WSOP Rematches
Who isn’t going to adore a great rematch? Unsurprisingly the WSOP feels poker fans would like to watch former adversaries go at it again. The World Series of Poker publicised a series of rematches from past Main Event showdowns.
The WSOP has been doing a great job choosing the matchups, Chris Moneymaker vs. Sammy Farha (2003), Johnny Chan vs. Phil Hellmuth (1989), and the third they’re leaving up to the supporters. You have the ability to vote for the third match up over at the WSOP Facebook fan page.
The fan options will be:
1988 WSOP: Johnny Chan vs. Erik Seidel
2004 WSOP: Greg Raymer vs. David Williams
2006 WSOP: Jamie Gold vs. Paul Wasicka
2010 WSOP: Jonathan Duhamel vs. John Racener
My very own favorite is 2004 WSOP: Greg Raymer vs. David Williams
The WSOP is doing something just a little different with each of the contests that is somewhat exciting.
Moneymaker vs. Farha will be a best two out of three. The initial match provides each of the players with the same actual chip count as they had going heads up in 2003. The second contest will reverse the chip stacks. And if there’s a necessity for another game it’s going to be fixed using even chip stacks.
Chan vs. Hellmuth is going to be a straight-up one match with equal chip stacks.
No details have been given on the layout of the third, fan selected, event.
The Moneymaker vs. Farha battle should really be a well-liked one. It was Moneymaker’s win of the 2003 WSOP Main Event championship that’s been credited as the start of the online poker boom. The tale of a normal guy playing a $40 online satellite and making his way through the top poker players on this planet to win poker’s greatest prize in poker was just about too good to be true.
Additionally, Raymer vs. Williams was one additional tale of somewhat unknown but quite personable players making it a lot further than folks assumed possible.
The matches will be filmed for ESPN on June 2 at the Rio in Sin City. If you’re in town the events are actually available to anyone and free to watch.
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