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Olympian Michael Phelps Shows Interest in WSOP
Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has been known to play a bit of poker, and it was actually a poker player’s party at which he was infamously photographed smoking a bong.
That’s why it’s exciting to see him showing interest in the World Series of Poker.
Earlier today he tweeted twice to friends playing here in Las Vegas.
He tweeted at his former roommate Jeff Gross, congratulating him on getting a bye in the first round of the $10k Heads-Up, and retweeted a message from Josh Brikis.
Who runs better than @Jgross5 ? Bye first round? #life
— Michael Phelps (@MichaelPhelps) June 5, 2012Back in 2008 Phelps told a Baltimore Sun reporter he thought it would be cool to play in a WSOP event. To our knowledge he’s yet to make that dream come true.
Phelps’ buddy Gross already has two cashes at this WSOP and he’s in the money in the $10k Heads-Up, so it might be enough to lure the swimmer out to play his first World Series event.
John Monnette Wins Second WSOP Bracelet
Few players cash more regularly at the World Series of Poker than Californian John Monnette.
He notched his 22nd WSOP cash this evening when he won the $5k Seven-Card Stud event. It was his second WSOP bracelet and it meant $190,826 in his pocket.
Monnette outlasted a difficult final table including five-time bracelet winner and Stud specialist Jeff Lisandro.
Finishing second was Huu Vinh, who final-tabled the $1,500 Stud event less than a week ago. Monnette dominated the later stages of the final table and ran over Vinh and third-place finisher Tim Finne.
Also making the final table were Perry Friedman and Bryn Kenney.
Here are the full final table results.
1. John Monnette - $190,826 2. Huu Vinh - $117,913 3. Tim Finne – $73,847 4. Perry Friedman - $53,470 5. Jeff Lisandro - $41,789 6. Mark Dickstein - $33,325 7. Bryn Kenney - $27,062 8. Raymond Dehkharghani - $22,332BrokeLivingJRB Comes Up with $1 Million
In what might be the most befuddling turn of events at the WSOP so far Jean-Robert Bellande has announced he’ll be playing the $1 million Big One for One Drop.
How Bellande got his hands on $1 million is anyone’s guess, and we’d love to find out how much of himself he’s actually got.
Bellande tweeted, simply, “Yes, I’m going to play the One Drop.”
While some may scoff at Bellande’s entry, he’s probably got a solid edge over the average player in this event.
When One Drop released its list of 30 people who had confirmed entry, only 10 of them were professional poker players.
We’re going to do our best to track down Bellande to get to the bottom of this mystery.
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