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The Poker Grapevine – Mike Leah Wins WPT Warm-Up
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Mon, 2014-02-24 08:41
Mike Leah, one of Phil Ivey’s IveyPoker.com pros, has had a great start to his 2014. Unlike some of the high stakes online cash game regulars, who wage a continuous battle with variance, Mike Leah has managed to ride his 2014 to fabulous poker and prop-betting profits without having to deal with Lady Luck’s caprices along the way.
In January, he’s already scored a 6-figure profit, and now he followed that up with another similar-caliber haul in the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic, where he won a $1k preliminary event, taking home the $118k top prize. The Fallsview Poker Classic is currently underway in Niagara Falls, and while most of the preliminary events are already in the books, we still have the Main Event to look forward to.
In addition to his poker victories, Leah also won a $1k basketball prop bet he’d made with Phil Ivey in Australia, and he may have had some money riding on the Canadian hockey team in the US-Canada game of the Sochi Olympics, a game which ended with the Canucks’ win making Leah (and scores of other Canadians who have thusly avoided having to keep Beiber) extremely happy.
In other news: keeping with the Fallsview Poker Classic, Xuan Liu has finally managed to get patched up, by none other than
888poker too. Liu shared a picture via Twitter the other day, wearing a patched-up jersey and letting the world know how happy she was with her 888poker sponsorship, which came at the end of another – local – sponsorship she managed to land for the WPT’s China stop. As far as the actual Fallsview Poker Classic action is concerned: she didn’t fare too well in the preliminaries in which she played, but she will still be able to make some waves in the Main Event with a little bit of luck…
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