. Adam Hourani than chips down David Benyamine, to later on knock him out with a rivered straight vs flopped top set.

Heads-up starts with Phil Galfond and Adam Hourani, Galfond has about a 2 to 1 chiplead. A very long and tiring heads-up start, with Galfond remaining the chiplead, with both playing smallball and we rarely get to see a rivercard. In over 100 cards dealth, Adam Hourani was all-in 6 times, Phil Galfond 0 times, and Hourani seems to be getting under more pressure than ever. At a certain point, Galfond has a 12:1 chiplead, and not much after that it was all over. At a they got all-in, both having top pair, but Hourani had the better kicker. The on the turn made Phil Galfond two pair and the at the river helped neither, meaning Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond wins his first bracelet and $817,781 !

1.Philip Galfond $817,781
2.Adam Hourani $493,748
3.David Benyamine $316,307
4.Johnny Chan $246,874
5.Kirill Gerasimov $192,870
6.John Juanda $154,296
7.Daniel Negreanu $123,437
8.Phil Hellmuth $100,292
9.Brian Rast $84,863

By: Pindarots

Is it just me or the pros being very consistent this year?

Holy shit 800k

On June 17 2008 09:26 Subaru wrote: Is it just me or the pros being very consistent this year?

It has more than one reason. First of all there are more pro's known to the general public every year (Galfond was exposed to a lot of people during his appearance on High Stakes Poker). Second, the buy-ins of some events have gone up (like the $10k events), or they're being held at inconvenient times (e.g. 5 pm). This means the "pro-to-amateur-ratio" has gone up for a lot of events. And there are more reasons for that, and of course the pro's are playing better every year. Although nobody can deny that the well-known pro's are performing well this year . Let's hope we'll see the same for the Main Event

Negreanu was also talking about a structure change compared to earlier events that left room for more play. Leading to a bigger advantage for the better players. (Think i saw this in some interview at pokernews)

800k help.

http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/wso...ge=1&videocatid=0&videoid=203

hahahahaha
best player ever

wow he seems fucked in the head tbh

Soon we'll see a "there's nobody that ever beat me playing cards, the only one that ever beat me was the dealer" by Phil Hellmuth

On June 17 2008 14:11 Soprano wrote: http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/wso...ge=1&videocatid=0&videoid=203 hahahahaha best player ever

hes just... wow...

Does he really mean what he says ? If we could measure ego somehow, he would be the #1

--- Nuked ---

notice most of the pro's seem to have won in non-holdem events with like 3 runners =p

still a good showing tho

hmm what? Hellmuth is the best player in the world

hellmuth was at the table adjacent to mine in the 2k a few days ago. He was complaining about how bad he runs and how sick of it he is after he got KK all in vs AA pre, and obv. he spiked a K on river.