Poker players advance
3 August 06
Two valley residents will advance to the third round of
the 2006 World Series of Poker this week.
Dawna Wilson and Paul Shoquist are among the 550 people
who made it through the first day of round two at the Las
Vegas, Nev. competition Tuesday. Bill Swenson played Wednesday,
and his results were not available at press time.
“I really got lucky,” Wilson said by telephone
Wednesday.
She and Shoquist played until after midnight. Wilson, who
was the female chip leader for most of the day, will enter
round three on Friday with $64,000 in chips while Shoquist
advances with $58,000.
Jackson resident Brett McPeak busted out Tuesday, Wilson
said.
When they begin playing Friday, players will have a $200
ante and blinds of $600 and $1,200.
Wilson said her success in round two came down to the first
hand of the day in which she had to bet all of her chips,
about $30,000 worth.
“The chip leader began bullying me immediately,”
she said. “He ended up putting me all in. It was a
freaky, freaky hand.”
Yet Wilson stayed in and determined the chip leader was
bluffing. She doubled her chips on the hand by beating two
nine cards with two Aces.
“I definitely think I can get in the money,”
she said. “Once I get in the money, I am going to
start playing my game. I am going to be less defensive and
more offensive.”
The $10,000 buy-in Texas Hold ‘em World Championship
at the Rio pits 8,000 avid poker players against each other
for an estimated $11 million purse and the most prestigious
award in poker, the World Series of Poker gold bracelet.
The tournament covers 13 days, with some games going well
into the early morning hours.
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