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Posts Tagged ‘Prize Money’
Monday, November 14th, 2011
After a two-month delay (a la the World Series of Poker) the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event final table participants were back in action this past weekend, with the €1 million first-place prize-money on the line, and what a final table it was!
With a log-jam at the top of the leader-board entering play, Team Titan Poker’s Sam Trickett found himself leading the field, but not by very much. And with the likes of 2011 WSOP bracelet winner and POY candidate Oleksii Kovalchuk, French poker star Roger Hairabedian, Alexander Dovzhenko, and Mads Wissing still in the running, the Partouche Poker Tour title was within any player’s grasp.
That said, Trickett would prove to be too much for the rest of the table, and even a 2-to-1 chip disadvantage during heads-up play was not enough to keep the UK poker pro out of the winner’s circle. The win was the third score of the year for Trickett that totaled over $1 million in prize-money (the other two coming in high-roller events at the Aussie Millions) and his $4.5 million in tournament earnings for the year is starting to approach Erik Seidel territory!
Here is a look at how the final nine players finished at the 2011 Partouche poker Tour final table:
- Samuel Trickett — €1,000,000
- Salman Behbehani — €600,000
- Oleksii Kovalchuk — €379,760
- Ilan Boujenah — €300,000
- Roger Hairabedian — €230,000
- Alexander Dovzhenko — €190,000
- Mustapha Kanit — €160,000
- Alexandre Coussy — €130,000
- Mads Wissing — €100,000
Tags: 5 Million, Alexander Dovzhenko, Aussie Millions, Erik Seidel, Grasp, High Roller, Kanit, Leader Board, Log Jam, Mads, Main Event, Play Poker, Prize Money, Salman, Titan Poker, Tour Championship, Trickett, World Series, World Series Of Poker, WSOP
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Poker pro Mclean Karr is no stranger when it comes to live poker tournaments happening across the globe, but the young American poker pro has put together a fabulous 2011 tournament campaign, including two major wins this month alone.
Earlier this month Karr was in Macau to watch his good friend Michael Phelps compete on the world stage; Phelps later returned the favor by railing Karr during a high-roller tournament at the Poker King Club StarWorld Macau Casino that featured a $100k HKD buy-in. Karr bested a field of 20 participants to walk away with the over $800k HKD for first-place.
And now yesterday it was reported that Karr had won the Parx Open Poker Classic, netting Karr an impressive $74,725, and diamond bracelet from Golden Nugget Jewelers from Philadelphia. Karr won the title holding pocket Aces against Dan Smith’s dominated A/J. Other well-known members of the final table included Will Failla, Ronald Lee, and Michael Sica.
To round out Mclean Karr’s International Man of Mystery resume: In March Karr captured the WPT Vienna High-Roller tournament, pocketing over $260k in prize-money, which he followed up with by securing a five-figure cash at the EPT Grand Final Main Event in Madrid, Spain. Other locales where Karr has pocketed a little bit of coin this year include San Remo, Italy and at the WSOP in Las Vegas this summer. All-in-all it sounds like Mclean Karr leads a fairly interesting life; travelling around the globe to play in poker tournaments, occasionally accompanied by a high-profile celebrity!
Tags: American Poker, Diamond Bracelet, Friend Michael, Golden Nugget, High Roller, International Man, Karr, Macau Casino, Madrid Spain, Man Of Mystery, Michael Phelps, Poker Pro, Poker Tournament, Poker Tournaments, Prize Money, San Remo Italy, Starworld Macau, World Stage, WPT, WSOP
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Reminiscent of Greg Raymer’s improbable run where after winning the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event he finished in 25th place in the 2005 WSOP Main Event, or even Dan Harrington’s back-to-back final tables in 2003 and 2004, Joseph Cheong has followed up his 3rd place finish in 2010 with a 114th place finish in the 2011 WSOP Main Event.
While on the surface Cheong’s 114th place finish seems far less impressive, when you take into account the size of the fields Cheong navigated through in 2010 and 2011, compared to Raymer’s 2004 and 2005 runs, and Harrington’s 2003 and 2004 runs, it becomes clear that a case could be made for Cheong having the best two-year run in the Main Event of the three!
- Raymer bested a field of 2,576 in 2004, and followed that up with a 25th out of 5,619. Total prize-money won $5,304,680.
- Harrington finished 3rd in 2003 out of 839 total participants, followed by a 4th place finish out of 2,576 players in 2004. Total prize-money won $2,150,000.
- Cheong finished 3rd out of a total of 7,319 entrants –the second most all-time—in 2010, and then 114th out of 6,856 entrants –the third most all-time—in 2011. Total prize-money won $4,184,900.
Precisely whose performance is more impressive can be debated ad nauseam, but all three players have to be considered in the conversation when it comes to the best back-to-back performances in the WSOP Main Event in the Internet era.
Two other players also followed up on deep runs in the 2010 Main Event as Jean-Robert Bellande and Christian Harder both posted back-to back Top 100 finishes in 2010 and 2011 as well.
Tags: Ad Nauseam, Dan Harrington, Era, Greg Raymer, Jean Robert Bellande, Participants, Poker Main Event, Prize Money, Rd Place, Series Of Poker, Th Place, World Series, World Series Of Poker, World Series Of Poker Main Event, Wsop Main Event
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
With 380 entrants the $10,000 buy-in PokerStars SCOOP Main Event shattered its $2.5 million guaranteed prize-pool, with the final tally hitting $3.8 million, and battling for the title on Day 2 of the tournament were some of the biggest names in poker including EPT winner Toby Lewis, online pro Sami “LarsLuzak/lrslzk” Kelopuro, EPT Berlin champ Ben “NeverScaredB” Wilinofsky, online star Matt “ADZ124″ Marafioti, and Team PokerStars Pro and 2005 WSOP Main Event Champion Joe Hachem.
In the end two of those players would wind up at the final table with one of them walking home with the SCOOP Main Event title –despite not winning the most prize-money thanks to a 5-way deal at the end of the tournament.
Sami “lrslzk” Kelopuro and Toby “810ofclubs” Lewis were both amongst the final nine players in the tournament, but it was Kelopuro who would go on to win the title, with Lewis finishing in 6th place and missing out on an equity chop made between the final five players.
Here is a look at the payouts for the final table of the 2011 SCOOP Main Event at PokerStars:
1. Sami “Lrslzk” Kelopuro (Finland) $504,691.09*
2. Tagult (Germany) $540,125,82*
3. StigR (Norway) $390,000.00*
4. altiFC (Germany) $369,581.05*
5. danskemann (Norway) $430,002.05*
6. Toby “810ofclubs” Lewis (United Kingdom) $167,200.00
7. GotURead (Netherlands) $129,200.00
8. el_klonkador (Sweden) $91,200.00
9. Hernan “HN Kakaroto” Novick (Uruguay) $66,500.00
*5-way deal
For more information on the SCOOP Main Event you can visit the PokerStars.com Blog
Tags: 2005 Wsop Main Event Champion, 5 Million, 8243, Adz124, Champ, EPT, Finland, Hn, Joe Hachem, Kakaroto, Larsluzak, Main Event, Norway, poker, Prize Money, Prize Pool, Scoop, Tally, Walking Home, Wsop Main Event Champion
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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, April 26th, 2011
When Niall Smyth placed a €10 bet on the horses, and saw it turn into €200, he probably couldn’t imagine that his €10 wager would eventually lead to €650,000 score and the title of 2011 Irish Poker Open Champion. Smyth started the final table as the chip-leader, and on his way to the €550,000 first-place prize-money –Smyth also took home an additional €100,000 for being the Sole Survivor Standing from a PaddyPower Poker promotion—he would have to battle the most experienced player at the final table in heads-up play, Surinder Sunar.
Smyth also had some competition for the €100,000 Sole Survivor bonus as Karl Rudwall and Rob Taylor were also both in search of that added prize, but Taylor and Rudwall exited in 7th and 6th place respectively, immediately boosting Smyth’s payday by six-figures.
“It started when I put €10 each way on the winner of the English Grand National, I won €200 euro and now I have €650,000. Surinder is such a great player, my support has been fantastic, and here I am!”
Here is a look at the payouts for the final table of the Irish Poker Open:
1. Niall Smyth– €550,000
2. Surinder Sunar – €290,000
3. Martin Petri – €180,000
4. Seamus Cahill – €145,000
5. Aleksi Savela – €115,000
6. Karl Rudwall – €85,000
7. Rob Taylor – €63,000
8. John Eames – €45,000
9. Niall McCann – €30,000
Tags: Bet, Bonus, Cahill, Grand National, Horses, Mccann, Open Champion, Petri, poker, Prize Money, Rob Taylor, Savela, Score, Six Figures, Sole Survivor, Wager, Wins
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Monday, April 25th, 2011
With all of the major weekly guaranteed tournaments seeing a huge decrease in their guaranteed prize-pools it should come as no surprise that PokerStars has decided to make widespread adjustments to their upcoming Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) tournament series.
Not only did PokerStars drastically reduce the total guaranteed prize-pools for the SCOOP tournament series from $45 million down to $25 million, but they also decided to adjust the schedule to better accommodate European and Asian Players now that US poker players are completely out of the picture.
Each SCOOP tournament at PokerStars will now start three hours ahead of the original start time which will align with peak hours in Europe and Asia much better than the previous start times, which focused on US players.
Despite a nearly 50% cut in the total guaranteed prize-money, the SCOOP tournament series remains one of the largest in online poker, and is extremely popular due to its innovative format which sees three separate tournaments at small, medium, and high-stakes buy-ins for each tournament.
The 2011 SCOOP will feature a total of 38 poker tournaments and will begin on May 8th and run through May 22, 2011 when the three SCOOP Main Events will take place with buy-ins ranging from $109, to up over $10k:
Low: $109 buy-in - $750,000 guarantee
Med: $1,050 buy-in - $1,500,000 guarantee
High: $10,300 buy-in - $2,500,000 guarantee
For the complete SCOOP schedule you can visit www.pokerstars.com, or www.pokerstars.eu
Tags: Asia, Asian Players, Europe, Guarantees, High Stakes, Ins, online poker, Peak Hours, Poker Players, Poker Tournament, Poker Tournaments, PokerStars, Pools, Prize Money, Scoop, Surprise, Tournament Series
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
Yesterday was a short day at the World Poker Tour Hollywood Poker Open considering the players were going from the unofficial final table of nine players down to the official final table of six players, and what a final table it will be!
Amongst the six players who will be competing for the WPT title are Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel –who has already pocketed over $4 million in prize-money this year; an up and coming star in William Reynolds; recent World Series of Poker Circuit Series winner Ali Eslami; and last year’s Card Player Magazine Player of the Year Tom Marchese. Rounding out the final table will be short-stack Andy Whetstone and Mike Scarborough who has been on an absolute tear at the Hollywood Poker Open. Scarborough finished in 2nd place in the $300 NLHE Deepstacks tournament just a few days ago, and won the $500 and $300 NLHE tournaments earlier in the series.
Here is a look at the chip counts and seating assignments heading into tomorrow’s final table at the WPT Hollywood Poker Open:
· Seat 1. Andy Whetstone - 80,500
· Seat 2. Erik Seidel - 645,000
· Seat 3. Ali Eslami - 213,000
· Seat 4. Tom Marchese - 175,000
· Seat 5. Mike Scarborough - 654,500
· Seat 6. William Reynolds - 1,169,000
The final table is set to begin at 4PM local time and will appear on FSN as part of their WPT coverage later in the year.
Tags: Ali Eslami, Card Player Magazine, Erik Seidel, Fsn, Hall Of Famer, Marchese, Open Seat, Poker Hall, Prize Money, Scarborough, Seat 6, Seating Assignments, Series Winner, Stack, Whetstone, William Reynolds, World Poker Tour, World Series, World Series Of Poker, WPT
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
Full Tilt Poker’s latest breakthrough, Multi-Entry Tournaments, has been responsible for huge tournament prize-pools, record-setting fields, and has been causing quite a buzz in online poker, now the format will also be associated with an online poker trivia question as Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers was the first player to bring two of his entries in a multi-entry tournament all the way to the final table!
Full Tilt Poker definitely foresaw this happening when they first announced the Multi-Entry format, so when Sowers’ two entries reached the final table the two chip-stacks were combined, and Sowers received 9th place prize-money for the lost entry.
Sowers accomplished the feat in the Monday $2 million guaranteed –normally the Monday Million, but the prize-pool was doubled due to the Doubles Guarantee Week promotion currently running at Full Tilt poker—and with the combined chip-stacks he took over the final table chip lead, and would go on to win the tournament.
On his way to victory Sowers, an online poker legend himself, would have to deal with two of online poker’s best tournament players in Mickey ‘Memnet_Mori” Petersen and Chris ‘Moorman1’ Moorman. For his 9th place finish Sowers received $28,848, and for the win he pocketed a further $490,295, for a one-tournament haul in excess of $500,000.
So, when you are perusing the Full Tilt poker page on Wikipedia 10 years from now make sure you find the byline about Mike Sowers being the first player to reach the final table with two of his entries!
Tags: 10 Years, Breakthrough, Buzz, Byline, Full Tilt Poker, Guarantee, Lead, Lost, Memnet, Mickey, Moorman, online poker, Pools, Prize Money, Prize Pool, Sowers, Stacks, Trivia Question, victory, Wikipedia
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