It is Day 33 of the 39th annual World Series of Poker, and Las Vegas is still buzzing with the news that Scotty Nguyen won the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event - which some of us predicted! It was pretty scary while there was Erick Lindgren who was hodling the monster chip lead, but the Prince of Poker pulled it off.
Today there will be a lot more buzzing as Josh Arieh takes down Event 50 - World Championship Pot Limit Omaha, which is our prediction. Event 50 wraps up today and, as of this writing, Josh has the massive chip lead.
Josh started out as a semi pro player out of Atlanta and made a name for himself on the WPT circuit. He also hit hard and fast in WSOP events, and landed himself a sponsorship with Bodog Poker along with Evelyn Ng and David Williams. Arieh can be a real hot head at the table, but just the fact that he is chip leader in a game like PLO, Pot Limit Omaha, shows he knows how to curtail that temper when he has to.
A game like Omaha already takes a twist of strategy that some young hotshot Holdem pros don't seem to comprehend, and Pot Limit means one can only push so hard. Interestingly, in spite of his short fuse, both of Arieh's bracelets come in limited events: his first was in 1999 and was a $3,000 Limit Holdem, and the second was in 2005 and was a $2,000 Pot Limit Omaha - nearly the same event he is playing in now.
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