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WSOP Event # 25: Third bracelet for Sam Farha
27 of the 212 players present at the Event # 25 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better World Championship of $ 10,000 buy-in of the World Series of Poker shared the prize pool of $ 1,992,800. An event won by Sam Farha, a player with 4.3 million chips at the beginning of the head's up final against the defending champion James Dempsey, who, for his part had 2.1 million chips. However, the route before reaching this stage was strewn with obstacles with the presence of big name of poker like Yueqi Zhu, winner of the World Team Poker, Eugene Kachalov, Sergey Altbregin, Steve Wong and Tony Merksick are all four serious competitors, and there were also Abe Mosseri 2009 champion and Michael Chow. For his success, the new title holder pocketed the tidy sum of $ 488,237 plus a third bracelet after his previous wins in Pot Limit Omaha $ 2,500 in 1996 and Omaha Hi / Lo in 2006.
The current Event # 24 No Limit Hold'em of the WSOP, a low buy-in tournament of $ 1,000 for its part had a monster attendance rate of 3,289 poker enthusiasts at the starting of the tournament which generated a prize pool of $ 2,960,100. It took 13 hours of time to know the thirty remaining participants always in the race to fight for the victory and among whom the champion who will have the privilege to win the amount of $ 503,389 and receive the bracelet trophy will be pinched. Actually, Joseph Grenon is the chip leader of the vent with his stack amounting to 857,000 chips.
Source: Poker 777
Thursday, 17 June 2010
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