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Posts Tagged ‘Poker Pros’
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Another prominent member of Team Full Tilt Poker has decided to break their silence regarding their role with the ailing online poker room. This time it was PokerTube.com that got the exclusive interview, talking to Patrik Antonius while the poker superstar was in Cannes for the World Series of Poker Europe tournament series.
Antonius was emphatic in stating that he had nothing to do with the management of Full Tilt Poker, and was strictly under a “marketing contract” with the site. He went on to state that if the site does become insolvent he will be one of the biggest losers due to the amount of money still locked-up in his Full Tilt Poker account –according to Antonius the amount is so large that even the amount he has been paid since becoming a Full Tilt Poker Pro wouldn’t cover it!
According to Antonius, he knows less than most of the poker media that have been following the story, telling PokerTube.com: “I feel like when I read the news, they know much more about it than I do. Nobody talks to me, so I am always the last person to know… I did call Howard in the beginning of the summer, and I was supposed to meet him. But I was too busy, and I don’t even know if he was in Las Vegas. This was before they lost their license, though… Everyone in the poker industry should care about this. It’s hurting the reputation of poker a lot, and this makes me very sad,”
Antonius has now joined other Team Full Tilt Poker Pros Tom Dwan and Mike Matusow as vocal critics of their former employer.
Tags: Amount Of Money, Biggest Losers, Cannes, Chats, Europe, Full Tilt Poker, Las Vegas, Marketing, Mike Matusow, online poker, Poker Pros, Poker Room, Reputation, Sad, Series Of Poker, Silence, Tom Dwan, Vocal Critics, World Series, World Series Of Poker
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
On Wednesday the $300 Mixed Holdem event in the 2011 running of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker saw an impressive lineup of poker pros at the final table. Of the six players to reach the final table, three of them are among the top young players in poker: Noah “Exclusive” Boeken, Shaun “shaundeeb” Deeb, and Steve “gboro780” Gross.
In the end it was Boeken who would come out on top of the tournament, winning the top prize of $44,480 –the tournament was played out with no deal taking place. Here is a look at the final table payouts from Event 26 of the WCOOP:
- Noah “Exclusive” Boeken — $44,480
- gangst3rn1 — $32,799
- Fulham8 — $25,230
- Steve “gboro780″ Gross — $17,661
- Shaun “shaundeeb” Deeb — $12,615
- Goldenboys — $7,569
Four other top players made the final table of the following tournament, Event #27, a $300 Badugi event: Mike Leah, Kevin MacPhee, Greg DeBora, and Andrey Zaichenko. In the end it was Leah who would come out victorious after outlasting Kevin MacPhee in a heads-up battle. Here is a look at the payouts from the tournament:
- Mike “goleafsgoeh” Leah — $17,082
- Kevin “ImaLuckSac” MacPhee — $12,702
- nada123455 — $9,636
- PUCIPUCO — $7,008
- Ig123456789 — $4,818
- Greg DeBora — $3,504
- spieler52 — $2,628
- Andrey “Kroko-dill” Zaichenko — $2,190
Tags: 8243, Badugi, Dill, Greg Debora, Impressive Lineup, Kroko, Leah, Macphee, Noah Boeken, Poker Pros, Running, Shaun Deeb, Shaundeeb, Steve Gross, Wcoop, World Championship Of Online Poker
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Sunday, July 17th, 2011
A look at the remaining players on the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event leader-board will turn up a number of well-known poker pros like Daniel Negreanu, Jeff Lisandro, Phil Hellmuth, and Vanessa Rousso, but you’ll also find even more online poker stars still in the mix at the 2011 Main Event.
Among the young players that may not be as well known to the masses but are still alive and kicking in the 2011 WSOP Main Event are Peter Jetten, Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro, JP Kelly, Taylor “amiguosity” Paur, Marvin Rettenmaier, David “Doc” Sands, Matt “allinat420” Stout, Sorel Mizzi, Adam Junglen, Richard “nutsinho” Lyndacker, Mike Sowers, Kevin MacPhee, Jake Cody, Ben Lamb, Mark Newhouse, Alex “AJKHoosiers1” Kamberis, Steve “Gboro” Gross, Andrew “Focault” Brokos, Josh “litlebstrd” Tieman, Scott Clements, Jeff Madsen, Darryll Fish, Randall Flowers, and Christian Harder.
Day 4 should make for a very interesting day, as the money bubble is expected to burst sometime around the dinner break, at which point the action will definitely pick up once again as players try to position themselves for the run to the 2011 WSOP Final Table.
Here is a look at the 10 largest stacks heading into Day 4:
- Patrick Poirier — 1,328,000
- Daryl Jace — 1,282,500
- Chris Kwon — 944,500
- David Barter — 917,000
- Scott Smith — 896,500
- Sebastian Ruthenberg — 889,000
- Christopher Bonita — 859,000
- Daniel Retallick — 850,000
- Brian Park — 820,000
- Aleksandr Mozhnyakov — 813,000
Results courtesy of www.wsop.com
Tags: Adam Junglen, Daniel Negreanu, Focault, Jeff Lisandro, Jeff Madsen, Jp Kelly, Kelly Taylor, Mark Newhouse, Patrick Poirier, Paur, Phil Hellmuth, Poker Main Event, Poker Pros, Poker Stars, Rettenmaier, Scott Clements, Sorel Mizzi, Vanessa Rousso, World Series Of Poker, World Series Of Poker Main Event
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
When Jake Cody took home the bracelet in Event #2, the $25k Heads-Up Championship, it looked as though it was going to be another year of big-time poker pros dominating at the WSOP, and for the first five events everything was going to plan with Eugene Katchalov and Allen Bari picking up bracelets as well. However, from Event #6 through Event #14 it was a litany of unknown players winning WSOP bracelets.
Since then it’s back to pro after pro taking home the titles at the WSOP, with recent winners including Brian Rast, John Juanda, Jason Somerville, and Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier winning four of the last six bracelets.
This past weekend Rast won his first bracelet in the $1,500 Pot Limit Holdem event, while Juanda bested Phil Hellmuth for his fifth bracelet in the $10k No Limit 2-7 Lowball Championship.
Yesterday it was ElkY and Somerville both bringing home their first bracelets: ElkY won the $10k Seven-Card-Stud Championship, while Somerville captured the title in the $1k No Limit Holdem Event.
With Jeff Sarwer, David “Doc” Sands, and Emil “Whitelime” Patel amongst the final nine players in the $1,500 PLO tournament; John Racener, John Juanda, Max Pescatori, Marco Traniello, Eric Buchman, and Shawn Buchanan all alive with 25 players remaining in the $2,500 8-Game Mix; and a ton of big names like Erik Seidel, Justin Bonomo, Tom Marchese, JP Kelly, and Toby Lewis in the final 40 of the $5k Shootout, it looks as if the trend may continue.
Tags: Bringing Home, Card Stud, Elky, Eric Buchman, Erik Seidel, Heads Up Championship, Jeff Sarwer, John Juanda, John Racener, Jp Kelly, Justin Bonomo, Marchese, Marco Traniello, Max Pescatori, Phil Hellmuth, Poker Pros, Pot Limit, Recent Winners, Toby Lewis, WSOP
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
One thing I have learned in the poker world over the years is that regardless of the question you ask you will often receive multiple different answers, and this is precisely what happened when PokerNews.com asked some poker pros for their thoughts on the new $1 million buy-in tournament –a charity event that will see 11.11% of the prize-pool donated to Guy Laliberte’s charity ONE DROP—set to take place at the 2012 WSOP.
While many of the responses were positive, or at least tempered in their criticism, one poker pro decided to take the poker world to task over the new atmosphere of ultra-high-stakes buy-in tournaments, Vanessa Selbst.
Selbst told PokerNews.com, “I think it is ridiculous it completely destroys the sanctity of the bracelets. It completely ruins the idea of poker stats… I think $100k and $250k buy-in tournaments are stupid enough. High-roller tournaments are $25k, that’s enough…”
The Yale law student went on to make a political analogy, saying, “it is kind of what America is doing. It completely eliminates the middle class. It is the richer people who are able to play bigger buy-in tournaments and it artificially inflates their stats and they are recognized as the best players. It makes it that much more difficult for the lower buy-in players to break through.”
Selbst makes a terrific point in that these high-profile, exclusionary, tournaments only serve to keep the current crop of top players in the spotlight, but in the end it is all about what the players, fans, and promoters want to accomplish, and for the time being that seems to be to push the envelope in terms of stakes.
Tags: 1 Million, Analogy, Bracelets, Charity Event, Guy Laliberte, High Roller, High Stakes, Middle Class, Players Fans, Poker Pro, Poker Pros, Poker World, Prize Pool, Promoters, Sanctity, Spotlight, Time Being, Vanessa Selbst, WSOP, Yale Law
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Friday, May 20th, 2011
As the chip-leader heading into the final table of the 2011 $25k WPT Championship, Galen Hall is apparently trying to lock up the Card Player Magazine and BLUFF Magazine Player of the Year Awards before the year is even half over. Hall, who won the PCA Main Event in January, would become the first player in history to win two of poker’s most prestigious tournaments in the same year if he can outlast Scott Seiver, Justin Young, Freddy Bonyadi, Roger Teska, and Tony Gargano at Friday’s final table.
Seiver, who is one of poker’s rising stars in both tournaments and cash games, trails Hall by just 20,000 chips heading into the televised final table is looking for his first major tournament title since winning a WSOP bracelet in 2008.
In previous years both Seiver and Hall would be eyeing not just the prize-money for winning the WPT Championship, but a likely sponsorship deal to boot. Unfortunately for both players, Black Friday has made US poker pros expendable to online poker sites. Should either Hall or Seiver win the title they will likely have lost out on a very lucrative sponsorship deal –just another effect of the US crackdown on online poker.
Here is a look at the final six players’ chip-counts and seating assignments heading into Friday’s final table:
Seat 1: Galen Hall — 5,095,000
Seat 2: Justin Young — 1,750,000
Seat 3: Tony Gargano — 3,550,000
Seat 4: Roger Teska — 3,600,000
Seat 5: Scott Seiver — 5,075,000
Seat 6: Freddy Bonyadi — 2,470,000
Tags: 25k, Black Friday, Bluff Magazine, Card Player Magazine, Cash Games, Freddy, Galen Hall, Gargano, Main Event, Poker Pros, Poker Sites, Prestigious Tournaments, Previous Years, Prize Money, Rising Stars, Seat 6, Seating Assignments, Sponsorship Deal, Teska, Us Crackdown
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
What a year it has been for Galen Hall at the poker tables. The young pro started 2011 off by winning the PCA Championship (worth $2.3 million), and he has also final tabled the €25,000 buy-in High-Roller tournament at the EPT Grand Final in Madrid as well as finishing runner-up in the Champion of Champions tournament there. Now Hall finds himself sitting at the top of the leader-board at the $25k WPT Championship with just 15 players remaining.
With a win in the WPT Championship Hall would vault to over $4 million in prize money won in 2011, before we even close the book on May! However, getting to the final table, let alone winning the WPT Championship, will be no simple task considering the remaining players are virtually all top poker pros.
Standing in Hall’s way are such talents as Scott Seiver, Steven Kelly, Ashton Griffin, Daniel Alaei, and 2010 WPT Championship winner David Williams. You can expect a stacked final table, as 13 of the remaining 15 players are instantly recognizable names in the poker world.
Here are the chip counts for the remaining 15 players in the 2011 $25k WPT Championship taking place at the Bellagio:
1. Galen Hall — 3,438,000
2. Sam El Sayed — 2,774,000
3. Roger Teska — 2,194,000
4. Scott Seiver — 2,001,000
5. Shannon Shorr — 1,786,000
6. Steven Kelly — 1,674,000
7. Tony Gargano — 1,577,000
8. Ashton Griffin — 1,474,000
9. Nenad Medic — 1,282,000
10. Justin Young — 1,249,000
11. Freddy Bonyadi — 700,000
12. David Peters — 633,000
13. Daniel Alaei — 530,000
14. Will Failla — 393,000
15. David Williams — 318,000
Tags: Bellagio, Champion Of Champions, Championship Winner, Daniel Alaei, Freddy, Galen Hall, Gargano, Griffin, High Roller, Kelly Ashton, Leader Board, Medic, Poker Pros, Poker Tables, Poker World, Prize Money, Recognizable Names, Shannon Shorr, Steven Kelly, Teska
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
In the wake of Black Friday the poker world has undergone a number changes with everything from US access restricted, to indictments and criminal activity uncovered. Even tournament attendance, and televised poker shows have been unable to avoid the fallout of Black Friday, and the latest news has to do with the PPA, as Poker Players Alliance Board of Directors member Rich Muny announced on 2+2 that both Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer have stepped down as PPA Board of Directors members.
Both Lederer and Ferguson joined the PPA in its infancy in 2006, despite being members of Team Full Tilt Poker –officially Lederer is a consultant of some sort for PocketKings, the parent company of Full Tilt Poker; while Ferguson was part of the team that developed the Full Tilt Poker software. That said; it’s widely accepted that they are involved in the ownership/management of Full Tilt Poker as well, making them both potential targets for the US Government.
Frankly, the involvement of people even whispered as being part of the ownership of a major online poker room was a terrible decision for the PPA’s Board of Directors. Not only does this present a major conflict of interest, but it also marginalizes the PPA’s influence as it pushes forward the online poker agenda.
While a number of Team Full Tilt Poker pros registered for the WPT Championship currently underway at the Bellagio, Lederer and Ferguson were both noticeable no-shows, further hinting that the duo may be fearful of prosecution by the US government, which could unseal another indictment just as fast as the one they blindsided the poker world on April 15, 2011.
Thus far only four of the 11 people indicted on Black Friday have been apprehended, and none of the four are from the poker sites themselves.
Tags: Alliance Board, Bellagio, Black Friday, Chris Ferguson, Conflict Of Interest, Full Tilt Poker, Howard Lederer, Indictments, Muny, Number Changes, online poker, Ownership Management, Poker Players, Poker Pros, Poker Room, Poker Sites, Poker Software, Poker World, S Board, Televised Poker
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
According to WickedChopsPoker.com, the Federated Sports + Gaming poker league fronted by Annie Duke and Jeffrey Pollack had to do some “creative accounting” in order to get online poker pros like Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan and Patrik Antonius into the final list of 220 invitees. According to WickedChops, the league tweaked the eligibility formula so the online superstars would make the cut, although both Dwan and Antonius have pretty impressive live poker records –especially Dwan, who won a WSOP bracelet in 2009 and finished 2nd in another WSOP in 2010—when you are looking at just the top 200 live tournament players there are a number of players to choose from.
WickedChops is also reporting that the league has determined seven players will qualify for a lifetime exemption, and it would be hard to argue with any of the names on the list: Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Erik Seidel, Johnny Chan, and Men “The Master” Nguyen.
The still unnamed poker league is also looking for a television deal, although it would seem that the long rumored deal with CBS is all but finalized; especially after Black Friday basically cut the amount of poker on TV in half, leaving a lot of advertisers looking for new poker programming to purchase ad-time on.
The first FS+G tournament is scheduled to take place in August, so I would expect official statements to start coming fast and furious regarding the player list and news on a TV deal.
Tags: Annie Duke, Antonius, Black Friday, Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Durrrr, Dwan, Erik Seidel, Gaming Poker, Invitees, Jeffrey Pollack, Johnny Chan, Official Statements, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Poker Pros, Sports Gaming, Television Deal, Tv Deal, WSOP
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