One of the most overused terms or phrases in poker has to be “sick,” which incidentally does not mean a person or situation is ill, in fact it is quite the opposite, sicker is better by all accounts. Although it is massively overused, the term sick does apply to the final table that has been assembled at the Commerce Casino for the 2011 WPT LA Poker Classic. It is that sick that there is vomit everywhere, maybe I have taken the sick theme too far now, sorry.
The final table of six has won a massive $13,691,935 between them from live poker tournaments and almost $9,000,000 from online poker tournaments! Sick, there I go again. Leading the way is two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, Carlos Mortensen who will return to his seat armed with 5,235,000 chips and the knowledge that if he win he will break the record for most WPT titles won with four.
He is closely followed by another man who also has a World Poker Tour title to his name, Vivek Rajkumar, who won the Borgata Poker Open last year and is better known in online poker circles as “Psyduck.” The remaining four players are predominately online pros and have all made their first WPT final tablet. Amir “AmirSF” Lehavot (4,115,000 chips), Gregory “MYNAMEIZGREG” Brooks (2,300,000), Darryll “Dfish” Fish (2,275,000) and Steve “gboro780” Gross (1,320,000) are all fantastic players, especially Gross who is probably the best online tournament player of all time and has close to $6,000,000 in online winnings.
It is not just the final table that needs to see a doctor but the entire field was pretty poorly too! The bubble burst on Day 3 and saw Hoyt Corkins' queens lose to Mike Sowers' kings and in the final 18 players there were the likes of Shannon Shorr, November Nine member Jason Senti, matt “ADZ124” Marafioti, Kathy Liebert and Allen Cunningham. I feel like I am name dropping more than Phil Hellmuth's Twitter account!
When play resumes later today the blinds will be 25,000/50,000/5,000a and each player will walk away with at least $235,350, though the winner may need a wheelbarrow to take home their $1,654,120
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