07 18th, 2010
No one is backing down, all fighting to make the final table with Andy Youens leading the way.
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07 18th, 2010
Blinds at war.
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Once again, professional players dominated the World Series of Poker and therefore the Player of the Year race. The competition saw John Juanda (who had five cashes including four final tables) and Frank Kassela (who had four cashes including two bracelets and a final table) running neck-and-neck on POTY points.
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07 5th, 2010
Must be nice to take down a million dollar freeroll – Huck Seed has won the 2010 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, beating Howard Lederer to first place after a three-day slog towards the final table.
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07 5th, 2010
Despite the pre-final table day of the penultimate $10,000 World Championship event being packed to the rafters with big PLO names making deep runs – Devilfish, Tom Dwan and Jason Mercier to name but a few – the final table was a fairly low-key affair with Daniel Alaei the biggest name pro at the table.
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Event #52: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em / Six-Handed
It was a rather quick day as Event #52 played down from 18 to a final table of six players, led by 21-year-old Dan “djk123″ Kelly, who has a monster chip lead with just under 6 million in chips…
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07 3rd, 2010
PokerNews and Betfred Poker are bringing you an exciting freeroll series in the month of July. Twice this month, players will get to play for their share of a $2,500 added prize pool. The cash will be distributed as per Betfred Poker’s standard…
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07 2nd, 2010
In what could best be described as “the calm before the storm,” only one bracelet was awarded on Thursday night in action at the ().
In the $3,000 Triple Chance No Limit Hold’em tournament, Event #51 on the WSOP schedule, 12 men returned on Thursday afternoon for their shot at a coveted gold and diamond WSOP bracelet. Jon Eaton held a roughly 600,000 chip lead over Frank Rusnak, with underrated pro Will “The Thrill” Failla lurking in third place. The players wasted little time once the cards hit the air, getting down to the final table in roughly 4½ hours.
Rusnak was one of the victims of the early carnage, doubling up Bradley Craig and losing a key hand to Failla to drop his chip stack into the danger zone. Rusnak, who has almost $600,000 in tournament earnings since his debut in 2007, was never able to get any traction from the start and got his final chips in with K-Q. He was called by Koen de Bakker, who had him dominated with his A-Q. The flop offered an appealing A-5-J rainbow arrangement, but delivered no 10 for Rusnak, dropping him from the tournament in 11th place.
Once the final table was established, one of the rarer occurrences during a WSOP final table occurred. Guillaume Darcourt, after an all-in bet from Tad Jurgens and an all-in over the top from Noel Scruggs, agonized over a decision that would either make his tournament or crush his dreams of a WSOP bracelet. After the careful deliberation, Darcourt made the call with pocket sevens, only to see Jurgens table pocket queens and Scruggs show his A-Q. The seven that popped on the flop sent a thunderous roar through the audience and delivered a rare bird at a WSOP final table, the double knockout. Jurgens started the hand with fewer chips and finished in ninth and Scruggs took the eighth place slot.
Over the next four hours, the remainder of the final table would be eliminated, bringing the action to a heads-up battle between Eaton and Ryan Welch, who diligently ground his way through the final table. On the final hand, with Eaton holding slightly fewer chips than Welch, the duo got their chips to the center of a 9-7-6-10-K board. Eaton bet out roughly 525,000 on the river to start, only to face an all-in reraise from Welch. Eaton struggled with the decision, reasoning out the hands that Welch could possibly hold before making the call. Welch immediately showed Q-J for the rivered nut straight and, once the chips were counted, became the latest WSOP champion.
1. Ryan Welch (Henderson, NV) – $559,371
2. Jon Eaton (Las Vegas, NV) – $344,830
3. Guillaume Darcourt (Paris, France) – $223,459
4. Will Faille (Smithtown, NY) – $163,532
5. Bradley Craig (Cleveland, OH) – $121,451
6. Sergey Lebedev (Troitsk, Russia) – $91,407
7. Tommy Vedes (Fort Mojave, AZ) – $69,647
8. Noel Scruggs (Del Mar, CA) – $53,694
9. Tad Jurgens (Tempe, AZ) – $41,842
Four other events were in play on Thursday, with two tournaments that will award bracelets on Friday. In Event #52, the $25,000 Six-Handed No Limit Hold’em tournament, 18 players will come back on Friday afternoon from the original 191 starters. Bryn Kenney is the overnight chip leader stacked with 2.425 million, but there is danger lurking around every corner. , who has had a quiet 2010 WSOP, is in sixth place, with 2010 double bracelet winner Frank Kassela ahead of him in fifth. Add in Sam Trickett, , Shawn Buchanan, Eugene Katchalov, Justin “” Bonomo, , and Vadim Trincher, and the final table of this event should hold for exciting poker.
In the $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout, Victory Poker pro Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little and Terrence “Unassigned” Chan lead a final table of eight. As with a Shootout tournament, all eight worked their way to the final table by defeating a full table of opponents over the first two days of play. Everyone will start with 450,000 in chips when the cards fly this afternoon.
The first Day 1 of the latest $1,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament drew a sizeable field of 2,340 players, potentially making this $1,000 event one of the largest of this year’s WSOP, depending on the second Day 1 gathering. The final table of this tournament will take place on Independence Day.
The $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship drew a starting field of 346, which was whittled down by over half to 171 by the end of Day 1. Australia’s Antonio Paino is the chip leader with 240,000, with several top pros mixed throughout the field. 2009 November Niner is in third, with Fabrice Soulier (sixth) and Ted Lawson (seventh) both in the top 10. Final table play in Event #55 will take place on Saturday.
Only one event will begin play on Friday, the $2,500 No Limit Hold’em event. It is also set to finish play on Sunday, prior to the start of the $10,000 World Championship event on Monday. Although there are tournaments in action over the next few days, it more than likely will be a preparation weekend for many of the top players as the WSOP moves into its final two weeks and its World Championship event.
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06 29th, 2010
When we left off last week, the 24-player field in the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge had been narrowed to a final table of eight, comprised of four Americans, three Aussies and one Brit. Online wunderkind Jonathan Karamalikis led the field…
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06 29th, 2010
The second day of the Tournament of Champions million-dollar invitational did not go as planned – instead of playing to a final table, only one player busted in three hours of poker which means there will have to be another four levels shoehorned in before the Main Event.
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