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WSOP 2010 Day 36 – PLO World Championship event right up Tom Dwan’s alley?
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2010-07-04 16:15
Day 36 of the 2010 WSOP was a pretty eventful one, despite the fact that it saw only one bracelet awarded. The winner of that gold was Brendan Taylor, who came out on top of an initial starting field of 548 players in the $1,500 Limit Holdem Shootout.
Taylor took home a $184,950 prize on top of the gold bracelet. He bested Ben Yu heads-up, after both Terrence Chan and Jonathan Little – two of the players the railbirds would’ve loved to see go heads-up – were bounced.
The final hand of the poker tournament saw Taylor’s A,5o best Yu’s A,Qo on a board of 5,2,K,J,6.
The real news of the day unfolded over at the tables of event #55, the $10,000 PLO World Championship event. Day 2 saw the 171 player field whittle down to 33, as Tom Dwan took the chip lead. That’s right, Dwan, who supposedly has a fabulous amount of money riding on a WSOP bracelet side-bet. Dwan, who played in more
WSOP events this year than ever before, Dwan who is willing to play for small change in pursuit of that illusive gold.
Sitting on a monster stack, Dwan certainly looks capable of setting the high stakes poker community’s pockets on fire in this event. The
Full Tilt Poker pro will have to best opponents like Jason Mercier,
PokerStars’ Alex Kravchenko, Dave Ulliott, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Alaei if he ever intends to cash in on those side-bets though.
Event #52, the $25k six handed Limit Holdem event saw the field play down to the final 6. Dan Kelly will lead the final table participants into the last day of action, Frank Kassela will be there as well, together with Eugene Katchalov and Shawn Buchanan.
Event #54, the $1,000 NL Holdem Special continued with its second day 1 flight. Day1b attracted 1,504 players, which means that the total prize-pool has reached $3,459,000. Due to the enormous size of the starting field, “name” pros found it difficult to battle to the surface. Chris Moneymaker was among the starters but he busted out relatively early. Other pros to hit the rail were Phil Ivey, Men Nguyen and JC Tran. PokerStars’ Florian Langmann made it through the day and so did George Lind.
The $2,500 NL Holdem event (Event #56), kicked off on day 36. The initial starting field of 1,941 was quickly turned into less than 600. Daniel Smith is the one who’ll start day 2 with the largest stack of chips.
