WSOP WRAPUP, POKER CHEATER SIGHTED, AND MORE

 

 

RUSS HAMILTON SIGHTING:  Perhaps accustomed to a softer game then most people play, Ol Russ has sought out the greener pastures of Florida and has been sighted at Gulfstream Park.  Guess since he WAS an online casino.  2 + 2ers discuss what they’d say to Russ if they saw him in person.  As everybody is a He-Man on the other side of the Internet, surely all their suggestions would actually happen if they bumped into him at say the slots.  Some are quite funny though. 

Don’t know who Russ Hamilton is?  He’s a former Main Event champion that robbed the players on UB blind.  Actually, not blind at all as he could see their hole cards.  He’s also that guy in the black and white photo.  Before you go for the obvious fat joke, that year the winner got his weight in silver so it paid to hit the buffets.

JASON MERCIER AND MICHAEL BINGER MAKE NAPT FINAL 19:  They played down to 19 yesterday and online Mercier finished third in chips with 2.15 million.  Binger is just behind with 2.025 million.  With less chips is Matt Affleck.  Those three could also be called most likely to give a suckout, most likely to casually discuss the sucking of so called “weak” force, and most likely to take a brutal, brutal suck out.  Christopher DeMaci who you may know by a different name at your favorite online poker room leads with 3.78 million.

PETER EASTGATE AUCTIONS WSOP BRACELET, EASTGATE FACE NOT INCLUDED:  Remember when TJ Cloutier’s bracelet ended up on ebay?  Think Eastgate’s retirement has gone south?  Actually he’s donating the proceeds are going to Unicef.

WSOP MAIN EVENT WRAP UP

CONGRATS TO JONATHAN DUHAMEL:  Duhamel’s title entitles the kid who speaks like a James Bond villain to get mobbed by Canadians in Canadians jerseys and to win roughly 9 million dollars.  He got a lot of big hands, according to the telecast, and didn’t slip up.  Telling how strong he played AK in some spots and how he disposed of it preflop after the Grinder three-bet him in another spot.  He had some wide swings as did the entire leaderboard, but rallied to take down the title.

JOHN RACENER FINISHES SECOND:  Racener really grew on us listening to his guest spots on Podcasts and his generally even keel throughout the Main Event.  Racener won 5.5 million for the runner up spot.  It was hard not to pull for the Florida kid when he got heads up despite his massive chip disadvantage.  Course online poker phenom Joe Cheong, and John Dolan, and the good for poker Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi (5th 2.3 million) were also compelling rooting interests.  Btw, we root for anybody that friends us on facebook… so make us feel loved and friend us and we’ll root for you too (within reason we probably won’t pull for Charles Manson in his prison poker league even if he “like”s us). 

Seemed like Dolan (6th 1.7 million)  kept finding himself in bad spots, few of his own doing, and made the correct decisions and it just wasn’t his night.  Cheong (3rd for 4.1 million) and Duhamel were both fighting for the title and using their chips to spar but it felt like Duhamel ran a little better when it counted.  Lots of bravery on display and some sicko turn and river cards.  Highly entertaining final table. 

SCOTTY CLARK AND WILL SOUTHER STILL IN THE THICK OF THINGS:  Both players are near the top of the standings for the at-large bids for the National Championship freeroll.  They stand 5th and 7th out of 36 spots.  Speaking of Scotty he has some great coverage of the Main Event on his blog, but beware of spoilers.  Check it out here.

MORE IP POKER RESULTS

 CONGRATS TO TRAVIS LUTES THE IP MAIN EVENT CHAMPION:  Lutes along with the Casino champion (tbd? but also listed as Travis Lutes) qualifies for the National Championship freeroll at the end of the season.  Lutes also won a little over 95k.  We think the Casino Champion honor goes to third place Main Event finisher Bobbie Talbot (42k) who is second on the local leaderboard (behind Lutes).  But if we could figure out that for sure, we’d probably know  how to bet on horses too. And we don’t. Talbot is from Hernando, MS. 

Aaron Brant and Will “Our favorite Monkey” Souther were passed by the top three finishers in the Main Event on the local leaderboard in the Casino Champion race.  That also includes second place finisher (good for 58k) Farid Nasserazad.  Nazzerazad of Atlanta ended up third in the series points leaderboard behind Lutes and Talbot.  Talbot jumped him on the strength of his earlier performances and to think we were giving out online betting tips on the outcome of this a couple of posts ago. 

Souther finished 12th for 7k.  Dan Walsh took a couple of harrowing back to back beats to just miss the money.  Yair Alon of Panama City, FL finished 5th for 23k.  Robert Gunter of Salem, AL 6th for 17k.  John Holley of Destin, FL grabbed 8.7k for 9th.  Two more Alabama boys Robert Harris (15th for 5.8k) and David Barrow of Guntersville (16th for 4.8k) came up just short of the final table.  Congrats also to Mike Flowers of Baton Rouge who cashed in the  23rd spot.

 IP LEADERBOARD:  Quick correction Monkey did not qualify for National Championship (free roll) only players who win the Main Event or the Regional Championship auto qualify.  Top 36 nationally qualify too (which right now includes two GCP bloggers Scotty Clark and Monkey), and for some analysis of that process go here.  GCP blogger Shannon Shorr has already qualified by making the final table of a regional championship. 

Locally, Monkey is in contention for the Casino Champion (or the best points earner at a Circuit stop) at the IP.  Here’s the leader-board for that, with all the ring winners currently tied for first.  Tiebreaker is earnings so:

Name	Pts	Rings	Cashes	Earn
Aaron Brant	50	1	1	$19,585
Rob Quin	50	1	1	$18,722
William Souther	50	1	1	$6,583
Justin Gates	37.5	0	1	$12,102
Daniel Seiver	37.5	0	1	$11,567
Brettt Alello	37.5	0	1	$4,068
Jeff bell	30	0	1	$8,781
David Nicholson	30	0	1	$8,357
Robert West	30	0	1	$2,698
Willey Lee	27.5	0	1	$6,479
Greg Harkinson	27.5	0	1	$6,150
Wendall Sally	27.5	0	1	$1,190

*You’ll notice they haven’t updated to include the HORSE event won by…

TIM BURT A MACHINE IN MISSISSIPPI WITH HORSE POWER TO SPARE:  We were pulling hard for Scotty Clark and the MississippiMachine (pictured) Tim Burt as he’s better known at his favorite online poker room.  When it got down to three players in the HORSE Championship,  Scotty seized the chip lead for a moment but ended up out third.  Burt took the title, the ring, and the 7.7k for first.  Scott won 2.9k for third and Gulfport’s Kirk Flom cashed in seventh.  Congrats guys.  Burt winnings have him edging out Monkey in the third spot when they update the standings.

GENE D A NIGHTLY EVENT:  GCP’s own GeneD cashed in another nightly going back to back.  Congrats to Gene for another top 10 finish.   Michael Flowers of Baton Rouge, grabbed 2k for second.  Tim Burt fresh off his title also squeaked in a min-cash. 

SOME OTHER NOTABLE CASHES:  Also big ups to Jackson Niolet of Gulf Port for finishing second in the $235 Horse event.  Congrats also to Guy Turner of Mobile who got a cash on the 30th in the $235 buy-in.  He joined Linda Fredericks of Baton Rouge, Michael Clary of Mandeville, Medric Lemenager of Denham Springs, and Hank Merqist of Lafayette, in turning a profit on the event.

GENE D CASHES AGAIN:  GCP blogger and co-owner GeneD played great poker in the $235 buy-in 4 pm tournament to take 5th place and $1.3k.  Bruce Soileau of Lafayette took second for $3.4k, Carol Farley of Ocean Springs (and self named Pokergoodess) finished 10th for $386 with local fedora legend Bertel Ladner of Biloxi right behind in 11th also for $386.

IP POKER RESULTS AND MORE

MONKEY WINS SECOND IP TOURNAMENT:  WMonkey has already proven his worth by being a Texas Hold em poker master. He might take greater pleasure in winning the Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or Better tournament gave Monkey his first Circuit ring and an invite to the million dollar freeroll to take place at the start of next years World Series.  It also added 6.5k to his bankroll and bragging rights as the guy having the best series at the IP. 

Brett Alello of Baton Rouge couldn’t overcome his chip deficit in heads up play but won 4k for his trouble.  Robert West of Abbeville, AL won 2.6k for third and Wendell Salley of Mobile 1.9k for fourth.  Yong Chen and John Demarco both of Ocean Springs finished 5th and 6th for 1.4k and 1.1k.  Barry Levy of Brooklyn, NY won 966 for finishing 7th and played spoiler to keeping it an all local affair.

THE GERM TAKES OUT THE FIELD:  Ron Germany, not to be confused with Ron Burgundy, from Covington, GA won the nightly for 3.5k.    James McCardle of Hattiesburg, MS (4th $1.1k), Fred Gooodson of Biloxi (5th $874), Kenny Milam of LaPlace (9th for $322), and Michael Hare of Tallahassee, FL (11th $261) also were in the thick of things.

THEODORE GARNER OF BILOXI ALSO WINS A $235:  Garner’s tournament had 120 other players and paid him 6.3k for first.  Should we mention it was a senior event?  Okay it was, and it was also a Mississippi affair as David Kennedy of Olive Branch and Larry Williamson of Brookhaven finished two-three.  Kennedy won a touch under 4k and Williamson a hair under 3k.  Congrats to Debra Wilburn from Vidor, TX for 5th (1.5k) and Charles Morris of Harahan, LA for 4th (2k). 

TOM MARCHESE BIG CHEESE AT FOXWOODS WPT:  Jason Mercier and Hoyt Corkins were the first two players eliminated as they played down to the final table.  Sorel Mizzi comiserated with Besnik Ziba for going out 7th and 8th on the TV table bubble.ed as they played down to the final table.  Sorel Mizzi comiserated with Bbble.

MONKEY WINS ANOTHER ONE AT THE IP:  This time it’s a nightly for a touch under 4k.  Well done, Is at another final table right now.  Go get ‘em Will.  Congrats also to friend of GCP Matt Stroud for taking down the mega along with Wild Bill and six others.

FIRST NOONER BRACELET EVENT AT IP TAKEN BY AARON BRANT:  the Mobile native pocketed almost 20k for first place in the 345 buy-in Texas No Limit Hold’em Event.  He outlasted Justin Gates of Praireville, LA (12k), Willey Lee of Perkinston, MS (6.4k for 4th), Byron Hiqueros of New Orleans (3.7k for 6th), Bobby Mayfield of Lafitte, LA (2..8k for 7th), John Durio of New Orleans (1.7k for 9th), Daniel Brown of Biloxi (1.45k for 11th), Michael Clary of Mandeville, LA (12th 1.45k), friend of GCP Craig Gullung of Marrero, LA (PICTURED, 13th 1.1k), Gary Holcomb of Mandeville, LA (14th 1.1k), Herbie Crook of Pascagoula, MS (15th 1.1k), Thomas Ballow of Denham Springs, LA (16th a hair under 1k), 

ROB QUIN OF METAIRIE WINS 2ND RING EVENT:  The 56 year old land surveyor outlasted the other 269 runners to win 187k.  Theodore Garner won the seniors event by staying alive longer than the others more details tomorrow.

HOYT CORKINS AND JASON MERCIER ARE STILL ALIVE IN WPT EVENT:  They’ve both made the money but are under the chi average with 12 of 242 returning to play down to the TV table final six.  Sorel Mizzi, Tom Marchese (chipleader), and Besnik Ziba are still alive.  We once drinked a soda called Besnik Ziba in the former Yugoslavia.

DURRRR PLAYS POKER AND MORE

 

GOT A MAN CRUSH ON DURRRR?  Do you play poker online because of your man-crush on Durrrr? Or maybe a woman crush, but you’re a man or a woman that likes women?  Well, we have the solution to all your curious problems, check out this two plus two thread and the crazy photoshopping devoted to Durrrr.  Incidentally, his second Durrrr Challenge is now petering out almost as quickly as his first one. And yes two plus two is known for their poker strategy talk and their photo-shopping.

EINSTEIN A GAMBLER:  NPR, yeah, what are we coming to, had a piece following up on the recent Discover Magazine, article we linked. It says Albert Einstein used to enjoy gambling quite a bit, and that quantum physicists are naturals at poker.  To listen to the story click here.

POKER PLAYING WEREWOLVES DON’T HELP YOU SELL CARS.  Customers who scream and fall when seeing Halloween displays at a car dealership aren’t good for business.  Werewolves are scary, but you have them playing poker and you better have fresh underwear for your car buyers.  The monsters were removed from a dodge dealership in Chesapeake, VA.  Read here for incrementally more.

POKER FILM IS BEST IN CINCINNATI:  We realize that’s kind of like being the hottest woman on Gilligan’s Island after Ginger and Mary Ann have been rescued.  And yes, you are left to pick between the Millionaire’s wife and Gilligan, but only if you can fight off the Skipper.  Anyway, the mockumentary “strives to do for poker what Caddy Shack did for golf…” (from their website).  We’ll try and get our Film expert at the CC Line to give us his take on the project, which sound suspicious.

SHANNON SHORR AND BRANDON ADAMS TOP TEN + 1 IN CHIPS:  GCP blogger Shannon Shorr has 328k in the 10th spot and Brandon Adams (who apparently makes his residence in Pensacola) has 269k in the 11 slot.  The chip leader is John Patgorksi at 729k.  Second place Curt Kohlberg is at 704k and is the only other player above 700k. Actually nobody else is above 600k either.  Steve Zolotow, David “Bakes” Baker and Justin Smith are in the top 10. 

 Dave “Doc” Sands, Adam Levy and Bernard Lee are also still alive in the final 24.  Brock Parker was one away from being the bubble boy.  All 24 players made the money with the bottom three slots assured 19.4k.  They have to make at least 6th place to win over 100k  First place is 525k, second is 324k, and third is just under a quarter million. 

 JONATHAN LITTLE AND OTHERS HEADED FOR FOXWOODS MAIN EVENT TODAY:  Another group of pros and locals are heading to the IP.  With Circuit points becomming a premium will there be a burst in attendance?  We predict yes.  Go here for that tournament schedule.

JASON MERCIER HAS A DOPPLEGANGER:  We promised you two Cardplayer videos and here’s the second.  Didn’t realize being a bartender and a server made you “evil” but Hammond was abuzz with Mercier’s clone serving drinks.  What’s more dangerous a Chi-clone or a Jason Mercier clone?  We think he runs so hot because there are 20 of him constantly spying his opponents cards and sending the original their holdings via Clone-esp.  Or maybe this guy just looks vaguely like him and he’s talented.

 SHANNON SHORR SURGES:  At one point he claimed the chip lead but he’ll enter Day 3 as third in chips at the final table.  Brandon Adams is in the nine spot.  Shorr has just under 1 million in chips while Adams has 155k and the distinction of being the short-stack.  The final table will be televised on Versus network, and they got a good one. 

The chipleader is Gabe Patgorski who is over two million in chips.  Dave “Doc” Sands, Curt Kohlberg and Bernard Lee are also on the final table.  Blinds are 8k/16k and 2k antes so Adams is just under 10 BBs.  Shorr meanwhile has a lot of play.

Monkey and TK Win for Gulf Coast Poker Fans

  MONKEY IN TOP 10 NEARING FINAL TABLE OF LITTLE MAIN EVENT IN WSOPC HAMMOND: 16 players left in the field and Monkey is repping the Gulf Coast with a stack right in the middle of the pack.  Byran Devonshire is the other big name in the field (and… yes… we are insinuating Will Souther is now a big name).  First place is over 240k.  Chipleader is Kurt Jewell with 3.1 million.  Jewell has just under 100k in lifetime winning with one first place.  Devo has 1.19 million in chips and Monkey 831k.  Matt Shepsky, who has just under 180k in lifetime cashes (six in the World Series), is a short-ish stack with 445k but is one to watch out for, although in today’s internet poker age who knows how good anyone is.

Get it done Monkey, you are the master of a sng so this is your day.  We’ll be posting updates on here, our facebook page, and our twitter account.  Though the updates may different depending on where you look.  Also, Scotty Clark is there, and had this nice post on Monkey.

  …Actually that didn’t take too long…

WILL “POKER MONKEY” SOUTHER WINS 47k AT WSOP-C EVENT:  The little main event in Hammond came to end for Monkey when he finished 6th.  Kurt Jewell hung on to his chip lead to win the event and the nearly quarter million dollars for first place.  Bryan Devonshire ran his pocket kings into 8-2 (yes, 8-2) in a preflop raising war and his opponent flopped two pair to send Devo out in 7th a brutal, brutal way.

We enjoyed following the live event near Chicago, as best we could, via text messages and sporadic updates from Pokernews and then Cardplayer.  It was a rough end for Monkey.  He ran into KK twice in a matter of a couple of hands to go from a big stack to no stack.  Monkey battled all day and really started to hit the gas at just the right time. 

Unfortunately, his opponent woke up with a hand when it mattered most.  Great job, Monkey.  We know you  would have preferred being back in the winner’s circle with the Monkey mask on (in honor of Halloween as you did last year… incidentally the IP is right around the corner again) but slogging through that huge field is a great accomplishment.

TK AKA TIMKRANK AKA TIM MILES WINS THE SUNDAY BRAWL FOR 109K:  Nothing is more enjoyable than doing updates to the site when bloggers or friends of GCP have a nice score.  Yesterday, we got to sweat from afar twice.  We saw the tail end of this tournament and saw TK dominate the final table en route to victory at a top online poker room. 

Coupled with watching Monkey it was a fun day of cheering on others.  TK waded through 2707 runners to take first place and show the guile required to win a tournament by consistently putting his opponents to the test.  You could tell one player had his eyes on 109k and wasn’t playing for second place’s 70k or third place’s 52k.  Great job TK!

SUE WHO?  SUE EVERYONE!  SUE HAPPY FLORIDA MONKEY GOES AFTER LEGAL LOOPHOLE IN ILLINOIS:  Scott Crespo, a Florida resident, is going after six online players who reside in Illinois to recover illegal poker gambling losses.  With a weird law in Illinois making it possible to recoup three times your gambling losses that’s exactly what he’s after by targeting six players that reside there. 

Filing 190 pages of tournament results and accusing the players of recruiting other players, colluding and cheating, Crespo we imagine used to end board games as a child by flipping them over and crying in a corner until Mommy or Daddy made him feel better by telling him he won anyway.

Poker News and Views and More

 
 CANATELLA TALKS WICKED CHOPS LISTENS:  Trishelle Canatella was on Wicked Chops “This Week in Poker” Podcast… this week, monkeying around talking about online poker games.  Okay, that’s not fair implying she’s a monkey, although to be fair, we do like some monkeys, especially poker monkeys.  However, let’s just say the editorial staff at GCP is split over Trishelle as a face for poker.  She’s a local and good for the game says half of us, she’s a local and good for nothing says the other half of us.  Then the other half says who’s she?  Then that other other half says Canatella my least favorite kind of pasta, a wet noodle. The way we figured those odds you know we kill when we play Omaha poker online.

Anyway, she’s allied with Absolute Poker and UB who is going through a cheating scandal of their own right now, but like her or not Wicked Chops puts on a pretty decent video podcast.

NO MONKEY AROUND, RANDAL FLOWERS BLOSSOMS IN FESTA AL LAGO:  Never gave you the winner of this event, it was a party by the lake for Flowers who took down his second WPT title.  The Chainsaw Allen Kessler bubbled the final table.  Noah Schwartz came in third.  Flowers took down 831k and Schwartz 344k.

JONATHAN LITTLE WINS 5K EVENT AT BELLAGIO FOR 150K.  After chopping the 1k PLO tournament Little kept all the spoils for himself in the 5k No Limit Hold’Em tournament.  He finished the first day as the chipleader (90 something runners) and managed to hold on until the final table.  There he bested four guys who like to play online poker and four older amateurs.  Congrats to Jonathan!  Check out his blog for the recap

WILL “POKER MONKEY” SOUTHER WINS IN NIGHTLY IN CHICAGO.  With a Seahawks victory over the Bears, that he watched in person, things started off on the right foot.  Then the bad beat came.  You’d think as tall as Monkey is, he wouldn’t be a target but it sounds like somebody went through his bag during the tournament.  Not a bag, I’d think, you want your hands rifling through when he returned.  Read his blog for the stories.

DISCOVER MAGAZINE DOES WRITE UP ON POKER:  Called the Big Game Theory.  Go here to read it, it’s not that bad, considering it’s from Discover Magazine and they talk about science and facts and that kind of stuff.

CONGRATS TO ADAM ROSS WHO WON THE 500 BUY-IN CANTERBURY FALL CLASSIC FOR 20K.

FESTA AL LAGO MAIN EVENT UPDATE:  Things went upside-down for all 13 remaining players.  Chipleader Annette Obrestad was the first one out.  Of the top five chip-leaders only Andy Frankenberger made it to the final table.  Just envisioning a Frankenberger Halloween costume right now. 

Somewhat local, and member of our Who’s Who, Kick-Ass Noah Scwartz (pictured) is McLovin his second largest stack.  Totals follow:

1. Randal Flowers – 3,215,000
2. Noah Schwartz – 3,135,000
3. Jason Koon – 2,555,000
4. Andy Frankenberger – 1,935,000
5. Michael Benvenuti – 1,390,000
6. Skip Wilson – 1,200,000

HARRINGTON AND SEIDEL MAKE POKER HALL OF FAME:  The other eight candidates included Jen Harman, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Scotty Nguyen, Jesus Ferguson, Linda Johnson, Tom McEvoy, and Barry Greenstein.  Likely they’ll all make it one day, but it is interesting the Hall of Fame limits it to two inductees a year.

ANNETTE OBRESTAD PURSUING WPT TITLE:  13 Players left.  Annette ended day 4 as the chip leader with Jeff Madsen close behind.  Allen Kessler is in the thick of things as is Noah Schwartz.

TWENTY-THREE PERSON CHOP AT FOXWOODS:  Bad structures cause one player to get browbeaten until he agreed to a chop (sound familiar?).  Hope this doesn’t continue to be a trend.  Read Cardplayer for one player’s account for more.  Two + Two reacts as they usually do here

Poker Odds and Ends

 THINK YOU LOST A LOT THE OTHER NIGHT?  Are you down a couple hundred in your favorite online poker room playing Texas Hold em poker, well a tycoon in Singapore reportedly lost over 75 million in baccarat at two casinos.  Another businessman lost $50 million over the same time period. How do you get these guys in your game? And where did they learn how to play poker?  No wonder Singapore is reported to be one location soon to enjoy growth in a down economy.  The bottom line is usually all about the whales and these whales could have  bought the debt of some casinos just from their losses.

MORE UB CHEATING?  Uh oh.  The only exciting thing about this is the inevitable Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth responses to the new hints at impropriety.  Supposedly Tokwiro Group and its management alleged they are the victims of a newly discovered cheating that dates back to 2004.  Read here for more.

FACEBOOK GAME APPS: FARMVILLE AND TEXAS HOLD’EM POKER LEAKED USER NAMES, FRIENDS:  Security isn’t an issue at Facebook?  Hmmm.  Self-contained this story doesn’t mean much but from a broader perspective it has some far deeper ramifications.  Read the NY Daily News for more.  Oh yeah, “like” us on Facebook while you are here.  It’ll make us feel more liked.  Thanks.

JEFF MADSEN, LYLE BERMAN, STEVE O’DWYER ATOP CHIP COUNTS AT WPT FESTA AL LAGO.  41 players left out of 335.  Gulf Coasters with chips McLean Karr and Noah Schwartz.  Also alive, Barry Greenstein, Annette Obrestad, Daniel Alaei, Bobby Suer, Matt Affleck, Allen Kessler, Tom Marchese, Mark Newhouse, Amit Makhija, Chad Batista, Lauren Kling, and Matt Stout.

IT’S BEEN A SLOW POKER NEWS WEEK:  There was a mugging in an elevator in an AC Casino, Scott Montgomery got stuck up in a Bellagio bathroom for over 2k, and there was another theft in an AC Casino.  That combined with the rake in those places and poker players got robbed of… millions last week.  Fortunately, on the GCP side of things there was more going on then just getting fleeced.

JOHN DOLAN AND JOHN RACENER APPEAR IN FULL TILT AD:  Two of the three Floridians at the WSOP Main Event final table show their poker pitching chops in discussing the November  Nine.  Watch video below:

NEW GCP BLOGGER SCOTTY CLARK CONTINUED THE HOT YEAR OF OUR ACTIVE BLOGGERS BY WINNING WSOP CIRCUIT EVENT, CONGRATS SCOTTY!  The new ring owner won the $350 H.O.R.S.E. event.  Got to love his shirt “I bring nothing to the table.”  With two final tables in eight tournaments Scotty was in fifth place to qualify for the WSOP National Championship. Maybe our inactive bloggers should write more if they want to win more.

JENNA DELK GIVES A RECAP OF HER INTERVIEW ON POKERPOD.  Check out her blog for some an interesting read on how she got her start in poker, her biggest moment, and her old leak in playing video poker.

JONATHAN LITTLE CHOPS POT LIMIT OMAHA EVENT AT FESTA AL LAGO:  Little loves his WPT events, and as he mentioned in his latest blog post on LITTLE THOUGHTS  ”I am pretty convinced very few people know how to play PLO tournaments so I try to play everyone I can.”  So he played it and chopped it.  Officially, he came in 2nd to James Van Alstyne. 

THE IP CASINO RESORT & SPA AND POKER TOURNAMENT CONSULTANTS RELEASED THE SCHEDULE FOR THE UPCOMING WSOP CIRCUIT EVENT:  The heading says it all.  Buy-ins range from $100 nightlys with $300 to $1500 noon events.  Juice is still hovering around 20% (for all but the Main Event).  Go here for complete details.

HOLLYWOOD POKER, VEGAS POKER, AND MORE…

WEEDS PRODUCERS TO PRODUCE WHALES:   Hmmmmm…  A show about Ivy League educated poker sharks (… or whales) in pursuit of the WSOP Main Event bracelet.  Supposedly a half hour comedy focusing on online poker games, tournament action and more.  Wild Bill commented on the idea here. 

NICK SCHULMAN ON MTV’S LIFE OF JENKS:  Andrew Jenks followed Schulman around the past World Series of Poker and it revealed Nick was a cerebral introspective guy (much to the shock of MTV).  Wow, a poker player that thinks… deeply, shocker. No word on what role if any Pot Limit Omaha played on his bankroll depletion.

Anyway, since the broadcast, half of MTV’s fans think Schulman should quit the game as it is too stressful and making him unhappy.  Almost another 30% think he should at least continue with therapy while only 21% think he’s too good to give it up.  Go to MTV.com for more.

BODOG POKER TO SPONSOR LA GALAXY AND EDMONTON OILERS:  Bodog’s free to play internet poker game will be advertised in the stadium and arenas, but not on the jersey (which MLS allows but NHL doesn’t).  Both deals are going to be for one year.  Previously, Bodog has inked a deal with Fulham of the English Premier League. 

While a site like bwin has an edge by being on the jerseys of major Champions League powers like Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, this is a smart (maybe obvious) move by Bodog especially as they also take bets on games. 

LAS VEGAS IS HURTING:  One of our friends an online pro who recently moved back from Vegas has told the story of how he and one neighbor were the only residents of a fairly new development after foreclosures and a crumbling economy saw every one else move out.  When he moved away there was one guy to the whole neighborhood.  You  can play in your favorite online poker room anywhere, but it says something that Vegas is getting so depressing that you chose not to play there.  The New York Times fleshes out just how bad things have gotten in the desert.  Read that story here.

EPT WINNER FOLLOWS IT UP BY WINNING ANOTHER TOURNAMENT THE NEXT DAY:  David Vamplew, might as well be a vampire, because when he should have been running on fumes and recuperating he was busy taking down a made for TV tournament the UK & Ireland Poker Tour Champion of Champions event.

TONY DUNST, BEER PONG CHAMPION, TO GET NEW ON AIR ROLE WITH WPT’S “RAW DEAL”:  It’s only a segment of the WPT’s coverage but the young pro has won the audition process beating out the likes of Joe Seebok and Ali Nejad.  Beer Pong Champion?  Yes, he won this year’s Brunson Beer Pong  Invitational.  Wicked Chops has also pointed you to his blog on Two Rags where he instructs wanna-be playas on how to close the deal.  It’s worth the visit.

POCKET FIVES TRIPLE CROWN WINNER JONATHAN KARAMILIKIS:  His online handle is the oh-so-clever xMONSTERxDONGx, but obviously Karamilikis puts a little more thought into his online poker than coming up with names to play under.  In a span of 48 hours he won tournaments on Party Poker, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker.  Pocket Fives’ “Triple Crown” is to win tournaments on three different sites.  This guy asserts he grinded free rolls for a year until he won $3 and then turned that $3 into $3,000 and that $3,000 into $30,000.  He’s never looked back.  It’s like a male version of Anette Obrestad.  For more go here.

DOYLE MAKES THE CASE FOR THE HALL OF FAME NOMINATIONS:  Check out his blog, he offers an insiders take on who he thinks merits inclusion.  Seems he rates Jennifer Harman a lot higher than everybody else.  His shortlist is Erik Seidel and either Greenstein or Ivey.  Hard to argue with Doyle on this one.

WORLD OF POKER UPDATE, EPT, ISLE OF CAPRIS AND MORE…

 JOHN JUANDA DOES NOT WIN EPT LONDON:  David Vamplew does.  Vamplew at one point was all-in versus Juanda in heads up play in the Texas Hold em poker tournament.  Junada held a Broadway straight and Vamplew had a flush draw with one card to come.  It came and so did he.  Vamplew later had Juanda all-in to win and his hand held.  Vamplew won £900k.  Juanda won £545k and is now fifth all time on the career live tournament winnings list with over 11.3 million.  November Niner John Dolan and Kevin Eyster cashed.  Shannon Shorr bubbled.

DURRRR CHALLENGE RETURNS WITH PROMISE OF MORE TO COME:  Durrrr cut into Dan JungleMan12 Cates lead in a brief 582 hand session by 1400.  Watching them is like a trip to poker school every time they play. Cates is still up by a huge number with the bulk of the challenge still to be played.  Cates and Durrrr have also been multi-tabling heads up with Isildur1 recently.

FULL TILT CHANGES THE WAY IT AWARDS RAKEBACK.  It also releases a new Full Tilt Black Card system.  Pokerati does a fine job of explaining it here.  

STALLING IS ANGLING OR IS IT?  Recently a WCOOP Event at Pokerstars was the epicenter of a debate amongst name pros about proper behavior in a tournament.  One player, kirbynator, was burning up his timebank in a discipline he basically opted not to play, Limit Triple Draw 2 – 7.  With Daniel Negreanu at his table things got heated the live pro saw his actions as a transparent anglesoot.  Debates on the forums ranged from what’s wrong with using your timebank the way you want to suggestions that knowing you are going to fold but maxing out your time is an angleshoot in any tournament (especially on the bubble).  There is no question that kirbyanator’s actions were legal but were they ethical or shady. 

JAMES BORD TO THE END:  There is a new WSOP-E champion, a man who starts off the day in perpetual ennui… No?  Okay, if only second place Fabrizio Baldassari had won.  We know a few baldass-aris.  No, again?  Yeah.  Alright,  two whiffs… we’ll play it straight from here on out, Roland De Wolfe finished 4th, and Dan Fleyshman (Victory Poker CEO) 7th.  Native son James Bord won 830 pounds which is a lot of dollars.  The other guys won not as much but still more in American dollars than in English pounds. 

LIV BOEREE SIGNS WITH POKER STARS:  The girl has almost 2 million in tournament winnings.  She also can box.  She’s a pretty face, has a brilliant poker mind, and is somebody you will probably see a lot of in the near future and she’d be a great representative for any poker room.

SOME GOOD STUFF FROM THE BLOGGERS:  Thanks to Scotty Clark for the shout-out and a good quick read on Heptinstall’s blog about rising star Dwyte Pilgrim. 

MORE RESULTS FROM THE ISLE IN LAKE CHARLES:

Event #6 September 22, 2010
$200 + $25 No Limit Hold Em
$10,000 Guaranteed
Players: 68 Pool: $13,600

1. Eusebio Hernandez $4,352
2. Chris Gamboa $2,584
3. Stephen Buttieri $1,768
4. Hung Nguyen $1,224
5. Douglas Justus $884
6. Matthew Stroud $748
7. Leslie Conn $680
8. Winston Bloodworth $544
9. Ada Lang $476
10. Phuoc Ton $340

Event #7 September 23, 2010
$300 + $35 Pot Limit Omaha
Players: 26 Pool: $7,800

1. William Benton $3,120
2. Patrick Bell $2,340
3. Robert Schwen Jr. $1,560
4. Christopher Gamboa $780

Event #8 September 24, 2010
$300 + $35 No Limit Hold Em
$15,000 Guaranteed
Players: 69 Pool: $20,700

1. Jody Boren $6,624
2. William Benton Jr. $3,933
3. Jacob Seale $2,691
4. Patrick Holmes $1,863
5. Stephen Buttieri $1,345
6. Clint Whitman $1,138
7. Daniel Carroll $1,035
8. Eric Mata $828
9. Jerry Stroope $724
10. Long Nguyen $517

Event #9 September 25, 2010
$500 + $40 No Limit Hold Em
Louisiana Fall Poker Classic
Players: 67 Pool: $33,500

1. Jeremy Tinsley $10,720
2. Kinsey Pitts $6,365
3. Eric Yates $4,355
4. Soren Jensen $3,015
5. Ada Lang $2,177
6. Ronnie Lamb $1,842
7. Stephen Shugart $1,675
8. Jacob Phillips $1,340
9. Quynh Ho $1,172
10. Joe Zauala $837

Event #10 September 26, 2010
$100 + $20 No Limit Hold Em
$5,000 Guaranteed
Players: 55 Pool: $5,500

1. Daryl Huff $1,760
2. Leslie Eitel $1,045
3. James MacManus $715
4. Bryan Poole $495
5. Gail Centanni $357
6. Edward Smith $302
7. Thanhlu Quachi $275
8. Ryan Cappello $220
9. Michael Lenander $192
10. Loi Danh $137

PILGRIM’S PROGRESS, LITTLE AND MONKEY HANGING AROUND

 

WPT BORGATA ODDS AND ENDS: 

- LITTLE AND MONKEY HANGING AROUND:  With 75 players left Jonathan Little has chipped up a little bit and Monkey is at around 100k in the Texas Hold’em poker tournament.   Both under average and need to “do” more work but getting there.

- SEXTON TEXTING IN THE MONEY:  Host Mike Sexton who wasn’t allowed to play in the first five seasons of the WPT, but has been since, won his first cash in this event.  No word yet on if he’d be allowed to commentate his first final table, but you got think he’s going to learn poker seeing all those hole cards and how the best players int he world think.  He’s edging up to the leaders in chips.

-TWIT TWEETING:  Dan O’Brien who finished 9th at the Southern Poker Championship (last year) tweeted “186k going to 3/6k blind level.  108 left, 100 pay, $730k to first.  O yeah, flight to London out of NYC in 8 hours. We’ll see bout that.”  11 minutes later he busted out.  Beware,.. the Poker Gods apparently have twitter.

-MONKEY IN TRIPLICATE:  From Borgata Open Blog:  “With 103 players remaining (100 get paid) there was a 3-way all-in between Will ‘Monkey’ Souther, Ali Eslami, and defending champion Olivier Busquet. Will was the shortest stack all-in pre-flop. Ali was the second-shortest stack and he…” shoved over the top “… except for one 500 chip he left on his cards. Olivier had them both covered.

On the flop of T 4 2, Ali tossed his last chip in, Olivier called, and the rolled over the hands. Will was ahead with pocket Kings. Ali held pocket queens, and Olivier held AK offsuit. The last two cards changed nothing and Will tripled up, Ali doubled collecting the side pot, and Olivier had to pay off everyone…”

LOUISIANA FALL POKER CLASSIC: 

Congrats to friend of GCP Matt Stroud for cashing in back to back events (5 and 6).  We have results for the first five here:

Event #1 September 17, 2010
$75 + $15 No Limit Hold Em
$3,000 Guaranteed
Players: 71 Pool: $5,325

1. William Johnson III $1,704
2. Danny Nguyen $1,011
3. Donald Ripley $692
4. Jacob Clark $479
5. Steve Buttieri $346
6. Robert Croft $292
7. Anthony Mosley $266
8. Darrell Hollis $213
9. Edward Morris $186
10. George Joseph $133

Event #2 September 18, 2010
$75 + $15 No Limit Hold Em
Ladies Event
Players: 35 Pool: $2,625

1. Ruth “Ruthless” Hall $918
2. Daphne Turner $656
3. Lacie Smith $525
4. Cindy Sinclair $341
5. Candace Armstrong $183$100 + $20 No Limit Hold Em
$5,000 Guaranteed
Players: 82 Pool: $8,200

Event #3 September 19, 2010

1. Patrick Shipper $2,624
2. Mark Pratt $1,558
3. Thomas Jones $1,066
4. Pauline MacDonald $738
5. Paul Laird $533
6. Frederick Turner $451
7. Victor Matthews $410
8. Luis Garcia $328
9. Koby Wong $287
10. Richard McDonald $205$100 + $20 No Limit Hold Em
Shoot Out
Players: 30 Pool: $3,000

Event #4 September 20, 2010

1. Stephen Shugart $990
2. Thomas Jones $720
3. Matthew Terral $600
4. Gerry Trahan $420
5. Anthony Mosley $270$200 + $25 ½ No Limit Hold Em ½ Pot Limit Omaha
Players: 30 Pool: $6,000

Event #5 September 21, 2010

1. David Shaw $2,100
2. Kenneth Proffitti $1,500
3. Paul Laird $1,200
4. Stephen Schornstein $780
5. Matthew Stroud $420

APP CROWNS SEASON ONE CHAMPION:  Acadiana Poker Players just anointed Dustin Norris their inaugural season’s champion.  The APP League had 20 scheduled games with players earning points for the Championship Final table.  The top nine point-getters at the end of the season battled it out for the crown with Dustin taking home the plaque and the title.  We’ll have a little more on the APP in our next magazine.

ONLINE LOCALS CONTINUE TO TAKE THE CHEESE:  The top spot on P5′s in Mississippi is held by “ActionJunky”…and he has 24 scores in Sept and over $50,000. In one 3 day stretch he scored a 3rd…4th…7th…9th…and 6th. 5 Final Tables in 3 days…kids on fire.

The Chemist still is killing it also having a great Sept with around 12 scores to stay on top of Louisiana…The Destroyer still rocking 2nd…Quatersack sitting at a solid 2nd place in Mississippi behind AJ above.

DWYTE PILGRIM WINS BORGATA POKER OPEN MAIN EVENT AND 1ST WORLD POKER TOURNEY TITLE:  Wow!!!…We want to send our congrats out to Dwyte…GG…WP

It seems that is was a very emotional win, and we are not sure whether our Poker Monkey is still there in AC. He had blogged that he had a “rooting interest” of “The Duke” (the nickname we have for him…although it looks like he has a ton of them). We are sure you will see something on Monk’s blog if he was there. They say Pilgrim may have even shed a tear or two…we don’t know. Pilgrim has been a mainstay on the circuit down here on the Gulf Coast and has many friends in the community. He also takes over the POY race with the win…which was a little over $730,000…niiiiiccccceeeee. Again…Congrats from GCP.