Near Miss Pros in WSOP Events
Poker pro Erick Lindgren picked up $21,054 by bubbling out in Event 33 and Chad Brown about half that by going out in 11th in Event 34.
As for the final table winners, see below: Event 33 - Pot-Limit Omaha $1,500 A prize pool of $1,684,305 with 293 players and 880 rebuys.
1 Alan Smurfit $464,867 2 Qushqar Morad $279,595 3 Van Marcus $190,326 4 Chris Bjorin $129,691 5 Chau Giang $96,005 6 Brandon Adams $75,794 7 Robert Fellner $57,266 8 Birinder Nijran $42,108 9 Hilbert Shirey $30,317
Event 34 - Limit Hold'em $3,000 Prize pool of $816,960 and 296 players
1 Alex Borteh $225,483 2 Brandon Wong $135,615 3 Shawn Keller $92,316 4 David Pham $62,906 5 Mathew Kelly $46,567 6 Vivek Rajkumar $36,763 7 Michael Byrne $27,777 8 Marco Johnson $20,424 9 Petri Pollanen $14,705