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Vitaly Lunkin and Erik Seidel both made the $50k HORSE final table but came up short
It’s all over but the big one. There will be no more preliminary events to witness, no more multiple tournaments across several rooms. Today the Amazon Room takes a break to prepare for the big daddy Main Event. There are a few mega-satellites going on throughout the room and we’ll get to watch the big charity Ante Up for Africa event. A low stress day before the halls of the Rio are rammed full of grinders looking for the biggest prize in poker.
Today we will award the final preliminary event bracelet in the $5,000 6-max No Limit Hold’em tournament with Full Tilt pros Peter “Nordberg” Feldman and Matt Hawrilenko near the top of the board for a bracelet. They start the day with 16 players remaining and playing down to the winner.
It’s more than 90 minutes before kicking off the celeb-heavy Ante Up for Africa tournament and fans have already begun loading up on the rail. Plenty of chances for them to get an up close view of their favorite poker player, movie star, rock star. Anyone can drop $5,000 and get into the event, one of the few being broadcast by ESPN this year. Media access is severely restricted for this tournament so I’ll give it a cursory glance.
In news from the $50,000 HORSE World Championship, Full Tilt walked in with 4 of the remaining 8 seats but unable to bring home another bracelet and that big fancy trophy. It turned out to be one of the longest final tables in World Series of Poker history coming in at just under 19 hours. The only other final table which ran longer was the 2009 World Series of Poker-Europe Main Event won by John Juanda in 19 hours 9 minutes. Vitaly Lunkin went the furthest for Team Full Tilt with a 4th place finish. Lunkin final tabled the two biggest buyins of the year after winning the $40,000 No Limit Hold’em Anniversary tournament.
For players coming into town for their shot at the Main Event, they are running Mega-satellites between now and July 5th at 10am and 4pm with a $550 buyin. They are giving away nearly 10 seats per satellite and the play appears to mighty soft in relation to the prize.
Everyone is taking a little break today, gathering themselves for the two week Main Event storm where we’ll see I huge jump in participation and attendance, the rail will be nearly impossible to navigate. If you were thinking of making the trip out here, now is the time to get it done.
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