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Phil Hellmuth got within sniffing distance of a 12th WSOP bracelet in the $1500 HORSE event, taking 3rd place behind James Schaaf and Tommy Hang

WSOP Event 51 - $1500 HORSE - 803 entrants
1 $ 256,412 James Schaaf  
2 $ 158,933 Tommy Hang  
3 $ 93,168 Phil Hellmuth  
4 $ 68,505 Esther Rossi  
5 $ 54,804 Jason Dollinger  
6 $ 42,966 Sam Silverman  
7 $ 32,992 Victor Ramdin
8 $ 27,511 Matt Grapenthien  
9 $ 22,031 Edward Brogdon  
10 $ 22,031 Lonnie Heimowitz  
11 $ 16,551 Steven Diano  
12 $ 16,551 Phillip Penn Sr.  
13 $ 11,070 Randy Holland  
14 $ 11,070 Arash Ghaneian  
15 $ 8,878 Keith Sexton 
16 $ 8,878 Art Young

The Mizrachi brothers are having a solid series, with Michael picking up 3rd and $330K in the PLO Championship Event

WSOP Event 50 - $10,000 PLO - 381 entrants
1 $ 859,549 Marty Smyth  
2 $ 528,256 Peter Jetten  
3 $ 331,279 Michael Mizrachi  
4 $ 268,605  Billy Argyros
5 $ 214,884 Richard Harroch  
6 $ 170,116 Kido Pham  
7 $ 134,302 Tom Hanlon  
8 $ 107,442 Brandon Moran  
9 $ 80,581 Greg Hurst  
10 $ 53,721 David Benefield  
11 $ 53,721 Shawn Buchanan  
12 $ 53,721 Josh Arieh  
13 $ 44,767 Jimmy Tran  
14 $ 44,767 Julian Powell
15 $ 44,767 Kenneth Matsson  
16 $ 35,814 Guillaume Patry  
17 $ 35,814 Eddy Scharf  
18 $ 35,814 Rino Mathis

JC Tran won his much anticipated first WSOP bracelet in this event, outlasting a huge field of 2718 players

WSOP Event 49 - $1500 NLHE

1 $ 631,170 JC Tran  
2 $ 389,557 Rasmus Nielsen  
3 $ 278,255 John Conroy  
4 $ 233,734 Peter Nguyen  
5 $ 191,068 Joe Pelton  
6 $ 150,257 Chad Siu  
7 $ 113,157 Jesper Hoog  
8 $ 85,331 Robert Kalb  
9 $ 58,248 Christoph Kohnen  
10 $ 36,729 Anderson Silva  
11 $ 36,729 Kevin Nathan  
12 $ 36,729 Jason Moungey  
13 $ 29,309 Brett Switzer  
14 $ 29,309 Parviz Razavian  
15 $ 29,309 Steve Pierce  
16 $ 29,309 Paul Kim  
17 $ 21,889 Karen Manfrede  
18 $ 21,889 Dominik Degott

Successful online tournament player CrazyMarco picked up a near half million score in this one, with an excellent 2nd place against the experienced Alexandre Gomes

WSOP Event 48 - $2000 NL Holdem - 2317 entrants
1 $ 770,540 Alexandre Gomes  
2 $ 491,273 Marco Johnson  
3 $ 326,812 Ryan D’Angelo  
4 $ 274,101 Robert Brewer  
5 $ 223,497 Alan Cutler  
6 $ 177,111 Kirill Gerasimov  
7 $ 134,942 Sverre Sundbo  
8 $ 103,315 Gabe Costner  
9 $ 71,687 Dan Rome  
10 $ 46,386 Sergey Rybachenko  
11 $ 46,386 Eddie Kinzler  
12 $ 46,386 Arne Mews  
13 $ 35,843 Eric Crain  
14 $ 35,843 Kenneth Shelton  
15 $ 35,843 Denys Drobyna  
16 $ 25,301 Dan Martin  
17 $ 25,301 Darren Nelson  
18 $ 25,301 Sunny Chattha

A very nice field of 544 entrants turned out for the 7-Card Stud Hi-Lo event.  David Sklansky had a final table finish, with an eight place.

WSOP Event 47 - $1500 7-card stud hi/lo - 544 entrants
1 $ 183,368 Ryan Hughes  
2 $ 113,240 Ron Long  
3 $ 68,686 Thomas Hunt  
4 $ 50,122 Alessio Isaia  
5 $ 39,355 Jonas Klausen  
6 $ 30,444 Tim D’Alessandro  
7 $ 23,019 Joshua Feldman  
8 $ 19,306 David Sklansky  
9 $ 15,593 James Richburg  
10 $ 15,593 Margaret Macre  
11 $ 11,880 Daniel Nicewander  
12 $ 11,880 David Brooker  
13 $ 8,168 Mike Hefer  
14 $ 8,168 Hoang Ta  
15 $ 6,237 Mickey Seagle  
16 $ 6,237 Vince Burgio  
17 $ 4,752 Men Nguyen  
18 $ 4,752 Larry Kozlove

 Davidi Kitai  went close to a second bracelet in this one, but in the end Joe Commisso triumphed for one of the biggest financial scores of the whole series, taking down a whopping $911,855

WSOP Event 46 - $5000 NLHE Six-handed - 805 entrants
1 $ 911,855 Joe Commisso  
2 $ 570,551 Richard Lyndaker  
3 $ 368,891 Edward Ochana  
4 $ 245,927 Sam Trickett  
5 $ 174,041 Tom Lutz  
6 $ 120,693 Davidi Kitai  
7 $ 82,858 Will Failla  
8 $ 82,858 Jimmy Wong  
9 $ 63,941 Steve Ware  
10 $ 63,941 Bryan Pope  
11 $ 45,023 Alex Jacob  
12 $ 45,023 Leo Kam  
13 $ 31,781 Jesper Petersen  
14 $ 31,781 Jason Gray  
15 $ 31,781 Paul Foltyn  
16 $ 31,781 Bertrand Grospellier 
17 $ 31,781 Martin Wiklund  
18 $ 31,781 JJ Liu

Scotty Nguyen beat a very impressive field of big name pros to win the prestigious $50K HORSE event

WSOP Event 45 - $50K HORSE - 148 entrants
1 $ 1,989,120 Scotty Nguyen  
2 $ 1,243,200 Michael DeMichele  
3 $ 781,440 Erick Lindgren 
4 $ 568,320 Matt Glantz  
5 $ 444,000 Lyle Berman  
6 $ 355,200 Barry Greenstein 
7 $ 284,160 Huck Seed 
8 $ 230,880 Patrick Bueno  
9 $ 177,600 Ralph Perry  
10 $ 177,600 Raymond Davis  
11 $ 159,840 David Bach  
12 $ 159,840 Phil Ivey 
13 $ 142,080 Daniel Negreanu
14 $ 142,080 Joseph Michael  
15 $ 124,320 Andy Bloch 
16 $ 124,320 Doyle Brunson

$700,000 one dollar bills is one hell of a lot of green, and best wishes to Max Greenwood in spending it, after he finished the top of the tree in the WSOP $1000 rebuy event.

WSOP Event 44 - $1000 NLHE w/rebuys - 879 entrants
1 $ 693,444 Max Greenwood  
2 $ 445,523 Rene Mouritsen  
3 $ 267,314 Albert Iversen  
4 $ 223,572 Scott Freeman  
5 $ 183,069 Jesse Chinni  
6 $ 144,187 Aliaksandr Dzianisau  
7 $ 111,786 Curtis Kohlberg  
8 $ 87,484 Phung Ngo  
9 $ 63,183 Alex Bolotin  
10 $ 39,854 Jamie Rosen  
11 $ 39,854 Ivan Demidov  
12 $ 39,854 Peter Feldman
13 $ 31,753 Eric Froehlich 
14 $ 31,753 Gioi Luong  
15 $ 31,753 Edward Brogdon  
16 $ 23,653 Joe Tehan  
17 $ 23,653 Tom Love  
18 $ 23,653 Bob Lauria

Erik Seidel went close in this one, taking a 4th place, with Martin Klaser the eventual winner

WSOP Event 43 - $1500 PL Omaha Hi-Lo - 720 entrants
1 $ 216,249 Martin Klaser  
2 $ 137,985 Casey Kastle  
3 $ 83,538 Michael Fetter  
4 $ 68,304 Erik Seidel
5 $ 56,019 Jon Maren  
6 $ 44,226 Chad Burum  
7 $ 34,389 Joseph Haddad  
8 $ 27,027 Larry Wright  
9 $ 19,656 Tom Chambers  
10 $ 12,285 Daniel Klein  
11 $ 12,285 Derek Kadota  
12 $ 12,285 Gary Hutzler  
13 $ 9,828 Mark Gallo  
14 $ 9,828 Doug Mandeville  
15 $ 9,828 Jim Geary  
16 $ 7,371 James Griffith  
17 $ 7,371 Mikhail Ustinov  
18 $ 7,371 Ian Graham

Quite a few old timers still enjoying a game of cards or two.  This years seniors event picked up a huge field of 2218 entrants.

Event 42 - $1000 Seniors NL Holdem

1 $ 368,832 Dan Lacourse  
2 $ 235,141 Dale Eberle  
3 $ 156,424 Marc Fluss  
4 $ 131,194 Jerry Yamachika  
5 $ 106,974 Fred Berger  
6 $ 84,771 Charles Wood  
7 $ 64,588 Peter Silverstein  
8 $ 49,450 Ed Clark  
9 $ 34,312 Martyn Wilson  
10 $ 22,202 Ronald Puleo  
11 $ 22,202 Mike Allis  
12 $ 22,202 Chris Platt  
13 $ 17,156 Eddie Villareal  
14 $ 17,156 Mick Bentrup  
15 $ 17,156 James Duke  
16 $ 12,110 Randy Hudson  
17 $ 12,110 John Bonar  
18 $ 12,110 Gary Dishongh