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2008 World Series of Poker
Event 45 - $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship
Day: 5
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$50,000
Prize Pool
$7,104,000
Entries
148
Level
28
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
As the 2008 final table gets underway however, another notable story is emerging.
Barry Greenstein has cashed in each of the three tournaments that have been held (including the one in progress) and has made the final table in two of them. The Bear finished 12th in 2006 and 7th in 2007.
Should Barry take home the title here today, it would have exciting implications beyond the obvious. Greenstein will catapult himself to the top of the WSOP Player of the Year race and will have had arguably one of the best showings in WSOP history.
Greenstein has a degree in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was engaged in the information technology industry with Symantec before retiring at age 36 to play poker for a living. He has also written a critically acclaimed poker book, Ace on the River.
Greenstein has almost $6 million in career tournament earnings, and is remembered fondly by the poker media for dedicating his win in the 2005 $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha WSOP event to Charlie Tuttle, who died of cancer a few days later.
Greenstein enters today's final table as one of two players who can, with a strong finish, take the lead in the Milwaukee's Best WSOP Player of the Year standings.
Berman has six first place finishes which includes his three WSOP bracelets. With 14 WSOP cashes to his credit, Berman's most recent payday came in the $10,000 World Championship Heads Up No Limit Hold'em tournament where he finished 5th and took home $54,144. With over $2,000,000 in career earnings, Berman's biggest score came when he finished 5th in the 2005 World Poker Finals in Mashantucket and pocketed $345,000.
Berman currently resides in Plymouth, Minnesota and has four children. In his spare time Berman collects Red Wing Stoneware which is clay pottery made in the Minnesota city that bears its name.
