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After the conclusion of the National Heads Up Poker Championship in Las Vegas, players quickly moved the action to San Jose for the always popular stop at the Bay 101 Shooting Stars. Prior to the start of the event, decided he wanted to cross book his action with online phenomenon Tom “” Dwan. “Made a bet with Durr,” Negreanu fired across the Twitterverse. “He set a line I picked sides. He made me a 6/5 fav on crossbook. I bet on him so I have 12 pct of him he has 10 of me.” Unfortunately, neither Negreanu nor Dwan – who were two of the fifty bounties at the Bay 101 event – was able to make the money in the tournament (36 players of the 333 entrants earned a payout) and recoup their buy-ins.
Other players at the tournament were having similar difficulties with the unique tournament, which is the only bounty event on the circuit. For knocking out one of the bounty players, the victor claims a $5000 prize and also a shirt to commemorate the event. “Poker 2 Nite” host Joe Sebok was among those with the $5K on his head and he didn’t run well from the start of the tournament. “So frustrated. Lose every hand that I play. Really don’t get this run I’m in for a while. Losing every way imaginable,” Sebok tweeted before being eliminated by Bobby Suer. “This is not going well,” Sebok’s father commented over Twitter. “Joey has already been knocked out, and I’m down to 15k, 75BB at 100-200 blinds.” Greenstein, also a bounty in the tournament, met the same fate as his son.
“Steamed my way back 2 Vegas right after got knocked out of Bay101,” 2008 Europe champion reported on Wednesday. “I’m sick & tired of poker! Good news is there wont be any pkr till April.” had much the same feeling as Juanda when he Tweeted, “I don’t like to do much before noon. And going bust @bay101live is not one of those things. Had a flip for about 70k. Oh well.”
Not too concerned about her performance at the Bay 101 tournament was recent National Heads Up Poker Championship victor . Duke made a joke prior to the start of the Bay 101, tweeting, “I won the Heads Up Poker Championship on NBC but Donald Trump gave the trophy to Joan Rivers,” an obvious reference to her stunning defeat on “Celebrity Apprentice” last year. Duke continued to ride the high of her NHUPC championship when she jokingly chirped, “They introduced me at Bay 101 and @Erik_Seidel booed me. Sore loser.” Although she wouldn’t be around for the money portion of the tournament, Duke took it in stride when she Tweeted Thursday morning, “Happy to be back to Bikram (yoga) cause I like to celebrate a big win by sweating my ass off.”
commanded the Twitterscape with news that a movie about his life is being considered by Hollywood. “A studio called about making a movie about my life,” the legendary poker veteran tweeted on Monday. “Said they would get my favorite actor to play me. Problem, Denzel Washington is my fav,” finished Brunson, which opened the floodgates to other poker players to chirp in. “If anyone could pull that off, it’s Denzel!,” tweeted Alex Outhred, while “Brunson 10” member Amit “amak316” Makhija agreed with Outhred when he tweeted, “Denzel playing dolly = instant Oscar.”
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03 11th, 2010
UB.com pro and 11-time () bracelet winner leads the () Bay 101 Shooting Star event entering its play down day. By the end of Thursday, six players will be left standing.
It’s hard to believe. Hellmuth holds the record for number of bracelets won and has made three WPT final tables. However, one accolade the decorated poker pro lacks is a WPT title. After a two-year hiatus from reaching a final table on the roving tournament series, Hellmuth is poised to buck the trend by leading the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star event after two days of play.
Hellmuth told WPT Live Updates Hostess Jacque following Wednesday’s action, “It feels pretty good. I played about as well as I could play today. I had a huge hand against [Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka]. He’s a great young player and has so much talent. He moves his chips so well and the only way I could beat him was to try to play tight.” In a key hand between the two, the final board read J-J-4-3-Q, Hellmuth led out for 21,000, and Jaka made the call. Hellmuth showed Q-J for a boat and coverage found on the WPT’s website explained, “Jaka didn’t appear to expect such a strong hand, and he says with sincerity, ‘Wow! Nice hand,’ as he mucks his own cards.”
Hellmuth’s competition was anything but soft on Day 2. The feature table included Hellmuth, Jaka, Andy “BKiCe” Seth, Unabomber Poker’s , Justin “Boosted J” Smith, Tyler “brainwash” Cornell, , and Day 1B chip leader Eugene Katchalov. Jaka doubled through Katchalov early on after his pocket queens caught a set against Katchalov’s pocket aces. Jaka ended with the seventh largest stack at 332,500, with Hellmuth amassing 550,000 chips during two days of play.
Seth, an online poker legend, busted two Shooting Stars in back-to-back hands at the feature table to collect a pair of $5,000 bounties and autographed shirts. Tran was all-in with K-5 of spades on a board reading K-8-5-10 for top and bottom pair. However, Seth flipped over a wired pair of eights for a set. Tran shouted for a king on the river to stave off elimination, but a seven fell.
On the very next hand, 2007 WSOP Main Event champ Jerry Yang called all-in with pocket fives on a board of 9-5-2. However, he was the victim of a set over set situation, as Seth showed pocket nines. The board filled out 10-4 and Seth claimed his second straight Shooting Star bounty. The youngster will enter Day 3 with the third largest stack at 453,000.
The money bubble burst on Wednesday with the elimination of Michael Cooper in 37th place. Cooper ran pocket tens into the pocket aces of . Then, a bevy of bust outs occurred, including Mohsin “chicagocards1” Charania in 34th, Steve “gboro780” Gross in 33rd, and PokerXFactor instructor Chris “Fox” Wallace in 28th. Twenty-seven players survived to see Day 3:
1. Phil Hellmuth - 550,000
2. Hasan Habib - 496,000
3. Andy “BKiCe” Seth - 453,000
4. Dan O’Brien - 439,000
5. Matt Keikoan - 426,500
6. Nick Schulman - 381,500
7. Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka - 332,500
8. Brian “tsarrast” Rast - 322,000
9. Chau Giang - 307,500
10. David Forster - 305,500
11. Joseph “BigEgypt” Elpayaa - 302,000
12. Vanna Tea - 279,000
13. Lon Diamond - 242,000
14. Lars Elmoe - 216,000
15. Taylor Raines - 198,000
16. John Monnette - 179,000
17. Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little - 177,500
18. Dan Gamon - 170,500
19. Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo - 154,000
20. “Miami” John Cernuto - 134,500
21. Scotty Nguyen - 132,500
22. Tom Marchese - 117,500
23. Ted Jivkov - 105,500
24. Tim McDermott - 80,000
25. Thuy Phan - 78,000
26. Kafir Nahum - 73,000
27. McLean Karr - 30,500
When play wrapped up on Wednesday night, the blinds were 1,500-3,000 with an ante of 500. Each player remaining is assured at least $17,000 and today’s action will conclude when the six-handed final table is determined. The survivors will battle on Friday for an $878,000 top prize. Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for the latest WPT results.
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The World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star resmued on Wednesday with 126 players having made it through to Day 2. After six levels of play, we are in the money and only 27 players remain. Emerging to the top of the chip counts was none other than…
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The UB.com poker news show “Poker2Nite” aired its second episode of Season 2 on Wednesday. National Heads-Up Poker Championship winner and Poker News Daily Guest Columnist joined the Versus franchise.
Appropriately, the 30-minute show kicked off with discussion of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, which featured four former () Main Event champions in the final eight. In addition, the Final Four were all over the age of 40. “Poker2Nite” host Joe Sebok told viewers, “In a game dominated by youngsters, it seemed not to be that way in this tournament.” Sebok also questioned the need to have seven online qualifiers join the field of 64; six were eliminated in the first round.
“Poker2Nite” also touched on the robbery of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin Main Event, where Sebok remarked that thieves made off with $272,000, although that figure has varied widely. Results from the ’s () Celebrity Invitational and L.A. Poker Classic aired along with a recap of professional golfer Tiger Woods turning down a $75 million sponsorship offer from Paddy Power.
Following footage from the National Heads-Up Poker Championship draw party, which included interviews with , , , and , UB.com pro Annie Duke joined the set. Duke is fresh off a deep run in the L.A. Poker Classic and a $500,000 win in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. She told Sebok and co-host Scott Huff, “I took from October to February off mainly because I realized that when I was going into a lot of tournaments, I was taking an attitude of resenting poker because it was taking away from time with my kids.”
Duke noted that being mentally prepared to play poker is critically important: “When you’re not in the mood to play, you lose some of those small edges.” The UB.com pro was on her way to San Jose, California for the Bay 101 Shooting Star event, explaining that a fundamentally solid performance was important: “This is going to be a big test of how hungry I am because I’m really tired.” Duke ultimately busted on Day 1B after committing her stack with A-K on a flop of 10-6-3 and running into Yukinori Yamazaki’s pocket aces.
Duke faced a gauntlet of poker talent in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, including Poker math whiz , her first round opponent. On getting past the former MIT Blackjack Team member, Duke commented, “Once I got past him, it was a huge confidence boost, like a monkey off my back.” Duke then bested , Paul Wasicka, Jerry Yang, and before battling eight-time bracelet winner in the finals. Duke dubbed Seidel “really good.”
Snowboarder Hannah Teter, who won a silver medal in women’s halfpipe during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, joined “Poker2Nite” via Skype to discuss her love for poker. She explained that the game was an integral part of her preparations for the Winter Olympics: “We played poker while training this summer, but during the winter, we’re in the zone.” Instead of cash, Teter and company typically played for candy. She added that she’d like to head to the WSOP this year to play in a charity event.
“Poker2Nite” host Dana Workman did not have an in-studio guest this week for the “Girls of Poker” segment, but presented the “Poker2Nite Online” vignette highlighting the groundbreaking Tweets of the week. They included , Brian Balsbaugh, and Annette “” Obrestad blasting Twitter messages about the National Heads-Up Poker Championship and a picture that appeared on PokerListings of Lindgren and Erica Schoenberg getting cozy. Also addressed during the update was whether Sebok should continue to rock his beard.
Next week, North American Poker Tour (NAPT) hostess Joanna Krupa will join “Poker2Nite.” You can catch the series every Wednesday at 11:00pm ET on Versus.
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Think back to the first time you played online poker. Were you on the Moneymaker bandwagon in late 2003? Or riding the WPT wave in 2004? Maybe Joe Hachem inspired you to start playing in 2005 or “Isildur1’s” run convinced you to ante up three months
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03 11th, 2010
The unknown Swede’s session started by turning around a heads-up $500/$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha session against CardRunners pro Cole South, going from down over $300k after 133 hands to up $557,896 after 952 hands of play.
Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo, who has been playing heads-up Hold’em with Isildur1 almost daily, took $101k from the Swede after just over 300 hands of $200/$400 No-Limit Hold’em, but was unable to hold on to it losing back $622,648 a couple hours later.
Bonomo would leave the tables down $521,566 last night.
Tom “durrrr” Dwan, who has been in the process of making a massive comeback since his brutal losses at the end of 2009, would be next on Isildur1’s hit-list, but after 888 hands of $300/$600 PLO Dwan managed to pull off a massive $1,021,995 win, almost entirely negating Isildur1’s profit for the day.
Dwan’s million dollar profit moves him to first place for profit in 2010 with over $3.3 million earned so far at .
Next up, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond continued the heads-up $200/$400 NLHE session started by Bonomo, making just over $57k after 1,482 hands.
The two then agreed to move the game to $300/$600 PLO where they remained for 2,182 hands, moving up to $500/$1,000 after Isildur1 got stuck for over $254k.
Galfond turned up the heat at $500/$1,000, absolutely crushing Isildur1 for over $1.6 million across the action-filled 2,064 hand session.
In total, the two played 8 pots worth over $300k, the largest of which came in at $415,999.
By the end of the day, Isildur1 had lost $1.9 million exclusively to Galfond, booking a massive $1.8 million dollar loss on the day.
Below are three of yesterday’s largest pots. To see more hands from last night, head to .
03 11th, 2010
We know what you’re thinking – this is tenuously poker news at best and the readers of Bluff Europe deserve better. Well, readers, is a link to pictures of Heather Graham, Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Love Hewitt, among others.
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03 11th, 2010
Another 196 players have entered the World Poker Tour’s $10,000 buy-in event at Bay 101, including 25 players with a $5,000 bounty on their scalp. Fellow bounty Eli Elezra took David Williams’ $5,000 for the first bounty of the day and they dropped like flies from there.
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03 11th, 2010
Isildur1 has had an amazing past 36 hours. He took on Cole South, winning $785,000, before making over half a million from Brian Hastings. South then fell victim to the Swedish player again, losing a further $465,000.
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03 11th, 2010
Poker players from south Wales should have plenty to cheer about later this month with the arrival of new poker room Les Croupiers.
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