The last World Poker Tour stop of the
decade is this month, and appropriately enough, it is not only being
held in the gambling capital of the world, Las Vegas, Nevada, but is
also the tournament named after the undisputed godfather of the game,
Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson.
The event has only one starting day,
however, players can buy-in for the first eight 90 minute levels, making
it conceivable for players to miss the entire first day of play and
still enter the event on the second (though fairly short stacked). This
relatively new way to start a tournament was tried for the first time
(on a large scale) at the WPT Festa al Lago back in October and was
apparently successful enough to be done again, during one of the
Bellagio’s most prestigious events of the year.
The Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World
Poker Classic always brings out the absolute best, and quite often a few
of these pros make it to the big money found only at the final table.
Past final table finishers since the tourney’s conception include Ryan
Daut, Joe Hachem, Eugene Katchalov, David “DevilFish” Ulliott, Daniel
Negreanu, Patrik Antonius, J.J. Liu, Darrell Dicken, Phil “The
Unabomber” Laak, Jennifer Harman and of course, Doyle Brunson.
Last year’s Classic attracted 497
entrants and had a total prize pool worth over $7 million. First prize
in the event paid $1,538,730 and was taken down by 2008 “November Niner”
David “Chino” Rheem, after he outlasted a tough final table that
included Amnon Filippi, Hoyt Corkins and PokerRoad’s own Steve Sung.
The results from the final table of
the 2008 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic were as follows:
| 1. |
David "Chino"
Rheem |
$1,538,730 |
|
| 2. |
Justin Young |
$936,760 |
|
| 3. |
Evan McNiff |
$540,440 |
|
| 4. |
Steve Sung |
$396,206 |
|
| 5. |
Amnon Filippi |
$288,235 |
|
| 6. |
Hoyt Corkins |
$216,175 |
|
It’s been literally months since the
whole extended PokerRoad Radio family has been together in one location,
but an event like this is almost certainly able to bring them all out,
and with Amanda, Court, Jimmy, Gavin, Joe, Devo, Stapes and all the
other PokerRoad crazies in the same town at the same time, the next
series of PokerRoad Radio episodes are clearly not ones to be missed.
Stick with PokerRoad.com, December
14th-19th, for podcasts, news, videos, blogs, tweets and much more
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