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WSOP Event 29 - $3000 NL Holdem  - 716 entrants
1 $ 434,789 John Phan  
2 $ 277,452 Johnny Neckar  
3 $ 167,973 Matt Vengrin  
4 $ 137,343 Alex Bolotin  
5 $ 112,641 David Singer
6 $ 88,927 Stewart Newman  
7 $ 69,165 Thuyen Doan  
8 $ 54,344 Tony Dunst  
9 $ 39,523 Sebastian Segovia  
10 $ 24,702 Alex Zaslavsky  
11 $ 24,702 Linda Lee  
12 $ 24,702 Lee Childs  
13 $ 19,761 Matt Stout  
14 $ 19,761 Dustin Pattinson  
15 $ 19,761 Vincent Peraino  
16 $ 14,821 Don Mullis  
17 $ 14,821 Ryan Young  
18 $ 14,821 Richard Tatalovich

David Singer, following his bracelet in Event 3, went close again in this one.  In the end he finsihed a very commendable 5th.

WSOP Event 28 - $5000 PLO w/rebuys - 152 entrants
1 $ 817,781 Phil Galfond   (OMGClayAiken online)
2 $ 493,748 Adam Hourani 
3 $ 316,307 David Benyamine
4 $ 246,874 Johnny Chan  
5 $ 192,870  Kirill Gerasimov  
6 $ 154,296 John Juanda
7 $ 123,437 Daniel Negreanu
8 $ 100,292 Phil Hellmuth
9 $ 84,863 Brian Rast  
10 $ 69,433 Chris Ferguson 
11 $ 69,433 Alexander Kostritsyn  
12 $ 69,433 Evan Sofer  
13 $ 61,718 Jamie Pickering  
14 $ 61,718 Nikolay Evdakov  
15 $ 61,718 Emmanuel Sebag  
16 $ 54,003 David Williams
17 $ 54,003 Ted Lawson  
18 $ 54,003 Eli Elezra

Great final table on this one with Negreanu, Hellmuth, Juanda, Chan, and Benyamine all present

WSOP Event 27 - $1500 No Limit Holdem - 2706 entrants
1 $ 628,417 Vitaly Lunkin  
2 $ 387,837 Brett Kimes  
3 $ 277,026 Bobby Firestone  
4 $ 232,702 Kenneth Terrell  
5 $ 190,225 Trevor Donaldson  
6 $ 149,594 Richard Alm  
7 $ 112,657 Barry Schultz  
8 $ 84,954 Robert Brown  
9 $ 57,990 Philip Yeh  
10 $ 36,567 Tony Gargano  
11 $ 36,567 Jordan Smith  
12 $ 36,567 Bashar Ramahi  
13 $ 29,180 Carl Jerome  
14 $ 29,180 Jeffrey Brown  
15 $ 29,180 Deb Blair  
16 $ 21,792 Frank Simpson  
17 $ 21,792 Deric Fitzgerald  
18 $ 21,792 Jason Duffy

An impressive 307 players turned out for this week’s Super Tuesday on PokerStars.  DonkeyWrenn took it down, but also a notable result from a player we havent seen much of for a while, Bel0wAb0ve, who had a good score in 4th

1st DonkeyWrenn $67,540
2nd akat11 $46,357
3rd strutwins $31,621
4th Bel0wAb0ve $24,560
5th renozerus $18,420
6th EDWARDHOPPER $14,429
7th da_duke1 $11,052

Ace on the River author and PokerStars pro Barry Greenstein has picked up his 3rd WSOP bracelet in the event 26 Razz event

WSOP Event 26 - $1500 Razz - 453 Entrants
1 $ 157,619 Barry Greenstein
2 $ 97,389 Chris Klodnicki  
3 $ 58,743 Chris Viox  
4 $ 43,284 Mark Tenner  
5 $ 33,081 Brandon Leeds  
6 $ 25,661 Joseph Michael  
7 $ 19,478 Archie ‘The Greek’ Karas  
8 $ 16,386 Mike Wattel  
9 $ 13,294 Frank Kassela  
10 $ 13,294 Phillip Luong  
11 $ 10,203 Stephen Ladowsky  
12 $ 10,203 Tom Schneider  
13 $ 7,111 Roland Isra  
14 $ 7,111 David Levi  
15 $ 5,256 Martin Stilling  
16 $ 5,256 John Martin  
17 $ 4,019 Ben Tang  
18 $ 4,019 George Shahrezay

Popular pro Kenny Tran picked up his first ever WSOP bracelet in the $10K Heads-up event.  He saw off 8 rounds of opponents to scope over half a million dollars and the wristwear.

WSOP Event 25 - $10,000 NLHE Heads-up - 256 entrants
1 $ 539,056 Kenny Tran
2 $ 336,896 Alec Torelli  
3 $ 108,288 Vanessa Selbst  
4 $ 108,288 Jonathan Jaffe  
5 $ 54,144 Lyle Berman  
6 $ 54,144 Brandon Adams 
7 $ 54,144 Gavin Griffin 
8 $ 54,144 Robert Mizrachi
9 $ 36,096 David Williams
10 $ 36,096 Michael McNeil  
11 $ 36,096 Roman Paradiso  
12 $ 36,096 Michael Mizrachi  
13 $ 36,096 John Patgorski  
14 $ 36,096 Emil Patel  
15 $ 36,096 Jonas Entin  
16 $ 36,096 Scott Montgomery

Another event for the pros.  The bug-eye-sunglassed Pescatori outlasted a field of 457 to take down the mixed pot limit event

WSOP Event 24 - $2500 PL Holdem/Omaha
1 $ 246,471 Max Pescatori  
2 $ 152,410 Kyle Kloeckner  
3 $ 94,599 Greg Hurst  
4 $ 76,205 Allen Cunningham
5 $ 62,015 Kyle Hegeman  
6 $ 48,876 Jonathan Depa  
7 $ 38,365 Lennart Holtkamp  
8 $ 30,482 Minh Ly  
9 $ 22,599 John-Paul Kelly  
10 $ 14,175 Dave Penly  
11 $ 14,175 David Bergerson  
12 $ 14,175 Howard Lederer
13 $ 12,088 Martel De La Chesnaye  
14 $ 12,088 Kory Mitchell  
15 $ 12,088 Dustin Sitar  
16 $ 9,460 George Rahme  
17 $ 9,460 Ryan Carey  
18 $ 9,460 Henning Granstad

Notable finish for Full Tilt Pro Allen Cunningham in 4th

It is very rare that more than one member of the same family wins a WSOP bracelet in their entire lifetime, but for the Hinkle brothers it has happened in the same year.   Adding to Grant Hinkle’s bracelet in Event 2, his brother bagged some WSOP bling in Event 23

WSOP Event 23 - $2000 NL Hold’em  - 1344 entrants
1 $ 507,563 Blair Hinkle  
2 $ 326,552 Mark Brockington  
3 $ 198,132 Daniel O’Brien  
4 $ 166,333 David Steicke  
5 $ 135,757 Dustin Dirksen  
6 $ 106,404 Chris Bjorin  
7 $ 81,944 Dominik Kulicki  
8 $ 63,598 Andrew Jeffreys  
9 $ 45,252 Stephane Tayar  
10 $ 29,108 Alessandro Dalbello  
11 $ 29,108 Nick Niergarth  
12 $ 29,108 Rick LeNoble  
13 $ 22,993 Yue Huang  
14 $ 22,993 Matthew Lagarde  
15 $ 22,993 Mike Ellis  
16 $ 16,878 Dean Schneider  
17 $ 16,878 Scott Preston  
18 $ 16,878 Corwin Cole

WSOP Event 22 - $3000 HORSE - 414 entrants
1 $ 298,253 Jens Veortmann  
2 $ 182,822 Doug Ganger  
3 $ 110,264  Marcel Luske  
4 $ 81,698 Hoyt Corkins  
5 $ 61,702 Jared Davis  
6 $ 47,990 Steve Zolotow
7 $ 36,564 Rostislav Tsodikov  
8 $ 30,851 Jennifer Harman
9 $ 25,138 Paul Zimbler  
10 $ 25,138 Blair Rodman  
11 $ 19,424 Eric Froehlich
12 $ 19,424 Todd Brunson  
13 $ 13,711 Mickey Appleman  
14 $ 13,711 Mallory Smith  
15 $ 10,283 David Levi  
16 $ 10,283 JJ Hazan  
17 $ 7,998 Farzad Rouhani  
18 $ 7,998 Tad Jurgens

Notable finish for legendary Dutch pro Marcel Luske in third

Not to be outdone, the big online players have started the fightback.  In this event, former PokerStars Sunday Million 2nd place finisher gunning4you outlasts of field 731 players

WSOP Event 21 - $5000 NLHE
1 $ 755,891 Scott Seiver (aka “gunning4you” online)
2 $ 482,372 Dave Seidman  
3 $ 292,034 Ben Sprengers  
4 $ 238,781 Jacobo Fernandez  
5 $ 195,834 Rajesh Vohra  
6 $ 154,606 Chuck Sklar  
7 $ 120,249 Anders Henriksson
8 $ 94,481 Adam Geyer  
9 $ 68,714 Scott Freeman   (SCTrojans)
10 $ 42,946 Jorge Arias  
11 $ 42,946 Michael Mizrachi  
12 $ 42,946 Jon Van Fleet  
13 $ 34,357 Rayan Nathan  
14 $ 34,357 Humberto Brenes
15 $ 34,357 Joe Monro  
16 $ 25,767 Eric Baldwin  
17 $ 25,767 Jared Okun  
18 $ 25,767 Kathy Woo