This Years WSOP Main Event
Posted on July 25, 2008
Filed Under Pocker
The main event this year got underway with 6,844 entrants and an assortment of people from across the world. Some were there just for the experience, some of course were pros hoping for a better run than the previous year. Over several days the field began to diminish as players left the room and went to pack their bags for the flight home, but there were some familiar faces who would have to wait a bit longer than most for their flight.
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Phil Hellmuth had an excellent main event finishing up 45th place and was perhaps unlucky not to have got further. Mike Matusow finished 30th place which was a great result too, but the winner of this years main event remains undecided. Interestingly this year there is a new format in place where, once the final table has been decided the players go away and come back in early November to play out the final table. The reasons for this are said to be that it gives fans a chance to look forward to the final table and presumably build some anticipation as well as ‘bringing a new element’ to this years main event apparently.
Personally I cannot see how this will do anything extra for the event apart from perhaps giving the players a long period of time to recouperate before finishing the tournament.
When the final table is made up almost entirely of players that no poker fan has ever heard of, I cannot see that they will excitedly spend the next four months debating who will win. If Matusow and Hellmuth had been at the final table, then perhaps this would have been more likely, but it simply wasn’t to be.
Overall though, this years main event has been great, even watching the updates coming in online has been an enjoyable experience, and the series has been a very successful one for many top players and amateurs too.
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