Only 27 left at WSOP Main Event

August 7, 2007

At the end of the day, online gambling news article readers are reading that there are not many well-known players left at he World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. The 2006 World Series of Poker has whittled down to less than 30 players and we are left wondering what happened to several of the big names in poker. With only three more days of game play, online casinos fans are chomping at the bit looking for news about this event.

Late tonight, we are learning that only 2 former WSOP gold bracelet champs are still among the twenty seven poker players left in the event. One of them won 4 bracelets before he even turned 30 years old. That would be Allen Cunningham. He is sitting in 13th place and has stacks of chips in front of him totaling $2.65 million. He may be holding nearly $1 million in chip less than average players are at this time, but we are watching this guy with intensity.

Last year, he won the Player of the Year award at the same event. He won a bracelet this year already and is looking for another Player of the Year award at least. We are also watching a newer player on the block Jeff Madsen for this award this year.

The leader of the pack at this time is Jamie Gold. This skilled player has a massive collection of $13 million chips to his name right now. This is a poker player we believe will be seated at the final table.  

Today was a WSOP day of elimination for several well known players. Among the players that took a beating to get knocked out of the event today were Cong Do and Humberto Brenes. Brenes made a final table appearance back in 1988. The other 44 players today have never seen a final table at this event. So it is safe to say that the big names are not what we will see this year at the final table. For those of you online gambling fans who are not familiar with Cong Do, he is mostly regarded as a cash player. As far as his WSOP experience goes, he has sat at 2 final tables and has 6 cashes from playing in WSOP events.

The chip leader who looks very comfortable is moving forward with his incredible chip lead by eliminating any of his challengers with his stacks to back him. At the start of today, he had about $7 million in chips. Can you imagine a day where you nearly double your earnings at the table? He almost did it. Erik Friberg is in 2^nd place and has nearly $7.74 million to his name.

Some of the players that our online casino news readers may recognize that are still in the running are Jeffrey Lisandro, who is in 8^th place. Prahlad Friedman is in 16^th place. Some of you may remember him from winning a bracelet at the 2003 Pot-limit Hold'em event. Jeffrey Lisandro has 6 WSOP final tables under his belt, so he knows how to play and if his cards hold true, we may very well see him at the final table of this event this year. Other than that Prahlad Friedman and Allen Cunningham are the only others still in the game that have WSOP bracelets.

This is not what many of us online gambling enthusiasts would have imagined to be happening thus far, but there is plenty of action left to go. Remember, anyone can win this event and the last 27 players are a testament to this. 

Tomorrow, the event will heat back up and game play will be under way at noon in Vegas. As far as money goes, all of the players remaining are guaranteed at least $494,797. This is some serious cash folks. The following ratings have the estimated 2006 Main Event cash value next to them. Take a look: Players 27-19 will earn the $494,797 we just told you about. Players 18, 17 and 16w ill take home $659,000 each. WSOP Main Event players 15, 14 and 13 will make just under a million dollars each and win $907,000 each. Poker players 12, 11 and 10 will earn an impressive $1.15 million each. The person who comes in 9^th gets $1.56 million. Number 8 will win $1.98 million while number 7 will earn over 2 million and take home $2.39 million. The 6^th place player will earn nearly 3 million and take home a check for $2.8 million. Player 5 gets $3.21 million and player 4 will get $3.62 million. With the last three players at the table we are looking at them to win no less than $4 million. The 3^rd place player in this year’s event will win $4.12 million while 2^nd reels in $6.1 million. As we have been saying – this year is a record breaker and the last person standing gets a massive12 million bucks!

We wish all the remaining poker players the best of luck and to our online gambling fans out there – stay tuned.

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