WSOP Africa

Hey fella's...

Well its great that SA is hosting the first AFRICAN WSOP event. I'm quite disappointed about the lack of recognition the event is getting overseas. There's nothing on pokerlistings.com or pokernews.com regarding the event which is pretty poor (unless i can't find it). But as i said, it's great for us to be hosting such an event and its great for Poker for our country.

There are some big names playing which is great. The odds listed by bettingworld.co.za are as follows:

# Description Current Previous Opening       1 Gus Hansen ( WSOP ) 8/1 7/1 7/1 Win Place 49 James Aikenhead ( WSOP ) 16/1 14/1 14/1 Win Place 33 Sam Tinkett ( WSOP ) 16/1 14/1 14/1 Win Place 19 Vanessa Rousso ( WSOP ) 16/1 14/1 14/1 Win Place 44 Darren Kramer ( WSOP ) 20/1 16/1 16/1 Win Place 8 Jarred Solomon ( WSOP ) 20/1 16/1 16/1 Win Place 35 Oliver Berman ( WSOP ) 20/1 16/1 16/1 Win Place 25 Ryan Brauer ( WSOP ) 20/1 16/1 16/1 Win Place 53 James Bord ( WSOP ) 25/1 20/1 16/1 Win Place 31 Mariah Ho ( WSOP ) 25/1 20/1 16/1 Win Place 22 Robert Kay ( WSOP ) 25/1 20/1 50/1 Win Place 13 Tyron Krost ( WSOP ) 25/1 20/1 16/1 Win Place 32 Antonio Matius ( WSOP ) 33/1 40/1 33/1 Win Place 37 Beth Shak ( WSOP ) 33/1 - 33/1 Win Place 45 David Dadic ( WSOP ) 33/1 28/1 33/1 Win Place 66 Gareth Kalil ( WSOP ) 33/1 30/1 66/1 Win Place 20 Manuel Cadilhe ( WSOP ) 33/1 40/1 33/1 Win Place 40 Ray Rahme ( WSOP ) 33/1 - 33/1 Win Place 43 Chris Convery ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 33/1 Win Place 17 Claude Sacks ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 33/1 Win Place 2 Daniel Lamberti ( WSOP ) 40/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 39 Eugene Du Plessis ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 33/1 Win Place 18 Greg Ronaldson ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 33/1 Win Place 47 Hennie Appels ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 25/1 Win Place 41 Jamie Vilela ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 33/1 Win Place 42 Jason Strauss ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 33/1 Win Place 24 Joe Boy Rahme ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 33/1 Win Place 28 Mel Banfield ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 33/1 Win Place 30 Neville Eber ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 33/1 Win Place 26 Ryan Eber ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 33/1 Win Place 52 Ryan Price ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 33/1 Win Place 5 Snowy Brown ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 33/1 Win Place 56 Stan Topol ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 33/1 Win Place 12 Warren Zacky ( WSOP ) 40/1 33/1 33/1 Win Place 67 Fabio Cornelli ( WSOP ) 50/1 45/1 45/1 Win Place 64 Ivan Pakkiri ( WSOP ) 50/1 66/1 66/1 Win Place 21 Nick Zachem ( WSOP ) 50/1 - 50/1 Win Place 59 Alvin Pillay ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 65 Andrew Anthony ( WSOP ) 66/1 - 66/1 Win Place 63 Avron Melamed ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 16 Benni Lingerfelder ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 58 Bob Yearham ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 60 Dave Rosenthal ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 69 Gary Helman ( WSOP ) 66/1 55/1 66/1 Win Place 51 Glen Loser ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 27 Hawie Sun ( WSOP ) 66/1 80/1 66/1 Win Place 61 Howard Berkowitz ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 3 Hugh Todd ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 57 Ilan Diraz ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 15 Jaco Storm ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 46 Jay Sookoo ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 9 Joe Abrue ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 10 Justin Lowe ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 50 Llja Martinovic ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 36 M.J Potgieter ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 503/1 Win Place 6 Mark Liffman ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 14 Mauro De Rose ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 29 Mike Gossyn ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 62 Nayim Lum ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 7 Neil Andrews ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 11 Nick Katzaspos ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 54 Richard Shainfeld ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 23 Robbi Sham ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 4 Rudolph Fourie ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 55 Ryan Dreyer ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 38 Sandy Koor ( WSOP ) 66/1 50/1 50/1 Win Place 34 Eben Lottering ( WSOP ) 80/1 66/1 66/1 Win Place 68 John Abrosie ( WSOP ) 80/1 66/1 66/1 Win Place 48 Kiri Patsalos ( WSOP ) 80/1 66/1 66/1 Win Place

So, all in all, i'm very sad that i'm not playing...  Couldn't come up with the $5000 dollars. I mean.. it wasn't lying around under my matress when i checked unfortunately. Can't say i've ever found more than a R2 coin under the bed. Can't even come up with R10k for smaller events... but hey... oneday maybe, oneday...

Let me know who you'd back above?

Fin