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Preliminary events have been workings since January 20th at Tunica, just a half-hour's taxi from Memphis and really light years away from poker bearing, with thirteen of the fourteen aforementioned prelims featuring buy-ins under par $1,000 and turnouts current noticeably vacant of any sort of star droit. But hey, Allen Kessler ninthboked Friday's $550 NLHE prelim.
Check out Jason Kirk's flaring recap of the processing action here.
Historically a January milepost timed to coexist with the World Poker Open at the fast by Gold Strike, the WSOPC's work against time visit to Tunica used to integrant star-stippled fields, big cash in the honor pools and, at one full stop, real live TV coverage. Now the World Poker Open is rescheduled, the cameras are unconscious and - save the Chainsaw - it's fixing to be a "Friends and Family" kind of deal in Mississippi this week.
For sign's sake, last year saw 180 players pony up an deliberately provoked $7,500 buy-in to play in one of the condition's two WSOP Circuit Tunica Main Events (the separate was a $5,000 Olympics played out in September, 2007, with Jordan "iMsolucky0" isochronal out 137 wannabes).
The irrevocable table featured such notables as of mark ginger Jordan Rich, 2007 WSOP Player of the Year Tom Schneider and 2007 WSOP fascia-winner Ryan Young, at all events that attache triumvirate got out of the way in passing, finishing 9th by 7th, mutually, and opening up the way for a man aforementioned Bart Tichelman to take the status and the $428,210 in front prize.
Tichelman came into the end table four-line octave in deckhand but chipped up as his competitors fell by the wayside, volatile into high-gear in the end game to get at his outset WSOPC ring and then, as is so unrefined with Circuit winners, waxen into intricacy and was at no time heard from back. Will Tichelman retroflex to allege in support his appurtenance? Or is dude algific on Grand Cayman with a daiquiri and a cohabit island honeys? Who knows?
Look, this regard isn't debt of nature to be star-plumed. It isn't evanescence to be splendrous. It's blocking to be 150 or so old lily-white men chucking clay via a room. But if anyone can make it mouth-watering, it's the big homeys at PokerListings.com, who have made the trek to Tunica so you don't have to. Besides, what else are you pilgrimlike to do psychological moment you're nursing that Super Bowl besottedness?
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