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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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A total of 196 players took to the felts in San Jose, California for Day 1B of the ’s () Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament. Eugene Katchalov came out on top after the second starting day, earning a $10,000 cash bonus.
Katchalov finished with 131,500 chips, which will be the third largest stack after the survivors of Day 1A and Day 1B are combined for Day 2. When the cards hit the air today in the West Coast casino, 126 players will be seated. Overall, the tournament drew 333 entrants, down 15% from last year’s tally of 391. In 2009, took second to Steve Brecher and heading into Day 2, another female leads the way, Vanna Tea.
Shooting Stars, who have $5,000 bounties on their heads, doubled up left and right to close play on Tuesday at Bay 101. Poker front man was all-in with A-J of diamonds and up against pocket kings, but flopped one jack and turned trips to advance to Day 2. Lederer will have a stack of 20,600 chips when play resumes, the 109th largest tally.
Also doubling up late in the day was 2007 () Main Event champion Jerry Yang, whose 74,300 chips make up the 27th largest stack. Yang is fresh off an Elite Eight appearance in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, where he fell to eventual champion .
Not as fortunate was 2008 WSOP Europe Main Event winner , whose pocket fours could not hold up against the A-K of Tyler Cornell. When the smoke cleared, Cornell made a Broadway straight to collect Juanda’s $5,000 bounty and autographed Shooting Star shirt.
Also falling short on Day 1B was Victory Poker pro , who was all-in pre-flop with a wired pair of nines against the pocket kings of Betfair pro Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi and the A-3 of another player. The board ran out J-8-8-5-3, ultimately giving Mizzi a king-high flush, and Esfandiari was relegated to the rails. “The Magician” had tripled up earlier in the day with pocket kings against A-K and pocket nines. Meanwhile, Mizzi busted two players in the hand and owns the ninth largest chip stack entering Day 2.
UB.com pro and 11-time bracelet winner was all-in on a flop of J-5-3 with two spades holding A-Q of spades for the nut flush draw and two overcards. His opponent held 4-5 for a pair. The turn came a queen, saving the day for “The Poker Brat,” and a harmless nine fell on the river. Hellmuth ended the day with a stack of 62,800 chips, the 42nd largest tally in the WPT tournament. His talented company at Table 22 on Wednesday will include , Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka, Justin “Boosted J” Smith, and Corwin “mig.com” Mackey. Talk about a tough draw.
Here are the top 10 chip stacks in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star event as play enters Day 2:
1. Vanna Tea – 143,900
2. Greg “FBT” Mueller – 132,800
3. Eugene Katchalov – 131,500
4. Timothy McDermott – 118,100
5. Grantland Hillman – 115,100
6. David Sands – 106,900
7. Oddie Dardon – 105,500
8. – 99,900
9. Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi – 97,600
10. Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko – 97,600
The winner of the event will take home an $878,000 grand prize, with the top 36 players finishing in the money. Here are the payouts for the six-handed feature table:
1st Place: $878,500
2nd Place: $521,200
3rd Place: $292,800
4th Place: $234,300
5th Place: $175,700
6th Place: $117,000
Other notable names appearing in the top 50 after two starting days include:
13. – 93,100
15. Hasan Habib – 89,700
16. Nick Schulman – 88,100
18. – 84,800
19. Chris “Fox” Wallace – 84,100
26. “Miami” John Cernuto – 76,700
27. Jerry Yang – 74,300
30. Phil Laak – 72,700
35. Chau Giang – 68,500
41. Steve “gboro780” Gross – 64,200
42. Phil Hellmuth – 62,800
45. Matt “All In At 420” Stout – 61,000
47. Brandon Cantu – 58,100
The WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament will crown a champion on Friday. Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for the latest WPT results.
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03 5th, 2010
After a one-day delay, the ’s () L.A. Poker Classic resumed on Thursday with its six-handed final table. After 94 hands, Andras Koroknai emerged victorious and banked $1.8 million.
Koroknai earned the largest first place payday awarded so far during Season 8 of the WPT. His prize package included $1.8 million in cash, a WPT bracelet and watch, a Commerce Casino trophy, and a $25,000 entry into the end-of-season WPT Championship, which will play out next month from the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Koroknai had a rowdy Hungarian rail during the L.A. Poker Classic’s final table and told WPT Live Updates Hostess Jacque that his plan was to spend his newfound riches.
Koroknai edged out Raymond Dolan heads-up. Michael Kamran, the short stack entering the final table, was the first person sent packing. Kamran moved all-in pre-flop with 10-7 of diamonds for eight big blinds and George Kasabyan made the call with A-J. Kamran picked up a straight draw when the flop came 9-8-5 and turned a seven to take the lead in the hand with a pair. However, Kasabyan hit an ace on the river to end Kamran’s heroics. He picked up $246,000 for his run through the $10,000 buy-in poker tournament.
The second player eliminated was J.C. Moussa, who picked up $321,000 for his fifth place showing. Moussa shoved over the top of a re-raise by Tri Huynh with A-9. Huynh flipped up A-Q and the board ran out 10-6-2-K-5. Huynh made a flush by the time all was said and done and sat with the second largest stack at the table.
Dolan scooped a 2.6 million chip pot shortly thereafter to take the chip lead before a long battle ensued to see who would become the tournament’s fourth place finisher. Kasabyan called all-in with A-7 on a board of A-9-8, but ran into Huynh’s A-9 for top two pair. Kasabyan hit a seven on the turn for one of his outs needed to win the hand, but a river nine gave Huynh a full house. Kasabyan, who hails from Armenia and was rooted on by Chris “The Amenian Express” Grigorian throughout the final table, collected $450,000.
The trio remaining was fairly even in chips following Kasabyan’s exit, but Koroknai doubled through Dolan to claim 60% of the chips in play. On the 93rd hand of final table play, Huynh was bounced after calling all-in with pocket jacks against Koroknai’s A-K. I bet you can guess how this hand ends. A king hit on the flop to send the tournament’s eventual winner out in front and no help came on the turn or river. Entering heads-up play, Koroknai held a 10:1 edge in chips.
Heads-up action lasted all of one hand, as Dolan called off his remaining chips with Q-4 and found himself up against Koroknai’s Q-8 of hearts. The action flop came 10-9-4 with two hearts, giving Dolan bottom pair and Koroknai a flush draw. The turn was a seven, adding even more drama, and giving Koroknai even more outs. Sure enough, the king of hearts hit as the jackpot card on the river and Koroknai took down the 2010 L.A. Poker Classic. Here were the final payouts:
1. Andras Koroknai - $1,788,040
2. Raymond Dolan - $1,002,710
3. Tri Huynh - $665,140
4. Gevork Kasabyan - $450,580
5. Jean-Claude Moussa - $321,840
6. Michael Kamran - $246,740
Next on tap for the WPT is the Bay 101 Shooting Star event from San Jose, California. The unique bounty tournament kicks off next Monday, March 8th. Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for the latest WPT coverage.
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03 4th, 2010
“It feels excellent,” Koroknai said through an interpreter. “I’m going to spend the money. All of it.”
Koroknai started with the lead and although he gave it up midway through the final six, by the time heads up rolled around, he was clearly in charge.
Short stack Michael Kamran was happy to be through to his first WPT Final table after making seventh at WPT Bay 101 last year.
However, the L.A. local’s time did not last long as he ran T♦ 7♦ into Koroknai’s ace-jack in the early going.
Despite flopping an open-ended straight draw and turning a pair, Kamran was done in by an ace on the river railing him sixth.
J.C. Moussa took fifth when he shoved ace-nine into Tri Huynh’s ace-queen and failed to improve and fourth belonged to George Kasabyan, who called Huynh’s shove with a pair of aces only to find Huynh with aces-up.
Three-handed play was a relatively tight affair until Raymond Dolan and Koroknai got in a major battle.
Both paired their ace on an A♣ Q♦ 2♦ flop and after the money went in, Koroknai’s jack kicker played over Dolan’s six to give the Hungarian a commanding chip lead.
That lead got even bigger when Koroknai busted Huynh in a classic race with ace-king beating jacks after a king on the flop.
Heads up started with Koroknai holding 13.4 million chips to Dolan’s 1.4 million and it was over fast.
On the first hand, Koroknai shoved with Q♥ 8♥ and Dolan called with Q♣ 4♥.
A four in the window made it look like Dolan would double, but Korknai picked up an open ender to go with a flush draw on the turn and when the K♥ fell on the river giving him the flush, the L.A. Poker Classic title and almost $1.8 million was his.
03 4th, 2010
ClubWPT qualifier Leron Washington took down the () Celebrity Invitational, defeating a field of 567 players from all walks of life. He earned $100,000 for the win.
Washington hails from Huntington, West Virginia and is a boxer by trade. If the WPT is looking for a spokesperson for its subscription-based online poker room that Washington qualified through, he may be their man. Washington told new WPT Live Updates hostess Jacque following his win on Wednesday night, “It’s a dream come true. I’ve been waiting for this day a long time. It’s really being able to get out and try to showcase my talent and sit alongside some of the pros and celebs.”
Washington became the first ClubWPT qualifier to make a final table on the roving tournament series and entered the finale third on the leaderboard. Steve Elliott was the first elimination of the night. He called all-in after a raise pre-flop by Neev Baram and turned over K-Q. Baram showed K-10 and the flop came J-J-8, leaving Elliott in prime position for a double up. The turn was a queen, giving Baram extra outs. Sure enough, a bullet hit on the river to improve Baram to a straight, sending Elliott home in sixth place for $5,000.
Two-time () bracelet winner Thor Hansen was sent packing in fifth place after moving all-in before the flop with A-6. Washington made the call with just 8-6 and spiked an eight on the flop. No help came for Hansen on the turn or river and the most decorated player at the final table was bumped in fifth place for $10,000. The Season 8 Celebrity Invitational marked Hansen’s first WPT final table.
Five hands later, Baram moved all-in under-the-gun with Q-10 and received a call from Sean Urban, who held A-K of diamonds. The flop fell 10-5-2 with two diamonds, pushing Baram out in front with top pair, but giving Urban a flush draw in addition to his two overcards. The turn was the nine of clubs, but Urban spiked an ace on the river to send Baram home. Fourth place in the invite-only WPT tournament was worth $15,000.
pro and former “Real World: Las Vegas” star Trishelle Cannatella committed her chips with pocket queens on a board reading 8-7-5-5. Washington thought for several seconds before making the call with 6-7 for a pair of sevens and an open-ended straight draw. The river was a four, a dagger for Cannatella, as the card improved Washington to a straight. Cannatella took home $20,000, her first WPT cash. She was a guest on the UB.com sponsored poker news show “Poker2Nite” on Wednesday as well. The series airs on Versus.
Entering heads-up play, Washington held a massive 9:1 chip lead over Urban. However, putting Urban away was anything but easy. Urban doubled up twice in the first five hands of heads-up play to be down just 2:1 in chips. By hand #85 of the night, the two were nearly dead even and 15 pots later, Urban had taken the chip lead over the amateur. Washington finally broke through after calling all-in with K-5 on a board of K-J-10-J-2. Urban sheepishly showed Q-5 for a busted straight draw and, just like that, Washington was a 60:1 chip leader. The ClubWPT qualifier won the tournament on the very next hand.
Here were the payouts from the 2010 WPT Celebrity Invitational:
1st Place: Leron Washington - $100,000
2nd Place: Sean Urban - $50,000
3rd Place: Trishelle Cannatella - $20,000
4th Place: Neev Baram - $15,000
5th Place: Thor Hansen - $10,000
6th Place: Steven Elliott - $5,000
Today, the final table of the WPT L.A. Poker Classic will play out from the Commerce Casino. Andras Koroknai holds a commanding chip lead over the rest of the table, which includes Raymond Dolan, Tri Huynh, Gevork Kasabyan, Jean-Claude Moussa, and Michael Kamran. Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for the latest WPT coverage.
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03 4th, 2010
Including the session with Benefield, Isildur1 booked 4,700 hands yesterday on limits ranging from $25/$50 to $100/$200.
Although almost all of his hands came from Pot-Limit Omaha, 99 of them went down at a couple of tables of $50/$100 Cap No-Limit Hold’em.
Isildur1’s match with Benefield began at $50/$100 PLO where he earned $21,795 over 1,323 hands, the largest pot of the match coming in at just $31k.
After almost two hours, Isildur1 and Benefield agreed to double the stakes, moving their action up to $100/$200 PLO. It was here where Benefield finally got the upper hand, making over $50k in the two and a half hour, 1,767-hand, session.
The largest pot of day on came during this second session after Benefield spiked a flush on the river to beat Isildur1’s turned nut straight. The two players had their money all-in on the turn with Benefield pulling in the $101,392 pot.
By the end of the day, Isildur1 finished with a total profit of $76,577, bringing him up to almost $200k profit on the year so far.
Benefield, who only played 11 hands of $200/$400 Cap PLO before starting his first session with Isildur1, finished the day up just over $32k.
Below are the three largest pots from the match, head to for more.
03 2nd, 2010
South’s day started at $25/$50 Pot-Limit Omaha on where he made $15k before moving up to $300/$600 PLO against Di “Urindanger” Dang and Gus Hansen.
South only stuck around for 12 hands making $10k before leaving to sit heads-up with Dwan at $200/$400 PLO.
The heads-up match lasted over two and a half hours, spanning 466 hands across two tables. By the end, South had dropped just over $84k.
Meanwhile, on top of a couple hands of $25/$50, and a long but uneventful session of $200/$400 Cap-PLO, South also sat with both Dwan and Sahamies for 378 hands of $300/$600 PLO.
Over the duration of the three-handed session, South managed to lose $226,950, all but $23k going to Sahamies.
He made one more attempt to save the session with a $200/$400 PLO rematch against Dwan, this time playing 400 hands in just under an hour.
However, the Cardrunners pro dropped another $234k to Dwan, finishing his day down $511,149.
On top of holding-over on South all day, Dwan also made $50k at $300/$600 PLO stacking the unknown luckexpress10 in just four hands. Include a $14k loss at $200/$400 Cap-PLO and Dwan finished his day up $377,568.
Sahamies entire day consisted of the single 3-handed session. He earned over $203k in just two hours of work -
Poker pro Ashton Griffin edged out personality Hoyt Corkins heads-up to win the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) High-Roller Bounty Shootout at the Venetian. The $25,000 buy-in tournament awarded a top prize of $460,000.
The final table was stacked with a mix of veterans and young guns of the poker world with one former () Main Event champion, , who became the youngest winner ever of the $10,000 buy-in tournament in 2008 at the tender age of 22. would shatter Eastgate’s record one year later. Eastgate was the first casualty of the seven-handed High-Roller Bounty Shootout final table after pushing pre-flop with pocket eights and running into Scott Seiver’s pocket Jacks. Eastgate could not catch up, but he collected $75,000 for reaching the final table plus a $5,000 bounty for any player knocked out along the way.
The next to go was Brett Richey, who first doubled up with A-K against A-8. On the following hand, he looked down at A-Q and pushed again. Griffin made the call and showed K-Q of Clubs, giving Richey a commanding lead pre-flop and a tantalizing opportunity for another double up. The board read 4-4-4-7, setting Richey up for success, but a king on the river gave Griffin the win.
Young gun Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka, who earned his online moniker after playing an inordinate number of suited cards as a beginner in poker, pushed all-in from the small blind with Q-10 and was up against Seiver’s A-J of clubs. The flop gave Seiver top pair and a flush draw to boot and Seiver won the pot with a boat. Jaka landed in fifth place in the made-for-television tournament.
Seiver then pushed with Q-10 and ran into Corkins’s A-K. Corkins turned two pair to seal the win in the hand and Seiver, a WSOP bracelet winner, was eliminated from contention. Corkins had doubled through Seiver just prior to the latter’s final hand with pocket Jacks against Seiver’s wired pair of fives. Corkins turned a set to send Seiver’s chip stack plummeting.
Joe Cassidy was eliminated from the NAPT Venetian High-Roller Bounty Shootout after moving all-in from the small blind with A-2 of Diamonds. Griffin, sitting in the big blind, woke up with A-9 and made the call. A nine came on the flop and Cassidy was ousted. Entering heads-up play in Las Vegas, Griffin held a 2:1 chip lead over Corkins, who is fresh off a win in the ’s () Southern Poker Championship.
Two hands into heads-up play, a winner was determined. Corkins called all-in with 9-3 on a flop of 4-5-9. However, Griffin held 9-8, out-kicking Corkins and handing him the final table’s winner-take-all $460,000 grand prize. He cashed in a Pot Limit Omaha preliminary event during the 2009 WSOP Europe for £15,000. One year prior, Griffin landed in seventh in the Latin American Poker Tour’s (LAPT) San Jose, Costa Rica stop for $29,000.
All was not lost for Seiver, however, who collected a $100,000 bonus courtesy of PokerStars for knocking out the most number of players. Seiver single-handedly sent all six of his opponents at his first round table to the rails and two more at the finale for a total of eight.
Four hours of coverage on ESPN2 will be dedicated to the NAPT Venetian High-Roller Bounty Shootout and Main Event. The action kicks off on April 19th and will air according to the following schedule:
April 19th: Venetian $25,000 High Roller Bounty Shootout: 9:00pm to 11:00pm ET
April 26th: Venetian $25,000 High Roller Bounty Shootout: 9:00pm ET
April 26th: Venetian $5,000 Main Event: 10:00pm ET
Next up for the NAPT is a trip to Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. The $5,000 buy-in NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event kicks off on April 7th and runs through the 11th.
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02 25th, 2010
The inaugural North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian Main Event has crowned a champion. Tom Marchese, a 22 year-old from New Jersey, took down the first NAPT event on U.S. soil and earned $827,000.
Marchese defeated Sam Stein heads-up. In the $5,000 buy-in tournament’s final hand, Marchese pushed all-in, having Stein covered, on a board of 4-5-9-3-10. Stein made the call with just 4-2 for a pair of fours, but Marchese flipped up pocket tens for a set. The win was worth $827,000. Marchese told officials following the grueling five-day tournament, “It’s a bit overwhelming. The event is definitely one of my new favorites. The turnout was great, the structure was really good, and the tournament staff did a really good job all week. I’ll definitely be back next year.”
Despite 35 countries being represented at the Venetian, the final table was wholly American poker players. Eric Blair was the first casualty of the group. Soon after the first break of the day, Blair pushed over the top of a raise by Marchese with pocket sevens and Stein made the call with A-K. The flop came king-high, sending Stein out in front in the hand for good. Blair earned $60,000 for his NAPT Venetian final table appearance.
Poker veteran “Miami” John Cernuto was ousted in seventh place, earning $104,000. Stein shoved over the top of a pre-flop raise by Cernuto with J-10 and Cernuto made the call with his tournament life on the line holding A-5 of clubs. The flop of A-9-4 hit Cernuto hard, giving him top pair and a commanding lead. The turn was a 10, giving Stein a pair of his own. Needing to catch a five-outer on the river to send Cernuto home, Stein was elated to see a jack fall.
Cernuto was the lone Poker pro at the final table in the PokerStars sponsored event. He’s also a three-time () bracelet winner, having taken down his first piece of hardware 14 years ago in a Limit Seven Card Stud High-Low event for $147,000. Cernuto has also made two () final tables, including a runner-up showing in the Season 5 Celebrity Invitational.
Thomas Fuller was eliminated shortly thereafter in sixth place. Daniel Clemente put in a raise pre-flop and Fuller announced that he was all-in with pocket jacks. Clemente, however, showed pocket queens and was a 4:1 favorite heading to the flop. The board ran out 3-A-7-6-6 and Fuller collected $144,000.
Stein stamped his ticket to heads-up play after taking out David Paredes in fifth place. Moments after Paredes found pocket aces to move past four million in chips, he picked up pocket rockets again and committed his chips. Stein showed pocket jacks and hit a set on the flop, cracking Paredes’ aces. Stein stacked a colossal 70% of the chips in play by the time the hand was over.
Yunus Jamal was eliminated in fourth place, boosting his bankroll by $241,000. Jamal’s tournament life came down to a race, as he held pocket tens against Marchese’s A-Q. The flop was A-J-6, propelling Marchese into the lead with top pair, but a king on the turn left Jamal calling for a queen on the river to make a straight. Instead, a harmless deuce fell and Jamal was denied an NAPT title.
Clemente departed in third place after calling all-in with A-8 against Marchese, who showed pocket queens. The board ran out J-2-9-7-9 and Clemente earned $309,000. Stein held a 3:2 chip lead entering heads-up play against Marchese. From there, the two would need less than 45 minutes to determine a winner. Stein raked in $522,000 for second place. Here’s how the leaderboard shook out in the NAPT Venetian Main Event:
1. Tom Marchese - $827,648
2. Sam Stein - $522,306
3. Daniel Clemente - $309,366
4. Yunus Jamal - $241,064
5. David Paredes - $184,816
6. Thomas Fuller - $144,639
7. “Miami” John Cernuto - $104,461
8. Eric Blair - $60,266
Today is the final day of play in the NAPT tournament series. The $25,000 High-Roller Bounty Shootout will play down to a winner starting at Noon PT with a final table featuring pro Hoyt Corkins, Scott Seiver, Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka, Joe Cassidy, , Ashton Griffin, and Brett Richey.
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02 24th, 2010
“I had the honor of playing in what probably is the best poker game ever assembled,” he told PokerListings. “I don’t regret anything.”
The sponsored pro lasted just two episodes of the increasingly popular cash game show, dumping the last of the $200,000 he bought in for when he called all in on the turn holding A♥ Q♣ on a queen-high board against Gus Hansen.
Unfortunately for H