The Main Event for the 2005 World Series of Poker

The Main Event for the World Series of Poker is what defines the ultimate challenge in Texas No Limit Hold'Em. In 2005, 5,619 players sat down to vie for 9 years in order to acquire a opportunity at the $7,500,000 first prize. Everyone who was lucky adequate to attain the concluding table became an blink of an eye millionaire. And the sum award pool was also impressive, reaching $52,818,610 dollars! But to even have got a shot at the great amounts of cash, players had to last the riddance units of ammunition of the tournament.

With a field so big the rivals were split up into 3 groups, each rival on one of 3 days: Day 1A, 1B & 1C, which were very long and cruel for some. The riddance end was to play down to 500 to 600 for each day-to-day round. The first day, Day 1A, lasted 15 hours and 25 proceedings for the 1,885 players who competed in order to go on on with lone 663 players surviving that round. Day 1B began with 1,857 players stopping at 593 contestants. And Day 1C started with 1,877 entrants and ended up with 608 after the dust settled. At this point the sum field have dropped from 5,619 to 1,864. While a batch of players had their pocket A's cracked like eggs at the RIO's breakfast counter over this 3 twenty-four hours period, numerous others had outstanding performances. Surface-To-Air Missile Farha, Spike Lee Watkinson, Jim Meehan, Henry Martin Henry Martin Robert Mizrachi and Robert Mizrachi did well. Now at this point last year's champion Greg Raymer is holding at 469th, but you'll hear a batch more from him before this is over.

Day 2 proverb the field whittled from 1,864 to 569 and it had a batch of activity. Within the first hr 2003 WSOP champion Chris Moneymaker, Gus Hansen, Saint David Sklansky and Marcel Luske were among those departure for good. Greg Raymer decided it was time to play poker as he began sending people place along with raising his standing to 9th from 469th the twenty-four hours before. WSOP title-holder Dan Harrington who made it to the Main Event concluding table for the past 2 old age was eliminated. Layne Flak Catcher had an first-class twenty-four hours at the ESPN table making his stack grow, even cracking pocket A's held by other players in the process.

Day 3 was exciting because there were 569 players and the payouts began at place 560. It was good for almost everyone but Karl Ygborn who received no money time period when he became the "bubble boy", finishing in place 561. However, Harrah's awarded him a free place to the 2006 WSOP Main Event for adjacent year! After the bubble burst, players were leaving the tables left and right to accumulate their money, grounds of the fact that many players were drained and very tired. Raymer continued to lb away with an attempt that vaulted him to figure 1 in the chip count for Day 3. Other notables were Farzad Bonyadi, Phil Ivey, Minh Ly, 1994 WSOP champion Russ William Rowan Hamilton and Brad Kondracki who have also done very well so far. At the end of this twenty-four hours there were 185 players left.

Days 4 and 5 raised the barroom and strength of play with Greg Raymer continuing to flop out players left and right. Tons of disturbances with name calling like Alice Paul Darden, Saint David Plastik, Leslie Howard Lederer, J. C. Tran, Nani Dollison, Microphone Wattel and Webber Kang being eliminated. Incredible public presentations by players like Louis Comfort Tiffany Williamson, Brad Kondracki and Henry Louis Aaron Kanter will be seen by all on ESPN. By the time Day 5 ends 11 1/2 hours later, there are 27 players left that volition go on the Main Event at Binion's in business district Las Vegas.

As Day 6 began at Binion's, the end was to contract the field from 27 to the 9 needful for the concluding table. Greg Raymer's command to reiterate a title was ended with the titan leaving in 25th place. Everyone including the ESPN crew gave him a standing standing ovation as he left the tables. Others who went out on this twenty-four hours include Phil Ivey in 20th and Minh Ly in 19th. Louis Comfort Tiffany Williamson left in 15th and also went out with a standing ovation. The riddances continued until the 9 for the concluding table was reached. Those players were Microphone Matusow, Henry Louis Aaron Kanter, Saint Andrew Black, Chief Joseph Hachem, Steven Dannenmann, Toilet Barch, Daniel Bergsdorf, George C. Scott Leper and Brad Kondracki. When Day 7 began, no 1 knew it would be the longer concluding table in WSOP history. One by one, each new millionaire left the table after being busted out until lone Steven Dannenmann and Chief Joseph Hachem remained. At the concluding table when this caputs up took place as is tradition at the WSOP, the award money was brought to the table with an armed guard. The amount of $100 measures took up so much room to where it covered the full poker table -- two feet high! Both players were tired as after 6 hands it was over and Chief Joseph Hachem became the WSOP champion, taking place to Commonwealth Of Australia $7,500,000 and a beautiful diamond ring that lone the Main Event champs can receive.