Sunday, June 29, 2008
For a guy like Erick I have to imagine he is breathing a huge sigh of relief. Being one of the elite poker players and not having a WSOP bracelet, is just one of the tags you would rather not be labeled with. Erick got his at a star studded final table of No Limit Holdem/Limit Holdem mix. Other notables included Justin Bonomo (2nd), Andrew Robl (3rd, Good2cU online), Howard Lederer, David Williams and Isaax Haxton. The fact that the final table was stacked likely will make his win in retrospect a bit more gratifying. When this World Series of Poker started pros thought the new levels would make a big difference and you would see a lot more pros at final tables. The reasoning was that the structures were just going to be better. Which is partly true. The other part of the equation is that there are just less people playing the events and online sites have not made giant pushes like they have in the past for smaller events. ESPN puts such a huge emphasis on the final table of the Main Event that it does not make fiscal sense to do so. The legal environment in the United States also is a contributing factor. Most of all though is a high level of apathy from casual fans that saw Chris Moneymaker and thought "I could do what that dude did", over the course of a few years of big buy in tournaments that fire is out for a lot of people. This years winners have mostly been well known pros that follow the circuit. Here are three winners of the first four events Nenad Medic, David Singer and Erick Lindgren, all of which are very well known poker pros.
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Erick Lindgren is "off the Schneid" at WSOP
For a guy like Erick I have to imagine he is breathing a huge sigh of relief. Being one of the elite poker players and not having a WSOP bracelet, is just one of the tags you would rather not be labeled with. Erick got his at a star studded final table of No Limit Holdem/Limit Holdem mix. Other notables included Justin Bonomo (2nd), Andrew Robl (3rd, Good2cU online), Howard Lederer, David Williams and Isaax Haxton. The fact that the final table was stacked likely will make his win in retrospect a bit more gratifying. When this World Series of Poker started pros thought the new levels would make a big difference and you would see a lot more pros at final tables. The reasoning was that the structures were just going to be better. Which is partly true. The other part of the equation is that there are just less people playing the events and online sites have not made giant pushes like they have in the past for smaller events. ESPN puts such a huge emphasis on the final table of the Main Event that it does not make fiscal sense to do so. The legal environment in the United States also is a contributing factor. Most of all though is a high level of apathy from casual fans that saw Chris Moneymaker and thought "I could do what that dude did", over the course of a few years of big buy in tournaments that fire is out for a lot of people. This years winners have mostly been well known pros that follow the circuit. Here are three winners of the first four events Nenad Medic, David Singer and Erick Lindgren, all of which are very well known poker pros.
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