The Poker Mag

This years WSOP has lived up to it’s billing again this year with plenty of first class action and some stories to tell for everyone who was involved. For those that wish to see the pros do well, they again did not disappoint, with Phil Ivey picking up 2 bracelets, and jeff Lisandro manging a haul of three.

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All the events except one have now been completed, as have three days of the final event at the time of writing this. The main event is upon us once more, and has seen it’s fair share of well known faces eliminated thus far. Day 1 had to be split into different groups in order to have enough space to cope with the several thousand poker participants, and there is a danger that in years to come there may be a cap on entrance numbers due to the interest in the main event.

The first day saw Allen Cunningham, Freddy Deeb, Doyle Brunson, Ivan Demidov and many other well known faces eliminated from WSOP, but there were still many other top pros who made it through to day 2 which was played in 2 stages. The first of these groups for day 2 saw some big names turn up, only to exit the tournament over the course of the day. Gus Hansen, Phil Laak, Mike Matusow, and Barry Greenstein all didn’t make it, and there were more big name casualties in the second group of day 2, as Scotty Nguyen and Howard Lederer made their exit.

Day three saw the field all grouped together as names such as Phil Hellmuth steadily increased their stack. It was Bertrand grospellier however, a Pokerstars pro, who ploughed past the 1 million chips mark to take the chip lead at the end of day 3. 789 of the initial 6,494 players remain as we approach day 4, and pros such as J.C Tran, Phil Hellmuth and Grospellier will be hoping to continue their great poker run thus far.