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We are off and running at the World Series of Poker! Two events started yesterday. Event 1 is the Casino Employees event - a non-open event so, consider Event 2 - the 25K buy-in No Limit Hold'em Heads Up World Championship the official kickoff to this summer's extravaganza!
128 total players created our four brackets .. Rounds 1 and 2 were completed on Tuesday. We're playing Rounds 3 and 4 today - Round 3 is currently in progress ...
There have been some tremendous matchups early on - Round 3 matches were highlighted by the Tom Dwan v. Ashton Griffin match ... although some would argue that the Alaei v. Hansen or the Busquet v. Robl matches should actually take center stage. By the way, Dwan and Busquet have advanced - the bubble has burst for Griffin and Robl.
Here are Round 3 matches that are over:
Olivier Busquet defeats Andrew Robl
Jonathan Jaffe defeats Isaac Haxton
David Paredes defeats John Juanda
Tom Dwan defeats Ashton Griffin
John Duthie defeats Carlos Mortensen
Richard Lyndaker defeats Chris Moorman
Yevgeniy Timoshenko defeats Amritraj Singh
And the Round 3 matches that are still going on as of press time:
David Benyamine vs. Anthony Guetti
Dani Stern vs. Jake Cody
Daniel Alaei vs. Gus Hansen
Steve Billirakis vs. Trevor Pope
Matt Marafioti vs. Maxim Lykov
Eric Froehlich vs. Steve Zolotow
Jason Smirnov vs. Darren Elias
Erik Cajelais vs. Nikolay Endakov
Kunimaro Kojo vs. Nick Schulman
1st $851,192
2nd $525,980
3rd $283,966 (SF)
5th $138,852 (QF)
9th $67,436 (R16)
PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2011 World Series of Poker
25K NLH Heads Up World Championship
May 31-June 4, 2011
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Buy-in: $25,000
Prizepool: $3,040,000
Entries: 128
FINAL RESULTS:
Bracelet Winner 126
Runner-Up 76
3rd place 41 (SEMI-FINAL LOSERS)
5th place 24 (QUARTER-FINAL LOSERS)
9th place 9 (SWEET SIXTEEN LOSERS)
