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2010 WSOP day 14 – Jason DeWitt finally joins the ranks of WSOP Champs
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2010-06-11 16:48
Jason DeWitt was by no means a stranger to the top ranks of WSOP finishers in years past, but the bracelet managed to elude him till yesterday, when he finally joined the ranks of those proudly boasting a golden piece of WSOP jewelry. After having come tantalizingly close to a win twice in 2009, DeWitt finally grabbed his well deserved reward in the $5,000 NL Holdem event. His achievement was more than impressive given the fact that the relatively high buy-in event only attracted top notch competition. The heads-up stage of the
poker tournament saw DeWitt go up against Sam Trickett. The final hand of the event saw DeWitt’s 8,10o triumph over Trickett’s A,7o, giving DeWitt the lucky win on a board of 8,5,6,6,5.
The second day of event #18, the $2,000 Limit
Texas Holdem tournament, saw the field play down to the final 10. Eric Buchman, the player who made the November Nine last year, holds the chip lead heading into day 3. Hansu Chu is hot on his trail though. The short-stack heading into the 3rd day of action will be Daniel Quach, who only has 55k chips.
Because of the relatively small initial starting field, event #19, the $10k 2-7 Draw Lowball World Championship event played right down to the final 10 on its second day. The money bubble burst on Day 2 too. Sweden’s Par Hildebrand got stuck with the dubious position of bubble boy, everyone else sent to the rail after him, being guaranteed a minimum payout of $19.8k.
With all those bracelet holders in the initial starting field, the final day will probably be tougher than most of the
2010 WSOP final tables so far. Daniel Negreanu will be there, together with Eric Seidel, John Juanda and Andy Bloch. It will be anything but easy going for whoever the winner will be to get past those guys.
Event #20, the $1,500 PL Omaha even got rolling on Day 14. 885 players showed up for this one, and when the dust settled, only 95 of them were still standing. Jonathan Little finished the day with the chip lead, but James Akenhead had an excellent Day 1 run as well. Nenad Medic will return to action on day 2 too.
Event #21, the $1,500 7-card Stud event attracted a starting field of more then 400 players. 128 were still in contention at the end of the day. Scott Seiver assumed the position of the chip leader going into day 2.
