Stories From Friends and Family of the Final Table Members
There is quite a rail forming at the final table of Event #46: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship. Friends and family are showing there support for there loved ones and sharing their stories with PokerNews.
Eugene Singer has been best friends with chip leader Marc Wolpert since they discovered No-Limit Hold'em in 2004. " We started playing home games in Georgia and it was obvious Marc was the best player in our group. He won a seat to the Main Event twice playing in a league at our local golf club. Marc had some success and eventually moved to California, being closer to Las Vegas allowed Marc to play more World Series Events and sharpen his skills for this moment."
Justin Meng has been poker buddies with Renmei Liu or as his friends like to call him Karl, for over a decade. When Liu first started playing poker he would be the first to admit he was clueless, but after having some early success Liu caught the poker bug and has been playing and studying to improve his game. Liu, Meng, and bracelet winner Xing He are part of a poker group in Canada called the Three Musketeers. The group has helped each others game grow by leaps and bounds. In fact both Liu and He made the WSOP International Circuit Event Main Event Final Table together in April finishing 9th and 3rd respectively.
Both Wolpert and Liu are looking to capture there first World Series of Poker Bracelet but will have some tough competition standing in the way of the ultimate goal.