June 30 2009
The 2009 WSOP has a 4th double bracelet winner. Greg Mueller just won the $1,500 Limit Holdem shootout after he’d won the $10,000 World Championship Limit Holdem event earlier.
Phil Ivey, Jeffrey Lisandro and Brock Parker have also won two bracelets ...
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June 30 2009
Bahador Ahmadi had started the final table of the $2,500 Mixed Holdem event second on the provisional leader board, and he slipped all the way to being a short-stack before he mounted a furious comeback and secured his first WSOP ...
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June 27 2009
The $10,000 World Championship PL Holdem event of the 2009 WSOP attracted an initial field of 245. After two days of action, only 14 of the initial 245 players returned to the tables. At the end of the final day, it ...
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June 27 2009
Derek Raymond took down the $2,500 Omaha Hi/Lo event’s bracelet after a nearly 3 hour long heads-up battle in which he eventually put Mark Tenner away. The 23-player field of the final day of action featured names like that ...
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June 27 2009
Picking your spots and going with the flow can lead to tournament success. Michael Davis, the winner of the $1,000 Seniors World Championship event is living proof to that. Davis didn’t dominate the tables where he played, yet he managed to ...
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June 27 2009
Event #44 of the 2009 WSOP, the $2,500 Razz one’s final day started with Jeff Lisandro in prime position to take down his third 2009 WSOP bracelet. He started the day with the most chips and when all the dust had ...
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June 27 2009
Layne Flack was among the 14 players who returned for the final day of the $2,500 mixed event of the 2009 WSOP. Flack was looking to score his 4th WSOP bracelet, however – at the end of that day – this ...
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June 26 2009
300 players had originally registered for event #41 of the 2009 WSOP, the $5,000 NL Holdem shootout. Out of that starting field, only 5 players made it to the final day of action. Day one of the event saw the 300 ...
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June 26 2009
High buy-in events always attract illustrious fields, and the $10,000 World Championship PL Omaha event of the 2009 WSOP was no exception in this respect. 25 survivors bellied up to the tables on the last day of the event, and ...
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June 25 2009
Event #39 of the 2009 WSOP, another $1,500 NL Holdem event, saw a mix of professional and recreational players belly up to its tables. 26 players returned on the final day of action and when everything was said and done, it ...
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June 24 2009
Marc Naalden started event #38 of the 2009 WSOP, the $2,000 Limit Holdem one, in the chip lead, and that’s exactly how he finished it: with all the chips piled in front of him, happily holding his freshly acquired WSOP bracelet ...
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June 23 2009
Really big things usually have a way of starting out in a modest and insignificant manner. Whether it’s about a birthday party that starts out with two friends heading out for a beer and which a few hours later degenerates into ...
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June 23 2009
Richard Austin skipped the heads-up stage of the $5,000 PL Omaha event of the 2009 WSOP, to knock two players out in one hand and to grab the bracelet without having to stare down a single opponent in the final ...
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June 21 2009
Jeff Lisandro adds his name to the list of WSOP multiple-bracelet winners as he takes away event #37, the $10,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo.
Where does one starts; with the WSOP multi-bracelet winner or with the epic final ...
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June 21 2009
The final day of the $2,000 NL Holdem event of the 2009 WSOP featured 21 survivors, among them Bertrand Grospellier, Roland de Wolfe and of course, eventual winner, Eric Baldwin. When all the dust settled, it was Baldwin who held up ...
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June 19 2009
After 3 days of grueling poker action and an eventful final table, Greg Mueller emerged as the winner of the $10,000 Limit Holdem World Championship event of the 2009 WSOP. Mueller bested Pat Pezzin heads-up, after having dealt with Daniel ...
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June 19 2009
Event #32 of the 2009 WSOP, the $2,000 Limit Holdem one, attracted an initial field of 1,534 registrants, who combined buy-ins for a total prize-pool of $2,791,880.
Only 220 players survived day 1. With the money bubble set to ...
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June 18 2009
J.C. Tran had won his first gold bracelet last year, in the $1,500 NL Holdem event. He now added another bracelet to his increasingly impressive collection, by winning the $2,500 PL Omaha event of the 2009 WSOP (event #30) and by ...
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June 17 2009
The final day of the 2009 WSOP’s $1,500 HORSE event saw 23 day 1 and day 2 survivors head back to the tables. Of these players, Fabrice Soulier was best positioned: behind a 351,000 chip stack and in the provisional lead. ...
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June 16 2009
Day 3 of event #28, a $1,500 NL Holdem one, saw a field of 27 players belly up to the table, chip stacks in check and eyes on the prize.
At the end of the day though there could be a ...
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June 16 2009
That headline probably calls for some explanations for most readers: what’s poker’s Triple Crown? Poker’s Triple Crown is a collection of WPT, EPT and WSOP titles, and Roland De Wolfe, who had had the EPT and WPT ones, just managed to ...
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June 16 2009
The final day of the $1,500 Limit Holdem event - event #26 of the 2009 WSOP - saw 15 survivors belly up to the tables. The field included some Limit Holdem specialists like Richard Brodie and Al Barbieri, but ...
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June 15 2009
Pete Vilandos, the veteran poker pro who’s earned his first WSOP bracelet back in 1995, secured his second one in the $1,500 NL Holdem event of the 2009 WSOP. He beat a field of 2,506 players and denied internet-pruned youngsters ...
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June 15 2009
Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius have repeatedly proven that despite being involved in many of the ongoing WSOP events, they could find some time to log a few hundred hands in their online $1 million challenge series too.
Their latest challenge ...
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June 15 2009
Whilst the biggest poker series of the world is taking place in Las Vegas a European Commission comes to conclusions that might shame that country's poker policy.
The question of whether or not the US government's policy towards online gambling was in ...
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June 14 2009
There are 2 young men who are already counting their lucky stars, or are they checking to see how many there might still be? With 25 events of the 2009 WSOP finished, and 23 winning names, we don't need to look ...
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June 14 2009
There aren't many people worldwide who can boast 7 WSOP bracelets, but that small group just got one man bigger; Phil Ivey takes down event #25 and his 7th bracelet.
Phil Ivey looked serious but pleased as he held up the ...
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June 14 2009
Day 3 of the $3,000 HORSE event of the 2009 WSOP was one of the longest final days of the series yet. There was only one man in the field to whom it may not have seemed long enough: eventual winner, ...
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June 14 2009
Despite the fact the WSOP hostilities were in full swing, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were fought upon at several tournament tables, Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan managed to squeeze in some online action in their $1 million challenge series. ...
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June 13 2009
The high buy-in meant that the 2009 WSOP’s $10,000 Omaha Hi/Lo event attracted a tough field packed with “name” pros and all sorts of online wonder-kids. Daniel Alaei, who ended up with the event’s bracelet after 3 days of ...
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June 11 2009
Jeff Lisandro managed to pull off one of the most amazing final table tricks of the 2009 WSOP: he steamrolled the final table on his way to his second WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event (he acquired his ...
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June 11 2009
Day 2 of the $5,000 NL Holdem event (event #15 of the 2009 WSOP) was called at 3 am, so the final table was not reached. 17 players remained for day 3 and they all bellied up to the tables hopeful ...
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June 10 2009
Event #14 of the 2009 WSOP, the $2,500 6-handed Limit Holdem one, served up one of the tastiest heads-up confrontations so far. 11 players returned to action on the final day, and when the dust settled in the wake ...
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June 08 2009
Day 3 of the $2,000 NL Holdem event saw 25 players return to action. The chip leader at the beginning of day 3 was Mike Carlson who had managed to amass 858,000 chips on day 2. Other players close to the ...
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June 07 2009
Event #10 of the 2009 WSOP, the $2,500 PL Holdem/Omaha one was by no means a light affair for those who lasted all the way to the final table. It took 3 days to decide the winner and no fewer than ...
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June 07 2009
Ken Aldridge secured his first WSOP bracelet by staging a late rally on day 3 of the $1,500 short handed NL Holdem event. The final day of the 9th event of the 2009 WSOP saw Bryce Yockey start in the chip ...
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June 07 2009
In case you haven’t yet heard about it: in late April, Minnesota’s Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement division has undertaken an unprecedented legal move to order local ISPs to block 199 internet domains for the state’s residents. Among these domains were some ...
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June 07 2009
Phil Ivey started the final table of the $2,500 NL deuce-to-seven lowball event 6th in chips, but at the end of the day, it was him who held the golden bracelet high (his 6th) and pocketed the $96,361 first ...
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June 06 2009
Event #4 of the 2009 WSOP was a record-setter in several respects. Also know as the “Stimulus” event, it was a first-time WSOP event, added in light of the dire economic situation. The buy-in was only $1,000 (which ...
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June 06 2009
Event #7 of the 2009 WSOP, the $1,500 NL Holdem one featured a starting field of 2,971 players, out of which 33 survived to Day 3. Although initially Day 2 was supposed to set the final table, officials had called the ...
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June 05 2009
Dwan and Antonius are indeed serious about completing their $1 million challenge series…some time…Nothing speaks more about their commitment than the fact that despite their presence at the WSOP and despite the fact that they both intend to play in some ...
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June 05 2009
Event #6 of the 2009 WSOP, the $10,000 7-Card Stud one, featured one of the hardest fought-over gold bracelets in this year’s series so far. Day 2 was an endurance contest in its own right, and day 3 ...
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June 04 2009
Jason Mercier was one of the players better known on the European live circuit than on the US one. The $1,500 PLO event of the 2009 WSOP though gave him the possibility to prove himself on this side of the pond ...
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June 03 2009
Event #4 of the 2009 WSOP saw its final table set on Day 3. 50 survivors returned to the tables on this day, hell bent on working the field down to the final 9. The initial plan was to work it ...
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June 02 2009
It’s official: Vitaly Lunkin is the biggest earner of the 2009 WSOP so far. Lunkin won the biggest buy-in NL Holdem event ever, the $40,000 anniversary special, where he bested Isaac Haxton heads-up after surviving one of the toughest ...
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June 02 2009
Event #3 of the 2009 WSOP, the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo one saw Thang Luu set a world record as the first ever to successfully defend a WSOP side-event title. Luu had won the same event last year (it was event ...
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June 02 2009
It was one of the most anticipated events in this year's World Series of Poker, not least because of the sheer talent that was to be present. There were many rumours flying before the Champions Invitational got underway with as much ...
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June 01 2009
Lunkin Wins $40,000 NLH WSOP Event #2
It was no easy feat but Vitaly Lunkin has done it, making him the biggest winner so far in the 2009 World Series of Poker, and bracelet winner of event #2, the biggest buy-in ...
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