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After much anticipation, patience and a knack for knowing when he is on top of his game, Phil Hellmuth has gone on to win his 10th WSOP bracelet, and is now ranked amongst the best of the best! After battling out a field of 754 players in the $1000 WSOP No Limit Hold’em Rebuy tournament, Phil Hellmuth was triumphant again! After a long heads up battle against Juha Helppi, Phil won $631,863, his share of a $2,340,238 prize pool in the event, but even more importantly; he is now tied with Brunson and Chan for the most WSOP bracelets. Phil has never felt better about his game, and winning his record 10th bracelet before the main event is surely a sign of only better things to come.
Phil Hellmuth holds the title to the 2005 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship and is back with a vengeance. The “Poker Brat,” himself has shown the players of the 2006 WSOP what a true professional he really is. Regardless of the fact that he is sometimes known for his outbursts and a short temper, he remains a highly regarded poker professional – even more so now with this latest win! While other cash-game players have scoffed at his attempts to collect World Series of Poker bracelets, they now wonder if they were misguided! Hellmuth is back!

More at www.philhellmuth.com.

Once again, as it has been since the end of June, it was poker, poker, and more poker around the Amazon Room at the Rio on Monday. With the $10000 Championship Event set to start on Friday (and the official count of registered players in the Main Event encompassing last year’s record already with over 6000 players), many were tuning up their games for the final push towards the start of that event later this week. There were two events today, the $1,000 Seven Card Stud tournament and the $1000 (w/rebuys) No-Limit event, that will be final tables for Tuesday. On Monday, however, we only had one with Event #32, the $5000 Pot Limit Hold ‘Em event.

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The self reportedly unluckiest is victorious. Dutch Boyd takes the $2500 NLHE 6MAX tourney. He faced down Joe Hachem headsup and won the bracelet and about $457,000. Too bad the government gets half (228,500) and does he have backers? if so they get their share. But the bracelet will be Dutch’s and maybe rake-free poker is one step closer!
Congratulations Dutch!

When Liz Lieu and Erik Sagstrom agreed to face off in a series of three $200,000 heads-up matches, it was originally billed as “Beauty and the Beast.” While Lieu is definitely a beauty, Sagstrom (a tall, blonde Swede) is certainly no beast. But the most intriguing aspect of this match had nothing to do with appearances — how would an online poker legend (Erik123) fare against a top cash game pro in a live game?

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