Results for tag: WPT
Posted by:
Yorky Pud
on Feb 8, 2012 at 12:11:57 PM
The World Poker Tour has quite literally dropped anchor in the beautiful and historical city of Venice for the WPT Venice Grand Prix Main Event, where the 155 entrants have been whittled down to the last 27.
Those 27 players will return to the Casino Di Venezia, the oldest fully functioning casino in the entire world, today knowing that only 18 of them will make it through to the money places. One man who looks nailed on to make it there is British pro James Akenhead.
Akenhead starts the day fourth in chips with a very healthy looking stack of 336,000. Throughout yesterday's Day 2 Akenhead made a complete nuisance of himself by constantly three and four-betting his opponents in a relentless fashion and looked like he was in the zone. When asked about this step up in aggression he ...
Posted by:
Yorky Pud
on Jun 20, 2011 at 01:16:39 PM
This time last year Andy Frankenberger had just won the $2,000 buy-in Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza III for a cool $162,110 to kickstart what turned out to be an amazing year at the felt. Fast-forward to the present and Frankenberger has now added a World Series of Poker bracelet to his already impressive résumé after winning Event #28 over the weekend.
Frankenberger was a complete unknown until last year due to the fact he was not a professional poker player, instead he was a well-paid Equities Derivatives Trader on Wall Street, a job that he enjoyed thoroughly but he felt he needed a fresh challenge and decided to try and make it in the poker world. His decision was a brave one, especially as he is not a one of the game's young guns, instead he is 38-years old which would make...
Posted by:
Yorky Pud
on May 18, 2011 at 12:24:56 PM
Some of the world's best poker players descended on the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada this week for the $25,500 World Poker Tour finale, the World Championship. A total of 220 players parted company with the huge entry fee in exchange for 100,000 tournament chips and after four gruelling days of high octane poker, only 15 of them remain.
Yesterday 52 of these players returned to the poker room at the Bellagio knowing that 25 of them would walk away with no money to show for their efforts over the past four days. Some of the casualties to go home empty handed included former WPT World Championship winner Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Jon “PearlJammer” Turner, Sam Trickett and Roberto Romanello.
Another player who went home with no prize money was Ali Tekintamgac, the man who allegedly cheated...
Posted by:
Yorky Pud
on Apr 15, 2011 at 01:46:39 PM
Poker players are known for going on so-called heaters where they seemingly cannot do anything wrong at the felt. One player who is certainly on the mother of all heaters at the moment is Erik Seidel. The 51-year old poker pro has already won more than $4,000,000 this year alone and currently sits atop of the Hendon Mob's all-time money listings.
Seidel has already won eight World Series of Poker bracelets and one World Poker Tour gong and it looked as if he was going to make it two WPT Main Events but he narrowly missed out at the Hollywood Poker Open, finishing second out of 97 runners for a score of $155,103, which pushes him ever closer to the $15,000,000 earnings mark!
Going into the final table of six, Seidel found himself in third place, his 645,000 chips just slightly behind...
Posted by:
Yorky Pud
on Mar 2, 2011 at 12:00:06 PM
One of the most overused terms or phrases in poker has to be “sick,” which incidentally does not mean a person or situation is ill, in fact it is quite the opposite, sicker is better by all accounts. Although it is massively overused, the term sick does apply to the final table that has been assembled at the Commerce Casino for the 2011 WPT LA Poker Classic. It is that sick that there is vomit everywhere, maybe I have taken the sick theme too far now, sorry.
The final table of six has won a massive $13,691,935 between them from live poker tournaments and almost $9,000,000 from online poker tournaments! Sick, there I go again. Leading the way is two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, Carlos Mortensen who will return to his seat armed with 5,235,000 chips and the knowledge...
Posted by:
Yorky Pud
on Dec 9, 2010 at 01:56:17 PM
Antonio Esfandiari turned 32 years old yesterday and in the early hours of this morning he bagged himself his best birthday present yet, the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic title and the $870,124 that comes with it. Esfandiari, known to millions as “The Magician,” defeated Andrew “good2cu” Robl heads up to win his second World Poker Tour title.
After a couple of technical hiccups from the television crews filming the six handed final table, the tournament restarted shortly after 1600 Las Vegas time and less than ten minutes later they had already lost a player. Ted Lawson started the day as the shortest stack and by quite a margin, so it was no surprise he was the first man out of the door. Seeing Vanessa Rousso raise to 225,000 from under the gun, Lawson moved...
Posted by:
Yorky Pud
on Dec 8, 2010 at 01:45:54 PM
Vanessa Rousso is looking to become the first-ever World Poker Tour Main Event Champion as she leads the final table of six at the 2010 WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.
Fifteen players returned to the Bellagio and after nine hours of play, they had been whittle down to the final table of six players, and what a final table it is. With no fewer than three WSOP winners, a WPT title and over $19,000,000 in live tournament winnings between them, it promises to be one of the most exciting encounters in the modern game.
Danny Fuhs was the day's first casualty, choosing 5s7s to move all in with from the button for a little over ten big blinds. It looked as if he was going to pick up the much needed blinds and antes but he did not bank on Rousso waking up, and calling, ...
Posted by:
Yorky Pud
on Dec 7, 2010 at 01:25:45 PM
Fifty-four players returned to the Fontana Lounge at the luxurious Bellagio for Day 4 of the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Star Diamond World Poker Classic, each guaranteed $13,725 in prize money. Ten hours later all but 15 players had been eliminated and the minimum they will all walk away with now is $42,231. Antonio Esfandiari started the day as chip leader and ended the day in the same vein, extending his lead from 300,000 to almost 800,000 chips.
The first elimination only took a few minutes and when the dust had settled it was Michael Kucinski who was the first player to head for the rail. With blinds at 2,500/5,000/500a, Kucinski opened the betting from middle position to 13,500 and when the action folded to Andrew Robl in the small blind he raised to 100,000. This was enough to put ...