A WSOP Snapshot
Faraz Jaka was recently eliminated, and on his way out stopped to talk with Phil Hellmuth who had come over following the conclusion of play at the WSOP Tournament of Champions.
Their conversation was paused momentarily, though, when a player in our tournament got up and asked Hellmuth if he could get a photograph with him. Never too shy around cameras, Hellmuth complied, and the photo was taken before the player's next hand was dealt.
The scene highlighted one of the interesting contrasts one sometimes encounters at the WSOP, with amateurs taking their one big shot in a low buy-in event playing on one side of the Amazon Room, while the game's top players compete just a few yards away in the Tournament of Champions.
And then there's Antonio Esfandiari, competing in both the WSOP TOC and Event #47. Esfandiari ended play with the short stack over in the TOC, 16th of 17 players left. Here he has an above-average stack 43,000, to which he can now devote his full attention.