WSOP 2008 is up and running
June 2, 2008
After all the buildup, the 2008 World Series of Poker finally got underway at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas with the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em Championship.
After three grueling days and a star-studded final table, it was former basketball player Nenad Medic who walked away with the first of the summer’s bracelets.
“It was a tough field,” he admitted. “The whole tournament, all the way to the final table. I always had a decent stack. The ace-king versus kings - I didn’t feel too good about that - but it worked out.”
Three hundred and fifty two players had originally entered the tournament which had made for a huge prize pool of $3,308,800 - a world record for a pot-limit hold’em event.
So it was fitting that when the dust had settled, the final table contained some of the biggest names in pot-limit poker. Andy Bloch, Kathy Liebert, Amit Makhika and Mike Sexton joined Chris Bell, Mike Sowers, Patrik Antonius and Phil ‘The Unabomber’ Phil Laak to contest the WSOP’s first event.
It was Medic who was to pick up his first WSOP bracelet though and a cheque for $794,112, beating fellow Full Tilt Professional Andy Bloch into second place.
Did he feel bad about that at all?
“Not at all” he said with a wry grin on his face.
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