WSOP Day 10

Event #11: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Championship saw PokerStars pro and online multi tabling beast George Lind miss out on his first WSOP bracelet. Lind is a really nice guy and has had a bad run of it at the WSOP until now. Hopefully he gets to finish one place higher later this summer. The difference between first and second at the WSOP is vast, almost like winning a silver medal at the Olympics, you're never going to be quite happy. Viacheslav Zhukov was the man that took the bracelet and all the glory.


Event #12: $1,500 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold'em also awarded a bracelet on Day 10 and David Diaz was the man on the receiving end with a cool $352,808 to go with it.


Event #16: $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship was always going to be a stacked field but the final 9 has a scary name among it:


Richard Ashby
Steve Sung
Hasan Habib
Greg Raymer
Phil Hellmuth
Nick Schulman
John Juanda
David Baker
Joe Cassidy

That's right, Helmulth as a really good shot at his 12th bracelet in what would be, without question, one of the biggest stories of the WSOP. I'm not sure what his 2-7 Draw Lowball game is like (all of Helmuth's 11 bracelets are in Hold'em) but it's good enough to make his way through a field stacked with pros, even if they weren't necessarily that familiar with the game.

Play restarts tomorrow and I think any of the field winning make a nice story. Bakes won the event last year, Helmuth and Raymer don't need any explanation and Ashby has already made a final table this WSOP.

I'm devastated that Johnny Chan busted late in day 2 as I'd love nothing more than to see him beat Helmuth heads up for a bracelet. That would make my WSOP for sure.

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