2008 WSOP Pot Limit Omaha Championship on ESPN TV
Posted on August 24, 2008
Filed Under Las Vegas
Norm Chad interviews winner Marty Smyth
Are you ready for poker? This is the last two hour episode before next week's start of the marathon coverage of the 2008 WSOP Main Event lasting until we finally play the final table in November. Tuesday evening at 8:00 pm EST (check local listing for times in your area) will bring the $10K Pot Limit Omaha World Championship into the comfort of your home. This final table features poker professionals Kiddo Pham and Robert Mizrachi doing battle with seven other not so well known but just as tough hopefuls.
A starting field of 381 players contributed to the $3,581,400 prize pool that pays 36 places. The winner will walk away with $859,549 in cash and one gold WSOP bracelet. The following list is a little program to help you keep track of the final table players with their seat assignments, hometowns, and chip counts.
Seat 1 - Kido Pham - Dallas, TX - 1,080,000
Seat 2 - Brandon Moran - Chicago, IL - 1,286,000
Seat 3 - Peter Jetten - Toronto, Canada - 492,000
Seat 4 - Michael Mizrachi - Las Vegas, NV - 1,767,000
Seat 5 - Billy Argyros - Melbourne, Australia - 729,000
Seat 6 - Greg Hurst - Tazewell, TN - 637,000
Seat 7 - Tom Hanlon - Dublin, Ireland - 192,000
Seat 8 - Marty Smyth - Belfast, Ireland - 1,068,000
Seat 9 - Richard Harroch - San Francisco, CA - 372,000
More Flipchip photos after the jump. All photos were taken during the three days of play of WSOP event #50, $10K Pot Limit Omaha World Championship.
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Clonie Gowan was the last female player eliminated
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Five handed final table
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Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi
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Johnny Chan playing Day 1
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David Singer
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Mickey "Mouse" Mills
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Billy "Croc" Argyros
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Josh Arieh
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David Williams
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Jimmy Tran
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Jeffrey Lisandro
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Marty Smyth with the money and bracelet
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Billy "Croc" Argyros uses puppets to make a point
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