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Brunson, WSOPE Lead Over Obrestad As Home Stretch
The £10,000 main event kicked off at the Imperial Casino on Monday night with Daniel Negrianu finishing second, less than 5,000 behind Florida leader Justin Smith, who piled up 158,925 chips on the chip leaderboard.
However, aside from the Phil Helmers Like Contest, the side show that made a lot of promotional material over the weekend was a pre-match between poker legend Doyle Brunson and last year's WSOP main event champion Annette Orestad, the youngest WSOP bracelet winner at age 18. Known as "The King vs. Queen," the event took place at the main stage inside the Empire Casino and drew a large crowd just before the final table for event #3 opened.
With the best of three, Brunson won the match 2-0. However, Obrestard actually started with the best cards in her last two defeated hands. Her straight line lost the first game higher in a row, and then, her top pair with the best kicker lost when Brunson succeeded in spike the second pair in the turn of the last hand.
Obrestard congratulated the poker legend amicably, and Brunson personally signed copies of his two highly regarded book series, Super/Systems 1 and 2, to Obrestard, who a day later bounced off the first day of the main event to defend his title.
Speaking of Event #3, Theo Jorgensen, a 36-year-old veteran pro from Copenhagen, Denmark, took home 218,626 pounds ($402,403 in U.S. dollars) as he grabbed his first WSOP bracelet and fourth WSOP cash.
Jorgensen, who became the second Dane to win a WSOP bracelet in 2008 after Jesper Hougaard's victory in Event #1, has an impressive 15-year career. He won the European 7-Card Stud Championship in 2004 and has appeared in two European poker tour final table events named after him. He also finished eighth in last year's WSOP main event in London, where he paid £85,070. Jorgensen has appeared in three final table events in the past two years and his WSOP career income has risen to $618,953.
Jorgensen had to pass through 165 powerful stadiums that featured 31 WSOP bracelet winners. Erik Freiburg, best known for his 2006 WSOP main event finish, was eliminated in fourth place. Max Pescatori, a two-time WSOP Gold Bracelet winner, took fifth place, and David Penly, the winner of the 2008 Norwegian Port Limited Omaha Championship, took sixth place.
Another notable finalist was Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, who was eliminated in seventh place. The 2000 WSOP main event champion now ranks third all-time in the WSOP cache with 57. Only men's "master" Nguyen, 62, and Phil Helmus, 69, have more cachet in their careers.
Jorgensen's win means that after six tournaments (three last year and three this year) in WSOPE, U.S. players continue to be cut. The six tournaments were won by Italy, Germany, Norway, Afghanistan, and Denmark (two times).
However, as the main event kicked off on Day 2, there were Americans in the top four slots on the chip leader board (Smith, Negrianu, Jamie Rosen and David Benield) and three Americans - Andy Bloch, Marco Tranielo and Yuval Bronstein - were in the top 12.
Other notable American players still alive include Mike Matusow, Jennifer Tilly and David "Chino" Lim, who are among the nine finalists to make the final table for the WSOP main event in November.
Overall, the main event has 363 participants, one more than last year, and will award a total of $3,620,000.
Another notable finalist was Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, who was eliminated in seventh place. The 2000 WSOP main event champion now ranks third all-time in the WSOP cache with 57. Only men's "master" Nguyen, 62, and Phil Helmus, 69, have more cachet in their careers.
Jorgensen's win means that after six tournaments (three last year and three this year) in WSOPE, U.S. players continue to be cut. The six tournaments were won by Italy, Germany, Norway, Afghanistan, and Denmark (two times).
However, as the main event kicked off on Day 2, there were Americans in the top four slots on the chip leader board (Smith, Negrianu, Jamie Rosen and David Benield) and three Americans - Andy Bloch, Marco Tranielo and Yuval Bronstein - were in the top 12.
Other notable American players still alive include Mike Matusow, Jennifer Tilly and David "Chino" Lim, who are among the nine finalists to make the final table for the WSOP main event in November.
Overall, the main event has 363 participants, one more than last year, and will award a total of $3,620,000.
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