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Chan Still Among Leaders After Day 3 of WSOP Main Event
The cash is drawing nearer as the eliminations pick up and the celebrations become more intense. Only 747 will emerge with a payday and that bubble is expected to burst tomorrow.
Some of the players who had their Main Event dreams dashed today include former champs Joe Cada and Chris Moneymaker. Also sent to the rail were Kara Scott, David "Devilfish" Ulliott, Jen Harman, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, David Williams and Erik Seidel.
Surprisingly, all four of the Mizrachi brothers are still alive and The Grinder is the only person who can run down Frank Kassela for WSOP Player of the Year. He has to win in order to secure that feat.
Some of the other big names remaining include Jason Mercier, John Robert Bellande, Johnny Lodden, Barry Greenstein, Eric Baldwin, Sammy Farha, David Grey and Patrik Antonius.
Johnny Chan once again ended the day among the chip leaders. Chan said he was happy and tired as he bagged up his chips to end the day.
"I'm glad we're changing tables because the player to the left of me was probably the only one to win a lot of chips off of me," Chan said.
When asked to compare the 2010 competition to the fields he defeated back in 1987 and 1988, Chan chuckled. "Let's just say this; the players are a lot better nowadays."
Chan is confident that he can win a third Main Event title and record 11th bracelet. "I absolutely think I can win, otherwise I wouldn't be here," he said. "All those chips help give me confidence too."
Chan finished with 636k and found himself 9th on the leader board heading into day 4.
Tomorrow's action will once again start at noon in the Amazon Room and promises to be one of the most exciting and intense days on the entire WSOP calendar. As always, keep checking in here at PokerListings for all the latest news and live updates.
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WSOP Main Event Day 2a: 100% Lebron Free
A total of 2,412 players packed into the Rio on Day 2a with hopes of building a giant stack before the last level expired.
Full Tilt Poker Pro Corwin Cole entered as the chip leader with 228,000 but his status as chip leader was soon usurped by rotating group of players that included Cole South, Dwyen Ringbauer, Dragan Galic and Sammy Farha.
Greg Mueller, Sara Underwood, Garry Gates, Tyler Cornell, Steve O'Dwyer, Daniel Alaei, Ted Forrest, Will Failla, Tom McEvoy, Fatima Moreira and Steve Wong were all among the over 1,000 players to be eliminated on Day 2a.
Jennifer "Jennicide" Leigh, who has been a ghost in the poker world for the last year, was surprisingly dominant at her table building a stack of approximately 150,000.
Daniel Negreanu lived it up on the ESPN stage all day, delighting hundreds of railbirds as he bantered with the table and tried to make some sick reads. The Team PokerStars Pro member will have his work cut out for him on Day 3, however, as he finished with only 27,500.
Joe Cada is starting to put together an impressive title defense as he finished with nearly 100,000 chips.
By the time the smoke had cleared on Day 2a approximately 1,260 players remained.
Patrik Antonius, Johnny Chan, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Amanda Baker, Robert Mizrachi and Amanda Baker all finished the day with over 200,000 chips.
All the aforementioned players will reconvene for Day 3 on Monday at 12:00 p.m. but tomorrow Steve Billirakis, Alex Kostritsyn, David Benyamine and thousands more will meet tomorrow at 12:00 p.m. to fight out for Day 2b supremacy.
We'll be right there with you with live updates, videos, photos and more.
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Mathiu Sauriol Leads WSOP Main Event Day 1C; Johnny Chan Close Behind
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) set numerous attendance records in 2010, so even amidst the trials and tribulations poker players have endured during the UIGEA enforcement, it isn’t surprising to see the WSOP Main Event attract so many players this summer. With 2,314 players participating on Day 1c, the 2010 Main Event will officially go down as the second largest poker tournament in history. The total was up from 1,696 entrants on Day 1c last year, an increase of 36%. And with Day 1d registration still open and a max capacity of around 3,800 in the Rio this year, the total could eclipse 8,000 entrants. The 2006 Main Event had 8,773 players.
Mathiu Sauriol ended the Day 1c as the chip leader, bagging up 168,900 chips at the end of four and a half levels. Sauriol will enter Day 2a third overall in chips, trailing Day 1a chip leaders Corwin Cole (228,000) and Dwyen Ringbauer (191,125). Close on Sauriol’s heels was two-time Main Event champion Johnny Chan, who doubled up early in the day to finish with the second highest total of the 1,489 players that advanced. Others ending the day healthy in chips were Lauren Kling, Hoyt Corkins, David Williams, Billy Kopp, Isaac Baron, Lex Veldhuis, Robert Mizrachi, Jennifer “Jennicide” Leigh, David Pham, Cole South, and Patrik Antonius. Here’s a look at the top 10 chip counts from Day 1c:
1. Mathiu Sauriol — 168,900
2 .Johnny Chan — 163,700
3. Andrew Liporace — 155,250
4. Joe Monro — 153,350
5. Lauren Kling — 149,650
6. Barny Boatman — 144,050
7. Steven Goosen — 142,925
8. Michael Reed — 142,125
9. Sean Prendiville — 140,500
10. Benjamin Blair — 137,200
UB.com‘s Phil Hellmuth made yet another grand entrance to the Main Event, this time arriving dressed as a UFC Fighter. UFC announcer Bruce Buffer announced Hellmuth as he entered the Amazon Room with UFC fighter Wanderlei Silva at his side. However, unlike the past two years, Hellmuth’s Main Event ended well short of a deep run, as he was eliminated late on Day 1c. Upon the announcement of his exit, the Amazon Room and Rio Pavilion exploded in applause. Shortly after, Tournament Director Jack Effel announced that 2007 WSOP Event winner Jerry Yang had been eliminated and both rooms remained silent.
Others hitting the rail early on Day 1c were Huck Seed, Dario Minieri, Steven Begleiter, Men Nguyen, Jeff Madsen, Chad Brown, Chau Giang, and Tom Dwan, who had ESPN cameras following him around all day as he moved from table to table in the Pavilion and Amazon Room. Dwan, playing his last tournament to collect a bracelet and win or lose millions of dollars in prop bets, was being watched closely all day by his peers, but ultimately hit the rail during the final level of the day.
Day 1d will get underway at noon on Thursday. Among those expected to take to the felts include Vanessa Rousso, Daniel Alaei, Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Michael Binger, Shannon Elizabeth, Dan “djk123″ Kelly, and Player of the Year leader Frank Kassela. Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for continuous updates from the 2010 WSOP Main Event!.
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WSOP Main Event Day 1C: Chan Takes Control
The official WSOP count for the day was 2,314, which topped the 1,125 from day 1A and the 1,489 from day 1B.
While the WSOP doesn't have an exact number of players who have pre-registered for the final starting day, staff did go on record and say the total number would top the 6,844 in 2008.
Eight previous Main Event Champions played the day and only five emerged to play another. Joe Cada, Scotty Nguyen, Carlos Mortensen, Johnny Chan and Tom McEvoy are all still competing while Phil Hellmuth, Huck Seed and Jerry Yang were sent packing.
There were 540 unfortunate souls who didn't survive the day, while 1,774 will return on Friday for day 2.
Among the other players who had their WSOP hopes cut short were Tom Dwan, Chad Brown, Shaun Deeb, Jeff Madsen, Dario Minieri, Howard Lederer, Scott Fischman and former Playboy Playmate Shanna Moakler.
On the other end of the spectrum Johnny Chan, David Williams, Lauren Kling, Robert Mizrachi and Hoyt Corkins all have over 100k in chips.
Patrik Antonius played in his first WSOP tournament since the $50k Player's Championship, as the Finn has been sticking mostly to cash games in recent weeks.
Tomorrow will be the final "Day 1" of the 2010 Main Event with the first of two "Day 2s" starting on Friday. Action starts at noon again so be sure to keep it locked here for all of the latest news and live updates.
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June 25th – Daily Deal
Today’s Topics: 2010 WSOP Update, Survivor and the Women in Poker Hall of Fame Nominees.
Happy Friday! On today’s edition of the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily, we’ll take a look back at a busy day in the two thousand ten World Series of Poker. Also, we’ll figure out whether a poker player may be on the newest cycle of Survivor and review the Women in Poker Hall of Fame nominees. It’s all straight ahead on the Daily Deal!
Well there was almost huge news from the Rio as another top pro made a final table. This time it was Phil Hellmuth looking for bracelet number twelve as he made the final table of Event number forty one, which was the fifteen hundred dollar omaha eight or better tournament. As you might know, all eleven of Hellmuth’s bracelets are in No Limit Hold’em, but he wasn’t able to go the distance and finished a very impressive seventh place. The winner of this one turned out to be Steve Jelinek who became the fifth person from the UK to win a bracelet in the 2010 WSOP.
According to a rumor, poker players will make their return to the popular CBS reality series Survivor next season. Survivor: Nicaragua, which is in the midst of filming, will apparently feature a high-stakes poker player. Who that is has yet to be determined. A mystery poster on TwoPlusTwo who goes by the name “HeyIzDro” first reported the news, saying that producers had called him to gauge his interest. He initially turned down the offer in order to play in the World Series of Poker, but later notified readers that he was headed to Nicaragua to film.
Posters broke down players they’d like to see on the show, including Tom Dwan,Jamie Gold, and Huck Seed. Those who have been relatively absent from the WSOP and are possibilities to appear are Johnny Chan, Peter Eastgate, Prahlad Friedman, Patrik Antonius, and Clonie Gowen. Survivor: Nicaragua will air later this year on CBS.
Finally, seven ladies have received nominations to be enshrined in the Women in Poker Hall of Fame.
Poker News Daily Guest Columnist Annie Duke, Jennifer Harman, Kathy Liebert, J.J. Liu, Phyllis Caro, Nani Dollison, and Betty Carey.
The general public can visit Women In Poker Hall of Fame dot com before July fifteenth to vote. Two players will be inducted into the Hall in August.
Finally, don’t forget to sign up for UB.com through Poker News Daily before July thirtieth, deposit, and rack up one Status Point. When you do, you’ll be automatically entered into a freeroll on August fifteenth. The winner of the freeroll heads to sunny, warm Las Vegas in November to watch the final table of the Main Event play out. Plus, everyone who makes the freeroll’s final table gets seats to the UB.com two hundred thousand dollar guaranteed Sunday Major.
Two more prize packages for the Main Event final table will be given out in points races held in June and July. Whoever amasses the most number of Status Points each month will head to Sin City to soak up the November Nine and witness poker history. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see one player take down what is expected to be a top prize of between eight and nine million dollars.
I’m Sean Gibson. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you again on Monday.
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Survivor Nicaragua May Feature a Poker Player
According to a post on TwoPlusTwo, the upcoming season of “Survivor: Nicaragua” may feature a poker player. During “Survivor: China,” former Bodog pro Jean-Robert Bellande tried to outwit, outlast, and outplay the competition, but was the eighth person voted out.
In mid-May, TwoPlusTwo poster “HeyIzDro” set the rumor mill ablaze by posting that a producer from the hallmark CBS reality series had contacted him “and told me they were looking for a high-stakes pro to go on the show.” However, in order to film “Survivor” in the Central American country, “HeyIzDro” would have been forced to miss the ongoing World Series of Poker (WSOP), his first, and so he declined. In his place, “HeyIzDro” pitched players like Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Tony “Bond18” Dunst, Shaun Deeb, and DoylesRoom pro Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis to “Survivor” casters.
Posters weighed in on whether having a young internet gun would make for a compelling 21st season of “Survivor.” One responder argued, “I’d say almost close to zero 21 year-old online pro poker players would be very entertaining on ‘Survivor.’ Jean-Robert is a pretty electric and interesting character on the felt, but on ‘Survivor,’ he was a total dud.” Flight attendant Todd Herzog ultimately took down “Survivor: China,” banking $1 million.
Who could be the purported poker player on the show? Among those responding was Kamberis, who said that producers hadn’t yet called him to hop on a plane to Nicaragua. Players including Huck Seed, Tony G, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, and Phil Laak were tossed around as candidates. If a poker player fails to make it on the cast for Season 21, “Survivor” crew members are staying in Nicaragua to film Season 22 shortly thereafter.
According to “HeyIzDro,” who may have had a change of heart about putting the WSOP ahead of a once-in-a-lifetime television show, producers of the CBS reality series “told me they contacted a lot of other pros, but I watched every season, so I think they wanted people familiar with the game… If I don’t get on this season, I’m sure I or someone else will get on in upcoming seasons.”
“Survivor” is as much a social game as it is a physical one, leading TwoPlusTwo members to come around to Jamie Gold: “I agree that Gold possesses the social skill set that would thrive on ‘Survivor,’” wrote one poster. “Pure duplicity… Shameless to a degree. This would probably be enough to get to the final three, but based on the past few seasons, it doesn’t matter how much you outwit and outplay people strategically, the bitter and resentful jurors will vote for some nice floater to win the million.” The ruthless strategic player Russell Hantz, for example, made the top three of two consecutive “Survivor” cycles, but failed to win either.
“HeyIzDro” added that he was set to fly from New York City to San Diego to meet with “Survivor” host Jeff Probst and other staff members: “One of the 22 people selected had to drop out for personal reasons. So they told me I am in. I still have to go interview. But I was told, it’s a done deal I am in.” Whether he’ll make the on-air cast or simply be an alternate remains to be seen.
Now, the mystery is on as to his identity. Players like former WSOP Main Event champs Johnny Chan and Peter Eastgate have been largely absent from the Las Vegas tournament series, although the latter is rooting on his homeland of Denmark in the World Cup in South Africa. Prahlad Friedman is apparently in Vietnam and Patrik Antonius was last seen playing high-stakes cash games in Sin City. However, “HeyIzDro” stated that it was his first WSOP, meaning that these players would likely not fit the description.
“Survivor: Nicaragua” will air later this year on CBS.
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Brian Hastings – Poker Player Profile
Brian Hastings, known as LucLongley and Stinger885, is an online poker prodigy. He got his start playing low-limit ring games and eventually worked his way up. Before long, Brian was a regular winner in $50/$100 and $200/$400, some of the highest staked games available. Currently, Brian is one of the most feared online players in the game, right up there with Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, and Patrik Antonius.
In December 2009, Hastings was involved in minor controversy following a session vs. Isildur1 in which he beat the Swede out of $4.2 million. Hastings, along with Brian Townsend and Cole South, shared heads-up hand histories of their play vs. Isildur, using the database to construct ranges for his play in certain situations. The infractions are widely considered to be mild, and all three where suspended accordingly by Full Tilt Poker.
Already a millionaire at age 22, Brian Hastings remains a student at Cornell University. In an interview with Bluff Magazine, Hastings addressed his decision to stay in school, saying, “Basically I’ve received lots of advice from close friends, family, and colleagues preaching the importance of a degree. Obviously this is no surprise coming from my family, but I think it’s even more significant coming from someone like Taylor Caby, who is in a similar position as me but a few years older. Also, I’m not sure I want to just play poker for the rest of my life, so I’d like to keep my options open.”
When he’s not playing online at Full Tilt Poker, where he is a sponsored pro, Brian Hastings makes videos for leading online poker training site CardRunners.com. When asked what he does away from poker, Hastings responded: “Aside from my poker playing, I’m basically a normal college kid. I’m in a fraternity and enjoy parties. I also like to play golf, play video games, and watch movies and TV.
Mizrachi and Alaei debuted on “The Nuts” list
ESPN.com’s “The Nuts” ranks monthly the hottest poker players of the world. In June listing there are two new names: Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi and Daniel Alaei.
Mizrachi won this year’s WSOP $50K Player’s Championship tournament in which Alaei was sixth. Alaei rises straight to the 9th place on “The Nuts” list since he has cashed six-number figures from his five last tournaments.
The Top Four of the list remains the same, but the biggest leap is done by Sorel Mizzi. Mizzi rises four positions after his 2nd prize in the EPT Paris High Roller tournament. Instead, Faraz “The Toilet” Jaka and Carlos Mortensen have disappeared from the list.
“The Nuts” / June 2010 (last month’s ranking in the brackets):
1. Phil Ivey (1)
2. Jason Mercier (2)
3. Tom “durrrr” Dwan (3)
4. Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin (4)
5. Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi (9)
6. Patrik Antonius (5)
7. Daniel Negreanu (6)
8. Scott Seiver (7)
9. Daniel Alaei (-)
10. Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi (-)
The detailed analyses and comments on these players’ achievements can be read from here.
Source: ESPN and The Hendon Mob
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Michael Mizrachi Enters ESPN Poker Player Rankings
Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi’s march through the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has turned plenty of heads in the industry. Weeks after a run-in with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Mizrachi took down the $50,000 buy-in Player’s Championship and banked $1.5 million, the largest prize awarded at the WSOP so far. Then, “The Grinder” nearly logged his second bracelet, but fell short in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud World Championship, where he took sixth for $69,000.
Each month, ESPN.com rolls out media-generated poker player rankings dubbed “The Nuts.” Poker News Daily’s very own Dan Cypra is on the panel, which moved Mizrachi into the top 10 in June. Also getting a vote is Bluff’’s Lance Bradley, who commented about “The Grinder,” “Mizrachi’s win puts his name back on the list of respected players. Had we done this list when Grinder first burst onto the scene by dominating WPT events, he’d be No. 2 or 3 each month. If he can continue to perform at the WSOP, he’s certainly got a chance to get there now.”
“The Grinder” was the runner-up to PokerStars pro Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier in the WSOP Academy Tournament of Champions qualifier held last Thursday. Mizrachi built a 2:1 chip lead heads-up for a spot in the $1 million Tournament of Champions, but could not hold on.
Also ascending into the top 10 after not appearing in May is Daniel Alaei. The winner of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic in December, Alaei played second fiddle to Scott Seiver in the L.A. Poker Classic’s High Roller Event in February. According to the HendonMob database, four of Alaei’s last five live cashes were worth at least $100,00.
Tops on the leaderboard is Full Tilt Poker pro and 2009 WSOP Main Event November Niner Phil Ivey. Now the proud owner of his very own high-stakes poker room at Aria in Las Vegas, Ivey is widely considered to be the game’s top player. All but two members of the 10-man voting panel selected Ivey to sit atop the rankings, with Jason Mercier and Scott Seiver each also receiving a #1 nod. Ivey has paced “The Nuts” ever since its debut.
ESPN poker columnist Gary Wise noted that Ivey will remain a fixture atop his rankings for the foreseeable future: “I doubt very seriously I’ll put anyone else here as long as I’m included in the balloting.” Ivey is a seven-time bracelet winner, a 2009 Poker Hall of Fame nominee, and has finished in the top 25 of the WSOP Main Event four times since 2002 (seventh in 2009, 20th in 2005, 10th in 2003, and 23rd in 2002). All told, “No Home Jerome” has over $5 million in WSOP and Circuit Event earnings.
Titan Poker pro Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi vaulted from #9 in “The Nuts” rankings in May to fifth in June. Mizzi leads the 2010 Bluff Player of the Year voting and finished third in the Aussie Millions Main Event for $659,000 in January. He won the Borgata Spring Poker Open Main Event in April for $170,000, besting a talented crop of predominantly online pros at the final table.
Here’s a look at the top 10 in the ESPN “The Nuts” player rankings for June:
1. Phil Ivey
2. Jason Mercier
3. Tom “durrrr” Dwan
4. Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin
5. Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi
6. Patrik Antonius
7. Daniel Negreanu
8. Scott Seiver
9. Daniel Alaei
10. Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi
Players on the verge of making a run at the top 10 include DoylesRoom Brunson 10 candidate Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka, Alexander Kostritsyn, 11-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, and John Juanda. Cypra’s top 10 also included Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad and David “Doc Sands” Sands, who final tabled Event #8 of the 2010 WSOP and already has two in the money finishes.
WSOP Academy Officials Break Down Tournament of Champions Qualifier
The final seat to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Tournament of Champions will be given away through a special nine-man sit and go presented by the WSOP Academy. Tom “Durrrr” Dwan, Andy Bloch, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, Gus Hanson, Don Cheadle, Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, Liv Boeree, and Paul Wasicka will battle it out for poker supremacy.
Navigating the process of inviting the nine poker hopefuls was WSOP Academy CEO Jeff Goldenberg, who sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss the June 10th qualifier.
Poker News Daily: Thanks for joining us. Talk about how the WSOP Academy came to acquire the final sponsor exemption to the 2010 WSOP Tournament of Champions.
Jeff Goldenberg: WSOP officials had talked to us about the possibility of getting a sponsor exemption for the Tournament of Champions if we could come up with a good idea of what to do with it. We were bantering around ideas and thought about giving it to an amateur. Then, we thought that didn’t make much sense because it was an all-star game. There are all of these really good players who haven’t won a bracelet and Harrah’s liked the idea.
PND: Talk about the inclusion of actor Don Cheadle in the final field of nine.
Jeff Goldenberg: He’s one of the very few actors that is truly dedicated to playing poker on a professional level. He’s serious about poker and plays with the desire to win. He’s also a student of the game and those are the traits we admire. Don will add a lot of good poker and entertainment at the table. We also chose him because of his philanthropic efforts with Ante Up for Africa.
We understand that Don sticks out as different, but we think he’s a valuable addition to the table and talented enough to compete. I understand why people would raise an eyebrow, but that’s the beauty of what Harrah’s is doing with it. It’s cool that people are having a debate as to who should be in it. That shows that Harrah’s is on the right track.
PND: Why was the decision made to allow non-bracelet winners a chance to compete? Why not invite players who did not make the top 20 in voting?
Jeff Goldenberg: We wanted it to be non-bracelet winners because they never had a chance to be voted in. If we took a secondary sample of people who didn’t get voted in and gave them another shot, it almost undermines the fan component of it. These people are all major players with major accomplishments.
PND: How did you come up with who the nine players would be? We noticed that pros like Paul Wasicka, Gavin Smith, and Patrik Antonius were noticeably absent.
Jeff Goldenberg: We basically looked for nine of the hottest players in the game with the most impressive results over the last year. That’s how we came up with everyone. Each person we approached accepted immediately, so we didn’t have to go to a backup list.
PND: The association with the Tournament of Champions must constitute pretty significant exposure for the WSOP Academy.
Jeff Goldenberg: It’s a great story for us. It’s a great way to further strengthen our relationship with the WSOP. It’s going to be great content for the website when it launches and it helps reinforce us as top of mind in the industry.
PND: Give us an update on the WSOP Academy’s classes at this year’s WSOP.
Jeff Goldenberg: The Ladies Event sold out on Tuesday, which is exciting, and we now have people on the waiting list. The Main Event Primer is July 2nd to 3rd and that’s selling very well. I’m most excited for the new Mind and Body Academy with Joe Navarro and Sam Chauhan. We’re excited about adding that to the repertoire because nothing like that has ever been done before. They’ve both had amazing results with their clients and to be able to package them and bring them to the casual player is really exciting. What you learn from them doesn’t just help you in poker, but it also helps you in many other areas of life.
PND: How can poker fans follow the action from the nine-man sit and go on June 10th?
Jeff Goldenberg: We’re going to announce who won and Tweet updates during the day at Twitter.com/WSOPAcademy. We’re going to film the tournament like a television show, with Ali Nejad and Phil Hellmuth providing commentary. Then, we’ll release the footage as part of the new site.
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Poker News In Brief: May 31-June 6 2010
'Durrrr' looks like he might be the latest star to take down a bracelet and you can follow his progress by clicking through to our live tournament section.
As well as the live updates, there is a feast of WSOP news, videos and blogs for your enjoyment.
The Poker News in Brief bulletin will take a look across the globe to keep you up-to-date with some of the other stories going on in the world.
This week we'll discover who is the latest LAPT winner, hear about PKR Elite tournaments, Grundy's thoughts on the 'durrrr' challenge and the latest recruits to the WTP.
Barbero Wins Second LAPT Title
Team Pokerstars Pro Jose "Nacho" Barbero saw off all opposition in the Lima leg of the Latin America Poker Tour, Sunday June 6th, winning $250,000 for his first place finish.
In collecting the title he made history by becoming the first man to win consecutive LAPT championships, having won the Punta del Este leg of the tour previously.
He came into the final holding the chip lead and used his stack to great advantage, ultimately defeating Nicolas Cardyn heads up and firing his name into the record books.
PKR Announce Elite Tournaments
PKR will be holding a series of tournaments open to their top players. The tournaments are open to all the PKR pros, as well as any winners of their flagship tournaments - PKR Masters, Grand Prix and PKR Live amongst others.
The tournaments will be filmed for broadcast on PKR's own T.V. channel (www.pkr.tv) as well as across Europe on the Poker Channel.
"These elite tournaments provide players the chance to stand out from the crowd," said PKR's cardroom manager Neil Wright.
Ben "Milkybarkid" Grundy May Take On Durrrr Challenge
With the Tom Dwan/ Patrik Antonius face-off approaching completion, Ben Grundy may be the next man to step up and stand toe-to-toe with "durrrr."
"The offer of $1.5 million if I beat him, compared to paying out $500,000 is really appealing," wrote Grundy on his popular blog.
"I'd definitely do it if i could sell a big enough percentage. I'd guess the worse case scenario would be losing $2 million ish, then having to pay up $500k. I'm way to much of a bankroll nit to take the chance of that kind of loss."
WTP Recruiting Further Big Names
Not to be confused with the World Poker Tour, World Team Poker has been created to give poker players an opportunity to compete for their country at poker. The roster of names who have associated themselves with the WTP is already impressive, with Doyle Brunson, Men Nguyen and Johnny Chan amongst others scheduled to turn out to represent their countries.
The inaugural event, held May 19th, saw China, led out by Johnny Chan, take down the title and future projects could see players such as Kristy Gazes, Chris Moorman and newly-minted bracelet-winner James Dempsey added to the ranks of talent.
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Patrik Antonius and “jungleman12? encountered in $500/$1000 NL Hold’em
Last night we got to see some high stakes action at Full Tilt Poker again: last month’s top winner “jungleman12″ and Patrik Antonius met each other in $500/$1000 NL Hold’em. As we know, Antonius does not love to play NL Hold’em online, but let’s hope this change will be a permanent one.
-Patrik Antonius has not succeeded yet in this year’s WSOP, but he has made really nice money with stakings.
The duo played almost 440 hands, and in the end Antonius turned out to be better by earning more than 91,000 dollars. All in all, the match was played very cautiously, and there were only a couple of big pots in there.
- Antonius’s check-raise does the trick on the turn, $142,000 in the pot
- Despite the persistent betting of “jungleman12″, Antonius calls all bettings and takes the $108,000 dollar pot
Last night also “Isildur1? popped at the table again. This time the Swede won back about 100,000 dollars from his losses.
Source: PokerTableRatings.com and TheHendonMob
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Robert Mizrachi – Poker Player Profile
Born in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida in 1978, Robert Mizrachi was taught the game of poker by his mother at a very young age. The eldest of four boys, Robert introduced poker to his brothers and it remained a common thread between them as they grew up. While his younger sibling Michael ‘The Grinder’ is arguably the most famous Mizrachi brother, Robert has carved out a nice career for himself as well. Michael’s twin Eric is also a poker player, while their youngest brother Daniel Mizrachi is a professional magician.
Robert Mizrachi’s career really took off in 2003 after he finished second in a $1000 No Limit Hold’em event at the Showdown at the Sands series for $24K. The money boosted his confidence, but even more the notion that he could compete on the live tournament circuit and win. A year later, the trend continued as he won the Master Classics of Poker in Amsterdam for $482K. In 2006, he recorded another huge score, taking fourth in the $7800 World Poker Tour Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure for $409K.
At the 2007 World Series of Poker, Robert became the first Mizrachi brother to win a bracelet when he shipped the $10K World Championship Pot Limit Omaha event for $768K. Of his six cashes in ’07, three were final tables. His victory in the PLO tournament was made all the more impressive by the star-studded final table, which included names like Patrik Antonius, Marco Traniello, Tommy Ly, Steven Sung, and Doyle Brunson.
More recently, Mizrachi made waves at the 2009 UB.com Aruba Poker Classic, finishing second for $414K. All told, Robert has over $3 million in live tournament winnings, $1.2 million of which is spread over 18 WSOP cashes.
When he’s not traveling the world playing in poker tournaments, Robert Mizrachi can be found playing online at Full Tilt Poker, where he plays as a sponsored pro under the username Robert Mizrachi.
Kirk Morrison Leads $50,000 WSOP Player’s Championship After Day 2
What started as a field of 116 in the $50,000 Player’s Championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has been slashed to 54. WSOP bracelet winner Kirk Morrison leads the way after Day 2 of the prestigious tournament.
Eliminated in the closing seconds of Day 2 was Amnon Filippi, who check-called all-in on a board of A-J-9-8 in Limit Hold’em. Filippi turned over A-10 for top pair and an open-ended straight draw, while reigning WSOP Player of the Year Jeffrey Lisandro showed Q-10 for a straight. Lisandro won three bracelets during last year’s WSOP, claiming titles in Razz, Steven Card Stud, and Seven Card Stud High-Low.
UB.com pro and 11-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth also met his demise during Limit Hold’em on Saturday. Andy Bloch made a flush with pocket sevens against Hellmuth’s A-K, leaving Hellmuth to retort, “Of course, it’s Andy [expletive] Bloch. Of course he’s going to beat me with sevens.” Hellmuth lost a significant portion of his stack against Bloch and then called all-in against Chris Ferguson with A-6 on a K-6-3-4 board. Ferguson showed K-Q for top pair and a river seven sealed Hellmuth’s exit.
Also ousted in the final moments of Saturday’s action in the $50,000 WSOP Player’s Championship was DoylesRoom pro Hoyt Corkins, who departed during Pot Limit Omaha. Corkins committed his chips with Ad-As-Qd-7s, but could not hold up against the Ac-Kc-10d-8d of Mikael Thuritz. Fans of the Durrrr Challenge will be sad to know that joining Corkins on the rails is Patrik Antonius, who fell at the hands of Phil Ivey during Stud High-Low.
Other players ousted during Day 2 included Isaac Haxton, Michael Binger, Mike Matusow, Jason Mercier, Dario Minieri, Carlos Mortensen, Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson, Daniel Negreanu, and Jennifer Harman. The latter was the lone woman to enter the $50,000 buy-in event.
Here are the top 10 chip counts after two days of play in Event #2:
1. Kirk Morrison – 741,000
2. Andy Bloch – 716,500
3. Mikael Thuritz – 697,500
4. Nick Schulman – 683,000
5. Erik Sagstrom – 656,000
6. Robert Mizrachi – 625,500
7. Daniel Alaei – 605,500
8. Brett Richey – 578,000
9. Alexander Kostritsyn – 525,000
10. Ilya Bulychev – 490,500
On Saturday, Hoai Pham became the first bracelet winner of 2010 after taking down the $500 Casino Employees No Limit Hold’em event (#1). The field of 721 was ultimately whittled down to Pham and Arthur Vea, who after seven hands of heads-up play was all-in with pocket fours against pocket aces on a queen-high flop. The better wired pair held and Pham earned $71,000 for the win.
The final table in the $500 Casino Employees event shook out as follows:
1. Hoai Pham – $71,424
2. Arthur Vea – $44,079
3. Christopher Reider – $28,655
4. Matthew Hollinger – $21,047
5. Patrick Silvey – $15,677
6. Kent Washington – $11,829
7. David Villegas – $9,029
8. Jeffrey Bennett – $6,969
9. Yuta Motoyama – $5,434
A throng of 2,601 players turned out for Day 1A of the first of six open $1,000 No Limit Hold’em events (#3). By the close of business on Saturday, over 2,000 had found the exit. On Monday, the 276 survivors from Day 1A will compete as part of the combined Day 2 field. Over 1,200 players are registered for Day 1B, although many in the online poker industry will be fixated on Sunday major tournaments.
Terry Fleischer leads the pack after Day 1A at 119,300 chips, just edging out Nancy Todd Tyner, who has 103,000. Tyner, a poker player and political consultant, will be vying for what many are expecting to be a top prize of $750,000. Saturday saw the eliminations of a bevy of top pros, including 2009 WSOP Main Event champ Joe Cada, North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian Main Event runner-up Sam Stein, and Alex Jacob.
The top 10 in chips after Day 1A in the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em event are as follows:
1. Terry Fleischer – 119,300
2. Nancy Todd Tyner – 103,000
3. Jerrymee Jose – 96,100
4. Drew Crawford – 95,000
5. Anders Taylor – 93,200
6. Dan Lu – 90,000
7. David Vanwert – 78,900
8. Blake Cahail – 78,400
9. Matthew Kay – 75,500
10. Cyriel Dohmen – 74,400
Besides Day 1B of Event #3, Event #4 also begins on Sunday. The $1,500 Omaha High-Low Split Eight or Better tournament begins at 5:00pm PT. Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for the latest 2010 WSOP coverage.
Pros, Amateurs Mix on Day 2 of 2010 WSOP
The poker rooms at the Rio were filled with a unique mixture of elite poker players and relative amateurs.
With nearly 3,000 players all playing simultaneously the day was a good forecast of what's to come at the 2010 WSOP.
Here's a closer look at the tournaments that played out today:
Event 2 - $50,000 Player's Championship
Action picked up in a big way on Day 2 of the $50,000 Player's Championship.
Although only six players busted on Day 1, a total of 56 players were relieved of their $50k buy-in on Day 2.
It was hard to keep track of the big-name pros that busted as Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Michael Binger, Isaac Haxton, Hoyt Corkins, Patrik Antonius, Carlos Mortensen, Ashton Griffin, Tony G and Mike Matusow were all eliminated.
On the other hand Kirk Morrison has come out of nowhere to wield an impressive stack of 760,000 chips.
Morrison went on a massive heater in 2007, placing second in the WPT Championship for $2 million and then cashing four times in that year's WSOP.
Since then Morrison has been non-existent on the tournament circuit and his appearance in this event was unheralded.
Morrison is joined at the top by Andy Bloch who finished with 716,000 chips and Nick Schulman who bagged 683,000.
Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Justin Bonomo, Cole South, David Bach and Chris "Jesus" Ferguson made it through the day as well.
Day 3 of the $50k Player's Championship begins tomorrow at 3 p.m. PST. Join us for ongoing live updates of this elite tournament.
Event 3 - $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
To say the first $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em event was packed was an understatement.
A total of 2,601 clambered into the Rio in the first real test of the building's expanded poker facilities.
It passed with flying colors as it took only a few levels to fit ever player into the cavernous Pavilion Room.
The relatively shallow structure of the tournament helped cut the field down to size and by the end of the day over 2,300 players had been relegated to the rail.
Among the players to be eliminated were Shannon Elizabeth, Sam Stein, Joe Cada and Shannon Shorr.
Meanwhile Vanessa Rousso, Joe Sebok, Bryan Devonshire and Jonathan Little found themselves amongst the 290 players to secure a trip to Day 2.
Action resumes at noon PST time tomorrow with records on the line as organizers are expecting even more players. Tune in to PokerListings for all your live updating needs.
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ESPN.com Holds Fifth Annual WSOP Fantasy Draft
Since 2006, ESPN.com has held a fantasy poker draft leading up to the World Series of Poker, and the poker writers and players involved pick the team of players that will perform the best at this year’s WSOP. On Monday, ESPN.com Poker Editor Andrew Feldman published the results of the fifth annual draft, which was held last Friday.
This year’s league consists of 12 teams, captained by Feldman, Chops from WickedChopsPoker.com, Bluff Magazine Editor-in-Chief Lance Bradley, Poker Pro Magazine’s Chad Holloway, ESPN.com’s Gary Wise, poker pro and Poker News Daily contributor Bernard Lee, and poker pros Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin, Howard Lederer, Mark Seif, Daniel Negreanu, Gavin Smith, and Dennis Phillips. The draft was a standard fantasy sports-style “snake” draft in which the last person to pick in the first round selects first in the second round, the last person to pick in the second round led off the third round, and so on through eight rounds.
Negreanu dominated the league last year, getting five bracelets and a Main Event final table appearance from Phil Ivey and Jeffrey Lisandro. In his blog at FullContactPoker.com, Negreanu wrote that he feels he has another “really strong” team this year. He also noted that had he had the number one overall selection of the draft, he would have taken Ivey. As he had the second pick and Ivey was already drafted by Chops, Negreanu picked himself. Both Smith and Seif also drafted themselves, Smith in the second round and Seif in the seventh round.
The scoring for the ESPN.com fantasy poker league is as follows:
Make the money – 1 point
Make the top 50 – 2 points
Make the top 20 – 5 points
Make the final table – 10 points for a tournament with 100 players or fewer, plus 1 point for every 100 players beyond that
Ninth place – 1 additional point on top of base final table points
Eighth – 2 additional points
Seventh – 4 additional points
Sixth – 6 additional points
Fifth – 10 additional points
Fourth – 15 additional points
Third – 20 additional points
Second – 30 additional points
First – 40 additional points
Point totals will be doubled for any event with a buy-in of $10,000 or more.
And now, the teams, listed in the order in which they selected in the first round:
Chops
Phil Ivey
Carlos Mortensen
David Benyamine
Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka
Brock “t soprano” Parker
Abe Mosseri
Tom Marchese
Josh Arieh
Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu
Scotty Nguyen
David Chiu
Justin “Boosted J” Smith
Todd Brunson
Freddy Deeb
Brett Richey
John Monnette
Andrew Feldman
Jason Mercier
Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier
Chau Giang
Scott Seiver
David Pham
Alexander Kostritsyn
David “Doc Sands” Sands
Ryan “g0lfa” D’Angelo
Gary Wise
Allen Cunningham
Daniel Alaei
Andy Bloch
Eli Elezra
Issac Haxton
Tom Schneider
Nick Schulman
Vitaly Lunkin
Howard Lederer
Barry Greenstein
John Juanda
Robert Mizrachi
Chad Brown
Matt Glantz
Amnon Filippi
Ralph Perry
Thor Hansen
Dennis Phillips
Erick Lindgren
Jeffrey Lisandro
J.C. Tran
David Singer
Brandon Cantu
Greg “FBT” Mueller
John “The Razor” Phan
Nam Le
Mark Seif
Tom “durrrr” Dwan
Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond
Ted Forrest
Doyle Brunson
Jennifer Harman
Johnny Chan
Mark Seif
Eric Froehlich
Lance Bradley
Erik Seidel
Howard Lederer
Chris Bjorin
Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko
Patrik Antonius
Kenny Tran
Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger
Dan “djk123″ Kelly
Bernard Lee
Chris Ferguson
Michael Binger
Paul Wasicka
Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin
Max Pescatori
Dwyte Pilgrim
Roland de Wolfe
Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little
Eric Baldwin
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements
Matt Hawrilenko
Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo
Corwin “mig.com” Mackey
Shannon Shorr
Justin Young
James Van Alstyne
Michael Katz
Gavin Smith
Huck Seed
Gavin Smith
Jeff Madsen
Steve Sung
Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire
David Oppenheim
Chris Bell
Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar
Chad Holloway
Phil Hellmuth
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi
Mike Matusow
Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad
David Williams
Jason “JCarver” Somerville
Phil Laak
Amit “amak316″ Makhija
Patrik Antonius wins $70,000 in the 7-game at Full Tilt
Ben Grundy thinks about taking up the “durrrr” Challenge
Ben Grundy told in the end of last year that he has earned stunning eight million dollars from online Pot-Limit Omaha games during his whole poker career.
This means that Grundy always has cash to play in the biggest online games, and every now and then he has been seen playing at Full Tilt Poker high stakes tables under his own name.
“Milkybarkid” grabs “durrrr” Challenge?
In his latest blog Ben is reflecting whether he should put his victories to true use by playing the “durrrr” Challenge. Grundy says that the worst possible scenario in the challenge would be first losing two millions in the game and then paying $500K more to Dwan after losing the whole challenge.
The Omaha wizard thinks about selling a part of the action so that the variance would be smaller.
- We will remain waiting fot Grundy’s decision as well as the ending of Patrik Antonius‘s and Dwan’s challenge.
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Brian Hastings met with Ilari Sahamies - Hastings won the $535k pot
After a moment of silence last night and early today was all about action at Full Tilt Poker. The most action-packed encounter was seen between Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Brian Hastings. This time the game was $500/$1000 Pot-Limit Omaha without the $40,000 stake limit (CAP).
Hastings eventually managed to take almost 350,000 dollars from Sahamies. After this victory the last 24 hours have been about 290,000 dollars on the positive side for the American, due to his bad 7-Game matches. “Ziigmund”, in turn, has lost a whole 340,000 dollars during the last 24 hours.
The biggest pot of the games was huge 535,000 dollars in which it ended up all-in on the flop:
Not only Sahamies but also Patrik Antonius made substantial losses in the games: his final losses were 343,000 dollars.
You can find more results from here.
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Brian Hastings met with Ilari Sahamies - Hastings won the $535k pot
Faraz Jaka Enters ESPN “The Nuts” Top Ten Rankings For May
With the start of the 41st annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) just over two weeks away, a poll from ESPN regarding the top poker players in the world gives readers an excellent insight on who looks to be on track for outstanding performances at this year’s WSOP.
As a part of its poker coverage, ESPN.com convenes a panel they call “The Nuts,” which is a blog that features several prominent members of the poker media. One of the members of that panel is Poker News Daily’s very own Dan Cypra, who is joined by the three members of ESPN.com’s poker coverage: Andrew Feldman, Gary Wise, and poker pro Bernard Lee. Other members of the panel include ESPNDeportes.com Poker Editor Nahuel Ponce, Bluff Magazine’s editor in chief Lance Bradley and senior writer Jessica Welman, PokerNews editor in chief Matt Parvis, tournament reporter Don Peters, and PokerRoad’s Court Harrington.
The monthly task for the ten-member panel is to answer that age-old question that floats around the poker universe: Who is the best player in the game? The members of “The Nuts” look at which players are the best at a particular moment in time. For the month of May, the panel brought in two new names to the Top Ten list and dropped one player down the rankings due to a lack of performance on the tournament stage.
Entering into the top ten for the month of May is newly crowned World Poker Tour (WPT) Player of the Year Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka. Noting his top 15 finish at the WPT Championship and his performances at the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Bounty Shootout final tables, the panel determined that Jaka’s accomplishments were good enough to move him into tenth place on the list. “Jaka employs a reckless, fearless style of play, but he plays it so well that it drives a lot of opponents crazy and gets him the chips,” noted Peters in the ESPN.com blog. “Maniac or not, with the WSOP around the corner, he’s on the ‘To Watch’ list.”
Another player who did well during the WPT Championship, eventual runner-up Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin, also garnered accolades from the panel with his entry into the top ten. After not being ranked in the list prior to May, Baldwin enters “The Nuts” list as the #4 player. Noting one of Baldwin’s Twitter posts, Feldman joked in his comments on the blog, “Basebaldy” may have had some control issues when throwing out the first pitch when visiting his alma mater, but on the felt, he’s in control at all times.”
One player taking a particularly large tumble down the rankings was Daniel Negreanu. After being tied for third place on April’s list, “The Nuts” panel brought up the valid point that “Kid Poker” hasn’t been on his best game in the past couple of months and seemingly has been concentrating on the “made for television” events that are popping up. Peters writes in the blog, “Not sure if the times are catching up with him or what, but he might be pretty low on this list (or off) if he can’t put something together soon.”
Eight of the ten members of “The Nuts” panel gave first place votes to Phil Ivey (ranked #1), who has made $1.4 million online over the past month. Jason Mercier (#2), who won the NAPT Mohegan Sun Bounty Shootout and cashed in the European Poker Tour (EPT) stop in San Remo, earned one of the other two votes. Cypra nominated Scott Seiver (#7) for the #1 slot in the top ten.
“This list is about who’s hot now and no one is hotter on the tournament circuit,” Cypra states on the ESPN.com blog about Seiver. A look at his record says it all; he has $834,462 in live tournament earnings in 2010, including a victory in February at the L.A. Poker Classic’s High Roller event and a fourth place finish in April at the NAPT event at Mohegan Sun. Other players who make the top ten are Tom “durrrr” Dwan (#3), Patrik Antonius (#5), Carlos Mortensen (#8), and new Titan Poker pro Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi (tied for #10).
The top ten list from the panelists on “The Nuts” at ESPN.com could very well take on a whole new look come the end of the WSOP. “I believe there will be a major shakeup on this list after the next two months,” Feldman observed at the end of the blog. “With the WSOP offering a great chance to watch all of the world’s best players, those on the panel will get a close-up view at how each of them fares on a day-to-day basis.”
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Cole South to Ilari Sahamies: “No wonder you won’t be coming to Vegas this year”
Lately there has been a lot of $500/$1000 PLO Cap action at Full Tilt Poker. In these games the maximum bet during one hand is $40,000. Also last night’s biggest profits and losses were made in this game.
The biggest winner of the night was Cole South who managed to make almost 430,000 dollar profits - mainly at the expense of Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies. This means that Sahamies ended up being the one who lost most: 441,000 dollars.
During the game Sahamies’s table manners made South nearly lose his temper, and the latter just noted that “it is no wonder why Ilari won’t come to Vegas this year”.
Ziigmund sits out
Cole South: lose a pot quit lose a pot quit
Ziigmund: have to go
Cole South: no wonder u arent going to vbegags this year
Ziigmund: what?
Also Patrik Antonius criticized Ziigmund’s behaviour at high stakes tables in Pokertube.com interview just a while ago:
“He has absolutely no manners, he is the most obscene of all. Perhaps his strategy is to make his opponents tilt so badly that it necessarily affects their game. If he behaved in the same way in live situations, he would probably suffer some injuries”.
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Video: Tom “durrrr” Dwan in All Inbox’s cross-examination
Tom “durrrr” Dwan visited CardPlayer’s All Inbox series and answered numerous readers’ questions.
The readers wanted to know about Isildur1 and “durrrr”’s challenge game with Patrik Antonius (”durrrr” promised that their next encounter will proceed smoother). He was also asked that how much money he should win in order to quit poker completely. Dwan couldn’t give an offhand answer to the last question but formulated: “If someone offered me 100 million bucks of never playing again, I would accept the offer”.
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Antonius recovers big losses
Isildur1 Drops $168k Heads-up
Isildur1's day began with losing just over $1k from 38 hands of $25/$50 Pot-Limit Omaha. After making back $333 at a $25/$50 Cap PLO game he sat with unkown player humpybfly for a short 79-hand heads-up $50/$100 Cap PLO session.
Having lost almost $28k to humpybfly, and another $319 from 12 hands of $25/$50 PLO, Isildur1 sat for his main event of the evening: A $100/$200 Heads-up No-Limit Hold'em grudge match against URnotINdanger2.
The match took place on 12 tables with as many as eight being in play at the same time. Over the three-hour match, the two booked 2,402 hands with the largest pot coming in at $55,797.
In the end, URnotINdanger2 left the session up $112,218.
Isildur1 stuck around for another 25 minutes after the heads-up match had seen its last hand, jumping up in limits to $200/$400, only to lose an additional $26k.
When the unknown Swede finally logged off for the night, he had lost a total of $168,540, keeping him at around even for the year and down approximately $2 million since he first showed up on the high-stakes scene in 2009.
Meanwhile, Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies and Full Tilt pro Patrik Antonius sat for two hours of heads-up $500/$1,000 PLO, where they booked 221 hands and played the largest pot of the day worth $254,947.
In the end, Sahamies made off with $132,438 of Antonius' money, a welcomed win after his $360k loss the night before.
Below are three of yesterday's largest pots. More hand replays and online stats can be found in our online poker stats page.
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