Devilfish and Moorman Deep in Event #35
World Series of Poker
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Matthew Pitt /
22 June 2011 /
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Event #35 of the World Series of Poker is the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Six-handed tournament and two of the biggest names in British poker have made it to the last 15 places. Both Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott and Chris "Moorman1" Moorman will return to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino at 1430 Las Vegas time to play for a coveted WSOP bracelet and the $$619,575 first place prize.
Day 1 saw 507 players take their seats in the vast Pavilion Room of the Rio for the inaugural six-handed PLO event and after the allotted 10 levels had been played only 105 of them remained. Not amongst them after busting out at various points during the day included Barry Greenstein, recent Triple Crown winner Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Daniel Negreanu. Amongst those who did make it through to the second day included Vanessa Selbst, who was the overnight chipleader, Shaun Deeb and Mike "Timex" McDonald, the latter playing in his first-ever series this year.
Of the 105 who made it through to Day 2, 57 of them would go home empty handed in terms of money won, the last of which being Matthew Ezrol who earned the unwanted title of "Bubble Boy" for his 49th place finish. One by one some of the best PLO players in the world started heading for the rail after losing their stacks in this crazy four-card game, amongst them WSOPE bracelet winner Jesper Hougaard, Hac "trex313" Dang, David "Raptor" Benefield, Isaac "WestMenloAA" Baron and British pro John Kabbaj.
When only 20 players remained the field was extremely pro-heavy but the eliminations of Emil "whitelime" Patel of Two Months Two Million fame (20th), Selbst (18th), Erick Lindgren (17th) and Tom "durrrr" Dwan (16th) made the route to a bracelet a little easier for those still in contention. That said, at the close of play the last 15 players still read like a who's who of poker with Gregory Brooks leading the way with 1,294,000 chips, David Chiu on 891,000 looking for bracelet number five and McDonald on 827,000 hoping to add a WSOP title to go with his EPT win a few years back. Also in the last 15 are Jared "Harrington10" Bleznick, a talented high-stakes cash game specialist, Jason Mercier and Peter Jetten, plus the aforementioned Ulliott and Moorman.
Ulliott won his first and only bracelet back in 1997 in a $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em event and a win here would not only give the man from Hull a bankroll boost but may help to dispel claims by the poker community that the Devilfish is no more than a wet fish in today's modern game. On the other hand there is no doubting Moorman's ability in the high-octane world of modern poker and although he will start the day 13th from 15 in chips he knows all too well that an early double up would see him right back in contention of winning that, so far, elusive first WSOP bracelet.
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