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WSOP Day 33: Smells Like Happiness

By Pauly

Here's what happened on Day 33... umm.... I have no idea because I had a rare day off. I missed out at the $10K PLO Final Table that was won by Robert Mizrachi aka Brother of the Grinder. Texas Dolly failed to win Bracelet #11 and will have to wait to fight another day. Mizrachi also held off Tommy Ly and Patrik Antonius.

Lance over at the Poker Biz had an interesting post called The Sincerest Form of Flattery. Check it out.

Since I don't have anything else to report, how about some stats and a list of bracelet winners? There have been 51 bracelets awarded at to fifty players this year's WSOP. Donkey Bomber collected two. He's also at the top of the Player of the Year leaderboard.

2007 WSOP Bracelet Winners:
Event #1 $5,000 Mixed Limit/NL Hold'em: Steve Billirakis
Event #2 $500 Casino Employee NL: Frederick Narciso
Event #3 $1,500 NL: Cairan O'Leary
Event #4 $1,500 Pot-limit Hold 'em: Michael Spiegel
Event #5 $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud 8: Tom Schneider
Event #6 $1,500 Limit Hold 'em: Gary Styczynski
Event #7 $5,000 PLO w/rebuys: Burt Boutin
Event #8 $1,000 NL w/rebuys: Michael Chu
Event #9 $1,500 Omaha 8: Alexander Kravchenko
Event #10 $2,000 NL: William Durkee
Event #11 $5,000 Seven Card Stud: Chris Reslock
Event #12 $1,500 NL Six Handed: Jason Warner
Event #13 $5,000 Pot-limit Hold 'em: Allen Cunningham
Event #14 $1,500 Seven Card Stud: Michael Keiner
Event #15 $1,500 NL: Phil Hellmuth
Event #16 $2,500 HORSE: James Richberg
Event #17 $1,000 Ladies Event NL: Sally Boyer
Event #18 $5,000 Limit Hold'em: Jard Getzoyan
Event #19 $2,500 NL: Francois Safieddine
Event #20 $2,000 Seven Card Stud 8: Ryan Hughes
Event #21 $1,500 NL Shootout: Don Baruch
Event #22 $5,000 NL: James Mackey
Event #23 $1,500 PLO: Scott Clements
Event #24 $3,000 Seven Card Stud 8: Eli Elezra
Event #25 $2,000 NL: Ben Ponzio
Event #26 $5,000 HORSE: Ralph Schwartz
Event #30 $2,500 NL - 6 handed: Hoyt Corkins
Event #31 $5,000 World Championship Heads Up NL: Dan "Rekrul" Schreiber
Event #32 $2,000 Seven Card Stud: Jeff Lisandro
Event #33 $1,500 PLO w/rebuys: Alan Smurfit
Event #34 $3,000 Limit Hold 'em: Alex Borteh
Event #35 $1,500 NL: Ryan Young
Event #36 $5,000 World Championship Omaha8: John Guth
Event #37 $2,000 Pot-limit Hold 'em: Greg Hopkins
Event #38 $1,500 NL: Robert Cheung
Event #39 $50,000 World Championship HORSE: Freddy Deeb
Event #40 $1,500 Mixed Hold 'em: Fred Goldberg
Event #41 $1,000 World Championship Seniors NL: Ernest Bennett
Event #42 $1,500 PLO 8 or Better: Lukasz Dumanski
Event #43 $2,000 Limit Hold 'em: Saif Ahmad
Event #44 $2,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split: Frankie O'Dell
Event #45 $5,000 NL Six handed: Bill Edler
Event #46 $1,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8: Tom "Donkey Bomber" Schneider
Event #47 $2,000 NL: Blair Rodman
Event #48 $1,000 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) w/rebuys: Rafi Amit
Event #49 $1,500 NL: Chandrasekhar Billavara
Event #50 $10,000 World Championship PLO: Robert Mizrachi
Event #51 $1,000 S.H.O.E.: Dao Bac

WSOP Player of the Year Top 10:
Tom Schneider 255
Jeffrey Lisandro 220
Robert Mizrachi 210
Scotty Nguyen 180
Scott Clements 167
Phil Hellmuth 165
Chris Bjorin 165
Rene Mouritsen 160
Alexander Kravchenko 155
William Durkee 155

By the way, I went to see a Widespread Panic concert on my day off. They played over at Planet Ho and I went with Change100, Spaceman, and Friedman. Anyway, on the way out to the parking garage after the concert ended, we waited for an elevator. The last people who were in the elevator were blazing up because not only did it reek of pot, but there was a heavy cloud of smoke inside the elevator. Anyway, a young very drunk woman was latched onto her boyfriend as they followed us in the elevator. As soon as the doors closed, she said, "It smells like happiness."

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Don't forget to check out LasVegasVegas for Flipchip's WSOP photos and there's the Poker Prof's cool 2007 WSOP Info page.

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