WSOP Event 1 Winner and Other Tournament Updates

Sean Drake - Event #1 winner

Event #1:  Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em

Buy-in: $500
Prizepool:  $382 500
Entries:  850

First place money:  $82 292

Jason Baker from Assiniboia, Saskatchewan is the highest Canadian finisher at 2nd place.

OTHER UPDATES

Event #2:  Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship (256 max)

We are down to 4 players in this one;

Jake Cody

Gus Hansen

Eric Froehlich

Yevgeniy Timoshenko

Event #3:  Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

77 players out of 925 still in.

The leader is Guillaume Rivet, a Canadian from Quebec.  Noteables near the top at the last break are Humberto Brenes (8th), Jimmy Fricke (15th), Erik Seidel (23rd), Dario Alioto (31st).

Event #4:  No-Limit Hold'em

This is a $5 000 buy in event that started with 865 players.  With 530 players still in, Maria Ho leads the pack with lots of names in the top 30 - Victor Ramdin, Matt Affleck, Isaav Haxton, David Benamine, David Williams, Nick Shulman, Kathy Leibert, David Baker and Carlos Mortenson.

WSOP Rematches

This is a very cool event where famous rematches from past WSOP tournaments will be played.  The first pitted Johnny Chan against Phil Hellmuth.  In the 1989 Main Event Phil Hellmuth took it down but today Johnny Chan had his revenge.

The second match was supposed to again feature Johnny Chan but this time against Erik Seidel.  Unfortunately this match was not played due to Seidel's survival in Event #3.

In the last grudge match, Chris Moneymaker was up against Sammy Farha.  Moneymaker won the first one and Sammy won the second.  The third match is underway and Sammy has a 2 to 1 chip advantage.

Event #5:  Seven Card Stud

This event is now underway as well.