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Usually if Mike 'The Mouth' Matusow is sporting a big grin it means that somewhere a puppy has been kicked. This time the smile still came at the expense of others but nobody will begrudge him ruining the day for eight other players and capturing his third World Series of Poker bracelet. Mike didn't just overcome a field of internet qualifiers and anybody who walked in off the street from their accounting job in order to spend their vacation days living a dream: he beat a field of poker players that have as much all star credibility as the current Boston Celtics team.

There is just something wrong when you look at Andrew Brown. He kind of looks like Carrot Top, but plays like somebody with Brunson DNA going through their veins. Despite the inanity between how he looks and how he plays, Andrew Brown is the winner of a very dramatic event #16 ($2,000 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo). Before Andrew became the story of this tournament, there was another one developing. Jim Pechac started the day with two thousand dollars. Despite this, he took his meager stack and put on a clinic of short handed play.

Between the last two days of play, the competitors spent thirty hours in their seats. For a while it would seem that the winner would be the person whose body could process caffeine with the most efficiency. Would anybody blame someone for trying to make this a fast final table? Casey Coleman started off aggressively, and paid for it. He was like a fly going splat on a windshield. He lost a big hand and half of his stack to Matthew Giannetti in the early goings of the final table. He held on for a little longer, but was eliminated in 10th place. Jason Young got his first victim of the day by eliminating Alex Triner in 9th place.

The next person who compares Anh Le to a bridesmaid is probably going to have the sort of brain damage that only a purse with a brick in it can cause. For the second time in four years, Ms. Le was eliminated in second place, just missing the bracelet by one stubborn player. In this case the immovable object to her not so irresistible force was Svetlana Gromenkova. Svetlana has entered the final day of play in a pretty good position, and after eliminating Patty Till in 3rd place, the Championship looked like it was hers for the taking.

Mike 'The Mouth' Matusow has picked up his third World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2008 WSOP, taking down a small field in event 18 that was comprised mostly of pros. The $5,000 No Limit 2-7 Draw with Rebuys event may have had only 84 players but the prize for Mike was half a million dollars thanks to the insane amount of rebuys the pros put on the table. Jeff Lisandro took second, followed by Barry Greenstein, Erick Lindgren, Tom Schneider, Tony Guoga, and David Benyamine for the final table...

16 players out of an original field of 414 returned to the Amazon Ballroom at the Rio for Day 3 of event #22, $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. at the 2008 World Series of Poker. At the end of three long days of limit mixed games, it was Jens...

Knowing how to play one game is hard enough. Mastering five and doing well in them is even harder. Switching back and forth between five different games is the ultimate challenge. This is exactly what the players in the $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. had to do. Play started today with two tables of eight and by the time they got to the final table these were our participants and their chip counts: read more in pokerworks.com

The two major bubbles - the money and final-table bubbles - ground play to a halt in event #24 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha at the 2008 World Series of Poker. But after more than 14 hours of play, the $2,500 buy-in tournament at the Rio...

You know all poker players, even the pros, tooled their games to 'A' before entering the events of the World Series of Poker. read more in pokerworks.com

Only one would walk away with the most coveted property in poker - the World Series of Poker gold bracelet. Yet with many names at the final table unrecognizable to most poker fans, it wasn't particularly well-attended in the Amazon Room at the Rio. But the stakes were high, and in the end, all that mattered was the poker and the players competing for the money, the title, and the gold. read more in pokerworks.com