2007년 6월 4일 월요일

Update #1: Asian Winners & Leaders in the 2007 38th Annual World Series of Poker

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Event 1 - World Championship $5000 buy-in Mixed Hold'em (Limit/No-Limit) 06/03/2007
10th place - Phuong Tran OF SAN GABRIEL, CA - out of 451 players raking in $22,257 [COMPLETE]

Event #2 was a $500 buy-in Casino Employees only tourney, but the limitation didn't limit Asians from shining. Eugene Lang took the highest placing for an Asian @ 3rd taking home $42k, Chris Chau immediately after in 4th earning him $28k and the next highest Asian Loc Hoang in 11th raking him $43-hundred bucks. [COMPLETE]

Edward Lee placed 19th in the 2998 player deep $1500 buy-in Event #3 No-Limit Holdem earning him $23,735 & the highest Asian to place. David Pham was in 6th place yesterday, but couldn't hold on and placed 64th only taking home $9412. Other notables: Sanjeer "Bobby" Bais in (33rd), Scott Ya (42nd), Long Nguyen (45th), Gevin Diep (57th), David Pham (64th), Benny Cho (67th), Nan Wang (68th), Richie Wong (77th), and Maria Ho (97th). [COMPLETE] Click here for more.

Event #4 was a 780 player $1500 Pot Limit Hold-em event where Asians could only reach the 22nd placing with Tommy Le busting out before the final table. Good work Tommy! [COMPLETE] Click here for more.

In the 327 player $2500 buy-in Omaha/Seven Card Stud/Low 8/OB event (Event #5), John Phan has a chance to take the title having 120,000 chips to his name with only 13 players left. Scotty Nguyen is also in the mix with a smaller stack of 35k chips. Tianxiong Fu also has a chance at 55k chips. John, Scotty, and Tianxiong will be going against very popular and well known players Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Chris Bell, Josh Arieh, David Benyamine and Annie Duke. Gary Do placed #14, a $9401 cash, Lua Tran #19 for a $7145 cash and Yueqi "Rich" Zu placed 27th. Tough, rough, tough field...included famous pros & veterans: Mickey Seagle, Cyndy Violette, Shahram "Shawn" Sheikhan, Robert Mizrachi, Greg Raymer, Andrew Black, Chau Giang, Hasan Habib, Jennifer Harman, Mike Matusow, "Miami" John Cernuto, Jason Strasser, Jeffrey Lisandro, Jeffrey Lisandro, Paul Darden Jr., Amir Vahedi, Can Kim Hua, Sam Grizzle, Alfredo "Toto" Leonidas, Brett Jungblut, ,Kathy Liebert,,Erick Lindgren, Barry Greenstein, Kristy Gazes, David Levi,John Juanda,,Andy Bloch, ,Men Nguyen,Daniel Negreanu,,Max Pescatori, Blair Rodman,Ted Forrest,,Layne Flack, Todd Brunson,Steve Zolotow, Doyle Brunson, Ted Lawson, David Chiu, Johnny Chan, David Sklansky, Phil Ivey, Perry Friedman, Alexandra "Alex" Vuong, James Van Alstyne, Dutch Boyd, and Joanne "J.J." Liu among many other great players. [COMPLETE] CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS.

In a fast start, Brandon Wong is in 2nd place currently in the 910 person deep Event #6 $1500 Limit Hold-em event. Tam "Tommy" Hang represents in a tie for 8th place. John Phan may be potentially playing two tournaments at the same time being in 25th place here as well. [IN PROGRESS]

Johnny Chan is the highest ranking Asian in Event #7, $5000 with multiple rebuys buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha, currently in 17th place in chips. [IN PROGRESS]

The series will be running until mid July (17th) climaxing to the Internationally reknown final $10,000 buy-in World Championship No-Limit Hold-em event televised on ESPN.

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