We are now more than a week into the World Series of Poker’s glamour event. The Main Event has featured some exciting play and a cutdown to the bubble at a much faster rate than expected.
It’s really getting down to the nitty-gritty of the action now for the most anticipated event in the world of poker. Main Event Gets Tighter
People wondered what the Main Event would look like in its return to live play. The good news is that it hasn’t lost any of its momentum, despite the more than two years of hiatus. (Last year, the Main Event was a hybrid of online and live play, with only the final tables taking place with the players in a room together.)
As of this writing, there were only 96 players left in the Main Event, with all the preliminary flights out of the way and another four rounds of whittling down taking place. There might not be a lot of star power left in the tourney at this point. But that’s the thing about the Main Event: it mints stars every year that it takes place. The Leader
Heading into Sunday, the leader was a German pro named Koray Aldemir. While not the kind of guy who would jump out as being well-known to the casual fan, Aldemir is a guy who has put together a solid career as a tournament regular. He’s earned over $3 million in his career, a number that figures to go skyrocketing if he can keep this up.
Aldemir stood at 14.3 million chips at the end of the day’s play on Saturday. That was over 2.3 million more than his closest competitor, Ramon Colillas, who was the previous day’s leader. It’s almost twice as much as the player who stood in 10 th , so it’s a pretty good buffer zone for Aldemir.
But other players who have made it to the top of the leaderboard so far this year have either dropped off the chase or have busted out completely. In other words, Aldemir shouldn’t get too comfortable. But it’s still a promising start […]
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