June 30 2010
Scott Montgomery was the story of the 32nd day of the 2010 WSOP. After securing his first bracelet in event #36, Montgomery looks well on his way to finishing on top of event #47, the $1,000 NL Holdem Special. There ...
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June 29 2010
After a one weekend’s hiatus, which saw both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker run WSOP Main Event Satellites instead of their regular flagship guarantees, the Sunday Million and the $750k Guarantee returned to the schedule. The guarantees were left uncovered ...
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June 29 2010
The 31st day of the 2010 WSOP was responsible for creating two more first-time bracelet winners. Jesse Rockowitz won the $1,500 NL: Holdem event (#45) to pocket his gold, and Chris Bell triumphed in the $5,000 PLO Hi/Lo split ...
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June 28 2010
Day 30 of the 2010 Series awarded one bracelet only, but that was more than enough to make Gavin Smith a very happy man. Smith, who had been considered one of the best poker players around never to earn a Read More
June 27 2010
Day 29 of the 2010 WSOP was another rather fruitful one: it saw two bracelets find their way to winners’ trophy cases, both of these winners first-timers.
Dean Hamrick, the player who almost made the first November Nine, won ...
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June 26 2010
Day 28 of the 2010 WSOP saw another player from the UK walk away with a bracelet. This time, the “culprit” was Steve Jelinek, who won the $1,500 PL Omaha Hi/Lo split 8 or better event, denying Phil Hellmuth the ...
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June 25 2010
It’s official: Frank Kassela is a repeat offender at the 2010 WSOP. He picked up his second bracelet in the $2,500 7-card Razz event, where he had to overcome a small but extremely potent field which included players like Vladimir ...
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June 24 2010
Event #36 (the $1,000 NL Holdem Special) continued on day 26 of the 2010 WSOP. The event had attracted a starting field of 3,009 players, and of that, only 9 were left standing at the end of a relatively short ...
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June 23 2010
Day 25 of the 2010 WSOP was one to remember for the scores of railbirds rooting for a Phil Ivey win in the $3,000 HORSE event. The “people’s champ” came through for his fans, and despite the fact that at ...
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June 23 2010
HORSE is a game which tests players’ skills from a variety of angles. In order to triumph in a HORSE event, one needs to best his/her peers at several radically different poker variants, providing proof that he/she is indeed a complete ...
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June 22 2010
For some people, WSOP gratification doesn’t come easy or early for that matter. Harold Angle, the 78 year old winner of the $1,000 Seniors’ NL Holdem World Championship, had played poker for 60 years without a bracelet to show, until the ...
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June 22 2010
Day 23 of the 2010 WSOP was a quite eventful one. Two players earned their bracelets again. Jeffrey Papola pocketed his in the $5,000 NL Holdem 6-max event, and Jose-Luis Velador triumphed in the $2,500 PL Holdem/Omaha event, besting ...
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June 20 2010
The 22nd day of the 2010 WSOP saw the Phil Ivey fever re-ignited. The Full Tilt Poker pro survived the first day of the heads-up championship event, and made it all the way to the ...
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June 20 2010
Day 21 of the 2010 WSOP will certainly be a day that Matt Keikoan and Miguel Proulx will remember forever. The reason is that the two players joined the rather exclusive club of WSOP bracelet owners that day. Proulx proved ...
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June 18 2010
If day 19 did not give away any new WSOP 2010 bracelets, it was probably because the precious pieces of jewelry were being saved for day 20. No fewer than 3 players earned their gold on day 20: Jeffrey Tebben, ...
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June 16 2010
Day 19 of the 2010 WSOP was one that saw no bracelets awarded and final tables played. Despite that fact, the action was plentiful as several events kept rolling towards a conclusion.
Event #24, the $1,000 NL Holdem Special, saw ...
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June 16 2010
With the WSOP in town, the nosebleed stakes online poker action is just not the same. Most of the regulars are either playing in WSOP events or they’re over at Bobby’s Room putting their cash game skills to work in ...
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June 16 2010
Sam Farha was the player who picked up the only bracelet awarded by Day 18 of the 2010 WSOP. In a classic case of the rich getting richer, Farha, already a well established poker player and more than successful businessman, picked ...
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June 15 2010
Day 17 of the 2010 WSOP was a truly eventful one. Though only 4 events saw action, with two more on the tap, 2 bracelets were awarded and records were set. Obviously, the highlight of the day was the $1,000 Ladies ...
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June 14 2010
I’m really beginning to believe that the online poker industry hates the WSOP. For the 3rd straight weekend, major online poker guarantees all over cyberspace failed to hit their guarantees, on account of the largest poker festival of the year. The ...
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June 14 2010
Day 16 of the 2010 WSOP was a truly eventful one. Two more champions earned their gold bracelets, the ladies’ event rolled on and another $10k World Championship event got going.
Event #20, the $1,500 PL Omaha one was responsible for ...
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June 13 2010
Day 15 of the 2010 WSOP marked 2 weeks since the opening whistle of the Series by crowning two more WSOP Champions. David Baker and Eric Buchman both walked away with the gold. Buchman earned his stripes in the $2,000 ...
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June 11 2010
Jason DeWitt was by no means a stranger to the top ranks of WSOP finishers in years past, but the bracelet managed to elude him till yesterday, when he finally joined the ranks of those proudly boasting a golden piece of ...
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June 11 2010
Day 13 of the 2010 WSOP saw two more players earn their bracelets: Steven Gee won the $1,000 NL Holdem Special, besting a starting field of over 3,000 players, and Carter Phillips won the $1,500 short handed NL Holdem event for ...
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June 09 2010
Day 12 of the 2010 WSOP saw yet another bracelet awarded, this time to a newcomer to WSOP jewelry-bearing ranks. Army veteran Frank Kassela walked away with the gold in the $10,000 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo Split 8 or Better ...
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June 09 2010
The online poker industry is certainly paying a dear price for the WSOP these weeks. For the second consecutive week, the major weekend online poker GTDs saw a relative shortage of players and many of them failed to cover their guarantees. ...
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June 09 2010
PokerStars’ own Nacho Barbero won the Latin American Poker Tour’s Lima stop, defeating a starting field of 384 players on his way to the title. His win set a new record too: he became the first player to win back to ...
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June 08 2010
Day 11 of the 2010 WSOP saw a more than welcome lull in the pace of the action. Only 4 events ran, and only one gold bracelet found an owner.
Event #13, the $1,000 NL Holdem special, saw ...
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June 07 2010
Tom Dwan was hot on the heels of his first ever WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 NL Holdem event, going into the final day action as the clear favorite. He did make it all the way to the heads-up stage ...
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June 07 2010
Event #9, the $1,500 PL Holdem event, saw James Dempsey roll to another WSOP title. He survived a field of 650 initial registrants to take the $197k first prize and the coveted WSOP jewelry.
Steve Chanthabouasy was the last player standing ...
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June 06 2010
Day 8 of the 2010 WSOP saw several interesting events unfold. The first one was the $1,500 NL Holdem event, which saw 25 players return to action on day 3. Phil Hellmuth was among these players, looking to win his 12th ...
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June 05 2010
The 7th day of the 2010 WSOP saw two more players earn their gold bracelets. Joshua Tieman was the first of the two. He earned his WSOP jewelry in the $5,000 NL Holdem Shootout, event #6 of ...
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June 05 2010
Event #3, the first of the special $1,000 NL Holdem events, came to a conclusion on Day 6 of the 2010 WSOP. Aadam Daya outlasted a field of 4,345 players to bring home the gold, winning his first ever WSOP ...
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June 04 2010
The WSOP is on, there’s no denying it. If one needs proof of it, he only needs to take a look at the nosebleed stakes online where the wind seems to be blowing among empty tables these days. The otherwise always ...
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June 03 2010
Day 5 of the 2010 WSOP saw one of the opening events – the $50k Players’ Championship – come to an end, and another one, the $1,000 NL Holdem event reach a critical milestone: the final table.
Michael ...
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June 01 2010
Day 4 of the WSOP saw day 3 of the $1,000 NL Holdem event (Event#3) and day 2 of the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or better event (event #4) go down.
Day 3 of the $1,000 NL Holdem event was a ...
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June 01 2010
The monster $50k Players’ Championship, the winner of which will take home the Chip Reese memorial trophy on top of the top prize and the bracelet, is slowly but surely winding down. The 4th day of the ultra deep stacked event ...
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