Don’t Look Back, Someone Might Be Gaining on You
Saturday, June 20, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
I spent about 90 minutes watching the final table of the $10,000 Stud/8 World Championship, in part because Doyle Brunson was at that final table and he had a chance to tie Phil Hellmuth for most WSOP bracelets. In those ninety minutes not one player was eliminated and I heard the phrase “let’s chop it up” about 137 times, so I withdrew to download some photos. Doyle was actually eliminated in seventh place just a few minutes ago, so he won’t be tying Phil’s record tonight.
And who knows how long eleven bracelets will be the record, because even as we speak Phil is deep in the $2,000 Limit Hold-Em event. They’re just about on the money bubble, and should Phil survive till it bursts it would give him his his record 72nd WSOP cash, and from reading his most recent tweets he’s been all over the place, nearly felted, then winning several huge pots in a row to rebuild his stack. According to the most recent PokerNews’ tally Phil has around 100,000 and is high on the leaderboard, so maybe it’s his turn to make a final table and make a run at the bracelet. Johnny Chan made the semi-finals of the $10K Heads-Up event last week, Doyle made a final table today, will Phil find himself under the bright lights tomorrow evening? A long way to go before we know the answer to that question.
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