2007 June 22 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Event #32, $2,000 Seven Card Stud Event, returned on Thursday for an unexpected third day of play. With ESPN cameras at the final table, the last eight players began action at 1pm. Jeffrey Lisandro and Daniel Negreanu held down the…

Event #36, $5,000 Omaha High/Low Split Event #36, began Thursday afternoon with a smaller field heavy on high-stakes players and Omaha specialists. Although small in comparison to the No Limit tournaments, there were plenty of…

Thursday was among the busiest days of action yet at the 2007 WSOP, with six different events seeing action — including the awarding of two bracelets — and crowds so huge that tables were set up in a hallway and the later-starting…

Dan ‘rekrul’ Schreiber took home his first WSOP bracelet and $425,594 after defeating Mark Muchnik 2-0 in a best of three series for the title in Event #31, Heads Up No Limit Hold ‘Em. Schreiber and Muchnik advanced to the championship…

Thursday’s long second day of play in Event #34, $3,000 Limit Hold ‘Em saw the field shrink from 110 players to the final table of nine, all vying for the bracelet and the $225,483 first prize. Top stories going into the day were Phil Hellmuth…

After a frenzied Day One that brought 293 initial buy-ins and 880 re-buys in the first levels, the pace of eliminations slowed considerably on Day Two of Event #33, $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha (w/ Rebuys), forcing an unplanned…

A sizeable field of 2,541 players overflowed both the Amazon Room and the Poker Pavilion for Thursday’s start of Event #35, $1,500 No Limit Hold ‘Em. Dustin Dirksen took a sizable Day One lead for the second time in this year’s WSOP…