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Matt Graham Wins Marathon WSOP Limit Shootout

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By Dan Cypra - July 3rd

One of the staples of World Series of Poker tournaments are marathon matches. I remember covering the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event (the year that Jamie Gold won). Play would start every day around noon and wrap up 16-17 hours later. The next day, everyone would stumble back to the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino to start all over again. In shootout events, advancing through the tournaments works slightly differently. Instead of collapsing tables, each step in the process becomes the equivalent of a sit and go tournament. If you win your table, you move on. If you don't, you're knocked out of the tournament. There were 823 entrants into Event 53 of the 2008 WSOP, a $1,500 Limit Shootout tournament. In the end, Matt Graham defeated Jean-Robert Bellande to take home his first WSOP bracelet. Read more »

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Marty Smyth Wins $10,000 PLO Event

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By Brett Collson - July 2nd

Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi was unable to make history Monday evening. Mizrachi was attempting to claim victory in the same event that his brother Rob won last year, the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship, but his goal fell short as took home third place for $331, 279. Read more »

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Scotty Nguyen Wins $50K HORSE Championship

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By Dan Cypra - June 30th

Besides the Main Event, all eyes at the World Series of Poker gaze with fascination towards the $50,000 buy-in HORSE Championship. This five-day event has become a staple of the WSOP since its introduction in 2006. With a buy-in that is five times the size of the Main Event's price tag, the $50K HORSE event at the 2008 World Series of Poker attracted a field of 148 players. Making the eight-man final table was a lineup of elite poker players. In the end, Scotty Nguyen took down his fifth World Series of Poker bracelet, emerging victorious in one of the most heralded events in WSOP history. Read more »

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Scotty Nguyen Wins $50,000 H.O.R.S.E and More

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By Jessica Welman - June 30th

After five grueling days of play, the $50,000 HORSE has finally crowned a champion who will be the inaugural recipient of the David "Chip" Reese Memorial trophy. The final table kicked off at 3pm and, fifteen hours later, only one man, Scotty Nguyen, was left standing. Nguyen began the day second in chips and remained towards the top of the leader board all day. Along the way to his victory, Nguyen knocked out Barry Greenstein in 6th place, Matt Glantz in 4th place, and Erick Lindgren in 3rd place. Read more »

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WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E Day 3 and More

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By Brett Collson - June 28th

The $50,000 H.O.R.S.E event reached its final 24 players and stopped play late Friday evening during Level 17. Action will pick back up at 3:00 PT Saturday and won't end until the final table of eight is decided. Michael DiMichelle (1.35 million), Barry Greenstein (1.31 million), Daniel Negreanu (1.22 million), Ralph Perry (1.04 million) and Scotty Nguyen (1.03 million) will enter Day 3 as the chip leaders and the rest of the field will be playing catch up. Read more »

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The Seniors Are Coming! WSOP Event #42

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By Dan Cypra - June 26th

They came out in droves to Event #42 of the 2008 World Series of Poker. June 25th marked the stirring conclusion of the $1,000 buy-in Seniors World Championship. A tournament designed with the over-50 crowd in mind, the Seniors World Championship is always one of the highlights of the WSOP. This year’s tournament was the… Read more »

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Belgium Notches its First WSOP Bracelet

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By Dan Cypra - June 24th

If you're like many of the people looking at this article, you just read that headline and thought, "Really?" Well, it's true. No one from the country of Belgium had captured a World Series of Poker bracelet, until late Sunday night, that is. Brussels native Davidi Kitai became the first Belgian player ever to win a World Series of Poker bracelet in Event #38, a $2,000 pot limit hold'em tournament. He bested a field of 605 of poker's elite, cashing for $244,583. More importantly, he put his own country on the WSOP map. For one night, it seemed, Belgium was on top of the world. Read more »

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Online Poker Tournament Recap

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By Dan Cypra - June 23rd

With 40 events completed at the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, the Rio has become the center of the poker universe. This is the one time during the year when online tournaments seem to take a back seat. Read more »

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