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Tom “durrrr” Dwan at the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. final table
Photo credit: WhoJedi
One of last year’s most electrifying final tables happened to be a small $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament because it featured Tom “durrrr” Dwan going for a bracelet after laying several bets which would have likely broke a few big names. He was unable to pull off the the feat last year but once again found himself in the middle of a circus, this time sitting in the ESPN Mothership.
23 players returned yesterday for the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship and Dwan was not among the leaders. In fact he wasn’t a real threat until the field closed in on it’s final table when he surged ahead and found himself with the chip lead at another WSOP final table. There were no soft spots as the spectacular seats began to fill. Max Pescatori, Michael Binger, Shawn Buchanan, Daniel Ospina, and Fabrice Soulier all stood in the way of prop betting history.
In the end he ran into a problem all levels of bankrolls can appreciate, Razz hands. After a series of unfortunate hands, it was Razz which would be his quick fall from grace to the rail in 5th place for over $134,000. There were sighs of relief from big gamblers around the Rio.
For a great look at the atmosphere surrounding the two final tables last night, check out our friend Dr. Pauly’s writeup of Day 24.
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As it’s become all too common this summer with the “hard stop” rule, the one which states in no squishy wording that play will stop after 10 levels of play no matter, quite a few tournaments have halted final table action without declaring a champion. Last night it happened twice. And it’s quickly becoming unpopular with players, media, friends, and family.
The most ridiculous would be the stoppage of the H.O.R.S.E. Championship where Fabrice Soulier is heads up versus Shawn Buchanan. Soulier is sporting a massive chip lead with Buchanan returning to a stack containing just 3 big bets. Perhaps it will give the loud French fans time to rebuild their voices for the continuation.
1 – Fabrice Soulier – 6,290,000
2 – Shawn Buchanan – 910,000
The other final table pause involved the $2,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament lead by Brit Tom Middleton but a close battle with the remaining four. Pro player Eddy Sabat is still in contention when they return and I suspect this rowdy rail will have sport a proper hangover.
1 – Tom Middleton – 4,030,000
2 – Mikhail Lakhitov – 2,705,000
3 – Hassan Babajane – 2,365,000
4 – Eddy Sabat – 2,030,000
5 – Thomas Miller- 1,885,999
With all the being said, in theory we should be crowning four new champions today as the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em and $2,500 Pot Limit Hold’em/Omaha tournament are also supposed to play to a winner but both return with over 20 players in the field. Full Tilt pros Scott Clements and Melanie Weisner are both deep in their respective events and look to capture the title.
Remember to keep an eye out on our @FullTiltPoker twitter and Facebook page for updates during the day. The Fantasy WSOP contest is also up and running for non-US players, get in the game and challenge your favorite pros.
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One of the last $10,000 Championship tournaments aside from the Main Event should award it’s bracelet today in H.O.R.S.E. where they just made it into the money at the end of Day 2. Michael Binger leads the field followed by a who’s who of top tournament pros, cash game players, and a few high rollers from across the Pacific.
Mid-way through Day 2, there appears to have been a little dustup between Binger and Daniel Negreanu where the latter virtually accused the former of being an angle shooter. In the 3000/6000 Limit Hold’em portion, Binger put out a 1500 chip bet and his opponent (not Negreanu) through in 3000. While it looked like a check/raise, Bingers bet was actually half the bet size and the opponents apparent raise was indeed ruled to just be a call.
Negreanu took Binger to task, even though he was not involved in the hand, and things became quite heated. In the end it all worked out. Binger has the chip lead, Negreanu moved on to the next event, and played nice nice by shaking hands.
The 23 returning players are in the money and will attempt to play it down. 1st place collects $609,130.
1 – Michael Binger – 742,000
2 – Fabrice Soulier – 560,000
3 – Daniel Ospina – 532,000
4 – Jacobo Frenandez – 526,000
5 – Ram Vaswani – 505,000
6 – Shanw Buchanan – 479,000
7 – Tam Wang – 440,000
8 – Fu Wong – 398,000
9 – Kyle Loman – 388,000
10 – John Monnette – 325,000
Other Notables: Chau Giang (243,000), Joe Cassidy (184,000), Tom Dwan (135,000), Yuval “yuvee04″ Bronshtein (135,000), Robert Williamson III (22,000)
The young guns in poker, by which I mean most of those who have adopted twitter, seemed to be very excited for the start of yesterday’s $2,500 Pot Limit Hold’em/Omaha mix game. It’s standard fare to watch the players ram and jam, gambling it up for some big pots. Bracelet winner David Williams finished the day on top and looks to continue applying pressure to the table. Also among the 131 players returning are Scott Clements, Adam Junglen, Mohshin “chicagocards1″ Charania, and 2009 WSOP Player of the Year Tom “Donkeybomber” Schneider.
63 player will make the money and move towards the final table.
1 – David Williams – 137,700
2 – Mitch Schock – 121,600
3 – Ashkan Razavi – 115,000
4 – Scott Clements – 108,700
5 – Adam Junglen – 90,000
6 – Tyler Patterson – 77,800
7 – David Lestock – 76,200
8 – Lee Grove – 76,100
9 – Sean Grover – 72,000
10 – Sergey Altbregin – 71,300
Other Notables: Carter Gill (69,900), David “Bakes” Baker (65,300), Mohshin “chicagocards1″ Charania (47,800), Tom “Donkeybomber” Schneider (40,200)
Remember to keep an eye out on our @FullTiltPoker twitter and Facebook page for updates during the day. The Fantasy WSOP contest is also up and running for non-US players, get in the game and challenge your favorite pros.
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It was a big day for Heads Up poker yesterday with the $25,000 Heads Up Championship playing down their final four and the Main Event grudge matches played out on the nifty new ESPN stage. Two Tilters have a chance to collect the first bracelet of the summer and there is still one epic Grudge Match to run.
Just one round was played in the HU Championship but the matches produced a final four worthy of the main stage. Eric Froehlich wasn’t even sure he was going to play in this event up until the registration as he was trying to sell off some of his action. Those who took a shot on “EFro” are certainly happy now. He will take on monster Ukranian Yevgeniy Timoshenko with a chance to make the finals.
Gus Hansen’s match was much smoother than his previous versus Tom Dwan. He never had to reach towards his 2 “rebuy” chips before dispatching Matt Marafioti. Hansen will battle it out with Jake Cody and try to back up his WSOP-E Heads Up title.
Gus Hansen versus Jake Cody
Eric Froehlich versus Yevgeniy Timoshenko
The second tournament to award a bracelet today will be the $1,500 Limit Omaha/8 Event #3. As we can expect to see throughout the summer, this tournament did not make it down to the final table and they’ll have to play from 25 to a winner (unless it goes over 10 levels, then back tomorrow). Francesco Barbaro is the front runner but Matt Waxman is right on his heels. Scott Clements loves his Omaha tournaments is still alive but will begin the day with just over 4 big bets. The winner will take home $262,283 and a shiny gold bracelet.
1 – Francesco Barbaro – 459,000
2 – Matt Waxman – 458,000
3 – Vladir Shchemelev – 335,000
4 – Bradley Helm – 308,000
5 – Jimmy Fricke – 278,000
6 – Dan Smith – 235,000
7 – Kostas Kalathakis – 209,000
8 – Michael Deveronica – 200,000
9 – Ricard Monroe – 184,000
10 – Travis Pearson – 175,000
Other notables: Humberto Brenes (160,000), Scott Clements (84,000), Lex Velduis (27,000)
Two other events will bring players back for their Day 2 including the $5,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament which drew another stellar field. 243 of the starting 865 players return and will make the money later today. 81 spots are paid with 1st place picking up a cool $874,116. The 2009 bracelet winner in this event, Brian Lemke, comes into the day sitting near the top of the leaderboard.
1 – Gavin Cochrane – 175,500
2 – Victor Ramdin – 174,700
3 – Brian Lemke – 171,900
4 – Gregory Dyer – 138,800
5 – David “Doc” Sands – 138,100
6 – Jordan Morgan – 136,900
7 – Matthew Braund – 135,600
8 – Jamie Rosen – 133,900
9 – Ashley Mason – 132,600
10 – Joe Tehan – 129,900
Other notables: Brandon Cantu (129,500), Shane Schleger (112,700), Darren Elias (112,700), Erick Lindgren (102,200), Luke “IWEARGOGGLES” Staudenmaier (93,700), JC Tran (81,100), Jonathan Little (80,600), Gavin Griffin (75,300), Matt Glantz (75,000)
Two new events also begin today with one small-ish and one big. The noon tournament is the grinders special, Limit Hold’em for $1,5000 and a small piece of their sanity. Matt Matros is the defending champion. 5pm brings the next $10,000 tournament with the Pot Limit Hold’em Championship. This event drew 268 players last year so we can expect a similar field this time around.
Remember to keep an eye out on our @FullTiltPoker twitter and Facebook page for updates during the day. The Fantasy WSOP contest is also up and running for non-US players, get in the game and challenge your favorite pros.
My favorite picture and t-shirt of the WSOP so far
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The final weekend of Double Guarantees Week brought another boat load of players to the online tables concluding with a Sunday featuring triple guaranteed prizepools. This ballooned things up to 11 payouts which topped the six figure mark including a 5-handed deal in the Sunday Brawl which saw 5th place paying out more than any of the other four which finished afterwards. Two Full Tilt pros came up just short of a win in one of the majors, a 2008 November Niner made a run in the biggest tournament of the day, and the $600,000 (rebuy) payout roster was a who’s who of the online poker world.
Luckily Full Tilt has given us the next weekend to gather our breath with a regular schedule before FTOPS XX kicks off on April 17th.
The Sunday Brawl kicked things off by blasting over it’s guarantee and came just 56 entries short of a cool $2,000,000 prizepool right out of the gate. It was a solid final table which featured two top players in Yevgeniy “bballer88″ Timoshenko and Casey “bigdogpckt5s” Jarzabek but it would be “SOLID_FUNDS” who would take the 1st place along with the coveted Best Trash Talker award for his constant ragging on Jarzabek from two tables down. The big winner of the tournament was “Popp1987″ who managed to work a deal where his 5th place finish grabbed him $227,845 of the prizepool, larger than any of those who finished after him. Well played sir.
The always entertaining 16:00 rebuy tournament was bumped up to a $600,000 guarantee and once again did not disappoint. Several players ran multiple entries deep including Jay “THE_GOLDMINE” Kinkade (7th/30th) but it was a heads up battle of pros when Kyle “kwob20″ Bowker out lasted Full Tilt Pro Joao Barbosa for the win. You can look below at the results for the long list of big names players who would go deep in the tournament, I generally list the notable names in the top 100 and this took awhile.
The Sunday Mulligan was the next tournament to play down to a winner and Full Tilt’s David Chiu was the next to just miss the victory. He finished 2nd to Mike “dartz222″ Dietrich at a final table which also featured WSOP champion Scott Clements. The last major of the day also featured a fine collection of the names coming up just short.
The big game of the day was the tripled up $2,250,000 Guarantee which drew of 14,000 entrants and 1st place would end up carding a score over $350,000 on the day. Casey “bigdogpckt5s” Jarzabek was looking for his second major final table of the day but would come up just short as would Jason “TheMasterJ33″ Dewitt. As players busted and tables combined, the twitter world was all atwitter with the news of 2008 November Niner Chino “TheComeUp” Rheem making a big run at the title.
While most of the remaining players were looking for the biggest payday of their career, Rheem was sporting a rail which included several Mizrachi brothers, Mike Matusow, Stuart Paterson, and an all-star cast of characters cheering him on. Easily the most entertaining tournament to watch but the crowd favorite would have to settle for just a 14th place showing. The wee hours of the morning would see the final 4 players chop up nearly $1,100,000 between them with happymon32 ($353,769) getting the biggest cut.
Those were just a few of the huge fields throughout the day. There was something for all stakes/games with the first $1 WSOP Main Event Qualifier kicking off along with the Double Deuce and FTOPS XX satellites. Enjoy the short pause as more great promotions are right around the corner including the Take 2 bonuses, FTOPS/MiniFTOPS XX, and so many cheap ways to satellite into the 2011 World Series of Poker.
Triple Guarantee Big Money Sunday results below.
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It was a record setting day on the site yesterday as the first week of FTOPS XIX came to a close with three huge events. The day kicked off with Event #22 as a replacement to the popular Sunday Brawl, this time with multiple entries. The “small buy” $120 Knockout NLHE tournament drew the biggest field in FTOPS history with 23,342 entrants, more than doubling the previous mark. That set the stage for the $1,500,000 Guarantee Event #24 later in the day which blew the doors off every FTOPS tournament which came before. 11,343 entrants paid $322 for a chance at the prizepool which reached an incredible $3,402,900 besting the previous high set during the FTOPS XVIII Main Event. After just 24 events, the total prizepool for FTOPS XIX has reached $18,360,532.
Just a few of the records set this week and we still have a full week remaining including next Sunday’s Main Event.
Aside from the big action kicking off yesterday, there was also the matter of determining a winner in the inaugural $10,000 Heads Up FTOPS event. The tournament sold out at 128 players Saturday afternoon and played down to their Final Four. Some of big names coming up just short of the second day were Scott “mastrblastr” Seiver, Yevgeniy “bballer88″ Timoshenko, Scott “URnotINdanger2″ Palmer, and Ashton “theASHMAN103″ Griffin. Making it to Sunday afternoon were Full Tilt pros Scott Clements and Alessio Isaia along with Paul “paulgees81″ Volpe and “John00Flemming”. Isaia continued his great run after winning the 2011 World Poker Tour Venice title earlier in the week and made quick work of Volpe. Clements on the other hand had a battle on his hands with “John00Flemming”, going under T900 of his starting 6,000 before gutting it out to make the final match.
The two red letter pros chopped the match evenly leaving $5,000 and the title up for grabs. In the end it was Scott Clements winning the final match to become the 8th Full Tilt pro to win an FTOPS event. He joins Erick Lindgren, Gavin Smith, David “The Dragon” Pham*, Greg “FBT” Mueller, Brandon Adams, Berry Johnston, and Soi Nguyen with those honors.
The monster field Event 22 battled it’s way down to the final table with some big names in the running but all coming up short in the end. Title winner LilPokerGirlie collected $279,428 for the victory while runner up “daCav04″ took home the bigger prize ($290,000) after the heads up deal was complete. Lee “acumen53″ Childs, friend of the blog, made noise late in the $800,000 Guarantee Rebuy FTOPS event while heading into the final table with the chip lead. He ran into a few unfortunate hands (AA down in flames to 96o for a taste) to finish the even in 4th.
The premier event of the day would run nearly 15 hours before we had our latest jersey winner. Five players were guaranteed a 6 digit payday, nearly $1,500,000 spread between those players. In the end it was German pro Alexander “AD_84″ Debus earning the coveted gold jersey along with $341,268 while 2nd place Jason “NovaSky” Koon had to settle for runner-up status but a bigger payout of $458,550.
Nick “Grippolio” Grippo tops the FTOPS XIX Leaderboard as we head into the final week. He has 8 cashes during FTOPS XIX including a victory in Event 6 and a runner up finished in Event 17 earning nearly $158,000 for the series. Paul “paulgees81″ Volpe is right on his tail with six cashes, one final table, and his 4th place finish in the $10,000 Heads Up tournament. There are still several others who could jump to the top of the leaderboard and win approximately $14,000 worth of tournament buyins for FTOPS XX.
Only 24 events into FTOPS XIX and it’s on pace to be the most successful in the series. To date there have already been seven tournaments to top the $1,000,000 prize mark with four more guaranteed in the next week. There is still plenty of time to get in on the action, FTOPS satellites continue to run throughout the day for as cheap as a few FTP points.
FTOPS XIX Week 1 results below.
1st and 2nd made a deal:
1st – David “OSUTexan” Walker – $191,065
2nd – Mattssons – $176,944
3rd – Fonsemand – $109,676
4th – halunited07 – $81,926
5th – Drf1209 – $59,643
6th – Ghiogghiero – $42,284
7th – petit_bourgeois – $28,145
8th – o mrBuBbLeS o – $19,556
9th – RiverRuben – $13,742
Notables: Maxi Mueller (20th), Corey “Comandr_Cool” Burbick (30th), Joao Barbosa (45th), Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (52nd), Steve “gboro780″ Gross (60th), Jack “JackQKA” Ellwood (85th), Scott “SCTrojans08″ Freeman (90th)
1st and 2nd made a deal:
1st – flycoolj – $44,960
2nd – Wallyayay – $40,000
3rd – PixKim – $23,895
4th – TheKinGDonalD – $19,175
5th – DJilago – $14,466
6th – a game rob – $10,620
7th – sernas – $6,844
8th – CabanaFreeRoll – $4,956
9th – jersch – $3,540
Notables: Stuart Paterson (15th), Caio Pimenta (23rd), Devon “horryclutch” Biehn (33rd), Bradley “FatsoFat6969″ Craig (36th), Tim “highlandfox” Finne (50th), “Ozzy 87″ Sheikh (61st), David “DonkCommited” Miscikowski (68th), Brandon Adams (73rd)
1st – Jonas “Klausen” Klausen – $182,650
2nd – Michael Turenic – $128,349
3rd – JHoWn – $87,869
4th – toddybrun2 – $65,161
5th – citation3 – $49,365
6th – Michael “mossified84″ Skomac – $36,628
7th – simon1471 – $26,163
8th – herbhealsme – $18,561
9th – callyoudownn – $12,538
Notables: Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (10th), Josh “Professor Plum” Prager (12th), Scott “SCTrojans08″ Freeman (13th), Stewart “StuMan123″ Yancik (18th), James Dempsey (24th), Eric “Avril Sharapova” Ladny (30th), Danny “The__D__RY” Ryan (32nd), Nick “Grippolio” Grippo (41st), Corey “Comandr_Cool” Burbick (48th), Huckleberry Seed (50th), “Ozzy 87″ Sheikh (53rd), Mark “uuhhhicall” Leonard (59th), Erick Lindgren (62nd), Kevin “GetPWN3D” Saul (80th), Eric “Avril Sharapova” Ladny (92nd), Adam “csimmsux” Geyer (97th)
1st through 3rd made a deal:
1st – max_zefir – $185,957
2nd – adametes – $177,565
3rd – Joe “JBlaze20″ Chaplin – $177,863
4th – Adam “csimmsux” Geyer – $88,466
5th – jeppish – $63,546
6th – Ryan “HITTHEPANDA” Franklin – $41,741
Notables: Josh “Professor Plum” Prager (12th), Brandon “bgitty” Garrity (17th), Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis (19th), Timothy “Tim0thee” Adams (22nd), “Ozzy 87″ Sheikh (23rd), Kevin “Wu_Wizard” MacPhee (36th), Mark “uuhhhicall” Leonard (52nd), Matt “berkey11″ Berkey (53rd), Praz Bansi (61st), Melanie Weisner (64th), Chris “herdgolf86″ Tipper (72nd), Adam “TheSquee” Sherman (77th), Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby (88th), Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo (91st)
1st – daPHUNNIEman – $18,436
2nd – Ketse – $12,151
3rd – tuzla1 – $8,799
4th – omgqq1cup – $6,536
5th – DEESGOTCHA – $4,609
6th – Flying Smile – $3,016
Notables: Brent “Bhanks11″ Hanks (19th), Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (21st), JD “jdpc27″ Wheeler (46th), Mike “Gags30″ Gagliano (51st)
1st – Nick “Grippolio” Grippo – $68,040
2nd – pokerproplaya08 – $42,768
3rd – To_Be_The_Man – $28,460
4th – Ross “zestfulyclean” Myers – $19,440
5th – tenselmi – $13,608
6th – inhidonks – $9,331
Notables: Steve Brecher (15th), Josh Arieh (23rd), Steven “LeoEleven” Rosen (37th), Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (47th), Josh “buttsauce33″ Weizer (61st), Kevin “GetPWN3D” Saul (78th), Ryan “HITTHEPANDA” Franklin (90th)
1st and 2nd made a deal:
1st – sfeedking – $31,452
2nd – Yubaball – $30,654
3rd – Suicide King007 – $17,252
4th – D-R_MAN-CARTEL – $11,259
5th – DAT MOOSE – $7,082
6th – i can flip – $5,084
7th – korjae – $3,541
8th – 8killmurph8 – $2,342
Notables: David “The Dragon” Pham (15th), Diego Cordovez (16th), Tim “highlandfox” Finne (20th), Michael Craig (21st), Nick “Grippolio” Grippo (23rd), Scott Clements (31st), Danny “THE__D__RY” Ryan (38th), Alex “ArgentinaBoy” Queen (44th), Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (73rd)
1st – Soepgroente – $25,750
2nd – actionDJ – $16,943
3rd – all_in_aquinas – $12,463
4th – tehopo – $9,064
5th – sqau777 – $6,489
6th – shuriken555 – $4,326
Notables: Huckleberry Seed (12th), Jon Turner (20th)
1st and 2nd made a deal:
1st – dfunks222 – $56,144
2nd – fabius00 – $43,000
3rd – COCOMIEL – $27,884
4th – sixthsense119 – $22,376
5th – Milanoz – $16,882
6th – David “Bussa Buss” Baker – $12,393
7th – Haibomi – $7,986
8th – whompakaMIT – $5,783
9th – Chris “herdgolf86″ Tipper – $4,131
Notables: Adam “TheSquee” Sherman (26th), Bjorn “kleath” Kleathersson (50th), Danny “THE__D__RY” Ryan (58th), Evan “NEONPILS99″ Parkes (60th)
1st – dutchmaster – $290,942
2nd – Kory “s00tedj0kers89″ Kilpatrick – $178,202
3rd – Alex “TheAssassinato” Fitzgerald- $123,675
4th – chaz_man_chaz – $91,386
5th – King_lewis8 – $67,016
6th – syyykee_mann – $45,693
Notables: Anthony “holdplz” Spinella (7th), John Racener (16th), Bradley “FatsoFat6969″ Craig (17th), Nick “agriffrod” Mitchell (22nd), Shawn Buchanan (24th), Chris “herdgolf86″ Tipper (25th), Joseph Cheong (49th)
1st – ash4simone – $39,531
2nd – hairypotter87 – $26,187
3rd – Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis – $18,348
4th – UBeenButlerfied – $11,342
5th – castellimich – $7,005
6th – BigBadDevil – $4,837
7th – bestof6billion – $3,669
8th – evermars – $2,502
Notables: Andrew “Skillville” Weisner (24th), Kelly Kim (37th)
1st – michigan091 – $73,600
2nd – Secret_Window – $48,950
3rd – danaldo – $36,085
4th – Yubaball – $28,225
5th – DontBluffMePLZZ – $21,079
6th – Matt “mattyv” Vengrin – $14,648
7th – badbeatme – $8,932
8th – uravtokonsul – $6,073
9th – YouOnlyLivOnce – $4,287
Notables: Ronald “ScarJo” Lee (22nd), Allen “albari” Bari (27th)
1st – Mike “SirWatts” Watson – $27,085
2nd – THE GENIUS 115 – $17,812
3rd – WiLDmAn75 – $12,380
4th – yankswinmore – $7,942
5th – Suicide King007 – $4,905
6th – Paul “paulgees81″ Volpe – $3,387
7th – mastershakezor – $2,569
8th – SNACKERS – $1,752
Notables: Kelly Kim (20th), Yuvee “yuvee04″ Bronshtein (40th)
1st and 2nd made a deal:
1st – Specunder – $127,112
2nd – Mike “GoLeafsGoEh” Leah – $111,279
3rd – Roxx Box – $67,047
4th – Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski – $53,803
5th – Shawn “Jordankickz” Busse – $40,592
6th – Magicbox_V – $29,799
7th – pommesXD – $19,203
8th – Brendooor – $13,906
9th – osokoso – $9,933
Notables: Ryan “ryanwelch” Welch (14th), Steve Yea (15th), Andrew “Skillville” Weisner (38th), Jim “reelhugefish” Gilbert (53rd), Christina “cristinalindley” Lindley (63rd), Tony “Bond18″ Dunst (66th), Frank “Frank1The1Tank” Calo (67th), Alexander “AD_84″ Debus (70th), David “Bussa Buss” Baker (73rd)
1st through 3rd made a deal:
1st – miserd00d – $182,447
2nd – JohnnyGstaks – $152,749
3rd – RuDyBoY X – $123,757
4th – Cuncydonky23 – $77,035
5th – Crocofantos – $54,250
6th – Pghfan987 – $35,805
7th – ChipRich – $23,870
8th – FromThaGroundUp – $16,275
9th – Micah “MicahJ” Smith – $11,935
Notables: John D’Agostino (15th), Luke “IWEARGOGGLES” Staudenmaier (22nd), Andrew “Browndog19″ Brown (25th), Philipp “philbort” Gruissem (28th), Jason “NovaSky” Koon (31st), Jon “FatalError” Aguiar (32nd), Gavin Smith (33rd), Chad “jse81″ Bastista (35th), Chris “Moormanl” Moorman (61st), Zack “Zacpacker” Fellows (68th), Danny “THE__D__RY” Ryan (74th)
1st – JKwizzle – $37,327
2nd – John D’Agostino – $24,727
3rd – David Pham – $17,325
4th – nixsid – $10,710
5th – Beurice – $6,615
6th – CitizenMac – $4,567
7th – Jooston88 – $3,465
8th – pandabre – $2,362
Notables: Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (11th), Paul “paulgees81″ Volpe (12th), Zack “Zacpacker” Fellows (21st),
1st through 3rd made a deal:
1st – DevilTruck – $85,259
2nd – Nick “Grippolio” Grippo – $82,653
3rd – Michael “benvo123″ Benvenuti – $47,500
4th – Caio Pimenta – $36,100
5th – syyyke_mann – $25,650
6th – kid_bramm – $16,387
Notables: Keven “Stamdogg” Stammen (15th), Tristan “Cre8ive” Wade (22nd), Chad “jse81″ Batista (32nd), Ryan “ryanbluf” Karp (43rd)
1st and 2nd made a deal:
1st – NatWork – $100,952
2nd – platon197846 – $103,392
3rd – CuteIsWhatIAim4 – $60,347
4th – BluffBlocker87 – $47,202
5th – ALKAYD66 – $35,252
6th – GeoffRas22 – $24,497
7th – AKSharky – $14,937
8th – winkiac – $10,157
9th – golf pro game – $7,170
Notables: James “croll103″ Carroll (20th), Shaun “tedsfishfry” Deeb (42nd), Eric “Avril Sharapova” Ladny (52nd), Tony “D1rtyR1v3r” Nardi (61st), Kevin “kice32″ Iacofano (63rd), Anthony “holdplz” Spinella (64th), Jeff Madsen (65th)
1st and 2nd made a deal:
1st – Scott Clements – $290,500
2nd – Alessio Isaia – $285,500
3rd – John00Flemming – $108,800
4th – Paul “paulgees81″ Volpe – $108,800
5th – Tight-Man1 – $57,600
6th – youreamaniac – $57,600
7th – canofcorn22 – $57,600
8th – Scott “mastrblastr” Seiver – $57,600
Notables: Nicolas “nicos11″ Chouity (9th), Yevgeniy “bballer88″ Timoshenko (12th), Scott “URnotINdanger2″ Palmer (15th), Ashton “theASHMAN103″ Griffin (16th)
1st – RenRad 01 – $95,081
2nd – WiLDmAn75 – $61,538
3rd – billybob187 – $45,687
4th – DuckU – $34,498
5th – Allie “The Prescott” Prescott – $24,242
6th – Burcak – $15,850
7th – Betong – $10,722
8th – MastrMultiTaskr – $7,459
9th – AretheseUtz – $5,594
Notables: Kevin “kice32″ Iacofano (13th), JD “jdpc27″ Wheeler (28th), Adam “Roothlus” Levy (35th), Karl “discomonkey” Fenton (45th), Yuvee “yuvee04″ Bronshtein (53rd)
1st and 2nd made a deal:
1st – SuperDuty – $19,950
2nd – gardyone – $21,000
3rd – StabbFlation – $11,655
4th – Casey “bigdogpckt5s” Jarzabek – $8,505
5th – Big Dutchie – $5,985
6th – aguacatal – $3,990
Notables: Svetlana Gromenkova (27th), Sascha Biorac (28th),
1st and 2nd made a deal:
1st – LilPokerGirlie – $279,428
2nd – daCav04 – $290,000
3rd – swish3113 – $157,558
4th – LeTruc – $110,874
5th – The Lab Rat – $78,195
6th – Haibomi – $57,187
7th – FrmRussiaWthLuv – $42,949
8th – Kory “s00tedj0kers89″ Kilpatrick – $31,511
9th – ElSkobar – $22,174
Notables: Steve “TheHesse” Hesse (10th), Shannon “BLUFFforRENT” Shorr (15th), Josh “Professor Plum” Prager (57th),
1st – npomocc – $166,396
2nd – NeverBettor – $109,854
3rd – Obvamentz_IMO – $81,582
4th – Lee “acumen53″ Childs – $63,812
5th – slaskovic – $47,657
6th – AceHigh800 – $33,117
7th – TheIBanker – $20,193
8th – lennepoker – $13,731
9th – nm_21 – $9,693
Notables: Nicolas “nicos11″ Chouity (17th), Pat “obiedman” O’Brien (22nd), Scott “SCTrojans08″ Freeman (23rd), Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo (26th), Steve “gboro780″ Gross (30th), Josh “pbdrunks” VanDuyn (37th), Darryll “DFish” Fish (38th), Jeremy “daisyxoxo” Fitzpatrick (46th), Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (48th), Jim “reelhugefish” Gilbert (53rd), Chad “jse81″ Bastista (55th), Kevin “kice32″ Iacofano (60th), Erich Kollmann (61st), Matt “NoBadBeatsPlz” Kay (73rd), Bill Gazes (84th), Felipo Montenegro (91st)
1st through 3rd made a deal:
1st – Alexander “AD_84″ Debus – $341,268
2nd – Jason “NovaSky” Koon – $458,550
3rd – O0Brian0O – $336,750
4th – bigredAK – $181,034
5th – yadio1111 – $132,713
6th – RemixIt – $95,281
7th – MissOldy – $68,058
8th – keepthecarunnin – $48,661
9th – Tykoon35 – $34,403
Notables: Dave “doubledave22″ D’Alesandro (14th), Nicolas “nicos11″ Chouity (21st), Josh Arieh (23rd), Soi Nguyen (32nd), Paul “paulgees81″ Volpe (33rd), Matt Jarvis (49th), Jan Skampa (54th), Mike “Gags30″ Gagliano (57th), Adam “Roothlus” Levy (65th), Peter “Nordberg” Feldman (73rd), Ronald “ScarJo” Lee (81st), Casey “bigdogpckt5s” Jarzabek (88th), Joao Barbosa (91st)
Tags: AlCantHang, Alessio Isaia, Bloggers on the Rail, FTOPS, Scott Clements
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Today is the first where we finally begin to form “dream” final table set ups, with just 200 players remaining in the field we have a good idea throughout the day who’s making drastic moves in either direction. It was even a little tough with less than 500 to start the day yesterday but now we have just over 20 tables to keep an eye on. Which young gun will make his name in these final days? Which old school player will put a jolt back in their career? How many of these big online players are going to show up in November?
Tags: 2010 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, David Benyamine, Scott Clements, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Phil Ivey stands for the U.S. National Anthem during his bracelet ceremony
(Photographer/GreasieWheels)
Just in case you were living under a rock away from the poker over the last week, Phil Ivey captured his 8th career WSOP bracelet in the $3,000 HORSE event over Bill Chen. It was an interesting spectacle with a different atmosphere than the “durrrr” final table a few ago, this final table was stuck our little corner of the Amazon Room without the fan fare or big stadium seating of the main stage.
Two days later Ivey returned to the Pavilion Room for his bracelet ceremony followed by wide open press conference. The picture about was taken by the official WSOP photographer (with creative credit going to B.J. Nemeth) and is something special. You can click the image for the full size picture, it should give you a small feel for the number of people who jammed into the room to see history. Ivey and WSOP TD Jack Effel were joined on stage by Jack Binion.
The rest of the week was full of drama, fun, and of course the continuing parade of Perry Friedman’s hats. You can find just some of our the pictures our very own HeatherB snapped over the last few days. Enjoy after the jump.
Tags: 2010 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Chris Ferguson, Donnie Vann, Howard Lederer, Huck Seed, Johnny Chan, Kristy Gazes, Mike Matusow, Perry Friedman, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Pictures of the Week, Scott Clements, Scott Montgomery, Tom Dwan, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Another week has gone by at the 2009 World Series of Poker and things are starting to ramp up. Full Tilt was unable to add to it’s collection of WSOP bracelets but FTP blogger Michael Craig and pro Vitaly Lunkin both put in second place showings. The week started with the NHL Stanley Cup coming to the Amazon Room and ending with the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. kick off. The schedule was lighter than the first three weeks but there was plenty of action to capture.
I present to you the week in pictures from the Full Tilt angle.
The first is by far my favorite photo from the 2009 World Series of Poker. Photographer extraordinaire BJ Nemeth has been capturing some incredible images this year. This photo was taken from atop the bracelet ceremony stage as Phil Ivey picked up his 7th World Series of Poker bracelet. It illustrates the massive amount of players, fans, and media Ivey draws to any event. Click to enlarge and enjoy. More images after the jump.
Photo credit: BJ Nemeth
Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Amanda Baker, Bloggers on the Rail, Chau Giang, Erick Lindgren, Erik Cajelais, Howard Lederer, Kristy Gazes, Phil Ivey, Pictures of the Week, Rafe Furst, Scott Clements, Steve Zolotow
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
It was another great week for Team Full Tilt. Final tables were populated with players patched up in FTP gear and make a lot of noise. Three bracelets would be brought into the fold by Phil Ivey, Nick Schulman and Greg “FBT” Mueller. If the rest of the poker world wants to catch up, they better start working hard.
It’s Friday so that means it’s time for the Week in Pictures. These are just some of the collection that did not make any posts during the week but are worthy of your time
View of the final table of Event #27 Pot Limit Omaha/8. Three Full Tilt members were present but Roland De Wolfe would defeat Omaha-guru Scott Clements for the title.
![ev 34 day 1 imm3008 impdi 2009 World Series of Poker Week 3 in Pictures](/poker-from-the-rail/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ev-34-day-1_imm3008-impdi.jpg "Amanda \\"Mandy B\\" Baker at the 2009 World Series of Poker")
More pictures after the jump:
Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Allen Cunningham, Amanda Baker, Bloggers on the Rail, Cyndy Violette, Fabrice Soulier, Jon Turner, Josh Arieh, Kelly Kim, Lee Watkinson, Nick Schulman, Perry Friedman, Pictures of the Week, Richard Brodie, Roland de Wolfe, Ross Boatman, Scott Clements, Steve Zolotow, Vivek Rajkumar, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Roland De Wolfe wins his first WSOP bracelet in the Pot Limit Omaha/8 Event
Photo credit: IMPDI
A day after Phil Ivey won his 7th WSOP bracet and 4th for Team Full Tilt, Roland De Wolfe added another to the collection. De Wolfe won his first WSOP bracelet in the Pot Limit Omaha/8 event and nearly $250,000. It was a talented final table that included Omaha-guru Scott Clements (making his second Omaha final table this year), Alex Kravchenko, Andy Black, Brett Richey and John Racener.
He accomplished his feat at a relatively short final table, finishing just after 8pm. Players continued to drop and he kept building up his chipstack to a 4-to-1 chip lead once heads up with Brett Richey. That battle did not take very long and De Wolfe was soon smiling for the media photogs.
Roland De Wolfe adds his name to an exclusive list that just includes himself and Gavin Griffin as the only players with World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour, and European Poker Tour victories. Come Monday afternoon we’ll get to hear God Save the Queen throughout the Amazon Room one more time.
Scott Clements made his second Omaha final table of the year
Tags: 2009 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Roland de Wolfe, Scott Clements, WSOP
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