WSOP World Standings have been updated … to reflect results from Event #1 #56 of the WSOP Europe WSOP, currently taking place in London.
With a 24-year-old Jesper Hougaard\’s bracelet win in £1500 NLH, Denmark steps up to a higher tier of poker dominance in the world. And Ohio (one of four American states with a 2008 WSOP-E cash thus far — the others being Washington, California, and Nevada) scooches past Georgia (the state, not the former Soviet republik) in the standings.
UPDATE: This is not just Denmark\’s second \’08 bracelet … it\’s also Hougaard\’s! He won one of the WSOP 1500s in Las Vegas this summer. (Hmm, maybe a little premature in naming Player of the Year?)
Not surprising, the Euros dominated the first event of WSOP-E. Specifically, England kicked the most arse overall.
Technical note: Pounds were converted to dollars on an exchange of £1=$1.832. This resulted in $2,892 of further inexactness in the $181.81 million of 2008 WSOP prize money awarded thus far.
BTW, some pretty exciting action going on in Event #2 #57 — £2,500 HORSE … they\’re getting near the bubble (18 remaining, 16 get paid) with some interesting names on the leaderboard:
| Howard Lederer | 135900 | ||
| Raul Paez | 113000 | ||
| Ivo Donev | 112000 | ||
| Phil Ivey | 84000 | ||
| Sherkhan Farnood | 72000 | ||
| Jeff Duvall | 70000 | ||
| Daniel Negreanu | 67000 | ||
| Phil Hellmuth | 64000 | ||
| Isaac Haxton | 57500 | ||
| Yuval Bronshtein | 52300 | ||
| Jeff Lisandro | 50000 | ||
| Kristian Eriksson | 41000 | ||
| Marc Goodwin | 40000 | ||
| Spencer Lawrence | 36000 | ||
| Max Pescatori | 33000 | ||
| David Williams | 27000 | ||
| Mark Gregorich | 13500 | ||
| Joe Beevers | 10000 |
