The Poker Lab Rat

Perhaps it’s not too much of a surprise that it took a tournament with expensive rebuys before we finally saw the “poker stars” begin to stand out.

Event #7 is a $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha event with unlimited rebuys - and this is definately the realm of players who can afford to drop $5K repeatedly in order to try and score a major chip advantage.

145 players entered, and they took up a final total of 421 rebuys - throwing an extra $2.9 million into the prize pool. It wasn’t until final add-ons were taken that the action began to tighten up - with many players appearing to be prepared to gamble a measly $5,000 worth of chips early on.

There were plenty of early eliminations though wih Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Sammy Farha and Phil Hellmuth all eliminated on day one and there is plenty of quality about the final table. 

FINAL TABLE PLAYERS
Seat 1: Humberto Brenes - 275,000
Seat 2: John Juanda - 220,000
Seat 3: Larry Jonsson - 900,000
Seat 4: Minh Ly - 240,000
Seat 5: Burt Boutin - 460,000
Seat 6: Rob Keston - 335,000
Seat 7: Sirous Jamshieli - 865,000
Seat 8: Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott - 1,300,000
Seat 9: Erik Cajelais - 1,075,000

There is still penty to play for with 9th place “only” taking home $57,000 while the winner will tak home a tasty $825,000 prize.

UK pro Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott will start as chipleader with 1.3m chips … can he take out the bracelet?