Texas Holdem Poker Blog

June 30, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 4

We have the first bracelet winner of the 2006 WSOP in Brandon Cantu, who took down the $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event, winning $757.839!

The final table is now set in the $1500 Pot Limit Texas Holdem Poker event which will go off at 2PM today. Here is the list with chip counts:

Eric Lynch-$455,000
Rocky Enciso-$247,000
Rafe Furst-$222,000
George Bronstein-$157,000
John Juanda-$147,000
Burt Boutin-$140,000
Can Kim Hua-$122,000
Richard Chase-$95,000
Alan Gilbert-$88,000

Today is the second day of the $1500 Limit Texas Holdem Poker event with the field down to 74 players. Play will resume today to determin the final table. Chip counts of the top ten are as follows:

1 Steve Wong $65,000
2 Roger Mezhibovsky $55,500
3 Phil Ivey $49,000
4 Howard Boyd $48,000
5 Kevin Manley $47,000
6 Fi Tran $46,500
7 Greg Mueller $42,000
8 Michelle Lewis$ 38,500
9 George Billias$ 34,000
9Joe Cassidy $34,000

Today is the start of the $2500 No Limit TExas Holdem Short Handed 6/table event. Doyle Brunson is defending this event from last year

Posted by fatbill at 08:45 AM | Comments (0)

June 29, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 3

The final table is all set to go today at 2pm in the $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event. Here are the remaining 9, and their chip counts:

1 Brandon Cantu $753,000
1 Lee Padilla $753,000
3 Drew Rubin $573,000
4 Mark Ly $516,000
5 Mark Swartz $359,000
6 Don Zewin $340,200
7 Juan Carlos Mortensen $337,000
8 Ron Stanley $283,000
9 Brent Roberts $260,000

The $1500 Pot Limit TExas Holdem Poker event got underway yesterday with 1,102 entries. That number was parried down to 71 by the end of day one. Here are the chip counts of the top ten:

1 Randy Jensen $59,500
2 Chan Hua $55,000
3 Rocky Encisol $48,000
4 John Juanda $44,500
5 Annand "Victor" Ramdin $44,000
6 Gavin Phillips $42,500
7 Allan Gilbert $42,000
8 Marcello Cabrera $40,000
9 Tri Tran $36,400
10 Greg Mascio$ 32,000

This event resumes today at 2PM.

Today the $1500 Limit Texas Holdem event gets underway.

Posted by fatbill at 07:41 AM | Comments (0)

June 28, 2006

WSOP 2006 $1500 No Limit Texas holdem

The first event open to the public got underway yesterday, in the $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event. There were a total of 2,276 entries to begin the day, and that total was wittled down to 122 by the end of the day. Play will resume at 2PM today. Here are the chip counts of the leaders.

1 Juan Carlos Mortensen 127,000
2 Ali Zargari 101,000
3 Jack Rosenfeldt 98,000
3 Mike Bertolini 98,000
4 David Ulliott 90,000
5 Erik Seidel 80,000
6 Jordan Rich 74,000
7 Chad Burum 71,000
8 Mike LaBonte 70,000
9 John Bonetti 68,000

The $1500 Pot Limit Texas Holdem Poker event gets underway today!

Posted by fatbill at 07:23 AM | Comments (0)

WSOP 2006 Casino Employee

The No Limit Texas Holdem Poker $500 Buy in Employee Event is over, with the following top ten payouts:

1 Chris Gros $127,496
2 Bryan Devonshire $66,528
3 R.J. Wright $38,531
4 Scott Clark $27,720
5 Christopher Himmenger $22,176
6 Craig Federspiel $19,404
7 David Wortham $16,632
8 Marsha Waggoner $13,860
9 Barry Goldberg $12,474
10 Alejandro Posso $11,088

There were 1,232 entries with a total prize pool of $554,400!

Posted by fatbill at 07:16 AM | Comments (0)

June 27, 2006

2006 WSOP is ON!

Well, the 2006 WSOP tournament is finally here! Yesterday, the No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Casion Employee event got underway with 1,232 entries.

Today, the $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event kicks off the tournament! It will be interesting to see how may entries there are for this event. Last year there were over 2K.

I'm pretty geeked about this year's WSOP, and will keep you up to date with all the event results and happenings....

Posted by fatbill at 08:13 AM | Comments (0)

June 23, 2006

Getting up to date here.....

I have been playing quite a bit again online at a couple of different poker rooms. I've played quite a bit at PokerStars.com, because I like their 180 man $20 buy-in tournament. Unfortunately, I have not had much luck in it lately. I've been making it down to 30 players and then getting knocked out just before the money ( they pay 18 places ), which has been somewhat discouraging.

I decided to go back to playing at Bugsy's place. I started out playing a lot there when I first played online poker for money. I really like the intereface there, and while there are not as many players, the PLAY is MUCH better than at most poker rooms! There are FAR less idiots there and the play is much more consistant AND friendlier! The only problem there, is that there is not as many players, so it's a little harder to find a game. Tournaments are not as big as other online poker rooms either, averaging in the 50 player area during the day.

All this play put a bug in me for some live play, so I went last night and played with the group from the club in a $60 game. I was up and down all night, but played pretty consistantly, and on an even keel. I made it to the final 7 ( had 18 players ) but, as usual, I was short stacked. I started getting cards though, and went on a heater of sorts finding myself chip leader in no time. I ended up chopping with another guy when we were heads up. It was a lot of fun, and went a long way to spark my interest in the game!

Posted by fatbill at 09:55 AM | Comments (0)

June 17, 2006

2006 WSOP Coming Soon!

Can you believe that the WSOP is hear again already? It's coing to start in less than TEN days now! We will, of course, be providing daily coverage of all events, as we have in the past!

I thought a review of the schedule was in order, as there have been some changes to accomodate the $50K HORSE event which is new this year....

Sun, Jun. 25
No-Limit Hold'em Satellites
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $200 + $0
Mon, Jun. 26
No-Limit Hold'em Satellites
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $200 + $0
Mon, Jun. 26 - Tue, Jun. 27
No-Limit Hold'em Casino Employee
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $500 + $0
Tue, Jun. 27 - Thu, Jun. 29
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0
Wed, Jun. 28 - Fri, Jun. 30
Pot-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0
Thu, Jun. 29 - Sat, Jul. 01
Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0
Fri, Jun. 30 - Sun, Jul. 02
No-Limit Hold'em Short Handed 6/Table
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $2,500 + $0
Sat, Jul. 01 - Mon, Jul. 03
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $2,000 + $0
Sun, Jul. 02 - Tue, Jul. 04
Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $3,000 + $0
Mon, Jul. 03 - Wed, Jul. 05
Omaha High-Low 8/OB
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $2,000 + $0
Tue, Jul. 04 - Thu, Jul. 06
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $5,000 + $0
Wed, Jul. 05 - Fri, Jul. 07
Seven Card Stud
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0
Thu, Jul. 06 - Sat, Jul. 08
Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0
Thu, Jul. 06 - Fri, Jul. 07
Omaha High-Low 8/OB
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $5,000 + $0
Fri, Jul. 07 - Sun, Jul. 09
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $2,500 + $0
Sat, Jul. 08 - Sun, Jul. 09
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: Multiple Rebuys $1,000 + $0
Sun, Jul. 09 - Mon, Jul. 10
Ladies No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,000 + $0
Sun, Jul. 09 - Mon, Jul. 10
Pot-Limit Omaha
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $10,000 + $0
Mon, Jul. 10 - Wed, Jul. 12
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,000 + $0
Tue, Jul. 11 - Wed, Jul. 12
Pot-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $2,000 + $0
Wed, Jul. 12
No-Limit Hold'em Seniors
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,000 + $0
Wed, Jul. 12 - Fri, Jul. 14
H.O.R.S.E.
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $50,000 + $0
Thu, Jul. 13 - Sat, Jul. 15
No-Limit Hold'em Short Handed 6/Table
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys$ 2,500 + $0
Fri, Jul. 14 - Sun, Jul. 16
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $2,000 + $0
Sat, Jul. 15 - Mon, Jul. 17
Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $3,000 + $0
Sat, Jul. 15 - Mon, Jul. 17
Omaha High-Low 8/OB
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $3,000 + $0
Sun, Jul. 16 - Tue, Jul. 18
No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $2,000 + $0
Mon, Jul. 17 - Tue, Jul. 18
Pot-Limit Omaha
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0
Tue, Jul. 18 - Thu, Jul. 20
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0
Wed, Jul. 19 - Thu, Jul. 20
Seven Card Stud
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $5,000 + $0
Wed, Jul. 19 - Thu, Jul. 20
Pot-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $2,500 + $0
Thu, Jul. 20 - Sat, Jul. 22
No-Limit Hold'em Short Handed 6/Table
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $5,000 + $0
Fri, Jul. 21 - Sun, Jul. 23
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $2,000 + $0
Sat, Jul. 22 - Mon, Jul. 24
Pot-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $5,000 + $0
Sat, Jul. 22 - Sun, Jul. 23
Seven Card Razz
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0
Sun, Jul. 23 - Tue, Jul. 25
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: Multiple Rebuys $1,000 + $0
Mon, Jul. 24 - Tue, Jul. 25
Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,000 + $0
Mon, Jul. 24 - Wed, Jul. 26
Limit Hold'em Shootout
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0
Tue, Jul. 25 - Thu, Jul. 27
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0
Tue, Jul. 25 - Wed, Jul. 26
No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball
Rebuy Status: Multiple Rebuys
Thu, Jul. 27 - Fri, Jul. 28
No-Limit Hold'em Media Event
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys$ 0 + $0
Fri, Jul. 28 - Thu, Aug. 10
No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $10,000 + $0
Thu, Aug. 03
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,000 + $0
Sat, Aug. 05
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0
Sun, Aug. 06
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0
Mon, Aug. 07
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0
Tue, Aug. 08
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0
Wed, Aug. 09
No-Limit Hold'em
Rebuy Status: No Rebuys $1,500 + $0

Posted by fatbill at 07:50 AM | Comments (0)

June 09, 2006

2006 Mandalay Bay Poker Championships Final

Joe Tehan is the winner of the inaugural Mandalay Bay Poker Championship, winning the $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main event! The win was worth $1,033,440 to Tehan! Second place with to Burt Boutin who took home $604,765 for his effort.

Posted by fatbill at 08:18 AM | Comments (0)

June 08, 2006

2006 Mandalay Bay Poker Championships Day 4

The $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main event is down to the final table of 6, which is scheduled to play off today at 4PM Pacific Time.

That table looks like this:

1. Alex Outhred - $1,743,000 (Seat 2)
2. Burt Boutin - $1,729,000 (Seat 1)
3. Brad “Yukon” Booth - $1,659,000 (Seat 4)
4. Joe Tehan - $1,371,000 (Seat 6)
5. Al Stonum - $263,000 (Seat 3)
6. Steve Vincent - $219,000 (Seat 5)

not familiar with any of them.....

Posted by fatbill at 07:44 AM | Comments (0)

June 07, 2006

2006 Mandalay Bay Poker Championships Day 3

Day three saw some intense action early, as they were 6 players away from the moneh to start the day! Soon they were down to the 50 Cash places in the $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main Event!

Play continued all day to get down to the 18 players that would continue playing for the championship on day 4. Here are the chip counts of those 18 players:

Joe Tehan $1,056,000 40 3
Alex Outhred $902,000 39 5
Brad Booth $721,000 40 6
Tom Koral $590,000 39 2
Mike Landers $531,000 39 9
Miami John Cernuto $397,000 40 1
Michael Woo $389,000 39 8
Tim Phan $388,000 39 7
Gioi Luong $345,000 39 3
Keith Tilston $293,000 40 2
Eddie Soto $271,000 40 9
Carlos Mortensen $243,000 39 6
Tony Ma $187,000 40 8
Gary Maresh $159,000 40 8
Steve Vincent $156,000 39 4
Al Stonum $136,000 40 7
Shunjiro Uchida $128,000 40 5
Burt Boutin $92,000 39 1

Play will resume today to take it down to the TV table of 6.

Posted by fatbill at 09:23 AM | Comments (0)

June 06, 2006

2006 Mandalay Bay Poker Championships Day 2

Well, they played it down to 56 in the $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main event at Mandalay! With the number of top pros in the field, it was a shark fest, and casualties were everywhere. Notable amoung the casualties were:
David Sklansky, Cyndy Violette, Farzad Bonyadi, J.C. Tran, Erick Lindgren, T.J. Cloutier, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, Nam Le, Sebok, Martin de Knijff, and Robert Mizrachi.

Chip counts for the remaining 56 are:

Brad Booth $327,100 0 0
Joe Tehan $311,200 0 0
Tuan Le $287,500 0 0
Charles Pacheco $248,000 0 0
Carlos Mortensen $247,900 0 0
Tom Koral $220,400 0 0
Alex Outhred $216,200 0 0
Robert Wisiak $194,000 0 0
Gioi Luong $193,700 0 0
Kirk Conrad $189,700 0 0
Hasan Habib $186,000 0 0
Shunjiro Uchida $181,700 0 0
Michael Woo $177,100 0 0
Patrik Antonius $175,700 0 0
Chad Brown $174,000 0 0
Burt Boutin $168,400 0 0
Max Pescatori $164,900 0 0
Keith Tilston $153,800 0 0
Todd Rebello $148,600 0 0
Samad Rashid $148,600 0 0
Chris Grigorian $138,400 0 0
Eriberto Soto $136,800 0 0
John Juanda $124,800 0 0
Mike Landers $124,300 0 0
Tim Phan $120,600 0 0
Miami John Cernuto $118,800 0 0
Yong Pak $114,600 0 0
Esther Rossi $112,000 0 0
Loi Phan $111,400 0 0
Greg Mascio $103,800 0 0
Andy Miller $102,600 0 0
David Lynas $102,400 0 0
James Wetzel $100,400 0 0
Louis Asmo $97,700 0 0
Brian Lesser $94,800 0 0
Mike Heintschel $92,000 0 0
Steve Vincent $86,100 0 0
Tony Ma $85,300 0 0
Aytac Apaydin $84,500 0 0
Nenad Medic $78,700 0 0
Eric Buchman $78,100 0 0
Joel Jacobs $77,300 0 0
Gary Maresh $68,500 0 0
Kristy Gazes $62,800 0 0
Ron Faltinsky $61,400 0 0
David Oppenheim $59,500 0 0
Jimmy Athanas $47,500 0 0
Phi Nguyen $46,800 0 0
Brian Brandon $42,100 0 0
Harry Demetriou $40,900 0 0
Skip Wilson $40,500 0 0
Dan Knutson $39,700 0 0
Erik Seidel $36,400 0 0
Danny Smith $27,700 0 0
Gene Todd $24,700 0 0
Al Stonum $22,200 0 0

Posted by fatbill at 07:45 AM | Comments (0)

June 05, 2006

2006 Mandalay Bay Poker Championships

Well, the Mandalay Bay Poker Championship has been underway, as a sort of a warm up to the WSOP later this month. While this is a WPT sponsored event, there were not that many sub events in this one.

The $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main event got underway on Sunday with 349 total entries for a $3.3Million prize pool!

There are a lot of names in the uppper parts of the leader board so far, but, as usual a number of the top players did not last out the day. Those busting out on day on include: Phil Ivey, David “The Dragon” Pham, Alan Goehring, Scott Fischman, Men “The Master” Nguyen, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, Toto Leonidas, Liz Lieu, Chip Reese and Daniel Negreanu.

Here is a quick snapshot of the top 20 in chips after day one:

1 Nenad Medic 141,200 Chips 0 29 5
2 Loi Phan 119,250 Chips 0 39 6
3 Amnon Filippi 112,150 Chips 0 25 1
4 Josh Arieh 100,225 Chips 0 30 1
5 Amir Vahedi 93,575 Chips 0 35 5
6 Carlos Mortensen 93,400 Chips 0 36 2
7 Tim Phan 93,000 Chips 0 28 6
8 Hasan Habib 92,675 Chips 0 34 1
9 Andy Miller 91,900 Chips 0 36 7
10 Mike Heintschel 87,975 Chips 0 34 7
11 Maciek "Michael" Gracz 87,400 Chips 0 25 2
12 Steve Brecher 85,475 Chips 0 26 6
13 Chad Brown 84,450 Chips 0 39 3
14 Gavin Smith 84,400 Chips 0 32 8
15 Patrik Antonius 83,650 Chips 0 26 7
16 Greg Mascio 82,650 Chips 0 35 4
17 Todd Rebello 82,275 Chips 0 37 6
18 David Oppenheim 81,925 Chips 0 31 7
19 Al Ardebili 81,075 Chips 0 26 3
20 Lonnie Mason 81,000 Chips 0 31 3

Posted by fatbill at 08:06 AM | Comments (0)