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WSOP 2010 day 28 – the UK invasion continues
Posted by: James Carter. - Sat, 2010-06-26 00:10
Day 28 of the
2010 WSOP saw another player from the UK walk away with a bracelet. This time, the “culprit” was Steve Jelinek, who won the $1,500 PL Omaha Hi/Lo split 8 or better event, denying Phil Hellmuth the chance to secure his 12th bracelet and thus to make WSOP history. On his way to the top spot and the title, Jelinek had to best an initial starting field of 847 players, not an easy feat considering that Phil Hellmuth, an 11-time bracelet winner, made it to the final table too. The Ultimate Bet pro was denied eventually as Jelinek took on John Gottlieb heads-up. The final hand of the poker tournament saw Jelinek’s A,A,Q,4 triumph over Gottlieb’s A,K,9,5 on a board of Q,10,8,4,5.
Jelinek’s bracelet would be the only one of the day though as none of the other events managed to play down to a winner.
Event #42, the $1,500 NL: Holdem one, reduced the field to the final 25. Unfortunately for him, Carter Phillips didn’t manage to make it past the day, eliminated in 48th place. James Schaarf finished with the largest stack, and Ryan Hemmel also managed to thrust his stack past the 1 million chip mark. Team
PokerStars Pro will be represented on the final day of action by Humberto Brenes, and by short-stack Bernard Lee.
Event #43, the $10,000 HORSE World Championship event, continued to push players to the limit on Day 28. Nice progress was made as the field had been whittled down to the final 23. The chip lead ended up in Cuong Do’s possession, who managed to accumulate 720k chips. Brian Townsend, Eugene Katchalov and Carlos Mortensen are some of the “name” players who will return to the poker tournament on its final day.
Steve Billirakis and Abe Mosseri will be back as well, though their short-stacks may not grant them a long enough lease on the final day to get anything going. The rest of the field is well-stacked though, so the action may yet see some pretty radical turn-arounds.
Event #44, the Mixed Holdem one, got started on Day 28. A total of 500 players bellied up to the tables in this one, but at the end of a furious day 1, only 70 were left in contention. Many of the “name” players bowed out through the day, including Allen Cunningham,
Titan Poker'sSorel Mizzi, Michael Mizrachi, Tom Dwan (another bracelet quest ended in failure) and Antonio Esfandiari.
Eli Elezra finished with a largest stack on the other hand, joined at the top by Dwyte Pilgrim and Jim Collopy.
