SA Rocks

That is correct, Zackey pulled himself out of short-stack status yesterday to end day 7 with 5.5 million chips. Slightly behind the average chip stack of 7 million or so.

Here’s what Zackey had to say about his incredible achievement:

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Yes please, you read that headline correctly.

After the incredible success of Ray Rahme coming in high at the final table of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the past it was (in my opinion) to be expected that a South African would do well again, sometime. But I didn’t expect it to be that well, this soon.

Apparently Mr Zackey is through to Day 7 but is short-stacked and high-spirited! Here are his thoughts:

Warren Zackey, from Johannesburg, South Africa, is the chip leader at the World Series of Poker Main Event following Day 5 Sunday with 4,872,000 chips. Zackey is a plumbing supplies salesman in Africa.

Zackey, a 42-year-old plumbing supplies salesman from Johannesburg, South Africa, currently owns the largest chip stack at the World Series of Poker Main Event after five days of play in his first WSOP event during his first trip to Las Vegas.

“It’s brilliant, excellent,” Zackey said. “If I tell somebody in South Africa what it is like, they are not going to believe me. They have to come here. Las Vegas is unbelievable.”

Zackey won his entry fee into the Main Event through a tournament at the Piggs Peak Casino in Swaziland in May.

Heading into Day 6 Monday, with only 185 of the original 6,494 players remaining, Zackey has amassed 4,872,000 chips. The average stack is 1,053,081 chips.

- source

I love it. Let’s hope Mr Zackey holds out to become another poker dollar millionaire! Bring it on.

Thanks to Mel for the tip.

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