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WSOP 2010 day 29 – Dean Hamrick scores a bracelet
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2010-06-27 00:49
Day 29 of the
2010 WSOP was another rather fruitful one: it saw two bracelets find their way to winners’ trophy cases, both of these winners first-timers.
Dean Hamrick, the player who almost made the first November Nine, won his gold in the $1,500 NL Holdem Event (#42). One may as well say Hamrick had this coming for quite a while. To make it to the top, he bested a starting field of 2,521 players. 25 survivors bellied up to the tables on the final day of the event, and by the time Hamrick picked up the $604,222 first prize (15 hours later) all of them would be at the rail, more or less content with their efforts.
Hamrick took on Thomas O’Neal heads-up, his A,Qo besting O’Neal’s As,9s in the final hand of the
poker tournament.
The other bracelet winner of the day was Ian Gordon, who won event #43, the $10k HORSE World Championship event. Gordon took on Richard Ashby heads-up (Ashby had already secured a bracelet this edition of the series) to grab the title and the $611,666 prize that came with it.
23 of the original 241 players returned to the tables on the final day of the HORSE Championship event. The final day proved to be extremely long, but in the end, the final whistle came extremely fast. Just as soon as Eugene Katchalov was eliminated in 3rd, the two remaining players were all-in, in a limit Holdem hand. Gordon flopped a flush for the win.
Day 2 of the $2,500 Mixed Holdem event saw the final table reached. Jarred Solomon has the largest stack of chips going into the final day of action, but Gavin Smith is hot on his tail. Steven Kelly was responsible for Smith’s large stack, having donated his chips to him upon his elimination.
Hardly has a $1,500
NL Holdem event wound down, that another one got rolling. Event #45 saw a massive starting field of 3,097 players belly up to its tables on its first day. Fewer than 400 players remained in contention at the end of the day, with Will Failla holding the largest stack. PokerStars’ Victor Ramdin will return to action too, together with John Juanda and Chino Rheem.
Event #46, the $5,000 PLO Hi/Lo split event got underway too. This poker tournament only attracted around 300 starters. 130 players remained in contention at the end of the first day. Colin Burton finished with the chip lead.
