Texas Holdem Poker Blog: Tournament Updates Archives

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....

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

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 ...

Posted by fatbill at 11:44 PM | Comments (0)

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...

Posted by fatbill at 08:04 AM | Comments (0)

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!

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

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.

Posted by fatbill at 08:16 AM | Comments (0)

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...

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

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.....

Posted by fatbill at 08:25 AM | Comments (0)

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.

Posted by fatbill at 08:51 AM | Comments (0)

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

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

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....

Posted by fatbill at 09:29 AM | Comments (0)

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....

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

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

Posted by fatbill at 07:20 AM | Comments (0)

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....

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

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....

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.....

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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.

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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.

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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

Posted by fatbill at 07:34 AM | Comments (0)

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.

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

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

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

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