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FULL TILT BRACELETS
Vitaly Lunkin (#2)
Event #4 – $40,000 NLHE
Phil Ivey (#6)
Event #8 – $2,500 NL Deuce-to-Seven
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Two events finished on Thursday night. Travis Johnson, who arrived in Vegas with $3,500, won the $1,500 NLHE and takes home over $666,000. Phil Ivey, who had $6-$10 million in prop bets riding on the outcome, won his sixth bracelet in No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven and, instead of giving interviews, headed to the Brasilia Room to play the $10,000 Mixed Event Championship, where he was getting anted off. (He didn’t make it to Day 2 but maybe we can all use a little rest, huh?)
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After more than three hours of heads up play against John Monnette and rebounding on several occasions with a short stack and overcoming some bad luck, Phil Ivey won his historic sixth World Series of Poker Bracelet at 10:32 PM local time on June 4, 2009. He prevailed over a field of 147 in Event #8, $2,500 No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven. In addition to the ninety-some-thousand dollar first prize, he has won somewhere in the neighborhood – as has variously been reported/speculated – of $6 to $10 million in proposition bets.
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Wednesday was, in a sense, the busiest day in World Series of Poker history: seven events were running simultaneously, including three final tables, two fields deep in the money, and two new events. Freddie Ellis, 74 years old, won the Seven Card Stud Championship in his first World Series event ever – we can only assume he developed his skills online, hopefully on Full Tilt – defeating Eric Drache, one of my good friends in poker and one of the most interesting, compelling figures in the forty year history of the World Series.
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Life is good in the Undisclosed Location. Without sacrificing the Playboy Mansion ambiance, the Full Tilt Corps of Engineers has managed to outfit me and my assistant Shauna with desks, chairs, electrical outlets and – welcome to the twenty-first century! – internet access.
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I received only some of the official chip counts and payouts from Tuesday’s events, so I took some of my information from Pokernews.com, which does an excellent job being everywhere all the time at the Series. Because I report the status of Full Tilt’s players just once a day, Pokernews.com is an ideal place to go to keep up with the progress of the Series in real-time.
There were no final tables on Monday, but Events #4, 5, and 6 played down to 9, 9, and 11 players respectively. That means three final tables today, along with a pair of Day 2s – $1,500 NLHE and $2,500 NL Deuce-to-Seven – and another pair of Day 1s – $1,500 NLHE-6 ad $2,500 PLO/PLHE.
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Monday saw the conclusion of the Champions Invitational – congratulations to Tom McEvoy! – as well as a significant narrowing of the field in the money in the $1,000 NLHE. It was also Day 1 of the $1,500 PLO and the $10,000 Stud Championship.
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*Stu Ungar (1980, 1981, 1997) – deceased
Ungar died before my involvement in poker, so I never got to meet him. That’s a shame, but a mixed blessing as I heard from many people that, on a bad day, he wasn’t the nicest person to be around. Because Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson wrote so intimately and expertly in ONE OF A KIND and so many players have come forward with their Stuey stories, I’ll leave the record to them.
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[Ghost Series are my posts devoted to the history of the World Series, which intrudes on the present all the time, all over the place, in the most unpredictable ways.]
Not to sound jaded, but I thought I was beyond being awestruck by anything I saw in poker. My knowledge of tournament poker covers its entire history and, short of seeing Johnny Moss, Sailor Roberts, Jack Keller, and Jack Straus playing No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven, nothing is really new to me.
Wrong.
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