The Bubble Bursts
Saturday, July 11, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
It took 13 hands and nearly two hours of play, but the money bubble has finally burst in the 2009 Main Event. Kia Hamadani was the unfortunatle soul who finished in 649th place, when his 4-3 offsuit (he was all-in in the blinds) could not overcome Reed Hensel’s mighty 9-2 offsuit. No Kings blundering into Aces here.
But still no doubt a crushing blow for Hamadani…though one that was perhaps mitigated when Jeffrey Pollack and Jack Effel brought him up on stage and announced that, as a consolation prize, the WSOP and Jack’s Links Beef Jerky would buy him into the 2010 Main Event. And a $10,000 buy-in to the biggest poker tournament of the year, especially one you (expletive deleted) bubbled the year before, isn’t bad at all.
This, of course, means that Scott Ian and Phil Hellmuth have both cashed in the Main Event. The media wasn’t allowed on the floor during hand-for-hand so I’m not sure of their chip status, but I do know that Phil has now cashed for a record 75th time at the World Series of Poker.
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