Slow WSOP Play Is OK For UK

Poker Anorak / Editor / 11 June 2008 / Leave a Comment

SLOW play at the WSOP.

On Saturday, the six-handed final table was slow. It took 212 hands to eliminate the last five players. A glance at the statistics shows that the game almost 100 hands without an elimination.

Poker can be slow. Anyone who has tuned into Poker After Dark will knows that the show can work as a prelude to sleep, matched only by those golf shows from a sunny USA, where the sky is blue, the grazzzz is green and the balls makes a soft putt-putt-put...

Sandbagging, sandpit, sandman - all linked.

But we remain alert. We remain awake and alive to the WSOP.

And how are the British doing?

John Kabbaj just missed the final table of event number one; Roland De Wolfe made the final table of the $5000 Limit/No Limit Hold'em event; Spencer Lawrence fell agonisingly short of the Omaha Hi/Lo bracelet; and James Akenhead was just plain unlucky.

But Our Boys can do well. We British play cricket a game played at a standstill. The prize pot, at the time of writing, stands at over $37million. Poker has a lot to do with stamina, and the UK players should have it spades.

What's more, there are more chances to win at the WSOP than a Readers Digest Prize Draw.
The Poker Anorak expects UK players to fair well in the first of five Pot Limit Omaha High events.

Well, make that the next four. New Yorker Andrew Brown has won the first event.

Poker can move pretty fast...