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Wsop $1 500 No Limit Hold 'em Pays Out Bigtime
Record entry and a seriously big winner's check for
someone
World Series of Poker action continued to dominate the weekend,
with many poker pros signing up for different events, in many cases
going from an elimination in one event such as the $5 000 Mixed
Hold 'Em to the $1 500 buy-in No Limit Hold 'Em, which attracted
a record field of 2 998 players - many of them top-ranking pros
or experienced online tournament players. Last year's entry for
the event boasted a starting field 222 smaller.
Transferring their action to the $1 500 event after being eliminated
in the Mixed Hold 'Em were names such as J.J. Lieu, Roland De Wolfe,
Allen Cunningham, Layne Flack, Kathy Liebert and Daniel Negreanu.
Better known in Internet competitions were Isaac Haxton, who still
awaits the Neteller release of his big PokerStar.com Caribbean Poker
Adventure winnings earlier this year, Shane "Shaniac"
Schleger, Darrell "Gigabet" Dicken, Justin "ZeeJustin"
Bonomo and Sorrel "Imper1um" Mizzi.
The prize-pool is certainly attractive at $4 092 270, ensuring
a cash bubble reaching all the way down to 308 players and that
gigantic winner's paycheck of over $700 000.
As we went to press play was at level 19 with blinds of $15 000/$30
000 and 17 players still duking it out on 2 remaining tables.
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