Event 49 turned out to be a wild affair that looked like the poker equivalent of a Chevy Chase "Vacation" movie. If looked at from one perspective, those who were short stacked in Event 49 played with all the dogged determination and aggression of a mother Wolverine who is defending her family during the crabbiest time of her month. Looked at from another view, it seems like this is a bracelet that nobody wanted to win. The front runners did everything in their power to give away the lead like it was heated rock or K-Mart stock. We did eventually get a winner though: Chandrasekhar Billavara took the bracelet in this event.
Chandrasekhar took his seat at the final table as the person with the shortest stack. Thanks to some really aggressive play and some luck, he came away as the champion of
this particular event.
The surprise of the day happened at Event 50. There has been no winner declared in this tournament, but the final table has got the interest of everyone involved in the World Series of Poker. Doyle Brunson is sitting with the final 9. He isn't the biggest stack in the room, so he has a minor mountain to climb in order to pull ahead Tommy Ly, who has almost a 4 to 1 chip lead over the legend, but the fact that Doyle is even in this position is intriguing.
Anybody who says Doyle Brunson at a WSOP final table is a common site has either been in a coma for the past decade or is simply starstruck to the point of blind idiocy. Doyle playing for a bracelet is now a rare site. This should be very interesting. The only thing that could make this more intriguing would be if Phil Hellmuth was there as well.
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