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2010 WSOP day 13 – Carter Phillips and Steven Gee get their bracelets
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2010-06-11 15:51
Day 13 of the 2010 WSOP saw two more players earn their bracelets: Steven Gee won the $1,000 NL Holdem Special, besting a starting field of over 3,000 players, and Carter Phillips won the $1,500 short handed NL Holdem event for his piece of
WSOP gold.
Event #13, the $1,000 NL Holdem event belonged to Steven Gee, the 54 year old lowball player who had been awaiting an opportunity like this for quite a while. He bested Matt Vance heads-up for the win. The final hand of the poker tournament saw Vance move in with J,Qo. Gee held an Ah, Kh though and made the call without a second thought. The flop rewarded him with an A immediately and there was nothing on the turn or the river that could break his iron grip on the pot.
Unlike Steven Gee, Carter Phillips, the winner of event #16, was barely old enough to participate. Phillips had an excellent Day 3 at the 6-handed Holdem tables. He had his ups and downs, but he never stopped pushing forth. He had several lucky brushes with elimination, and the hand that offered him a 3-1 chip lead over Samuel Gerber going into the heads-up stage was also a lucky one. Craig Bergeron was the one involved in that hand which saw a lucky flop put Phillips firmly into the driver’s seat.
Event #17, the $5,000
NL Holdem one, attracted a much more select and smaller field. Day 2 of the poker tournament saw 8 players hit the rail. Josh Arieh picked up a pair of 6s and ran them right into Jason DeWitt’s 9s for the bust. Vivek Rajkumar, Kristoff Harris and Alexia Portal didn’t fare much better either. 18 players will return to action on day 3, with Amit Makhija holding the largest stack. Dragan Galic will be the short stack.
Event #18, the $2,000 FL Holdem one saw an unusually high number of eliminations on its day 1. Only 109 players made it through to day 2, among them some name pros, like Jennifer Tilly, Lex Veldhuis and Maria Ho. Michael Mizrachi, Tom Dwan and Terrence Chan all bowed out on day 1.
Event #19, the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball World Championship event, saw a field of barely 100+ players belly up to the tables. Needless to say, all those willing to cough up the buy-in for this
poker tournament were top poker professionals, each of them with a real chance for winning the event. 74 players survived day 1, with Horman Houshiar leading the survivors into day 2.
