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Winner of No-Limit Hold’em, Michael Graves
July 15, 2007, 2:53 pm (4 years ago)Michael Graves, a player in the Bodog team wins the game No-Limit Hold’em in the World Series of Poker having re-buys. This will be the first World Series winnings of the medical student, Michael Graves many things are make up for his talents and he does not expect to be dropping out for being a professional at any rate. He make it to the finals with leading to the other 2 players who had a million chips.
This tournament of re-buying will be allowing those players to buy chips when stacks have run out but only for a limited time before the tournament begins. This large pool of prizes is $3,226,609. he purchased for himself up to four times, managing to make it with some confusion of the rules in WSOP with buying re-buys. He was tempted to go beyond the allocated budget, with some players wanting to visit their ATM or borrow from their friends. Nevertheless, when their intention of buying re-buys was announced the players needs to complete the transaction and go back to their seats otherwise they will be disqualified.
Michael Graves had outsmarted Theo Tran in the heads-up game, he was the third in the big stacks in the beginning of the play. Meanwhile, Tran had won in the LA Poker Classic and made another 5 event cash in this time. Being a second placer gives him a $387,193 in prices.
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