The full return of the iconic World Series of Poker Festival is already in full swing, and you'll find a huge concentration of poker icons in Las Vegas these days. We regularly follow their journey through the festival and bring you summary articles, and after a week we have again a selection of the most interesting from Vegas.
Another of the Championship events, which was the $10k No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw event, attracted the fans attention. In it, the playing field of 121 players contained of the most resounding names of world poker, but the bracelet was won by the Brazilian player Pedro Bromfman. However, in this event all the people talked about the most successful WSOP player, Phil Hellmuth, who found himself in an interesting situation.
Before the break, during which his table moved, Poker Brat went to the bathroom, and when he returned, he found that the tray with his chips had disappeared. It was Farzad Bonyadi's fault that he accidentally took Phil's tray with his stack and transferred all the chips to another table. After a break of almost half an hour and explanations, however, it turned out that it was not an intentional act, but just an accident. According to the cameras, the value of Phil's stack was determined and returned to him from Bonyadi's. "Farzad is a fair and good man, I know he would never do anything like that on purpose. It was an accident, it happens."
The WSOP has also found its way out of the poker media, thanks to football magician Neymar Jr., who has made no secret of his hobby in poker for many years. This year, Neymar has finally made his WSOP premiere, for which he has chosen a $10k Limit Hold'em Championship event full of the best players. He didn't make a cashout here, but jumped into the 41st Event ($1,000 Super Turbo Bounty NLH) a few days later, where he cashed for his first WSOP ITM entry for $3,959 for 49th place out of 2,227 entries.
No less resounding is the living legend Phil Ivey, who does not lose his qualities even after years of play, which he proved by almost winning a record 11th bracelet. In the $100k High Roller, out of 62 entries, Ivey fought his way to the final heads-up, where his last player, Aleksejs Ponakovs from Latvia, stood in his way to win. But the almost hour-long battle ultimately ruled in favor of Ponakovs, who placed Ivey "only" to a silver spot with a reward of $1,172,659.
Finally, we can mention another resounding name, which has reached a valuable bracelet - Brian Hastings. He won the $10k Championship event in the 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw format, which produced 118 entries including such names as Shaun Deeb, Phil Hellmuth, Jeremy Ausmus, Ben Yu and Brian Rast. But none of them could stop the running Hastings in the hunt for their sixth bracelet, for which he also won $292,146.
Zdroj: Wsop.com, CardPlayer.com, PokerStrategy.com
