July 4th - WSOP wrap up

July 4th - WSOP wrap up

Yesterday was Independance day all accross America, including Las Vegas where this year’s WSOP is well underway.
Event #8 ($2k Omaha Hi/Lo Split) was in it’s second day and it left with these results:

Seat 1: Florante “Rusty” Mandap - 156,000
Seat 2: Steve Lustig - 31,000
Seat 3: Cong Do - 99,000
Seat 4: Jeff Madsen - 225,000
Seat 5: Robert Collins - 156,000
Seat 6: Robert Mangino - 165,000
Seat 7: Russ Salzer - 142,000
Seat 8: Daniel Negreanu - 166,000
Seat 9: Jack Zwerner - 189,000

Yesterday was also Day 1 of Event #9 ($5k No-Limit Hold’em).� Some people refer to this as the warm up to the main event, the 10k no-limit hold’em, the cadillac of poker.� Event #9 left the following results:

1. Erik Cajelais - 137,900
2. Steven Prentky - 131,600
3. Phil Hellmuth, Jr. - 126,300
4. Dang Trinh - 124,700
5. Richard Freire - 109,200
7. Dustin “Neverwin” Woolf - 100,500
12. Vinnie Vinh - 83,400
13. Casey Kastle - 82,600
14. Chad Brown - 72,400
15. Rob Hollink - 71,900
21. Brian Wilson - 57,700
22. Marco Traniello - 56,000
23. Rene Angelil - 54,300
24. Jean Robert Bellande - 53,300
26. Marcel Luske - 51,900

One important thing to note is that Phil Helmuth finished in the money again, the 52nd time in his career.