2008 World Series of Poker

Down to 99 players left.

Brandon Cantu 3.8 mil
Mark Vos 2.6 mil
Tiffany Michelle 2.5 mil
Phil Hellmuth 1.3 mil
Mike Matusow 650,000

Allen Cunningham and Shawn Sheikhan busted out earlier tonight.

 

Gus Hansen was another who busted.

 

Gotta love where Hellmuth is. Almost down to 9 tables, and he's just below the average.

 

Is Chan still around?

 

No, went out yesterday I believe.

 

Cantu, Vos, Hellmuth and Matusow are the only bracelet winners left.

Last winner of the main event who had previously won a WSOP bracelet? Chris Ferguson, in 2000.

 

Matusow and Hellmuth are now sitting next to each other at the feature table, according to the blog on the WSOP site. ESPN's poker operations has to be loving life right about now...

 

I'm sure that was "random" luck of the draw.

 

I sense that upon the last redraw, a recreation of the 1985 NBA draft lottery happened.

Guess whose names got frozen?

 

Here was the last hand of the night:

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:39:00 Hellmuth Ends the Day With a Blow-up

Cristian Dragomir opened with a raise to 80,000 before Hellmuth made it 255,000 to go from the small blind. "I hope he doesn't have aces," said Hellmuth as Dragomir asked for a count. After a few moments, Dragomir made the call. They saw a flop of 9c 10c 7s and Hellmuth checked to Dragomir, who thought for a moment before firing a healthy bet of 300,000. Hellmuth sighed in disgust before folding As Kh face-up on the table. Matusow laughed and said to Dragomir to show the bluff, and Dragomir flipped 10d 4d! Matusow and the crowd roared in hysterics as Hellmuth jumped out of his seat and stormed around the room berating his opponent for calling his reraise with ten high. "Listen buddy, you're an idiot!" screamed Hellmuth. "This is the Main Event and you are the worst player in history!" he continued as the crowd was loving every moment of the blow-up. Dragomir's entourage continued to cheer as Hellmuth continued the barrage. The TD stepped in and issued a warning to Hellmuth to settle down before Dragomir stood up out of his chair to put Hellmuth back in his place with a cry of, "Enough is enough!" Fortunately for both players the clock ticked over to the end of the level, and the end of the day's play to settle both players down. They eventually shook hands and began to bag up their chips as Mike Matusow summed up the situation best as he shouted, "Thank God for Phil Hellmuth! Thank God for Chris Moneymaker!" What a way to end the day!

 

James McManus in 17th out of 79 places with about 2.4MM chips.