Tuesday, July 1, 2008

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2008 WSOP Day 32: Danish domination

Rasmus Nielsen

By Sarah Polson

There is one final table playing today, and so far it looks like a shoo-in for Denmark's Rasmus Nielsen, as he's been using his chip lead to bully the rest of the players at the table.

However, that's not all that's going on at the 2008 World Series of Poker at the Rio today. Two more events will play down to a final table today while the final $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event gets under way.

Event 49

Players are dropping like flies in the sixth installment of the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em events. The final table began play today at 2 p.m. with the top nine players and already four have had to bow out.

Rasmus Nielsen started the day with a fairly commanding chip lead of nearly $3 million to his nearest competitor's $1.4 million. He has since built that chip stack to about $5 million, and he hasn't gotten there by just sitting on his chip stack.

Nielsen, from Denmark, is showing the rest of the table that Danes know how to handle a big stack at a final table, bullying and pushing players around with his chips.

Meanwhile Christoph Kohnen, Robert Kalb, Jesper Hoog and Chad Siu have all been sent to collect payments for ninth through sixth places respectively.

That just leaves Peter Nguyen, J.C. Tran and Joe Pelton representing the United States and John Conroy from Ireland to try to defeat the Dane.

All the action can be found in the Event 49 live updates.

Event 50

Eighty-six came to play today and 36 will get paid as the $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha event continues its second day of play. They will continue to play down to the final table of nine, but at the moment, the battle is to just stay in it to make it into the money.

Some of the pros who just couldn't make it that far are Leif Force, Robert Williamson III, Humberto Brenes, Noah Boeken, Scott Clements, Ross Boatman, Bill Chen and more.

Josh Arieh is still enjoying being the chip leader for the time being, and other pros among the 50-plus still alive include David Singer, Kido Pham, Michael Mizrachi, Eddy Scharf, Johnny Chan, David Williams and Jeffrey Lisandro.

See for yourself who will make it through the day and who will inevitably have to just collect some cash as consolation for missing out on a bracelet win again. There will be plenty of coverage in the Event 50 live updates.

Event 51

There's never too much H.O.R.S.E.ing around at the WSOP. The $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. continues for its second day of play today.

It could be a long day, as 179 of the initial 803 players returned today, and after a couple hours of play, there are still more than 120 players battling. They need to get down to a final table of eight sometime today, and the money starts paying out at 80th place.

At the moment, Victor Ramdin seems to be at the top of the leaderboard. Phil Hellmuth started the day with the lead, but has slipped a bit to ninth place, while Ramdin moved up to his spot and now Chad Brown is settled into second place on the leaderboard as well.

Some of the players not lucky enough to still be in contention include Mary Jones, Chip Jett, Bryan Devonshire and Shannon Shorr.

Check out the action in the Event 51 live updates.

Event 52

The numbers are in for the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event that got started today and 2,694 brave souls were willing to take another crack at the event.

That field has already been narrowed to less than half with a few pros to report among the casualties. Justin Bonomo, Antonio Esfandiari, J.C. Alvarado, Chris Moneymaker, Marco Traniello, Isaac Haxton, Jennifer Tilly, Chad Batista, Max Pescatori, Sarah Bilney, Erik Seidel, Shannon Shorr and Roland De Wolfe are all out of the running.

Vanessa Rousso is off to a good start on Day 1, however, as she's already run her starting stack up to about $190,000 according to the worldseriesofpoker.com.

Some other pros to keep an eye out for are Erica Schoenberg, Phil Laak, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, David Pham, Mimi Tran, David "Devilfish" Ulliott, Humberto Brenes, Alex Jacob, Kathy Liebert, T.J. Cloutier, Erick Lindgren and others.

Catch all the action in the Event 52 live updates.

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