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Roland Isra Overcomes Huge Chip Disadvantage at Final Table and Wins WSOP Circuit Championship
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Atlantic City, NJ – To win, all poker players must pay a price. More often than not, the price of victory is not measured by the size of the entry fee or the expenses of entering a poker tournament. For many poker players, the much greater sacrifice is the accompanying disappointment that comes with playing tournament poker full time. In between extraordinary moments of fulfillment manifested in tournament triumphs are torturous moments of defeat, disappointment, and despair.
Roland Isra, a 52 year old professional poker player from New York City, knows the perils of poker all too well. He has come to the threshold of a major tournament victory numerous times. But each and every prior occasion when it seemed that Isra might finally win big tournament, he suffered a bad bet or was the victim of some cruel misfortune. Nevertheless, Isra endured over the years and to his credit, finally earned a major breakthrough victory at the most recent World Series of Poker C… Continue reading Roland Isra Overcomes Huge Chip Disadvantage at Final Table and Wins WSOP Circuit Championship
Win a trip to the FA Cup Final courtesy of William Hill Poker
Опубликовал | КомментарииWilliam Hill Poker is getting behind the oldest cup competition in the world by sending one player and a guest on a VIP trip to Wembley for this year’s FA Cup Final.
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This Week In Poker — Phil Hellmuth Final Tables WPT, Durrrr Starts 2010 Winning
Опубликовал | КомментарииCard Player TV brings you up to date on everything that is happening in the poker world, including Phil Hellmuth making the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star final table, an interview with Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan and more in ‘This Week In Poker.’
WPT: Phil Hellmuth Makes 4th WPT Final Table
Опубликовал | КомментарииPhil Hellmuth may have eleven bracelets, but what he does not have is a World Poker Tour (WPT) title. He has made it down to the final six three times before, but this is the first time since the LA Poker Classic in Season VI that he has been within striking distance of the [...]
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Phil Hellmuth in contention at Bay 101 Shooting Star final table
Опубликовал | КомментарииPhil Hellmuth started day 3 of the Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament as the chip-leader, and was not only able to survive, but to thrive. Hellmuth will enter the televised final table with 1.4 million chips, which is good enough for second place behind chip-leader Andy Seth’s 2.1 million chips.
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Phil Hellmuth Makes WPT Bay 101 Final Table
Опубликовал | КомментарииAfter 15 grueling hours of play in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star event, the field was whittled from 27 players to six. Among those competing for the $878,000 first place prize is UB.com pro Phil Hellmuth.
Hellmuth has made three final tables on the WPT circuit. He finished fourth in the Gold Rush event during Season 1 for $34,000 and took third at Foxwoods during Season 2 for $281,000. Hellmuth returned to the WPT spotlight during Season 6, when he made the feature table of the L.A. Poker Classic, finishing sixth for $229,000. All told, the 11-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner has $836,000 in career WPT earnings; he’s poised to double that total if he wins at Bay 101.
Hellmuth told WPT Live Updates Hostess Jacque, “The guy on my left, Andy, is a very good player. I’ve had a read on him for two straight days, so that’s been helpful, but he still has the chip lead. If I can get a read on him tomorrow, I have a good chance to win.” On what it would mean to take down his first WPT title in four tries, Hellmuth remarked, “It would mean a lot. I really want to win. It’s what I do. I’ve been working really hard.” Hellmuth alludes to online poker legend Andy “BKiCe” Seth, the Bay 101 Shooting Star’s chip leader.
At one point during play on Thursday, Lon Diamond was down to just 17,000 in chips before mounting the comeback of a lifetime. With a stack equivalent to one big blind when play wrapped up on Thursday, Diamond tripled up and then doubled twice more to stay alive. Ultimately, Diamond was the final table bubble boy at Bay 101, finishing in seventh place for $58,000. Diamond called all-in pre-flop with A-Q, but ran into the pocket queens of Seth. The board came 10-9-6-6-8 and the six-handed final table was determined.
Former WSOP Main Event winner Scotty Nguyen hit the rails in eighth place for the same $58,000, baby. Nguyen shoved pre-flop under-the-gun with J-8 of hearts and ran into Seth’s K-Q. The flop came queen-high, keeping Seth out in front, and no help came for the five-time bracelet winner on the turn or river. Nguyen has made a colossal eight WPT final tables, emerging as the champ once.
Poker fans will also recognize Hasan Habib, who owns the second shortest stack entering the Bay 101 final table. Habib finished second in the WPT Championship during Season 2 for $1.3 million and promptly took third the following season for another $896,000. Making his first WPT final table is Matt Keikoan, who took seventh in last season’s Legends of Poker for $140,000.
To go from 11-handed to 10-handed action took five hours. Here are the six players remaining in the 2010 WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star event:
1. Andy “BKiCe” Seth – 2,164,000
2. Phil Hellmuth – 1,433,000
3. Dan O’Brien – 1,129,000
4. Mclean Karr – 1,112,000
5. Hasan Habib – 455,000
6. Matt Keikoan – 371,000
When play resumes in San Jose, California, the blinds will be 8,000-16,000 with an ante of 2,000. Nearly two hours will be played at this level before the price of poker increases. Players who found the exit on Thursday were:
7. Lon Diamond – $58,600
8. Scotty Nguyen – $58,600
9. Brian “tsarrast” Rast – $38,000
10. David Forster – $38,000
11. “Miami” John Cernuto – $29,300
12. Dan Gamon – $29,300
13. Nick Schulman – $23,400
14. Chau Giang – $23,400
15. Joseph “BigEgypt” Elpayaa – $23,400
16. Tim McDermott – $23,400
17. Lars Elmoe – $23,400
18. Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka – $23,400
19. Vanna Tea – $20,500
20. John Monnette – $20,500
21. Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo – $20,500
22. Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little – $20,500
23. Taylor Raines – $20,500
24. Tom Marchese – $20,500
25. Thuy Phan – $17,600
26. Ted Jivkov – $17,600
27. Kafir Nahum – $17,600
Each of the six players remaining is assured a payday of $117,000, twice what the tournament’s seventh and eighth place finishers received. Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for the latest WPT results.
Hellmuth Headlines Bay 101 Final
Опубликовал | КомментарииOne of poker’s biggest names will dawn the marquee in San Jose as Phil Hellmuth Jr. will come in second in chips in an attempt to win his first WPT title.
The 11-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner will be making his third WPT final table and a bit of a comeback of sorts, having admitted 2009 was his worst year in poker.
“I’ve been working really hard on my game,” Hellmuth told PokerListings. “It feels really good. I’m really happy and I’m pleased with the way I’m playing.”
Daniel Negreanu recently criticized Hellmuth, claiming the Poker Brat wasn’t taking the necessary steps to improve his game in an ever changing poker landscape.
However, Hellmuth now says he’s been working with players like Brandon Cantu, Ted Forrest and David “The Maven” Chicotsky to adjust.
A plan that appears to have worked out here at Bay 101.
“We’ve been talking about some of the Internet kids and their techniques and how they’re playing,” he said. “They seem to be very mathematical. Everything is about the math.
“And I’ve been learning because I have to figure out how their playing to devise a strategy to beat them.”
Armed with a better understanding of what the players around him are up to, Hellmuth will head into the final table confident and ready to get to work.
“I think I have a great chance if my reads stay strong,” he said. “But I’ve still got a lot of work left.”
Now, he says even his biggest critic has changed his tune.
“Daniel’s in my corner now,” he said. “He likes the fact that I’m trying some new school stuff.”
However, it’s still going to take all Hellmuth has to get past a final six with a combination of experience, youthful exuberance and poker skill.
Andy Seth, the runner-up in one of the many $1,500 events at the WSOP this past summer with a list of online poker accomplishments a mile long will come in with the chip lead and a reputation as the player whose been giving Hellmuth the most headaches thus far.
Plus, after an 11th place finish here last year and a ninth in Biloxi earlier this season, Dan O’Brien will finally get a crack at a big score here and has the chips to make some real noise.
Despite having played with the poise of a veteran pro, turning his short stack at the start of the playdown to the final into a big one in the end, Mclean Karr has just a few preliminary cashes around the circuit on his resume.
However, a recent run all the way to 62nd at the inaugural PokerStars NAPT Las Vegas and a boatload of online experience have set the US Air Force Academy Applied Math and Statistics grad turned poker player on the edge of something rather large here in San Jose.
Hasan Habib will come in to his third WPT final table fifth in chips. He has yet to book a win, but does have five final tables at the WSOP and a bracelet there, proving he knows how to get it done.
Matt Keikoan has won at the WSOP before, and also took down the WSOP Circuit event in Lake Tahoe last year. After a seventh and a ninth on the WPT previously, he will enter his first final table as the short stack.
Known for the loudest fans on tour, San Jose will be treated to a final filled with big names and dramatic story lines destined to go down as one of the most exciting in World Poker Tour history.
Action will begin at 4 p.m. PT. For comprehensive coverage, tune in to PokerListings’ Live Updates and News.
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Опубликовал | КомментарииIt was the first Sunday in March, and while still in the height of live poker tournament season, a solid number of players found their ways to the online poker tables for the Sunday majors.
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2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship — Final Four Recap
Опубликовал | КомментарииCard Player TV brings you a recap of the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship from Caesar’s Palace, including interviews with both finalists, Annie Duke and Erik Seidel.
Brunson and Duke Highlight NBC Heads-Up Poker Going to Final Day
Опубликовал | КомментарииOne of the most anticipated poker events of the year is the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. For the sixth year running, the three-day series of heads-up tournaments was announced with its $1.5 million prize pool and exciting list of attendees.
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