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Thursday, June 26, 2008

2008 WSOP Day 27: Senior moment

Rio at Night

By Sarah Polson

Most of the attention at the 2008 World Series of Poker is on the Seniors No-Limit World Championship at the moment.

The event is playing out its final table today, but at 5 p.m. that attention will probably shift to one of the WSOP's most prestigious events, the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship. Before that happens, though, let's check out what's been happening in today's action.

Event 42

At about 2 p.m. the finalists in the Senior No-Limit Hold'em World Championship returned to the felt to begin playing down to a bracelet. One might think that being a table full of 50-and-older players, the name of the game was going to be tight, old-school playing.

That theory has partly held up as the players haven't seen many flops so far, but the few that they've seen have been important, with two resulting in players being busted out.

The first player to head to the rail was Marty Wilson. Fred Berger had raised to $90,000, and play folded around to Wilson, who moved all-in for his last $439,000.

It took Berger about five minutes of thinking, but he eventually made the call to show AhQc to Wilson's 8h8d. The flop came QhQdKh, and only an eight could save Wilson from the muck. When the board played out Jh7s, he was done.

Ed Clark was the next to be eliminated. The board had folded around to Marc Fluss on the button. Fluss raised to $150,000 and Clark went all-in from the big blind.

Fluss made the call, and the race was on as he flipped up pocket nines to Clark's As7d. The board came Qd5sQhJc9h to give Fluss the hand. Clark departed in eighth place.

That leaves Dale Eberle sitting with the chip lead and Dan Lacourse and Fluss not too far behind him. Jerry Yamachika, Berger, Peter Silverstein and Charles Wood are hanging in as well.

Check out more details and action in the Event 42 live updates.

Event 43

All the players returning for the second day of play today in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Split Eight-or-Better event were in the money, so the goal of the day is for them to survive to make it to the final table.

Several players have already had that dream dashed, including Chris "Jesus" Ferguson.

However, there are still plenty of players to check in on and see how they're doing. Chip Jett, Shannon Shorr, Erik Seidel and Joe Hachem are among those still in.

Check out our live coverage of Event 43 for all the juicy details and find out who will make it through another day of play.

Event 44

The $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em with Rebuys event got under way at noon today, and the words of the day for the first couple hours were "all-in" and "rebuy."

There's still no official word on how many players showed up and what they shelled out extra in rebuys to boost the prize pool. However, we can tell you about some of the pros who took a seat in the event at noon and which ones have already had to head to the rail.

Some of the pros already busted include Antonio Esfandiara, Ted Lawson, Jeff Madsen, Nam Le and Alex Jacob. Jimmy "Gobboboy" Fricke also made an appearance, but busted early. Fricke has two cashes so far in his first-ever WSOP.

The pros still in it include Mark Seif, J.C. Tran, Brandon Cantu, Sorel Mizzi, Scott Clements, Shannon Elizabeth, Kathy Liebert, JJ Liu, Vanessa Rousso, Men "The Master" Nguyen and more.

For our coverage of the event, visit the Event 44 live updates.

Event 45

At 5 p.m. the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship will get under way and is sure to draw in some of the biggest names in poker. You're not going to want to miss our live coverage of the event as the WSOP's biggest-buy-in tournament kicks off.

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