Posts Tagged ‘John Juanda’
Team Full Tilt Look to Dominate Live Poker. Again.
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Things get quite bizarre around me when I find myself going a week’s length of time without serious internet access. I always have my trusty iPhone on my person in case immediate situations present themselves where I need access to a search engine for frivolous trivia answers, but it doesn’t give the outlet for my inter-words or a chance to follow along with things in the poker world. That was the situation I found myself over the last week when I left the grind of the Borgata Poker Open and took a little birthday time away in an island paradise.
So what has happened over the last few days that might be of interest to the casual fan of poker? Members of Team Full Tilt putting a big stamp on the World Series of Poker Europe and an FTP Heads Up grinder collects a WPT win after an huge comeback.
First out of the chute is the easy reporting duty since I was there in person. 1,018 players entered the 2009 WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship, they battled for 5 days until we finally found ourselves looking at a heads up match for the title. Olivier “livb112″ Busquet found himself looking at a massive underdog chip stack going up against blackjack specialist Jeremy Brown. Busquet makes his living tearing through $1,000 Heads Up SnG’s on Full Tilt Poker, booking over $1,500,000 in earnings. Brown’s claim to fame seemed to be chugging a beer per orbit and shots of Patrone with his friends. At one point Busquet was all in with his last 1,800,000 in chips versus the +30,000,000 of Brown, behind and turning lucky. Battle after battle, he eventually turned the tide and took down the title. It will certainly be one of the more interesting telecasts of the new season next spring. You can catch his victory interview with Amanda Leatherman here.
In the big news across the pond, we saw members of Team Full Tilt dominate the early WSOP-E events and making a run at the Main Event as we read/write this post. With just 4 total events during this London-based series, players did not have the luxury of warming up with a bunch of smaller events before jumping after a bracelet. The first event was a standard £1,000 buyin No Limit Hold’em tournament. While none of the Full Tilters ran huge in this starter event, we did have Markus Gloser and John Juanda make the money and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson just miss the final table in 15th.
Event #2 is where things became interesting. Just 158 players bought into the Mix Pot Limit Hold’em/Omaha for £2,500 with 18 players getting paid. Team Full Tilt member Vitaly Lunkin and “friend of the blog” Allie Prescott both made it into the money but could not get onto the final table. It was a talented final nine which included Howard Lederer, Hoyt Corkins, Chris Bjorin, Men “The Master” Nguyen, Ian Frazer and Erik Cajelais. In the end, Team Full Tilt had the first off the final table and the last man standing. Howard Lederer was eliminated in the 9th place while Erik Cajelais collects his first WSOP braclet to go along with his WPT Five Diamonds Classic title. Many of the players on the final day were also registered for Day 1 of the £5,000 PLO tournament and there seemed to be a lot of live multi-tabling going on.
Howard Lederer would not let his 9th place finish hamper his efforts in Event #3, £5,000 Pot Limit Omaha sure to attract the best European poker players around. 154 players were in the running to start Day 1 but only 18 would make the money and a chance at the bracelet. Tom “durrrr” Dwan has been known to play a few hands of PLO on occasion (tongue firmly in cheek) but he was unable to crack the final table coming in 14th. Nearly half of the final was composed of the red and white patches of Full Tilt with Robert Williamson III, Hendon Mobster Ross Boatman, Roberto Romanello and Howard Lederer in the last nine. Howard Lederer was poised to capture the second bracelet for FTP but was unable to overcome Jani Vilmunen to finish second. That is back-to-back final table finishes for “The Professor”.
The £10,000 No Limit Hold’em Main Event is will underway and there are just two tables left battling it out. John Juanda won the bracelet in 2008 but was unable to defend his title. James Akenhead has a fantastic chance to duplicate the feat by Ivan Demidov last year. Demidov was already set up as a member of the “November Nine” in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event when he went to Europe and final tabled that Main Event. Akenhead will represent Full Tilt Poker later this year for the WSOP Main Event final table and is now sitting mid-field with 18 players remaining in the European Main Event.
Also looking to make a run at this final bracelet you can find poker legend Doyle Brunson, Hendon Mobster Ram Vaswani, Tony Cousineau, Matt Hawrilenko, Daniel Negreanu, and Jason Mercier. There are no soft spots left in this field. They continue to grind away and hopefully we’ll have just one more great story for Team Full Tilt before the series is complete.
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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Erik Cajelais, Howard Lederer, James Akenhead, John Juanda
2009 World Series of Poker Day 40 – The New Batch
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
![ev 16imm 1793 impdi web 2009 World Series of Poker Day 40 The New Batch](/poker-from-the-rail/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ev-16imm_1793-impdi-web.jpg "\\"Miami\\" John Cernuto at the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event")
The July 4th holiday is over and today we expect a much bigger crowd for Day 1c then the previous two. Before the start of the day, players were being stacked up by security behind the ropes and just about every table was staffed. This will definitely be the biggest field of the Main Event start ups and there will be plenty of action. Congressional champion of online poker, U.S. Representative Barney Frank addressed the crowd and issued the traditional “Shuffle up and deal”.
In the good news of the day, “Miami” John Cernuto is back in the Amazon Room after spending several days in the hospital with some serious health issues. He seems to be back to his old self, holding court over the table and joking with Tom McEvoy. Many other members of Team Full Tilt are making the Main Event appearance including Howard Lederer, John Juanda, Lee Watkinson, David Singer, and 2008 Final Table player Kelly Kim.
There was speculation around the room about the size of today’s field considering a lot of online pros generally spend their Sunday taking on the big online tournaments but some of those big names are in the field today including Eric “Rizen” Lynch. We won’t have the exact number of entrants until well into the evening but there is a chance we’ll hit the magic 2,000 player number.
More to come later in the day including pictures from Day 1b. A handful of Full Tilt pros including Fabrice Soulier (87,725), Mike Matusow (37,875), Chris Ferguson, (24,050), and Erik Seidel (18,550). Those players will return on Tuesday for Day 2a.
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Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, John Cernuto, John Juanda, 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
2009 World Series of Poker – Day 16 From the Rail
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
John Juanda playing in Event #20 at the 2009 World Series of Poker
Photo credit: IMPDI
Event #24, the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament, lived up to it’s reputation. 2,506 players entered the tournament and just 270 survived the ten levels of Day 1. That averages out to just under 2 players busting out every 60 seconds of the tournament. They were leaving almost as quickly as they came. Those remaining players will return for Day 2 and attempt to play down to their final table. If history has taught us anything this year, they will most likely play til the 3am cutoff with 3 or 4 tables to play.
In blogger news, CK31 ran well all day and goes into Day 2 of the $2,500 Omaha-Stud/8 tournament sitting comfortably in the top third of the chip counts and above average chipstack. 376 players entered the event and 153 will come back trying to make the money, final table, and a bracelet. Another loaded tournament with plenty of big names near the top including Allie Prescott, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner, Phil Ivey, Chau Giang and Toto Leonidas.
Two Full Tilt pros ended the day with another chance to add to the bracelet count in the $10,000 World Championship of Deuce to Seven Draw. Both John Juanda and Roland De Wolfe halted play at the 3am cutoff before forming the final table 7. 2008 champ Mike Matusow was unable to fight his way through the tough field and defend his title.
In crazy railbird news, a gentleman has begun walking the hallways in full American Indian headdress gear trying to make time with the Sapphire bikini girls. He doesn’t seem to be making much progress and I have yet to see him sit down to a poker table. I’m also waiting for someone to be offended and beat the tar out of him.
Seriously, do you really want to make a play against that stare?
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Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, John Juanda, WSOP
Railing the Big Cash Game
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
John Juanda and Tom “durrr” Dwan battled for the biggest online cash pots
Photo credit: PokerNews.com
I don’t generally spend too much time trolling the super high limit tables on Full Tilt to watch the action but that might now have to change. A blog called “Poker From The Rail” should start spending some time railing the biggest cash games found online now. Surfing around I found a writeup on PokerNews.com that reported some incredible hands this weekend on the two big FTP cash tables.
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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, John Juanda, Phil Ivey
2008 World Series of Poker Europe – John Juanda wins Main Event
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John Juanda wins 2008 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event
Photo credit: PokerNews.com
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2008 World Series of Poker Europe – Two Full Tilt pros make the final table
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Scott Fischman makes WSoP-E Final Table
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2008 World Series of Poker Europe – Day 3 Full Tilt Pros
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
John Juanda ends Day 3 of the World Series of Poker Europe near the top
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Heads Up: John Juanda Versus Lynette Chan
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Heads Up
Who else is super pumped up for this one? I’m so excited that I can barely contain myself. Really – I am. This week’s edition of the Full Tilt Poker Heads-Up Challenge features our third 2 versus 15 match up as John “It’s probably a good thing I stopped selling Bibles door-to-door” Juanda takes on Lynette “At least I have my good looks to fall back on” Chan. My gut is telling me this one might be a blow out, but stranger things have happened. On to the madness and mayhem:
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