Aussies at the WSOP

The time has come to make another blog post, it has been a little longer between posts than I would have liked. At the moment there is a lot going on with the main part of the site in terms of design and expansion. This blog itself will be getting designed in the next few days to make it a little nicer on the eyes.

One of the biggest reasons why I didn’t post last week though was because of the WSOP Main Event. In case you didn’t see, we were following the Aussie poker players carefully on their journey towards the final table. The two best performances of the Main event came from Mark Vos and David Saab. Vos was cruising along nicely for a large portion of the tourney but made a bad read on the final hand of Day 5. He was getting re-raised all day and decided to push his 1.5 million chips with AK. His opponent had aces and mark was gone. A bad read on the last hand of the day from a guy that was playing really solid poker. Unlucky Mark but congrats on the 80th place finish.

David Saab has been on fire of late. He recently won the APPT Manila so he is in good form. He wasn’t even going to attend the Main Event because he feels that it is –EV when you take into account all the costs involved. He eventually got staked by Tino Lechich who also ran well in the tourney. It proved to be a great move because Saab finished in 46th place and pocketed over 130k. He was desperately unlucky and he lost with a flopped straight to a flush on the turn and then was knocked out with aces vs a weak hand that flopped trips.

Well done to the Aussie contingent at the 2008 WSOP as you all represented well. Hopefully we’ll see more good results from Australian poker players in upcoming tournaments. I also have to make a special mention to Shane Warne for making the 3rd day of play. He almost made the money which is a pretty good effort. Good work mate.