WSOP Main Event: Keep An Eye On Bardah

NOTE: This article is being released days before lineups are due for the World Series of Poker Main Event. Be sure to verify this player’s status when lineups are due (start of Day 3).

If the World Series of Poker Main Event was a Limit Hold’em tournament, Ronnie Bardah (GPI#350) would be a very hard man to beat. Bardah, who won his first WSOP bracelet last season in the 2,500 Limit Hold’em Six Handed event in 2012, ran deep yet again in a limit event earlier this summer at the WSOP – earning a third place finish in the 5K event.

The Massachusetts man isn’t a one-trick pony, however. He has collected several important cashes in no-limit hold’em event as well and has proven himself to be a very serious competitor on the live tournament circuit.

In the past 12 months, the Ivey Poker pro has a total of eight Top 25 scores on the live circuit including a deep run at the PartyPoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship near Montreal where he finished in 16th position out of a 735-player field … not bad for a limit guru, no?

Back in 2010, Bardah also enjoyed plenty of success right here at the WSOP Main Event. In a year where Jonathan Duhamel became the first Canadian ever to win the Main, Bardah was a contender late, very late in the tournament. Bardah fought hard throughout and collected a 24th place finish in the event earning the first of back-to-back-to-back cashes in the Main Event – that streak of three straight Main Event cashes ended last year – Bardah will certainly be looking at starting a new streak in 2013.

Bardah ended Day 1A play with a 75,675 chip stack. That’s plenty of chips for a player with his experience, look for him to ride that stack into Day 2A in the hopes of starting Day 3 with heaps on chips, putting those who drafted him onto their FPM teams for the Main Event in a great place.

At a current FPM Market Price of a little over 16,000, adding Bardah to your FPM team could very well be a no brainer if he qualifies for Day 3 play.

FANTASY POKER MANAGER PLAYER CARD

RONNIE BARDAH	GPI#350	FPM 16,200
Best WSOP Main Event Result:	24th, 2009	$317,161
Career WSOP, WPT, EPT:	1 win, 9 cashes	$724,455
First WSOP, WPT or EPT Cash:	WSOP Main, 2010	$317,161
Biggest Live Tourney Score:	WSOP Main, 2010	$317,161
Career Live Tournament Circuit:	2 wins	$876,994
Days Since Last Result:	17 days	$94,793
Home: Brockton MA | Age: 29 | Twitter: @RonnieBardah

Why should I add Bardah to my team? 

• Bracelet winner knows what it takes
• Deep run in the 2010 Main Event
• One of the best bargains in the game at the moment

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