Catch up on all the action

There have been some exciting matches so far at this year’s WSOP, read about Dempsey, Nguyen and Dwan to see how their campaigns are going

The second week at the WSOP has come to an end and there have been many exciting events over the past few weeks. Here is a summary of some of the action so far.
Event 9 was a $1,500 Pot Limit Hold’em event. JJ Liu was the first woman to make a final table at this year’s World Series, Unfortunately for her (but probably not for the rest of us) she failed to bring Mike Matusow closer to streaking down the Las Vegas Strip. She played hard on a short stack, but ultimately she couldn’t overcome it and went out in third place. The final two players James “Flushy” Dempsey and Steve Chanthabouasy resumed the match after the dinner break with Dempsey having a significant chip lead of more than two to one and he eventually went on to win the event.

Event 10 was the $10,000 7- Card Stud World Championship. There were seven players left in the final. At the beginning of the final day Nikolay Evdakov was the chip leader, he was fourth to start the day and fell a bit before a rush brought him back up. Brandon Adams was in a strong second place after beginning the day with the second shortest stack. However at the end of the competition it was Men Nguyen who walked away with the prize and his seventh career bracelet.

The eleventh event was the No-Limit Hold’em. The second day of play was very exciting; it saw Tom “durr” Dwan reach a second day for the first time in the 2010 WSOP. In fact Dwan has had a very strong following at this year’s WSOP, he is one of the most talented newcomers to the poker scene and there is added excitement to his games as he has a large amount of bets with fellow players about whether he will win a bracelet or not. In fact, he is on record as saying that if he does win a bracelet it would mean that he will be cashing in on over $2 million worth of bets. His chip stack was high at the end of the second day and was sitting high up among the chip leaders, his aggressive play helped him all day as many players were betting straight into his hands. However, in the end he was beaten the following day by Simon Watt and had to settle for second place.