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July 18, 2009

Local at the Final Table

Read some on the players that will be in the final table at the WSOP Main Event come this November, and found out that one of the young men there was a Local guy from my city in Michigan!

Seat 7: Joseph Cada — 13,215,000

Best of luck to you Joseph.... way to represent!

Posted by fatbill at 10:01 AM | Comments (0)

July 16, 2009

WSOP Tournament Main Event Results 11

Well, the final 27 hit the tables yesterday, and they played it down to the final table of 9! Unfortunately, they will NOT play the final table until November, but the winner of this event gets a WHOPPING $8,546,435. EVERY player sitting at that final table is GUARANTEED $1,263,602!!

Here is the table set up for November....

Seat 1: Darvin Moon — 58,930,000
Seat 2: James Akenhead — 6,800,000
Seat 3: Phil Ivey — 9,765,000
Seat 4: Kevin Schaffel — 12,390,000
Seat 5: Steven Begleiter — 29,885,000
Seat 6: Eric Buchman — 34,800,000
Seat 7: Joseph Cada — 13,215,000
Seat 8: Antoine Saout — 9,500,000
Seat 9: Jeff Shulman — 19,580,000

Ivey is in it, but he's pretty short, especially when you look at the chip leader's MASSIVE 58MILLION stack!

Posted by fatbill at 10:40 AM | Comments (0)

July 15, 2009

WSOP Tournament Main Event Results 10

When day 7 started there were 64 players, but that shrunk down to 43 in the first two levels. FOURTEEN players hit the rail during the third level of the day, and they got down to 27 before 11PM. Those 27 will return for day 8 and play down to the final table. Players left all are guaranteed over $250K....

Here are the top ten chip counts going into today's play:
1. Darvin Moon — 20,160,000
2. Billy Kopp — 15,970,000
3. Steve Begleiter — 11,885,000
4. Phil Ivey — 11,350,000
5. Kevin Schaffel — 11,245,000
6. Antoine Saout — 11,135,000
7. Jeff Shulman — 10,170,000
8. Eric Buchman — 10,005,000
9. Jamie Robbins — 9,795,000
10. Ben Lamb — 9,410,000

Phil Ivey is still playing strong, as is Cardplayer's Jeff Shulman!

Posted by fatbill at 08:53 AM | Comments (0)

July 13, 2009

WSOP Tournament Main Event Results 9

They ended play early for the second night in a row! Mainly the decision was made due to the number of eliminations! Play began with 407, and after three levels, they were down to 185!

Here are the leading stacks:
1. Warren Zackey – 4,872,000
2. Kasper Cordes – 4,352,000
3. Darvin Moon – 3,218,000
4. Tom Schneider – 3,168,000
5. Bernhard Perner – 3,022,000
6. Miika Puumalainen – 2,894,000
7. Matt Affleck – 2,882,000
8. Charlie Elias – 2,780,000
9. James Akenhead – 2,692,000
10. Steven Begleiter – 2,630,000

Phil Ivey is still in the mix, as are pro's Joe Hachem, David Benyamine, Antonio Esfandiari, and Lou Diamond Phillips!

Past champions Dan Harrington and Bobby Baldwin were eliminated.

Play will resume at Noon today

Posted by fatbill at 08:27 AM | Comments (0)

July 12, 2009

WSOP Tournament Main Event Results 8

They played it down to 407 and reached the cash, on day 4! Among the leaders is Phil Ivey who sets with 1,275K in chips, and is among the top chip counts. Phil has never won the main event, but has been hot this year at the WSOP capturing two bracelts so far, so don't count him out.

Also still in the field, but low in the chip counts are past champions Dan Harrington, Joe Hachem, and Bobby Baldwin....

Here are the top ten chip counts:
1. Matt Affleck – 1,819,000
2. Ludovic Lacay – 1,680,000
3. Tom Lutz – 1,600,000
4. James Akenhead – 1,570,000
5. Charlie Elias – 1,540,000
6. Miika Puumalainen – 1,492,000
7. Jordan Morgan – 1,489,000
8. Bernhard Perner – 1,426,000
9. Blair Hinkle – 1,399,000
10. Benjamin Jensen – 1,394,000

Play resumes today at noon....

Posted by fatbill at 08:33 AM | Comments (0)

July 11, 2009

WSOP Tournament Main Event Results 7

Well, they ALL met for the first time in the Main Event on Day three, and of the 2,044 that started the day, only 810 remained with the day ended. Remember, the money bubble is at 648!

Here are the top chip counts:
1. Betrand Grospellier — 1,380,500
2. Ludovic Lacay — 925,000
3. Christian Heich — 870,000
4. Kasper Cordes — 796,000
5. Jordan Morgan — 785,000
6. Adam Bilzerian — 767,000
7. Saar Wilf — 765,000
8. Gabe Walls — 715,000
9. James Akenhead — 698,000
10. Brennan Hanson — 685,000

Phil Hellmuth is still up there with appx 550K....
Those that are NOT still in the running include:
Roland de Wolfe, Bryan Micon, Bill Gazes, EJen Harman, Matt Hawrilenko, Sam Farha, Jean-Robert Bellande, Greg Raymer, Carlos Mortensen, Marco Traniello, Lee Watkinson, Robert Mizrachi, Dutch Boyd, Josh Arieh, and John Juanda.

Day 4 begins at Noon today, and should at least get to the cash....

still awaiting word on if my buddy survived....

Posted by fatbill at 09:07 AM | Comments (0)

July 09, 2009

WSOP Tournament Main Event Results 6

Day 2B saw a massive 2,924 players start the field, but at the end of play, there were just 1,436 remaining. Some of the notable players that were eliminated from the field include: Erick Lindgren, Shannon Shorr, Vanessa Rousso, Scotty Nguyen, Howard Lederer, Michael Mizrachi, and Cyndy Violette.....

One notable that is still strong in the field is Phil Ivey!

Some of the day's top chip counts are:
1. Amir Lehavot — 610,500
2. Troy Weber — 453,200
3. Dan Bilzerian — 439,500
4. Gabe Walls — 417,900
5. Franlin Grigsby — 369,000
6. John Hammer — 363,000
7. Phil Ivey — 325,000
8. Adam Latimer — 322,000
9. Andreas Altmeyer — 318,000
10. Mike Lesle — 305,000

Play will resume Tomorrorow, Friday, July 10th, with those remaining in the event all set in the same room on the same day, to wittle the field down to the money.

On a personal note.... a friend will be in the field Friday, starting with 65K in chips.. Much luck to you Bill!

Posted by fatbill at 10:07 AM | Comments (0)

July 08, 2009

WSOP Tournament Main Event Results 5

With Day 2A in the books, there were 630 that survived the field, out of the starting 1476. Day 2B starts today, then we finally get the entire remaining field in one room!

Some top chip counts include:

1. Eric Cloutier – 384,000
2. Greg Mueller – 311,000
3. Andy Black – 220,000
4. Mike Sexton – 170,000
5. Sorel Mizzi – 160,000
6. Chris Ferguson – 155,000
7. Jimmy Fricke – 150,000
8. Thor Hansen – 141,000
9. Pamela Brunson – 135,000
10. Vitaly Lunkin – 132,000

Posted by fatbill at 08:50 AM | Comments (0)

July 07, 2009

WSOP Tournament Main Event Results 4

Well, Day 1D drew the Largest group of the first four days, having 2,809 players enter the event! That brings the total entries to 6,494 for the event. The total prize pool will be $61,043,600 with $8,546,435 going to first! There will be 648 entries paid....

There will be 1,478 for day 2A, and that action will begin at noon today.....

Posted by fatbill at 09:57 AM | Comments (0)

July 06, 2009

WSOP Tournament Main Event Results 2

Day 1C of the Main Event saw an increase in attendee's with 1,697, but the expectation is that there will be significantly less players in this years event. They would need over 3K to show up today for day 1D to even match last year's totals!

Notable Pros David “Chino” Rheem, Daniel Negreanu, Evelyn Ng, Marcel Luske, and Annie Duke were all eliminated on this day!

Pro's still in the race after day 1C include: Joe Hachem (87,000), Dan Harrington (58,000), Scotty Nguyen (54,000), Phil Hellmuth (27,000) and last year’s WSOP Europe Main Event champion John Juanda (51,000).

Lets not forget Jeffery Lisandro, who emerged from this day as one of the chip leaders... he's already won THREE WSOP bracelets this year!

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July 05, 2009

WSOP Tournament Main Event Results 2

Well, the anticipated crowd for day 1B never materialized, and they only had 873 to start the day! This is down from last year's 1158. They played it down to 684.

Some of the notable pros that made it through the day include: Mike Matusow, Erik Seidel, Hoyt Corkins and Barry Greenstein. Chris Moneymaker and Doyle Brunson both were eliminated on this day!

Posted by fatbill at 09:26 AM | Comments (0)

July 04, 2009

WSOP Tournament Main Event Results 1

Well, day 1A is in the books, and the turnout was modest to say the least. Only 1,116 players showed up, compared to 1,297 on day 1A last year. We will have to see if the numbers increase with the weekend sessions....

When play ended there were about 800 still in the field, among those were Eli Elezra, and Phil Laak. Heavyweights John Phan, Allen Cunningham, Andy Bloch and Men 'the master' Nguyen all were knocked out of play on day one!

Posted by fatbill at 09:06 AM | Comments (0)

July 03, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 31

Event 56 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six Handed: 928 Entries
Matt Hawrilenko won this event and the bracelet. He took home $1,003,163 for this one!

The Main Event Begins TODAY! There are FOUR day one's scheduled that go through Monday, then TWO day Two's, before the entire remaining field sits down at the same time NEXT Friday....

Final Table Nov 07 11:00 AM

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July 02, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 30

Event 49 - $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E: 95 Entries
David Bach won this championship and the bracelet, taking home a WHOPPING $1,276,802!

Event 54 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2818 Entries
Tony Veckey won this event taking home $673,276 and the bracelet!

Event 55 - $2,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball: 258 Entries
Abe Mosseri took this one down, winning $165,521 and the bracelet!

Event 56 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six Handed: 928 Entries
They played this down to 16 players, and will resume today at 1PM to determine the winner. The Chip counts are:
1. Rory Mathews — 1,358,000
2. Matt Hawrilenko — 1,327,000
3. Peter Feldman — 1,321,000
4. Robert Kay — 1,213,000
5. Mathew Waxman — 1,132,000
6. Thorsten Schaefer — 1,0940,000
7. James St. Hilaire — 876,000
8. Jonas Wexler — 848,000
9. Faraz Jaka — 778,000
10. John Conkright — 749,00
11. Alex Venovski — 684,000
12. Sean Keeton — 641,000
13. Frank Calo — 569,000
14. Aurelien Guiglini — 549,000
15. Eugene Katchalov — 356,000
16. Josh Brikis — 294,000

The Main Event Begins TOMORROW and here is the schedule:
Day 1A Jul 03 12:00 PM
Day 1B Jul 04 12:00 PM
Day 1C Jul 05 12:00 PM
Day 1D Jul 06 12:00 PM
Day 2A Jul 07 12:00 PM
Day 2B Jul 08 12:00 PM
Day 3 Jul 10 12:00 PM
Day 4 Jul 11 12:00 PM
Day 5 Jul 12 12:00 PM
Day 6 Jul 13 12:00 PM
Day 7 Jul 14 12:00 PM
Day 8 Jul 15 12:00 PM
Final Table Nov 07 11:00 AM

Posted by fatbill at 09:48 AM | Comments (0)

July 01, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 29

Event 49 - $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E: 95 Entries
As of this writing, this event is down to two players: David Bach and John Hanson, and their chip counts are virtually identical!

Event 52 - $3,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold'em: 854 Entries
Jorg Peisert won this event worth $506,800 and the bracelet!

Event 53 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud 8 or Better: 467 Entries
David Halpern took this event and the bracelet, winning $159,390. Chad Brown ended up forth.

Event 54 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2818 Entries
Day two ended with 28 players remaining in the field. Play gets back underway at 1PM today to determine the winner.

Event 55 - $2,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball: 258 Entries
Play ended on day two with 9 players remaining. They meet today at 1PM to determine the winner. Chip counts are:
1. Abe Mosseri — 447,000
2. Blair Rodman — 358,000
3. Masayoshi Tanaka — 345,000
4. John Juanda — 182,000
5. Julie Schneider — 163,000
6. Brad Libson — 146,000
7. Hertzel Zalewski — 111,000
8. Nam Le — 95,000
9. Kris Lord — 87,000

Event 56 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six Handed: 928 Entries
Day one ended with 160 still in the hunt, among them is Phill Hellmuth. Play resumes today at 2PM.

No more Events are scheduled to begin until The Main Event on Friday!

Posted by fatbill at 08:43 AM | Comments (0)

June 30, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 28

Event 49 - $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E: 95 Entries
They played this one down to the final table of 8, with play set to resume today at 2PM to finally determine the winner! The chip counts at the final table are:
Seat 1 – Ville Wahlbeck 645,000
Seat 2 – Erik Sagstrom 3,675,000
Seat 3 – John Hanson 1,700,000
Seat 4 – Huck Seed 1,380,000
Seat 5 – Vitaly Lunkin 2,490,000
Seat 6 – David Bach 2,345,000
Seat 7 – Erik Seidel 965,000
Seat 8 – Chau Giang 1,075,000

Event 51 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2781 Entries
Carsten Joh won this event worth $664,426 and the bracelet.

Event 52 - $3,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold'em: 854 Entries
They are down to 16 players, and will resume today at 1PM to determine the winner. Chip counts are as follows:
1. Jason DeWitt — 1,250,000
2. Alex Millar — 862,000
3. Joe Patrick — 520,000
4. Mike Katz — 440,000
5. Jorg Peisert — 435,000
6. Michael Noda — 420,000
7. Benjamin Gilbert — 375,000
8. Karga Holt — 375,000
9. Thomas Applegate — 320,000
10. Wes Watson — 320,000
11. Max Greenwood — 300,000
12. Jason Somerville — 290,000
13. An Tran — 280,000
14. Konstantin Sobol — 180,000
15. Eric Lynch — 175,000
16. Vladimin Kochelaevskiy — 125,000

Event 53 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud 8 or Better: 467 Entries
Play ended for the day with 14 players still in the race! Chad Brown leads the field with 311,000 chips....

Event 54 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2818 Entries
Day one ended with only 384 still in the field, and the money bubble waiting, at 297. Play will resume at 2PM today....

Event 55 - $2,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball: 258 Entries
They played this one down to 78 players, but only 24 will cash! Play will continue today to determine the final table!

Events scheduled to begin today June 30th:
Event 56 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six Handed
The Main Event is FOUR days away!

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June 29, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 27

Event 49 - $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E: 95 Entries
At the close of day three, there were 19 players still in the field, with only the top 16 getting paid off! Play resumes today at 5PM, with the following chip counts:
1 Vitaly Lunkin 1,527,000
2 Erik Sagstrom 1,315,000
3 Freddy Deeb 1,300,000
4 David Bach 1,265,000
5 Ville Wahlbeck 842,000
6 John Hanson 815,000
7 Gus Hansen 801,000
8 Mike Wattel 779,000
9 John Kabbaj 678,000
10 Huck Seed 672,000
11 Brett Richey 671,000
12 Tony G 650,000
13 Chau Giang 616,000
14 Steve Billirakis 576,000
15 Frank Kassela 499,000
16 Erik Seidel 464,000
17 David Chiu 397,000
18 Ray Dehkharghani 262,000
19 Todd Brunson 145,000

Event 50 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout (1,000 player max): 571 Entries
Greg Mueller won this event, worth $194,854, and took home is Second bracelet of this year's WSOP!

Event 51 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2781 Entries
This event is down to 30 players who will battle it out when play resumes today at 1PM. Thibaut Durand is the chip leader....

Event 52 - $3,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold'em: 854 Entries
This event is down to 153 players, as play will resume today at 2PM. Jeffrey Lisandro is still in the mix, going for his FOURTH bracelet of this year's WSOP!

Event 53 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud 8 or Better: 467 Entries
They played this down to 143 as day one ended, but the money bubble is at 48. Daniel Negreanu, Annie Duke, and Marcel Luske are still in the hunt.

Events scheduled to begin today June 29th:
Event 54 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Event 55 - $2,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball
The Main Event is FOUR days away!

Posted by fatbill at 10:06 AM | Comments (0)

June 28, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 26

Event 48 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better: 762 Entries
Brandon Cantu won this event eliminating Lee Watkinson heads up. Cantu takes the bracelet and $228,867.

Event 49 - $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E: 95 Entries
At the end of day two, 53 players remain in the field. Play will resume today at 3PM, with the top chip counts as:
1. Ray Dehkharghani — 643,000
2. Gus Hansen — 540,000
3. Erik Sagstrom — 500,000
4. Matt Glantz — 475,000
5. Hasan Habib — 440,000
6. David Bach — 405,000
7. John Monnette — 402,000
8. Frank Kassela — 400,000
9. Jani Sointula — 390,000
10. Todd Brunson — 380,000

Event 50 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout (1,000 player max): 571 Entries
The final 8 are set to resume play at 2PM today. This table consists of:
David Williams
Greg Mueller
Flamingo Malaguti
Joep Van Den Bijgaart
Jose Barbero
Marc Naalden
Matthew Sterling
Millie Shiu

Event 51 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2781 Entries
At the end of day one, there were just 349 still in the field, with play set to resume at 2PM. The money bubble is at 297.

Events scheduled to begin today June 28th:
Event 52 - $3,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold'em
Event 53 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud 8 or Better
The Main Event is set for Friday, July 3rd!

Posted by fatbill at 09:14 AM | Comments (0)

June 27, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 25

Event 45 - $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em: 275 Entries
John Kabbaj took down this championship worth $633,335, eliminating Kirill Gerasimov, and taking home the bracelet!

Event 46 - $2,500 Omaha 8 or Better: 424 Entries
Derek Raymond won this event taking the bracelet and $229,192.

Event 47 - $2,500 Mixed Hold'em: 527 Entries
Bahador Ahmadi won this event, worth $278,804 and the bracelet. Barry Greenstein went out 5th....

Event 48 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better: 762 Entries
This event is down to the final table, which will resume play today. The chip counts are:
Seat 1: Lee Watkinson — 412,000
Seat 2: Steve Jelinek — 260,000
Seat 3: William McMahan — 168,000
Seat 4: Brandon Cantu — 1,025,000
Seat 5: Ted Weinstock — 239,000
Seat 6: Aaron Sias — 353,000
Seat 7: Jacqmin Mathieu — 552,000
Seat 8: Ronnie Hofman — 76,000
Seat 9: Tommy Vedes — 334,000

Event 49 - $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E: 95 Entries
After day one, there are still 90 players left in this one. The top chip counts are a 'who's who'....
1. Hasan Habib — 387,000
2. Martin Vallo — 347,200
3. Matt Glantz — 300,000
4. Justin Smith — 295,000
5. David Benyamnine — 263,200
6. Farzad Bonyadi — 252,000
7. Chris Ferguson — 242,000
8. Andy Black — 235,000
9. Johnny Chan — 234,000
10. Erik Seidel — 230,000

Event 50 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout (1,000 player max): 571 Entries
There were 64 tables, the winner of each guaranteed $4350, and they play down to the final 8 starting today at 2PM.

Events scheduled to begin today June 27th:
Event 51 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Posted by fatbill at 09:57 AM | Comments (0)

June 25, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 24

Event 43 - $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em World Championship: 2707 entries
Michael Davis won this event, taking the bracelet and $437,358.

Event 44 - $2,500 Seven Card Razz: 317 Entries
Jeffrey Lisandro won this event worth $188,370, but more importantly, it's his THIRD BRACELET of this years WSOP!! This is the first time since 2002 when Ivey did it that someone has taken down 3 Bracelets in the same year, and there are STILL 12 Events left!

Event 45 - $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em: 275 Entries
With the end of day two, John Kabbaj is leading the remaining 14 players by MORE than a two/one chip count! The top counts are:
1. John Kabbaj — 2,206,000
2. J.C. Alvarado — 924,000
3. Billy Kopp — 772,000
4. Eric Baldwin — 713,000
5. Isaac Haxton — 660,000
6. Davidi Kitai — 581,000
7. Kirill Gerasimov — 550,000
8. Ken Lenaard — 467,000
9. Darryll Fish — 368,000
10. Eugen Todd — 351,00

Event 46 - $2,500 Omaha 8 or Better: 424 Entries
This event is down to 23 players with day two in the books. Play resumes today at 1PM, and the top chip counts are:
1. Mark Tenner — 285,000
2. Patrice Boudet — 258,000
3. John Monnette — 237,000
4. Fabio Coppola — 200,000
5. Michael Keiner — 195,000
6. Frankie O’Dell — 185,000
7. Can Kim Hua — 169,000
8. James Dempsey — 164,000
9. Derek Raymond — 160,000
10. Mark Gregorich — 127,000

Event 47 - $2,500 Mixed Hold'em: 527 Entries
They played day one down to 68 players, and are set to resume today at 2PM. The money bubble bursts at 54! Notable Chip counts are:
Barry Greenstein — 177,200
Daniel Negreanu — 130,000
Hasan Habib — 84,000
Gavin Griffin — 65,000
Jean-Robert Bellande — 65,000
Andy Bloch — 60,000
Eric Froehlich — 55,000
Allen Cunningham — 43,000
Eli Elezra — 37,000
Amnon Filippi — 37,000

Events scheduled to begin today June 25th:
Event 48 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better

Posted by fatbill at 10:17 AM | Comments (0)

June 24, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 23

Event 41 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout: 280 Entries
Peter Traply won this event taking home $348,728 and the bracelet. The final table only took 5 hours to complete!

Event 42 - $2,500 Mixed Event: 412 Entries
Jerrod Ankenman won this won, worth $241,637, and earning the bracelet.

Event 43 - $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em World Championship: 2707 entries
When they closed this one for the day, there were 28 players still in the hunt. Play will resume today at 1PM. Top chip counts are:
Tom Thomas — 917,000
Charles Simon — 626,000
Scott Buller — 541,000
John Bennett — 487,000
Zip Vitullo — 420,000
Richard McCall — 414,000
David Posey — 348,000
Barry Bounds — 342,000
Mitch Garshofsky — 309,000
Dan Delatorre — 301,000

Event 44 - $2,500 Seven Card Razz: 317 Entries
Day two closed with 13 players still in the race, among them Jeffrey Lisandro who already has TWO bracelets in this year's WSOP! Play will resume today at 1PM, with the top chip counts being:
1. Jeffrey Lisandro — 438,000
2. Steve Diano — 302,000
3. Don Zwewin — 300,000
4. Kenna James — 284,000
5. Warwick Mirzikinian — 191,000
6. Ryan Fisler — 190,000
7. William Cole — 182,000
8. Michael Craig — 102,000
9. Al Barbieri — 99,000
10. Nikolay Evdakov — 88,000

Event 45 - $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em: 275 Entries
Day one ended with 85 players still in the hunt. Play will get underway at 2PM today, and a couple notables in the field are David Pham and Erik Seidel...

Event 46 - $2,500 Omaha 8 or Better: 424 Entries
They played it down to 46 when day one ended, and are scheduled to resume today at 2PM. The money bubble is at 45! Some of the top chip counts are:
Armando Ruiz — 41,000
Thang Luu — 40,000
Will Motlow — 34,000
Mickey Applenman — 31,000
Max Pescatori — 30,000
Can Kim Hua — 30,000
Lee Watkinson — 23,000
Mark Gregorich — 23,000
Vanessa Selbst — 21,000
John Monnette — 20,000

Events scheduled to begin today June 24th:
Event 47 - $2,500 Mixed Hold'em

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June 23, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 22

Event 39 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2715 Entries
Ray Foley hung on to win this bracelet and take home $657,969.

Event 40 - $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha: 295 Entries
Mat Graham won this event worth $679,379 and the bracelet.

Event 41 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout: 280 Entries
Day two is in the books and the final table of five is set to resume today at 2PM. Those remaining are: Danny Wong, Andrew Lichtenberger, Peter Traply, Nasr El Nasr, and Maxim Lykov.

Event 42 - $2,500 Mixed Event: 412 Entries
Day two is over, and there are 14 players set to go when play resumes today at 2PM. The top stacks are:
Jon Turner — 469,200
Jerrod Ankenman — 412,400
Adam Friedman — 325,800
Layne Flack — 283,400
Sergey Altbregin — 239,500
Dario Alioto — 224,600
Trai Dang — 220,000
Eric Crain — 210,600
Chris Klodnicki — 153,400
Blair Rodman — 139,800
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Event 43 - $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em World Championship: 2707 entries
At the end of the first day, there were 402 players still in the field. The money bubble is at 270. Play will resume today at 2PM, and the top stacks are:
Chuck Simon — 77,000
Rushing Smith — 55,000
Debbie Brush — 34,000
Berry Johnston — 32,000
More Herskovic — 29,000
Shawn Burns — 29,000
Scott Mayfield — 28,000
Jesse Jones — 27,000
Bill Derego — 26,000
Barbara Enright — 18,000

Event 44 - $2,500 Seven Card Razz: 317 Entries
At the end of day one, there were 122 left in the field, set to resume today at 2PM. The top stacks are:
Yan Chen: 52,000
Ville Wahlbeck: 46,000
David Chiu: 42,000
John Juanda: 36,500
Joe Tehan: 34,000
Jeffrey Lisandro: 22,000
Chris Ferguson: 19,000
Alex Kravchenko: 18,000
John Phan: 12,500
Daniel Negreanu: 11,500

Events scheduled to begin today June 23rd:
Event 45 - $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em
Event 46 - $2,500 Omaha 8 or Better

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June 22, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 21

Event 36 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 1695 Entries
Jordan Smith Won this event worth $586,212 and the bracelet!

Event 37 - $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud 8 or Better:164 Entries
This event was won by Jeffrey Lisandro who took down $431,656 and his SECOND bracelt of this year's WSOP! Doyle Brunson ended up 7th.

Event 38 - $2,000 Limit Hold'em: 446 Entries
Marc Naalden Won this Event worth $190,770 and the bracelet!

Event 39 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2715 Entries
When day two came to an end, there were 26 players still in the hunt. Play resumes today at 2PM, with Ray Foley in the lead....

Event 40 - $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha: 295 Entries
There are 25 still in the field, after two days of action. Play will resume today at 1PM. Barry Greenstein and Howard Lederer are among those still in the hunt....

Event 41 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout: 280 Entries
Day one ended with only 30 remaining and play scheduled to resume at 2PM.

Event 42 - $2,500 Mixed Event: 412 Entries
Day one ended with 154 still in the field and coming back to play at 2PM today.

Events scheduled to begin today June 22th:
Event 43 - $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em World Championship
Event 44 - $2,500 Seven Card Razz

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June 20, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 20

Event 35 - $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha: 363 Entries
Richard Austin Won this event worth #409,484 and the bracelet, by eliminating both his remaining competitors on the last hand!

Event 36 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 1695 Entries
Day 2 ended with 17 players still in the field. They will resume play at 1PM today to determine the winner. The chip counts are:
1. Steven Tabb – 1,086,000
2. Andrew Seden – 995,000
3. Warren Woodall – 881,000
4. Pat Atchison – 852,000
5. Andrew White – 808,000
6. Jordan Smith – 800,000
7. Jack Powell – 679,000
8. Laurence Grondin – 608,000
9. Anthony Roux – 561,000
10. Corwin Cole – 447,000
11. Ken Lennaard – 445,000
12. Almira Skripchecko – 407,000
13. Joe Morneau – 405,000
14. Jonathan Plens – 378,000
15. Adam White – 330,000
16. Tommy Chen – 283,000
17. Johnny Neckar – 196,000

Event 37 - $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud 8 or Better:164 Entries
Day two came to an end with 12 players still in the field. THey will return today at 1PM to determine the winner. BOTH Doyle Brunson AND Scotty Nguyen are still in the mix! The chip counts are:
1. Abe Mosseri – 950,000
2. Jeff Lisandro – 786,000
3. Doyle Brunson – 525,000
4. Farzad Rouhani – 494,000
5. Yan Chen – 476,000
6. Perry Friedman – 378,000
7. Lyle Berman – 333,000
8. Scotty Nguyen – 298,000
9. Frank Mariani – 267,000
10. Justin Smith – 237,000
11. Mike Wattel – 96,000
12. Anthony Rivera – 92,000

Event 38 - $2,000 Limit Hold'em: 446 Entries
At the end of day one, there were 107 players still in contention, with play set to resume at 2PM today. Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu are among those still in the hunt.

Events scheduled to begin today June 20th:
Event 39 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Event 40 - $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha

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June 19, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 19

Event 34 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2095 Entries
Eric Baldwin won this event, taking the bracelet and $521,932.

Event 35 - $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha: 363 Entries
When day two closed, there were 11 players still in the field. They will resume play at 1PM today. The chip counts are as follows:
1. Sorel Mizzi – 969,000
2. Rifat Palevic – 949,000
3. Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy – 805,000
4. Richard Austin – 537,000
5. Van Marcus – 482,000
6. Peter Jetten – 370,000
7. Dan Hindin – 342,000
8. Felipe Ramos – 323,000
9. Jeppe Nielsen – 242,000
10. Samuel Ngai – 207,000
11. Isaac Baron – 176,000

Event 36 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 1695 Entries
Day 1 ended with 213 remaining in the field, with play scheduled to resume at 2PM today.

Event 37 - $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud 8 or Better:164 Entries
Day one came to a close with 111 still in the hunt. Play will resume today, with the top chip counts being:
1. Tuan Le – 232,000
2. Lyle Berman – 112,000
3. Jeff Lisandro – 110,000
4. Dario Minieri – 82,000
5. Amnon Filippi – 75,000
6. Tom Koral – 71,200
7. Howard Lederer – 71,000
8. Daniel Alaei – 70,000
9. Tom Schneider – 70,000
10. Pawel Andrzejewski – 68,000

Event scheduled to begin today June 19th:
Event 38 - $2,000 Limit Hold'em

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June 18, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 18

Event 32 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 1534 Entries
Angel Guillen won this event worth $530,548.

Event 33 - $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em: 185 Entries
Greg Mueller won this event taking home the bracelet and $460,836.
Chad Brown took home thrid place....

Event 34 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2095 Entries
Day two came to a close with 21 players still vieing for the title! Play will resume today, and the top chip counts are:
1. Jonas Klausen — 935,000
2. Martin Jacobson — 806,000
3. Roland de Wolfe — 644,000
4. Eric Baldwin — 610,000
5. Joseph Cada — 606,000
6. Benjamin Scholl — 574,000
7. Sean Mullaghy — 574,000
8. James Taylor — 522,000
9. Praz Bansi — 486,000
10. Steven Bradbury — 475,000

Event 35 - $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha: 363 Entries
At the end of day one, there were 64 still in the field. Play will resume at 2PM today, and the top chip counts are:
1. Jesper Hougaard – 208,500
2. Rifat Palevic – 207,400
3. Sorel Mizzi – 177,000
4. Edward Ochana – 160,000
5. Richard Austin – 160,000
6. Ralph Perry – 158,000
7. Cliff Josephy – 155,000
8. Jeff Lisandro – 153,000
9. Sandra Naujoks – 153,000
10. Steve Sarrafzadeh – 141,000

Event scheduled to begin today June 18th:
Event 36 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Event 37 - $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud 8 or Better

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June 17, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 17

Event 29 - $10,000 World Championship Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em
Leo Wolpert took this one down, winning the bracelet and $625,682.

Event 30 - $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha: 436 Entries
J.C. Tran Won this event taking home $235,685 and the bracelet

Event 31 - $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.: 770 Entries
James Van Alstyne won this event taking down $247,033 and the the bracelet.

Event 32 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 1534 Entries
They ended day two with 19 players still in the field. The top ten chip counts are:
1. Mika Paasonen — 894,000
2. Neng Lee — 824,000
3. Jim Pannell — 720,000
4. David Vu — 710,000
5. Chris Macneil — 625,000
6. Angel Guillen — 610,000
7. Clark Hamagami — 510,000
8. Jason Boyes — 485,000
9. Peter Feldman — 465,000
10. Eric Ladny — 385,000

Event 33 - $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em: 185 Entries
Play was stopped with 12 players left in the field. They will resume play at 1PM today to determine the champion. The chip counts are as follows:
1. Kenny Hsuing – 831,000
2. Matt Hawrilenko – 800,000
3. Chad Brown – 635,000
4. Mark Klecan – 600,000
5. Michiel Brummelhuis – 500,000
6. Maria Ho – 475,000
7. Soheil Shamseddin – 440,000
8. Pat Pezzin – 350,000
9. Greg Mueller – 305,000
10. Matt Glantz – 280,000
11. Daniel Alaei – 230,000
12. Jennifer Harman – 125,000

Event 34 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2095 Entries
At the end of day one, there are 243 players still in the hunt. They will resume play today to determine the final table. The top chip counts are:
James Taylor — 172,000
Scott Dorsch — 150,000
Martin Jacobson — 120,000
Steve Bredbury — 110,000
Randy Pheifer — 110,000
Phil Hellmuth — 79,000
Jared Hamby — 75,000
Chris Ferguson — 35,000
Paul Wasicka — 31,000
Paul Darden — 28,000

Event scheduled to begin today June 17th:
Event 35 - $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

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June 16, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 16

Event 28 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2641 Entries
This event was won by Mike Eise, who took home the bracelet and $639,331.

Event 29 - $10,000 World Championship Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em
The final two players in this event will face off today at Noon in a best out of three series. Those players are John Duthie, and Leo Wolpert. Johnny Chan took fifth.

Event 30 - $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha: 436 Entries
They have set the final table, and those players and their counts are:
eat 1: Jeff Kimber — 525,000
Seat 2: Rami Boukai — 325,000
Seat 3: Dallas Flowers — 239,000
Seat 4: Ross Boatman — 718,000
Seat 5: J.C. Tran — 387,000
Seat 6: John Juanda — 129,000
Seat 7: Theo Jorgensen — 419,000
Seat 8: Chad Layne — 206,000
Seat 9: Jean Phillipe Leandri — 324,000

Event 31 - $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.: 770 Entries
At the end of day two, there are 22 players still in the field, with Shannon Shorr ahead in the count. Play will resume today at 1PM, and the players top chip counts are:
1. Shannon Shorr — 323,500
2. Mitch Schock — 285,000
3. Fabrice Soulier — 250,000
4. Brian Malcolm — 247,500
5. Phillip Marmorstein — 209,500
6. Ron Schiffman — 200,000
7. Tad Jurgens — 166,500
8. Joe Serock — 150,000
9. Chris Bjorin — 140,000
10. Sebastien Sabic — 138,500

Event 32 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 1534 Entries
This event played down to 224 at the end of day one, with play set to resume today at 2PM. They are trying to get to the money bubble of 171.

Event 33 - $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em: 185 Entries
At the end of day one, there are 116 still in the field. Some notables NOT making the cut include: Daniel Negreanu, Eric Froehlich, Mike Matusow, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Hellmuth and John Juanda. The top chip counts are:
1. Mark Klecan – 115,000
2. Josh Arieh – 112,100
3. Shaun Deeb – 106,000
4. Mark Teltscher – 100,000
5. Phil Tom – 95,000
6. Jennifer Harman – 90,000
7. Maria Ho – 87,000
8. Matt Hawrilenko – 86,300
9. Lex Veldhuis – 79,000
10. Pat Pezzin – 78,000

Event scheduled to begin today June 16th:
Event 34 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

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June 15, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 15

Event 26 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em: 643 Entries
This event was won by Tomas Alenius, who took the bracelet and $197,488 for his efforts!

Event 27 - $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better: 198 Entries
Roland de Wolfe took down this Bracelt and $246,616. By winning this event, de Wolfe became only the third player to win a WSOP bracelet, a European Poker Tour, AND World Poker Tour event!

Event 28 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2641 Entries
They wrapped up day two, ending with 27 still in the field. The play will resume today at 1PM. The chip leader is Joe Simmons.

Event 29 - $10,000 World Championship Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em
They played down to 8 matches which will resume today at 2PM. The matches will be:
Leo Wolpert vs. Dustin Woolf
Jamin Stokes vs. Johnny Chan
Nathan Doudney vs. Bryan Pellegrino
John Duthie vs. Steve O’Dwyer

Event 30 - $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha: 436 Entries
When day one ended, there were 63 players still in the field, and they will resume today at 2PM. J.C. Tran is the chip leader, with other notables still alive being: Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Farzad Bonyadi, and Joe Beevers.

Event 31 - $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.: 770 Entries
770 is a huge number for a HORSE event! Play ended after day one with 240 still in the field. Some of the notables still in the field are: Marco Traniello, Shannon Elizabeth, Marcel Luske, Annie Duke, Barry Greenstein, Anna Wroblewski, Vannesa Rousso and Chad Brown. Andy Black is leading the chip count.

Events scheduled to begin today, June 15th:
Event 32 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Event 33 - $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em

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June 14, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 14

Event 24 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2506 Entries
This bracelet was taken down by Panayote Vilandos who earned $607,256.

Event 25 - $2,500 Omaha 8 or Better/ Seven Card Stud 8 or Better: 376 Entries
Phil Ivey took down this Bracelet and $220,538! This is Phil's second title of this year's WSOP!

Event 26 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em: 643 Entries
They are down to 15 players, and set to resume at 1PM today to determine the winner. The top chip counts are:
1. Al Barbieri — 400,000
2. Demetrios Arvanetes — 340,000
3. Tomas Alenius — 322,000
4. Kim-Phong Duong — 272,000
5. Ken Dickenson — 230,000
6. Rep Porter — 196,000
7. Glenn Engelbert — 173,000
8. Andrew Kerstine — 161,000
9. Richard Brodie — 152,000
10. Jason Tam — 144,000

Event 27 - $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better: 198 Entries
The final table of 9 has been set, and they will resume today at 2PM to determine the winner. Chip counts are:
1. Scott Clements — 801,000
2. Anthony Lellouche — 533,000
3. Roland de Wolfe — 386,000
4. Alexander Kravchenko — 267,000
5. Brett Richey — 238,000
6. John Racener — 214,000
7. Armando Ruiz II — 192,000
8. Andy Black — 182,000
9. Robert Campbell — 152,000

Event 28 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2641 Entries
They played day two down to 351 players, and will resume today at 2PM.

Event 29 - $10,000 World Championship Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em
This event is capped at 256 players, with The first two rounds taking place on day one. Day two will resume at 2PM, with 64 players still in the field.
Notable players still in the field include: Antonio Esfandiari, Chris Ferguson, David Pham, Erik Seidel, Jeff Madsen, Johnny Chan, Scott Fischman, and Vanessa Rousso.

Events scheduled to begin today, June 14th, are:
Event 30 - $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
Event 31 - $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.

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June 13, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 13

Event 22 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout: 1000 Entries
This bracelet was taken down by Jeff Carris, who won $313,673 for the event!

Event 23 - $10,000 World Championship No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball: 96 Entries
Nick Schulman took down this title for his first WSOP Bracelet, and $279,742. John Juanda took fourth....

Event 24 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2506 Entries
With day two in the books, they are down to 19 players, who will resume action today at 1PM. The top ten counts are:
1. Andy Seth – 1,250,000
2. Glenn McCaffrey – 900,000
3. Brian Fitzpatrick – 870,000
4. Benny Champlin – 750,000
5. Chris Roulier – 740,000
6. Roberto Truijers – 625,000
7. Michael Greco – 600,000
8. Ronnie Kevin – 580,000
9. David Lerman – 526,000
10. Dean Hamrick – 510,000

Event 25 - $2,500 Omaha 8 or Better/ Seven Card Stud 8 or Better: 376 Entries
They are down to 14, and its a 'who's who' of former WSOP winners!
Here are the players and their counts for when it resumes today at 1PM:
1. Jon Turner – 465,000
2. Carlos Mortensen – 280,000
3. Frank Debus – 250,000
4. Eric Buchman – 240,000
5. Steve Wong – 235,000
6. Dutch Boyd – 225,000
7. Blair Rodman – 210,000
8. Matt Kelly – 160,000
9. Phil Ivey – 150,000
10. Mark Scott – 148,000
11. Tom Koral – 130,000
12. Peter Gelencser – 125,000
13. Ming Lee – 85,000
14. Chad Brown – 40,000

Event 26 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em: 643 Entries
They played this one down to 124, and will be back at it at 2PM today. A couple of the big names still in the hunt include Shannon Elizabeth and Barry Greenstein .

Event 27 - $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better: 198 Entries
They are down to near 60 in this one, and play is set to resume at 2PM. Notables still in this one include: Mike Matusow, Phil Ivey, Jeffrey Lisandro, Daniel Negreanu, Roland de Wolfe and Mike Sexton.

Events scheduled to begin today, June 13th, are:
Event 28 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Event 29 - $10,000 World Championship Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em

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June 12, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 12

Event 20 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em: 633 Entries
J.P. Kelly took down this title, winning the bracelet and $194,434. Eric Seidel took 7th

Event 21 - $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.: 453 Entries
Zachary Fellows held on to the lead and took down the Bracelet and $311,899, edging out James Van Alstyne.

Event 22 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout: 1000 Entries
At the end of day two, only 10 remain in the chase. Those players are:
Eugene Katchalov
Jason Sommerville
Chris Moore
Andrew Margolis
Brandon Wong
Jaffrey Carris
Joseph Cutler
Joshua Tieman
Michael McNeil
Ralph Shannon

Event 23 - $10,000 World Championship No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball: 96 Entries
Day two ended, and the final table is yet to be determined, as there are ten players set to go at it today at 2PM to determine the winner. The players and chip counts are:
1. Vince Musso — 765,500
2. Ville Wahlbeck — 487,000
3. John Juanda — 387,000
4. Nick Schulman — 300,000
5. Archie Karas — 264,500
6. Steve Sung — 212,500
7. David Benyamine — 139,000
8. Justin Smith — 122,500
9. Michael Binger — 108,000
10. Roland de Wolfe — 102,000

Event 24 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2506 Entries
They closed out day one, and 270 remain, with the money bubble burst! Some notables with their chip counts are:
Glen McCaffrey – 110,000
Stuart Marshak – 100,000
Darryll Fish – 98,000
Anthony Yeh – 83,000
Peter Rho – 80,000
Mike Linn – 70,000
Dean Hamrick – 68,000
Pieter de Korver – 31,000
Michael Greco – 21,000
Lars Hougaard – 10,000

Event 25 - $2,500 Omaha 8 or Better/ Seven Card Stud 8 or Better: 376 Entries
They closed out day one with 155 players still chasing the title. Play will resume today at 2PM. Notables and their chip counts are:
Chad Brown – 35,000
Jon Turner – 31,000
Steve Wong – 30,000
Jeff Duvall – 25,000
Mel Judah – 23,000
Eric Buchman – 16,500
Gavin Smith – 12,500
Jason Mercier – 11,000
Phil Ivey – 8,000
Annie Duke – 5,500

Events set to begin today, June 12th:
Event 26 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em
Event 27 - $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better

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June 11, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 11

Event 19 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six Handed: 1068 Entries
Brock Parker took down this bracelet, and $552,745 with the win! Interesting side note: Men 'The Master' Nguyen took 16th!

Event 20 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em: 633 Entries
They have played down to the final table, and Eric Seidel is in the hunt! The players and their counts are:
Seat 1: Marc Tschirch — 268,000
Seat 2: Erik Seidel — 337,000
Seat 3: Jason Dewitt — 476,000
Seat 4: Kyle Carlston — 320,000
Seat 5: Andrew Radel — 250,000
Seat 6: John-Paul Kelly — 627,000
Seat 7: Ravi Raghavan — 145,000
Seat 8: Kirk Steward — 231,000
Seat 9: Aaron Virchis — 191,000

Event 21 - $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.: 453 Entries
They are down to 21 players in this event with play set to resume at 1PM today. The top chip counts are:
1. Zac Fellows — 471,000
2. James Van Alstyne — 455,000
3. Tim Finne — 345,000
4. Michele Limongi — 340,000
5. Martin Eikeng — 330,000
6. Bill Blanda — 250,000
7. Stewart Yancik — 220,000
8. Ed Nassif — 200,000
9. Ylon Schwartz — 200,000
10. Matt Hawrilenko — 140,000

Event 22 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout: 1000 Entries
Day one is in the books and they are down to 100, with play resuming today at 2PM.

Event 23 - $10,000 World Championship No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball: 96 Entries
They played down to 60, with play scheduled to resume at 2PM today: The top chip counts are:
1. Roland de Wolfe — 165,000
2. John Juanda — 115,000
3. Vince Musso — 105,000
4. Tim Phan — 95,000
3. Justin Smith — 93,000
5. Pat Bueno — 78,000
6. Johnny Chan — 73,000
7. Andy Black — 71,000
8. Sam Grizzle — 71,000
9. Anton Allemann — 69,000
10. Farzad Bonyadi — 68,000

Events scheduled to being Thursday, June 11th, are:
Event 24 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Event 25 - $2,500 Omaha 8 or Better/ Seven Card Stud 8 or Better

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June 10, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 10

Event 17 - $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em World Championship: 1060 Entries
Lisa Hamilton took down the Ladies Bracelet, and $195,390.

Event 18 - $10,000 World Championship Omaha 8 or Better: 179 Entries
Daniel Alaei took this Bracelet and $445,898. Daniel Negreanu took 4th, and Annie Duke 8th.

Event 19 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six Handed: 1068 Entries
Day two has ended with 11 players still in the field, with play scheduled to resume today at Noon. Their chip counts are:
1. Joe Serock – 1.745,000
2. Brock Parker – 1,603,000
3. Jesse Rios – 745,000
4. Alex Ivarsson – 734,000
5. Russell Crane – 672,000
6. Alexander Wilson – 603,000
7. Jay Kinkade – 512,000
8. Clayton Newman – 501,000
9. Brian Meinders – 423,000
10. Brian Friesen – 258,000
11. James Sudworth – 247,000

Event 20 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em: 633 Entries
Day one ended with 62 players still in the hunt. The money bubble burst just prior to the end of play, so all remaining players have cashed! Some notables still in the hunt include: Mark Seif, Kathy Liebert, Joe Sebok, and Mike Sexton....

Event 21 - $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.: 453 Entries
They played this down to 198, and play resumes today at 2PM.

Events scheduled for Today, June 10th:
Event 22 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Event 23 - $10,000 World Championship No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball

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June 09, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 9

Event 15 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 655 Entries
Brian Lemke took down this title earning the bracelet and $692,658!

Event 16 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud: 359 Entries
Jeffrey Lisandro held onto the overnight lead, and took down this Bracelet and $124,959!

Event 17 - $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em World Championship: 1060 Entries
They are down to the final table, with play scheduled to resume today at 2PM. The ladies and their chip counts are:
Seat 1: Mari Lou Morelli — 320,000
Seat 2: Lisa Parsons — 427,000
Seat 3: Dawn Thomas — 212,000
Seat 4: Lisa Hamilton — 527,000
Seat 5: Lisa Santy — 196,000
Seat 6: Angel Pedroza — 522,000
Seat 7: Lori Bender — 643,000
Seat 8: Kimberly Cunningham — 140,000
Seat 9: Kim Rios — 197,000

Event 18 - $10,000 World Championship Omaha 8 or Better: 179 Entries
Play was halted with 17 players still in the field. They will resume today at Noon, playing to determine the winner. John Monnette has a commanding chip lead, and the top ten counts are:
1. John Monnette – 1,141,000
2. Ben Boyd 663,000
3. Scott Clements – 477,000
4. Daniel Alaei- 297,000
5. Ville Wahlbeck – 231,000
6. Alex Kravchenko – 145,000
7. Toto Leonidas – 133,000
8. Annie Duke – 133,000
9. Daniel Negreanu – 113,000
10. Ted Lawson – 110,000

Event 19 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six Handed: 1068 Entries
At the close of day one, they are down to 135! The top chip counts are:
Shaun Deeb — 130,000
Erick Lindgren — 105,000
Laurence Houghton — 100,000
Dan Martin — 75,000
Eric Froehlich — 61,000
Brock Parker — 56,000
Bill Edler — 50,000
Humberto Brenes — 48,000
Tony Cousineau — 25,000
Marco Traniello — 17,000

Events scheduled to begin Today, June 9th are:
Event 20 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em
Event 21 - $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.

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June 08, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 8

Event 13 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 1088 Entries
This event was won by Keven Stammen, who took down $506,786 and the bracelet.

Event 14 - $2,500 Limit Hold'em Six Handed: 367 Entries
Brock Parker won this event, worth $223,688 and the bracelet, edging out Daniel Negreanu.

Event 15 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 655 Entries
Day two ended and there are still 17 players in the hunt. Play will resume today at noon. The top ten chip counts are:
1. Isaac Baron — 1,001,000
2. David Pham — 880,000
3. Danny Illingworth — 850,000
4. Billy Kopp — 693,000
5. Fabian Quoss — 640,000
6. Lars Bonding — 530,000
7. Liya Gerasimova — 530,000
8. Oliver Busquet — 524,000
9. Mike Sowers — 480,000
10. Brian Lemke — 460,00

Event 16 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud: 359 Entries
They played this one down to the final 8, despite having to go beyond the 3AM cut off time as designated in rule 96. Those eight are:
1. Jeff Lisandro — 334,000
2. Steve Stencil — 323,000
3. John Juanda — 287,000
4. Rodney Pardey — 245,000
5. Eric Pardey — 217,000
6. Nick Frangos — 84,000
7. Mitch Schock — 83,000
8. Daniel Studer — 43,000

Event 17 - $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em World Championship: 1060 Entries
They ended day one with 146 ladies still in the hunt, and the cash line at 117. The top chip counts are:
1. Tamara Tibbles — 129,700
2. Svetlana Gromenkova 62,800
3. Patty Zarosky — 51,000
4. Thuy Beltran — 49,000
5. Lisa Parsons — 46,300
6. Lauren Kling — 44,200
7. Anh Le — 40,000
8. Melissa Verrett — 39,000
9. J.J. Liu — 38,300
10. Brett Abarbanel — 35,500

Event 18 - $10,000 World Championship Omaha 8 or Better: 179 Entries
They still have 133 in the field after day one, but that is due in part to the structure, and should pick up on day two. The top ten chip counts are:
1. Chris Bjorin – 134,400
2. Scott Clements – 130,800
3. Phil Ivey – 88,000
4. Sam Farha – 76,000
5. Alex Kostritsyn – 74,000
6. Phil Hellmuth – 70,000
7. John Hennigan – 63,000
8. John Lester – 60,000
9. John Monnette – 60,000
10. Jeff Madsen – 58,000

Event scheduled to begin June 8th is:
Event 19 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six Handed

Posted by fatbill at 08:15 AM | Comments (0)

June 07, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 7

Event 11 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 1646 Entries
This bracelet, and the top prize of $569,199 was taken down by Anthony Harb.

Event 12 - $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event: 194 Entries
This event was won by Ville Wahlbeck to took down $492,375 and the bracelet. David Chiu was second, Huck Seed 5th, Todd Brunson 8th, and his father Doyle took 15th.

Event 13 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 1088 Entries
This event is down to 20 players with Gregg Merkow in the lead. Phil Ivey is still in the hunt, but short stacked.

Event 14 - $2,500 Limit Hold'em Six Handed: 367 Entries
They are down to 11 in this event, with the top players being:
1. Tommi Horkko — 500,000
2. Daniel Negreanu — 470,000
3. Barry Shulman — 351,000
4. Brock Parker — 335,000
5. Kevin Hong — 290,000
6. Nikolay Losev — 216,000
7. Kyle Ray — 200,000
8. Robert Como — 136,000
9. Shawn Buchanan — 118,000
10. Jimmy Tran — 74,000
11. Jim Buckley — 69,000

Event 15 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 655 Entries
They ended play with 165 still in contention, with play scheduled to resume at 3PM today.

Event 16 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud: 359 Entries
Play ended with 97 players still in the field. A couple of notables still in the hunt include: John Juanda and Michael Mizrachi....

Events scheduled to begin today are:
Event 17 - $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em World Championship
Event 18 - $10,000 World Championship Omaha 8 or Better

Posted by fatbill at 08:35 AM | Comments (0)

June 06, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 6

Event 9 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6 Handed: 1459 Entries
This bracelet was taken down by Ken Aldridge, who won $428,259 for taking 1st place.

Event 10 - $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/ Pot-Limit Omaha
Rami Boukai took this event winning the bracelet and $244,862 for his efforts.

Event 11 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 1646 Entries
When play ended on day 2, there were 25 players still in the mix! The top players are:
1. Chris Taylor – 880,000
2. Mike Carlson – 790,000
3. Adam Adler – 650,000
4. Scott Hall – 620,000
5. Brent Sheirbon – 560,000
6. Peter Rho – 510,000
7. Warren Woodall – 475,000
8. Adrian Dresel-Velasquez – 430,000
9. Eric Ladny – 400,000
10. Jose Rosenkrantz – 380,000
Play will resume at noon today....

Event 12 - $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event: 194 Entries
They are down to 20 in this one, as play was halted. Robert Mizrachi, Brandon Adams, Hasan Habib and Daniel Negreanu all busted out just before the cash! Here are the top players still in the hunt:
1. Huck Seed – 645,500
2. Joe Serock – 584,500
3. Adam Friedman – 525,000
4. Roman Yitzhaki – 375,000
5. Todd Brunson – 374,500
6. Allie Prescott – 357,000
7. Ville Wahlbeck – 339,000
8. James Van Alstyne – 336,000
9. Doyle Brunson – 335,000

Event 13 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 1088 Entries
When play was halted for the night, 180 players remained. Play will resume today at 2PM. Notable who are still in contention include Phil Ivey who has close to 65,000 in chips,Steve Dannenmann and Roland De Wolfe.

Event 14 - $2,500 Limit Hold'em Six Handed: 367 Entries
Play halted with 98 players still vieing for this bracelt. Notables still in the hunt include: J.C. Tran, Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu and Daniel Alaei.
Play will resume at 2PM today.

Events scheduled to kick off June 6th are:
Event 15 - $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Event 16 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud

Posted by fatbill at 07:46 AM | Comments (0)

June 05, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 5

Event 7 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2791 Entries
This one is over, and the winner is Travis Johnson, who took home $633,853 and the bracelet!

Event 8 - $2,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball: 147 Entries
Phil Ivey took this one down, worth $96,361, and Phil's 6th WSOP bracelet!

Event 9 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6 Handed: 1459 Entries
Play was halted early this morning with 8 players still in the hunt. Play will resume today at 1PM with those remaining:
Charles Furey – 1,690,000
Bryce Yockey – 1,489,000
Carman Cavella – 1,059,000
Peter Gould – 780,000
Bryn Kenny – 660,000
Praz Bansi – 630,000
Ken Aldridge – 411,000
Manny Minaya – 339,000

Event 10 - $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/ Pot-Limit Omaha
Play was halted with 18 players still in the chase. Play will resume today at 1PM, and the top ten chip counts are:
1. Daniel Makowsky – 561,000
2. Rami Boukai – 508,000
3. Benjamin Grundy – 275,000
4. Paul Parker – 215,000
5. Surinder Sunar – 213,000
6. Najib Bennani – 207,000
7. Jamie Rosen – 178,000
8. Jonas Entin – 177,000
9. Gary Do – 166,000
10. Jan Collado – 161,000

Events scheduled to kick off Thursday June 4th are:
Event 11 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 1646 Entries
Day one ended with 243 players still in the hunt. The money starts at 171, so that's where the race resumes at 2PM today. Phil Hellmuth and T.J. Coutier are still in the game....

Event 12 - $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event: 194 Entries
Day one ended with 128 still in the chase. Daniel Negreanu is the chip leader, but some notables still in the hunt are: Vanessa Rousso, Jimmy Fricke, Dario Minieri and David Singer.

Events scheduled to kick off Friday June 5th are:
Event 13 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Event 14 - $2,500 Limit Hold'em Six Handed

Posted by fatbill at 10:03 AM | Comments (0)

June 04, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 4

Event 4 - $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 6021 Entries
This event was won by Steve Sung, who took down the bracelet and $771,106

Event 5 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha: 809 Entries
This event was won by Jason Mercier, who took both the Bracelet and $237,415.

Event 6 - $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud: 142 Entries
Freddie Ellis took this event down, winning $373,744 and the bracelet. Notables: Daniel Negreanu took 10th....

Event 7 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2791 Entries
They are down to 33 players in this one, with the top ten being:
1. Steve Karp – 990,000
2. Jacob Kalb – 950,000
3. Craig McConville – 900,000
4. Walter Wright – 600,000
5. Michael Pesek – 590,000
6. Mark Salinaro – 555,000
7. Clint Miller – 550,000
8. Jason Riesenberg – 315,000
9. Michael Martin – 260,000
10. Jeremy Joseph – 250,000

Event 8 - $2,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball: 147 Entries
This one is down to 7 players, with Layne Flac, and Tony G just missing the final table. The remaining players are:
1. John Monnette — 259,000
2. Raphael Zimmerman — 238,000
3. Yan Chen — 159,000
4. Elia Ahmadian — 136,900
5. Eric Kesselman — 119,400
6. Phil Ivey – 106,300
7. Rodeen Talebi — 94,500
Play will resume today at 2PM to determine the winner.

Event 9 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6 Handed
This event kicks off at Noon today, with an expected field of over 1000.... No updates available as of this writing

Event 10 - $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/ Pot-Limit Omaha
This event is scheduled to begin at 5PM today.....No updates available as of this writing

Events scheduled to kick off Thursday June 4th are:
Event 11 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Event 12 - $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event

Events scheduled to kick off Friday June 5th are:
Event 13 - $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Event 14 - $2,500 Limit Hold'em Six Handed

Posted by fatbill at 11:06 AM | Comments (0)

June 03, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 3

Event 4 - $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 6021 Entries
They are down to the final table in this event which looks like this:
1. Dan Heimiller — 4,115,000
2. Steve Sung — 3,395,000
3. Panayote Vilandos — 1,940,000
4. James Matz — 1,885,000
5. Jeff Oakes – 1,680,000
6. Larry Sidebotham — 1,500,000
7. Phong Huynh — 1,310,000
8. Nathan Mullen — 1,210,000
9. Danny Fuhs — 965,000
Play will resume today to determine the winner....

Event 5 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha: 809 Entries
This event is down to the final table which looks like this:
1. Kevin Iacofano — 755,000
2. Jonathan Tare — 640,000
3. An Tran — 445,000
4. Jason Mercier — 394,000
5. Victa Park — 341,000
6. Dario Alioto — 315,000
7. Matt Giannetti — 311,000
8. Steven Burkholder — 263,000
9. Chris Biondino — 53,000
Play will resume today to determine the winner...

Event 6 - $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud: 142 Entries
There are eleven players remaining when play was halted early this morning. Play will resume today at 1PM. Those remaining are:
1. Eric Drache – 755,000
2. Hasan Habib – 593,000
3. Freddie Ellis – 580,000
4. Jeff Lisandro – 524,000
5. Ville Wahlbeck – 472,000
6. Max Pescatori – 401,000
7. Ivan Schertzer – 368,000
8. Greg Mueller – 208,000
9. Daniel Negreanu – 191,000
10. Ray Dehkharghani – 141,000
11. Tim Phan – 45,000

Event 7 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: 2791 Entries
Day one ended with 338 players still in the field, and play scheduled to resume at 2PM today

Event 8 - $2,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball: 147 Entries
They played this down to 35 players when play was halted for the night, with Phil Hellmuth, John Monette, Erick Lindgren, Phil Ivey, John Juanda and Barry Greenstein still in the field..... They will get back at the action today at 2PM

Event 9 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6 Handed
This event kicks off at Noon today, with an expected field of over 1000....

Event 10 - $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/ Pot-Limit Omaha
This event is scheduled to begin at 5PM today.....

Events scheduled to kick off Thursday June 4th are:
Event 11 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Event 12 - $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event

Posted by fatbill at 09:16 AM | Comments (0)

June 01, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results 2

Event 4 - $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 3000 Entries
Day one ( both parts ) are not concluded, and there are approximately 780 remaining. The money is at 621, so that will happen today!

Scheduled to begin Today are:

Event 5 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
Event 6 - $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud

Posted by fatbill at 10:37 AM | Comments (0)

May 31, 2009

WSOP Tournament Results

Well, the BIG ONE is underway, and they have completed a couple of the events, so here are the results:

Event 1 - $500 No-Limit Hold'em Casino Employees: 201 Entries
1 Andrew Cohen $83,833
2 Paul Peterson $51,787
3 Casey Kuhn $33,923
4 Grant Yasui $23,483
5 Dulay Elpidio $17,127

Event 2 - $40,000 40th Annual No-Limit Hold'em: 201 Entries
Down to the final table which is:
Seat 1 — Ted Forrest — 560,000
Seat 2 — Noah Schwartz — 660,000
Seat 3 — Alec Torelli — 2,340,000
Seat 4 — Isaac Haxton — 5,955,000
Seat 5 — Greg Raymer — 3,345,000
Seat 6 — Justin Bonomo — 1,685,000
Seat 7 — Lex Veldhuis — 3,805,000
Seat 8 — Dani Stern — 1,300,000
Seat 9 — Vitaly Lunkin — 4,565,000
This event gets back underway today to determin the winner!

Event 3 - $1,500 Omaha 8 or Better: 918 Entries
They are done with two days of play, and there are 19 players left in the field. Those players are:
1. Ed Smith — 433,000
2. Thang Luu — 410,000
3. Robert Price — 387,000
4. Lee Mougous — 337,000
5. Jim Geary — 300,000
6. Richard Toth — 292,000
7. Senovio Ramirez — 270,000
8. Freddy Deeb — 266,000
9. Micah Brooks — 233,000
10. Jordan Rich — 185,000
11. Sebastian Ruthenberg — 185,000
12. Pascal Leyu — 157,000
13. Ming Reslock — 146,000
14. William Seale — 140,000
15. Dan Spear — 125,000
16. Adam Quiggle — 109,000
17. Henry Hull — 96,000
18. Jeremy Harkin — 62,000
19. Edgar Chang — 33,000

Event 4 - $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em: 3000 Entries
This is being played with the following schedule:
Saturday, May 30, noon: Day 1A (play 10 levels)
Sunday, May 31, noon: Day 1B (play 10 levels)
Monday, June 1, 2 p.m.: Day 2 (play down to nine players)
Tuesday, June 2, 2 p.m.: Final Table

Play ended with 376 remaining

Scheduled to begin on Monday June 1st are:

Event 5 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
Event 6 - $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud

Posted by fatbill at 09:54 AM | Comments (0)

April 06, 2009

2009 WSOP Schedule up

We have added the new Schedule for the 2009 World Series of Poker events!

The schedule can be viewed by clicking on the "Poker Tournament Info" link in the right hand side menu's.

Good luck to those participating this year!

Posted by fatbill at 10:18 AM | Comments (0)

April 30, 2007

Mortensen Wins 2007 WPT Championship!

Carlos Mortensen won the 2007 WPT Championship, collecting almost 4 MILLION for his effort. That may not be the most amazing thing about this win though! He is THE FIRST player to win both this AND the WSOP Main Event! Mortensen entered the final table 2nd in chip count!

There were 639 Entries into this $25K buy-in event!

The final table results were:

1. Carlos Mortensen $3,970,415
2. Kirk Morrison $2,011,135
3. Paul Lee $1,082,920
4.Guy Laliberte $696,220
5. Tim Phan $464,110
6. Mike Wattel $309,405

Posted by fatbill at 10:28 AM | Comments (0)

March 24, 2007

Double Stacks at 2007 WSOP

It was reported today at PokerNews.com, that the WSOP will be doubling the chip stacks for ALL 2007 events! It looks like they intend to add some more levels in some of the lower buy-in events, and attempt to put some more 'poker' into these events.

The initial response seems to be favorable, but I think it will be settled at the events this year. I dont see how more chips can't help but make the events last longer..... and maybe thats what they want also! More bang for the buck!

Posted by fatbill at 09:22 AM | Comments (0)

March 06, 2007

NBC Heads Up Championship

The NBC Heads Up Championship concluded with an unlikely winner, IMHO, in Paul Wasicka! Wasicka took home $500K for his efort. Chad Brown took second and $250K.

The final 4 included Shannon Elizabeth and Gavin Smith!

Shannon beat 2006 WSOP Wiz Kid Jeff Madsen, Barry Greenstein, and Humberto Brenes to get to the semi-finals!

Smith took down Johnny Chan, Phil Gordon and Andy Bloch to get there.

Brown took down Gabe Kaplin, Kristy Gazes and Smith to make the finals.

Wasica bested Joe Hachem, TJ Cloutier, Nam Lee, and Elizabeth, before beating Brown for the title!

Posted by fatbill at 12:28 PM | Comments (0)

February 06, 2007

Full Tilt Online Poker Series III

Full Tilt Poker has announced it's THRID in it's Online Poker Series. This series will begin this Friday, Feb 0th and offers $3.4 MILLION in Guaranteed Prizes!!

There is still time to satellite your way into any of the events, so get in while the action is HOT!
You can CLICK HERE for a full listing of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series Schedule!

Posted by fatbill at 04:39 PM | Comments (0)

January 31, 2007

Online Poker Tournament Turnouts...

A recent article in PokerNews posted some really amazing numbers that I had to pass on everyone here. That link is to the actual article in it's entirity.

What got me interested in the article in the first place were the numbers of players in these events, AND the prize pools awarded! Take a look at these numbers over thie past weekend:

PokerStars $500+30 event drew 2,768 players with a total pool of $1.3M

FullTiltPoker had 2,115 players in their $300K Guananteed event

Mansion had 684players in it's $110K guaranteed event

PartyPoker had 1,313 players in it's $200K Guaranteed event

Bodog had 1,909players in it's $200K event.

Those are HUGE numbers, especially when you consider that most of those touraments took place on Sunday and probably in the same time frames!

Posted by fatbill at 11:26 AM | Comments (0)

January 12, 2007

2007 WSOP Tournament Schedule

The 2007 World Series of Poker Tournament schedule was announced recently, and there are some interesting changes and additions.

I have put up a list of the events by day, and you can see it at POKER TOURNAMENT INFO on the right hand side of this page.

There are some 4 HORSE tournaments this year, which is a HUGE change from the past. That main one last year must have really gotten huge TV ratings, for them to add more. The events added are much less than the $50K enent, but that one is still on the schedule.

The main event looks like it it geared for a maximum of 9,000 players.... it just blows the mind!

Posted by fatbill at 10:03 AM | Comments (0)

September 27, 2006

Upcoming Tournaments

Just a quick note to let you know of the current, and upcoming tournaments that are running....

The 2006 U.S. Poker Championship is running at the Taj in Atlantic City until the 7th of October

The 2006 WSOP Tournament Circuit-Grand Tunica event just started, and runs through October 4th. The grand is a great place, btw! ;-)

Ultimate Bet's No Limit TExas Holdem Championship Aruba Poker Classic is starting today!

I forgot to mention that PokerStars is running the WCOOP Tournaments right now also!

Posted by fatbill at 12:21 PM | Comments (0)

September 20, 2006

2006 Borgata Open WPT Final

This is what the final table looked like at the 2006 Borgata Open No Limit Texas Holdem WPT $9700 Buy-in Event and the eventual placements of the participants:

1 Mark Newhouse $1,519,020
2 Chris McCormack $802,985
3 David Sklansky $419,040
4 Anthony Argila$366,660
5 Chris Bell $314,280
6 Blaise Ingoglia $261,901

Posted by fatbill at 11:52 AM | Comments (0)

September 18, 2006

Borgata Open 2006 Championship

The 2006 Borgata Open WPT $9700 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Championship is in full swing, with play down to 27 players out of a starting 545. There are some interesting names among those remaining, the most suprising of those is Jennifer Tilly, who is currently in 4th!

Others include:
11 David Sklansky
15 David Tran
17 John Phan
19 Barry Greenstein

Sould be an interesting final!

Posted by fatbill at 10:26 AM | Comments (0)

August 12, 2006

2006 WSOP Player of the Year

This short news release was put out by Cardplayer.com Magazine regarding the WSOP player of the year race for 2006:

Jeff Madsen Is the 2006 WSOP Player of the Year
Youngest Bracelet Winner Ever Beat Out Phil Hellmuth
It’s official.

Despite recent confusion concerning the World Series of Poker’s Player of the Year race, Jeff Madsen is the clear winner with 1,467,852 points. He outraced Phil Hellmuth, who finished with 1,130,559 points.

Harrah’s Rory Shanahan, who is responsible for keeping the race’s statistics, confirmed the results to CardPlayer.com early this morning.

Madsen, a 21-year-old film student from California, won two WSOP bracelets ($5,000 No Limit short handed and $2,000 No Limit) and made another final table. He also became the youngest bracelet winner in WSOP history.

Hellmuth won his tenth bracelet this year and made multiple final tables, including a third-place finish in Wednesday’s $1,500 No-Limit event. This caused some confusion among the media at the Rio (some had Hellmuth ahead of Madsen), but Shanahan assured CardPlayer.com that Madsen is indeed the WSOP Player of the Year.

Posted by fatbill at 08:26 AM | Comments (0)

2006 WSOP Main Event Final Results

Jamie Gold Wins the 2006 Main Event! Gold took down the $12MILLION prize, AND the coveted WSOP Bracelet denoting the World Champion.

Here is a breakdown of how the final table finished, and the monies won!

1 Jamie Gold $12,000,0001,920
2 Paul Wasicka $6,102,4991,600
3 Michael Binger $4,123,3101,280
4 Allen Cunningham $3,628,513960
5 Rhett Butler $3,216,182800
6 Richard Lee $2,803,851640
7 Doug Kim $2,391,520480
8 Erik Friberg $1,979,189320
9 Dan Nassif $1,566,858160

Posted by fatbill at 08:14 AM | Comments (0)

August 10, 2006

2006 WSOP Other Events Cont...

$1500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event held Aug 7th and 8th, won by Kevin Nathan taking home $171,987. There were 420 Entries.

$1500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event held Aug 8th and 9th

$1500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event held Aug 9th and 10th

Posted by fatbill at 08:21 AM | Comments (0)

August 09, 2006

2006 WSOP Main Event Day 8

They played it down to the final table of 9 yesterday and will resume play for the title on Thrusday Aug 10th at 2PM PST.

Here are the chip counts for the players at the final table. They are all millionaires regardless of what transpires Thursday!

1 Jamie Gold 25,650,000
2 Allen Cunningham 17,770,000
3 Richard Lee 11,820,000
4 Erik Friberg 9,605,000
5 Paul Wasicka 7,970,000
6 Doug Kim 6,770,000
7 Rhett Butler 4,815,000
8 Michael Binger 3,140,000
9 Dan Nassif 2,600,000

Allen Cunningham is the only 'name' pro left in the field

Posted by fatbill at 06:57 AM | Comments (0)

August 08, 2006

2006 WSOP Main Event Day 7

Well, they played it down to 27 yesterday, with Day 7 Slated to take place today at Noon PST. The leader is Jamie Gold, who has been the chip leader for the past couple of days, and he has an impressive lead. Today they will get down to the final table of 9.

Here is a listing of the chip counts of the remaining 27 players:

1 Jamie Gold 13,000,000
2 Erik Friberg 7,735,000 $
3 David Einhorn 6,905,000
4 Rhett Butler 6,400,000
5 Dan Nassif 5,430,000
6 Richard Lee 5,275,000
6 Michael Binger 5,275,000
8 William Thorsson 3,765,000
9 Jeffrey Lisandro 3,750,000
10 Kevin Aaronson 3,670,000
11 Doug Kim 3,595,000
12 John Magill 3,275,000
13 Allen Cunningham 2,650,000
14 Leif Force 2,265,000
15 Kevin O'Donnell 2,130,000
16 Prahlad Friedman 1,850,000
17 Eric Lynch 1,785,000
18 Lee Kort 1,700,000 $
19 Rob Roseman 1,685,000
20 Fred Goldberg 1,611,000
21 Dustin Holmes 1,210,000
22 Sirous Jamshidi 1,190,000
23 Luke Chung 1,100,000
24 Paul Wasicka 700,000
25 Siddharth Jain 675,000
26 Mark Garner 635,000
27 Richard Wyrick 570,000

Posted by fatbill at 07:22 AM | Comments (0)

August 07, 2006

2006 WSOP Main Event Day 6

Well, they started yesterday with 135, and play ended with 45 remaining. They will resume play today at 12PM PST to play down to 27.

Jamie Gold leads with 7.33 million. A few notable players left in the field include Jeffrey Lisandro (2.995 million), Allen Cunningham (1.29 million), and Humberto Brenes (565K).

Here is how the top ten looks for chip counts:

1 Jamie Gold 7,330,000
2 Erik Friberg 5,905,000
3 William Thorsson 3,545,000
4 Rhett Butler 3,210,000
5 Kevin Aaronson 3,190,000
6 Ricki Nielsen 3,170,000
7 Siddharth Jain 3,090,000
8 Michael Binger 3,045,000
9 Jeffrey Lisandro 2,995,000
10 James Routos 2,775,000

Posted by fatbill at 07:40 AM | Comments (0)

August 06, 2006

2006 WSOP Main Event Day 5

They have played down to 135 players in this years main event! They were expecting to play down to 600, but players were dropping like flies so thay just kept on playing! The play for today was originally, to play down to 300!

The leader is Jamie Gold with $3,700,000 in chips!

It appears that there are very few 'name' pros left in the field to contend for this years prize. Among the pros still in the event are Humberto Brenes, Annie Duke, and Allen Cunningham. Play will resume today at Noon....

Posted by fatbill at 08:47 AM | Comments (0)

August 05, 2006

2006 WSOP Main Event Day 4

Day 3 ended with 481 players still in the hunt for the bracelet! Play resumes today at Noon PST. Here are the chip counts for the top ten players:

1 David Chiu 650,000
2 Kyle Bowker 600,000
3 Jon Lane 580,000
4 Lars Bonding 560,000
5 Eric Lynch 540,000
6 Dmitri Nobles 530,000
7 Mark Garner 525,000
8 Johan Wemmenhag 520,000
9 Jamie Gold 515,000
9 Thomas Wahlroos 515,000

Among the Pros that are still in it, are: Humberto Brenes, Allen Cunningham, Hoyt Corkins, Annie Duke, Joseph Hachem, Ted Forrest, Daniel Negreanu, Tom McEvoy, Kathy Liebert, and Cyndy Violette.

Posted by fatbill at 08:39 AM | Comments (0)

August 04, 2006

2006 WSOP Main Event Day 3

Well, Play will resume today at 12PM PST with all the remaining players from this long, sectioned off, days one and two. Here are the top 10/11 chip counts going into today's action:

1 Dmitri Nobles 553,000
2 Jon Lane 405,000
3 Ken Jacobs 395,000
4 Daniel Pelletier 335,000
5 Jason Strasser 330,000
6 Daniel Negreanu 320,000
7 Terris Preston 310,000
8 Phillipe Boucher 305,000
9 Matt Woodward 290,000
9 Paul Wasicka 290,000
9 Michael Lynn 290,000

Daniel Negreanu is the top pro amoung the chip leaders.....

Posted by fatbill at 09:56 AM | Comments (0)

August 03, 2006

2006 WSOP Main Event Day 2B

There were 606 Players surviving out of 1637 on this, day 2B. As mentioned before, today is a 'day of rest' for all players, with tomorrow being the first day that the field is all playing at the same time. With the 570 from Day 2A, there should be 1176 sitting down tomorrow. Remember, that the top 870 make the cash....

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August 02, 2006

2006 WSOP Main Event Day 2A

Day 2A was a combination of days 1A and 1B, and included 1637 players. that number was played down to 570 remaining. Day 2B will start today with similar number. Tomorrow should be a 'rest' day, with play resuming Friday for the first totally combined day! The top 873 will make the money!!

Posted by fatbill at 07:32 AM | Comments (0)

July 31, 2006

2006 WSOP Main Event Numbers

This information according to CardPlayer/PokerWire:

Unofficial Numbers: 8,778 Entrants
No Limit Hold'em Main Event
Jul 31, 2006 / 21:41:12 EDT
The total number of players hasn't been triple-checked and certified, but the early information released is 8,778 players. That would create a prizepool around $82.5 million, with first prize worth more than $10 million.

This represents 3,159 more players than last year's Main Event, which is the biggest year-to-year increase in history. If the new players were pulled out and put into a separate event, it would become the third-largest field in live tournament history.

The poker boom just keeps on growing ...

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WSOP Player of the Year Standings update

Here are the current standings for this years POY race in the WSOP:

1 Jeff Madsen Los Angeles, CA, United States 3,680 4 $1,467,852
2 Phil Hellmuth Jr. Palo Alto, CA, US 3,060 3 $1,120,250
3 William Chen Layfayette Hill, PA, US 2,906 2 $810,740
4 Joseph Hachem Melbourne, AU 1,920 2 $347,282
4 Tom Franklin Gulfport, MS, US 1,920 2 $418,522
6 Mike Guttman Melbourne, AU 1,840 2 $500,223
7 Allen Cunningham Ventura, CA, US 1,568 2 $688,684
8 Max Pescatori Milan, IT 1,440 1 $710,330
8 Russ 'Dutch' Boyd Culver City, CA, US 1,440 1 $475,712
8 John Gale Bushey, GB 1,440 1 $374,849
8 Jeff Cabanillas Los Angeles, CA, United States 1,440 1 $818,546
12 John Hoang Garden Grove, CA, US 1,400 2 $249,993
13 Jason Lester Miami, FL, US 1,368 1 $554,504
14 David Williams Dallas, TX, US 1,280 2 $425,949
15 Scott Clements Mount Vernon, WA, US 1,260 1 $304,224
16 Phil Ivey Atlantic City, NJ, US 1,258 2 $846,444
17 Rafael Perry Las Vegas, NV, US 1,234 2 $415,304
18 Ian Johns Seatac, WA, US 1,224 1 $291,755
19 Anthony Reategui Chandler, AZ, US 1,200 1 $356,040
19 Juha Helppi Littoinen, FI 1,200 1 $337,095

I expect these to be drastcially changed when this years main event is settled...

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2006 WSOP Main Event Day 1C

There are 867 players that have made it through day 1C and will move on to day 2 out of 2160 entries. Tomorrow day 1D will finish up the Day 1's and we can get on with the two upcoming day 2's!

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July 30, 2006

2006 WSOP Main Event Day 1B

Players broke out in applause as the end of day 1B is announced, with 860 of 2182 players remaining. Players will return on Tuesday, August 1, with day 1A.

TodDay 1C begins at noon PST.

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July 27, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 31

Event #35 a $1000 Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB was won by Pat Poels earning $172,091 and a coveted WSOP bracelet.

Event #36 a $1500 Limit Texas Holdem Poker Shootout was won by Victor Perches taking home $157,338 and the bracelet.

Event #37 $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker is down to the final table. Here are the chip counts of those remaining:
1 Osman Kibar 796,000
2 Nicholas Ronyecz 789,000
3 James Gorham 717,000
4 Peter Dalhuijsen 477,000
5 Miff Fagerlie 367,000
6 Age Spets 316,000
7 George Christian 262,000
8 Jason Strasser 254,000
9 Mohamad Ilyas 252,000

Event #38 a $5000 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball w/rebuys was won by Daniel Alaei earning $430,698 and a coveted WSOP bracelet.

The Main event gets underway tomorrow... should be an interesting ride for anyone involved...

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July 26, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 30

PHIL HELLMUTH Wins Event 34 $1,000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker w/rebuys! He took home $631,863, but MORE importantly, he took his 10th Bracelt tying him once again with Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson!

Event #35 is down to the final table in this $1000 Seven Card Sud High-Low 8/OB event. Here are the chip counts:
1 Greg Dinkin 259,000
2 Rod Pardey Sr. 210,000
3 Bill Edler 191,000
4 Mark Bershad 110,000
5 Pat Poels 109,000
6 Hoyt Verner 103,000
7 Leo Fasen 102,000
8 Jeff Madsen 99,000

Event #36 a $1500 Limit Texas Holdem Poker Shootout ended day two with six final tablist's:
Mariano Garcia
Anders Henriksson
Victoriano Perches
Ralph 'Rep' Porter
Tom Schneider
Arnold Spee

Event #37 $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker is down to 157 of 2803 entries. Here is a list of the top ten chip counts:
1 Ylon Schwartz 90,300
2 Paul Westley 78,800
3 Jason Strasser 78,300
4 Johan Storakers 73,700
5 Peter Pratis 69,400
6 Joe Awada 67,400
7 Phil Laak 65,700
8 Derek Scott 63,500
9 Miguel Mateo 62,100
10 Osman Kibar 60,700

Event #38 a $5000 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball w/rebuys is down to 21 survivors: Here are the top ten chip counts:
1 David Williams 159,500
2 Phillipe Rouas 110,000
3 Greg Raymer 107,000
4 Bueno Patrick 77,000
5 Mickey Appleman 73,000
6 David Grey 67,000
7 Tony Guoga 63,000
8 Daniel Alaei 59,000
9 Michael McKenna 58,000
10 Men Nguyen 57,500

There are no new events going off until the Main Events gets underway on Friday.....

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July 24, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 28

Event #31, the $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker was won by Justin Scott who earned $842,262 and a coveted WSOP bracelet.

Event #32, a $5000 Pot Limit Texas Holdem event the final table is set and here are the chip counts:
1 Alan Sass 431,000
2 Michael Tedesco 278,000
3 Tommy Smith 238,000
4 Jason Lester 222,000
5 Stuart Fox 214,000
6 Tony Hartmann 163,000
7 Kirill Gerasimov 124,000
8 Gregg Turk 122,000
9 Emad Tahtouh 97,000

Event #33, the $1500 Seven Card Razz event was won by James Richburg earning $139,576 and a coveted WSOP bracelet.

Event 34 $1,000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker w/rebuys is down to 61 of the starting field of 754. Chip counts of the leaders are:
1 Shane Schleger 109,700
2 Phil Hellmuth Jr. 109,600
3 Ryan Hughs 95,800
4 Hasan Habib 93,200
5 Joe Bartholdi 91,200
6 Juha Helppi 80,100
7 Prahlad Friedman 77,500
8 Daryn Firicano 75,700
9 Julian Gardner 72,200
10 James Van Alstyne 70,400

Event #35 will get underway today, it is $1000 Seven Card Sud High-Low 8/OB.
Event #36 a $1500 Limit Texas Holdem Poker Shootout also gets underway today.

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July 23, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 27

Jeff Madsen won Event #30 the $5,000 Short-Handed No-Limit Hold'em, earning $643,381 and a coveted WSOP bracelet.

Event #31, the $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker is down to the final table. Here are the chip counts:
1 Justin Scott 1,500,000
2 Nathan Templeton 832,000
3 Robert Bright 324,000
4 Josh Wakeman 319,000
5 Carl Olson 301,000
6 Gregory Glass 267,000
7 Bryan Micon 224,000
8 Jason Johnson 174,000
9 Farzad Rouhani 133,000

Event #32, a $5000 Pot Limit Texas Holdem event is down to 35. Chip counts of the top ten are as follows:
1 Tommy Smith 224,500
2 Nam Le 132,000
3 Stuart Fox 112,500
4 Jason Lester 99,000
5 Greg Mascio 93,000
6 Benjamin Arnold 85,500
7 Chau Giang 84,500
8 John Shipley 79,000
9 Kirill Gerasimov 76,500
10 Kevin O'Donnell 72,500

Event #33, the $1500 Seven Card Razz event is down to 40, with the chip counts of the top ten shown below:
1 John Cernuto 41,000
2 Carlos Mortensen 28,500
3 Cliff Josephy 22,000
4 Jeffrey Lisandro 18,500
4 Eric Froehlich 18,500
6 Eskimo Clark 18,000
7 Perry Friedman 12,500
8 Steven Diano 12,300
9 Chad Carpenter 12,000
10 Siu Fan Wong 11,700

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July 22, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 26

The 2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em event #29 was won by John Gale giving him the bracelet and the top prize of $374,849.

Today Event #30 the $5000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Short Handed 6/Table is down to the final table. Here are the chip counts going into todays play:
1 Jonathan Gaskell 727,000
2 Erick Lindgren 448,000
3 Paul Foltyon 438,000
4 Tom Franklin 365,000
5 Tony Woods 354,000
6 Jeff Madsen 201,000

Event #31, the $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event is down to 144 of a starting 2050! Here are chip counts of the top ten of those remaining:
1 Zacheria Butler 156,000
2 Stephen Jones 128,300
3 Marcus Collins 77,300
4 Ferit Gabriellson 75,000
5 Chad Mizner 68,600
6 Randy Holland 66,900
7 Mike McIntire 66,500
8 Adam Marshall 63,100
9 Mike Hofeld 62,900
10 Eric Cloutier 59,200

Today, event #32, the $1500 Seven Card Razz event gets underway....

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July 21, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 25

Event #27 a $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker was won by Mats Rahmn wo took home $644,141 and the bracelet

The 5,000 7-Card Stud Event #28 was won by Benjamin Lin who claimed the bracelet and the $256,620 first prize.

The 2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em event #29 is down to the final table, with Reinging World WSOP Main Event Champ Joseph Hachem gaining his second final table of this WSOP. Here are the chip counts:
1 Alex Jacob 524,000
2 Kevin Ho 287,000
3 John Gale 134,000
4 Lee Markholt 128,000
5 Maros Lechman 101,000
6 Gregory Alston 80,000
7 Lee Grove 66,000
8 Joseph Hachem 64,000
9 Jeffrey Roberson 24,000

Today Event #30 the $5000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Short Handed 6/Table played down to 36 players. Here are the chip counts of the top ten remaining:
1 Tom Franklin 237,800
2 Erick Lindgren 159,800
3 Michael Banducci 135,600
4 Yehia Awada 122,000
5 Jeff Madsen 112,200
6 David Pham 110,000
7 Don Todd 90,800
8 Sargon Ruya 65,000
9 Michael Woo 64,000
10 Peter Fisher 62,100

Today Event #31, a $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event will get underway....

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July 20, 2006

2006 WSOP Standings

Here is a brief list of the top 19 players in the 2006 Players Standings for this year's tournament:
Key: Place, Name, Location, Final Tables, Earnings

1 William Chen Layfayette Hill, PA, US 2,906 2 $810,740
2 Mike Guttman Melbourne, AU 1,840 2 $500,223
3 Jeff Madsen Los Angeles, CA, United States 1,600 2 $758,500
4 Jeff Cabanillas Los Angeles, CA, United States 1,440 1 $818,546
4 Russ 'Dutch' Boyd Culver City, CA, US 1,440 1 $475,712
4 Max Pescatori Milan, IT 1,440 1 $710,330
4 Allen Cunningham Ventura, CA, US 1,440 1 $627,580
8 John Hoang Garden Grove, CA, US 1,400 2 $249,993
9 Ian Johns Seatac, WA, US 1,224 1 $291,755
10 Nath Pizzolatto Lake Charles, LA, US 1,200 1 $238,280
10 David Rheem Miami, FL, US 1,200 1 $327,981
10 Phil Hellmuth Jr. Palo Alto, CA, US 1,200 1 $431,471
10 Yueqi "Rich" Zhu Rowland Heights, CA, US 1,200 1 $184,409
10 Anthony Reategui Chandler, AZ, US 1,200 1 $356,040
10 Joseph Hachem Melbourne, AU 1,200 1 $256,800
16 Lee Watkinson Cheney, WA, US 1,056 1 $655,746
17 Jerrod Ankeman Irvine, CA, US 1,020 1 $150,586
18 Sam Farha Houston, TX, US 972 1 $398,560
19 Mark Vos Brisbane, AU 960 1 $803,274
19 Justin Pechie Thompson, CT, United States 960 1 $206,207

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2006 WSOP Day 24

Event #27 a $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker has final table all set for todays play. Here are the chip counts of those remaining:
1 Ashwin Sarin 591,000
2 Mats Rahmn 511,000
3 Chris Birchby 497,000
4 Richard Toth 447,000
5 Michael Binger 325,000
6 Jordan Morgan 307,000
7 Padraig Parkinson 278,000
8 James Sileo 144,000
9 Billy Duarte Jr. 96,000

In the 5,000 7-Card Stud Event #28 Day One ends with 15 players surviving, and Cyndy Violette is the chip leader. Here are the chip counts of the top players:
1 Cyndy Violette 157,000
2 Patrick Bueno 115,500
3 Allen Kessler 100,500
4 Lupe Mungia 81,000
5 Russ Salzer 80,500
6 John Cernuto 57,000
7 Shahram Sheikhan 56,000
8 David Grey 46,000
9 John Womack 43,500
10 Brian Goddard 35,000
11 Benjamin Lin 31,000
12 Kevin Tang 27,000
13 David Singer 21,500
14 Mike Caro 19,000
15 Brian Nadell 12,500

The 2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em event #29 has played down to 40 players. The chip counts of the leaders are as follows:
1 Alex Jacob 111,700
2 John Gale 100,500
3 Ariel Schneller 89,600
4 Theo Tran 68,800
5 Lee Grove 67,800
6 Nick Guagenti 56,000
7 Joshua Vanduyn 55,400
8 Gregory Alston 54,600
9 Kevin Ho 54,000
10 Iwan Jones 45,400

Today the $5000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Short Handed 6/Table event gets underway....

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July 19, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 23

The $2000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout event #25 was won by David Pham, who beat out 599 competitors to take ome the first place prize of $240,222.

In Event #26 the $1500 Pot Limit Omaha event Eric Froehlich wins his second World Series of Poker bracelet and takes home $299,675.

Event #27 a $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker ended the day with 121 players left out of a starting field of 2126! Here is a list of the top ten and their chip counts:
1 Josh Ronin 117,900
2 Eric Mizrachi 75,100
3 Jordan Morgan 73,400
4 Alan Engel 71,300
5 Hoyt Corkins 68,900
6 Robert Vecchio 66,700
7 Ali Eslami 64,600
8 Mats Ralmn 52,700
9 Jorge Arias 50,400
10 Kevin Jessee 49,400

The 5,000 7-Card Stud Event #28 and the $2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em event #29 begin today....

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July 18, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 22

Today the $3000 Limit Texas Holdem Poker event #23 was won by Ian Johns taking home the top prize of a braclet and $291,755.

In the $3000 Omaha Hith-low 8/OB event #24, Scott Clements takes down the top prize worth $301,175. Phil Helmuth went out 6th, once again thwarted in his attempt for his 10th bracelet.

The $2000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout event #25 is down to the final group of players who defeated their tables. The list for those vieing for the $240,222 top prize are:
1 David Pham 200,000
1 Roland De Wolfe 200,000
1 Charlie Sewell 200,000
1 Jerald Williamson 200,000
1 Adam Kagin 200,000
1 Dustin Woolf 200,000
1 Jeff Heiberg 200,000
1 David Bach 200,000
1 Chad Layne 200,000
1 Jason Dewitt 200,000

Event #26 the $1500 Pot Limit Omaha event comes to an end with 16 players surviving. Those playing today for the final are:
1 Rafael Perry 129,000
2 George Abdallah 80,500
3 Brian Kocur 75,500
4 Ryan Hartmann 74,500
5 Daniel Mowczan 69,500
6 Russ Salzer 65,000
7 Jason Newburger 54,000
7 Gary Wooldridge 54,000
9 Dmitriy Kirin 43,000
10 Spyridon Mitrokostas 37,500
10 Zhang Luzhe 37,500
12 Frank Henderson 35,500
13 Darryl Dauenhauer 30,500
14 Stephen Mazer 14,500
15 Ray Lynn 10,000
16 Michael O'Malley 5,000

Event #27 a $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event will start up today....

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July 17, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 21

Event #22 a $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker was taken down by Jeff Madsen who took home $660,948. This was Madsen's second final table apperance at the WSOP.

Today the $3000 Limit Texas Holdem Poker event #23 is down to the final table which will resume today at 2PM PST. This is a listing of the chip counts of those players:
1 Ian Johns 207,000
2 Jerrod Ankenman 161,000
3 Brendan Taylor 155,000
4 Javier Torresola 132,000
5 Mark Newhouse 106,000
6 Benjamin Robinson 103,000
7 Theo Tran 74,000
8 Tad Jurgens 61,000
9 Fi Tran 31,000

In the $3000 Omaha Hith-low 8/OB event #24 is down to the final table. Phil Hellmuth is once again, attempting to get his 10th bracelett to tie Doyle and Chan. The chip counts going into today's action are:
1 Scott Clements 244,000
2 Phil Hellmuth Jr. 158,000
3 Ronald Matsuura 120,000
4 Alex Limjoco 116,000
5 Peter Costa 108,000
6 Stephen Ladowsky 97,000
7 Thor Hansen 86,000
8 Martin Corpuz 76,000
9 Brent R. Carter 49,000

The $2000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout event #25 is down to 100 players. some of those who moved on to day two include: Evelyn Ng, Layne Flack, J.C. Tran, Mike Sexton, Antanas “Tony G” Guoga, Chris Ferguson, Marcel Luske, Brett Jungblut, Todd Brunson, Roland de Wolfe, Jeff Shulman, and actor James Woods Play resumes today....

Event #26 the $1500 Pot Limit Omaha event gets underway today.

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July 16, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 20

$50,000 H.O.R.S.E event #20 was won by Chip Reese. Chip and Andy Block came down to heads up and battled it out with Reese prevailing. Reest took down $1,716,000 and a coveted WSOP bracelet with block taking home $1,029,600 for his runner-up finish.

The $2,500 Short Handed 6/Table NL Hold-Em Event #21 was won by William Chen. This was Chen’s second bracelet of the 2006 WSOP and he is currently ahead on the WSOP points leader-board. Chen also won a bracelet in the $3,000 limit hold’em event earlier in the series. With this being his 5th cash, taking home $442,511, his 2006 WSOP earnings are now over $800,000.

Event #22 a $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker is down to the final table. Here is the seating and chip counts for today's action:
Seat 1- Troy Parkins $451,000
Seat 2- Robert Bright $365,000
Seat 3- Billy Duarte Jr. $102,000
Seat 4- Matt Madsen $413,000
Seat 5- Julian Gardner $628,000
Seat 6- Michael Chow $125,000
Seat 7- Robert Cohen $419,000
Seat 8- John Shipley $166,000
Seat 9- Paul Sheng $569,000

Today the $3000 Limit Texas Holdem Poker event #23 is down to 35 of the original 341 who entered. Play will continue today at 2PM to determine a final table.

In the $3000 Omaha Hith-low 8/OB event #24 Day One concludes with 47 players still in the field. Here is a list of the top ten chip counts:
1 Alex Limjoco 59,500
2 Robert Stevanovski 50,500
3 Huck Seed 45,500
4 Allen Cunningham 44,000
5 Andrew Black 42,000
6 Jethro Horowitz 40,500
7 Chad Brown 36,500
8 James Bates 35,500
8 Eric Dalby 35,500
10 Eric Buchman 34,500

Today the $2000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout event #25 takes off...

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July 15, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 19

$50,000 H.O.R.S.E event #20 is down to 18 is down to the final two. Andy Bloch and Chip Reese are battling it out as of this writing with Andy Bloch having a 2/1 chip lead.

The $2,500 Short Handed 6/Table NL Hold-Em Event #21 is down to the final table of 6:

1 Mike Guttman 587,000
2 Harry Demetriou 378,000
3 Dan Hicks 321,000
4 Alex Bolotin 280,000
5 Bill Chen 175,000
6 Nath Pizzolatto 102,000

Event #22 a $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event ended with 101 players remaining of an initial 1549. The chip counts of the top ten are:

1 Cory Ward 114,200
2 Jeff Madsen 89,900
3 Anthony Tamborello 86,800
4 Jon Kalmar 78,500
5 Samir Khoueis 78,300
6 Julian Gardner 76,400
7 Reza Payvar 69,100
8 Miguel Mateo 66,900
9 Tom Ostrander 66,200
10 Darryl Dauenhauer 63,000

Today the $3000 Limit Texas Holdem Poker event, and the $3000 Omaha Hith-low 8/OB event get underway...

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July 14, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 18

Event #19, a $1000 Seniors No Limit Texas Holdem Poker was won by Clare Miller. She won $247,814 for the event!

$50,000 H.O.R.S.E event #20 is down to 18 and they are still playin! The list is a who's who of the poker world, as one would expect in an event such as this. The chip counts and standings so far are:

1 Jim Bechtel 890,000
2 Gavin Smith 750,000
3 David Singer 745,000
4 Patrik Antonius 500,000
5 Chip Reese 485,000
6 Andy Bloch 479,000
7 T.J. Cloutier 420,000
8 David Levi 403,000
9 Doyle Brunson 370,000
10 Barry Greenstein 340,000
11 Joe Cassidy 303,000
12 Phil Ivey 285,000
13 Robert Williamson III 265,000
14 Cong Do 240,000
15 Rafael Perry 225,000
16 Matt Hawrilenko 151,000
17 Dewey Tomko 128,000
18 Allen Cunningham 80,000

The $2,500 Short Handed 6/Table NL Hold-Em Event #21 ended with 38 players surviving to to in to day two. The chip counts of the top ten are:

1 Bill Lewis 134,600
2 Mike Gottmann 125,200
3 Nath Pizzolatto 101,800
4 William Chen 101,700
5 Peter Jetten 101,000
6 Tai Tan Nguyen 94,800
7 Corey Cheresnick 84,000
8 Don Mullis 79,400
9 Jeremiah Smith 76,800
10 Philip Galfond 67,000

Event #22 will start today as a $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event....

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July 13, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 17

Jon Friedberg Won the $1000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event #17.

Event #18, the $2000 Pot Limit Texas Holdem Poker was won by Eric Kesselman.

Event #19, a $1000 Seniors No Limit Texas Holdem Poker is down to 55 with 1184 starting the event. Play will resume today with first place worth $274,814.

$50,000 H.O.R.S.E event #20 is down to 128 of the starting 143. This is a list of the top ten and their chip counts, but there are a TON of top pros lurking:

1 Annand Ramdin 127,000
1 Joe Cassidy 127,000
3 Kassem Deeb 115,500
4 Roy Thung 115,000
5 Tom Franklin 112,500
6 Andy Bloch 111,000
6 Chad Brown 111,000
8 Matthew Glantz 109,000
9 David Oppenheim 96,000
10 Allen Cunningham 95,000

$2,500 Short Handed 6/Table NL Hold-Em Event #21 will start today....

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July 12, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 16

Lee Watkinson won the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Event #16 worth $655,736, AND his FIRST WSOP Bracelet.

The final table is set for the $1000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event #17. Play will resume today to determine the winner out of the following players with their starting chip counts:

1 Mike Pomeroy 1,325,000
2 John Phan 747,000
3 Tom Hawkingberry 675,000
4 Humberto Brenes 564,000
5 Thang Luu 314,000
6 Corey Chaston 229,000
7 Kevin O'Donnell 222,000
8 Jon Friedberg 189,000
9 Michael Halford 89,000

Event #18, the $2000 Pot Limit Texas Holdem Poker event started with 590 players, but only 22 will advance to Day Two. That play will resume today at 2PM PST. The chip counts of those 22 are:

1 Christopher Viox 112,000
2 Dustin Holmes 95,500
3 Eric Kesselman 72,000
4 Harley Hall 71,000
4 Kimmo Liukku 71,000
6 Hyon Kim 69,500
7 Harry Thomas 69,000
8 Christopher Black 66,500
9 David Zeitlin 65,500
10 Kevin Ross 64,000
11 Jair Beltran 58,500
12 Joseph Hachem 57,000
13 Jim McManus 51,500
14 Kirill Gerasimov 40,500
15 David Pool 36,500
16 Kakoun Haim 36,000
17 William Davis 27,500
17 Jeff Slayton 27,500
19 Mark Sarner 26,500
20 Jeffrey Rothstein 25,000
21 Jason Sagle 22,500
22 Kenny Cruz 19,500

Event #19, a $1000 Seniors No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event, and the highly anticipated $50,000 H.O.R.S.E event #20 both kick off today.

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July 11, 2006

2006 WSOP DAY 15

Allen Cunningham won the $1000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker w/Rebuys Event #14 yesterday, earning himself $625,830.

Mary Jones won the $1000 Ladies No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Event #15, taking down $236,094. There were none of the 'top' women in the top 20.

The $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha event #16 is down to the final table wich will resume today. Chip counts of those vieing for the title are:

1 Jani Vilmunen 485,000
2 Hasan Habib 349,000
3 Mike Guttman 283,000
4 Lee Watkinson 276,000
5 Mark Dickstein 212,000
6 Nick Gibson 207,000
7 Thomas Wahlroos 168,000
8 Mickey Appleman 102,000
9 Rafi Amit 99,000

Play has ended with 139 players remaining, out of 2891, in the $1,000 No-Limit Texas Holdem Poker tournament, Event #17. Play will resume today to get down to the final table. Chip counts of the top ten so far, are:

1 Corey Chaston 134,000
2 Tom Hawkingberry 130,400
3 John Phan 127,200
4 John Bardwell 100,500
5 Humberto Brenes 90,800
6 Boulos Estafanous 79,900
7 Marek Kolk 75,300
8 Carlos Lopez 67,500
9 Randy Haddox 65,500
10 Ashley Young 64,400

Today the $2000 Pot Limit Texas Holdem Poker event #18 gets underway....

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July 10, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 14

Event #13, the $2500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event was won by Max Pescatori taking home $632,289 for his efforts!

Event #14, the $1000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker w/Rebuys is down to tthe final table. Here are the listings with chip counts:

1 Tom Franklin 590,000
2 Tim Phan 551,000
3 Steve Wong 295,000
4 John Hoang 274,000
5 Allen Cunningham 233,000
6 David 'Chino' Rheem 170,000
7 Andrew Bloch 163,000
8 Alex Jacob 106,000
9 Everett Carlton 86,000

The $1000 Ladies No Limit Texas Holdem event #15 is down to 26 players, with play resuming today at 4PM PST. THe top ten chip counts are:

1 Sue Luckenbaugh 160,000
2 Laurie Scott 110,000
3 La Sengphet 100,000
4 Julie Allen 90,000
5 Nan Wang 88,000
6 Devi Ortega 79,400
7 Debbie Pechac 77,500
8 Becky James 75,000
9 Reka Hellgato 63,000
9 Kim Chermock 63,000

The $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Event #16 is down to 26, with play getting back underay at 3PM PST today. The top ten chip counts are:

1 Hasan Habib 242,500
2 Thomas Wahlroos 208,500
3 Jani Vilmunen 177,000
4 Mark Dickstein 137,000
5 Michael Guttman 128,500
6 Jim McManus 109,000
7 Dick Gibson 106,500
8 Patrick Antonius 99,500
9 Sam Grizzle 96,500
10 Roland De Wolfe 95,000

Today the $1000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event $17 gets underway....

Posted by fatbill at 07:08 AM | Comments (0)

July 09, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 13

Bob Chalmers won Event #1, the $1,500 Limit Texas Hold Em Poker, earning $258,344 and a coveted WSOP bracelet.

Event #13, the $2500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event, is down to the final table of 9. The players and their chip counts are as follows:

1 Anthony Reategui 908,000
2 Justin Pechie 395,000
3 Max Pescatori 390,000
4 Mike Matusow 378,000
5 Terrence Chan 298,000
6 Tri Ma 224,000
7 Corey Cheresnick 220,000
8 Michael Scott 150,000
9 Matt Heintschel 131,000

Event #14, the $1000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker w/Rebuys played down to 66 players yesterday, with play scheduled to resume today at 2PM PST. The top ten players with their chip counts are:

1 Kyle Wilson 94,000
2 James Mordue 86,500
3 Steve Wong 82,500
4 Adam Naglich 76,000
5 Alex Jacob 67,000
6 Victor Ramdin 66,000
7 Chip Jett 63,500
8 Andrew Bloch 57,000
9 Steve Zolotow 46,000
9 John Cernuto 46,000

Posted by fatbill at 07:57 AM | Comments (0)

July 08, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 12

David Williams wins his first WSOP Bracelet, taking down the $1500 Seven Card Stud event #10 worth $163,118. Johnny Chan finshed 7th.

They are down to the final table in event #11, the $1500 Limit Texas Holdem poker event. The final table looks like this:

1 Graham Duke 184,000
2 Bob Chalmers 175,000
3 Doug Saab 150,000
4 Tam Ho 149,000
5 David Calla 147,000
6 Warren Wooldridge 74,000
7 Thanh Nguyen 72,000
8 Bob Bartmann 64,000
9 Jan Sjavik 37,000

Sam Farha won Event #12, the $5,000 Omaha Hi/Lo Split, earning $398,560 and his second WSOP bracelet. He edged out Phil Ivey for the bracelet, Ivey took home $219,208.

Event #13, the $2500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event was played down to 96 players. This event will resume today, to determine the final table for Sunday. The top ten chip counts are:

1 Mark Wilds 108,700
2 Steve Cohn 104,500
3 Anthony Reategui 104,200
4 Danny Fuhs 98,800
5 David Chiu 91,000
5 Tri Ma 91,000
7 Erick Lindgren 90,500
8 Scott Fischman 89,700
9 Corey Cheresnick 89,200
10 Melissa Hayden 72,900

The $1,000 No Limit Holdem with Rebuys Event #14 will begin today at 12 pm.

Posted by fatbill at 07:37 AM | Comments (0)

July 07, 2006

2006 Wsop Day 11

Jeff Cabanillas Wins the $5,000 No Limit Texas Hold em event #9 dening Phil Helmouth his 10th bracelet. Cabanillas won $818,546 for first, and Phil took home $423,893 for second place.

The $1500 Seven Card Stud event #10 is down to the final table of 8. Here are the standings of those players, including Johnnie Chan who, although short stacked, is vieing for his 11th bracelet.

1 John Hoang 170,000
2 David Williams 142,000
3 Ivan Swertzer 118,500
4 Jack Duncan 106,000
5 John Cernuto 86,000
6 Mitchell Ledis 43,500
7 Matt Hawrilenko 32,000
8 Johnny Chan 26,500

Event #11 is the $1500 Limit Texas Holdem Poker event, and they have played down to 41 at level 10. Here are the chip counts of the top ten left in the event:

1 Bobby Law 57,000
2 Bob Chalmers 56,500
3 Jason Eakes 55,000
3 Joe Sebok 55,000
3 Bob Bartmann 55,000
6 David Baker 48,500
7 Larry Wein 47,000
8 Jan Sjavik 42,500
9 Thanh Nguyen 41,500
10 Ryan McGuire 38,000

Event #12 is the $5000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB where action stopped when they got down to 26 players. There are several top pros left in this one, including the dangerous Phil Ivey. Here are the standings of the top ten players:

1 Gavin Smith 118,000
2 Sam Farha 115,000
3 Ryan Hughes 110,000
4 Jim Ferrel 109,000
5 Mike Henrich 95,000
6 Richard Ashby 83,000
7 Mike Wattel 71,000
8 Kirill Gerasimov 69,000
9 Phil Ivey 56,000
10 Jason Zimmerman 52,000

Today's event is a $2500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event #13

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July 06, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 10

Jack Zwerner wins the $2000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB event #8 taking home the first place prize of $341,426. Florante Mandap took home 2nd, worth $176,813. Other notables placing in this event were, Danial Negreanu at 7th, and Huck Seed at 11th.

The $5000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event #9 is down to the final table. Here are the players and their chip counts:

1 Quoc Al 'Vinnie' Vinh 784,000
2 Phil Hellmuth Jr. 461,000
3 Marcel Luske 458,000
4 Isabelle Mercier 301,000
5 Jeff Cabanillas 275,000
6 Douglas Carli 273,000
7 Eugene Todd 240,000
8 Thomas Schreiber 200,000
9 Dan Smith 117,000

Phil Hellmuth is going for his 10th WSOP Bracelet!

The 1500 Seven Card Stud event #10 was played down to 40 players, with the top ten and their chip count as:

1 John Hoang 79,000
2 David Williams 55,500
3 Victor Shkurka 53,000
4 Jack Duncan 38,500
5 Eugene Borbas 33,500
6 Jon Knout 31,700
7 John Hennigan 30,300
8 John Cernuto 24,900
9 Charlie Ng 23,100
10 Julia Sun 22,000

Event #11, the $5000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB event gets underway today.

Posted by fatbill at 09:12 AM | Comments (0)

July 05, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 9

William Chen Wins the $3,000 Limit Texas Hold em Event #7 taking home the first place prize worth $343,618. Rich Zhu finished 2nd and earned $184,409.

They are down to the fial table in the $2000 Omaha 9/OB Event #8. Here are the leaders and the chip counts:

1 Jeff Madsen 225,000
2 Jack Zwerner 189,000
3 Daniel Negreanu 166,000
4 Bob Mangino 165,000
5 Florante Mandap 156,000
5 Robert Collins 156,000
7 Russ Salzer 142,000
8 Cong Do 99,000
9 Steve Lustig 31,000

Play will resume today at 2PM PST to decide this event.

The $5000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event #9 played down to 60 yesterday. Play will resume today at 2:00 pm, to determine the final table, where they'll play for a first prize of $818,546.
Chip counts of the top ten are:

1 Erik Cajelais 137,900
2 Steven Prentky 131,600
3 Phil Hellmuth Jr. 126,300
4 Dang Trinh 124,700
5 Richard Freire 109,200
6 Jeff Cabanillas 100,800
7 Dustin Woolf 100,500
8 Steve Crockett 93,600
9 Mike McNeil 92,900
10 Richard Tatalovich 88,800

Today the $1500 Seven Card Stud event #10 gets underway at noon....

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July 04, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 8

Mark Vos wins the $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event #6 worth $803,274. Nam Le finished in 2nd place taking home $401,647.

Event #7, the $3000 Limit Texas Holdem event is down to the final table of 9 which will kick off at 2PM PST today. Here are the players lsted by chip counts:

1 Karlo Lopez 227,000
2 Rich Zhu 221,000
3 Henry Nguyen 189,000
4 Jeffrey Lisandro 153,000
5 Allan Puzantyan 144,000
6 William Chen 122,000
7 Ernie Scherer 118,000
8 Larry Thomas 59,000
9 Danny Ciaramella 38,000

Event #8, the $2000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB event is down to 61, with play continuing today to get down to the final table. Here is a list of the top ten in chip counts:

1 Cong Do 66,500
2 Herb Beck 53,500
2 Alan Mittelman 53,500
4 Russel Salzer 47,000
5 Niels Roch 46,000
6 Morris Klevansky 45,000
7 Valentino Morella 44,500
8 Robert Mangino 42,000
9 Hany Sukkary 40,500
10 Andrew Bloch 39,000

Today Event #9 gets underway, the $5000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event. Play begins at Noon PST.....

Posted by fatbill at 07:54 AM | Comments (0)

July 03, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 7

Dutch Boyde won the $2500 No Limit Texas Holdem Shorthanded event, taking home $475,712. Joe Hachem, last years main event winner, took second playce worth $256,800!

The $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event #6, is down to the final table with play resuming at 2PM PST. Those remaining and their chip counts are:

1 Kevin 'Bleu' Petersen 1,130,000
2 Mark Vos 528,000
3 Vanessa Selbst 492,000
4 Thomas Hunt III 468,000
5 Nam Le 323,000
6 David Wells 275,000
7 J.R. Reiss 222,000
8 Willard Chang 219,000
9 Carlos Mortensen 213,000

Day one came to an end in the $3000 Limit Texas Holdem Poker event #7, leaving 44 players remaining. High amoung them is Phil Hellmuth, in 4th place. The top ten, and their chip count is:

1 Karlo Lopez 89,000
2 Ernie Scherer 71,000
3 Jason Heidema 61,500
4 Phil Hellmuth Jr. 55,000
5 Larry Thomas 47,500
6 Pat Pezzin 47,000
7 Danny Ciasamella 45,500
8 Henry Nguyen 44,000
9 Ray Dehkharghani 42,500
10 Matt Woodward 39,000

Today, the $2000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB event #8 gets underway at noon PST.

Posted by fatbill at 09:11 AM | Comments (0)

July 02, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 6

We have a winner in the $1500 Limit Holdem Event, Kianoush Abolfathi takes home first place and $335,289. Runner up Eric Buchman took home $174,938.

The final table is set in event $5, the $2500 No Limit Texas holdem short handed 6/table event. Here are the players and their chip counts:

Russ "Dutch" Boyd- $909,000
Michael Goodman-$573,000
Joseph Hachem-$297,000
Peter Hassett-$150,000
David Soloman-$93,000
Jeff Knight-$62,000

Daniel Negranu was takin out 8th

Day one of Event #6, the $2,000 No Limit Texas Hold Em Tournament has ended with 124 players still in the hunt. Here are the chip counts of the top 10 remaining:

1 Assaui Fisher 126,000
2 Max Pescatori 106,000
3 Carlos Zambrano 85,000
3 Dwayne Boring 85,000
5 Thomas Hunt III 83,000
6 Eng Tay 82,900
7 Randy Lowery 82,000
8 Keith Wintermans 69,900
9 Kevin Petersen 68,000
10 Carlos Mortensen 67,000

Today the $3000 Limit Texas Holdem event gets underway....

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July 01, 2006

2006 WSOP Day 5

The winner of the $1500 Pot Limit Texas Holdem Poker event is Rafe Furst who took home $345,984 for his effort. The pro's fared better in this event, with John Juanda, Dewy Tomko, Randy Jenson, and Chang Huang all in the top 20.

The $1500 Limit Texas Holdem Poker event is down to it's final table. Those remaining with their chip counts are:

1 Patrick Maloney 260,000
2 Hank Sparks 243,000
2 Josh Schlein 243,000
3 Michelle Lewis 225,000
4 Eric Buchman 213,000
5 Lars Hansen 156,000
6 Vipul Kothari 132,000
7 Kianoush Abolfathi 75,000
8 Matthew Elsby 51,000

The final table for this event will kick off today at 2PM.

There are 39 remaining in the $2500 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker short handed 6/table event #5 out of the initial 824. The prize pool for this event is a whopping $1,895,200! There are big names at the top also! Here are the top ten with their chip counts:

1 Daniel Negreanu 140,000
1 Mirza Nagji 140,000
2 Gavin Smith 120,000
3 Russ Boyd 88,800
4 Peter Hassett 85,000
5 Craig Gray 82,000
6 Gioi Luong 80,000
6 Zach Sanders 80,000
7 David Shallow 78,000
8 Gavin Griffin 64,000

Today we kick off Event #6, a $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event!

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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

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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 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)

May 30, 2006

2006 WSOP Tournament Circuit- Harrah's New Orleans

Well, after last year's hurricane disaster, and thoughts that NOTHING, let alone poker, would be happening in New Orleans, the WSOP event was held successfully this year! Here are the stats for the $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Main Event:

Buy-in $10,000
Total Prize Pool $1,615,000
Number of Entries 170 Players

Here is the list of the winners:

1 Peter Feldman $532,950 816
2 Gavin Smith $293,930 680
3 Matt Russell $161,500 544
4 George Abdallah $129,200 408
5 Kenny Brown $96,900 340
6 Dana Diephouse $80,750 272
7 Allie Prescott $64,600 204
8 Benjamin Gordon $48,450 136
9 David Babin $32,300 68
10 Brian Townsend $22,610 41
11 Owen Bradley $22,610 41
12 Joseph Schmitt $22,610 41
13 David Singer $19,380 41
14 Phil Ivey $19,380 41
15 Matt Lefkowitz $19,380 41
16 Charles Glorioso $16,150 41
17 Timothy O'Connor $16,150 41
18 Jason Griffin $16,150 41

Posted by fatbill at 06:48 AM | Comments (0)

May 20, 2006

A side note to the 2006 Mirage Shootout

While I covered the main event of the 2006 Mirage shootout, there was other news of a more personal nature involving the tournament. A good sized group from my local Poker club went to the event to play in a number of the preliminary tournaments.

Two members of our club, Mark Hannawi and Bob Sands, placed in the top ten in two of those events, both no limit texax holdem poker. Both placed 9th!

Mark took 9th in a $1000 buy-in no limit texas holdem poker event.

Bob took 9th in a $1500 buy-in No limit texas holdem poker event.

Congrats on a great accomplishment to both!

Posted by fatbill at 09:47 AM | Comments (0)

May 18, 2006

Mirage 2006 Main Event Final

Stan Weiss wins the No Limit Texas Holdem Poker championship Main Event at this years Mirage Poker Showdown, netting a cool $1,294,755. Harry Demetriou took down second for $673,232. The final hand came down to Weiss' K5 calling Demetriou's K6, and spiking a 5 ON THE RIVER, to take the title!

Devin Porter 3rd, 332,937
David Williams 4th 221,958
Steve Frederick 5th $129,476
Robert Mizrachi 6th $166,469

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May 17, 2006

Mirage 2006 Main Event Day 3

Well, they are down to the final table of 6 at the Mirage Poker Showdown for the No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main event. The table is a mix of seasoned pro's and some unknon's, so it should be interesting.

Here are the chip counts:

1 Stanley Weiss 2,437,000 Chips 0 1 5
2 Robert Mizrachi 2,019,000 Chips 0 1 2
3 Devin Porter 964,000 Chips 0 1 1
4 David Williams 921,000 Chips 0 1 6
5 Charidimos "Harry" Demetriou 822,000 Chips 0 1 3
6 Steve Frederick 545,000 Chips 0 1 4

Players will return tomorrow at 4 pm Pacific time for the televised World Poker Tour final table.

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May 16, 2006

Mirage 2006 Main Event Day 2

Well, they played down to 27, and here are the chip counts of those players:

Harry Demetriou $828,000 0 0
Robert Mizrachi $693,000 0 0
Stan Weiss $491,000 0 0
Matthew Keikoan $485,000 0 0
Darrell Dicken $457,000 0 0
Shane Schleger $422,000 0 0
Tam Van Nguyen $351,000 0 0
Farzad Bonyadi $317,000 0 0
Devin Porter $310,000 0 0
Eli Elezra $293,000 0 0
Haralabos Voulgaris $291,000 0 0
Jaime Lewin $289,000 0 0
David Williams $267,000 0 0
David Singer $257,000 0 0
Alan Goehring $254,000 0 0
Hasan Habib $220,000 0 0
Gary Horn $209,000 0 0
Alan Bradsky $188,000 0 0
Casey Kastle $182,000 0 0
Steve Frederick $176,000 0 0
John Juanda $162,000 0 0
Greg Morris $154,000 0 0
Champie Douglas $115,000 0 0
Brendan Lynch $92,000 0 0
John Abrams $92,000 0 0
Anthony Reategui $43,000 0 0
Eric Mizrachi $41,000 0 0

Today they play down to the TV Table of 6....

Posted by fatbill at 09:07 AM | Comments (0)

May 15, 2006

Mirage 2006 Main Event

The 2006 Mirage Poker Showdown, the $10,000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main Event got underway yesterday. This one looks to be star-studded, with a lot of pros in the hunt! 384 entries paid the fee for this one

The Top chip counts are:

David Williams $180,000 0 0
Robert Mizrachi $105,000 0 0
Shane Schleger $95,000 0 0
John Juanda $95,000 0 0
Steve Frederick $90,000 0 0
Patrik Antonius $80,000 0 0
Casey Kastle $65,000 0 0
Huck Seed $63,000 0 0
Minh Nguyen $61,000 0 0
Bill Edler $60,000 0 0
Gavin Smith $60,000 0 0

Posted by fatbill at 08:14 AM | Comments (0)

May 12, 2006

Ceasars WSOP Circuit Event Final

Well we have a winner! John Spadavecchia Wins the WSOPC Caesars No Limit Texas Holdem Poker $10K Event taking home $648,320. Sean McCabe claims the 2nd prize worth $357,557.

Posted by fatbill at 09:13 AM | Comments (0)

May 11, 2006

Ceasars WSOP Circuit Event Day 3

Well, here is your final table with chip counts in the Main Event, $10K Buy In No Limit Texas Holdem tournament at Ceasars!

Sean McCabe $510,500 0 0
Ralph Perry $336,000 0 0
Tom Schneider $323,500 0 0
John Spadavecchia $197,500 0 0
Bob Bright $197,000 0 0
Blair Rodman $195,000 0 0
Tony Cousineau $119,000 0 0
Danny Fuhs $117,000 0 0
Bill Baxter $93,500 0 0

Posted by fatbill at 10:13 PM | Comments (0)

May 10, 2006

Ceasars WSOP Circuit Event Day 2

Well, they are down to 27 in the No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main event at Ceasars!

Those 27 and their chip counts are:

Jeff King $168,200 0 0
Ralph Perry $156,300 0 0
Tony Cousineau $153,000 0 0
Danny Fuhs $149,600 0 0
David Benyamine $136,700 0 0
Blair Rodman $115,400 0 0
Sean McCabe $114,900 0 0
Tim Phan $112,500 0 0
Erik Seidel $108,200 0 0
Brian Jensen $88,800 0 0
Bob Bright $86,300 0 0
John Spadavecchia $78,100 0 0
Greg Morris $64,200 0 0
Jordan Morgan $62,700 0 0
Yossi Strasser $61,600 0 0
Steve Sung $56,200 0 0
John Esposito $55,700 0 0
Jim Pittman $54,200 0 0
Minh Nguyen $53,700 0 0
Alex Jagodik $47,700 0 0
Andrew Barta $36,100 0 0
Bill Baxter $30,300 0 0
Tom Schneider $25,000 0 0
Mike Epstein $23,900 0 0
Steve Frederick $20,000 0 0
Paul Fischman $17,800 0 0
Trung Nguyen $11,700 0 0

Play will continue today to bring this group down to the final table...

Posted by fatbill at 09:38 AM | Comments (0)

May 09, 2006

Ceasars WSOP Circuit Event Day 1

Well, only 209 players ponied up the $10,000 for the No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main event this year, and it did not take long to get that field down! When play was stopped for the day, only 64 players were left standing!!

Among those left are: Sean McCabe, Erick Lindgren, Tim Phan, Scotty Nguyen, David Benyamine, John Gale, Nam Le, and Billy Baxter.

Play will resume today to wittle the field down to 64.

Posted by fatbill at 08:42 AM | Comments (0)

May 08, 2006

Tournament Action

The Main Event ( No Limit Texas Holdem Poker - $10,000 buy-in ) at Ceasars Palace, for the WSOP Circuit, gets underway today!

The 2006 Mirage Poker Showdown got underway This past thrusday, with two other Major events scheduled for later this month:

2006 WSOP Tournament Circuit- Harrah's New Orleans

and

2006 Mandalay Bay Poker Championship - a WPT event

Posted by fatbill at 10:35 AM | Comments (0)

April 25, 2006

2006 WPT Champion Crowned!

Well, the 2006 WPT No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Championship has been decided, and Joe Bartholdi has been crowned the champion!

Here is a listing of the the top cash places!

1 Joe Bartholdi $3,760,165 1920
2 David Matthew $1,903,950 1600
3 Roland De Wolfe $1,025,205 1280
4 Claus Nielson $659,120 960
5 James Van Alstyne $439,375 800
6 Men Nguyen $292,915 640
7 Vanessa Rousso $263,625 480
8 Espen Saltnes $234,330 320
9 Chad Brown $205,040 160
10 Carlos Zambrano $175,750 96
11 Annand "Victor" Ramdin $146,460 96
12 Cliff Josephy $146,460 96
13 Valentino Morella $146,460 96
14 Gary Maresh $146,460 96
15 Paul Wasicka $146,460 96
16 Erica Schoenberg $117,165 96
17 Patrik Antonius $117,165 96
18 Simon Moussa $117,165 96
19 Surinder Sunar $117,165 48

Posted by fatbill at 09:41 AM | Comments (0)

April 24, 2006

2006 WPT Championship Day 5

Well, they narrowed the field down to the final 6, in the WPT No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Championship. Here is a list of the Television table and their chip counts:

1 James Van Alstyne 8,070,000 Chips 0 1 5
2 Joe Bartholdi 7,135,000 Chips 0 1 1
3 Claus Nielson 5,875,000 Chips 0 1 4
3 David Matthew 5,765,000 Chips 0 1 6
5 Roland De Wolfe 1,860,000 Chips 0 1 2
6 Men Nguyen 1,490,000 Chips 0 1 3

Ole Men 'the Master' Nguyen is in the hunt, something we have not seen in quite a while!

Unfortunately the lovely Vanessa Rousso was knocked on the bubble when here AK was knocked by Van Alstyne's AJ when a J came on the turn...

Play will go today at 4PM PST.

Posted by fatbill at 09:08 AM | Comments (0)

April 23, 2006

2006 WPT Championship Day 4

Well, they played it down to 19 with play resuming today, in the No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Championship. There were a LOT of TOP Pros sent to the rail yesterday, including: Brad Booth, Amir Vahedi, David Williams, Gabe Thaler, Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, David Grey, Evelyn Ng, Chip Jett, Johnny Chan and Freddy Deeb.

James Van Alstyne sits atop the chip lead!

Here are the chip counts of those that remain:

1 James Van Alstyne 4,235,000 Chips 0 63 1
2 Roland De Wolfe 3,325,000 Chips 0 64 1
3 Carlos Zambrano 2,985,000 Chips 0 63 5
4 Annand "Victor" Ramdin 2,685,000 Chips 0 64 4
5 Joe Bartholdi 2,350,000 Chips 0 63 4
6 Paul Wasicka 2,245,000 Chips 0 62 4
7 Erica Schoenberg 1,735,000 Chips 0 62 6
8 Simon Moussa 1,695,000 Chips 0 62 5
9 Vanessa Rousso 1,575,000 Chips 0 63 6
10 Cliff Josephy 1,255,000 Chips 0 64 3
11 David Matthew 1,200,000 Chips 0 63 3
12 Espen Saltnes 1,130,000 Chips 0 62 2
13 Claus Nielson 940,000 Chips 0 63 2
14 Gary Maresh 905,000 Chips 0 62 1
15 Valentino Morella 525,000 Chips 0 64 2
16 Chad Brown 485,000 Chips 0 64 5
17 Patrik Antonius 450,000 Chips 0 62 3
18 Men Nguyen 375,000 Chips 0 62 7
19 Surinder Sunar 120,000 Chips 0 64 6

Posted by fatbill at 09:50 AM | Comments (0)

April 22, 2006

2006 WPT Championship Day 3

Well, the field has been narrowed down to 72 in the No Limit Texas Holdem Poker championships! Several of the top names from the leaderboard from day two have been eliminated, including:
Barry Greenstein, T.J. Cloutier, Steve Dannenmann, Paul Darden and Dan Harrington.
Erick Lindgren, Jen Harman and Casey Kastle all cashed but were sent packing also!

Here are chip counts of the remaining players:

Place Poker Player Chip Count
1 Victor Ramdin $ 1,169,000
2 Gary Maresh $ 1,013,000
3 Freddy Deeb $ 1,005,000
4 Chad Brown $ 893,000
5 Roland De Wolfe $ 889,000
6 Evelyn Ng $ 873,000
7 Patrik Antonius $ 865,000
8 David Williams $ 865,000
9 Men 'The Master' Nguyen $ 847,000
10 Vanessa Rousso $ 795,000
11 Johnny Chan $ 782,000
12 James Van Alstyne $ 746,000
13 Davidson Matthew $ 720,000
14 Phil Hellmuth $ 604,000
15 Curtis Hirsch $ 560,000
16 Jeff Littlefield $ 553,000
17 Rehne Pedersen $ 523,000
18 Paul Wasicka $ 496,000
19 Carlos Zambrano $ 490,000
20 Kenny Tran $ 487,000
21 Brad 'Yukon' Booth $ 477,000
22 David Byer $ 477,000
23 Erica Schoenberg $ 468,000
24 Nadeem Ahmed $ 465,000
25 Simon Moussa $ 458,000
26 Chip Jett $ 436,000
27 Dapo Fadeyi $ 435,000
28 Gavin Simms $ 435,000
29 David Grey $ 430,000
30 Paul Kraus $ 417,000
31 Greg Fondacaro $ 402,000
32 Daniel Adelson $ 398,000
33 Luis Pires $ 398,000
34 Amir Vahedi $ 387,000
35 Shawn Buchanan $ 371,000
36 Joe Bartholdi $ 363,000
37 Bob Hoff $ 355,000
38 Mike Russo $ 350,000
39 Gabe Thaler $ 348,000
40 Claus Nielsen $ 343,000
41 'Captain' Tom Franklin $ 334,000
42 Ray Faltinsky $ 329,000
43 Doyle Brunson $ 322,000
44 Cliff 'Johnny Bax' Josephy $ 322,000
45 Raul Oliveira $ 320,000
46 Jay Wilchester, Jr. $ 302,000
47 Thomas Koral $ 283,000
48 Valentino Morella $ 281,000
49 Michael McNeil $ 276,000
50 Bill Edler $ 273,000
51 Don Odea $ 268,000
52 Espen Saltnes $ 257,000
53 Jody Newcomb $ 242,000
54 Michael Thuritz $ 241,000
55 William Lin $ 230,000
56 Thor Hansen $ 223,000
57 Vinny Vinh $ 210,000
58 Carl Olson $ 208,000
59 Ross Boatman $ 205,000
60 Surinder Sunar $ 204,000
61 Anthony Newman $ 194,000
62 Gary Starrett $ 186,000
63 Bill Baxter $ 184,000
64 Jeffrey Freedman $ 183,000
65 Meng La $ 179,000
66 Ingemar Backman $ 147,000
67 Steven Paul-Ambrose $ 141,000
68 Kory Moore $ 132,000
69 Mark Gregorich $ 124,000
70 Matt Lefkowitz $ 78,000
71 Johan Storakers $ 55,000

The top 15 are stacked with seasoned pros, so this should get interesting!

Posted by fatbill at 08:21 AM | Comments (0)

April 20, 2006

2006 5 Star Classic Main Event Day 2

Here are the stats on the Main No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event at the 2006 5 Star Classic:
Buy-in $25,000
Total Prize Pool $14,671,250
Number of Entries 605 Players

First place is going to pay $3,760,165!

Lots of names still in the hunt, and there are about 400 going into the 'official' day 2 start, at Noon today!

Posted by fatbill at 08:28 AM | Comments (0)

April 19, 2006

200 5 Star WPT Championship Main Event

The Main event for the 2006 4th Annual Five-Star World Poker Classic No-Limit Texas Holdem Poker Championship Day 1A is underway. About 300 players started the day off with $50K in chips. With the Blinds at 90 Minutes and starting at 50/100, not many players were sent packing on day one. In fact less than 40 were eliminated, but suprisingly, a LOT of players are short.

Play will start at Noon PT for day 1B, with combined play commencing on Thursday!

Posted by fatbill at 09:46 AM | Comments (0)

April 18, 2006

2006 5 Star Classic Senior Event

Well, 177 Seniors ponied up $2500 for the 2006 5 Star Classic's No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event this year, contesting for a prize pool of $429,225.

The top 10 finisher's were:

1 Chris Bjorin $174,880 0
2 Stan Fulton $88,820 0
3 Jamie Ligator $44,410 0
4 David Kalish $24,225 0
5 Lascelle Barrow $18,170 0
6 Woodrow Bean $14,130 0
7 Gary Dolenga $10,095 0
8 Jay Vogel $8,075 0
9 Peter Moore $6,460 0
10 Carl McKelvey $4,845 0

417 Players Put up #$2500 yesterday in attempts to get seats for the Grand Daddy of them all... the $25,000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Championship event. 39 got seats.

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

April 17, 2006

More from the 2006 5 Star Classic

Well, the $5000 No Limit Texas Holdem event has ended, and the top nine were:

1 Jack Amyx $589,035 1260
2 Mark Muchnik $348,065 1050
3 Hoa Nguyen $174,030 840
4 Mel Wiener $99,440 630
5 Nickolas Hanna $74,585 525
6 Don Zewin $58,010 420
7 John Unger $41,435 315
8 Frank Kassela $33,150 210
9 Peirce Shaad $26,520 105

The $2500 Senior No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event, these are near and dear to my heart cuz I'm qualified for em, got underway, and are down to 34 of the original 177. They are:
1 Carl McKelvey 59,325 Chips 0 64 4
2 Eddie Palmer 58,475 Chips 0 64 1
3 Peter Moore 55,550 Chips 0 62 6
4 Billy Duarte Jr. 48,675 Chips 0 63 6
5 Jay Vogel 42,775 Chips 0 62 4
6 William Coyle 38,950 Chips 0 61 1
7 Leonard Weissman 38,375 Chips 0 61 5
8 Robert Heller 36,875 Chips 0 61 4
9 Richard Besserman 35,525 Chips 0 62 3
10 Dan Alspach 33,350 Chips 0 64 3
11 Chris Bjorin 29,600 Chips 0 61 8
12 Mike Gambony 28,175 Chips 0 61 7
13 Bob Davenport 27,525 Chips 0 63 4
14 Paul Magriel 25,550 Chips 0 64 6
15 Tom Franklin 24,300 Chips 0 63 2
16 Lascelle Barrow 23,825 Chips 0 61 2
17 Jamie Ligator 22,850 Chips 0 61 9
18 Ron Levi 22,025 Chips 0 64 5
19 Bill Corrigan 21,025 Chips 0 62 2
20 Gary Dolenga 20,100 Chips 0 64 7
21 Joe Connor 19,500 Chips 0 63 3
22 Stan Fulton 18,175 Chips 0 64 9
23 David Remblance 17,775 Chips 0 64 8
24 David Kalish 15,525 Chips 0 63 5
25 Woodrow Bean 14,975 Chips 0 62 7
26 Gary Haubelt 14,225 Chips 0 62 8
27 Cy Kavoosi 13,400 Chips 0 61 3
28 Tom Pniak 13,350 Chips 0 62 5
29 Steve Kaufman 11,925 Chips 0 62 1
30 Michel Abecassis 11,725 Chips 0 63 8
31 David Gorman 11,050 Chips 0 63 7
32 Doyle Elwell 10,825 Chips 0 64 2
33 Jesse Jones 9,450 Chips 0 61 6
34 Milt Meyers 8,375 Chips 0 63 1

Posted by fatbill at 06:56 AM | Comments (0)

April 16, 2006

More on the 2006 5 Star World Poker Classic

Well, the $3000 buy in No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event is in the can, with well known pro Marcel Luske taking down the prize! The top ten place holders were:
1 Marcel Luske $315,630 1080
2 John Phan $179,195 900
3 Jeff Knight $89,600 720
4 Joseph Miceli $51,195 540
5 Jean Gaspard $38,400 450
6 Raymond Millard $29,865 360
7 Wayne Boich $21,335 270
8 Don Barton $17,065 180
9 Enrique Leigue $13,655 90
10 Stuart Paterson $10,240 0

The $5,000 Buy-in No Limit Texas Holdem event is underway, and here are the numbers:
Total Prize Pool $1,682,950
Number of Entries 347 Players

Chip counts for the top 29 remaining are:
1 John Unger 364,000 Chips 0 62 3
2 Don Zewin 279,500 Chips 0 60 9
3 Nickolas Hanna 258,500 Chips 0 62 1
4 T.J. Cloutier 241,500 Chips 0 62 7
5 Frank Kassela 232,500 Chips 0 60 2
6 Mel Wiener 217,000 Chips 0 60 5
7 Peirce Shaad 156,000 Chips 0 60 3
8 Jordan Morgan 140,500 Chips 0 60 7
9 Allen Kessler 132,500 Chips 0 62 8
10 Richard Chase 115,000 Chips 0 61 5
11 Mark Muchnik 110,500 Chips 0 64 4
11 Hoa Nguyen 110,500 Chips 0 61 2
13 Barry Greenstein 102,500 Chips 0 64 3
13 Bruce Yamron 102,500 Chips 0 64 8
15 Jack Amyx 94,500 Chips 0 64 5
16 Alexander Stevic 89,000 Chips 0 64 2
17 Jenny Kang 88,500 Chips 0 61 1
18 Jim McManus 85,000 Chips 0 64 7
19 B Mohammed 76,500 Chips 0 64 6
20 Kellly Samson 74,000 Chips 0 61 7
21 Wendell Barnes 65,000 Chips 0 60 4
22 Max Pescatori 62,500 Chips 0 61 4
23 Joseph Russo 50,500 Chips 0 62 5
24 Lee Vaccaro 46,000 Chips 0 62 4
25 Birgitta Johansson 41,500 Chips 0 64 9
26 Tom Macey 39,500 Chips 0 62 2
27 Eric Firestone 37,500 Chips 0 60 6
28 Craig Crivello 31,000 Chips 0 61 6
29 James Courtney 25,500 Chips 0 61 9

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

April 15, 2006

Update on the 2006 5 Star Classic

Here are the last few events in the 2006 4th Annual Five-Star World Poker Classic from the Bellagio.

Buy-in $1,500
Total Prize Pool $717,315
Number of Entries 493 Players
1 Ricky Zilem $233,045 960
2 David Byer $124,525 800
3 John Roveto Sr. $65,720 640
4 Hoang Nguyen $38,065 480
5 Davood Mehrmand $27,675 400
6 Chuck Kelley $19,370 320
7 Michael Fitzpatrick $13,835 240
8 Brent Burns $11,070 160
9 Larry Watson $9,685 80
10 Al Ardebili $8,300 0

Buy-in $2,000
Total Prize Pool $655,720
Number of Entries 338 Players
1 Edward Forlani $239,775 816
2 Jeff Littlefield $132,345 680
3 Chris Hinchcliffe $66,175 544
4 Olga Spirova $37,825 408
5 Brad Guttilla $28,360 340
6 Ryan Larson $22,060 272
7 Woodrow Bean $15,755 204
8 Matt Giannetti $12,605 136
9 Terry Jacobs $10,085 68
10 Brian Ahern $7,565 0

Buy-in $2,500
Total Prize Pool $698,400
Number of Entries 288 Players
1 Todd Keikoan $254,285 1044
2 Bruno Fitoussi $141,310 870
3 David Baker $70,655 696
4 Al Ardebili $40,385 522
5 Tom Robison $30,280 435
6 Warren Karp $23,550 348
7 Bill Corrigan $16,825 261
8 Jess Yawitz $13,460 174
9 Tony Cousineau $10,765 87
10 Robert Durant Jr. $8,075 0

Buy-in $3,000
Total Prize Pool $878,820
Number of Entries 302 Players
1 Joe Miceli 273,000 Chips 0 64 3
2 Jeff Knight 251,000 Chips 0 64 2
3 Jean Gaspard 194,500 Chips 0 64 1
4 Raymond Millard 174,000 Chips 0 61 2
5 Marcel Luske 167,000 Chips 0 64 6
6 Stuart Paterson 124,500 Chips 0 61 9
7 Enrique Leigue 109,000 Chips 0 64 4
9 Juha Helppi 102,000 Chips 0 64 9
10 Don Barton 99,500 Chips 0 61 4
11 David Tran 80,000 Chips 0 64 7
12 Wayne Boich 63,500 Chips 0 61 7
13 Raja Kattamuri 59,500 Chips 0 61 1
13 John Phan 59,500 Chips 0 61 6
14 Lance Allred 58,500 Chips 0 61 8

Posted by fatbill at 08:49 AM | Comments (0)

April 12, 2006

2006 5 Star Classic

2006 4th Annual Five-Star World Poker Classic at the Bellagio.
Dates: April 5th, 2006 to April 24th, 2006

This event is now underway, and culminates with the $25,000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Championships on April 18th. This is the 'BIG DADDY' for the WPT and is considered their champioship event!

There are a number of larger buy-in events leading up to the big one... read on for that information...

The $1500 Buy In No limit texas holdem poker event stats were:
Total Prize Pool $654,750
Number of Entries 450 Players
The Top ten finishers were:

1 Anthony Reategui $214,275 960
2 Robert Mizrachi $113,265 800
3 Andy Miller $59,780 640
4 Michael Navarro $34,625 480
5 Lonnie Alexander $25,170 400
6 Danny Fernando $17,620 320
7 Gioi Luong $12,585 240
8 Matt Sterling $10,070 160
9 Dennis Waterman $8,810 80
10 Al Ciaglia $7,550 0

The $2000 Buy In No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event stats were:
Total Prize Pool $552,900
Number of Entries 285 Players
The top 10 finishers were:

1 Rob Hollink $204,815 696
2 Stan Fulton $110,755 580
3 Chris McCormack $55,375 464
4 David Daneshgar $31,625 348
5 David Plastik $23,735 290
6 Tony Cousineau $18,460 232
7 Edward Forlani $13,185 174
8 James English $10,550 116
9 Cy Kavoosi $8,440 58
10 Ken James $6,330 0

The $2500 Buy In No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event stats were:
Total Prize Pool $628,075
Number of Entries 259 Players
Top Ten finishers were:

1 Adam Smith $230,375 936
2 Joseph Pecoraro $126,540 780
3 Al Barbieri $63,270 624
4 Justin Gaines $36,170 468
5 Beverly Cheney $27,115 390
6 Chris Bjorin $21,090 312
7 Jimmy Ngoc Tran $15,065 234
8 Jeff Rine $12,050 156
9 Robert Spino $9,640 78
10 Raul Paez $7,230 0

The $3000 Buy In No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event stats were:
Total Prize Pool $663,480
Number of Entries 228 Players
The top ten finishers were:

1 Erick Lindgren $261,555 828
2 Ralph Eggebrecht $140,355 690
3 Bernard Ko $70,180 552
4 James Hoeppner $38,265 414
5 Mark Cole $28,710 345
6 Brett Jungblut $22,330 276
7 Thor Hansen $15,950 207
8 Vincent DeVita $12,760 138
9 John Phan $10,210 69
10 Rene Angelil $7,655 0

The $5K buy in No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event had 203 participants with these 18 paid:

1 Adeeb Harb $380,350 720
2 Barry Greenstein $210,990 600
3 Kent Washington $105,495 480
4 Magnus Gustavsson $57,545 360
5 Paul Alterman $43,155 300
6 John Roveto Sr. $33,565 240
7 Max Pescatori $23,975 180
8 Humberto Brenes $19,180 120
9 Nenad Medic $15,345 60
10 Orlando Maldonado Jr. $11,510 0
11 Chris Hinchcliffe $11,510 0
12 Frank Kassela $11,510 0
13 Kathy Liebert $10,550 0
14 Sigi Stockinger $10,550 0
15 Andy Miller $10,550 0
16 Men Nguyen $9,590 0
17 David Peters $9,590 0
18 Jason Lester $9,590 0

Posted by fatbill at 08:28 AM | Comments (0)

April 10, 2006

2006 Foxwoods Poker Classic Conclusion

Well the 2006 Foxwoods Poker Classic is in the books, with the conclusion of the No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main Event! Here are the stats:

Buy-in $9,700
Total Prize Pool $4,175,200
Number of Entries 431 Players

Here is the listing of placements:

1 Annand "Victor" Ramdin $1,331,889 1920
2 Alex Jacob $655,507 1600
3 Edward Jordan $417,520 1280
4 Larry Klur $292,264 960
5 John Russell $208,760 800
6 Bruce Kater $167,008 640
7 Spyridon Mitrokostas $125,256 480
8 David Lewis $83,504 320
9 Brent Keller $75,153 160

Who are these guys??? The first 'name' I recoginzed was Juanda in 31st place!! Unknown players are coming out of the woodwork this year to take down major events..... interesting.....

Posted by fatbill at 08:36 AM | Comments (0)

April 08, 2006

2006 Foxwoods Poker Classic - 2

They are down to 22 players with play resuming at 11EST today to get down to the final 6!

Over 30 players of the 159 sitting down yesterday, were eliminated in the first HOUR, including Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy, Amnon Filippi, Erick Lindgren, Isabelle Mercier, Hoyt Corkins, Paul Darden and Eric Seidel.

Here is the list of who's left and still viing for the title:

Greg Monaldi $1,018,000 0 0
Alex Jacob $935,000 0 0
Spiro Mitrokostas $724,000 0 0
Victor Ramdin $632,000 0 0
Brent Keller $585,000 0 0
Van Nguyen $550,000 0 0
Ron Wilson $399,000 0 0
Ed Jordan $399,000 0 0
Aaron March $341,000 0 0
Randy Spain $337,000 0 0
Kenny Chantamala $329,000 0 0
Mike Farris $328,000 0 0
David Lewis $304,000 0 0
John Russell $287,000 0 0
Paul McCaffrey $260,000 0 0
Eric Sheets Haber $258,000 0 0
Senovio Ramirez $237,000 0 0
Avdo Djokovic $223,000 0 0
Phyrun Chhim $213,000 0 0
Larry Klur $184,000 0 0
Bruce Kater $174,000 0 0
Greg Breiner $70,000 0 0

Posted by fatbill at 08:39 AM | Comments (0)

April 07, 2006

2006 Foxwoods Poker Classic

Well, the Main event at the 2006 Foxwoods Poker Classic got underway yesterday, with the $9,700+$300 No-Limit Texas Holdem Poker Championship starting up!

A total of 431 player field turned out to try and claim the top prize of $1,331,889. There will be no repeat winner, as last years champ went down on day one.... There are approximately 158 players remaining going in to day two...

Posted by fatbill at 08:36 AM | Comments (0)

April 03, 2006

General Poker news

The action at the 2006 Foxwoods Poker Classic is winding down, with the main event scheduled to take place the end of this week. Not that many events in this one though....

The 2006 4th Annual Five-Star World Poker Classic hosted by the Bellagio is scheduled to kick off this Thursday the 5th. This event generally draws names, as it's in Vegas, AND at the Bellagio!

Both of these events are WPT events!

The 2006 WSOP Tournament Circuit- Caesars is scheduled to start the 27th of this month.....

Posted by fatbill at 10:22 AM | Comments (0)

March 31, 2006

WPT Reno 2006 in the books

Well the 2006 World Poker Challenge in Reno is in the books! The No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main Event just concluded. The final table looked like this:

Mike Simon $1,195,000 1 4
Barry Greenstein $1,085,000 1 1
Tom Schneider $1,020,000 1 3
Jonas Norrman $905,000 1 6
Jason Stern $880,000 1 5
Greg Mueller $835,000 1 2

While Greenstein was second in chips entering the final table, and everyone's early favorite, it was not to be. Four hands in, he was crippled by Simon when they both caught a set of 8's with Simon's A kicker winning the hand!

Simon went on to take down the title, earning the $1,052, 890 first place prize and the $25,000 entry into the World Poker Tour Championship at the Bellagio next month!

Posted by fatbill at 11:49 AM | Comments (0)

March 30, 2006

2006 Reno event down to 27...

The Main no limit texas holdem poker event at the Reno Open is now down to 27 players, with several notables. The place listing going into today's action is:

1 Tom Schneider 507,000 Chips 0 1 3
2 Tony Martin 422,500 Chips 0 2 3
3 James Davis 348,000 Chips 0 3 3
4 Liz Lieu 335,500 Chips 0 3 7
5 Fabrice Soulier 335,000 Chips 0 2 7
6 Fang Tian 327,000 Chips 0 1 7
7 Burt Boutin 321,500 Chips 0 1 9
8 Chau Giang 316,000 Chips 0 2 9
9 Kevin Song 311,500 Chips 0 3 9
10 Paramjit Gill 247,000 Chips 0 3 5
11 Barry Greenstein 246,000 Chips 0 2 5
12 Gary Jacobi 243,500 Chips 0 1 5
13 Robert Goldfarb 224,500 Chips 0 1 1
14 Carl Olson 199,000 Chips 0 2 1
15 Michael Simon 197,500 Chips 0 3 1
16 John Kulish 190,000 Chips 0 3 4
17 Juan Carlos Mortensen 175,000 Chips 0 2 4
18 Fred Hwang 156,000 Chips 0 1 4
19 Patrick Poels 140,000 Chips 0 1 8
20 Jason Stern 120,500 Chips 0 2 8
21 Jonas Norrman 106,000 Chips 0 3 8
22 Terry Ballew 102,000 Chips 0 3 2
23 Greg Mueller 76,500 Chips 0 1 2
24 Noah Jefferson 76,500 Chips 0 1 2
25 Bob Hume 72,000 Chips 0 1 6
26 Barron Gati 60,000 Chips 0 2 6
27 Dan Schmiech 51,000 Chips 0 3 6

Top pros, Mortenson, Greenstein, Giang, and Liu ( did I mention that she was an absolute babe? ) are still well placed to make a run at the title!

Posted by fatbill at 08:59 AM | Comments (0)

March 29, 2006

WPT in Reno....

The 2006 World Poker Challenge $5000, No-Limit Hold'em Championship is underway, and after yesterday's play, it is down to under 200 players. There is a Total Prize Pool of $2,845,700 generated by 592 Players entered.

A quick look at the top 20 chip leaders shows:

1 Liz Lieu 117,200 Chips 0 1 3
2 Paul Wasicka 104,000 Chips 0 2 3
3 Kevin Song 95,600 Chips 0 3 3
4 Charles Kelly 94,000 Chips 0 4 3
5 Robert Goldfarb 94,000 Chips 0 5 3
6 Sean Morrison 90,800 Chips 0 6 3
7 John Kulish 81,000 Chips 0 7 3
8 Bob Reagan 79,700 Chips 0 8 3
9 Jean Robert Bellande 74,600 Chips 0 9 3
10 Kassem "Freddy" Deeb 73,600 Chips 0 10 3
11 Juan Carlos Mortensen 73,300 Chips 0 11 3
12 Tony Martin 70,600 Chips 0 12 3
13 Mike Kinney 69,200 Chips 0 13 3
14 Ken Merrick 66,700 Chips 0 14 3
15 Fred Hwang 65,200 Chips 0 15 3
16 Dan Barnett 65,100 Chips 0 16 3
17 William Blanda 65,100 Chips 0 17 3
18 David Lu 63,800 Chips 0 18 3
19 Matt Zoorab 60,300 Chips 0 19 3
20 Barry Greenstein 60,000 Chips 0 20 3

Liz Lui, who is case you have been living in a cave, is a COMPLETE babe, is leading the early going. There are a few other 'names' in the top, as you can see....

Other notables include:

36 Chau Giang 51,800 Chips
55 Tobey Maguire 37,800 Chips
57 Hasan Habib 37,100 Chips
59 John Juanda 37,000 Chips
70 Gavin Smith 33,100 Chips
98 Thithi "Mimi" Tran 25,800 Chips

We'll see who makes it into the top 50 or so, where I believe the money will be....

Posted by fatbill at 07:58 AM | Comments (0)

March 19, 2006

Party Poker Millions

The 2006 5th Annual Party Poker Million Event, No-Limit Hold'em Championship, is in the books!

The stats are:

Buy-in $10,000
Total Prize Pool $5,121,600
Number of Entries 528 Players

The top ten finishers are:

1 Mike Schneider $1,000,000 1920
2 Kenna James $700,000 1600
3 Scott Buller $500,000 1280
4 Andrew Chitea $300,000 960
5 Richard Joel $225,000 800
6 Devon Miller $175,000 640
7 Jinda Pan $150,000 480
8 Joseph Dimartino $125,000 320
9 Annand "Victor" Ramdin $100,000 160
10 Michael Silverman $75,000 96

Posted by fatbill at 12:05 PM | Comments (0)

March 07, 2006

2006 National Heads Up Champ Crowned

Ted Forrest won the 2nd Annual National Heads Up Poker Championship early this morning! Forrest is a well known poker pro to anyone familiar with the poker scene. He has a couple WSOP braclets, and is a fixture in some of the biggest cash games in Vegas.

Coming in 2nd AGAIN, is Chris "Jesus" Ferguson! I'm sure Ferguson is not happy being second again, but getting to that point two years in a row is quite a feat, considering the field of pros one must go through!

Forrest took down $500K for his first place finish, and Ferguson $250K for coming in second.

NBC will be airing 10 hours of this event starting April 16, so you can see how each got to the championship table!

Posted by fatbill at 12:30 PM | Comments (0)

March 06, 2006

2006 Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event

The 2006 Bay 101 Shooting Star $9,600 Main Event no limit texas holdem poker tournament concluded last friday.

The tournament stats are:

Buy-in $9,600
Total Prize Pool $4,702,800
Number of Entries 518 Players

The results are:
1 Nam Le $1,198,300 1920
2 Ravi Udayakumar $629,500 1600
3 Danny Smith $340,000 1280
4 David Williams $280,000 960
5 Fabrice Soulier $240,000 800
6 Chad Brown $200,000 640
7 Sovann "Tony" Sin $160,000 480
8 Bruce Feldman $130,000 320
9 Jeff Kimber $100,000 160
10 Bill Gustafik $80,000 96

Other notable cashes were:
14 Robert Mizrachi $65,000 96
22 Dan Harrington $50,000 48
26 David 'Chip' Reese $35,000 48

Posted by fatbill at 08:21 AM | Comments (0)

March 05, 2006

2006 Heads Up Championship

Here is the list of the players participating in this years Heads Up Tournament:

1. Rene Angelil 2. Josh Arieh 3. Lyle Berman 4. Chad Brown 5. Doyle Brunson 6. Todd Brunson 7. Jerry Buss 8. Mike Caro 9. Johnny Chan 10. David Chesnoff 11. T.J. Cloutier 12. Allen Cunningham 13. Kassem "Freddy" Deeb 14. Annie Duke 15. Ernie Dureck 16. Eli Elezra 17. Antonio Esfandiari 18. Sam Farha 19. Chris Ferguson (2005 Heads-Up Runner-Up) 20. Scott Fischman 21. Layne Flack 22. Ted Forrest 23. Steven Glassner 24. Barry Greenstein 25. David Grey 26. Antanas Guoga 27. Gus Hansen 28. Dan Harrington 29. Jennifer Harman 30. Phil Hellmuth (2005 Heads-Up Champion) 31. Phil Ivey 32. John Juanda

33. Phil Laak 34. Howard Lederer 35. Tuan Le 36. Erick Lindgren 37. Josh Lochner (2006 NBCHeadsUp.com Online Tournament Winner) 38. Dee Luong 39. Mike Matusow 40. James McManus 41. Michael Mizrachi 42. Chris Moneymaker 43. Carlos Mortensen 44. Daniel Negreanu 45. Evelyn Ng 46. Men Nguyen 47. Scotty Nguyen 48. David Oppenheim 49. Paul Phillips 50. Greg Raymer 51. Chip Reese 52. Huck Seed 53. Erik Seidel 54. Mark Seif 55. Mike Sexton 56. Sean Sheiky 57. Barry Shulman 58. Jeff Shulman 59. Gavin Smith 60. Jennifer Tilly 61. Amir Vahedi 62. Cyndy Violette 63. David Williams 64. James Woods

You can see the actual match-up's and brackets by cliking HERE

It's interesting to note in those bracket's, that a repeat of last years championship is not possible, as Chris Ferguson is in the same side of the bracket system as Hellmouth....

Posted by fatbill at 12:26 PM | Comments (0)

March 04, 2006

Tournament Poker Returns to Binions

More well known in the past as Binions Horseshoe Casino, Binions Gambling Hall and Hotel in downtown Las Vegas, will once again be hosting a major Poker Tournament!

There will be 29 events held over the course of 15 days. The events will be of varying buy-in and game type. We will be offering the following games - Limit 7 Card Stud - Pot Limit Hold'Em and Omaha High Only - Limit Hold'Em and Omaha Hi/Lo - No Limit Hold'Em - Multi-Table Satellites (with Rebuys) - Bounty Events The Buy-in will range from $300 events to the $5000 Championship Event.

The schedule for the events is:

Wed. 5/10/2006 5:00 pm NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM (MEDIA EVENT) $0 + $0
Thu. 5/11/2006 11:00 am NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM $500 + $50
Thu. 5/11/2006 6:00 pm OMAHA HI-LO $300 +$30
Fri. 5/12/2006* 11:00 am NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM (WITH BOUNTIES) $500 + $50
Fri. 5/12/2006 6:00 pm NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM (WITH REBUYS) $300+$30 buy in + $100 rebuys
Sat. 5/13/2006 11:00 am NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM $1,000 + $75
Sat. 5/13/2006 6:00 pm POT LIMIT OMAHA HI $300 +$30
Sun. 5/14/2006 11:00 am LIMIT HOLD'EM $500 + $50
Sun. 5/14/2006 6:00 pm SEVEN CARD STUD $300 +$30
Mon. 5/15/2006 11:00 am NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM $500 + $50
Mon. 5/15/2006 6:00pm LIMIT HOLD'EM $300 +$30
Tue. 5/16/2006* 11:00 am NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM (WITH BOUNTIES) $500 + $50
Tue. 5/16/2006 6:00 pm NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM $300 +$30
Wed. 5/17/2006 6:00 am GOLF OUTING $300
Wed. 5/17/2006 11:00 am NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM $500 + $50
Wed. 5/17/2006 6:00 pm NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM (SATELLITE W/ REBUYS)
$100 + $50 rebuys
Thu. 5/18/2006 11:00 am POT LIMIT OMAHA HI $500 + $50
Thu. 5/18/2006 6:00 pm NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM (SATELLITE W/ REBUYS)
$100 + $50 rebuys
Fri. 5/19/2006** 11:00 am NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM (WITH BOUNTIES) $1,000 + $75
Fri. 5/19/2006 6:00 pm NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM $300 +$30
Sat. 5/20/2006 10:00 am NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM (LADIES EVENT) $300 +$30
Sat. 5/20/2006 4:00 pm LIMIT HOLD'EM $500 + $50
Sun. 5/21/2006 11:00am NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM(SATELLITE W/ REBUYS) $200 + $100 rebuys
Sun. 5/21/2006 4:00 pm NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM (SATELLITE W/ REBUYS)
$200 + $100 rebuys
Mon. 5/22/2006 11:00 am NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM(CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT) $5,000 + $300
Mon. 5/22/2006 6:00 pm NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM (SATELLITE W/ REBUYS)
$100 + $50 rebuys
Tue. 5/23/2006 2:00 pm NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM $1,000 + $75
Tue. 5/23/2006 6:00 pm NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM (SATELLITE W/ REBUYS) $100 + $50 rebuys
Wed. 5/24/2006 11:00 am NO-LIMIT HOLD'EM $1,000 + $75

Posted by fatbill at 11:30 AM | Comments (0)

February 27, 2006

Poker schedule...

The current WPT action is at the Shooting Star, where the 2006 Bay 101 Shooting Star $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Event kicks off today!

Yesterday, the WSOP Circuit headed to San Diego for the 2006 WSOP Tournament Circuit- Harrah's San Diego, event.

Posted by fatbill at 10:48 AM | Comments (0)

February 22, 2006

2006 LA Poker Classic Champ!

The winner of the 2006 LA Poker Classic's $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main event has been decided! Alan Goehring Wins the 2006 L.A. Poker Classic ($2,391,550). After quite a while of no flops, due to pre-flop ALL-IN moves, the final hand was decided when Goehring's K8 held up over Quach's AJ. The flop came Qc-Jd-9c, but the turn is the Kh and Goehring takes the lead.

Here are the final standings:

1 Alan Goehring $2,391,550 1920
2 Daniel Quach $1,162,560 1600
3 Michael Woo $571,315 1280
4 Steve Simmons $338,803 960
5 Justin Cuong Van "J.C." Tran $265,728 800
6 Per Ummer $199,296 640

Posted by fatbill at 09:06 AM | Comments (0)

February 21, 2006

Down to 6 at LA Poker Classic

They are down to the final 6 in the LA Poker Classic's 2006 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main Event. The standings are:

1 JC Tran $ 3,720,000
2 Per Ummer $ 2,870,000
3 Michael Woo $ 2,195,000
4 Alan Goehring $ 1,900,000
5 Daniel Quach $ 1,655,000
6 Steven Simmons $ 1,505,000

Posted by fatbill at 08:40 AM | Comments (0)

February 20, 2006

LA Classic Final Table

The 2006 LA Poker Classic is down to the final table of 10 for it's $10K Texas Holdem Poker Main Event.

The finals look like this:

1 Per Ummer 2,455,000 Chips 0
2 Alan Goehring 2,315,000 Chips 0
3 Kevan Casey 2,030,000 Chips 0
4 Michael Woo 1,665,000 Chips 0
5 Daniel Quach 1,425,000 Chips 0
6 Steve Simmons 1,257,000 Chips 0
7 Justin Cuong Van "J.C." Tran 1,245,000 Chips 0
8 Michael McClain 665,000 Chips 0
9 Anahit Galajian 480,000 Chips 0

Posted by fatbill at 11:59 AM | Comments (0)

February 19, 2006

2006 LA Classic Update

The 2006 LA Poker Classic's No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main event is down to the final 27.

Those remaining, with their chip counts are:

1 Hieu "Jon" Luu 1,111,000 Chips 0
2 Per Ummer 1,022,000 Chips 0
3 Brian McCann 939,000 Chips 0
4 Alan Goehring 916,000 Chips 0
5 Juha Helppi 804,000 Chips 0
6 Jon Kelley 751,000 Chips 0
7 David Chiu 749,000 Chips 0
8 Daniel Quach 739,000 Chips 0
9 Michael McClain 737,000 Chips 0
10 Kevin Casey 685,000 Chips 0
11 Michael Woo 670,000 Chips 0
12 John Gale 549,000 Chips 0
13 Steve Simmons 494,000 Chips 0
14 Anahit Galajian 458,000 Chips 0
15 Justin Cuong Van "J.C." Tran 441,000 Chips 0
16 Rodeen Talebi 414,000 Chips 0
17 Chris Bigler 413,000 Chips 0
18 James Woods 348,000 Chips 0
19 Mark Weidmann 327,000 Chips 0
20 Bill Gazes 258,000 Chips 0
21 Danny Noam 253,000 Chips 0
22 Tom Macey 242,000 Chips 0
23 Kelly Kim 173,000 Chips 0
24 Damon Ahmadi 135,000 Chips 0
25 Bruce Parker 106,000 Chips 0
26 Freddie Legaspi 68,000 Chips 0
27 Roy Winston 45,000 Chips 0

A lot of the 'name' pros bit the dust, but notice that Actor James Woods is still in the think of things....

Posted by fatbill at 10:28 AM | Comments (0)

February 18, 2006

WSOP Event in Atlantic City

The 2006 WSOP Tournament Circuit- Harrah's Atlantic City drew to a conclusion yesterday. Here are the Tournament Stats:

Buy-in $9,700
Total Prize Pool $1,202,800
Number of Entries 124 Players

Here are the top 9:

1 Abraham Korotki $433,008 576
2 Brian Jensen $240,560 480
3 Steven Jacobs $132,308 384
4 Jody Garaventa $96,224 288
5 Herbert Cheng $84,196 240
6 Ed Corrado $72,168 192
7 Earnest Shepherd $60,140 144
8 Harry White $48,112 96
9 Jianhua Zhou $36,084 48

If you are not familiar with them, dont dispair... the majority of the big names are in the LA Poker Classic at the moment. Just one of MANY times with there will be player clashes with the way they are scheduling these things....

Posted by fatbill at 11:45 AM | Comments (0)

2006 LA Poker Classic...

The 2006 WPT LA Poker Classic's $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Poker main event is now down to 97 players going into today's play.

Here are the listings and chip counts:

1 Fabrice Soulier 462,000 Chips 0
2 Justin Cuong Van "J.C." Tran 426,300 Chips 0
3 Alan Goehring 368,200 Chips 0
4 Mike Carson 343,800 Chips 0
5 Can Kim Hua 329,200 Chips 0
6 Daniel Alaei 317,300 Chips 0
7 James Bechtel II 310,000 Chips 0
8 Steven Giufre 301,200 Chips 0
9 Jim Miller 298,100 Chips 0
10 Amir Vahedi 297,600 Chips 0
11 Chris Bigler 290,800 Chips 0
12 Jose Tavares 277,500 Chips 0
13 David Chiu 265,800 Chips 0
14 Rodeen Talebi 264,400 Chips 0
15 Edward Moncada 255,000 Chips 0
16 Ayaz Mahmood 234,900 Chips 0
17 Orlando Maldonado Jr. 217,300 Chips 0
18 Benjamin Roberts 210,200 Chips 0
19 Per Ummer 209,700 Chips 0
20 Lin Ho 202,600 Chips 0
21 Joseph Padilla 200,400 Chips 0
22 Jeff Rine 197,000 Chips 0
23 Daniel Fuhs 194,100 Chips 0
24 Brian McCann 184,900 Chips 0
25 Chip Jett 180,400 Chips 0
26 Jason Lester 175,500 Chips 0
27 Julian Hart 174,200 Chips 0
28 Matthew Matros 169,800 Chips 0
29 Paul Darden Jr. 157,500 Chips 0
30 Ugur Marangoz 151,700 Chips 0
31 Kelly Kim 150,200 Chips 0
32 John Villanueva 147,500 Chips 0
33 Hasan Habib 147,400 Chips 0
34 Chuck Doumitt Jr. 147,000 Chips 0
35 Michael McClain 145,300 Chips 0
36 John Gale 143,700 Chips 0
37 Emil Patel 141,400 Chips 0
38 Allen Cunningham 140,000 Chips 0
39 Raed Abukartomy 138,100 Chips 0
40 David Plastik 134,500 Chips 0
41 David 'Chip' Reese 134,400 Chips 0
42 Yao Shi 133,200 Chips 0
43 Hieu "Jon" Luu 133,100 Chips 0
44 Daniel Quach 132,500 Chips 0
45 Bill Gazes 131,500 Chips 0
46 Michael Rocco 124,900 Chips 0
47 Shahram "Sean" Sheikhan 124,500 Chips 0
48 Bruce Parker 124,300 Chips 0
49 Danny Noam 124,000 Chips 0
50 Todd Thuan Bui 123,800 Chips 0
51 Michael Woo 115,200 Chips 0
52 Juha Helppi 115,100 Chips 0
53 Blair Rodman 113,900 Chips 0
54 Damon Ahmadi 112,500 Chips 0
55 Mark Gregorich 107,000 Chips 0
56 Francois Safieddine 106,800 Chips 0
57 Toan Ly 105,700 Chips 0
58 Scott Epstein 104,600 Chips 0
59 Guy Calvert 104,500 Chips 0
60 Tom Macey 104,400 Chips 0
61 Jon Kelley 102,200 Chips 0
62 Steven Choo 95,000 Chips 0
63 T.J. Cloutier 89,800 Chips 0
64 Kevin Casey 89,600 Chips 0
65 Roy Winston 88,500 Chips 0
66 Patrick Kelly 87,800 Chips 0
67 David Daneshgar 84,800 Chips 0
68 Gabriel Thaler 80,000 Chips 0
69 Sean McCabe 79,700 Chips 0
70 Mikael Thuritz 77,500 Chips 0
71 Eric Lynch 75,500 Chips 0
72 Larry Tull 75,300 Chips 0
73 Freddie Legaspi 72,100 Chips 0
74 David Domstein 72,000 Chips 0
75 Alex Azadpeyma 70,700 Chips 0
76 Amir Monsefi 70,500 Chips 0
77 Bradley Berman 69,600 Chips 0
78 Tor Gammelgard 69,200 Chips 0
79 Neil Chriss 64,300 Chips 0
80 Joel Tushnet 62,700 Chips 0
81 Phil Laak 58,000 Chips 0
82 Lee Salem 58,000 Chips 0
83 James Woods 56,200 Chips 0
84 Billy Duarte Jr. 55,500 Chips 0
85 Amanda Baker 53,600 Chips 0
86 Adam Spiegelberg 53,600 Chips 0
87 Dong Xu 51,200 Chips 0
88 Steve Simmons 48,200 Chips 0
89 Donnacha O'Dea 42,400 Chips 0
90 Brian Walters 41,100 Chips 0
91 Luis Sanchez 38,300 Chips 0
92 Travis Green 35,500 Chips 0
93 Sean Quinn 34,800 Chips 0
94 Thuan Nguyen 30,700 Chips 0
95 Jeff Freedman 29,100 Chips 0
96 Josh Mille 24,700 Chips 0
97 Anahit Galajian 21,700 Chips 0
98 Jimmy Maravi 20,200 Chips 0
99 Mark Weidmann 12,800 Chips 0

Posted by fatbill at 11:39 AM | Comments (0)

February 17, 2006

2006 L.A. Poker Classic

The 2006 L.A. Poker Classic $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Poker main event got undeway yesterday, with 692 players entering this year's event. ( note that the Atlantic city event drew just over 100 )

There are 379 players that made it through the first day, and the list at the top of the chip count is a who's who of poker...

Bill Gazes $121,000 0 0
Allen Goehring $105,000 0 0
Eli Elezra $105,000 0 0
David Plastik $92,000 0 0
Hasan Habib $87,000 0 0
Erick Lindgren $82,000 0 0
Lyle Berman $65,000 0 0
Antonio Esfandiari $60,000 0 0
Chris Bigler $60,000 0 0
Dutch Boyd $60,000 0 0
Paul Darden $57,000 0 0
Chip Reese $55,000 0 0
Chip Jett $51,000 0 0
Barry Greenstein $45,000 0 0
TJ Cloutier $45,000 0 0
Nam Le $44,000 0 0
Chau Giang $44,000 0 0
Scotty Nguyen $44,000 0 0
Jen Harman $43,000 0 0
Minh Ly $43,000 0 0
Amir Vahedi $42,000 0 0
John Gale $38,000 0 0
James Woods $37,000 0 0
Harley Hall $34,000 0 0
Huck Seed $34,000 0 0
Mike Matusow $33,000 0 0
Olga Varkonyi $27,000 0 0
Phil Laak $24,000 0 0
Dr Jerry Buss $23,000 0 0
Gabe Kaplan $22,000 0 0
Eric Mizrachi $21,000 0 0
Juha Helppi $18,000 0 0
Eric Seidel $18,000 0 0
Jason Lester $18,000 0 0
Joe Cassidy $17,000 0 0
Steve Brecher $17,000 0 0
James KrazyKanuck Worth $16,000 0 0
David Pham $14,000 0 0
Joanne Liu $13,000 0 0
David Singer $13,000 0 0
Allen Cunningham $13,000 0 0
Gus Hanson $10,000 0 0
Marco Traniello $8,000 0 0
Men Nguyen $6,000 0 0
Joe Awada $4,500 0 0

Should make for an interesting event....

Posted by fatbill at 10:50 AM | Comments (0)

February 16, 2006

2006 WSOP Citcuit - Harrah's Atlantic City

The 2006 WSOP Tournament Circuit- Harrah's Atlantic City No-Limit Texas Holdem Poker $9700 buy-in Championship got underway yesterday. There were only 124 Entries for this event, which woudl seem to be suffering from the WPT events happening on the West Coast at the same time.

The top 10 chip leaders are:

1 Herbert Cheng 93,500 Chips
2 Eracles "Eric" Panayiotou 89,000 Chips
3 Abraham Korotki 84,700 Chips
4 Mike Sica 81,500 Chips
5 Troy O'Neal 69,500 Chips
6 Mark Cole 65,600 Chips
7 Steven Jacobs 61,300 Chips
8 Tom Martelli 60,700 Chips
9 Thomas Schreiber 51,900 Chips
10 Sam Grizzle 51,300 Chips

Posted by fatbill at 11:14 AM | Comments (0)

February 02, 2006

2006 Borgata Winter Open

... is now in the books, with the conclusion of the $10,000 Buy-In, No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main Event last night.

Here are the stats from the main event....

Buy-in $9,700
Total Prize Pool $3,695,700
Number of Entries 381 Players

Final Standings:

1 Michael Mizrachi $1,173,373 1824
2 John D'Agostino $591,312 1520
3 Erick Lindgren $282,721 1216
4 Amnon Filippi $184,785 912
5 Josh Spiegelman $147,828 760
6 Stuart Patterson $110,871 608
7 Peter Feldman $73,914 456
8 Joe Miceli $55,436 304
9 Don Mullis $46,196 152
10 Kenny Schuyler $22,174 91

Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi wins $1,173,373, a $25,000 entry to the WPT Championship and a new 2006 Cadillac Escalade.

Posted by fatbill at 09:08 AM | Comments (0)

February 01, 2006

2006 Borgata Final Table Set

Well, they are down to the final table of 6 at the Borgata Winter Poker open, in the $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Main Event

The final 6, including chip count, are:

Erick Lindgren $2,635,000 1 6
Michael The Grinder Mizrachi $2,040,000 1 7
Josh Spiegelman $1,635,000 1 9
John D'Agostino $1,340,000 1 8
Stu Thedonator Patterson $1,060,000 1 5
Amnon Filippi $820,000 1 4

The finals will be played off today

Posted by fatbill at 09:19 AM | Comments (0)

January 31, 2006

The final 33 At Borgata

They are down to the final 33 players in the Borgata Open, with play resuming today at 12 EST.

The top ten are:

John D'Agostino $988,000 0 0
Kenny Schuyler $734,000 0 0
Cliff JohnnyBax Josephy $673,000 0 0
Bill Edler $529,000 0 0
John Duthie $520,000 0 0
Dane Jorgensen $519,000 0 0
Michael The Grinder Mizrachi $414,000 0 0
Erick Lindgren $412,000 0 0
Louise Francoeur $402,000 0 0
Mike Goodman $374,000

Posted by fatbill at 09:12 AM | Comments (0)

January 30, 2006

WPT and Travel Channel reach Broadcast Agreement!

Wednesday Night is 'Premiere' Poker Night on the Travel Channel With 44 Weeks of New World Poker Tour and Professional Poker Tour Broadcasts.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WPT Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: WPTE - News) and the Travel Channel entered into an agreement to air WPTE's highly anticipated PROFESSIONAL POKER TOUR(TM) (PPT) television series. The PPT features a series of invitation-only tournaments that are limited to the highest-ranked players in the world. The PPT is expected to begin airing in the 3rd quarter of 2006 on Wednesday nights from 9-11 PM ET/PT, following the completion of Season Four of the WPT.

Posted by fatbill at 09:37 AM | Comments (3)

January 28, 2006

Negreanu Wins in Tunica

The 2006 Jack Binion WSOP Tournament Circuit-Grand Tunica is now in the books with the conclusion of the $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Poker main event. Daniel Negreanu came out on top for his first victory in quite a while!

The tournament stats were:
Buy-in $10,000
Total Prize Pool $2,289,500
Number of Entries 241 Players

The final results are:

1 Daniel Negreanu $755,525 1152
2 Bryant King $416,690 960
3 Kianoosh Mohajeri $228,950 768
4 Lee Markholt $183,160 576
5 Brian Lamkin $137,370 480
6 Brandon Adams $114,475 384
7 Wendell Barnes $91,580 288
8 Robert Schulz $66,624 192
9 Chad Brown $45,790 96
10 Earnest Shepherd $32,055 58

Posted by fatbill at 08:22 AM | Comments (0)

January 27, 2006

2006 Grand Final Table

The final table at the 2006 Jack Binion WSOP Tournament Circuit-Grand Tunica, $10,000 Buy-in No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Championship is down to the final table!

Here are the players and their chip counts:

Place Poker Player Chip Count
1 Brian Lamkin $ 600,000
2 Daniel Negreanu $ 410,000
3 Kia Mohajeri $ 331,000
4 Wendell Barnes $ 237,000
5 Robert Schulz $ 229,000
6 Bryant King $ 200,000
7 Lee Markholt $ 177,000
8 Chad Brown $ 123,000
9 Brandon Adams $ 103,000

The winner will be decided today.....

Posted by fatbill at 10:08 AM | Comments (0)

January 26, 2006

2006 Jack Binion WSOP Tournament

The 2006 Jack Binion WSOP Tournament Circuit-Grand Tunica is winding down, with the $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Poker tournament down to the final 27.

Tournament stats are:
Buy-in $10,000
Total Prize Pool $2,289,500
Number of Entries 241 Players

Final 27 are:
1 Don Barton 244,200 Chips 0
2 Brian Lamkin 218,900 Chips 0
3 Lee Markholt 169,600 Chips 0
4 Daniel Alaei 140,900 Chips 0
5 Daniel Negreanu 140,000 Chips 0
6 Earnest Shepherd 132,500 Chips 0
7 Khosrow Naraghian 131,500 Chips 0
8 Brandon Adams 111,400 Chips 0
9 Bryant King 110,300 Chips 0
10 William Edler 106,100 Chips 0
11 George Bronstein 98,300 Chips 0
12 Hertzel Zalewski 95,100 Chips 0
13 Chad Brown 86,100 Chips 0
14 Philip Galfond 79,400 Chips 0
15 Kianoosh Mohajeri 77,600 Chips 0
16 Wendell Barnes 67,900 Chips 0
17 Willis Fillers 54,000 Chips 0
18 Robert Schulz 49,000 Chips 0
19 Mark Gregorich 45,300 Chips 0
20 Michael Tait 40,400 Chips 0
21 Roland Israelashvili 40,000 Chips 0
22 Galen Kester 39,800 Chips 0
23 Todd Brunson 36,900 Chips 0
24 Larry Satterwhite 34,600 Chips 0
25 Miguel Mateo 31,800 Chips 0
26 Don Mullis 18,300 Chips 0
27 Bruce Sturgeon 13,600 Chips 0

Posted by fatbill at 09:14 AM | Comments (0)

WPT Schedule for Season 5

The new WPT Sschedule was announced and there are a couple of suprises in it!

Online poker rooms PartyPoker.com and UltimateBet.com, both of which were charter members of the WPT, have withdrawn from the WPT, primarily due to WPTE's recent launch of its own online poker room, WPTonline.com.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) has announced the addition of Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas as its newest "member casino". The inaugural Mandalay Bay Poker Championship will be held on June 4-8 as the second stop in the fifth season of the WPT.

Posted by fatbill at 09:01 AM | Comments (0)

January 24, 2006

2006 Gold Strike In the Books

The 2006 Gold Strike No-Limit Texas Holdem Poker Championship $10,000 Tournament is in the books, and Scotty held em off to take the crown! Here is a list of the top ten:

1 Scotty Nguyen $969,421 1584
2 Michael Mizrachi $566,352 1320
3 Raul Paez $298,908 1056
4 Gavin Smith $173,052 792
5 An Tran $125,856 660
6 Bau Le $88,099 528
7 Johnny Donaldson $62,928 396
8 Rodeen Talebi $50,342 264
9 Matt Keikoan $44,050 132
10 Gary Gibbs $37,757 79

Posted by fatbill at 08:27 AM | Comments (0)

January 23, 2006

2006 Gold Strike Update...

The 2006 Gold Strike World Poker Open's $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event is down to the final table! Here are the Tournament stats:

Buy-in $10,000
Total Prize Pool $3,171,900
Number of Entries 327 Players

The final table is:

1 Scotty Nguyen 2,144,000 Chips
2 Michael Mizrachi 1,271,000 Chips
3 Raul Paez 862,000 Chips
4 An Tran 845,000 Chips
5 Gavin Smith 774,000 Chips
6 Bau Le 645,000 Chips

Scotty has a pretty firm grip on this table, but there are some seasoned pro's at the table, and anything can happen in No Limit Texas Holdem! We'll see when the action resumes today at 5PM CT.

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

January 22, 2006

2006 Gold Strike World Poker Open

The 2006 Gold Strike World Poker Open's Main event, the $10K buy in Texas Holdem Poker tourament, is down to the final 17. Here is the list of those remaining, and their chip counts:

1 Gary Gibbs 1,087,000 Chips 0
2 Scotty Nguyen 848,000 Chips 0
3 Michael Mizrachi 476,000 Chips 0
4 Matt Keikoan 412,000 Chips 0
5 Gavin Smith 408,000 Chips 0
6 Chris Bell 404,000 Chips 0
7 Raul Paez 381,000 Chips 0
8 Fred Ferrington 356,000 Chips 0
9 Karlo Lopez 316,000 Chips 0
10 Josh Arieh 300,000 Chips 0
11 Rodeen Talebi 285,000 Chips 0
12 Allie Prescott 267,000 Chips 0
13 Johnny Donaldson 246,000 Chips 0
14 An Tran 217,000 Chips 0
15 Bau Le 204,000 Chips 0
16 Eric Cloutier 190,000 Chips 0
17 Joshua Tieman 150,000 Chips 0

Other notables and their place and $$$:
24 Liz Lieu $18,878 - She's such a hottie!

The 2006 Borgota Winter Poker Open kicked off this weekend in Atlantic City... tournaments are just underway....

Posted by fatbill at 08:49 AM | Comments (0)

January 20, 2006

2006 Aussie Millions Concludes

The 2006 Aussie Millions is in the books now... here are the stats and the results!

Buy-in $7,538
Total Prize Pool $3,150,674
Number of Entries 418 Players

1 Lee Nelson $972,822 1440
2 Robert Neary $517,792 1200
3 Nenad Medic $282,432 960
4 Shannon Shorr $203,979 720
5 Jeff Sealey $156,907 600
6 Russell Davies $125,525 480
7 Wes Bugiera $94,144 360
8 Mark Vos $62,763 240
9 Kenna James $62,763 120

Other notables:
11 Antonio Esfandiari $37,658
13 Kathy Liebert $37,658
28 Maciek "Michael" Gracz $15,691

Posted by fatbill at 08:56 AM | Comments (0)

January 19, 2006

Final table at the Aussie Millions

The final table is set for the Aussie Millions, and will be run today. The table looks like this:

1 Geoff Sealey 1,982,000 Chips 0 1 1
2 Nenad Medic 1,841,000 Chips 0 1 2
3 Shannon Shorr 1,532,000 Chips 0 1 3
4 Lee Nelson 1,024,000 Chips 0 1 7
5 Russell Davies 777,000 Chips 0 1 4
6 Robert Neary 617,000 Chips 0 1 6
7 Wes Bugiera 594,000 Chips 0 1 5

None of the pro's that I mentioned in yesterday's entry made it!

Posted by fatbill at 07:18 AM | Comments (0)

January 18, 2006

2006 Aussie Millions

The Main event of the 2006 Aussie Millions is well underway, and appears to be down to the final 36. The event is scheduled to wrap up tomorrow.

There were 418 players that ponied up the $7538 entry fee... and as of this writing, Kenna James is atop the leader board as the chip leader...... other prominant pros near the top are Michael Gracz, and Antonio Esfandari....

Posted by fatbill at 06:48 AM | Comments (0)

January 11, 2006

Years 1st Texas Holdem Poker Tournament

Well, year's first major texas holdem poker tournament, the PokerStar's Caribbean Poker Adventure, is in the books! This was a World Poker Tour event, and here are are the stats:

Buy-in $7,800
Total Prize Pool $5,647,200
Number of Entries 724 Players

Here are the final results:

1 Steve Paul-Ambrose $1,388,600 1440
2 Brook Lyter $681,500 1200
3 David Singer $436,200 960
4 Michael Higgins $327,100 720
5 Anders Henriksson $239,900 600
6 Aurangzeb Sheikh $177,200 480
7 Brian Green $144,500 360
8 Christian Grundtvig $117,200 240
9 Ziv Bachar $95,400 120

Posted by fatbill at 07:11 AM | Comments (0)

January 09, 2006

2006 PokerStar's Caribbean Poker Adventure

The Final table for the 2006 PokerStar's Caribbean Poker Adventure has been set, and tomorrow ( tuesday ) the first final table of the year in a major event will be played. I'm not sure this one will draw a lot of television viewers, because there are no 'names' at the final table at all!

Here is what the final table will be:

1. David Singer - $2,535,000 (seat 2)
2. Steve Paul-Ambrose - $1,780,000 (seat 1)
3. Anders Henriksson - $1,033,000 (seat 5)
4. Brook Lyter - $875,000 (seat 3)
5. Michael Higgins - $794,000 (seat 4)
6. Aurangzeb Sheikh - $231,000 (seat 6)

You can read about these folks in the Cardplayer.com wrap up HERE

Most of them are online qualifiers, and internet players.....

Posted by fatbill at 07:27 AM | Comments (1)

January 05, 2006

Texas Holdem Poker Tournaments in Jan 2006

Now that we are in the new year, the Tournament schedule is back in full swing. Saying it's texas holdem poker tournaments, is probably a bit misleading, because there ARE other forms of tournamnts, although Texas Holdem poker is probably 90% of the schedule nowadays!

Anyways, here is whats on tap for January 2006:

2006 PokerStar's Caribbean Poker Adventure
Dates: January 4th, 2006 to January 10th, 2006
Location: Atlantis
World Poker Tour Event

2006 Jack Binion WSOP Tournament Circuit-Grand Tunica
Dates: January 5th, 2006 to January 27th, 2006
Location: Grand Casino Tunica

2006 Aussie Millions
Dates: January 6th, 2006 to January 19th, 2006
Location: Crown Casino

2006 Gold Strike World Poker Open
Dates: January 9th, 2006 to January 23rd, 2006
Location: Gold Strike Hotel Casino
World Poker Tour Event

2006 L.A. Poker Classic
Dates: January 19th, 2006 to February 24th, 2006
Location: Commerce Casino
World Poker Tour Event

2006 Borgota Winter Poker Open
Dates: January 20th, 2006 to February 1st, 2006
Location: Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
World Poker Tour Event

QUite a full schedule for the month, with some overlapping tournaments, althought several are held in Tunica that overlap...

Posted by fatbill at 07:21 AM | Comments (0)

December 23, 2005

2005 Player of the Year

As announced by CardPlayer Men "the master" Nguyn is the 2005 Card Player Player of the year!

"There will be no postscript this time. No garbage points to fight over. Men “The Master” Nguyen is the 2005 Card Player Player of the Year. Nguyen showed consistency and closing speed in 2005. He cashed in events both big and small, making 16 final tables and pocketing close to $1 million. He had victories at three WSOP Circuit preliminary events, and like all great champions, showed his mettle with his dramatic victory to stave off John Phan at the Trump Classic. This will be Nguyen’s fourth Player of the Year award. He also took home the honor in 1997, 2001, and 2003. "

Posted by fatbill at 08:38 AM | Comments (0)

December 19, 2005

Poker Tournaments in Jan 2006

I was looking at what was coming up for the new year, and MAN are there a lot of tournaments scheduled for January! How the hell do these promoters expect the pros to make all of these events, with the timing that is laid out? Here are the events and the dates, so you can see what I mean!

2006 Pokerstar's Caribbean Poker Adventure - WPT
Dates: January 4th, 2006 to January 10th, 2006

2006 Jack Binion WSOP Tournament Circuit-Grand Tunica
Dates: January 5th, 2006 to January 26th, 2006

2006 Aussie Millions
Dates: January 6th, 2006 to January 19th, 2006

2006 Gold Strike World Poker Open - WPT
Dates: January 9th, 2006 to January 23rd, 2006

2006 L.A. Poker Classic
Dates: January 19th, 2006 to February 23rd, 2006

2006 Borgota Winter Poker Open - WPT
Dates: January 20th, 2006 to February 1st, 2006

My Guess is that a number of pros will be playing in both the Jack ABinion and the Gold Strike, since they are both in Tunica, and they over lap.

You would think that the WSOP and the WPT would do SOME co-ordinating of events so that there would be less overlap. This would be better for BOTH tours, as MORE of the top pros would be able to appear at both. This would make for better TV, and hence, more of an audience!

Posted by fatbill at 10:37 AM | Comments (0)

December 17, 2005

5 Diamond Classic Winner

Rehne Pedersen wins the 2005 WPT Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic, winning $2,078,185, a gold-and-diamond bracelet, and a $25,500 entry into the season-ending WPT World Championship. Patrik Antonius finished second, earning $1,046,470. Doyle Brunson Eliminated in 3rd Place ($563,485)

Posted by fatbill at 11:53 AM | Comments (0)

December 16, 2005

5 Diamond Classic Final Table

Well, the 2005 4th Annual Five Diamond World Poker Classic is down to the final table of 6. Those left, and their chip counts are:

1 Joanne "J.J." Liu 3,630,000 Chips
2 Darrell Dicken 3,510,000 Chips
3 Rehne Pedersen 3,225,000 Chips
4 Phil Laak 2,505,000 Chips
5 Doyle Brunson 2,030,000 Chips
6 Patrik Antonius 1,755,000 Chips

Play will resume at 7PM PST to determine this year's champion.

There were 555 Entries to this event, making a total prize pool of $8,075,250, paying out the top 100 entries.

Posted by fatbill at 10:33 AM | Comments (0)

December 02, 2005

2005 Bellagio Five Diamond Classic

The 2005 4th Annual Five Diamond World Poker Classic is in full swing now, with the first two events in the books. It's impressive to see some of the top names playing in the early events!

The first event:
Buy-in $1,500
Total Prize Pool $538,350
Number of Entries 370 Players
Top prize was $199,870

Second event:
Buy-in $2,000
Total Prize Pool $506,340
Number of Entries 261 Players
Top Prize was $188,985

Posted by fatbill at 11:34 AM | Comments (0)

November 28, 2005

Texas Holdem Poker News

There was a No Limit Texas Holdem Tournament held as one of the WSOP Circuit events at Paris/Balley's in Las Vegas. The event ended on Nov 22.

Here is the top finishers of the main event, the $10,000 No Limit Texas Holdem Poker:

1 Thang "Kido" Pham $442,456 624
2 Justin Cuong Van "J.C." Tran $251,920 520
3 Lee Watkinson $138,556 416
4 Scotty Nguyen $100,768 312
5 Joseph Hachem $88,172 260
6 John Smith $75,576 208
7 Steven Hudak $62,980 156
8 Doug Lee $50,384 104
9 Minh Ly $37,788 52
10 Max Pescatori $11,000 31

Maybe Hachem is not a fluke? There were only 134 entries to this event.....

Another WSOP circuit tournament gets underway today in Atlantic City at the Showboat, and the 4th Annual Five Diamond World Poker Classic gets underway tomorrow at the Bellagio in Las Vegas...

Posted by fatbill at 10:33 AM | Comments (0)

November 21, 2005

WPT at Foxwoods 2005

The $10,000 Buy-in No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event just concluded at Foxwoods this past weekend.

The enent had 783 Entries! While other events seem to be declining, the Foxwoods events pulled big numbers to most of their events! In comparison, the WSOP Circuit event going on at Paris in Las Vegas only drew 134 Entries to it's $10K No Limit Texas Holdem Poker event.

Here are the top ten results:

1 Nick Schulman $2,167,500 1920
2 Anthony Licastro $1,035,000 1600
3 Bill Gazes $759,000 1280
4 Allen Cunningham $483,000 960
5 Lyle Berman $345,000 800
6 Leonard Cortellino $276,000 640
7 Samir Shakhtoor $207,000 480
8 Minh Nguyen $172,800 320
9 Avdo Djokovic $138,000 160
10 Steven Jacobs $117,300 96

Posted by fatbill at 09:40 AM | Comments (0)

November 07, 2005

WSOP Circuit Tournament of Champions

The WSOP Circuit Tournament of Champions for No Limit Texas Holdem Poker is got started yesterday, and played down to the top 30. Those remaining are:

1 Phil Hellmuth $ 110,900
2 Mike Matusow $ 107,600
3 Hoyt Corkins $ 65,700
4 Lonnie Alexander $ 58,600
5 Aaron Bartley $ 53,200
6 Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi $ 46,700
7 Johnny Chan $ 46,500
8 Mark Hanna $ 44,700
9 Neal Gersony $ 42,300
10 Chad Brown $ 40,800
11 Yosh Nakano $ 39,700
12 Daniel Bergsdorf $ 38,900
13 Keith Sexton $ 36,200
14 Stan Goldstein $ 33,700
15 Brandon Adams $ 30,000
16 Steven Dannenmann $ 28,700
17 James Giordano $ 27,900
18 Jonathan Shecter $ 27,700
19 Tony Ma $ 27,200
20 Rene Angelil $ 26,600
21 Doyle Brunson $ 25,000
22 Imre Leibold $ 24,000
23 Tony Bloom $ 22,900
24 David Levi $ 22,800
25 Aaron Kanter $ 22,700
26 Ted Lawson $ 21,300
27 Grant Lang $ 19,700
28 George Saca $ 17,900
29 Salim Batshon $ 16,300
30 Jeff Stanely $ 13,800

Phil and Mike are at the top, which should make for interesting TV time if they end up at the same table! ;-)

Posted by fatbill at 09:18 AM | Comments (0)

November 03, 2005

Recent Tournament Results

The WSOP Circuit event held ad Ceasars in Indiana recently camt to a close. Here is the final standings of the $10,000 No Limit Texas Holdem main event :

1 Quoc Al "Vinnie" Vinh $437,760 624
2 Men Nguyen $243,200 520
3 Ron Hargrove $133,760 416
4 Sam Whitt $97,280 312
5 Douglas Carli $85,120 260
6 William Edler $72,960 208
7 Marlowe Rowe $60,800 156
8 John Smith $48,640 104
9 Clinton Keown $36,480 52

The event only drew 127 players.

Meanwhile, the 2005 World Poker Finals held at Foxwoods got underway Oct 27, and is scheduled to conclude Nov 18th. The first event there, a $500 Buy-in No Limit Texas Holdem event, drew almost 1000 players!

Posted by fatbill at 11:28 AM | Comments (1)

October 25, 2005

New 2006 WSOP Event Schedule

The WSOP has just published the 2006 WSOP Event schedule of all 44 of the bracelet events! I have taken it and re-formated the schedule so that I could put it on the blog and make it easier to access and make it a bit more readable than the press release was!

You will find it under Poker Tournament Info on the right hand column of this blog!

Posted by fatbill at 12:22 PM | Comments (0)

October 22, 2005

Festa al Lago Results

Here are the final standings of the Festa al Lago 10K No Limit Texas Holdem tournament that ended yesterday.

1 Minh Ly $1,060,050 1920
2 Dan Harrington $620,730 1600
3 Gavin Smith $327,610 1280
4 Don Zewin $189,630 960
5 Jan Sorensen $137,940 800
6 Tony Grand $96,560 640
7 Ernie Scherer $68,970 480
8 Danny Shiff $55,175 320
9 Abraham Gray $48,280 160
10 Barry Greenstein $41,380 96

Posted by fatbill at 03:04 PM | Comments (0)

October 21, 2005

Festa Al Lago update

2005 WPT Festa al Lago IV No Limit Holdem Tournament

They are down to the final six, and they are:

1 Minh Ly $ 3,056,000
2 Dan Harrington $ 2,937,000
3 Gavin Smith $ 1,368,000
4 Don Zewin $ 552,000
5 Jan Sorensen $ 370,000
6 Tony Grand $ 118,000

Thom Werthmann from Michigan came in 18th!

Posted by fatbill at 03:04 PM | Comments (0)

October 20, 2005

Heads up event gets a new home

The national heads up texas holdem championship that was so popular this year on television and amoung the players has just inked a deal to move to a new home: Ceasar's Palace!

Read the full article Here

"This is a terrific addition to our portfolio of sports ventures," said Jeffrey Pollack, vice president of sports and entertainment marketing for Harrah's Entertainment. "We're thrilled Caesars Palace has joined with NBC Sports to showcase this increasingly popular event in Caesars' new poker room."

Posted by fatbill at 11:31 AM | Comments (0)

October 12, 2005

Local Guy does good...

At the ongoing Festa al Lago tournament held at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, a local Michigan guy made the final table in the $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem event yesterday!
Here are the results:
1 John Esposito $171,830 528
2 Ricardo Festejo $87,005 440
3 Denis Ethier $43,505 352
4 Rami Boukai $23,730 264
5 Henry Tran $17,795 220
6 Mark Marshall $13,840 176
7 Rich Probst $9,885 132
8 Mike Sica $7,910 88
9 Ned Cruey $6,330 44

Finishing 7th, Rich Probst is from the club I play at, so its an especially nice thing to see!

There were 217 entries to this event

Posted by fatbill at 09:25 AM | Comments (0)

October 02, 2005

Ultimate Bet Aruba Classic Results

The Ultimate Bet Aruba Classic $5000 No Limit Texas Holdem event ended yesterday with Freddy Deeb pulling down the Million dollar first prize! Here are the final table results:

1 Kassem 'Freddy' Deeb $1,000,000 1440
2 Josh Schlein $440,450 1200
3 Johan Storakers $300,000 960
4 Devin Porter $200,000 720
5 Robert Border $150,000 600
6 Stacy Matuson $100,000 480
7 James Van Alstyne $60,000 360
8 Katherine Jackson $40,000 240
9 Barry Greenstein $30,000 120

Upcoming events include the WPT Event 2005 Festa al Lago IV at the Bellagio. The WSOPC event scheduled this month at the Grand Casino in Biloxi has been cancelled due to hurrican Katrina.

Posted by fatbill at 10:10 AM | Comments (0)

September 30, 2005

Ultimate Bet Poker Classic

The Ultimate Bet Poker Classic is in it's final days, with the $5000 Buy In No Limit Texas Holdem tournament down to 26 players.

Notables among the final 26 are:

2 Kassem 'Freddy' Deeb 655,000 Chips
5 James Van Alstyne 406,000 Chips
10 Barry Greenstein 248,000 Chips

There were 647 Entries, with a total prize pool of just over $3 Million dollars!

Posted by fatbill at 09:53 AM | Comments (0)

September 23, 2005

Borgata Open

The Borgata Open No Limit Texas Holdem Championship event with a $9,700 Buy In concluded Yesterday! Here are the top ten:
1 Al Ardebili $1,498,650 1920
2 Ricardo Festejo $799,280 1600
3 Kathy Liebert $427,115 1280
4 John D'Agostino $349,685 960
5 Robert Hwang $299,730 800
6 David Singer $249,775 640
7 Justin Cuong Van 'J.C.' Tran $199,820 480
8 Gregory Fondacaro $149,865 320
9 Sid Miller $99,110 160
10 Woo Yang Lin $64,942 96

Don't know much about the winner, but this was his second final table for the year.

The United States Poker Championships got underway on the 19th at the Taj.... main event for that one is next month.

Posted by fatbill at 11:29 AM | Comments (0)

September 20, 2005

Harrah's WSOP Circut event

The main event to this circuit tournament concluded on Friday 9-16, with Chris Ferguson winning the $10K buy-in No Limit Texas Holdem Event. Ferguson became the first player to win two WSOP Circuit events with this win!

The main event for the Borgata Open started yesterday, with over 250 survivers going into the second day that goes on today....

Posted by fatbill at 10:26 AM | Comments (0)

September 07, 2005

WSOP On TV

I have been watching more texas holdem than playing texas holdem over the past few weeks!

The World Series of Poker is being shown weekly on ESPN now, and I have included a page on the POKER TOURNAMENT INFO page that shows the schedule of events.

Of course, they are repeating them quite often throughout the week, so that if you miss them, you can catch em at a later date and time.

Posted by fatbill at 08:19 AM | Comments (0)

September 02, 2005

Legends of Poker results

The $5000 WPT Legends of Poker No Limit Texas Holdem event concluded. The top 10 in the event were:

1 Alex Kahaner $1,150,900
2 Kenna James $588,210
3 Jake Minter $333,600
4 Tim Phan $291,900
5 Todd Phillips $250,200
6 Kevin O'Donnell $208,500
7 Dao Bac $166,800
8 Eriberto Soto $125,100
9 Mark Bryan $83,400

Nice to see Kenna making a good showing...

The $10,000 WSOP Circut Grand Tunica event concluded Aug 25. The top 10 were:

1 Gregg Merkow $561,175
2 Bobby Law $309,490
3 Sonny Perry $170,050
4 Jeff Wood $136,040
5 Steve Rassi $102,030
6 Bryant King $85,025
7 Johnny Clements $68,020
8 John Juanda $51,015
9 Darrell Struck $34,010
10 Brian Ahern $23,805

Posted by fatbill at 09:04 AM | Comments (0)

August 18, 2005

Aug 2005 Tournaments

There are currently three ongoing major tournaments this month!

Turning Stone Casino has the 2005 3rd Annual Empire State Texas Holdem Championship running Aug 14th thru Aug 21st.

The Grand Casino in Tunica has the 2005 WSOP Tourname Circuit event running from Aug 10th to Aug 25

The Biclcle Casion has the 2005 Legends of Poker WPT event running from July 28th thru Sept 1st.

Looks like the names are at the WPT event, but it's difficlut to tell at this point, as most of the tournaments are lower buy-in ones so far. The Legends tournament starts the bigger buy-in tournaments ( $1000+ ) starting tomorrow... The tournament at the Grand Casino starts the bigger buy-in events ( $1000+ ) today. with the main event on Monday.

Posted by fatbill at 08:38 AM | Comments (0)

August 13, 2005

Poker tournament News

There are a couple of poker tournaments going on right now... formost among those is the Legends of Poker Tournament at the Bicycle Casino out in California.

There are many events to this tournament culminating in the $5000 buy in No Limit Texas Holdem championship event scheduled for Aug 27th.

There is a WSOP Tourname Circuit event going on right now at the Grand Casion in Tunica MS. I'm sure this will get some TV time later.... the main event for this is a $10000 Buy in No Limit Texas Holdem Championship, slated for Aug 22nd.
I was in Tunica for a WPT event this past Jan, and stayed at the Grand Casino. I really liked this casino, but their tournament staff left something to be desired... hopefully they have learned and evolved. ;-)

The London Open completed on Aug 5th. This was a $10000 event. THe top ten were:

1 Iwan Jones $750,000 672
2 Mikael Thuritz $400,000 560
3 Henrik Joern $200,000 448
4 Chip Jett $150,000 336
5 Ken Lennaard $110,000 280
6 Willie Tann $75,000 224
7 Marcel Luske $60,000 168
8 Karina Jett $45,000 112
9 Dominic Tofani $30,000 56
10 Derek Baxter $20,000 34

Pretty cool that both Chip Jett, AND his wife Karina made the top ten! Nice payday for the Jett's!

Posted by fatbill at 08:51 AM | Comments (0)

August 05, 2005

WSOP Television Schedule on ESPN

Here is the upcoming Television schedule for the 2005 WSOP which will be broadcast on ESPN.

Air Date Time (EST) Event Location Event Date Played
7/19/2005 8:00 PM CIRCUIT CHAMPIONSHIP Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 3/20/2005
7/19/2005 9:00 PM CIRCUIT CHAMPIONSHIP Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 3/20/2005
7/26/2005 9:00 PM CIRCUIT CHAMPIONSHIP Harrah's Hotel And Casino Atlantic City, NJ 1/16/2005
8/2/2005 9:00 PM CIRCUIT CHAMPIONSHIP Harrah's Rincon Casino & Resort San Diego, CA 2/27/2005
8/9/2005 9:00 PM CIRCUIT CHAMPIONSHIP Harvey's Lake Tahoe Lake Tahoe, NV 5/8/2005
8/16/2005 9:00 PM CIRCUIT CHAMPIONSHIP Harrah's New Orleans New Orleans, LA 5/28/2005
8/23/2005 8:00 PM NO LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($1,500) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/4/2005
8/23/2005 9:00 PM POT LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($1,500) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/5/2005
8/30/2005 8:00 PM NO LIMIT HOLD 'EM w/rebuys ($1,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/9/2005
8/30/2005 9:00 PM NO LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($2,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/11/2005
9/6/2005 8:00 PM POT LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($2,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/13/2005
9/6/2005 9:00 PM POT LIMIT OMAHA w/rebuys ($2,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/14/2005
9/13/2005 8:00 PM NO LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($5,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/15/2005
9/13/2005 9:00 PM POT LIMIT HOLD 'EM Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/21/2005
9/20/2005 9:00 PM NO LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($1,500) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/23/2005
9/20/2005 10:00 PM SEVEN CARD STUD ($5,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/24/2005
9/27/2005 9:00 PM NO LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($2,500) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/25/2005
9/27/2005 10:00 PM POT LIMIT OMAHA w/rebuys ($5,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/27/2005
10/4/2005 9:00 PM LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($5,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/28/2005
10/4/2005 10:00 PM NO LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($2,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/29/2005
10/11/2005 9:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/7/2005
10/11/2005 10:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/8/2005
10/18/2005 9:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/9/2005
10/18/2005 10:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/10/2005
10/25/2005 9:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/11/2005
10/25/2005 10:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/12/2005
11/1/2005 9:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/13/2005
11/1/2005 10:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/14/2005
11/8/2005 9:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/14/2005
11/8/2005 10:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/15/2005
11/15/2005 9:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/15/2005
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Posted by fatbill at 04:24 PM | Comments (0)

August 03, 2005

Tournament Schedules Updated

I have updated the World Poker Tour schedule for 2005-2006, to show the new schedule.

I have put up a new page for the World Series of Poker Circuit Events for the upcoming season

Both events can be found under Poker Tournament Articles

Posted by fatbill at 09:43 AM | Comments (0)

2005 Grad Prix De Paris WPT

The $12,200 Buy in No Limit Texas Holdem WPT event at the Grand Prix De Paris concluded on July 29th with Roland DeWolfe taking down the top prize of $600,898!

Currently the Legends of Poker tour at the Bicycle Casino is underway with events scheduled all this month. The main event goes off Aug 27th.

The $10,000 Buy in London Open gets underway today.....

Posted by fatbill at 09:22 AM | Comments (0)

August 01, 2005

Ultimate Poker Challange Results

We were supposed to be in Vegas in time to check out the final table in the 2005 Ultimate poker Chalange 10K buy in, No Limit Texas Holdem event. Unfortunately, the airline decided to cancel our flight, and we had to scramble through multiple jumps, and did not make Vegas until later that night...
Here are the results of the event:
1 Andrew Bloch $167,500 480
2 Blair Rodman $100,750 400
3 Chau Giang $54,600 320
4 Mike Wattel $44,300 240
5 Vellaisamy Senthilkumar $32,500 200
6 Scott Fischman $27,100 160
7 Ted Forrest $21,500 120
8 Erik Seidel $18,300 80
9 Cyndy Violette $15,200 40
10 Gavin Smith $13,500 24
11 David Plastik $13,500 24
12 Erick Lindgren $11,000 24
13 John Juanda $11,000 24
14 Michael Mizrachi $11,000 24

I'll be posting more this week about the various activities from our Vegas Trip, including my impressions on the various casino Poker Rooms...

Posted by fatbill at 09:08 AM | Comments (0)

July 23, 2005

Vegas Tournaments

There are a couple tournaments going on in Vegas right now, that seem to be getting lost in the aftermath of the WSOP coverage.

The Ultimate Poker Challange is going on at the Plaza. The final/main event goes off next week. The finals will be on Wednesday, which incidentally is the day we arrive in Vegas for our little 'family' adventure. I'm hoping at least to see some of the final table play when I get into town....

The Orleans has a tournament going on right now also. This tournament has much lower buy-in fees than most tournaments, which makes it attractive. It also has 'second chance' events each night for a $125 buy-in. I'm probably going to play at least one of these when I am in town, either Thrusday or Friday evening. It looks like they are drawing over 100 players to these events.

Posted by fatbill at 08:38 AM | Comments (0)

July 17, 2005

WSOP Update - Final Standings

Well, the big event is over, and all the winners have been listed, so here is the final World Series of Poker Overall Standings:

Rank, Name/residence, Points, Final Tables, Winnings

1 Todd Witteles Las Vegas, NV 2,080 2 $463,195
2 Joseph Hachem Melbourne, Australia 1,920 1 $7,525,850
2 Mark Seif Incline Village, NV 1,920 2 $799,950
4 Allen Cunningham Ventura, CA 1,902 4 $1,006,935
5 Todd Brunson El Paso, TX 1,808 3 $401,415
6 Quinn Do Seattle, WA 1,732 2 $300,440
7 Steven Dannenmann Severn, MD 1,600 1 $4,250,000
8 Charidimos 'Harry' Demetriou London, United Kingdom 1,520 2 $287,765
9 Erik Seidel Las Vegas, NV 1,479 4 $752,235
10 Farzad Bonyadi Aliso Viejo, CA 1,440 1 $834,580
10 Andre Boyer Las Vegas, NV 1,440 1 $682,810
10 T.J. Cloutier Richardson, TX 1,440 1 $660,080
10 Jon Heneghan Safety Harbor, FL 1,440 1 $611,015
10 Maciek "Michael" Gracz Raleigh, NC 1,440 1 $602,685
10 Isaac Galazan Miami, FL 1,440 1 $315,125
10 Johnny Chan Cerritos, CA 1,440 1 $303,025
17 Cyndy Violette Absecon, NJ 1,376 3 $400,905
18 Layne Flack Las Vegas, NV 1,340 2 $328,190
19 John Barch McKinney, TX 1,280 1 $2,500,000
20 Matthew Glantz Lafayette Hill, PA 1,200 1 $375,005
20 Steven Zoine Merrick, NY 1,200 1 $352,620
20 Cheung Tai Law Middlesbrook, United Kingdom 1,200 1 $325,530
20 Paul Deng United States 1,200 1 $324,305
20 Lars Bonding Aarhas, Netherlands 1,200 1 $317,625
20 Daryl Mixan Omaha, NE 1,200 1 $184,170
20 Phil Laak San Jose, CA 1,200 1 $163,985

They are only showing 326 Point earners in the listings, but there were many more in the cash, especially in the Main Event, where they paid 560 places there alone. Becasue of his win in the Main Event, Joseph Hachem moved into Second in the standings.

Allen Cunningham and Eric Sidel BOTH made 4 final tables.
Those that made three final tables include: Todd Brunson, Cyndy Violette, and Minh Nguyen

Several players made 2 final tables, including Point Winner Todd Witteles

A few fellow Michiganders fared well this year, including:
Thom Werthman, $369,535 - Event #3 Pot Limit Holdem Champion
Jeff Rine $160,665
Ernest Patrick $29,560
Larry Prugh $145,875
Tom Shaneberger $54,965
Michael Cribb $54,965
Josef Monro $33,225
Bob Ciaffone $24,365
Scotty Brown $24,310
Mark Galasso $18,335

Posted by fatbill at 07:01 AM | Comments (0)

July 16, 2005

WSOP Main Event Update - Final Table

Joseph Hachem has just become the 2005 World Series of Poker champion, winning $7,500.000!

It ended at approximately 6:40AM PST today!

Here are the final table results, with earnings and POY points

1 Joseph Hachem $7,500,000 1920
2 Steven Dannenmann $4,250,000 1600
3 John Barch $2,500,000 1280
4 Aaron Kanter $2,000,000 960
5 Andrew Black $1,750,000 800
6 Scott Lazar $1,500,000 640
7 Daniel Bergsdorf $1,300,000 480
8 Brad Kondracki $1,150,000 320
9 Mike Matusow $1,000,000 160

The final numbers....
$10,000 Buy In No Limit Texas Holdem Main event championship drew 5619 Players and had a total prize pool of $52,818,610!!

Posted by fatbill at 09:44 AM | Comments (0)

July 15, 2005

Wsop Main Event Update #8

Well, the Final Table at the WSOP $10,000 Buy In No Limit Texas Holdem MAIN event is all set! Here is the table with the chip counts:
1. Aaron Kanter - $10,700,000 (seat 6)
2. Tex Barch - $9,330,000 (seat 3)
3. Andrew Black - $8,140,000 (seat 2)
4. Mike Matusow - $7,410,000 (seat 5)
5. Steve Dannenmann - $5,460,000 (seat 8)
6. Joseph Hachem - $5,420,000 (seat 1)
7. Daniel Bergsdorf - $5,270,000 (seat 4)
8. Scott Lazar - $3,370,000 (seat 9)
9. Brad Kondracki - $1,180,000 (seat 7)

Play will get underway today at 4PM with EVERY player guaranteed at LEAST ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

Interesting fact.... 11 of the final 27 players were online qualifiers, which guaranteed them at LEAST $350K.

Cardplayer will be broadcasting LIVE audio of the Final Table later today, with commentators Danial Negraneau, Eric lingren, Phil Helmuth, and Jeniffer Harmon... should be interesting....

Posted by fatbill at 06:58 AM | Comments (0)

July 14, 2005

Some Side drama's at the WSOP

These side drama's are doubtful to make TV coverage, but are amoung the things that transpired during the last day's play. These are reported by CardPlayer.com ( whos coverage of the WSOP has been terrific! ) in their logs...

"Some of the details are unclear, but about fifteen minutes ago at the Featured Table, one of the female dealers was quietly crying as she was replaced by the next dealer. Upon further investigation, one of the players at the final table was apparently being very critical of every mistake. According to Greg Raymer, it wasn't the content of what he was saying, but how he was saying it -- every criticism sounded like a spit in the face. If you took a transcript of what he said, it wouldn't appear to be very bad. But if you had to listen to it ...
It's a touchy situation, and the crowd applauded her in support as she left the table. Soon after, Tournament Director Johnny Grooms approaches the table to address the situation. Before he gets a chance to speak, the player leaves the table and goes over to say something to the dealer. I couldn't hear what they were saying, but their body language and everything else implies that he apologized to her. "

"Bing Wang was apparently confused following the last level of play. The break was scheduled to be 30 minutes, but Wang thought that it was a longer break for dinner. An easy mistake to make, considering a dinner break was announced, but for a different event also going on in the Amazon room. Wang has not returned to his seat and the tournament directors have made the decision to blind him off until he returns. The player sitting two spots to his right, Andy Black doesn't think that is fair. As a result, Black has asked the tournament directors to stop play until he returns. The ruling stands and Wang's chips are being blinded off. In an effort to help Wang out, Black is stalling and taking a very long time to do anything. Andy Black is visibly upset with what is taking place, and it appears that he is shedding a few tears."

You knew there had to be some little drama's going on in the background!

Posted by fatbill at 07:37 AM | Comments (0)

WSOP Main Event Update #7

They are down to the Final 27, and play will resume today at the Horseshoe. Those that remain, and their chip counts are:
Mike Matusow $5,104,000
Phil Ivey $4,600,000
Steve Dannenmann $4,150,000
Tex Barch $3,900,000
Greg Raymer $3,500,000
Scott Lazar $2,900,000
Joe Hachem $2,700,000
Michael Kessler $2,700,000
Daniel Bergsdorf $2,500,000
Andrew Black $2,350,000
Aaron Kanter $2,200,000
Tim Phan $2,200,000
Tommy Vu $2,000,000
Minh Ly $1,800,000
Brad Kondracki $1,500,000
Bryant King $1,500,000
Connor Tate $1,300,000
Oskar Silow $1,300,000
Joe Connor $1,000,000
Tiffany Williamson $1,000,000
Bernard Lee $950,000
Tom Sartori $950,000
Johnny Howard $800,000
John McGrane $600,000
Per Hildebrand $550,0002
Shawn Sheikhan $400,000
Ayhan Alsancak $250,000

Notables that went out today include, Dutch Boyd, Lee Watkinson, Howard Lederer, and John Juanda....
The next nine eliminated earn $304K....

A couple other small events that have gone on over the past couple days.....
1 Ron Kirk $321,520, $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem, $1,191,380 Total Prize Pook, 863 entries - July 11th

1 John Pires $220,935, $1000 No Limit Texas Holdem, $882,505 Total Prize Pool, 971 Players - July 12th

1 Willie Tann $188,335m $1000 No Limit Texas Holdem, $697,360 Total Prize Pool, 758 Players - July 13th.

It's easy to miss these smaller events in all the hype over the main event, and these are over-shadowed by the enormous prize pool for that Main Event. Still, these events had some impressive payouts!

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

July 13, 2005

WSOP Main Event Update #6

Play ended last night with 58 players remaining. Play will begin again today at Noon and continue until there are 27 players left. Those 27 players will move downtown to the Horseshoe for the final three tables and the eventual champion.

Here are those remaining, and their chip counts:
1. Tim Phan - $3,244,000
2. Mike Matusow - $2,561,000
3. Farzad Bonyadi - $2,402,000
4. Steve Danaman - $2,143,000
5. Phil Ivey - $2,027,000
6. Tex Barch - $2,025,000
7. Tiffany Williamson - $1,992,000
8. Johnny Howard - $1,806,000
9. Scott Lazar - $1,629,000
10. Tuan Vu - $1,571,000
11. Gregory Rice - $1,414,000
12. Raymi Sanchesz Thorn - $1,288,000
13. Lee Watkinson - $1,221,000
14. Tom Sartori - $1,208,000
15. Daniel Bergsdorf - $1,144,000
16. Brad Koundracki - $1,136,000
17. Minh Ly - $1,102,000
18. Terry Burt - $1,080,000
19. Steve Marx - $1,042,000
20. Per Hildebrand - $1,017,000
21. Michael Kessler - $986,000
22. Shahram - $983,000
23. Patrick Hayden - $972,000

AVERAGE STACK SIZE - $968,793

24. Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf - $968,000
25. John Juanda - $841,000
26. Joseph Hachem - $814,000
27. Nick Givson - $811,000
28. John McGrane - $780,880
29. Aaron Kanter - $778,000
30. Ayhan Alsancak - $775,000
31. Greg "Fossil Man" Raymer - $766,000
32. Radu Butan - $762,000
33. Bing Wang - $739,000
34. Oskar Silow - $720,000
35. Adam Friedman - $719,000
36. James Butt - $716,000
37. Russell "The Muscle" Salzer - $710,000
38. Bryant King - $702,000
39. Frankling Caldwell - $690,000
40. Yakov Hirsch - $658,000
41. Joe Connor - $641,000
42. Mark Forrester - $628,000
43. Karlo Lopez - $607,000
44. Joe Stillman - $584,000
45. Kevin Kaikko - $571,000
46. Tony Abesamis - $513,000
47. Kenna James - $510,000
48. Hung La - $505,000
49. David Richardson - $501,000
50. Roland Israelashvici - $469,000
51. Francis W O'Brien - $423,000
52. Bernard Lee - $379,000
53. Andrew Black - $371,000
54. Conor Tate - $368,000
55. Derek Dix - $202,000
56. Rod Pardey Jr. - $187,000
57. Larry Prugh - $166,000
58. Jarl Lindholt - $101,000

Only a handful of 'name' pros remain, among them,
Mike Matusow
Phil Ivey
Lee Watkinson
John Juanda
Greg "Fossil Man" Raymer
Kenna James

The next 4 out will recieve $145,875 and then it jumps up to $173,880 until 46 are left. At that point the money jumps to $235,390

Once down to 27, players are assured at least $300,000+, but they have to make the final 9 to win a MILLION!

Posted by fatbill at 07:52 AM | Comments (0)

July 12, 2005

WSOP Main Event Update #5

Day Three ended with 185 players remaining in the field. Play will resume today at Noon
Here are the chip counts at the end of day three:
1 Greg Raymer $ 1,064,000
2 Rodney Pardey Jr. $ 1,041,000
3 Brad Kondracki $ 962,500
4 Johnny Howard $ 910,500
5 Bob Larsen $ 796,500
6 Tim Phan $ 746,000
7 Phil Ivey $ 722,500
8 Steve Marx $ 679,500
9 S Bartholomew $ 659,000
10 Gabe Wells $ 655,500
11 Bryan Stelbuger $ 648,500
12 Oskar Silow $ 638,000
13 Bob Hotchandani $ 627,500
14 Raymi Sanchez Thorn $ 595,500
15 Manelic Minaya $ 594,500
16 Tex Barch $ 590,000
17 Jon Lane $ 585,000
18 James Ocson $ 583,000
19 David Bergsdorf $ 579,500
20 Tom Sartori $ 574,500
21 James Pollack $ 557,500
22 Karlo Lopez $ 556,500
23 Terry Burt $ 550,500
24 Joe Berry $ 542,500
25 James Butt $ 542,500
26 Minh Ly $ 530,250
27 Casper Christensen $ 525,500
28 Thomas A Roupe $ 525,000
29 Gregory Rice $ 523,000
30 Aaron Kanter $ 503,500
31 Howard Lederer $ 496,500
32 Matt Fitzpatrick $ 490,500
33 Randal Brooks $ 490,000
34 Jon Kalmar $ 469,500
35 Hung La $ 467,000
36 Nick Gibson $ 466,000
37 Nani Awad $ 460,500
38 Hunter Pappas $ 455,500
39 Mike Matusow $ 454,000
40 Sean Daulat $ 452,500
41 John McGrane $ 452,500
42 Nani Dollison $ 448,500
43 Tiffany Williamson $ 441,000
44 Mark Forrester $ 440,000
45 Yomtov Shabot $ 427,000
46 Samir Shakhtoor $ 414,000
47 Russell Salzer $ 412,500
48 Chris Short $ 411,500
49 Can Kim Hua $ 404,000
50 Krystal Nelson $ 395,000
51 Espen Saltnes $ 388,000
52 Marcello Del Grosso $ 386,500
53 Kevin Kim $ 384,500
54 George Kelly Dickson $ 377,000
55 Scott Numoto $ 376,500
56 Larry Prugh $ 372,500
57 Carmen Menechella $ 370,000
58 Russ Hamilton $ 365,000
59 John Juanda $ 354,000
60 Jose M Rodriguez $ 352,500
61 Nick Camarts $ 348,500
62 Ron Ware $ 345,000
63 David Plastik $ 342,500
64 Franklin Caldwell $ 339,000
65 Alex Morales $ 337,500
66 Sarah Bilney $ 332,500
67 Bobby Law $ 325,500
68 Jarl Lindholt Joergensen $ 320,500
69 Yakov Hirsch $ 316,500
70 Tuan Vu $ 316,500
71 Chris Drozdowski $ 315,000
72 Tom Shaneberger $ 309,000
73 Michael Kessler $ 297,500
74 Roland Israelashvizi $ 289,000
75 Kenna James $ 287,500
76 Michael Cribb $ 282,500
77 Rafael $ 282,000
78 Daniel Shak $ 280,500
79 Jason Lester $ 280,000
80 Jason Kaplan $ 274,500
81 Bing Wang $ 272,500
82 Gen Watamabe $ 271,000
83 David Richardson $ 269,500
84 Terry Myers $ 269,000
85 Bjorn Lindenberg $ 265,500
86 Tony Pirone $ 265,500
87 Patrick Madden $ 265,000
88 Paul Vicary $ 265,000
89 Scott Lazar $ 264,500
90 Niklas Flisberg $ 260,000
91 Robert Turner $ 260,000
92 Darryl Tennefos $ 259,500
93 JC Tran $ 259,500
94 Andrew Black $ 257,000
95 Bryant King $ 253,500
96 Kevin McCarthy $ 251,000
97 Joe Stillman $ 249,500
98 Joe Simmons $ 245,000
99 Shahram Sheikhan $ 243,000
100 Paul Mannetta $ 240,000
101 Tony Abesamis $ 237,500
102 Francis W O'Brien $ 234,000
103 Patrick Hayden $ 233,000
104 Joseph Hachem $ 231,000
105 Erick Richardson $ 227,000
106 Josh Prager $ 225,000
107 Mark Cole $ 224,500
108 Joe Connor $ 224,000
109 Mitchell Klein $ 219,500
110 Daniel Alaei $ 219,000
111 Alan Singer $ 217,000
112 Jack Ward $ 207,500
113 Webber Kang $ 206,300
114 Kevin Wright $ 202,000
115 Richard Lapwood $ 202,000
116 Richard Kirsch $ 200,500
117 Conor Tate $ 200,000
118 Dennis Savelkoul $ 197,500
119 Anthony Laughing, Jr $ 192,500
120 Kelly Zoudo $ 192,500
121 Dmitriy Eidelman $ 189,500
122 David Steirman $ 181,500
123 Lee Watkinson $ 181,000
124 Joe Toth $ 180,500
125 Stephen Deetz $ 180,000
126 Derek Dix $ 178,500
127 Joseph Chiosie $ 178,000
128 Anthony Hill $ 173,000
129 Joe Beevers $ 173,000
130 Louie Calvo $ 170,500
131 Vadim Shlez $ 170,500
132 Louis Lo $ 169,500
133 Michaey Leahy $ 169,000
134 Adam Friedman $ 166,000
135 Dietrich Alex $ 159,500
136 Cliff Cantor $ 159,000
137 Radu Butan $ 158,500
138 Mark Graves $ 154,000
139 Mike May $ 153,500
140 Kit Phaphon $ 150,500
141 Jake Minter $ 146,500
142 Glyn Banks $ 144,500
143 Bernard Lee $ 143,000
144 Peter Hedlund $ 141,500
145 Mehrdad Yousefzadeh $ 136,500
146 Kevin O'Brien $ 136,500
147 Tom Koral $ 132,000
148 Steven Dannenmann, CPA $ 131,000
149 Per Hildebrand $ 131,000
150 Farzad Bonyadi $ 129,500
151 Dustin Woolf $ 127,000
152 Tom Pniak $ 126,500
153 Alejandro Pachero $ 126,500
154 Chris Podlewski $ 126,000
155 Babak Rozi $ 123,000
156 Kevin Kaikko $ 122,000
157 Mark Tenner $ 112,000
158 Paul Fisher $ 110,000
159 Ayhan Alsancak $ 109,500
160 Mark Bryan $ 109,000
161 Amit Sander $ 109,000
162 Michael P Mollay $ 104,500
163 Kjetil Praesttun $ 102,000
164 Tom Clark $ 94,500
165 Dutch Boyd $ 92,000
166 Joe Leibman $ 88,000
167 Sean Blanton $ 87,000
168 Adam Brosius $ 86,500
169 John R $ 85,500
170 Joseph Vannata $ 84,500
171 Matt Fitzgerald $ 81,500
172 Michael Capener $ 80,000
173 George Thomas Huber $ 73,000
174 Doug Gehring $ 73,000
175 Martin Cedercrantz $ 71,500
176 Frank Hernandez $ 67,000
177 Jon Hoellein $ 63,500
178 Mike Wattel $ 62,500
179 Paul L Darden, Jr. $ 60,000
180 Jeffrey Geiger $ 48,000
181 Tom Drotleff $ 41,500
182 Brett Wiesner $ 36,000
183 Ed Pellegrini $ 23,500
184 John McLaughlin $ 16,500
185 Imad Samouna $ 7,400

I dont think ANYONE expected to see Greg Raymer on top at this point... he'd gunning for the record book, if he can pull off the repeat!

Three names stick out that CAN NOT be counted out:
Phil Ivey
Howard Lederer
John Juanda

All are in the hunt with good chip stacks.... should be interesting!

Posted by fatbill at 09:40 AM | Comments (0)

July 11, 2005

WSOP Main Event Update #4

Day 2 Ended with 569 Players remaining, and play resuming today at Noon PST. Play will resume on a hand-for-hand basis, to get down to the money. With only a few spots remaining to get into the money, expect play to be tight when they start, as its BUBBLE TIME!

Among those still playing, are these notables:

6 Lee Watkinson $ 336,800
9 Greg 'Fossilman' Raymer $ 318,700
14 Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi $ 294,800
41 'Minneapolis' Jim Meehan $ 211,900
63 Layne Flack $ 188,100
83 Sam Farha $ 173,600
122 Paul L. Darden Sr. $ 144,000
130 John Juanda $ 141,100
156 Howard Lederer $ 127,800
172 Mike Matusow $ 120,100
208 Dutch Boyd $ 103,800
259 Phil Ivey $ 89,600
338 Clonie Gowen $ 64,400
472 Bob Ciaffone $ 34,600

Play will move to the Horseshoe on Thursday....

Notable Players that Busted include:
Notable Bust Outs:
Gus Hansen
Chris Moneymaker
Marcel Luske
Shannon Elizabeth
Dan Harrington
David Sklansky
John Myung
John Gale
Chip Reese
Rocco Mediate
Toto Leonidas
Rafe Furst
Dan Heimiller
Liz Lieu
Cecilia Mortensen
Jeff & Barry Shulman
Amir Vahedi
Carmel Petresco
Huck Seed
Paul Wolfe

Posted by fatbill at 08:42 AM | Comments (0)

July 10, 2005

WSOP Main Event Update #3

Well, Day 1, Heat 3 is over, and the final 1868 players will continue play on 'day 2' later this afternoon. Heat 3 played down to 640.

Lots of big names will not be among those that continue play....

Those that DO remain to continue play, include:
Place, Name, Chip Count
1 Haakon Waerstad $ 169,200
2 Sam Farha $ 156,600
4 Lee Watkinson $ 145,800
16 Minneapolis Jim Meehan $ 103,775
23 Mads Andersen $ 94,700 the 'screaming swede'?
94 Layne Flack $ 69,775
98 J.C. Tran $ 68,150
102 Robert Mizrachi $ 67,625
208 Kenna James $ 55,600
211 Dutch Boyd $ 55,550
213 Howard Lederer $ 55,500
219 Paul Darden Jr. $ 55,100
378 Amir Vahedi $ 43,975
469 Greg "Fossilman" Raymer $ 39,525
480 Huck Seed $ 39,025
519 Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi $ 37,200
612 Rocco Mediate $ 33,825 Pro Golfer
692 Van "Vinny" Landrum $ 31,625
738 Chip Reese $ 30,200
787 Phil Ivey $ 28,600
820 Mike Matusow $ 27,850
1111 Dan Harrington $ 20,575
1120 Avery Cardoza $ 20,350
1167 Chris Karagolleyan $ 19,350
1209 Bob Ciaffohc $ 18,425
1245 Mimi Tran $ 17,700
1251 Chris Grigorian $ 17,575
1296 Allyn Jaffrey Shulman $ 16,525
1507 Toto Leonidas $ 12,500
1634 David Sklansky $ 9,850
1647 Jason Lester $ 9,675
1733 Chris Moneymaker $ 7,575
1738 John Myung $ 7,475
1747 Gus Hansen $ 7,300

This list may not be all inclusive... there are a lot of names to scan through! ;-)

They announced the payout schedule! It goes like this:
Total Entries: 5,619
Total Prize Pool: $52,818,600
560 places will get paid

1st: $7,500,000
2nd: $4,250,000
3rd: $2,500,000
4th: $2,000,000
5th: $1,750,000
6th: $1,500,000
7th: $1,300,000
8th: $1,150,000
9th: $1,000,000
10 $600,000
11 $600,000
12 $600,000
13 $400,000
14 $400,000
15 $400,000
16 $350,000
17 $350,000
18 $350,000
19-27 $304,680
28-36 $274,090
37-45 $235,390
46-54 $173,880
55-63 $145,875
64-72 $124,835
73-81 $107,950
82-90 $91,950
91-100 $77,710
101-110 $65,360
111-140 $54,965
141-170 $46,245
171-200 $39,075
201-230 $33,197
231-260 $28,375
261-300 $24,365
301-350 $21,070
351-400 $18,335
401-450 $16,055
451-500 $14,135
501-560 $12,500

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

July 09, 2005

WSOP Main Event update #2

The Second heat of Day One concluded, with 606 players remaining. Heat three is today, again playing down to 650 or less, before combining the field tomorrow.

There are a total of 5661 Entries for the Main event this year, FAR exceeding the 2004 event.

A listing of Day One Heat One survivors can be found at PokerPages
Lee Watkinson leads that group with $145,800....

This page at Poker Pages.com has really nice listings of information for the WSOP events in the past. Good stuff to read for those wanting to catch up on past history of the WSOP.

Posted by fatbill at 10:19 AM | Comments (0)

July 08, 2005

WSOP Main Event Update #1

Well, the Main Event kicked off yesterday, with the First of 3 Day One's scheduled. Yep.. 3 Day Ones!

Each day, they will have up to 2200 players, and play them down... then the three day survivors will play all together on Sunday. The people playing in the Saturday marathon will have the worst of it, having to return the next day, whereas yesterday and today's players will have some time to re-coop!

Yesterday, they played 15 hours and took it down to 650! A bunch of notables were eliminated today.... it's gonna be a long haul for these players to make it to the money!

Posted by fatbill at 08:20 AM | Comments (0)

July 07, 2005

WSOP Update 7-7

1 David Grey $365,135, $5000 No Limit Two to Seven Draw Lowball event, $989,860 Total Prize Pool, 65 Players ( 139 Rebuys ).

The satellite's are over.... the MAIN EVENT starts TODAY!

Here are the Top Listings for the Overall WSOP Point standings:
Rank Player Location Points Final Tables Winnings
1 Todd Witteles Las Vegas, NV 2,080 2 $463,195
2 Mark Seif Incline Village, NV 1,920 2 $799,950
3 Allen Cunningham Ventura, CA 1,902 4 $1,006,935
4 Todd Brunson El Paso, TX 1,808 3 $401,415
5 Quinn Do Seattle, WA 1,732 2 $300,440
6 Charidimos 'Harry' Demetriou London, United Kingdom 1,520 2 $287,765
7 Andre Boyer Las Vegas, NV 1,440 1 $682,810
7 T.J. Cloutier Richardson, TX 1,440 1 $660,080
7 Jon Heneghan Safety Harbor, FL 1,440 1 $611,015
7 Maciek "Michael" Gracz Raleigh, NC 1,440 1 $602,685
7 Farzad Bonyadi Aliso Viejo, CA 1,440 1 $599,190
7 Isaac Galazan Miami, FL 1,440 1 $315,125
7 Johnny Chan Cerritos, CA 1,440 1 $303,025
14 Cyndy Violette Absecon, NJ 1,376 3 $400,905
15 Layne Flack Las Vegas, NV 1,340 2 $289,115
16 Matthew Glantz Lafayette Hill, PA 1,200 1 $375,005
16 Steven Zoine Merrick, NY 1,200 1 $352,620
16 C.T. Law United Kingdom 1,200 1 $325,530
16 Paul Deng United States 1,200 1 $324,305
16 Lars Bonding Aarhas, Netherlands 1,200 1 $317,625
16 Daryl Mixan Omaha, NE 1,200 1 $179,290
16 Phil Laak San Jose, CA 1,200 1 $163,985
23 Erik Seidel Las Vegas, NV 1,159 3 $692,690
24 Alfredo 'Toto' Leonidas Los Angeles, CA 1,148 2 $220,045
25 Minh Nguyen Lake Elsinore, CA 1,120 3 $378,320

The Overall WSOP Point champ will be decided at the Main Event!

Posted by fatbill at 10:14 AM | Comments (0)

July 06, 2005

WSOP Events on TV?

Dont expect to see the WSOP events on tv until the end of August. This is the Television schedule published for each event to be aired on ESPN:
Air Date Time (EST) Event Location Event Date
8/23/2005 8:00 PM NO LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($1,500) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/4/2005
8/23/2005 9:00 PM POT LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($1,500) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/5/2005
8/30/2005 8:00 PM NO LIMIT HOLD 'EM w/rebuys ($1,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/9/2005
8/30/2005 9:00 PM NO LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($2,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/11/2005
9/6/2005 8:00 PM POT LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($2,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/13/2005
9/6/2005 9:00 PM POT LIMIT OMAHA w/rebuys ($2,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/14/2005
9/13/2005 8:00 PM NO LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($5,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/15/2005
9/13/2005 9:00 PM POT LIMIT HOLD 'EM Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/21/2005
9/20/2005 9:00 PM NO LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($1,500) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/23/2005
9/20/2005 10:00 PM SEVEN CARD STUD ($5,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/24/2005
9/27/2005 9:00 PM NO LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($2,500) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/25/2005
9/27/2005 10:00 PM POT LIMIT OMAHA w/rebuys ($5,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/27/2005
10/4/2005 9:00 PM LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($5,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/28/2005
10/4/2005 10:00 PM NO LIMIT HOLD 'EM ($2,000) Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 6/29/2005
10/11/2005 9:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/7/2005
10/11/2005 10:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/8/2005
10/18/2005 9:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/9/2005
10/18/2005 10:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/10/2005
10/25/2005 9:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/11/2005
10/25/2005 10:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/12/2005
11/1/2005 9:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/13/2005
11/1/2005 10:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/14/2005
11/8/2005 9:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/14/2005
11/8/2005 10:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/15/2005
11/15/2005 9:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/15/2005
11/15/2005 10:00 PM MAIN EVENT Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV 7/15/2005

Posted by fatbill at 08:20 AM | Comments (0)

WSOP Update 7-6

John Heneghan Wins the $1000 Texas Holdem No Limit ( w/rebuys ), $2,350,020 Total Prize Pool ( 1584 Rebuys ), 894 Players.

The $5000 No Liit Two to Seven Draw Lowball is still going on....

There is one $1000 Satellite scheduled for today, as well as a No Limit Texas Holdem Charity event.

Tomorrow the Main Event - $10000 No Limit Texas Holdem tournament kicks off. It looks like the Overall WSOP standings will be decided by this event. Several players still have a real shot at it depending on points earned in the Main Event....

NOthing is announced about how many entries to the main event this year ( Last Year there were 2576 ), but to give you an idea of what they expect, here is the schedule they will use:

July 7, Thursday Day 1A, The first 1,000 - 2,200 play down to 500-650
July 8, Friday Day 1B, The second 1,000 - 2,200 play down to 500-650
July 9, Saturday Day 1C, The third 1,000 - 2,200 play down to 500-650
July 10, Sunday Day 2, Start with 1,500-1,950 play down to 500-1,000
July 11, Monday Day 3B, Start with 500-1,000 play down to 200-400

This would indicate they expect 6600 players!

Posted by fatbill at 08:02 AM | Comments (0)

July 05, 2005

WSOP Update 7-5

1 Rafi Amit $511,835, $10000 Pot Limit Omaha Event, $1,551,000 Total Prize Pool, 165 Entries.

1 Todd Witteles $347,385, $3000 Limit Texas Holdem Event, $1,120,560 Total Prize Pool, 406 Entries.

The $1000 No Limit Texas Holdem event is down to 54 players remaining. Show here are the top chip leaders:
Rob Hollink - $157,500
Terrence Chan - $87,100
Ayaz Mahmood - $85,700
Freddy Deeb - $84,600
Roland DeWolfe - $81,300
John Gordon - $80,600
Young Phan - $76,400
Howard Lederer - $73,500
Joseph Hachem - $72,100
Alex Balandin - $72,000
Patrick Bruel - $70,200
Barry Greenstein - $70,200
Robert Aran - $70,000
David Ulliot - $55,000
C.K. Hua - $44,300
Mike Gracz - $31,600
David Levi - $21,000

Today, Two events get underway:
$1000 No Limit Texas Holdem Satellite
$5000 No Limit Two to Seven Draw Lowball

The main event kickes off Thursday....

There have been changes in the Overall WSOP Point Standings:
1 Todd Witteles Las Vegas, NV 2,080 2 $463,195
2 Mark Seif Incline Village, NV 1,920 2 $799,950
3 Allen Cunningham Ventura, CA 1,902 4 $1,006,935
4 Todd Brunson El Paso, TX 1,808 3 $401,415
5 Quinn Do Seattle, WA 1,732 2 $300,440
6 Charidimos 'Harry' Demetriou London, United Kingdom 1,520 2 $287,765
7 Andre Boyer Las Vegas, NV 1,440 1 $682,810
7 T.J. Cloutier Richardson, TX 1,440 1 $660,080
7 Farzad Bonyadi Aliso Viejo, CA 1,440 1 $599,190
7 Maciek "Michael" Gracz Raleigh, NC 1,440 1 $594,460
7 Isaac Galazan Miami, FL 1,440 1 $315,125
7 Johnny Chan Cerritos, CA 1,440 1 $303,025
13 Cyndy Violette Absecon, NJ 1,376 3 $400,905
14 Layne Flack Las Vegas, NV 1,340 2 $289,115
15 Matthew Glantz Lafayette Hill, PA 1,200 1 $375,005
15 Steven Zoine Merrick, NY 1,200 1 $352,620
15 C.T. Law United Kingdom 1,200 1 $325,530
15 Lars Bonding Aarhas, Netherlands 1,200 1 $317,625
15 Daryl Mixan Omaha, NE 1,200 1 $179,290
15 Phil Laak San Jose, CA 1,200 1 $163,985
21 Erik Seidel Las Vegas, NV 1,159 3 $692,690

Posted by fatbill at 08:19 AM | Comments (0)

July 04, 2005

WSOP Update 7-4

1 Andre Boyer $682,810, $3000 No Limit Texas Holdem, $2,767,600 Total Prize Pool, 1010 Entries!

1 Paul McKinney $202,725, $1000 No Limit Texas Holdem Seniors, $750,750 Total Prize Pool, 825 Entries.

The $10000 Pot Limit Omaha event is down to 16 players. Players and their chip counts are:
1 Rafi Amit 212,000 Chips
2 Erik Seidel 182,000 Chips
3 Quoc Al 'Vinnie' Vinh 176,000 Chips
4 Ferit Gabriellson 159,000 Chips
5 Max Pescatori 148,000 Chips
6 Julian Gardner 136,000 Chips
7 Peter Costa 97,000 Chips
8 Simon Trumper 91,000 Chips
9 John Gale 90,000 Chips
10 Jeff Rine 65,000 Chips
11 Derek Baxter 56,000 Chips
12 Tony Bloom 51,000 Chips
13 Larry Jonsson 49,000 Chips
14 Istvan Novak 45,000 Chips
15 Todd Brunson 43,000 Chips
16 Tony Cousineau 41,000 Chips

The $3000 Limit Texas Holdem event is down to 25 players. The top 34 made it into the money. Those remaining and their chip count are:
1. Ralph "Rafael" Perry - $114,000
2. Matt Matros - $104,000
3. Kieu Duong - $103,000
4. Mike Nargi - $74,000
5. Daryl Mixan - $73,000
6. Matt Hawrilenko - $57,000
T-7. Todd Witteles - $56,000
T-7. Carlo Citrone - $56,000
9. Anders Berg - $51,000
T-10. Benjamin Lin - $50,000
T-10. Craig Orivello - $50,000
12. Peter Hedlund - $48,000
13. Robert Perry - $46,000
T-14. Cyndy Violette - $42,000
T-14. Eddy Scharf - $42,000
T-14. Chris Gildone - $42,000
17. Holger Lindemann - $36,000
18. Glenn Latona - $35,000
19. Martin Cedercrantz - $33,000
20. Mark Gregorich - $27,000
21. Luis H. Santoni - $22,000
22. Arthur Loring - $18,000
23. Roy Thung - $17,000
24. Peter Chi - $15,000
25. Daniel Negreanu - $8,000
Negreanu is short, but finally made the money!

Today the $1000 No Limit Holdem ( Multi Rebuy ) event gets underway.

Only 3 Days until the main event!!

Posted by fatbill at 09:37 AM | Comments (0)

July 03, 2005

WSOP Update 7-3

David Chiu Wins Event #32 ($5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split), $1,052,800 Total Prize Pool, 224 Entries.

The $3000 No Limit Texas Holdem event is down to the final 9. Play will resume to day, with these players and their chip counts:
1) John Duthie - $186,000
2) Kenneth Blanton - $347,000
3) Michael Carroll - $421,000
4) Dennis Perry - $289,000
5) Matthew Glantz - $660,000
6) Richard Betts - $315,000
7) Andre Boyer - $323,000
8) Jerry Young - $264,000
9) Morten Jensen - $257,000

The $1000 No Limit Texas Holdem Seniors event is down to the final 21, shown here with their chip counts:
Marc Durand - $93,200
Paul McKinney - $83,800
Michael "Shoes" Gambony - $72,000
James Guiry - $67,600
Peter "The Greek" Vilandos - $50,700
Daniel Klein - $50,000
Randall Skaggs - $43,800
Louis Barkoutsis - $39,200
Carol Bollinger - $38,800
Bob Hume - $38,000
Ed Ross - $34,000
Paul "Catfish" Fischman - $32,800
Dewey Weim - $28,700
George Lavalley - $26,600
Robert Redman - $24,600
Jose Rosencrantz - $24,400
Daneil Higgins Bellany - $24,100
Charles Zeghibe - $23,100
Randall Barnes - $18,800
Antonio Barletta - $9,800
Tom McCormick - $9,200

The $10000 Pot Limit Omaha event is down to 63 players, with play resuming today.

Today the $3000 Limit Texas Holdem event gets underway.

Allen Cunningham became the first person to Crack the $1 Million dollar mark in winnings. Of course, that feat will be more than matched once the main event is concluded. Expect 10 or more Million Dollar winners from the Main Event alone this year!

Posted by fatbill at 08:17 AM | Comments (0)

July 02, 2005

World Series of Poker Overall Standings

The Overall standings for the World Series of poker are pretty tight going into the final events. Mark Seif is still at the top, but other top pros are definately within striking distance!

Here are the top 25:
Rank, Name, Residence, Points, Final Tables, Total Earnings
1 Mark Seif Incline Village, NV 1,920 2 $799,950
2 Quinn Do Seattle, WA 1,732 2 $300,440
3 Allen Cunningham Ventura, CA 1,626 3 $964,825
4 Todd Brunson El Paso, TX 1,536 2 $323,865
5 Charidimos 'Harry' Demetriou London, United Kingdom 1,520 2 $287,765
6 T.J. Cloutier Richardson, TX 1,440 1 $660,080
6 Farzad Bonyadi Aliso Viejo, CA 1,440 1 $594,960
6 Maciek "Michael" Gracz Raleigh, NC 1,440 1 $594,460
6 Isaac Galazan Miami, FL 1,440 1 $315,125
6 Johnny Chan Cerritos, CA 1,440 1 $303,025
11 Layne Flack Las Vegas, NV 1,340 2 $284,885
12 Steven Zoine Merrick, NY 1,200 1 $352,620
12 C.T. Law United Kingdom 1,200 1 $325,530
12 Lars Bonding Aarhas, Netherlands 1,200 1 $317,625
12 Phil Laak San Jose, CA 1,200 1 $163,985
16 Alfredo 'Toto' Leonidas Los Angeles, CA 1,148 2 $220,045
17 Minh Nguyen Lake Elsinore, CA 1,120 3 $378,320
18 Chi Chang Los Angeles, CA 1,110 1 $137,265
19 Mike Wattel Phoenix, AZ 1,090 2 $121,495
20 Doyle Brunson Las Vegas, NV 1,080 1 $367,800
20 Allen Kessler Huntingtdon Valley, PA 1,080 1 $136,395
22 Erik Seidel Las Vegas, NV 1,023 2 $646,160
23 Cyndy Violette Absecon, NJ 1,016 2 $356,085
24 Dan Schmiech Houston, TX 972 1 $429,070
25 Lawrence Gosney Leeds, United Kingdom 960 1 $483,195
25 Thom Werthmann Bloomfield Hills, MI 960 1 $369,535
25 Eric Froehlich Los Angeles, CA 960 1 $361,910
25 Reza Payvar Tarzana, CA 960 1 $314,560
25 Edward Moncada Oakland, CA 960 1 $314,330
25 Patrick Poels Phoenix, AZ 960 1 $270,100
25 Anthony Reategui Chandler, AZ 960 1 $269,100
25 Glynn Beebe Austin, TX 960 1 $194,305
25 Cliff Josephy Syosset, NY 960 1 $192,100
25 John Bonetti Houston, TX 960 1 $187,765
25 Chuck Thompson Santa Cruz, CA 960 1 $176,145
25 Steve Hohn Overland Park, KS 960 1 $161,810
25 Tommy Grimes Houston, TX 960 1 $85,705
25 Richard Osborne Martinez, CA 960 1 $78,200

No one has topped $1 Million yet, althought Allen Cunningham is on the verge. Only a couple people have made more than two final tables.

Posted by fatbill at 09:36 AM | Comments (0)

WSOP Update 7-2

1 O'Neil Longson $125,690, $1500 Seven Card Razz, $401,580 Total Prize Pool, 291 Entries.

The $5000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB event is down to the final table, shown here with chip counts:
1. Russell Salzer - $223,000
2. David Chiu - $135,000
3. Haim Kakoun - $139,000
4. Hiroshi Shimamura - $113,000
5. Stephen Ladowsky - $109,000
6. Daniel Shak - $95,000
7. Patrick Bueno - $62,000
8. Allen Cunningham - $76,000
9. Daniel Horowitz - $196,000

Those in the top 18 made the money.. they are:
10 Chad Brown $14,740
11 Ted Lawson $14,740
12 James Van Alstyne $14,740
13 Emmanual Sebag $12,635
14 Anders Berg $12,635
15 Fred Koubi $12,635
16 Lonnie Heimowitz $10,530
17 Marcel Luske $10,530
18 Cuong Do $10,530

The $3000 No Limit Texas Holdem event is down to 51. Top 100 made it to the money. The top 10 players remaining by chip count are:
1. Alex Uskov $194,500
2. Kenneth Blanton $170,000
3. Jerry Young $131,200
4. John Duffy $126,000
5. Anders Henrikson $119,000
6. Eugene Todd $113,100
7. Richard Freire $96,700
8. Mohammed Hamid $93,600
9. Robert Betts $90,100
10. Denis Kharitonov $81,700

Other notable chip counts:

Billy Baxter $72,600
Dewey Tomko $54,900

Two Events go off today:
$1000 No Limit Texas Holdem Seniors
$10000 Pot Limit Omaha

Only 5 days remain until the kick off of this year's MAIN EVENT!

Posted by fatbill at 09:27 AM | Comments (0)

July 01, 2005

WSOP Update 7-1

1 Lawrence Gosney $483,195, $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem, $1,972,480 Total Prize Pool, 1072 Entries

The $1500 Seven Card Razz event is down to the final 3 as of this writing with play continuing... as of 4:40AM Vegas Time here they are and their chip counts:
Bruno Fitoussi - $140,000
Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri - $30,000
O'Neil Longson - $250,000

Doyle Brunson Wins Event #29 $367,800, $5,000 Short-Handed No-Limit Texas Hold'em, $1,414,700 Total Prize Pool, 301 Entries
Doyal wins his tenth World Series of Poker bracelet. Brunson is now tied for the career record with Johnny Chan!

The $5000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB event is down to 49 (top 18 make the money) with play resuming today. The top ten and their chip count are:
1. Jeff Lisandro $47,500
2. Russel Salzer $46,500
3. Chad Brown $43,500
4. Sam Grizzle $42,000
5. Mallory Smith $42,000
6. David Chiu $41,000
7. Al Ardebili $39,800
8. Davin Anderson $39,000
9. Marcel Luske $38,500
10. Emmanuel Sebag $37,000
Other notables:
Phil Ivey $21,000
Jennifer Harman $5,000
Erik Seidel $5,500
Maureen Feduniak $18,000
Mike Matusow $17,500
T.J. Cloutier $14,000
Lonnie Heimowitz $30,500
Peter Costa $33,000
Ted Lawson $10,000
Paul Darden $2,000

Today the $3000 No Limit Texas Holdem event gets underway....

Posted by fatbill at 07:48 AM | Comments (0)

June 30, 2005

WSOP Update 6-30

1 Dan Schmiech $404,585, $5000 Limit Texas Holdem, $1,264,300 Total Prize Pool, 269 Entries.
Gabe Kaplan took 2nd... Annie Duke took 4th...

The $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem event is down to the final table. Here is the listing and chip counts:
1. Carlo Citrone - $151,000
2. Hyung Shack Ko - $287,000
3. L Gosney - $323,000
4. Bjorn Isberg - $166,000
5. Tony Rila - $305,000
6. Dustin Woolf - $270,000
7. J.C. Tran - $47,000
8. Alan Purdy - $165,000
9. Jarl Lindholt - $437,000

The $1500 Seven Card Razz event is down to 24, which is where the money cut off is. The players and chip counts are:
Archie Karas- $66,600
Bruno Fitoussi- $31,600
O'Neil Longson- $30,100
Phillip E. Penn Sr.- $25,500
Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri- $24,700
Blair Rodman- $22,400
Mark Tenner- $19,000
Hassan Kamoei- $18,500
Mike Wattel- $18,500
Paul Vinci- $18,200
Jennifer Creason- $17,100
Brett "Gank" Jungblutt- $16,400
John Kim- $16,400
Jim Tate- $15,400
John Mociak- $13,900
Mick Wernick- $11,900
Gerald Treglio- $11,600
Larry Caesareo- $11,200
Randy Holland- $10,200
Frank Henderson- $9,900
Vinny Vinh- $9,600
Esther Rossi- $9,600
Marco Traniello- $4,800
David Heyden- $4,300

The $5000 No Limit Texas Holdem Short Handed ( 6/Table ) event is down to 25. The players and chip counts are:
1. Doyle Brunson - $165,700
2. John Hennigan - $140,700
3. Don Mullis - $111,200
4. Arthur Azen $109,400
5. Layne Flack - $97,700
6. Brad Booth - $79,300
7. Minh Ly - $71,300
8. Matt Hawrilenko - $70,600
9. Jason Lester - $66,500
10. Al Stonum - $62,300
11. John Juanda - $58,900
12. Scotty Nguyen - $55,300
13. Ferit Gabriellson - $46,100
14. Men Nguyen - $43,800
15. Chris Ferguson - $41,00
16. Paul Kraus - $40,500
17. Ken Lennaard - $37,700
18. John Kabbaj - $34,200
19. John Duthie - $32,000
20. Steven Roger - $28,800
21. Evan Sofer - $28,100
22. Daniel Larsson - $25,100
23. Kirill Gerasimov - $24,300
24. Ayaz Mahmood - $21,500
25. Derek Leforte - 12,800
Doyle leads the bunch in chip count, but there are a lot of top players stil in the field. Will Doyle be able to get his 10th Bracelet?

Today, the $5000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB event gets underway....

Not many more events left before the Main Event starts on July 7th. That should be a wild one! A friend is entered, as he won a seat online... Good Luck Atari!!

Posted by fatbill at 07:11 AM | Comments (0)

June 29, 2005

WSOP Update 6-29

1 Phil Ivey $635,603, $1,765,568 Total Prize Pool, 134 Players Entered
This is Phil Ivey's 5th WSOP Bracelet!
Phil Hellmuth Took 8th, so he'll have to wait in his bid to tie Johnny Chan for the all time bracelet race....

The $5000 Limit Texas Holdem event is down to the final Table of 9. Here is who is left with their chip counts:
1) Joe Sebok - $184,000
2) Annie Duke - $150,000
3) James Kwon - $227,000
4) Gabe Kaplan - $209,000
5) Dan Schmeich - $219,000
6) Young Phan - $144,000
7) Luke Neely - $94,000
8) Jeff Shulman - $38,000
9) Greg Mueller - $89,000
Note Gabe Kaplan! Mr Kotter is in the hunt! ALSO, Annie Duke is making a good showing in this event. Jeff Shulman of Cardplayer Magazine is short, but in there.

The $2000 No Limit Texas Holdem event is down to 45 players. The top 10 with their chip counts are:
1. Rohit Chopra $175,900
2. Ronnie Jackson $126,900
3. Alan Purdy $102,500
4. Brandon Wong $89,600
5. J.C. Tran $86,600
6. Benjamin Lin $79,000
7. Morgan Machina $68,500
8. Ryan Larson $63,500
9. Barry Greenstein $63,100
10. L. Gosley $57,600
There is another Michigander in hunt for this one! Scotty Brown is 18th in chip count here. He's from the same town as us, and has down well in recent tournaments in California....

Today there are Two events kicking off!
$1500 Seven Card Razz
$5000 No Limit Texas Holdem Short Handed ( 6/table )

Posted by fatbill at 09:10 AM | Comments (0)

June 28, 2005

WSOP Update 6-28

1 Jennifer Tilly $158,625, $546,910 Total Prize Pool, 601 Entries.
The FIRST hollywood type to win a braclet?

The $5000 Pot Limit Omaha event is down to the final 10. Play will resume today, and here are the chip counts and players:
1. Claude Cohen - $110,000
2. Robert Williamson III - $153,000
3. Allen Cunningham - $202,000
4. Davood Mehrmand - $125,000
5. Surinder Sunar - $96,000
6. Phil Ivey - $494,000
7. Phil Hellmuth - $114,000
8. Eddy Sharf - $150,000
9. Richard St Peter - $162,000
10. Sigi Stockinger - $213,000

Day one of the $5000 Limit Texas Holdem event ended with 69 Players still in the hunt:
James Kwon- $43,900
Men "The Master" Nguyen- $41,400
Scott Fischman- $39,400
Cy Jassinowsky- $36,500
Young Phan- $35,000
Amir Vahedi- $34,500
Daniel Shaki- $32,800
Tommy Hang- $30,800
Chau Giang- $29,500
Alex Borteh- $29,400
Nick Frangos- $28,700
Rep Porter- $27,600
Annie Duke- $27,200
Gavin Smith- $26,700
David Chiu- $26,300
Berry Johnston- $26,100
David Williams- $25,800
Dewey Tomko- $25,600
Michael Tsylov- $25,400
David Warga- $25,200
Stuart Peterson- $25,100
Joe Cassidy- $24,700
Greg Mueller- $24,000
Andy Miller- $23,600
Peter Kiem- $23,500
Jeff Shulman- $23,300
Yuon Schwartz- $22,800
David Plastik- $21,700
Mack Lee- $21,000
Anders Berg- $20,900
Matt Keikom- $20,600
Luke Neely- $20,400
Pat Pezzin- $19,100
Mike Gambony- $19,100
Cameron Kazemi- $18,800
Joe Sebok- $18,700
JJ Liu- $17,800
Brian Brandon- $17,700
Eli Balas- $17,000
Eyal Sasson- $17,000
Brock Parker- $16,400
Chris Bell- $15,900
Dan Schmiech- $15,200
Q Knopow- $15,000
Gabe Kaplan- $14,500
Tom McCormick- $14,300
Rene Movritsen- $14,100
Dustin Sitar- $14,100
Thor Hansen- $13,200
Jim McManus- $12,900
Ron Faltinsky- $12,600
Andy Halienbeck- $12,100
Joseph Bartholdi- $11,800
Denis Ethier- $11,500
Phil Laak- $11,300
Andreas Hagen- $11,300
Meng La- $11,200
Mark Gregorich- $10,600
Diego Cordovez- $9,400
Hemant Keny- $9,100
Mike Kim- $9,100
John Cernuto- $8,700
Josh Spiegelman- $7,500
Eric Firestone- $7,100
Ellix Powers- $7,100
Tony Nasr- $6,400
John Pires- $4,400
Peter Chi- $3,500
Arthur Peters- $700

Today, the $2000 Texas Holdem No Limit event gets underway.

The Top spot for the WSOP Overall Champ is tightening up. Johnny Chan moved into contention with his win. Only one player has made more than 2 final tables and that is Minh Nguyen. Only 13 players in the top 193 listed have made more than one final table!
Top 5 with their Points and Earnings:
1 Mark Seif Incline Village, NV 1,920 2 $792,475
2 Quinn Do Seattle, WA 1,732 2 $300,440
3 Todd Brunson El Paso, TX 1,536 2 $321,650
4 Charidimos 'Harry' Demetriou London, United Kingdom 1,520 2 $287,765
5 Maciek "Michael" Gracz Raleigh, NC 1,440 1 $594,460
5 Farzad Bonyadi Aliso Viejo, CA 1,440 1 $594,960
5 Johnny Chan Cerritos, CA 1,440 1 $303,025
5 Isaac Galazan Miami, FL 1,440 1 $315,125
5 T.J. Cloutier Richardson, TX 1,440 1 $657,100

Posted by fatbill at 09:26 AM | Comments (0)

June 27, 2005

WSOP Update 6-27

Farzad Bonyadi Wins Event #24 ($2,500 No-LImit Hold'em), $2,428,800 Total Prize Pool, 1056 Entries.

Johnny Chan Wins $2500 Pot Limit Texas Holdem for $303,025, $977,500 Total Prize Pool, 425 Entries!
This is Chan's 10th WSOP Bracelet, making him the all time leader. The win broke a tie with Doyle Brunson and Phil Hellmuth that have 9 each!

The $1000 Ladies Texas Holdem Event is down to the final 4, shown here with their chip counts:
1. Jennifer Tilly - $449,600 (seat 4)
2. Ann Lee - $88,600 (seat 1)
3. Cecelia de Mortensen - $36,300 (seat 2)
4. Carolyn Ancheta - $31,500 (seat 3)
Yes, that is Actress Jennifer Tilly!

The $5000 Pot Limit Omaha event is down to 47. Her are those ramianing, and their chip counts:
Ram Vaswani - $148,000
Doyle Brunson - $96,800
Evgeny Kafelnikov - $92,300
Robert Williamson III - $82,800
Surinder Sumar - $75,200
Phil Hellmuth - $74,200
Richard St. Peter - $72,200
Scotty Nguyen - $71,900
John Phan - $64,700
Sigi Stockinger - $59,500
E.C. Cohen - $47,900
Allen Cunningham - $46,500
Toto Leonidas - $46,600
Jais Bruno - $45,500
Tony Cousineau - $44,000
Cyndy Violette - $43,200
Avi Freedman - $42,700
Blair Rodman - $42,300
Rafi Amit - $38,800
Ross Boatman - $38,600
Tony Bloom - $37,400
Edgar Skjervold - $36,400
Robin Keston - $35,800
Marciano - $34,900
Eddy Scharf - $33,400
Phil Ivey - $32,600
Huck Seed - $29,500
Mike Wattel - $29,200
David J. Halpern - $29,200
Erik Seidel - $26,000
Clonie Gowen - $24,100
A Swagunu - $21,000
Tony G - $19,500
Chris Bjorin - $18,100
Jan Sorenson - $17,200
Erick Lindgren - $15,800
Harry Thomas Jr. - $13,000
Richard Ashby - $12,000
Joel Mick - $12,000
Mickey Appleman - $12,000
Ustinov Mikhail - $10,400
Vegard Nygaard - $10,000
Ben Roberts - $9,900
Dave Colclough - $9,800
Davood Mehrmand - $8,200
Simon Trauper - $5,400
David "Devil Fish" Ulliott - $1,600

Notice that BOTH Doyle Brunson and Phil Helmuth are near the top of the leaders in chip count! You can bet that they BOTH want this one to get back into a Tie with Johnny Chan for the All time bracelet winner lead! This field is packed with big guns... it should be a good one!

Today, the $5000 Limit Texas Holdem event gets undeway....

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

June 26, 2005

WSOP UPdate 6-26

1 Jan Sorensen $293,275, $5000 Seven Card Stud, $902,400 Total Prize Pool, 192 Entries.

The $2500 No Limit Texas Holdem event is down to the final table of 9 and play will resume today. Players remaining and their chip counts are:
1. Joe Zappia - $247,000
2. Larry Watson - $59,000
3. Glynn Beebe - $242,000
4. Mayen Grigorian - $112,000
5. KJ Jordan - $368,000
6. Lars Bonding - $818,000
7. Jason Tate - $315,000
8. Farzad Bonyadi - $315,000
9. Robert Doyle - $87,000

The $2500 Pot Limit Texas Holdem event is down to the final 20. The players and their chip counts are:
1. Ashok Surapaneni - $139,000
2. Frank Kassela - $87,000
3. Phil Laak - $84,500
4. Mark Muchnik - $59,500
5. Stuart Fox - $55,000
6. Ivo Donev - $53,500
7. Mimi Tran - $53,000
8. Jerri Thomas - $52,000
9. Humberto Brenes - $50,000
10. Richard Harroch - $49,500
11. Johnny Chan - $45,000
12. Darrel Dicken - $42,000
13. TJ Eisenman - $42,000
14. Michael Keiner - $40,500
15. Paul Wolfe - $37,000
16. Richard Osborne - $26,000
17. Joe Monro - $25,500
18. Terrence Chan - $20,000
19. Tracy Phan - $12,500

Today, the $5000 Pot Limit Omaha event WITH re-buys gets underway....

ALSO, the $1000 Ladies No Limit Texas Holdem event goes off today...

Posted by fatbill at 08:36 AM | Comments (0)

June 25, 2005

WSOP Update 6-25

1 Mark Seif $611,145, $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem, $2,777,940 Total Prize Pool, 2013 Entries
Last years WSOP Main Event winnner Greg Raymer came in 6th...

In the $5000 Seven Card Stud event, they are down to 8 players, listed below with their chip count:
Seat 6: Chip Jett- $206,000
Seat 1: John Phan- $198,000
Seat 7: Jan Sorenson- $140,000
Seat 3: Keith Sexton- $135,000
Seat 4: Joe Awada- $126,500
Seat 2: Gerard Rechnitzer- $71,000
Seat 5: Steve Diano- $58,500
Seat 8: Tom McCormick- $25,000

in the $2500 No Limit Texas Holdem event, they are down to 62 players out of an initial 1056. This event paid 100 places.

Today the $2500 Pot Limit Texas Holdem event gets underway.

There have been 20 Events played so far, with 20 to go.

The WSOP Overall Points leader has changed, as a result of Mark Sief's win yesterday he took the lead!
1 Mark Seif Incline Village, NV 1,920 2 $792,475
2 Quinn Do Seattle, WA 1,732 2 $300,440
3 Todd Brunson El Paso, TX 1,536 2 $321,650
4 Charidimos 'Harry' Demetriou London, United Kingdom 1,520 2 $287,765
5 T.J. Cloutier Richardson, TX 1,440 1 $657,100
5 Maciek "Michael" Gracz Raleigh, NC 1,440 1 $594,460
5 Isaac Galazan Miami, FL 1,440 1 $315,125
8 Allen Cunningham Ventura, CA 1,392 2 $815,090
9 C. T. Law United Kingdom 1,200 1 $311,555
9 Steven Zoine Merrick, NY 1,200 1 $352,620

Posted by fatbill at 09:59 AM | Comments (0)

June 24, 2005

WSOP Update 6-23

Todays Updates from the 2005 WSOP....

1 Todd Brunson $255,945, $2500 Omaha High-Low 8/OB, $825,700 Total Prize Pool, 359 Entries.

The $1500 Texas Holdem No Limit Event is down to the final 9 as listed here with chip count:
Greg Raymer $613,000
Peter Lee $461,000
Minh Nguyen $375,000
David "Devil Fish" Ulliott $338,000
Steve Rassi $325,000
Mark Seif $305,000
James Carter $263,000
Webber Kang $166,000
Bill Gazes $181,000

The $5000 Seven Card Stud event id down to the final 37 players, shown here with their chip counts:
Jon Brody - $53,900
Jan Sorenson - $52,300
John Phan - $50,600
Tom McCormick - $45,000
David Colclough - $41,000
Tony DeAngelo - $39,200
Gerard Rachnitzer - $38,600
Testup Paul - $35,400
Kirk Conrad - $32,600
Yubin Guo - $31,200
Brian Goddard - $30,300
Mickey Seagle - $29,300
Steve Weiss - $28,900
Mike Wattel - $28,500
Barry Greenstein - $27,000
Rob Hollink - $27,000
Jeff Lawrence - $26,900
Steve Diano - $26,800
Leandro Alvarez - $26,300
John Agliarloro - $26,100
Keith Sexton - $25,500
Chad Moore - $25,200
Chris Smillie - $25,000
Joe Awada - $24,700
David Heyden - $21,500
Thor Hansen - $21,500
Greg Mascio - $19,800
Arthur Cobb - $19,300
Sam Silverman - $19,000
Steve Musket - $16,000
Chip Jett - $14,400
Tony Cousineau - $14,100
Kia Hooshmand - $9,500
Karen Mengden - $8,200
Chris Bell - $5,900
Gidi Wong - $3,000
Denis Ethier - $3,600

Today the $2500 No Limit Texas Holdem event gets underway....

The up to date WSOP OVERALL Point Standings are:
1 Quinn Do Seattle, WA 1,732 2 $300,440
2 Todd Brunson El Paso, TX 1,536 2 $321,650
3 Charidimos 'Harry' Demetriou London, United Kingdom 1,520 2 $287,765
4 T.J. Cloutier Richardson, TX 1,440 1 $657,100
4 Maciek "Michael" Gracz Raleigh, NC 1,440 1 $594,460
4 Isaac Galazan Miami, FL 1,440 1 $315,125
7 Allen Cunningham Ventura, CA 1,392 2 $815,090
8 C. T. Law United Kingdom 1,200 1 $311,555
8 Steven Zoine Merrick, NY 1,200 1 $352,620
10 Alfredo 'Toto' Leonidas Los Angeles, CA 1,148 2 $188,295
11 Chi Chang Los Angeles, CA 1,110 1 $137,265
12 Allen Kessler Huntingtdon Valley, PA 1,080 1 $132,110
13 Erik Seidel Las Vegas, NV 1,023 2 $634,925
14 Cyndy Violette Absecon, NJ 1,016 2 $340,900
15 Mark Seif Incline Village, NV 960 1 $181,330
15 Steve Hohn Overland Park, KS 960 1 $156,985
15 Chuck Thompson Santa Cruz, CA 960 1 $176,145
15 Tommy Grimes Houston, TX 960 1 $85,705
15 Eric Froehlich Los Angeles, CA 960 1 $361,910
15 Reza Payvar Tarzana, CA 960 1 $303,610
15 Anthony Reategui Chandler, AZ 960 1 $269,100
15 John Bonetti Houston, TX 960 1 $175,215
15 Edward Moncada Oakland, CA 960 1 $298,070
15 Cliff Josephy Syosset, NY 960 1 $192,100
15 Patrick Poels Phoenix, AZ 960 1 $270,100
15 Thom Werthmann Bloomfield Hills, MI 960 1 $369,535

I went 15 deep to get the Michigan guy on the page! ;-)

Posted by fatbill at 07:33 AM | Comments (0)

June 23, 2005

WSOP Update 6-23

Brian Wilson $371,685, $5000 Pot Limit Texas Holdem, $1,123,300 Total prize pool, 239 Entries.

The $2500 Omaha High-Low 8/OB event is down to the final 9.....

The $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem event is down to 78. There were 2013 Entries and a prize pool of $2,555,940 for this event. That is the second most entries, next to the very first event! The top 200 made it to the money! Those remaining, and their chip count are:
Mark Seif $286,800
Louis J. Asmo $137,000
James Mordue $106,500
Greg Raymer $82,100
Ylan Schwartz $82,000
C.T. Law 78,000
Andrew Rosskamm $74,600
Walter Thompson $68,400
Jeremy Harkin $64,800
Asher Derei $64,000
Minh Nguyen $63,400
David “Devil Fish” Ulliott $62,500
Toto Leonidas $62,200
James S. Carter $61,700
Markus Shranzinger $61,300
John Kabbaj $59,900
Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi $58,000
Mark Compton $55,300
Massoud Nikjarian $54,700
Don Vines $53,500
Arkadiy Tsiris $52,600
Peter Carini $52,000
Nowa Kawski Henry $50,000
Dannie Pekry $49,600
Dan Hicks $49,200
Karen Janowsz $48,800
Long Nguyen $43,700
Kris Fields 41,300
David Slowik $41,900
Raul Pacz $41,100
Krisha Augerot $39,500
Lin Poo Wang $38,600
Webber Kang $37,800
Chad Desohn $37,300
Mark Muchnik $34,900
Don Moseley $34,800
Dom Italiano $34,400
Brock Bourne $32,000
Eric S. Sonstegard $31,600
Gabriel Nassie $31,100
Brian McCann $30,400
Chris Zinika $28,600
Mario Orozco $28,300
Stafton Rydin $28,100
Bill Gazes $27,600
Lee Markholt $27,200
Evelyn Ng $26,900
Josh Weinheimer $26,500
Joshua Weiss $24,400
James Bradley $24,300
Richard Sharpe $24,100
Chris “Jesus” Ferguson $23,000
Jason Comis $22,800
Scott Allyn Jones $21,900
Ki Kim $21,800
Steve Rassi $21,800
Jim Pechaw $21,000
Dick Larson $19,800
Eugene Katchalov $19,500
Claus Nielsen $18,900
Daries Wieda $17,500
Farzad Rouhani $17,500
Brad Daugherty $16,800
Leon Kunkel $16,600
Robert Spicuzza $16,200
Tim Martz $16,000
S. Mazer $15,800
Joe Nekrasz $15,400
Jason Goldsmith $15,200
Jim Quigley 14,800
Beng H. Beh $12,500
Paul Keating $11,600
Peter Lee $11,000
Erik Roysten $9,900
Sergio Ferruccio $9,400
Jean Harlan $7,600
Lloyd Shinn $1,600

Today, the $5000 Seven Card Stud Event gets underway.....

Posted by fatbill at 08:42 AM | Comments (0)

June 22, 2005

WSOP Update 6-22

The $5000 Pot Limit Texas Holdem event is down to the final table!
Here are the official end of the day chip counts:

Cyndy Violette $206,000
Steven "Lucky" Liu $193,500
Brian Wilson $193,000
Joe Sebok $159,000
Allen Cunningham $131,500
Burt Boutin $116,000
Tony Cousineau $99,500
John Gale $64,500

The $2500 Omaha High-low 8/OB event is down to 27.
With 27 players left, here are your official end of day chip counts:

Allen Kessler- $88,000
Mike Epstein- $81,000
Allyn Shulman- $60,000
Manelic Minaya- $52,000
Eric Goodson- $51,000
Sirous Baghchehsaraie- $51,000
Nat Koe- $47,000
Larry Reynolds- $41,000
Todd Brunson- $38,000
Derek Taylor- $37,000
Glen Cozen- $35,000
Tom Fischer- $33,000
Richard Gryko- $32,000
Lance Allred- $31,000
Saundra Taylor- $29,000
Mike Wattel- $28,000
Max Pescatori- $27,000
Shawne Portman- $23,000
Bill Bennett- $22,000
Thom Dolan- $21,000
Soo Young Lee
Simon Zuo- $19,000
Ben Lang- $12,000
Tri Van- $10,000
Kathy Kolberg- $8,000
Artie Cobb- $8,000
Dan Schware- $1,000

Today, the $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem event gets underway!

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

June 21, 2005

WSOP Update 6-21

Here are the latest updates on the WSOP as of 6-21-2005

Denis Ethier Wins Event #18 ($2,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Split) $160,685, $513,360 Total Prize Pool, 279 Entries...

1 Barry Greenstein $128,505, $1500 Pot Limit Omaha, $404,710 Total Prize Pool, 291 Entries..... Barry should move up in the overall standings with this win.

The $5000 Pot Limit Texas Holdem event is down to the final 45 out of 239, with play resuming today at 2PM. Those left, with chip count are:
Joe Sebok- $65,100
Patrik Antonius- $63,300
Amir Vahedi- $60,600
Erik Seidel- $54,800
Brian Wilson- $52,000
Allen Cunningham- $48,800
John Gale- $45,700
Steven Liu- $45,700
Alex Balandin- $43,100
Cyndy Violette- $40,500
Hasin Habib- $37,500
Bill Edler- $36,700
Jason Tate- $35,200
Eli Elezra- $34,300
Tom Lee- $32,300
Ted Lawson- $30,400
Doug Bouth- $27,100
Juha Helppi- $25,400
Al Krux- $25,000
Arash Ghaneian- $24,700
Bruce Corman- $24,600
Thom Werthmann- $24,200
Tony Cousineau- $24,000
Barry Greenstein- $23,900
Al Adler- $23,000
Alex Todd- $22,800
Paul Testud- $21,000
Matt Lefkowitz- $20,000
Terrence Chan- $19,300
Derek Leforte- $16,100
Tony Ma- $14,900
Jason Gray- $13,800
Gavin Griffin- $13,000
Jon Brody- $12,700
Herbie Montalband- $12,400
Nenad Medic- $12,000
Michael Dunlap- $10,500
Aurel Dehollan- $9,900
Burt Boutin- $9,900
David "Devilfish" Ulliott- $9,500
Clonie Gowan- $8,100
James Worth- $8,000
John Phan- $7,200
Terry Garner- $6,600
Eric Ford- $5,900

Today, the Omaha Hi Low 8/OB $2500 Event gets underway....

Posted by fatbill at 09:15 AM | Comments (0)

June 20, 2005

WSOP Overall Point Standings - Update

Here are the top 20 players, ranked by their point standings thus far in all completed WSOP Events:

1 Charidimos 'Harry' Demetriou London, United Kingdom 1,520 2 $287,765
2 Maciek "Michael" Gracz Raleigh, NC 1,440 1 $594,460
2 T.J. Cloutier Richardson, TX 1,440 1 $657,100
2 Isaac Galazan Miami, FL 1,440 1 $315,125
5 C. T. Law United Kingdom 1,200 1 $311,555
5 Steven Zoine Merrick, NY 1,200 1 $352,620
7 Erik Seidel Las Vegas, NV 1,023 2 $634,925
8 Mark Seif Incline Village, NV 960 1 $181,330
8 John Bonetti Houston, TX 960 1 $175,215
8 Allen Cunningham Ventura, CA 960 1 $725,405
8 Tommy Grimes Houston, TX 960 1 $85,705
8 Eric Froehlich Los Angeles, CA 960 1 $361,910
8 Edward Moncada Oakland, CA 960 1 $298,070
8 Reza Payvar Tarzana, CA 960 1 $303,610
8 Anthony Reategui Chandler, AZ 960 1 $269,100
8 Steve Hohn Overland Park, KS 960 1 $156,985
8 Chuck Thompson Santa Cruz, CA 960 1 $176,145
8 Cliff Josephy Syosset, NY 960 1 $192,100
8 Patrick Poels Phoenix, AZ 960 1 $270,100
8 Thom Werthmann Bloomfield Hills, MI 960 1 $369,535

There should be a change shortly, as Eric Sidel made another final table that has yet to be completed.

Posted by fatbill at 09:45 AM | Comments (0)

WSOP Update 6-20

Quinn Do Wins Event #17 ($2,500 Limit Texas Holdem), $857,900 Total Prize Pool, 373 Entries....

They are down to the final table in the $1500 Pot Limit Omaha event. The players and their chip count are:
Barry Greenstein $92,500
Tim Martz $72,500
Paul Maxfield $67,000
Paul Vinci $54,000
Toto Leonidas $45,000
Sam Silverman $35,500
Chris Lindenmayer $35,000
Eric Bloore $16,000
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson $16,000
Phil Helmouth is credited with 10, going out in a three way pot on the bubble, having a bigger chip count than the 11th place finisher.

In the $2000 Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB event, they are down to 31. Players with their chip count are:
Jean-Robert Bellande - $39,300
Jennifer Harman - $34,700
Vipul Kothari - $33,500
Lance Edelman - $29,300
Steven Shkolnik - $27,100
Phillip Penn Sr. - $26,000
Al Ruck - $25,800
Brett Richey - $24,100
Ran Ware - $23,500
Bonnie Rossi - $22,500
Denis Ethier - $22,100
Howard Lederer - $18,500
Larry Eubanks - $18,100
Chad Brown - $16,600
Mel Judah - $16,100
Anthony DeLuca - $14,500
T. Fu - $13,000
Gavin Smith - $12,600
David Richardson - $12,500
Ron Lang - $11,600
Xiaomei Zuo - $9,500
Fared Rouhani - $9,500
Vince Burgio - $8,400
Leticia Tanhue - $8,400
Tom McCormick - $8,300
Alan Boston - $6,900
Tom Slattery - $6,000
Fernando Bracelli - $6,000
Erik Seidel - $5,700
David Brody - $4,200
Medhi Vaten - $1,900
Jennifer Harmon is doing well.... we wish her luck!

Today the $5000 Pot Limit Texas Holdem event gets underway...

Posted by fatbill at 09:29 AM | Comments (0)

June 19, 2005

WSOP Update 6-19

1 Anthony Reategui $269,100, $1500 No LImit Texas Holdem Shootout, $1,076,400 Total Prize Pool, 580 Entries... Others include:
3 Phil Gordon
6 Ted Lawson
9 Erick Lindgren

The $2500 Limit Texas Holdem Event is down to the final 20, there were 373 Entries and a total prize pool up for grabs, of $897,900. Those remaining and their chip count:
1. Chi Chang - $114,000
2. Greg Debora - $96,000
3. Spencer Sun - $95,000
4. S. Lewis - $75,000
5. Sammy Arzoin - $69,000
6. Noah Boeken - $62,000
7. Tony Nasr - $51,000
8. Rodeen Talebi - $50,000
9. Nat Koe - $44,000
10. Carlos Mortensen - $40,000
11. Tom Franklin - $39,000
12. Mark Gregorich - $34,000
13. Quinn Do - $33,000
14. Keith Videtto - $30,000
15. Ashok Surapaneni - $30,000
16. Erik Gault - $22,000
17. Mike Davis - $19,000
18. Derek LeForte - $18,000
19. Brian Clark - $13,000
20. Steven Shkolnik - $13,000

Two events get underway today:
Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB, $2,000+$0
Pot-Limit Omaha, $1,500+$0

Posted by fatbill at 09:39 AM | Comments (0)

June 18, 2005

WSOP Update 6-18

Updates on the WSOP through 6-17-2005:

1 Steve Hohn $156,985, $1000 Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB, $541,450 Total prize pool, 595 entries

1 Mark Seif $181,330, $1500 Limit Texas Holdem Shootout, $621,000 Total Prize Pool, 450 Entries

The $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem Shootout event is down to two tables one of 6 and one of 7. It will resume today at 2PM. Those left are:
Allen Goldstein
Kenny Robbins
Paul Kroh
Erick Lindgren
Phil Gordon
Alan Goehring
Bret Jungblut
Anthony Reatgul
Ted Lawson
Young Phan
Dariush Imami
Chris McCormack
Keith Quilty

Today the @2500 Limit Holdem event gets underway.....

Posted by fatbill at 07:35 AM | Comments (0)

June 17, 2005

WSOP Update 6-17

Did not update yesterday, as I spent the day at the casino! ;-)

Joshua Arieh $381,600, $2000 Pot Limit Omaha, $1,156,350 Total Prize Pool, 212 Players

T.J. Cloutier $657,100, $5,000 No Limit Texas Holdem, $2,190,200 Total Prize Pool, 466 Players.

$1000 Sever Card Stud High-low8/OB event is down to the final 8...

$1500 Limit Texas Holdem Shootout event it down to the final 9...
William Shaw
Mark Seif
MJ Partin
Robert Mizrachi
Aram Zerounian
Alex Borteh
Sam Siharath
Kathy Liebert
Quinn Do

The $1500 No LImit TExas Holdem Shootout event gets underway today....

Posted by fatbill at 09:27 AM | Comments (0)

June 15, 2005

WSOP Overall Standings....

I am looking at the WSOP Overall Standings, and a couple of things stand out to me, and I find interesting...

ONLY 2 of the top 79 have made more than ONE final table!

The POINT LEADER is not in the top 10 in Money Earnings!

A guy from Michigan is Tied for 5th! Thom Werthmann won the $1500 Pot Limit Holdem Event - Another Michigan Player is 79th, Ernest Patrick.....I'm from Michigan, so they gets special mention! ;-)

Daniel Negranu is not ON the list, NOR is John Juanda, Howard Lederer or Phil Helmuth!

I recognize that it is still early in the event totals, but it's an ineteresting showing up so far....

Posted by fatbill at 09:07 AM | Comments (0)

WSOP Update 6-15

1 Edward Moncada $298,070, $2000 Pot Limit Holdem Event, 540 Players, $993,600 Total Prize Pool

The $200 Pot Limit Omaha event is down to the final table of 9.
1 Arturo Diaz 279,000 Chips
2 Joshua Arieh 229,000 Chips
3 Tony Sevnsom 171,000 Chips
4 Doug Lee 160,000 Chips
5 Chris Ferguson 109,000 Chips
6 Ronald Graham 90,000 Chips
7 Erik Seidel 67,000 Chips
8 Max Pescatori 62,000 Chips
9 Dave Colclough 50,000 Chips

The $5000 No Limit Texas Holdem event is down to 58 out of 466. Some Notables still in are:
T.J. Cloutier
Hoyt Corkins
Hieu Ngoc 'Tony' Ma
Jennifer Harman Traniello
Antonio Esfandiari
Todd Brunson
John Hennigan
Isabelle Mercier - She's a cutie ;-)
Play resumes today.....

Today the $1000 Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB event gets underway...

Posted by fatbill at 08:55 AM | Comments (0)

June 14, 2005

WSOP Update 6-14

The $2000 Pot Limit Texas Holdem event is down to the final table of 9 and will conclude today. Mike Sexton went out on the bubble...

The $2000 Pot Limit Omaha event is down to the top 18, and will continue today at 2PM to play down to the final 9. A number of notables are still in the field. Their are ( including Chips count ):
Erik Seidel $87,500
John Juanda $77,000
Josh Arieh $71,500
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson $58,500
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi $31,500

Today, the $5000 No Limit Texas Holdem event gets underway. This event should pull some top names, AND put up a BIG prize pool!

Posted by fatbill at 08:04 AM | Comments (0)

June 13, 2005

WSOP Update 6-13

Some results from the weekend...

1 Erik Seidel $611,795, $2000 Texas Holdem No Limit, 1403 Players, $2,581,520 Total Prize Pool
2 Cyndy Violette $295,970

The $2000 Texas Holdem LIMIT tournament got down to Heads up between Reza Payvar and Toto Leonidas.... Reza Payvar took Leonidas down wining $303,610.

The $2000 Pot Limit Texas Holdem tournament got underway yesterday, and is down to the last 20 players... Notables include Mike Sexton and Freddy Deeb....

The $2000 Pot Limit Omaha tournament gets underway today....

Posted by fatbill at 08:29 AM | Comments (0)

June 12, 2005

WSOP Update 6-12

Well, the Texas Holdem $2000 buy in No Limit event is down to the final table. Those making it are:
1 Morgan Machina 1,052,000 Chips
2 Paul Sexton 362,000 Chips
3 Erik Seidel 354,000 Chips
4 Cyndy Violette 305,000 Chips
5 Soulier Fabrice 224,000 Chips
6 Perry Friedman 219,000 Chips
7 Charidimos 'Harry' Demetriou 184,000 Chips
8 Chris Wunderlich 110,000 Chips

It's good to see Cindy Violette at the table... ;-)

The $2000 Limit Texas Holdem Event got underway yesterday with 569 players and a $1,046,940 Prize pool. It is down to the final 22 right now....

The $2000 Pot Limit Texas Holdem event gets underway today....

The WSOP Overal Standings are pretty much dominated by the early tournament winners, which is no suprise. What IS a suprise ( at least to me ) is that only ONE of the top 50 some players listed has made more than one final table! That is Minh Nguyen, and he's only made TWO and is in 39th place!!

See the complete listing of the WSOP Overal Standings HERE

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June 11, 2005

WSOP Update 6-11

Here is the update on the WSOP events...

Maciek "Michael" Gracz $594,460, $1000 No Limit Holdem - rebuy - 826 Players, $2,201,630 Total Prize Pool

Cliff Josephy $192,100, $1500 Seven Card Stud, 472 Players, $651,360 Total Prize Pool

$2000 No Limit Holdem event is down to the final 49 out of 1403 Entries.... Noteables still in the field include:
2 Cyndy Violette 133,000 Chips
10 Chau Giang 77,900 Chips
17 Russ 'Dutch' Boyd 63,500 Chips
19 Erik Seidel 60,800 Chips
26 Michael Mizrachi 48,400 Chips
35 Yehia 'Joe' Awada 37,300 Chips
37 Marcel Luske 35,500 Chips

Toby 'Spiderman' Maguire went out 54th!

Posted by fatbill at 09:48 AM | Comments (0)

June 10, 2005

WSOP Events update

The $1000 Event ( with Re-Buys ) is down to the final table now. Play will resume today to see who takes down the $594.460.

The $1500 Buy In Seven Card Stud event got underway yesterday, and is down to the top 20. Only 472 entered, and first place gets $192K

The $2000 Buy In No Limit Holdem event gets underway today....

Posted by fatbill at 09:12 AM | Comments (0)

June 04, 2005

WSOP off to a RECORD Start!

If the first event of the WSOP held at the Rio is any indication, this year's event is going to just BLOW away the records, and establish the event as one of the richest overall events ANYWHERE!

Imagine... there were 2305 entrants in the FIRST EVENT! there were only 2576 in the MAIN event last year! The response has been so huge, that they have announced that they will have to hold each event over three days!

This is going to make the TV world and public stand up and take notice... the question is... for better or worse?

Posted by fatbill at 11:08 AM | Comments (0)

June 03, 2005

2005 WSOP Is ON!

Well, it's that time of year again!

The 2005 WSOP Offically kicks off today with a $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem event!

You can keep current on all the events at CardPlayer.com or a variet of the other blog's that I have listed in my BLOGS I LIKE section!

I know I'll be looking to keep up with the events!

Posted by fatbill at 10:58 AM | Comments (0)

May 18, 2005

Tournament for UK Amateur Players

This offer is unique enough that I thought it would be of some interest to any UK players out there...

Late Night Poker Ace tournament to find the best amateur player in the UK.

Details:

The finals will be filmed and broadcasted on Channel 4
The winner will get £50,000 or a life style make over and total prizes are £100,000
42 people will be selected from qualifying stages on PartyPoker.com
The qualifying starts this Wednesday and takes place every Wednesday for six weeks
Only UK residents are allowed in the finals
The last qualifying will be on the 22nd June, so the campaign ends on the 20th June 2005. This will be the last day to accept players.

Toe have a look at the information page, LOOK HERE

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March 20, 2005

Texas Holdem Tournament Satellite

As I mentioned earlier, I won an entry into last night's Texas Holdem Freezeout tournament at the club. We were playing for seats to the upcoming Bellagio WPT event. Attendance was excellent, as we had 55 player's and were able to give out 3 Seat packages ( entry, air, and hotel are included).

I was very optimistic about this event.... I had been playing very well, and last weekend's win helped my confidence a lot!

I played cautious the first three rounds, maybe too cautious, and ended up down about 10% when we broke for dinner after level 3. I was not concerned, as blinds were still only 100/200, and I had about 2500 chips......

Shortly after the break I got dealt AKs and raised to 450 ( 150 blinds ) to see if I could get some limper's out. Got two callers. The flop came A K 2, rainbow... the guy in front of me ( good player, tight ) raised to 500.... I called, and the third player folded.
Turn came total rag, but again the other player bet 1000 ( I should mention he was the large stack at the table, and I was now pretty short after the initial bet and call)...... Caution bells went off in my head, but I could not get away from this hand.... I could not put him on a set, but could not totally discount it. I called.
River was another rag, and the raiser bet another 1000. I SHOULD have raised, since calling this would have just about put me all in, but again, caution bells were ringing... I called.... he had A2o... so my A's and K's won the hand, and put me in VERY good chip position!

Unfortunately, that was the last hand I was to see! I mean, I got rag-rag from then on, for the next two hours, and watched my chips dwindle into nothing. When the Blinds hit 400/800, I was down to under 2000 in chips, and thinking I had to move or I was out. Unfortunately, the hands were not there.... I got A6S in the big blind, with enough chips to see ONE more hand if I don't play this... one other player moved all in... I knew he had a middle pair, I've played with him a lot, and just got a good read.... after a long deliberation, I called him.... I was right, he had pocket 9's... The bad news was.... NOTHING came on the flop, turn or river to help me, and out I go in 13th position...

I'm dissapointed, primarily because I had been playing so well, had made so many correct decisions, and had not made a mistake in my calls all night..... ( I correctly folded AA, QQ, 77 three times, ect )

Just goes to show you... cards can make or break you, no mater how good you feel you are playing....

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February 24, 2005

WPT event draws Celebs!

WPT Invitational Draws Poker and Hollywood Stars

COMMERCE, California – (PRESS RELEASE) -- The World Poker Tour's annual star-studded WPT Invitational today at the Commerce Casino brought out Hollywood's new crop of poker aficionados including such personalities as Ray Romano, Camryn Manheim, Jon Favreau, the Masterson Brothers Danny and Chris, Brad Garrett, Dean Cain, Mimi Rogers, Mena Suvari, Ed Asner, Norm MacDonald, Lou Diamond Phillips, Stephen Collins and 30 others. While the last celebrity "survivor" will take home a $5,000 donation for charity, there is plenty more at stake for the 236 total players in the tournament that concludes tomorrow -- a $200,000 prize pool and a seat at the WPT World Championship in April. The winner will also receive the elegant and prestigious Argentium(TM) Silver trophy, designed especially for the WPT Invitational.

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February 09, 2005

2005 Tournament Schedule

We put together a pretty comprehensive list of all the Texas Holdem Poker Tournaments throughout the word and have it on the site now.

Take a look HERE

If you are aware of any OTHER major events NOT on that list, let us know!

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