FTOPS IX: Coach Cornholio Seventh In Event 11
August 15, 2008
Coach Cornholio completed seventh in the $200 Fixed-Limit Hold’em tourney Affair 11) of the FTOPS, receiving $6,000 as being this act. Sugarsweetness thorough-bred first.
932 players participated in the eleventh Fact of the Filled Covering overhead Poker (FTP)Online Course’ (FTOPS) and paid the buy-in of $200 + $16. So the guerdon collection of standing water did not excel the guaranteed compute of $200,000. 108 placeswere paid out. Read more
Woman suing PokerStars for $1.2 in tournament winnings
July 3, 2008
A woman named Natalie Teltscher is suing PokerStars for winnings that were withheld from her account because of what the online poker site said was a breach of tournament rules.
Teltscher, who is the owner of the account “the VOid,” won the 2007 World Championship of Online Poker main event on PokerStars. The winnings of $1.2 million were withheld by PokerStars, however.
The lawsuit was filed on the Isle of Man, where PokerStars is based.
WSOP becomes “climate friendly” poker tournament
July 3, 2008
Harrah’s announced a deal this week that makes the World Series of Poker a “climate friendly” poker tournament.
Harrah’s, which puts on the WSOP, purchased “carbon offsets” through a company called NativeEnergy. A carbon offset consists of paying for the greenhouse gas emissions a person or an entity creates by funding a cause that reduces greenhouse gas emissions. The purchase by Harrah’s offsets energy use and waste during the six-and-a-half week event and will fund NativeEnergy’s farmer-owned distributed wind program.
2008 WSOP Day 31: The end is in sight
July 3, 2008
The end is finally near in the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship. After four days of play, it has finally found its players for the final table.
Meanwhile, two more winners were found on Saturday and two more events got started in the 2008 World Series of Poker. Today as these events continue, two more will get started with the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship and a $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event.
Event 45
The last leg of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. race takes place today as the top eight players take their positions this afternoon. Check out the stars who rose to the top:
WSOPE solidifies 2008 schedule
July 3, 2008
Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. announced this week that the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe schedule has now been finalized.
The 2008 WSOPE will feature four bracelet tournaments, including a new 1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event to kick off the series this year.
The official bracelet events will be:
Sept. 19: Event 1 1,500 No-Limit Hold’em (three-day event with two Day 1′s)Sept. 22: Event 2 2,500 H.O.R.S.E. (three-day event)Sept. 24: Event 3 5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (three-day event)Sept. 27: Event 4 10,000 World Championship No-Limit Hold’em (five-day event with two Day 1′s)
Belgian takes down a WSOP event
June 24, 2008
In a slow day for final tables at the World Series of Poker, Belgium’s David Kitai won Event No. 38, $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em $2,000 and the first prize of $244,546.
Lee Watkinson and Robert Cheung were both at the final table seeking their second WSOP bracelet, but both came up short.
Heads-up play between Kitai and runner-up Chris Bell was an epic affair, with 187 hands played over five hours before Kitai finally knocked off a short-stacked Bell at the end.
Ferguson just misses sixth WSOP bracelet
June 24, 2008
Chris Ferguson got to heads-up play in his pursuit of a sixth World Series of Poker bracelet on Thursday, but fell just short.
In Event No. 33, the $10,000 World Championship of Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8, Sebastian Ruthenberg outlasted “Jesus” to win his first bracelet and the first prize of $328,756. Marcel Luske (fourth) and Annie Duke (fifth) were also at the final table.
In Event No. 32, a $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event, Jose Luis Velador dominated the final two days of competition to win his first bracelet and the first prize of $573,734. PartTimePoker’s Shane “Loonbat” Stacey took fifth place for more than $166,000.
2008 WSOP Day 22: Velador, Ruthenberg victorious
June 24, 2008
As a new day starts, the 2008 World Series of Poker can report two more bracelet winners from Thursday’s poker action.
Luis Velador took his chip lead all the way to the win in the third of seven $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em events, and Sebastian Ruthenberg defeated Chris “Jesus” Ferguson in heads-up play to win the $5,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Eight-or-Better event.
Along with the two final tables, two more events played down to a final table on Thursday, and two more got started, so let’s check out the action.
Khan nearly rains down another win at PokerStars
June 24, 2008
Usually the big news from Sunday is the winner of the PokerStars Sunday Million, but occasionally it’s one of the site’s other major Sunday events that takes center stage. This week it was the Sunday Warm-Up, as Hevad Khan nearly took it down for another win.
Kahn, who is better known as RaiNKhAN, won a Sunday Warm-Up earlier this year and came within inches of winning another this past Sunday. He came in in second place to earn $58,000.
2008 WSOP Day 20: Phan-ing the tournament flames
June 18, 2008
Two more professional poker players won their very first World Series of Poker bracelets on Tuesday as John Phan took down Event 29 and Rob Hollink brought one home for the Netherlands in Event 30.
Event 29
The Razor lived up to his nickname on Tuesday as he sliced through the final table of the $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em event to take home a gold bracelet and a $434,789 top prize.
This was John Phan’s first WSOP bracelet win, though he’s had several cashes in past events including two runner-up finishes, one in 2006 and one in 2007, and a fourth-place finish in 2005. This time he made his way through 716 entrants to ascend to the very top of the heap.
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