2008 WSOP Forecast, Day Eleven: The Shootout

  Today is Day 11 of the 39th annual World Series of Poker and the hits just keep coming. More bracelets are being passed out, more dreams are being made real - and many, many more are not, but we're here to report on the happy! Today one of the more interesting events will take place in the Amazon Room at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas: the Shootout.  Event #17, the No Limit Holdem $1,500 Shootout, is a stand alone kind of event at the World Series of Poker - or anywhere for that matter. Unlike the H.O.R.S.E. or the Mixed Game, or even 7-Card Stud, the Shootout game isn't different because of the type of game that is being played, but because of the format.  A shootout game requires a player to "win" his table before moving on to the next level: in this way it is more like playing a series of Sit and Go's than a single mutli-table tournament. At each stage a player has to collect all the chips before moving on. This winds up requiring different kinds of strategy to win the whole shooting match.  Expect a final table made up mostly of pros in this match. The discipline it takes to win back to back SNG's is not an easy thing to come by, but also look for a few newly minted pros, like Hevad Khan. Khan, before making the final table of the 2007 WSOP, was famous for playing 20 SNG's at the same time online.