WSOPE Event 2 Down to Final Five
The WSOPE Event Number 2 was a £2,500 buy-in Half Pot-Limit Hold’em/Half Pot-Limit Omaha game that drew 158 entries that created a prize-pool of £395,000 with the champion eventually claiming £104,677 from the pot.
A total of 18 places would be paid and we are down to a final table of 5 remaining players. The total chips in play is 1,185,000, which creates an average chip stack of 237,000. When they restart the event the blinds will be at 3,000/6,000. Poker Pro Howard Lederer was among the fray but fell short coming in 9th.
Following are five for the final table and their residence.
Men “the Master” Nguyen Bell Gardens, CA USA
Mats Gavatin Stockholm, Sweden
Robin Keston London, UK
Richard Gryko Essex, UK
Erik Cajelias Montreal, QE Canada
In-the-Money Finishers
1st TBD £104,67
7 2nd TBD 64,705
3rd TBD 47,858
4th TBD 35,412
5th TBD 26,619
6th Chris Bjorin London, UK 20,106
7th Hoyt Corkins Las Vegas, NV 15,302
8th Ian Frazer London, UK 11,732
9th Howard Lederer Las Vegas, NV 9,117
10th Nikolay Evdakov Moscow, Russia 7,643
11th Dino Brivati London, UK 7,643
12th Michael Abecassis Paris, France 7,643
13th Allie Prescott Memphis, TN 6,521
14th Tristan Clemencon London, UK 6,521
15th Harri Suni Helsinki, Finland 6,521
16th Brian Johnson London, UK 5,660
17th Vitaly Lunkin Moscow, Russia 5,660
18th Sampo Lopponen Bangkok, Thailand 5,600
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