Star Studded Final Table Set In Event #5
The man everyone has to catch if they want to get their hands on the $189,818 first place prize and the gold WSOP bracelet is Bryan Pellegrino; better known to the online poker masses as “PrimordialAA.”
The fifth event of the 2012 World Series of Poker has reached its final table and what a final table it could be. The $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em is not usually a tournament that the media and poker fans are overly excited about but all that will change when play resumes later today due to the poker stars that make up the nine-handed final table.
The man everyone has to catch if they want to get their hands on the $189,818 first place prize and the gold WSOP bracelet is Bryan Pellegrino; better known to the online poker masses as "PrimordialAA." Pellegrino is one of the best Heads-Up SNG players in the world but he has shown he is also very adept at full ring tournaments too because he will go into the final table armed with 790,000 chips; almost 240,000 more than his nearest rival.
That rival is Jonathan Aguiar, a Las Vegas-based poker pro who has over $860,000 in live tournament winnings helped by cashing at the WSOP 11-times previous to this final table. Amongst those 11-cashes is a sixth place finish in a $1,000 No Limit Hold'em event back in 2008 and when play gets under way again you can bet your bottom dollar that Aguiar will be trying everything in the book to best that finish by five places.
Along with Pellegrino and Aguiar the final table is also going to be the home to the recent World Poker Tour Seminole champion Tommy Vedes, the four-time WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu and British pro John Eames.
Eames is no stranger to reaching final tables in major events and this is his second in a WSOP event, his other final table appearance coming at the 2011 WSOPE where he finished seventh in the €1,000 No Limit Hold'em event. We have our fingers crossed that he can bring home a the Brits' first bracelet of the summer.
Play resumes today at around 13:00 Las Vegas time (21:00 UK time) and will continue until a champion has been crowned. Who will that be? Tune into the Betfair Poker blog tomorrow to discover the answer to that question.
WSOP Event #5 Final Table Chip Counts
1st: Bryan Pellegrino - 790,000
2nd: Jonathan Aguiar - 552,000
3rd: Keanu Tabali - 309,000
4th: Nick Jivkov - 281,000
5th: Tommy Vedes - 247,000
6th: Daniel Negreanu - 212,000
7th: Brant Hale - 211,000
8th: John Eames - 181,000
9th: Mike Allis - 86,000
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