The Life of Leo
by Brett on 06.15.09, 3:25 pm
Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert came ever so close to picking up his first WSOP gold bracelet last year. Wolpert (pictured right) took third place in the $5K NLHE Shootout but felt a little empty even after adding $187,812 to his bankroll.
He has another shot at the ultimate goal today. Wolpert and seven others, including Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer, will play down to a winner in the $10K Heads Up World Championship. The final two players will duke it out in a best-of three series with the champion taking home $625,682. Here’s how the quarterfinals will play out when action gets underway at 2 p.m.:
Jamin Stokes vs. Johnny Chan
Nathan Doudney vs. Bryan Pellegrino
John Duthie vs. Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer
Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert vs. Dustin “neverwin” Woolf
The $1,500 NLHE Event #28 will resume play at 1:00 p.m. local time in the Amazon Room. Jason “JPOSU” Potter is second in chips with 27 players remaining and will have the chip leader seated to his left when he takes his seat today. Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson and Jake “TheMuffin” Solis will also be playing for the bracelet and $639,331 prize that will be awarded to tonight’s champion.
A handful of P5ers are still in good shape going into today’s $2.5K PLO Day 2. Rami “arbianight” Boukai (60.2K), Darryll “DFish” Fish (55.3K) Isaac “westmenloAA”Baron (49K) and Clayton “clayton_27″ Newman (31.4K) will be chasing chip leader JC Tran (177K) as 61 of the original 436 players are looking to reach the final nine by the end of the day. Cards will be in the air at 2:00 p.m.
The 1.5K Horse also resumes at 2:00. Annie Duke, Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein, Tristan “Cre8ive” Wade and Anna “vietcutie” Wroblewski are among the 220 players still alive.
Today’s afternoon event is the $2K NLHE Event #32. More than 1,350 players have registered with more expected to stroll in before the end of Level 2. Some players we’ve seen so far include Allen “Awwwnutz” Carter, Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka, Jason Gray, Jeremiah “Believer82″ Vinsant and Jon “sketchy1″ Eaton.
