Four more events have been completed at the 2008 World Series of Poker and four more champions have won the coveted WSOP Bracelet, here’s a quick update on what’s been happening.
Svetlana Gromenkova won the annual Ladies No Limit Championship event, pocketing $224,702 as she beat a field of 1190 of the worlds best female poker players.
Svetlana defeated Anh Le (the 2nd time she has finished 2nd in the ladies event!) heads-up to win the title. In the final hand, Le called to go all-in before the flop and showed A6o against Svetlana’s Pocket Kings. With a flop of T97, Le still had a chance with an Ace or Eight, but the turn card of King strengthened Svetlana’s hand and just as well as the river produced an Ace.
Andrew Brown won his first WSOP Bracelet when he took out the $2,000 Omaha Hi-Low event at the 2008 World Series of Poker. Brown collects $226,483 for defeating a field of 551 players.
Brown beat five-time WSOP Bracelet winner Ted Forrest in an epic heads-up battle that saw the chip lead change a couple of times. In the final hand, there was a little betting after each stage, but Forrest didn’t move all his chips in until after the river (reluctantly by that stage). With a board of 9dJdAh8c2s Brown turned over 4s5dJh2h and Forrest Ad4d7sQs giving Brown the whole pot.
Jason Young has outlasted 1000 players to win the $1,500 No Limit Shootout at the 2008 World Series of Poker collecting $335,565.
Young defeated Mike Schwartz heads-up, with the final hand seeing Schwartz all-in before the flop turning over A4 vs Young’s AJ… no luck with either kicker and Young takes down the pot for the win.
Event 18 was not one for the faint hearted and we saw the smallest field so far for the 2008 WSOP (85) battle it out in a $5,000 buy-in 2-7 draw Lowball with rebuys event.
The final table was bursting with WSOP Bracelet holders as Mike Matusow finally defeated Jeffrey Lisandro heads-up. The final hand saw both players immediately move all-in with Lisandro drawing one. Matusow finished with 9-6-5-3-x and Lisandro with Q-8-7-4-3.
Barry Greenstein (3rd), Erick Lindgren (4th), Tom Schneider (5th), Tony ‘Tony G’ Guoga (6th) were also well in contention for the title.
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