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Poker Hall of Fame 2010 nominees
Now, after a two-month of open voting the list of nominees for the Poker Hall of Fame is ready. There was no women in the last year’s final 10, but this year there’s two, which is really great.
Ivey on the road to Hall of Fame?
As you could have guessed, all the nominees are familiar names. The actual inductees will be chosen by the 16 alive Hall of Fame Members and 17 media delegates. The chosen inductees will be presented at the November Nine weekend, just before the closing moments of WSOP Main Event.
Hall of Fame 2010 nominees are:
Chris Ferguson
Barry Greenstein
Jennifer Harman
Dan Harrington
Phil Ivey
Linda Johnson
Tom McEvoy
Daniel Negreanu
Scotty Nguyen
Erik Seidel
Source: PokerNewsDaily
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Poker Hall of Fame 2010 nominees
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Day 1B over at WPT London - Richard “Chufty” Ashby near the lead
Day 1B is over and from the 94 players only 54 survived the day. The buy-in for the WPT London Main Event was £5,300 and the remaining players are ready to play for the first prize of £273,783.
Richard “Chufty” Ashby (above) grinded the second biggest stack in the end. He has a healthy 229k stack for Day 2.
There might be some familiar names joining the tournament as EPT Vilamoura is being played at the same time and WPT organizers announced that players can register until the end of level 8 (which is the first level of Day 2).
Some stacks from Day 1B:
235,000 – de Mel, Priyan
229,800 – Ashby, Richard
140,000 – Safina, Giovanni
139,200 – Shook, Tyler
134,400 – Field, Joshua
117,400 – Chau, Christopher
104,100 – Khosa, Sandiep
101,000 – Choraria, Kamal
99,500 – Adda, Ariel
92,000 – Martin, William
78,900 – Aston, Adrian
78,200 – Shulman, Allyn
77,800 – Guitteau, Gerome
71,000 – Boatman, Ross
70,800 – Deeb, Freddy
67,200 – Fitoussi, Bruno
65,800 – Gavatin, Mats
59,900 – Clark, David
59,100 – Maurer, Niklas
54,400 – Miah, Ashique
54,200 – Wong, Nicholas
51,000 – Winkler, Sebastian
47,200 – Gouga, Tony
40,800 – Greco, Michael
37,700 – Limbert, Karl
32,500 – Schultz, Jorg
31,500 – Teng, Andrew
27,200 – Tazelaar, Justin
24,100 – Kajaria, Rishi
16,400 – Serhan, Fuad
9,500 – Sunar, Surinder
Source: PartyPokerBlog
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Day 1B over at WPT London - Richard “Chufty” Ashby near the lead
Ivey, Cates and Galfond the biggest winners in August - Gus Hansen went down almost $3 million
It was great to see some good action on Full Tilt Poker last month after the quiet summer. Although only Phil Ivey and Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates managed to get over million dollar winnings.
Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey, the poker pals
Ivey won a staggering 2,06 million dollars and Cates eventually earned $1,1 million. Ivey’s performance made people talk that if he had some side bet going on as he was giving a lot of action.
Apparently this wasn’t the case at all:
deprimiert: hey do u have any probbets goin on? ur grinding all the day
Phil Ivey: nope just feel like playing
Phil Ivey: gg play later
deprimiert: haha cool
deprimiert: gg
Other big winners were Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond (+$904k), Tom “durrrr” Dwan (+$737k) and Jared “harrington25″ Bleznick (+$730k). Dwan made good profit even though he had a bad start in his challenge against Daniel Cates.
Once again the biggest losses were made by Gus Hansen, who lost almost 2,9 million dollars. Patrik Antonius lost $815k and his great month was over within few sessions.
Source: Highstakesdb
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Ivey, Cates and Galfond the biggest winners in August - Gus Hansen went down almost $3 million
Erik Seidel leads WPT London
First ever WPT London started yesterday with a £5,300 buy-in main event at Mayfair’s Palm Beach Casino. There’s also a £15,000 High Roller event held after the main event, which will probably attract a lot of professionals from all over the world.
There was a huge list of familiar names playing on the day 1A, and after the play was over for the day, Erik Seidel had the biggest stack on his 100th WPT tournament. Erik ended up having a 226,200 chip stack.
Also Phil Ivey played strong and ended up fourth with 146,200 chips.
Here are the stacks from 1A:
226,200 Seidel, Erik
188,600 Shakerchi, Talal
149,800 Atkinson, Bruce
146,200 Ivey, Phil
124,300 Kurgandu, Igor
120,300 Mumtaz, Asim
112,000 Mattsson Saarisilta, Nichlas
110,700 O’Leary, Kevin
108,300 Bansi, Pramesh
103,500 Schmejkal, Ernst
100,800 Boich, Emeline
96,800 Mohammed, Barkatul
93,400 Seed, Huckleberry
91,400 Lukashaugen, Tore
82,400 Schwartz , Luke
80,000 Ilyukhin, Victor Victorovich
72,300 Inman, Lawrie
70,000 Bartha, Ferenc
69,900 Henke, Ramin
68,800 Tafur, Daniel
65,600 Boich, Wayne
62,700 Beevers, Joseph
59,300 Baxter, Derek M
48,100 Cao, Yongfu
46,300 Teatum, Gareth
46,200 Woodley, Ian
44,900 Ramos, Felipe
39,500 Patrick, Philip
38,900 Gray, Jason
38,000 Sullivan, James
37,300 Robl, Andrew
Day 1B is currently played in London and we’ll keep you updated later on.
You can follow the live updates from this link.
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Ziigmund and Miss Finland, Viivi Pumpanen on a date!
According to a Finnish tabloid magazine Seiska, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Miss Finland, Viivi Pumpanen are dating. It’s still unclear when and where they met.
Ziigmund
Miss Finland, Viivi Pumpanen
The Finnish tabloid magazine Seiska tells that Viivi Pumpanen had a breakup with her former boyfriend and shortly after Ziigmund came along. Viivi has been seen riding in Ziigmund’s Mercedes-Benz few times.
Pumpanen has denied the relationship, but Ziigmund asked the journalists: “You haven’t got any pictures, haven’t you?”
Rumors or not - Ziigmund’s taste seems to be great. 
Source: Seiska (in Finnish)
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Ziigmund and Miss Finland, Viivi Pumpanen on a date!
Gus Hansen’s latest session: Down $1,158,699
Gus Hansen has been losing a lot. Really, a lot. He managed to lose $1,158,699 last night and he is down almost 2,8 million dollars in August already.
Most of his last night’s losses came from $2k/$4k Omaha Hi/lo and 7-Game against Phil Ivey (+$576k) and Cole South (+$493k).
Hansen’s losses in online poker are now over 9,2 million dollars and we just wonder if he can manage to climb back up… ever.
Source: Highstakesdb
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Gus Hansen’s latest session: Down $1,158,699
Tom Dwan vs Daniel “jungleman12? Cates - The durrrr Challenge
Cates and Dwan began to play their Challenge a while ago, and now they’ve played around 5,900 hands in two sessions already. A “bit” faster than the Challenge with Patrik Antonius.
Their first sessions were full of action and the railbirds are not excpecting anything less from the sessions to come. We’ll hope to see this being over within amonth or two, if everything goes well.
“Jungleman12″ is up $518,000 on Dwan after about 5,900 hands.
Dwan’s Challenge with Antonius is on hold with only 11k hands to go. Antonius is down roughly $2 million.
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Tom Dwan vs Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates - The durrrr Challenge
Sorel Mizzi tells that he was being blackmailed
I bet everyone knows about the whole deal with Sorel Mizzi and the accusations he has been facing lately. Mizzi has been caught before, is he cheating again?
There’s an IM chat between Mizzi and Steve “thorladen” Weinstein posted on the 2+2 ,which clearly shows how Mizzi was/is planning to do some ghosting by using Windows Remote Desktop program. Here’s an excerpt from the original post:
Sorel- Toronto says:
you can control someones PC while on your own
thor says:
yeh
Sorel- Toronto says:
and you can control multiple peoples PC’s
thor says:
didint know that
Sorel- Toronto says:
and you can watch multiple screens
thor says:
didnt kow thaqt either
Sorel- Toronto says:
it revolutionizes teaching/ghosting in poker
Sorel- Toronto says:
it can also be used for multiaccounting
thor says:
yeh i was using beam my screan for teaching
Sorel- Toronto says:
im surprised no ones ever brought this up on the forums
Sorel- Toronto says:
like someone could play 6 + accounts at once
Sorel- Toronto says:
in the same tournament
thor says:
yeh i can see th m;/a advantages
Sorel- Toronto says:
and it would be untraceable
thor says:
i wanted to set one up in canada at boykee moms house
thor says:
the vpn
Sorel- Toronto says:
man
Sorel- Toronto says:
its so quick and easy its sick
thor says:
yeh i know insane to not have it
Sorel- Toronto says:
like i could watch ur screen right now if u logged in and added your computer
thor says:
while im certainly interested in whatever u thinking
thor says:
if u want me in
Mizzi is now answering the accusation and tells that he has been blackmailed and he refused to pay the blackmailer, so the blackmailer posted the chat on 2+2. Mizzi also adds that the chat has been compiled from different chat sessions during 2008-2009.
Mizzi also criticizes the whole 2+2 community and says that Shaun Deeb is just a gossipmonger.
You can read Mizzi’s answere here.
Source: 2+2, aintluck.com and PokerNewsDaily
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Sorel Mizzi tells that he was being blackmailed
Ivey admits: “IHateJuice” is better in Limit Hold’em
Many people consider Phil Ivey to be the best poker player, but now Phil Ivey admits to “IHateJuice” that he is inferior in Limit Hold’em.
Just recently Ivey and “IHateJuice” had a session in $2k/$4k Limit Hold’em. The session ended in Ivey’s small $10k loss, but the chat during the play was interesting:
IHateJuice: do u always just play 1 table?
Phil Ivey: not always
IHateJuice: but?
Phil Ivey: do u always play limit holdem?
IHateJuice: lhe is way better for multitabling than omaha or nl
IHateJuice: yes
IHateJuice: well right now im learning stud
IHateJuice: sure i wanna play mixed games one day
Phil Ivey: im playing the game you specialize in and it’s not enough?
Phil Ivey: u should thank me everytime i ante up
IHateJuice: u are the biggest winner in LHE history
IHateJuice: by far
IHateJuice: i think ur as specialized there
Phil Ivey: who is better right now?
IHateJuice: i cant tell on that sample. i play ur name
Phil Ivey: i think we both know u are better than me at this game
Phil Ivey: but i play anyway so u should be thankful
Phil Ivey: if u played me horse i would b thankful
IHateJuice: i def will
IHateJuice: will take me a year or two though
It’s unclear if Ivey only wants more action, or is he really admitting that someone is better than him. Although “IHateJuice” has been winning from Ivey earlier, so…
Anyway, “IHateJuice” gets some great recognition from one of the greatest, so it will look really good on his CV if he ever applies some sponsorship deal.
Source: 2+2 and highstakesdb
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Ivey admits: “IHateJuice” is better in Limit Hold’em
“RaiseOnce” is Patrik Antonius?
It has been rumored that “RaiseOnce” on PokerStars is supposed to be Phil Ivey, but now there’s some speculation that it is actually Patrik Antonius.
There’s some proof to back this up as the Limit player “O Fortuna PLS”, who has played against Ivey and Antonius multiple times, tells on 2+2 that “RaiseOnce” is Patrik Antonius.
Of course Patrik’s sponsorship deal forbids him to play on other sites - so there’s no conclusive answer yet.
Source: 2+2
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“RaiseOnce” is Patrik Antonius?
Daniel Negreanu and karaoke
Daniel Negreanu writes about his smoothly going cash games and that he enjoys singing in karaoke. There are worse ways to spend your free time, we reckon.
“Some people are “too cool” for karaoke, but I don’t hang with people like that.”
Negreanu’s cash games are going well. Eight straight winning sessions and $454,836,50 profit in 1870 hands. Daniel has 11,107 hands played overall and his profit is $257,041.80, it’s about 11,6bb/100. He admits that he can’t keep the winning rate that high, because he has been very lucky in all-in situations as his AI EV is $138,194.86.
Daniel also mentions the Big Game show and a new Million Dollar Challenge show is being shot.
Daniel also reveals that he is a huge fan of karaoke and he has been singing karaoke lately. Negreanu lists some of his favorite songs:
- “Stan” – Eminem
- “Only God Knows Why” – Kid Rock
- “Mama” – Boys II Men
- “Pimpers Paradise” – Bob Marley
- “You are Not Alone” – Michael Jackson
- “More Than Words” – Extreme
“I think it’s super fun”, Negreanu tells.
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Daniel Negreanu winning $333,000 on PokerStars
These days Daniel Negreanu can be found at his own tables on PokerStars almost every day and he is making some really good profit.
The Canadian has won really good in his last six sessions and he has won $333,000 according to PokerTableRatings.
Negreanu flops a set and takes a $108,000 pot from Joel “Odonkour1″ Nordqvist
Negreanu shows how AK is supposed to played
Negreanu’s winnings haven’t come easy as he has had opponents like Tom “kingsofcards” Marchese, Jason Mercier, Aaron “aejones” Jones, Justin “Boosted J” Smith, Joel “Odonkor1″ Nordqvist and Sussie Smith.
Let’s see how the games go… you can rail Negreanu here.
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Phil Galfond doesn’t like Cap Pot-Limit Omaha
It’s quite unusual that all the high stakes games on Full Tilt have been Cap Pot-Limit Omaha lately. Just like Patrik Antonius, Phil Galfond doesn’t enjoy this form of poker at all.
Galfond tells about his dislike in his latest blog entry:
“I really dislike cap PLO. I think it’s a boring game with few complexities, and those complexities are more about math and running hand scenarios through calculators off the table than they are about psychology, leveling, and adjusting to opponents and game flow. If cap PLO are the only games running, I’ll play, but I hope people start playing something else”, Galfond writes.
Antonius told a quite similar story few months ago. Antonius thinks all the Cap games should be removed, because they’re not poker.
Let’s hope the games move back to No Limit and Pot Limit games soon.
Source: BlueFirePoker
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Check out jungleman12’s free coaching video
It was just three years ago when jungleman12 only played $5-$10 sit’n'goes, but now he is one of the toughest NL cash players (especially heads up).
He has been in the news lately as he has always challenged all the top pros and now he is thinking about accepting to play the Durrrr Challenge.
Now you can check out how he plays. CardRunners has released a small clip from one of his coaching videos:
CardRunners training - Heads up with jungleman12
Source: 2+2
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“jungleman12? will take the “Durrrr Challenge”?
Like we just reported, Tom “durrrr” Dwan is back at Full Tilt Poker! But his games just didn’t start in the best possible way though as he ended up losing nearly 200,000 dollars - of which “jungleman12″ took the most (+$154K).
After the games “durrrr” and “jungleman12? had quite an interesting discussion. According to their conversation “jungleman12″ might be up to take the “Durrrr Challenge“.
Read their discussion from below:
durrrr: ok gg
jungleman12: gg
durrrr: y dont u take challenge
durrrr: since u never lose to me
jungleman12: i will prob
jungleman12: maybe
jungleman12: isnt bt next or something?
durrrr: i can do 2 at once
durrrr: ship ivey 500k n we will work out details
durrrr: get my aim from someone
jungleman12: ok
durrrr: i wanna crank out at least 2 of em before london if poss
jungleman12: ill talk to you over aim before doing it
durrrr: we could obv play in like 2 weeks
jungleman12: k
durrrr: kk gg
durrrr: gl
Dwan notes that he can play even two challenges at the same time (the other one would probably be against Townsend). Dwan also says that he and “jungleman12″ could already start their challenge in about two weeks. So let’s hope now that the challenge will come true – their match would surely be exciting to watch!
Source: HSDB and The Hendon Mob
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“durrrr” returned to online games - see this year’s high stakes results from here!
Tom “durrrr” Dwan could neither grab a bracelet from this year’s WSOP nor win the millions from his side bets - although he got pretty near. But Dwan will get a new chance next autumn at the WSOP Europe, as he already has taken and will still take bets to that happening as well.
During this summer’s heavy tournament season Dwan has hardly been seen at Full Tilt Poker, but now the young American is in grinding mode again. Right now “durrrr” is playing three tables of $100/$200 No-Limit Hold’em, and the online high stakes scene seems to be picking up anyway.
Dwan is also leading this year’s profit stats with his about 3,5 million dollars. The definite loser of the year is still Brian Townsend (playing with his nick “sbrugby” again): his losses are around 2,5 million dollars.
You can find more results from below and from here:
Source: HSDB and The Hendon Mob
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The youngest WSOP Main Event final table ever?
Now as we know the finalists of the Main Event, it is time to take a closer look at them. Namely last month Time Magazine published an article on the “attack of the math brats” in the WSOP. And now this scenario - painted by Dan Kadlec - has really come true…
-November Nine in a neat row.
The upcoming Main Event final will be historical in a sense that there will be only one player at the table who is over thirty years of age. Thus it shall definitely be the youngest Main Event final ever - perhaps even the youngest final table for any event in the WSOP history!
Eight in their twenties and one in his thirties:
FILIPPO CANDIO – 26
JOSEPH CHEONG – 24
JOHN DOLAN – 24
JONATHAN DUHAMEL – 22
MATTHEW JARVIS – 25
MICHAEL MIZRACHI – 29
CUONG “SOI” NGUYEN – 37
JOHN RACENER – 24
JASON SENTI – 25
Still some trivia in the end: only two of these players were 21 or older when Chris Moneymaker won the Main Event at the age of 27. So the years just go by…
Source: Pokerati
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Ted Forrest’s mad weight-loss bet is over
Ted Forrest’s totally absurd side bet is finally over. Forrest bet Mike Matusow and Justin Smith two million dollars that he will be able to drop his weight from 85 kilos to 62 kilos. As mad as it sounds, Forrest made what he promised….
-Ted Forrest before.
Last night Ted Forrest stepped on the scale in front of the ESPN gang. The scale stopped just at over 60 kilos which is over 20 kilos less than after that meal when Forrest, Matusow and Smith made their bet.
-Ted Forrest now, sick!
If the story is true, Forrest did not eat a bit in eleven days, and hardly got any liquids. Sheer madness.
Matusow didn’t appear to the weigh-in, so Forrest and his girlfriend and “coach” had to leave for waking up Matusow so that their bet would be officially declared over, and Ted could get his two million dollars. Yeah, everyone has their way to gather some WSOP value…
Source: Full Tilt Poker and The Hendon Mob
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Ted Forrest’s mad weight-loss bet is over
Phil Ivey eager for winning the WPT Bellagio Cup - already his 9th WPT final
Phil Ivey is doing pretty well at the moment: from this year’s WSOP he won his 8th bracelet and a nice sum of money from his side bets. Now the WSOP 2010 has hardly ended, but Ivey is already chasing the victory of the WPT Bellagio Cup.
This is already the ninth WPT final for Ivey. One of these he has also won - namely in 2008 he conquered WPT L.A. Poker Classic and earned huge 1,59 million dollars. In 2008 Ivey also profited big amounts of money with his side bets.
Besides Ivey Daniel Negreanu and Scotty Nguyen have made their way to the WPT final nine times. But so far the top man is Gus Hansen with his awesome ten WPT finals.
So will Ivey succeed in winning tomorrow? If he won, his earnings from the live tournaments would exceed 14 million dollars.
Below the finalists and the prizes:
Seat 1: Phil Ivey – 1,595,000
Seat 2: Justin “Boosted J” Smith – 2,100,000
Seat 3: Rob Akery – 1,980,000
Seat 4: Eric Afriat – 620,000
Seat 5: Moritz Kranich – 2,715,000
Seat 6: John Caridad – 5,120,000
…
1. $875,150
2. $594,755
3. $363,650
4. $237,902
5. $169,930
6. $118,950
Source: WPT and TheHendonMob
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Phil Ivey eager for winning the WPT Bellagio Cup - already his 9th WPT final
Snoop Dogg entertained in PokerStars’s party - David Williams gossips about Snoop
The legendary rap star Snoop Dogg performed in the party organized by PokerStars on Sunday, the rest day of the WSOP 2010. David Williams, in turn, revealed having met Snoop before when the artist had offered him some herb-rich product…
In the CardPlayer interview Williams tells having been in the same party in Miami where Snoop had offered him his “favorite hobby”. But Williams had turned it down since he is not up to things like that.
Watch David’s story from the video clip where also Daniel Negreanu praises Snoop.
- Snoop gave a 45-minute gig at the Rain Nightclub.
Sources: PokerStarsBlog, CardPlayer and TheHendonMob
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Snoop Dogg entertained in PokerStars’s party - David Williams gossips about Snoop
The 7th season of the WSOP Circuit will start in August
WSOP has announced the WSOP Circuit Tour schedule for the season 2010-2011.
The WSOP Circuit Tour will start its seventh season in August. It also looks like the tournament is gonna be bigger and better than ever before. This 7th season will include at least 12 tour stops - and presumably there will be even more of these.
The 7th season will also involve some innovations which the organizers naturally classify as improvements:
- A Cumulative Player Point System for the whole season.
- The WSOP Circuit National Championship tournament (televised nationally) in which the Top 100 players (who have accumulated most points) will qualify.
- Four regional WSOP Circuit Championships happenings (buy-ins $10k and 2 hrs of TV broadcasting/each happening).
- Standardized structures and pay-outs.
The WSOP Circuit 2010-2011 will start on August 19th from Iowa (Horseshoe Council Bluffs) and will continue until May 2011 when poker shall be played at Harrah’s New Orleans.
View the schedule from here.
Read more about WSOP Circuit.
Source: WSOP
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WPT Bellagio Cup: Joseph Miceli leading, Annette Obrestad also continues after receiving some help from the card deck
The second day of the WPT Bellagio Cup is over. At the moment 113 players of the original 310 who started in the tournament will continue to the third day. Other players still have the possibility to register in the tournament until the end of the first level of the third day.
After the first two days the biggest chipstack is held by Joseph Miceli (440k). The next ones in chipcount are Jordan Morgan (431,3k), the first-day chipleader Guillaume Darcourt (378k) and Paola Martin (290,8k).
Of the big names Men Nguyen (240k), Daniel Alaei (220k), Scott Seiver (215k), Annette Obrestad (117,7k) and Joe Hachem (100k) are also in the rop row. View the whole chipcount from here.
Obrestad’s games were nearly over during the second day as her pocket kings encountered the set Jordan Smith had flopped with pocket queens. However, the river brought the king to the table, and Annette’s wishes of winning the WPT race are still alive.
“Annette Obrestad”
The starting chipstack was 40k. At the moment the average stack is 109,7k.
The prize pool is not yet available since the buy-in time for the tournament still lasts until the end of the first level of the third day.
Chipcount Top10:
Source: WPT and TheHendonMob
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Jack Ury, 97, continues in the WSOP 2010 Main Event
We’ve got a real steel grandpa in the WSOP 2010 Main Event! Jack Ury who was born in Indiana 97 years ago made it through the first two days and will continue to the third tournament day.
On 2+2 forum Ury’s family receives a lot of praise. The nick “fire_sqaud” reports having seen how the family pushes him in a wheelchair all around Rio - to the toilet, to eat during the tournament breaks and so on. Ury, who found poker in 1953, amused the audience on purpose or unintentionally by taking more than doubles with his small stack.
From the big blind Ury went all-in with his king pair and asked - as the board was K2J87 -“Did I win?” and laughed merrily as his opponent was holding 3h-9s. Perhaps the most senior player of the tournament is slightly senile or maybe he just presents the stereotype of a Vegas steel papa?
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Doyle Brunson’s WSOP: a pure nightmare
The legendary Doyle Brunson told to Pokernewsdaily that this year’s WSOP has been a sheer nightmare for him…
Brunson played eight tournaments and made the second day six times but couldn’t cash at all. He says that the 2nd and 3rd days of the WSOP tournaments are always good fun - and being eliminated on the second day without any cashes is the worst possible fate since getting through the first day is the most difficult part.
Numerous visits at the dentist hardly eased his WSOP, and Doyle admits the whole thing got on his nerves. “Those gum treatments were supposed to be over in 4-5 months, but this has taken already eight months. I’ve got seven implants in my mouth which feels like getting on a carousel and not being able to get off.”
According to Brunson, Dan “djk123″ Kelly who secured his place in The Brunson 10 by winning the $25k NLHE 6-max is a nice young man - even though he looks like 14-year old boy. Handpicking the entourage of young players, Brunson tells there has been a long list of candidates in the selection process which is why he organized a race between the most promising players.
After Dan Kelly joined the team, seven places of The Brunson 10 are now taken. These young players are: Zachary Clark, Amit Makhija, Dani Stern, Chris Moorman, Alex Kamberis, Steve Gross and Dan Kelly.
Source: Pokernewsdaily, Doyle’s Room and TheHendonMob
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Betfair Poker joins Ongame Network
Betfair and Ongame Network published today a joint press release about Betfair Poker joining Ongame Network’s global online poker network in the end of this July.
This deal between Ongame and Betfair will bring a lot of new players and more money to Ongame Network.
The Head of Betfair Poker, Daniel Svard, comments the migration:“From now on Betfair Poker players will have a greater supply of games at all times of the day. Both companies have also really committed to developing their functions.”
Martin Lerby, Head of Ongame Network continues:“In the long run Betfair is an ideal partner for us. Betfair is a respected, technically mature brand. We are very delighted to welcome Betfair’s players and know-how in this highly competitive market.”
Source: Ongame Network
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Jennifer Tilly won the Bellagio Cup $5k Tournament and $124,000 dollars
Actress and poker player Jennifer Tilly proved her talent again by winning the Bellagio Cup VI $5K tournament.
Tilly won other 90 players of the Bellagio CUP VI Event #23 $5,000 + $180 tournament. The world also got to hear from Jennifer’s victory through her boyfriend Phil “Unabomber” Laak’s Twitter:
“Holla! My girl just shipped the 5k Bellagio! Max ship. Max joy.”
The results:
1 Jennifer Tilly, Sherman Oaks, CA $124,455
2 Danny Yousefzadeh, Roslyn, NY $112,528
3 Dmitry Vitkind, Moscow, Russia $97,040
4 Mark Entwistle, Windsor, England $34,044
5 Robbie Verspui, Gibraltar, Gibraltar $27,661
6 Rodger Johnson, Grand Forks, ND $21,278
7 Ray Qartomy, Sugar Land, TX $14,894
8 Michael Friedrich, Zurich, Switzerland $10,639
9 Alexander Gomes, Curitiba, Brazil $8,511
After this victory Tilly has already cashed nearly $700,000 dollars from live tournaments.
Sources: 2+2, Bellagio and TheHendonMob
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Jennifer Tilly won the Bellagio Cup $5k Tournament and $124,000 dollars
Frank Kassela WSOP’s Player of The Year
Frank Kassela won two bracelets and the Player of The Year race in WSOP 2010.
So far John Juanda, who took five cashes of which four were from final tables, kept Kassela on his toes until the very end. The solution was seen not until in $25,000 NLHE 6-max. Juanda bubbled in the 19th place when Kassela secured himself five (5) points. Eventually Kassela ranked third in the tournament and cashed over half a million dollars - and took a slim lead in Player of The Year competition.
Kassela conquered five cashes and profited in total two bracelets and more than $1,2 million dollars from the WSOP 2010. This year six players have managed to cash over a million bucks in the WSOP, but this all will change with the Main Event (where the Top 8 will receive over million dollars). The top earner of the summer is still Michael Mizrachi who won the $50k Players’ Championship.
Player of The Year / Top 5
1. Frank Kassela / 285 (five cashes, three final tables, two bracelets)
2. John Juanda / 225 (five cashes, four final tables)
3. Vladimir Schmelev / 210 (four final tables)
4. Dan Heimiller / 205 (seven cashes, two final tables)
5. Michael Mizrachi / 190 (four cashes, three final tables, one bracelet)
Source: Bluff Europe and TheHendonMob
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WSOP’s hottest rail girls - see the pictures
WSOP is not only for poker players. Also their fans and partners are very interested in tournament and poker masters. Here are some pics of pretty rail girls of the WSOP 2010…
-The Norwegian beauty Rachel Nordtømme.
-Isabella, the girlfriend of comedian Brad Garret.
-David Williams and the girlfriend (with the white bag)
-The US is an animal-friendly country: even the dogs are welcome to the casino!
-See you on the rail!
All these pictures are from Wicked Chops Poker’s comprehensive WSOP 2010 picture gallery which you can access in here.
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