Posts Tagged ‘Erik Seidel’
2009 World Series of Poker – Main Event Day 1b Pictures
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
There were plenty of opportunities for more pictures yesterday during the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1b and some great stories. 655 players of the starting 873 survived the day with even more Tilters moving onto Day 2.
Full Tilt sponsored two players in the Main Event with stories worthy of your interest. Marlon Shirley (pictured right) is a two time Paralympic gold medalist, the first amputee to run the 100 meters in under 11 seconds, and an avid poker player. He came to Las Vegas to play in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event and the Ante Up for Africa Charity event. I could tell you the rest of the story but it be better to let a proper writer do that duty. Fellow blogger Michael Craig has a great writeup with Shirley’s story here. Unfortunately he was not able to “outrun” his poker opponents to reach Day 2a and will not win WSOP gold.
Also wearing Full Tilt red and white was Jack Ury, at 96 he’s simply the oldest to ever play in the WSOP Main Event. Ury has been adding to his record each year since his first Main Event in 2007 at the chipper age of 94. He was enjoying himself and the ESPN cameras were a constant audience. Ury will have to get his rest over the next few days before he comes in Day 2a with just over 23,000 in chips.
You can see the rest of the Day 1b pictures after the jump:
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Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Barny Boatman, Bill Edler, Bloggers on the Rail, David Pham, Erik Seidel, Fabrice Soulier, Jack Ury, Marlon Shirley, Mike Matusow, WSOP
2009 World Series of Poker Day 37 – Deep Breath
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Vitaly Lunkin and Erik Seidel both made the $50k HORSE final table but came up short
It’s all over but the big one. There will be no more preliminary events to witness, no more multiple tournaments across several rooms. Today the Amazon Room takes a break to prepare for the big daddy Main Event. There are a few mega-satellites going on throughout the room and we’ll get to watch the big charity Ante Up for Africa event. A low stress day before the halls of the Rio are rammed full of grinders looking for the biggest prize in poker.
Today we will award the final preliminary event bracelet in the $5,000 6-max No Limit Hold’em tournament with Full Tilt pros Peter “Nordberg” Feldman and Matt Hawrilenko near the top of the board for a bracelet. They start the day with 16 players remaining and playing down to the winner.
It’s more than 90 minutes before kicking off the celeb-heavy Ante Up for Africa tournament and fans have already begun loading up on the rail. Plenty of chances for them to get an up close view of their favorite poker player, movie star, rock star. Anyone can drop $5,000 and get into the event, one of the few being broadcast by ESPN this year. Media access is severely restricted for this tournament so I’ll give it a cursory glance.
In news from the $50,000 HORSE World Championship, Full Tilt walked in with 4 of the remaining 8 seats but unable to bring home another bracelet and that big fancy trophy. It turned out to be one of the longest final tables in World Series of Poker history coming in at just under 19 hours. The only other final table which ran longer was the 2009 World Series of Poker-Europe Main Event won by John Juanda in 19 hours 9 minutes. Vitaly Lunkin went the furthest for Team Full Tilt with a 4th place finish. Lunkin final tabled the two biggest buyins of the year after winning the $40,000 No Limit Hold’em Anniversary tournament.
For players coming into town for their shot at the Main Event, they are running Mega-satellites between now and July 5th at 10am and 4pm with a $550 buyin. They are giving away nearly 10 seats per satellite and the play appears to mighty soft in relation to the prize.
Everyone is taking a little break today, gathering themselves for the two week Main Event storm where we’ll see I huge jump in participation and attendance, the rail will be nearly impossible to navigate. If you were thinking of making the trip out here, now is the time to get it done.
Nikolay Evdakov reflects on his Event #56 performance
Sometimes the captions write themselves
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Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Erik Seidel, Vitaly Lunkin, WSOP
2009 World Series of Poker Day 35 – Coin Flip for the H.O.R.S.E.
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Eight players will take their seats for the final table of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Champioship today and four of those players are members of Team Full Tilt. Carrying the flag today will be Vitaly Lunkin who starts the day second in chips followed by Huck Seed, Chau Giang, and Erik Seidel. With 50% of the remaining players, we’re coin flipping to add an eight bracelet to the FTP count. As expected it will be a stacked final table with 18 bracelets amongst the 8 players.
Erik Siedel – 8 wins
Huck Seed – 4 wins
Chau Giang – 3 wins
Vitaly Lunkin – 2 wins
Ville Wahlbeck – 1 win
Lunkin and Wahlbeck have a chance to add to the number of multiple bracelet winners at the 2009 World Series of Poker. Four players have accomplished that feat this year, it could move us into uncharted waters trying to tie/pass the record of six multiple winners in 2003.
There will also be two other bracelet awarded by the end of the day. Eric “Rizen” Lynch is the premier name remaining in the Triple Chance No Limit Hold’em Event. Allie Prescott and Tournament Director extraordinaire Matt Savage are lining up to win some WSOP gold in the $1,500 Stud/8 tournament.
Today brings us the final “open” tournament before the Ante Up for Africa and Main Event. The $5,000 6-max No Limit Hold’em should draw a nice crowd of grinders and pros looking at their next to last shot at WSOP glory. Those who have not had the best series so far may turn desperate, others will be looking to add more to their 2009 WSOP earnings.
The halls of the Amazon Room have begun their final transformations. Over the last 5 weeks things have been pretty standard. Munchie stations, a few bar setups for adult beverages, the odd booth featuring bikini clad girls to distract the grinders. The Main Event is right around the corner so we’re seeing more displays and hucksters. The Rio staff has begun preparing the convention center for the World Series of Poker Life Expo. I may be able to do an entire post just reviewing each booth.
The clock is ticking for our players this year. Time to make moves.
Restart chip counts after the jump:
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Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Chau Giang, Erik Seidel, Huck Seed, Vitaly Lunkin, WSOP
2009 World Series of Poker – Week 2 in Pictures
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
We’ve put another week of the 2009 World Series of Poker in the books with more craziness. The crowds continue to storm the hallways of the Amazon Room looking for a table and a chance. The crazies are starting to make their way onto the scene, pros and amateurs are mingling together with a common goal, chip runners stay busy 24 hours a day.
While all this is going on, the good folks at Image Masters continue to provide us with some great action shots during the tournaments. Every morning I receive pictures from the day before that I use to enhance the stories I try to bring the readers. I hope they’ve added to the experience.
Today I bring you some photos from Week 2 of the 2009 World Series of Poker without my ramblings. A small taste of what we have available, look for a full gallery coming in the next few days. All pictures courtesy of Image Masters.
Pictures after the jump, click to enlarge:
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Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Andy Black, Beth Shak, Bloggers on the Rail, David Chiu, Erica Schoenberg, Erik Seidel, Howard Lederer, Huck Seed, Jennifer Harman, John Cernuto, John Juanda, Katrina Jett, Perry Friedman, Phil Ivey, Pictures of the Week, Svetlana Gromenkova, WSOP
2008 North American Poker Championship Day 4
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Erik Seidel playing Day 3 of the North American Poker Championship
Photo credit: WorldPokerTour.com
Gavin Smith and Erik Seidel lead the Full Tilt charge at Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagra Falls, Ontario. More after the jump.
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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Erik Seidel, Gavin Smith
The Week at FTP: I Didn’t Jinx Seidel!
Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Let’s start the week with the really important news; even Big Donkeys get things right once in awhile.
If you’re one of the three people who read my post from last week, you’ll remember that I predicted a WPT victory for Erik Seidel at the Foxwoods Poker Classic. Well, lo and behold, I was right.
Sure, my prediction didn’t earn me anything like the nearly $980K that Seidel took home for the victory, but a couple of fivers from the Monkey, the Captain, and the Inuit will pay for a few brews at the end of the day.
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Tags: Erik Seidel, UIGEA
The Week at FTP: Tastes Like Chicken
Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Last week we told you about an upcoming hearing on the viability of actually enacting and enforcing the UIGEA. Now we can tell you what happened.
Talk. Lots and lots of talk.
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Tags: Erik Seidel, UIGEA
Heads Up: Erik Seidel Versus Brad Booth
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Heads Up
Welcome back to another round of the Full Tilt Poker Heads-Up Challenge, where we throw 64 of our top pros into the ring for some WWE style madness (editors note: while these “matches” are not fixed like wrestling, they are completely made up and have no baring on reality whatsoever – enjoy!). This week’s cage match is a three seed versus 14 seed affair, as Erik “I thought Chan was bluffing” Seidel takes on Brad “I come from C-eh-N-eh-D-eh” Booth. Let the mayhem commence:
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Tags: Brad Booth, Erik Seidel
The Pros Speak: Howard Lederer
Posted by The Captain | Filed under The Pros Speak
Welcome back to The Pros Speak. We chat with the pros and find out what’s going on in their lives, ask their opinions, and get to know a little bit about the individuals. We deliver the goods from the pros – in their own words.
Howard “The Professor” Lederer is best known for his legendary poker prowess, and with two WSOP bracelets and two WPT titles under his belt, he’s one of the most intimidating players you’ll run into at any table. The question is, is he this intense away from the table?
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Tags: Erik Seidel, Howard Lederer
The Week at FTP: Aussie Oy
Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oy-Oy-Vey. That’s what we imagine went through Team Full Tilt’s Erik Seidel’s brain earlier this week when he took second-place in the Aussie Millions Main Event – to a 21-year old Russian no one has ever heard of.
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Tags: Aussie Millions, Erik Seidel
