World Series of Poker Result Updates 6/17/08

Professional poker players are taking down their share of World Series of Poker titles in Las Vegas. Sometimes the WSOP has a lot of amateurs winning preliminary events but that has not been the case as much in 2008. Poker pros Daniel Negreanu, Kenny Tran, Mike Matusow, Barry Greenstein and Max Pescatori took home titles recently to join Erick Lindgren, Nenad Medic and David Singer as well known winners.

Event #25 was the $10,000 No-Limit Holdem Heads-Up Championship won by Kenny Tran. He outlasted a field of 256 players to win over a half million dollars. The finals were a best two out of three and Tran won 2-0 against Alec Torelli. The 2008 Series has definitely been dominated so far by the poker professionals.

When we left off our recap of WSOP results we had just looked at Event #14. Here the results from Events #15 through #28.

15 -- $1,000 Ladies World Championship -- Svetlana Gromenkova -- $224,702

16 -- $2,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better -- Andrew Brown -- $226,483

17 -- $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout -- Jason Young -- $335,565

18 -- $5,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball – Mike Matusow -- $537,862

19 -- $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha -- Vanessa Selbst -- $227,905

20 -- $2,000 Limit Hold'em – Daniel Negreanu -- $204,863

21 -- $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em -- Scott Seiver -- $755,891

22 -- $3,000 H.O.R.S.E -- Jens Voertmann -- $298,253

23 -- $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em -- Blair Hinkle -- $507,563

24 -- $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha – Max Pescatori -- $246,471

25 -- $$10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em -- Kenny Tran -- $539,056

26 -- $1,500 Razz – Barry Greenstein -- $158,659

27 -- $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em -- Vitaly Lunkin -- $628,417

28 -- $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha -- Phil Galfond -- $817,781

This week another 10 events will be completed including the Omaha Hi-Low Split-9 or better $10,000 event. Next week the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event begins. Other than the main event, the H.O.R.S.E. event is the premier tournament in the WSOP.