WSOP Weekend Update

This weekend, Poker News Daily will be forgoing our detailed World Series of Poker stories in favor of brief results reports. To save our readers time so you can get back to your weekends, so we will just give you the final standings of the events, along with the occassional interesting note. So, without further ado, here are the results:

Event #8 - $1,500 Seven-Card Stud

WINNER: Cliff Josephy

Complete Final Table Standings

(Place/Player/Prize Money)

1. Cliff Josephy - $192,100
2. Kirill Gerasimov - $108,775
3. Mark Burtman - $63,180
4. Greg Mascio - $48,200
5. Abe Almalhi - $39,735
6. Ardell Willis - $31,265
7. Minh Nguyen - $24,750
8. Murray Reinhart - $17,585

Notes

• 472 entries, $651,360 total prize pool
• This was Minh Nguyen’s second final table of the WSOP.
• Former tennis star, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, missed the final table by one place, coming in 9th.

Event #9 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em

At the dinner break, 17 players remain out 1,403. Cyndy Violette is the chip leader with $470,000. Morgan Machina is in 2nd with $300,000 and Soulier Fabrice is 3rd with $250,000.

Total prize pool is $2,581,520.