WSOP Continues

July 23, 2008

The World Series of Poker 2008 continued today, with more exciting moves with every turn of the cards. Each day the event has gotten more thrilling, as one by one the poker players have to go to the rail.

A little poker lingo for you – going to the rail means that you have left the table and are now moving to the spectator area. This happens after you have lost all of your chips and you are no longer in the game.

This has happened to hundreds of poker players already in this series, with the 800+ players now down to seventeen. There were two gold bracelet winners still holding on come Monday morning, but by Monday night they were out as well.

Phi Nguyen and Brandon Cantu were hoping for another bracelet, but it was not to be, and both were eliminated on Monday. Each elimination brings those that remain to that $9.12 million payday that comes with winning the title of World Series of Poker champion.

The winner will be decided in November, which is when the game will continue. The poker games will continue until there are only nine players left, and then the game is postponed until November 9th when it is aired on television.

The best call of the day would be for Joe Bishop who won the five million chip pot with a pair of fives. The hardest worker was Dean Hamrick who started the day with one of the smallest stacks around, but by the end of the day ended up with $7.45 million and only seventeen players left.