Phil Ivey wins bracelet number 8
June 23, 2010 | Published in: Poker news
Phil won the $3k H.O.R.S.E with a 1st price of $329,840. Ivey took Bill Chen down heads up in the Razz level.
First reaction of Ivey:
“So how much is it for first place anyway?”
Results:
1 Phil Ivey $ 329,840.00
2 Bill Chen $ 203,802.00
3 John Juanda $ 129,553.00
4 Kenneth Aldridge $ 93,418.00
5 Jeffrey Lisandro $ 68,417.00
6 Dave Baker $ 50,871.00
7 Albert Hahn $ 38,391.00
8 Chad Brown $ 29,406.00
Bluffmagazine.com:
“On the final hand of play a series of bets and raises in a Razz pot resulted in the two getting it all-in on fifth street with Ivey holding a 6-5 low to Chen’s 7-6. Chen failed to improve and Ivey took the pot and the bracelet”
Peter Eastgate skips WSOP except the main event
June 11, 2010 | Published in: Poker news
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.”
Tom Dwan comes second in WSOP event 11
June 7, 2010 | Published in: Poker news
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..
Michael Mizrachi wins WSOP event 2 ($50.000 PPC)
June 2, 2010 | Published in: Poker news
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
Lifetime ban cheating player at WSOP event 3
June 2, 2010 | Published in: Poker news
During WSOP event 3 ($1.000 No Limit Hold’em) a hand was dealt before the break. All players that weren’t in the hand allready left the table where this guy wins the pot and takes the chips the dealer shoved hiw way. It looked like he was leaning on the table with his other arm but meanwhile, when the dealer wasn’t watching him, he shoves a big stack of his neighbour to his winning pot.
A few minutes later he got himself escorted out of the Rio and Director Jack Effel told the press “He’ll be banned from the World Series forever.”
