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2011 World Series of Poker Day 22: Another Hellmuth Final Table

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The closest Phil Hellmuth would come to the $10,000 Stud/8 Championship bracelet
(Photo credit: WSOP.com)

Phil Hellmuth really wants to win his 12th World Series of Poker bracelet and is trying to rid himself of this four year draught. He’s only cashed twice this summer but the first was a 2nd place finish to John Juanda. Last night he found himself at his second final table within a week and another tough field.

This time around it was the $10,000 7-Card Stud/8 tournament which would put him back in the mothership facing competition in the form of David Benyamine, Ted Forrest, Joe Tehan, and 2010 November Niner John Racener. Unlike his confident stature during the $10,000 Deuce-to-Seven final table, Hellmuth seemed to be out of sorts for long stretches of time. Those in attendance were also witness to a classic “Poker Brat” rant against Racener for a play he eventually admitted was proper.

Three handed play lasted for nearly 3 hours until Racener finally succumbed but Hellmuth was unable to make up the 3-1 chip deficit, losing out to new bracelet winner Eric Rodawig just a few minutes before WSOP staff would have ended play for the evening.

Hellmuth will be back at it again in the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship once again trying to pick up bracelet number 12 and shoot down those who say he can no longer win.

Pot Limit Omaha always brings out the gamblers, through in a shorthanded format and they’ll flock to the tables. 507 players put down the $5,000 buyin and only 20% of the field would survive the day. 104 players return for Day 2 with three interesting names leading the pack with Vanessa Selbst, Erick Lindgren, and Shaun Deeb. The field will only need to crush the dreams of 50 plus players to make the money and hopefully sure up the final table.

1 – Vanessa Selbst – 250,300
2 – Erick Lindgren – 208,700
3 – Shaun Deeb – 194,800
4 – Vincent Van Der Fluit – 194,500
5 – Michael “Timex” McDonald – 181,800
6 – Jamie Rosen – 157,200
7 – Greg Brooks – 147,000
8 – Jesper Hougaard – 142,800
9 – John Kabbaj – 138,800
10 – Christopher DeMaci – 137,700

Other Notables: Peter Jetten (134,000), Joseph Cheong (120,700), Brian Rast (105,500), Praz Bansi (93,600), Layne Flack (93,500), Will Failla (91,5000), Jason Senti (89,700), Josh Arieh (85,000), Tom Dwan (81,300), Isaac Baron (76,100), Jeffrey Lisandro (62,800), Matt Affleck (62,400), David Chiu (58,700)

Remember to keep an eye out on our @FullTiltPoker twitter and Facebook page for updates during the day. The Fantasy WSOP contest is also up and running for non-US players, get in the game and challenge your favorite pros.

David Benyamine and Cyndy Violette play out a hand during the $10,000 Stud/8 Championship

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2010 World Series of Poker: Week Three in Pictures

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It was an oddly quiet week in the Rio this week with a few rare day with only one new event and some without a final table. That all changed as the week closed out when we found ourselves with 6 or 7 tournaments running at the same time. Richard Ashby became the second Full Tilt pro to win a bracelet at the 2010 WSOP and can be seen above collecting it from Tournament Director Jack Effel.

There was the always present controversy surrounding the annual Ladies Event but that didn’t stop them from coming in with a huge field. There were a few $10,000 Championship events which drew small, strong fields for the battle and big prizepool. During the Limit Hold’em Championship we had a few pros who were sweating the action during the Celtics/Lakers NBA Championship game, certainly with big money on the line. Mike Matusow is also pictured below sweating a prop bet with David Benyamine concerning the number of entrants.

After the jump you can find the rest of Heather B’s pictures from Week 3 at the 2010 World Series of Poker including a few new shots of the latest Perry Friedman “Parade of Hats”.

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2009 World Series of Poker – Week 3 in Pictures

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It was another great week for Team Full Tilt. Final tables were populated with players patched up in FTP gear and make a lot of noise. Three bracelets would be brought into the fold by Phil Ivey, Nick Schulman and Greg “FBT” Mueller. If the rest of the poker world wants to catch up, they better start working hard.

It’s Friday so that means it’s time for the Week in Pictures. These are just some of the collection that did not make any posts during the week but are worthy of your time

View of the final table of Event #27 Pot Limit Omaha/8. Three Full Tilt members were present but Roland De Wolfe would defeat Omaha-guru Scott Clements for the title.

$Amanda \"Mandy B\" Baker at the 2009 World Series of Poker$