WSOP on ESPN Tonight...
Robert Williamson III faces Phil Ivey heads-up in event #27, $5,000 Pot-limit Omaha with rebuys.
Another Tuesday night with two hours of the 2005 World Series of Poker on ESPN television. Tonight we get to see the final table of the $2,500 buy-in No-limit Hold'em event #24 in the first hour and then we return to the action at Rio Resorts in Las Vegas for the final table of the $5,000 buy-in w/rebuys Pot-limit Omaha. Two hours of big league poker from the mother of all tournaments, the WSOP.
The No-limit Hold'em event #24 attracted a crowd of 1056 players and built a prize pool of $2,428,800. The final table nine are listed with seat number, hometown and chip count:
Seat 1: Joe Zappia (Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada) $247,000
Seat 2: Larry Watson (Las Vegas, NV) $59,000
Seat 3: Glynn Beebe (Austin, TX) $242,000
Seat 4: Mayen Grigorian (Northridge, CA) $112,000
Seat 5: K.J. Jordan (Myrtle Beach, SC) $368,000
Seat 6: Lars Bonding (Aarhus, Denmark) $818,000
Seat 7: Jason "Chip Burner" Tate (Brentwood, TN) $391,000
Seat 8: Farzad Bonyadi (Los Angeles, CA) $315,000
Seat 9: Robert Doyle (W. Palm Beach, FL) $87,000
Phill Hellmuth on his way to event #27's final table.
Read Dr. Pauly's wrap up of the final table for event #24 at LasVegasVegas.com. Check out Dr. Pauly's live blogged final table action at Tao of Poker and get all the details of event #24 as it happened including all the stuff you won't see in the allotted hour of television. A complete list of finishers in the event are available at Poker Player Newspaper.
The evening's second hour of the 2005 WSOP features event #27, a $5,000 buy-in w/rebuys Pot-limit Omaha. The event attracted 134 players buying an additional 224 rebuys to create a prize pool of $1,765,568. Read Dr. Pauly's wrap up of the star studded final table for event #27 at LasVegasVegas.com. Check out Dr. Pauly's live blogged final table action at Tao of Poker and get all the details of event #27 as it happened including all the stuff you won't see in the allotted hour of television. A complete list of finishers in the event are available at Poker Player Newspaper.
Final table of event #24, $2,500 buy-in No-limit Hold'em.
The nine players making the final table for event #27 includes Phil Hellmuth going for his tenth WSOP gold bracelet and Phil Ivey seeking WSOP bracelet #5. Robert Williamson III and Allen Cunningham made the final table. The players are listed by seat number with hometowns and chip counts:
Seat 1: E.C. Cohen (Paris, France) $130,000
Seat 2: Robert Williamson III (Dallas, TX) $153,000
Seat 3: Allen Cunningham (Marina Del Ray, CA) $202,000
Seat 4: Davood Mehrmand (Germany) $125,000
Seat 5: Surinder Sunar (Wolver Hampton, England) $96,000
Seat 6: Phil Ivey (Las Vegas, NV) $494,000
Seat 7: Phil Hellmuth (Palo Alto, CA) $114,000
Seat 8: Eddy Scharf (Cologne) $150,000
Seat 9: Richard St. Peter (Sault Ste. Marie, MI) $162,000
Seat 10: Sigi Stockinger (Linz, Austria) $213,000
The first hour is listed as beginning at 8:00 pm East Coast time but check your TV listings for times in your area. Some great poker of the biggest poker tournament ever from the poker capitol of the world, Las Vegas, Nevada.
The winning final hand of the $2,500 buy-in No-limit Hold'em event #24.