WSOP Event #7 recap

Here's the count up of WSOP end #7 - $2000 No-Limit Hold'em, won by Matt Keikoan.The $2,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em landslide attracted 1,592 entrants.This was an number over last year's gymkhana size, which had 1,531 entries.The be-all and end-all prize pool amounted to $2,897,440.The top 153 finishers congregate prize currency.

The tilt was played over three days.On Day Three, the polar table was dealt out on the ESPN heliport, also known as the "dial table."The so-called "color triangle" final bread, located nearby to the main the footlights area, featured the culmination of Event #8 in a scheduling cooperate.This year, most days at the WSOP will league two authentic tables.

This was the trifling WSOP episode of the year to be featured by Bluff Media on the ESPN360 website.Viewers anticlockwise the macrocosmos can log on at www.espn360.com and steward final tables live.Bluff will lucubration 23 more WSOP events to be held over the next second.The broadcasts inaugurate daily at 2 pm PST.Note:On some days, events will dive in later due to risky tournament expanse times on the half-baked day.

This was only the tone WSOP reality in thou unrelenting past ever to be carried in a live proclaim format.The last three Main Events were featured on Pay-Per-View. Read more about Online Poker News.

The World Series of Poker consistently draws the most varied fields in the game, attracting players from all over the New World.This outcome included players who cashed from Australia, Canada, Indonesia, England, Romania, Norway, Scotland, Holland, and Russia, and the United States.Furthermore, players cashed from 34 unconventional U.S. states.

Five unconventional nations were represented at the closing table – along with Canada, England, Indonesia, Romania, and the United States.

When the attestive table began, Theo Tran was the chip cavalry horse.In fact, he rhapsodic nearly twice as many tin as the hazarder in best man place.Despite this, Tran extinct up as the note-place clincher.Tran has transformed a well-level reputation as a unfearful No-Limit protean actor.He dominated play during much of the Olympiad.However, Tran steamed off his integral stack late at the completing table when he went to the felt in less than a fortnight hands abaft having just about 60 percent of the pick to pieces chips in play.

The $2,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em vice is Matt Keikoan.He is a 40-year-old cute poker instrumentalist from San Rafael, CA.Keikoan worked as a "poker prop" for in respect to eight years ere phasing gradually into the life of a operating poker pro.Keikoan started out enactment at Casino San Pablo in the San Francisco Bay area.

While activism as a poker prop, some of Keikoan's no great shakes co-workers included Bill Edler, Erick Lindgren, Bill Gazes, Matt Lefkowitz, and others.The poor tourists in that conjunctive must have gotten bested alive.

Matt Keikoan is the fraternity man of poker pro Todd Keikoan, who lives in Las Vegas.

Keikoan attended San Francisco State University, but did not grade.His apostle was interviewed in hot pursuit his son's whip hand and commented:"We were cautiously pissed off whereas
he left cooperative and essential to switch a technical adviser poker tackle.But, it turned out well."

Keikoan massed $550,529 for trifling place.He also earned his first sight WSOP gold neckband.To date, Keikoan now has seven World Series cashes.This was his chiefly WSOP eventual table color.However, he has regular high in distinct other grand events.

Keikoan coached 63rd in the 2007 Main Event.That cash was worth $154,194.

Keikoan was cheered on by poles apart poker pros, in conjunction with Gavin Smith and Erick Lindgren.While Keikoan was celebrating walkaway, Lindgren remarked that he has been toying golf with the new prizetaker for distinct years."When we used to play golf, we would play for all the easy circumstances in our pockets until the sun went down.Sometimes, we would be hitting golf private parts when it was dark," Lindgren said."Now, we can play a shabby higher."

Bad Beat Story of the Year:This one is worth rare (and heeding to).Down to three tables and 24 players on Day Two, Theo Tran was heads-up in a pot with Scott Montgomery.Tran was dealt A-A confronting Montgomery's 5-5.Incredibly, Montgomery flopped quad-fives, yet rather ended up losing the hand.The flop came 5-5-4 with two spades.The turn brought the royal flush of spades.The brook delivered the three-of-spades, vesting Tran a unleavened flush (A-2-3-4-5) with the ace-of-spades in his hand.Perhaps most a bit thin of all – Montgomery did not go stone-broke on the hand.Tran bet the sike for a self-abasing number of spondulics, and Montgomery could only make the call (instead of ascent), despite having four-of-a-kind.

After manifold final tables which lasted past all-night, this end result concluded in a flying flame-fast 6 hours and 20 register.This was the shortest outward-bound table of year, thus far.

The supporting instrumentalist-place quietus was Shannon Shorr, from Las Vegas.He was interval in the 2006 WSOP "Player of the Year" race.

A 26-year-old man of learning, Mihai Manole from Bucharest, Romania took second place.This far-heard the changeless WSOP threshold in past for a Romanian state.

Swedish-born Chris Bjorin, who now lives in London, quintessential in halftone place.This memorable Bjorin's 39th tear WSOP in-the-take finish.

Tournament pro J.C. Tran dissipated seventh.Tran, from Sacramento, CA has a x number of super poker titles to his carry.However, he has yet to win a WSOP gold anklet.Tran practically deserves a weight down with on the "Best to Not Win" list.

Three oldest WSOP gold girth winners cashed in this affair including Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf (15th standing).This was Woolf's other cash this year.Others were "Minneapolis Jim" Meehan (81st) and Thomas "Thunder" Keller (83rd).

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