Helmuth Goes For #12 (again)

Interesting line up in the remaining field of Event #33: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship:

Eric Rodawig
David Benyamine
Mikhail Savinov
Ali Eslami
Antony Lellouche
Joe Tehan
Phil Hellmuth
Felipe Ramos
John Racener
Ted Forrest
Phil Laak
Erik Seidel
Bill Chen
Christopher George
Justin Smith
Chris Tryba
Cyndy Violette
Jon Turner

Turner, Forrest, Laak, Benyamine, Chen - the remaining field is like some kind of poker dream team. Well, almost - Helmuth in the mix again, in a non-holdem event. 168 players turned out for the $10k championship event and just 18 remain after day 2.

If he keeps playing these small field, large buy-in events I'm scared he's going to take one down eventually and we'll never hear the end of it.

The rail should get big today as people start to sweat and anti-sweat the players left in the tournament.

My money is on Erik Seidel, and it's not even close...

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