Posts tagged poker-players
The State of Live $1-$2 No Limit Hold’em
Jul 22nd
While at this year’s World Series of Poker , I took the opportunity to play in quite a few different $1-$2 No Limit Hold’em (NLHE) games at casinos all over Las Vegas. I also watched some friends of mine who were out for a quasi-annual pilgrimage to poker Mecca. In short, I feel like I got a good snapshot of the $1-$2 NLHE action in Las Vegas. Of course, this game is crucially important – it is the “default” poker game played in casinos all over the U.S
RandALLin Dominates Super Tuesday
Jul 21st
It was a particularly busy Tuesday on PokerStars as 384 players paid the $1,030 buy-in, easily smashing the $300k guarantee. There were numerous pros in the field with Jon “PearlJammer” Turner, David “dpeters17″ Peters, Chad Brown, Vanessa Rousso and JP Kelly all taking a crack at the nearly $400k prizepool. All the aforementioned players hit the rail well before the money leaving Pat Pezzin and Tae Joon Noh as the only Team PokerStars Pros to make the money. Noh would eventually fall in 30th place for $2,496 while Pezzin hit the rail 16th for $3,840. Flowers actually entered the final table as one of the short stacks but that didn’t stop the young pro from doubling up almost immediately and then busting another player shortly thereafter. Eventually Flowers entered heads-up play with a slight chip disadvantage to opponent guinor but once again luck was on his side.
Rewind: Best Poker Videos of the Week (July 11th-18th)
Jul 18th
Hellmuth’s really late entrance, the last woman standing, and pros show off their poker faces. Watch some of the internet’s most interesting poker-related videos from the past week in this week’s edition of PTP ’s Rewind. Hellmuth enters tournament, really late Phil Hellmuth was one of the big names who registered really late for the World Poker Tour event at the Bellagio. Hellmuth registered two days late — the WPT lengthened late registration to accommodate the fact that the WSOP main event was still going on. Anyway, Phil still felt the need to make a big entrance, although not as elaborate as his ME entrance.
UKIPT Brighton: Day 2, blinds 19&20 (blinds 5,000-10,000, ante 1,000)
Jul 18th
1.25am: End of day chip counts These are straight from the horse’s mouth or rather the player’s bags as they wrote down their end of day chip counts. Table One: Ben Martin: 247,000 Jamie Burland: 264,000 Tomas Cibek: 307,000 David Gant: 360,000 Andrew Youens: 621,000 Jonathan Campbell: 151,000 Waseem Ahmed: 389,000 Table two: Tony Lee: 196,000 Bill Seber: 204,000 Stephen Thompson: 180,000 Dimps Maker: 131,000 John Spinks: 361,000 Will Beauchamp: 357,000 As an aside there’s a total of 2,339,000 on table one (334,142 average per player) on table two there’s a total of 1,429,000 (238,166 average per player) of course there are seven players on table one and only six on table two. –NW 1.15pm: End of play A call has been made that level 19 is the last for the day. Many of the players were looking shattered, particularly John Spinks but he’d be unlikely to admit it, and it was probably a wise decision. Andrew Youens is our overnight chipleader with 621,500. Confirmation is on its way
Duy Le – Poker Player Profile
Jul 17th
A married father of one, Duy Le hails from San Jose, California. Prior to his monumental run in the 2010 World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) Main Event, Le had scored just one in they money finish on WSOP felts.
2010 World Series of Poker Spotlight — Eric Baldwin
Jul 16th
In spite of himself, Eric Baldwin can’t help but let the fantasy creep into his mind. He’s on top of the Rio, as ESPN films him and eight other players …
(Way) Outside the WSOP – Main Event Day 7
Jul 16th
Day 7 Table Draw Theo Jorgensen will lead the remaining 78 players of the WSOP Main Event when play resumes at the Amazon room shortly after 12pm today. Jorgensen starts the day with 9,300,000 in chips followed by Michael Mizrachi with 7,535,000 and John Racener with 7,200,000 with play starting today on level 26, 25,000/50,000 blinds with a 5,000 ante. Play will continue until 27 players remain, then return Saturday to play down to the November Nine
WSOP Main Event: Day 4 Level 14 Mid-Level Update
Jul 13th
Benyamine picked off a big bluff this past hour Oh Pavilion Room, we hardly knew ye. The cavernous space at the WSOP Main Event is now out of commission and the remaining 1,000 or so players in the Main Event field have been condensed into the Amazon Room. Players have vacated the Amazon Room for their
Team Mizrachi Mowing Down WSOP Main Event Field
Jul 12th
Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi is the most well known of the four, while eldest brother Robert is a familiar face to those around the pro tournament circuit. Unknown to most are brothers Eric and Donny Mizrachi, who also hail from Miami, Florida. Right now, all four are still alive and crushing the competition in the most prestigious poker tournament in the world. Eric, who has the smallest stack of the four at 165k, is actually Michael’s twin and the two 29-years-olds’ are separated by just two minutes
WSOP Main Event Day 2A: Everybody’s workin’ on the weekend
Jul 9th
We’ve been told it’s Friday morning. It came as a surprise. If we’d not been told, it would’ve been evident by the bigger crowds, bikinis lined up for Ditch Fridays, and the fact we saw our former chip counting monkey shooting craps with Nelly this morning. It certainly looks like a weekend, but it’s not going to feel like one for 5,146 players of the 2010 WSOP. It’s that number, 70% of the Main Event starting field, that we will see return for the bifurcated Day 2 festivities
