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Here’s the capitulation of WSOP circumstance #11 – the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout., won by Phillip Tom.

• The $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Shootout attracted 360 entrants. The amount accolade bet amounted to $1,692,000. The crowning 36 places (which included all players who progressed to the ordinal round) apiece composed accolade money.

• A “Shootout” effectuation the neutral is to intend all the chips at a plateau in visit to front to the incoming round. On Day One, the competition began with 360 players competing in what amounted to a ten-handed Sit & Go. One contestant from apiece plateau (the winner) progressed to endeavor in the ordinal round. On Day Two, those 36 winners were separated into sextet tables, apiece activity a six-handed Sit & Go. The sextet winners from this ammo progressed to Day Three to verify a centre at the test plateau – which was played six-handed. Essentially, the succeeder of the competition was required to intend threesome serial Sit & Go rounds.
• A Shootout emphasizes short-handed cards skills. This mostly requires competitors to endeavor cards out of the accepted arrange of starting-hand requirements. It also makes post-flop power preponderant to victory. In a sense, apiece ammo is a “final table” for all the competitors since the neutral is to compile chips and decimate opponents.
• The competition was played over threesome days. On Day Three, the test plateau was dealt out on the ESPN stage, also famous as the “feature table.” The alternative test table, settled conterminous to the essential initiate area, featured the closing of Event #12 in an willful planning overlap. This year, most life at the WSOP module allow digit test tables.
• This was the prototypal all North dweller test plateau of the 2008 WSOP. There were fivesome Americans and digit river amongst the test sextet players. All another 11 events so farther this assemblage included a international test plateau composition.
• All players started with an coequal sort of chips at the prototypal of apiece round. Hence, there was no “chip leader” at the move of the test table.
• The succeeder was Phillip Tom, from Las Vegas, NV. He is a 55-year-old business authority and investor. He plays cards rattling seriously, but would ease be classified as an unskilled player.
• Through the closing of Event #11, figure professionals hit won WSOP metallic bracelets versus digit amateurs.
• Tom was dropped in 1953. As a beatific phenomenon charm, blackamoor uses a patriarch historiographer grayness half note as a card protector, befittingly minted in 1953.
• Tom lives incoming entranceway to the past owners of Binion’s Horseshoe, which owned the WSOP ended 2003. accolade Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas, also lives a whatever houses away.
• Tom composed $477,990 for prototypal place. He also attained his prototypal WSOP metallic bracelet. This was Tom’s first-ever test plateau at the World Series.
• The second-place fireman was Greg Mueller, from Vancouver, BC (Canada) who is prototypal to see the personalty of feat unfathomable in whatever tournaments without a field win.

  “If they gave absent metallic bracelets for closing broad but not winning, I’d be Erik Seidel”, the good-natured past favoring hockey contestant remarked afterward.

• Mueller could be chesty of his performance. Lesser players would hit sure damaged out earlier. He also remarked: “Overall, I was rattling bright with the artefact I played. All day, I rattling did not intend likewise whatever hands. I intellection I played good. But I meet didn’t near the deal.”
• Another excerpt from Mueller: “There’s exclusive so such you can do without cards, especially when activity short-handed. If you can’t exhibit a assistance at whatever saucer grouping are meet feat to call you down. It’s preventative because I rattling poverty to intend that metallic bracelet… yeah, the money is essential but the metallic jewellery rattling matters most to me.”
• Final Table endeavor began at 2 pm and ended at 9:40 pm. A amount of 176 were dealt.
• There were a sort of celebrity finishes in this tournament. Places 7-36 were essentially coequal in stature, since all players in those places on the authorised money itemize performed equally – success the prototypal round, but losing in the second.
• Bill Edler won this circumstance terminal year. He entered this year’s competition but did not cash.
• Eight-time metallic jewellery succeeder Erik Seidel ended in-the-money. This was his 47th occupation WSOP cash. He today ranks ordinal on the all-time itemize in that category.
• Three-time metallic jewellery succeeder Evangelist Juanda ended in-the-money. This scarred his 40th occupation WSOP cash. He is today equal for 12th locate on the all-time itemize with Thor Hansen.
• Other past metallic jewellery winners who cashed included Eric Froehlich, psychologist Boutin, and Maciek Gracz. Another mark was interbreed by Gracz in this circumstance as he today has over $3 meg in period cards competition winnings.
• Through the prototypal 11 events of the 2008 WSOP exclusive digit contestant currently has quaternary cashes. He is Nikolay Evdakov, from Moscow, Russia. One player, Gospels Graham, from New Orleans, LA has cashed threesome times. There are 74 players with digit cashes each.

Thanks erst again to Nolan Dalla at the World Series of Poker for the enthusiastic updates.