09 1st, 2010
Hinkle, who burst onto the live tournament scene with a deep run in the 2008 L.A. Poker Classic before winning a WSOP bracelet later that year, outlasted a field of 255 players in the $1,500 tournament to secure the $88,553 first-place prize.
Although he entered the final as the chip leader, collecting the cash, gold ring, $10,000 buy-in into next year’s WSOP main event and a seat in the million-dollar Circuit National Championship in Las Vegas next year was no easy task for the 24-year old chemical engineering and business finance student turned poker pro from Kansas City, Missouri.
The final table included no less than 2009 Circuit Player of the Year Dwyte Pilgrim, coming off a win in a $200 No-Limit Hold’em prelim in Iowa earlier in the series.
Pilgrim busted third for $39,531 when he ran top pair into a Hinkle straight.
The final day of the event started with 16 players and Pilgrim in the lead. But by the time 2005 WSOP Main Event 13th place finisher Bernard Lee had bubbled the final nine, Hinkle was in charge.
College roommates with 2007 WSOP bracelet winner James Mackey, Hinkle now has close to $1.2 million in career tournament earnings. His brother Grant Hinkle also won a WSOP bracelet in 2008.
With 255 players, WSOPC Council Bluffs had a $361,440 prize pool. Total entries for the entire series of events was 4,056, a 12% increase over the last Circuit series in Iowa.
Doug “Rico” Carli cashed for the 44th time on the WSOPC, extending his lead as the player with the most Circuit cashes. He now has twice as many as anyone else.
Here’s how the final table finished:
1. Blair Hinkle $88,553
2. Shiva Dudani $54,715
3. Dwyte Pilgrim $39,531
4. Matt Lawrence $29,092
5. Charles Moore $21,795
6. Jack Do $16,608
7. John Wakeen $12,867
8. Daniel Biddle $10,131
9. Kevin Calenzo $8,103
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09 1st, 2010
Jacobson, who made third at EPT Budapest in 2008, second at WPT Venice in 2009 and fourth in one of the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em events at the WSOP this summer, will be looking to add to his $933k in career tournament earnings heading into Day 4 in Portugal Wednesday.
However, Season 1 EPT Grand Final winner Rob Hollink sits dangerously close in a bid to become the first ever two-time EPT main event champion.
UB pro Brandon Cantu led after two days, but busted on Day 3.
Jacobsen qualified for the event through a PokerStars satellite.
A total of 384 players entered the €5,300 EPT Vilamoura main event, creating a €1.8 million prize pool and making it the biggest tournament ever held in Portugal.
First pays €467,835.
The tournament will run through Thursday at Casino Solverde on Portugal’s Algarve coast.
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09 1st, 2010
Names like Freddy Deeb, Neil Channing, Tony G, Bruno Fitoussi and Ross Boatman were among them.
And combined with the £5,000 buy-in, the prize pool for the event now weighs in at a healthy £820,800.
A total of 16 places will pay and £273,783 will be set aside for the winner.
Just 54 survived Day 1b, with Priyan de Mel and Richard Ashby building big stacks to separate themselves from the pack.
They will be joined on Day 2 Wednesday by the 46 players who made it through Day 1a, including chip leader Erik Seidel and a well-stacked Phil Ivey.
The plan is to play down to the final 27 players beginning at 12 p.m. London time at The Palm Beach Casino.
A winner will be crowned Saturday.
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08 26th, 2010
Andy Frankenberger started the final day of the WPT Legends of Poker main event at The Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles as chip leader and ended it as the winner. Playing at his first WPT final table Frankenberger saw off challenges from seasoned pros Tom Lee and Kyle Wilson who had both finished sixth in previous WPT events at The Bike.
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08 26th, 2010
It’s not often that we’ve been able to write about a great session for Gus Hansen this month but he had just that yesterday, showing a profit of $167k. The Danish superstar went from the bottom of the leader board to the top after dominating the seven game on Full Tilt. He’s still in the red for August overall but this is definitely a step in the right direction.
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Wednesday marked the final day for the 2010 Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic. The televised final table was headlined by Full Tilt Red Pro Van Marcus, who would be looking to claim another major tournament title., andAndreas Krause, who was…
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08 26th, 2010
New Yorker Andy Frankenberger, who left Wall Street behind to become a day trader, picking up poker in the process, left the Bicycle Casino $750,000 richer following the win.
“I’m just in shock right now,” he said.
The $5k main event at WPT Legends drew a total of 462 entrants this year, creating a $2,151,072 prize pool.
Frankenberger led the final table coming in, but lost that advantage in the early going.
He managed to edge back into the lead three-handed before hitting a club flush against 2003 Legends finalist Tom Lee to get heads-up against 2008 Legends finalist Kyle Wilson in dominating position .
Frankenberger admitted that hand was the key to the victory.
“They say you have to catch some cards to win one of these things,” he said. “I needed that club against Tom to stay alive and I caught one there.”
Going in with a better than 3:1 chip lead, Frankenberger took care of Wilson after just a few hands heads up.
With a WPT title now under his belt and $750,000 added to what was a little under $200k in career tournament earnings before this week, Frankenberger says his future should include a few more major tournaments.
“You will be seeing a lot more of me for sure,” he laughed.
Next up for the WPT is the inaugural London Poker Classic Aug. 30 - Sept.5.
Here’s how the final table finished at Legends:
1 Andy Frankenberger $750,000
2 Kyle Wilson $370,000
3 Tom Lee $174,772
4 Tom Braband $109,000
5 Jared Jaffee $86,000
6 Franco Brunetti $63,000
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08 24th, 2010
For Canadian Kyle Wilson, a high school and college basketball who found millions in online poker at the start of the boom, it’s familiar territory.
Wilson made sixth here two years ago, and with a legitimate shot at a second final table at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, he says he’s really feeling the California vibe.
“It’s weird,” he said. “I guess everybody has some place that they are comfortable.
“I actually didn’t even play (Legends) last year, so I feel like every time I come here I’m going to go deep. I feel that way about Bay 101 too. Certain spots you’re just comfortable.”
For some players in Wilson’s position, that might not be the case.
The 2008 Legends of Poker final ended for him in sixth place when he got it in very good, holding kings against ace-jack.
However, an ace on the flop crushed his hopes.
Two years later, Wilson has put the bad beat well behind him.
“It hurt really bad,” he said. “But you get over it eventually. The truth is I still had a good payday there.”
Now, his sights are firmly set on this year being even bigger than 2008.
“I want to beat my result from two years ago,” he said. “That’s my goal right now. Just make the final table, beat my sixth place result and try to win a title.”
While relatively unknown outside of two-time WPT title holder Jonathan Little, Wilson says the remaining 15 players at Legends are tough.
As a result, one of online poker’s first millionaires will try to add to his $627,400 in career live tournament earnings the old fashion way.
“I’m just going to play my game and try to get through to the final table,” he said.
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08 23rd, 2010
Bukara, who led in the early going of the EPT Tallinn main event last week, finishing 14th only a week after making sixth at the Unibet Open main event in Prague, entered the final table as the chip leader.
Only 36 played the $25k event, but Bukara had to get past a star-studded final table that included David Benyamine, Jon Turner, Carter Phillips, Andrew Feldman, and November Niner John Dolan to book the $373,207 win.
Only five places paid.
In the meantime, the Merit Cyprus Classic main event played down to the final two tables and into the money Monday.
Mathieu Clavet has the lead, but names like Van Marcus, Kelly Kim, Eric Mizrachi and the aforementioned Benyamine are still in the hunt for the $415,780 first prize.
Below are the payouts for the High Roller:
1. Perica Bukara - $373,207
2. Ori Miller - $207,337
3. Andrew Feldman - $124,402
4. David Benyamine - $82,935
5. Jon Turner - $41,467
08 20th, 2010
The World Poker Tour’s Legends of Poker Main Event kicks off today at The Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California today. The $5,000 buy-in event boasts two Day 1 starting days and will run through August 25 when the final table will be filmed…
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