Event #48 of the 2010 World Series of Poker was a $2,500 buy-in Mixed Games event. Among the games featured in this poker tournament included Triple Draw 2-7, Hold'em, Omaha 8 or better, Razz, Stud, Stud 8, No Limit Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha.
In other words, the poker player who wins this has to be a master at all forms of poker games. 453 poker players went to prove their worth and a piece of the $1 Million pot. However, only 48 places would be paid. The biggest winner of all the 48 was none other than Norwegian poker pro Sigur Eskeland, who won his first WSOP gold bracelet and a healthy first place prize of $260,497.
Sigur Eskeland explained that live poker is illegal in Norway, and he hopes that wins like his and his fellow Norwegians before him - like Thor Hansen and Annette Obrestad - will make them realize that it isn't gambling, but a sport which uses a lot of elements of skill.
The runner up was former WSOP gold bracelet winner Steve Sung, who won the $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em championship at last year’s WSOP for $771,338. For this cash, Steve Sung earned $160,952, and he now has in excess of $1.3 million in WSOP earnings.
The third-place finisher was 21 year old Alexander Wice from Toronto, Ontario, Canada , who marked his first time to cash at the WSOP, winning $102,314.
The fourth-place finisher was Nikolai Yakovenko from Brooklyn, New York, who marked his third WSOP cash in the last two years to win $73,776.
The fifth-place finisher was Stephen Su, from Houston, Texas and was paid $54,032.
The sixth-place finisher was WSOP gold bracelet winner Scott Seiver from Las Vegas, Nevada, who cashed for the fourth time at this year’s WSOP, winning $40,175.
The seventh-place finisher was Jared Jaffe from Brooklyn, New York, who won $30,319.
The eighth-place finisher was Kirill Rabtsov from Moscow, Russia, who made his second final table appearance this year to win $23,223.
Aside from Steve Sung and Scott Seiver who both made the final table, former WSOP gold bracelet finishers who cashed in this event included – Todd Brunson (10th), Alexander Kravchenko (11th), Dario Minieri (14th), Kirk Morrison (16th), David Singer (23rd), Michael Mizrachi (26th), Dario Alioto (27th), Frank Kassela (36th), Vitaly Lunkin (39th), Diego Cordovez (42nd), and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson (48th).
2000 world champion Chris “Jesus” Ferguson’s 48th place finish gives him 63 in-the-money finishes for his career, which ranks third on the all-time WSOP cashes list.
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