WSOP Day 7 & 8 - The Brits Are Here

As a fellow Brit I was pleased to see Matt Perrins take down Event #9: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball after Jake Cody won the $25k HU event a few days ago.

Much has been made of the fact that he didn't know how to play the game until watching a few clips on YouTube a couple of days before the event. But here's the thing, Matt is clealry a good poker player. The rules of the game in nealry all forms are fairly easy to pick up. It's the aggression, reads, the thinking part of poker that takes time to learn and if you can do that for Hold'em, PLO or any other game there's a good chance you can adapt those skills to another game. Not everyone can do it of course and the better you are at adapting and poker in general the better you'll be at making the transition to another game.

There would have been some mistakes along the way, and almost certainly some run good involved, but it's still a remarkable achievement. The Brits have already made a mark on the WSOP this year after a great WSOP in 2010, let's hope we can take a few more bracelets down by the time the main event rolls around in July...

We're down to 3 in Event #8: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em with another well known online pro Jon Turner up against two more Brits: Sadan Turker and Sean Getzwiller for the bracelet. Turker carries a strong chip lead into the final day with nealry 8m against Getzwiller on 3m and Turner on 1.7m. Still plenty to play for as Turner has just over 20 BB's.

The next of the 'rebuy chip' events started yesterday with Event #12: $1,500 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em underway with 1,340 players starting. 165 made day two as the chips flew after most players decided to use all three bullets from the start. The chip leader finished the day on 124k - in the space of 10 levels that's some serious run hot. Randy 'Nanonoko' Lew posted a good blog on his thoughts on the event here.

Event #11: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship is in the money with 22 players remaining. Jason Mercier went deep but only managed a min-cash after making the money with less than 2 BB's. Notables returning tomorrow to battle it out for the bracelet and $465k include Shaun Deeb, Mike Sexton and the short stacked Josh Arieh.

David Vamplew continues his great run going into day 3 of Event #10: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed - 15 players return today to play for the bracelet.

Event #13: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout and Event #14: $3,000 Limit Hold'em get uderway later today.

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