Eric Buchman at the WSOP in the last years managed to obtain top notch results. In 2006 he finished in second place in the $1,500 Limit Hold’em event and last year he captured the fourth position in the WSOP November Nine. At the 2010 World Series of Poker Buchman did it again. But this time [...]
The $10,000 2-7 lowball no limit championship (Event 19) at the World Series of Poker managed to attract 101 players. Last year the event drew 96 competitors. This year’s field created a prize pool of $949,400. There will be 14 places paid and the winner of the tournament will get $294,321. Day 1 of Event [...]
The online poker phenomenon Tom “durrrr” Dwan was very close to catch a bracelet at the 2010 World Series of Poker. In the Event 11 ($1,500 No Limit Hold’em) he finished in second place and got $381,885. Simon Watt finished victorious in the tournament. He collected a prize of $614,248 and a WSOP bracelet. Event [...]
For the Event 11 ($1,500 No Limit Hold’em) a massive number of 2,563 entrants registered. The field created a prize pool of $3,460,050. Who will finish victorious in the tournament will walk away with the top prize worth $614,248. Day 1 ended with 297 players remaining and Casey Jarzabek as the chip leader. He holds [...]
Peter Gelencser won Event 7 ($2,500 2-7 triple draw lowball) at the 2010 World Series of Poker. The Hungarian player received the bracelet and $180,730 in prize money after he defeated Raphael Zimmerman heads-up. Gelencser entered the final table with the second biggest stack. The chip leader was Raphael Zimmerman. The rest of the players [...]
The $1,000 no-limit hold’em tournament (Event 3) at the 2010 World Series of Poker was won by Aadam Daya. He captured the bracelet and the first place prize of $625,872 after he defeated Deepak Bhatti heads-up. Massive fields have become a staple of the $1,000 tournaments at the WSOP. Event 3 was not different. It [...]
At the World Series of Poker Michael Chow won Event 4, the $1,500 Omaha eight-or-better, after he defeated Dan Heimiller in an epic back-and-forth heads-up match that lasted more than three hours. For the great result Chow got a bracelet and a big prize of $237,463. The three-day event attracted 818 players. The massive field [...]
Event 1 at the 2010 World Series of Poker, the $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em, has come to an end. The tournament was won by the Vietnamese-born player Hoai Pham. For his performance he received $71,424 and the first bracelet of the 2010 series. Event 1 attracted a field of 722 players. Pham took down [...]
The 2010 World Series of Poker kicked off yesterday at the Rio in Las Vegas with two events: the $500 No-Limit Hold’em Casino Employees tournament (Event 1) and the $50,000 Players Championship (Event 2). Before the tournaments began, the opening ceremonies took place, and the late Chip Reese was honored. In 2006 he took down [...]
On May 28th, Friday, the World Series of Poker kicks off with the Casino Employees Championship event. This tournament started in 2000 as the Dealers World Poker Championship. Since 2001, the event has been open to all casino employees. The Casino Employees Championship is one of the three closed events at the WSOP. The other [...]
