Giving the details of Thursday night\’s WSOP, with another bracelet awarded a few hours ago:
Jason Dewitt performs magic against Trickett
After a lengthy heads-up battle, Jason Dewitt outlasted Sam Trickett to take down the $5,000 No-Limit Holdem bracelet, earning $818,959. Trickett picks up $505,725 for the runner-up finish, with Jeff Williams third, good for $328,762. The full list of results can be found at wsop.com.
Bakes leads packed final ten in 10k NL 2-7 Lowball
Ten remain when the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball World Championship resumes Friday afternoon with David \”Bakes\” Baker leading with 526,000 in chips. The rest of the field is full of big names, including Erik Seidel (280,000), John Monnette (238,000), John Juanda (225,000), Daniel Negreanu (223,000) and Andy Bloch (146,000). To follow the action and get chip count information, check out PokerNews.
Buchman, Matros at Limit Holdem FT
The final table of the $2,000 Limit Holdem final table features 2009 November Niner Eric Buchman is chip leader, which also has 2010 limit holdem bracelet winner Matt Matros as part of the 10-player final table. Here\’s how they\’ll be situated when play resumes at 2:30 this afternoon:
Seat 1: Matt Matros – 224,000
Seat 2: William Jensen – 326,000
Seat 3: Gary Bogdanski – 115,000
Seat 4: Eric Buchman – 453,000
Seat 5: Hansu Chu – 447,000
Seat 6: Flavio Ferrari – 373,000
Seat 7: Brent Courson – 240,000
Seat 8: Daniel Quach – 55,000
Seat 9: Steven Hustoft – 383,000
Seat 10: Matt Grapenthien – 254,000
Little looms large in PLO
Day 2 of the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha resumes at 2:30pm with Jonathan Little leading the 95 day 1 survivors holding the chip lead with 129,600. Some familiar names returning include Christian Harder (116,100), Nenad Medic (104,400), Peter Costa (70,400) and Scott Montgomery (57,000). The full list is available at PokerNews.
Seiver super in Seven Card Stud
After eight levels of play during day 1 of the $1,500 Seven Card Stud, Scott Seiver is the overwhelming chip leader (63,800) with 114 players returning at 3pm. The closest competitor is James Kadlec (40,500), with Carlos Mortensen (32,500), Chip Jett (27,000), Cory Zeidman (21,000) and Marco Traniello (19,000) some familiar foes also returning. The full list of chip counts will be online at PokerNews.
Friday\’s Tournaments
Starting at noon today is the $1,000 Ladies\’ No-Limit Holdem Championship. Last year, Lisa Hamilton defeated a field of 1,060 earning over $195,000 for the win. This event always leads to discussion about ladies\’ events, from those who feel it helps get more women into poker, helping to grow the poker community. Those against the events feel it\’s patronizing towards women and that it doesn\’t really help grow the game, some prefer ladies\’ only events instead of having to deal with the attitude some men have against female players. With the recent trend of men playing and winning ladies\’ only events, as noted here and here, the question is if any men will try to enter this year\’s event and be successful.
The $2,500 Limit Holdem 6-max, gets underway at 5pm. Last year\’s winner was Brock Parker, who topped a field of 367, picking up $223,697.