Peter Eastgate skips WSOP except the main event

Peter Eastgate, winner of the World Series Of Poker Main event 2008, skips the series this year. He will only play the Main event. He will support his national soccer team in Africa.

“First and foremost, there’s the football World Cup – an event I look forward to very much, especially to see all the big teams play great football. Of course I support Denmark and hope they’ll do well, but honestly I don’t think they play that well for the moment.”

“Secondly, I prefer the summer in Europe rather than the one in Nevada where temperatures can reach up to 50c degrees during the day. And finally, I don’t have the motivation to play all the small events at the WSOP. That would be a waste of money. To me it’s not that important to win bracelet number two.”

“I’m sure if they didn’t have huge bracelet bets going on that many of the other big poker names would feel the same as me. I see no reason to enter into such bets as I’m primarily a hold’em player. If you’re to enter bracelet bets, you have to play all the events and I have never had a flair for mixed games.”

Ville Wahlbeck becomes Team Pokerstars Pro

Finish pro Ville Wahlbeck recently signed a sponsorcontract with PokerStars. In 2009 (WSOP) he won the $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event, became 2nd in the $10,000 World Championship 2-7 lowballand 6th in the $50.000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E..

“PokerStars has always taken good care of its players and has made an effort to ensure that all the players are treated equally and honestly. Due to these things, PokerStars has been the avant-garde of the whole game and it’s both trusted and appreciated, a reputation which is well-deserved. I am really proud to be part of Team PokerStars Pro.”

Tom Dwan comes second in WSOP event 11

Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan almost won his 1st bracelet and with that all sidebets he made just before the start of the 41th edition of the World Series. In event 11 ($1500 No Limit Hold’em and a total of 2563 players) Durrrr started as chipleader @ the final table.

After playing HU against Simon Watt and loosing a big pot he went allin with Q6 and got a quick call from Watt with his 99. Unlucky Durrrr, happy sidebetters like Daniel Negreanu:

“RealKidPoker: Congrats to Tom Dwan! We were all rooting for you… To come second! Wow I escaped. What a sweat that was.”

Simon Watt took $614,248, Durrrr $381,885..

Livestream endurace challenge Phil Laak

Right this moment Phil Laak is playing cards at the Bellagio trying to beat the worldrecord. He has to play 78 hours at once with a 5 minute break every hour. He is currently playing $10-$20 No Limit Hold’em cashgame.

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Michael Mizrachi wins WSOP event 2 ($50.000 PPC)

Michael Mizrachi became first in the $50.000 Poker Player Championship (8-game) WSOP event 2. A total of 116 players joined this event and after 236 hands HU against Vladimir Schmelev Michael took down the first prize of $1,5 mln and the “David ‘Chip’ Reese Memorial Trophy”.

1 Michael Mizrachi $1.559.046
2 Vladimir Schmelev $963.375
3 David Oppenheim $603.348
4 John Juanda $436.865
5 Robert Mizrachi $341.429
6 David Baker $272.275
7 Daniel Alaei $221.105
8 Mikael Thuritz $182.463