Theo Jorgenson Wins Pot Limit Omaha Event at 2008 WSOPE

2008 World Series of
Poker Europe
Event #3 Final Report
5,000 Pot Limit Omaha

Theo Jorgenson Wins 5,000 Pot
Limit Omaha Event at the 2008
World Series of Poker Europe

The winner is Theo Jorgensen. He is a 36-year-old professional poker player
from Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jorgensen has been playing poker seriously for about 15 years.

Jorgensen has many tournament accomplishments, including the 2004 Seven-
Card Stud European championship and two European Poker Tour final
tables. Jorgensen also took eighth place at last year’s World Series of Poker
Main Event in London, which paid ₤85,070.

Aside from poker, Jorgensen enjoys watching and betting on football (soccer).

Jorgensen paid cash to enter this tournament.

In a recent Poker Nations Cup competition, Jorgensen represented his home
nation of Denmark. He was hand picked to play in the tournament finale, but
ultimately lost to poker pro Kathy Liebert.

Jorgensen collected first place prize money totaling ₤218,626 equivalent to
about $402,403 in US dollars.

Jorgensen’s career WSOP earnings now total $618,953. He has cashed four
times and has made three final table appearances – all within the past two
years.

Jorgensen’s victory means that the six WSOPE tournaments played so far
have been won by players from Italy, Germany, Norway, Afghanistan, and
Denmark (2).

Jorgensen is the second Dane to win a gold bracelet at 2008 WSOP Europe.
Last week, fellow Dane Jesper Hougaard won the ₤1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’
em event.

Jorgensen becomes the third Danish poker player in history to win a WSOP
gold bracelet. The others were Jesper Hougaard and Jan Sorensen – both
with two wins each. Peter Eastgate, also from Denmark, is schedule to play
as on the “November Nine” finalists at the Main Event championship late this
year in Las Vegas.

When heads-up play began, Jorgensen enjoyed slightly better than a 2 to 1
chip advantage. However, his final adversary Sorel Mizzi staged a dramatic
comeback during the 90-minute heads-up battle. At one point, Mizzi had his
opponent all-in and drawing to just four outs. Mizzi had turned a straight
and Jorgensen was left holding top two pair. The board paid, miraculously
recuing Jorgensen from the jaws of defeat. About 20 hands later Jorgensen
ultimately won his victory.

The runner up was Sorel Mizzi, who is widely known as an online poker
prodigy. Mizzi has accumulated over $1 million in online poker winnings
alone. He also finished in third place at the 2007 Irish Poker Open. Second
place paid ₤132,000.

Eric Dalby took third place. At age 78, Dalby came close to becoming the
second-oldest WSOP gold bracelet winner in history (Johnny Moss was 80 at
the time he won his eighth and last title, in 1988). At one point, he had the
chip lead when play was three-handed, but ended up settling for the bronze.

Erik Friberg was eliminated in fourth place. He is best known in the poker
world for making the final table in the 2006 WSOP Main Event, when he won
$1.9 million for eighth place. Friberg also took third place (good for
$345,000) in the Six-Handed Hold’em championship at the 2007 WSOP.

Two-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Max Pescatori finished in fifth place.

David Penly, winner of the 2008 Norwegian Pot-Limit Omaha championship,
finished sixth in this event.

2000 world poker champion Chris “Jesus” Ferguson was eliminated in
seventh place. This marked Ferguson’s 57th career in-the-money finish,
which now ranks third in the all-time WSOP standings. He just moved ahead
of Berry Johnston 9with 56 cashes). Only Men “the Master” Nguyen (62) and
Phil Hellmuth (69) have more career cashes.

Neil Channing cashed in this event (11th place). This was Channing’s ninth in-
the-money finish at this year’s WSOP, which technically broke the previous
record of eight cashes. However, Russian poker player Nikolay Evdakov
already has ten WSOP cashes in 2008, which leaves Channing one behind.

Two-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Chris Bjorin cashed in this event,
finishing in 15th place. This marked Bjorin’s 44th career WSOP cash, which
places him in the top 25 all-time.

Nikolay Evdakov, from Moscow, Russia played in this event, but did not cash.
In 2008, Evdakov shattered the record for “most cashes in a single year” at
the WSOP, when he finished in-the-money ten times (the previous record
was eight cashes). He has one more opportunities to add to his record, with
two WSOPE events still to be played.

Prior to the start of the final table, a one-of-a-kind attraction featured Doyle
Brunson playing against 2007 WSOPE champ Annette Obrestad in a special
heads-up match. Billed as the “King versus Queen,” Brunson represented old
school America against the young up-and-coming European poker prodigy.
Played on the Main Stage inside the Empire Casino, a large crowd turned out
to watch the duel. In a best two-out-of-three series, Brunson ended up
winning the match 2-0. However, it should be noted that on both key losing
hands, Obrestad actually started off with the best cards. Her straight lost to
a higher straight in the first match. Then, her top pair with best kicker lost
when Brunson managed to spike a second pair on the turn of the final hand.
Obrestad graciously congratulated the poker legend, while Brunson
personally signed over copies of his highly-acclaimed two book series
(Super/System 1 and 2) to the reigning “Queen of Poker.”

The buy-in amount for WSOPE Event 1 was ₤5,000, equivalent to about
$9,200 (USD) at the current exchange rate.

The final table was played on Friday, September 26th. Play began at 4:23
pm and ended at 12:53 – lasting 8.5 hours.

This tournament is classified as “WSOPE Event 3,” as well as “WSOP Event
58” as it is the 58th WSOP gold bracelet event of the 2008 calendar year.

World Series of Poker Europe Presented by Betfair includes the final four gold
bracelet events of the 2008 season. WSOP events 1-55 were played in Las
Vegas, Nevada (USA) from 28 May through 14 July. Events 56-59 are played
in London, England from 19 September through 2 October.

All WSOPE results are included in official WSOP records -- including all-time
wins, cashes, final table appearances, etc.

This marks the second consecutive year of WSOPE Presented by Betfair. In
2007, three WSOP gold bracelet events were played in London.

The turnout for WSOPE Event 3 was 165 players, an identical number last
year’s attendance.

The tournament attracted 31 former WSOP gold bracelet winners including:

      Josh Arieh
      David Benyamine
      Chris Bjorin
      Doyle Brunson
      Brandon Cantu
      Allen Cunningham
      Freddy Deeb
      Eli Elezra
      Sherkahn Farnood
      Chris “Jesus” Ferguson
      Layne Flack
      Barry Greenstein
      Thor Hansen
      Phil Hellmuth
      Dan Heimiller
      Phil Ivey
      John Juanda
      Alexander Kravchenko
      Ted Lawson
      Jeff Madsen
      Mike Matusow
      Nenad Medic
      Daniel Negreanu
      Annette Oberstad
      Max Pescatori
      John Phan
      Erik Seidel
      David “Devilfish” Ulliott
      Jen Voertmann
      David Williams
      Robert Williamson III

All four WSOPE events this year are played at Casino at the Empire, located
in Leicester Square, in Central London. Leicester Square is best known as
the theatre district of the city. Casino at the Empire is part of London Clubs,
International, which is owned by Harrah’s Entertainment.

Casino at the Empire holds 25 poker tables. Gaming tables were removed
during the 16-day duration of WSOPE in order to make necessary room for
the large turnout of players and spectators.

This year’s World Series of Poker is the largest in history. A grand total of
59,405 players have entered the 58 gold bracelet events held so far – with
two WSOPE events still to be played. This number exceeds last year’s total
entries, which was 54,288.

This was the richest World Series of Poker in history. A grand total of
$183,578,497 in prize money awarded (so far) in 2008 makes this the richest
event in all of sports. Note: This figure does not include one more upcoming
WSOPE events. These figures represent an increase of 15 percent over 2007.

The 2008 World Series of Poker championship gold bracelets are designed
and manufactured by Corum USA. For more information and specifications,
contact Knych Keller: kkeller@corumusa.com
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World Series of Poker Commissioner – Jeffrey Pollack

Director of Sponsorship and Licensing -- Ty Stewart

Director of Broadcasting and New Media – Craig Abrahams

Director of Communications – Seth Palansky

Regional Vice President of Specialty Gaming -- Howard Greenbaum

Tournament Director – Jack Effel