Tuesday, June 15, 2010

RAISY DAISY! FARHA ADDS TO HIS BRACELET COLLECTION


PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com

The coolest man in poker, high stakes king Sammy Farha, won his third ever bracelet at the WSOP. Farha, known to provide great television (runner-up to Moneymaker in the "most important WSOP Main of all-time, his fantastic entertainment on High Stakes Poker, and who can forget his masterful destruction of actor (Dawson's Creek) and Goldie Hawn son, Oliver Hudson, on the first hand of 2005 series (see video at bottom of this post for the bloody details) ...

Farha wins his third bracelet - and he had to survive a strong Final 18 to do so ... other notables scoring points: James Dempsey, Michael Chow, Eugene Katchalov, Mike Sexton, Eric Basebaldy Baldwin, David Bakes Baker, Steve Zolotow, Jean-Robert Bellande and John D'Agostino ... finishing in the Top 27 (not receiving points): Chino Rheem, Miami John Cernuto, Jeffrey Lisandro, Huck Seed, Pat Pezzin and Dan Heimiller.

This is the second time that Farha wins this event, The Omaha Hi-Low Split 8 or Better World Championship.

With his strong showing in this event, James Dempsey moves into the PTPR Top 5 ... Baker's points leaves him in third place.


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 25 : Omaha Hi-Low Split 8+ Championship
June 12-14, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $1,992.800
Entries: 212

Defending Champion: Daniel Alaei

2010 FINAL RESULTS
FARHA SAM - 127
DEMPSEY JAMES - 77
ZHU YUEQI - 47
ALTBREGIN SERGEY - 37
MERKSICK TONY - 32
CHOW MICHAEL - 27
KATCHALOV EUGENE - 27
MOSSERI ABE - 12
WONG STEVE - 12
SEXTON MIKE - 12
BALDWIN ERIC "BASEBALDY" - 12
SHAMARDIN OLEG - 10
THURITZ MIKAEL - 10
NGUYEN TAI - 10
BAKER DAVID "BAKES" - 10
ZOLOTOW STEVE - 7
BELLANDE JEAN-ROBERT - 7
D'AGOSTINO JOHN - 7



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