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Minieri Gets Bracelet

June 20, 2008

Italy’s Dario Minieri won his first bracelet at the World Series of Poker at Event #31 – the $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed. Many thought that Minieri would win in 2006, and then in 2007 – but it seems that 2008 was destined to be his lucky year.

He started the poker tournament with a big chip lead, but fell behind Seth Fischer who ended up runner-up in the poker competition. He got the last of his chips in well behind with 4-3 suited to Fisher’s pocket kings. But the kings did not hold and Minieri his runner-runner fours on the turn and river for trips.

It was not long to a win for him from there, as he got the $28,418 first prize and put Fisher in second place. Fisher didn’t walk away empty handed though – he cleared a nice $330,519 for his troubles.

Day 2 of the poker tournament saw more than sixteen hours of play for those in Event #33. This event was the $5,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud Hi/Low, and before they knew it they were down to nine. Howard Lederer had been the big leader for a while, but ended up getting behind the others as he took hit after hit to his stack of chips.

Lederer managed to hold on though and made it through the final elimination. The final ended up with names like Sebastian Rutherberg, Annie Duke, Marcel Luske, and Chris Ferguson.

The tournament is turning out to be some of the most exciting poker playing all year, which is par for this event. People wait all year to see if they can get a spot at one of the tables, to get that precious bracelet for all to see that they are the poker champ. Based on what we have already seen, this year will not disappoint.