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WSOP 2010 Day 37 – Phil Gordon Antes up for Africa
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2010-07-05 13:56
Day 37 of the
2010 WSOP was one of the last ones before the Main Event. The $10,000 PLO Championship, which was supposed to play down to a winner (or at least a final table) alone generated more than enough excitement for the day.
Full Tilt Poker’s Tom Dwan and
Ultimate Bet’s Phil Hellmuth were both at the tables at the beginning of the day, one of them looking to bag a bracelet in order to take down a huge side-bet, the other one to grab his 12th WSOP gold and to prove to himself and to his ever fewer followers that he still has it, whatever “it” is…
Unfortunately for the two pros, none of them would taste victory on day 37. Dwan started the action with the largest stack, but when the final table was set, he was nowhere in sight. Ludovic Lacay took the chip lead going into the final table, having amassed a stack of 2.3 million chips. Daniel Alaei also made the final table, together with Dmitry Stelmak and PokerStars’ Alex Kravchenko.
The other highly notable event of the day was the Ante Up For Africa event, which attracted enough players to generate a $408,240 prize-pool. Phil Gordon, the eventual winner of the charity event donated every penny he won to the cause. Gordon bested Shannon Elisabeth heads-up for the win. Matt Damon and Shane Warne took part as well, together with Jeff French and David Allan Grier. Being a non bracelet event, the Ante Up For Africa doesn’t really count for those whose primary goal is the securing of one such piece of jewelry.
Event #52, the $2,500 6-handed NL Holdem one, was a full on bracelet event though, and no one would attest that better than Dan Kelly, in whose possession the coveted piece of jewelry ended up. Kelly bested Shawn Buchannan heads-up for the win, after Frank Kassela was bounced in 3rd place. Kelly picked up a $1.3M prize too, to go with his new bling.
The second day of the $1,000 NL Holdem special (event #54) rolled on as well. The 586 players who survived the two day 1 flights, battled it down right to the final 47. David Peters took the chip lead as the money bubble burst.
Event #56, the $2,500 NL Holdem one, saw its initial starting field of 1,941 players whittle down to about 75. James Mackey managed to accumulate by far the largest stack of chips in the poker tournament. Dan Shak and Isaac Baron will be back in action as well.
