Texas Holdem No-Limit WSOP 2006

World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2006 was the largest tournament in poker history with respect to prize money. The winner received about $82,512,862 as the first prize. It was the 37th WSOP and was held at Rio Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas.

After a long competition it was Paul Wasicka and Jamie Gold were there at the final table. Gold has a massive chip lead when he started. Gold had heap of about 73.9 million compared to the heap of Wasicka who had only 16.2million. Wasicka had 10H and 10S in his final hand whereas Gold sat with QS and 9C.

Then the game started with Gold making the call. The “FLOP” came as QC, 8H and 5H. This made Wasicka believe that none of them is helped by the “FLOP”. Then suddenly Wasicka made the call as he thought Gold was going to draw. This made Gold to show his pair of queens and thus Wasicka was down.

Now it was required that if a 10 appeared in the “TURN” this could help Wasicka. But the “TURN” was AD.

Thus Gold was almost the champion only the barrier was the “RIVER”. It bought a 4C on the “RIVER” thus making the deal to seal.

So neither the “FLOP” nor the “RIVER” benefited Wasicka and Gold became the new

World Series of poker champion.

Poker won the tournament and received the main even bracelet and prize money of about $12 million.