2011 World Series Of Poker Event 50

This 50th event provides players with three strikes to be out, going into the Triple Chance No Limit Hold 'em tournament. Players who participate in this event will be able to play through three lives in order to try to take down the bracelet. This is one of the more exciting tournaments, as players have more than one shot at success. While the buy-in is somewhat high for most people, relatively speaking, this is still not that bad of a deal. Even if you fail to stay alive once, even twice, than the third time may be the charm.

The buy-in for this event is $5,000, so it is not one of the cheapest events available. Players will begin to sit at 5 PM on June 30th, as this is the starting time and first day of the tournament - a 3 day event. Players who buy-in will have 3 days of play to go through. The tournament should be ending on July 2nd.

Tournament Updates
(New Updates Posted Daily During Event)

Day 1 Update - The end of the first day narrowed the field of 817 down to 297, with a large number of eliminations, including many professionals. Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, Tony Dunst, J.C. Tran, Vanessa Selbst, Shaun Deeb and Jonathan Duhamel have all been eliminated. Lex Veldhuis, Barry Greenstein, Joe Hachem, Jake Cody and Josh Arieh are all going into the second day. Mark Herm holds the chip lead - barely. He has 148,400 chips in his stack, with Vladimir Mefodichev holding only 148,000. That 400 chip difference is likely to change quick, as the small blind is 400. This tournament has amassed a top prize of $825,604, with a second place prize of $510,053. The top 81 players will be paid, and they will receive $4,561 more than they used to buy-in to the event.

Day 2 Update - Vanessa Peng made a last minute double up in order to become the leading lady in the 50th event, pulling an extra 471,000 chips into her pile at the end of the night to make her stack worth a total of 801,000 chips. The second day saw the eliminations of Sam Stein, Allen Bari, and Mark Radoja - all bracelet winners. John Racener, Josh Arieh and Johnny Lodden had all also gone out the door. Few major players are still in the running, but Barry Greenstein is on life support. Vitaly Lunkin, Eric Froehlich and Felipe Montenegro. The tournament has built up a prize pool of $3,839,900, with a top prize of $825,604. The bracelet is on the line, and the final 34 are going to work hard in order to win it.

Final Update - Vanessa Peng may have entered the final day in first place, but she would not last until the end. Vanessa had to deal with 34 players in the final day, including Eric Froehlich, Vitaly Lunkin, Barry Greenstein and Jeff Williams. Greenstein and Lunkin were knocked out in 27th and 28th place respectively, while Vanessa Peng was beaten out in 6th place. Eric Froehlich went soon after, being eliminated in 4th place. Antonin Teisseire earned the bracelet, with this Frenchman beating out Darryl Ronconi in heads up play. A total of $825,604 went to Teisseire, who took down his bracelet and continued what is being called the "French Invasion" of the WSOP.

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