Too Many Bracelets!

June 14, 2009

When you sit down at a table during the World Series of Poker, you expect to be playing with many people who really know how to play the game of poker. You will probably have people who have been there before as well as those that it is their first time at the game. Once in a while you might end up at a table with someone who already has a bracelet – either from this year’s poker events or a previous year.

However, how often do you sit down at a table that had 34 poker bracelets between the players? That is exactly what happened at Table 248 of this year’s Championship No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw, which is also known as Event 23. The table had Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan, both of whom have ten bracelets; Phil Ivey, who has six bracelets; Allen Cunningham, who has five bracelets; David Grey, who has two bracelets; and Villie Wahlbeck, who has one bracelet. Going against all of these players was one Andy Bloch who didn’t have any poker bracelets at all.

Bloch said that just because they had bracelets didn’t mean that he didn’t think that he could not win. In fact, he felt that he had the same odds as all of them. The fact of the matter is that although they might have more bracelets going into the poker game, sitting at that table they all had the same odds in as far as the cards that they were given.

However, it will be interesting to see how Bloch does against all that poker fire power. If Bloch walks away from that one a winner, he will have solidified his place in poker history.