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Page 1 of 1 1 Topic Options #139896 - 07/06/08 10:29 PM Main Event News FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online Day 1A Play opened in the 39th World Series of Poker main event Thursday, with nearly 1,300 players putting down $10,000 each in hopes of making it through a 10-hour day of no-limit Texas Hold 'em. Flanked by 10 showgirls, Las Vegas icon Wayne Newton delivered the famous order — "Shuffle up and deal!" The UNLV marching band played Elvis Presley's "Viva Las Vegas," and some players showed up in costumes. One wore a full wizard's outfit complete with a white, Merlin-esque beard Famous faces playing on Day 1 included comedian Ray Romano, actors Jason Alexander and Mekhi Phifer and poker pros Scotty Nguyen, Barry Greenstein, Joe Hachem and Dan Harrington. STUD OF THE DAY: Joe "The Show" Gualtieri, of Toronto, who saved himself from busting out of the tournament by catching a royal flush, poker's best hand. Unfortunately, the musician was only able to double his stack from 50 chips to 100, with the blinds at 100 and 200. He was rewarded with a gift certificate for a free massage, which he immediately sold to another player at the table. BUSTED OUT: Poker pros Freddy Deeb, David Pham, Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot, Eli Elezra, Dan Harrington, Chad Brown, Gavin Smith; actor Jason Alexander. POKER TALK: Aces cracked: When a player wins a pot against pocket aces, the best starting hand in Texas Hold 'em. Barry Clancy was the first player eliminated from the tournament when he raised all-in with his aces against Rocco Lazazzaro, with the board showing a pair of sixes. Lazazzaro called with a pair of jacks and caught a third jack on the last card, ending Clancy's tournament. _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #139897 - 07/06/08 10:32 PM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online Day 1B BIG NEWS: It takes plenty of confidence and oodles of cash just to play in the World Series of Poker main event, but the world's best rounders are making things even spicier by raising the stakes against one another. Tournament officials say Phil Ivey has reportedly wagered millions of dollars on himself winning a bracelet at the series, and the main event is his last chance. He has cashed three times in the series' 53 events so far, but his highest finish has been ninth. Daniel Negreanu said he doubled up his limit Texas Hold 'em bracelet win earlier this month with a $200,000 bet against Ivey. Barry Greenstein said he won more in side bets than he did in prize money when he finished first and won nearly $158,000 playing seven-card Razz. An additional 1,158 players entered the tournament on Friday, bringing the total for the first two days to 2,455 entrants. A tournament official said the lower total was expected Friday because of the July Fourth holiday. STUD OF THE DAY: Erick Lindgren, who started his first day at the main event and earned the player of the year award for the world series. Lindgren cashed in five earlier events and won his first gold bracelet in a mixed Texas Hold 'em event. He also placed third in the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event, which many poker professionals believe is the test of an all-around card player. His winnings for the series stood at $1,348,528. "They used to vote on it back in the day," Lindgren said. "Daniel (Negreanu) and Alan Cunningham also won that award. Anytime you win something those guys won it feels good." BUSTED OUT: Poker pros Daniel Negreanu, Ted Forrest, Kenny Tran, Andy Black, Scott Fischman POKER TALK: A set: Three of a kind. Daniel Negreanu was eliminated early in the day when his set of sixes couldn't beat an amateur player who made three nines. Negreanu said after the loss that while it was unfortunate, there was no way he would have folded his sixes against an amateur player. HE SAID WHAT?: "Even more fun than winning a bracelet is beating a guy like Phil Ivey. ... It makes the stakes higher and its a way to punish Phil, hopefully." Erick Lindgren, explaining why he puts extra money at stake against his fellow rounders during the world's biggest poker tournament. _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #139898 - 07/06/08 10:34 PM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online BIG NEWS: Several professional rounders at the World Series of Poker say they feel like this could be the year a professional wins the main event amid a crush of amateur and so-so online players. The series was once an event for those who make a career out of card playing, but amateurs flooding the tables have made it tougher for professional rounders to come out on top — especially in the main event and other no-limit Texas Hold 'em tournaments. But things now seem to be swinging the other way, with pros winning 38 of the first 53 world series events, more than seven of every 10. Three-time bracelet winner Mike "The Mouth" Matusow said he and others feel like a slower tournament structure this year will reward better players, giving professionals more of a chance to shine and end up on top. Another 1,928 players started the tournament on Saturday, bringing the three-day total to 4,383 entrants. Players have until the end of the second level of play Sunday to register. STUD OF THE DAY: Poker pro Evelyn Ng won a prop bet playing video game "Guitar Hero" against an official with Web site Pokernews. Her prize? The loser fed her grapes and fanned her with a large palm leaf while wearing a toga. Tournament director Jack Effel asked the official to stop the fanning because it was distracting nearby players. "They were organic, seedless, very sweet," Ng said of the grapes. BUSTED OUT: Poker pros Huck Seed, Michael Gracz, Mike Sexton, Gavin Griffin POKER TALK: Chop. When two or more players finish with the same hand and split the pot between them. In early play Saturday at a table of unknowns, two players chopped a pot with a board showing an ace high straight. Three players had bet modestly into the pot early on, but one folded at the turn when he realized that just a 10 was needed to complete the straight. A 10 came on the river, making the player with the 10 in his hand unhappy because it meant he won 2,200 in chips instead of 4,400. HE SAID WHAT?: "That's what I'm talking about. Now we're going, boys and girls." — Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, after winning a pot with two pairs, kings and queens, on a board showing queens, a smaller pair and three diamonds, increasing the chances that an opponent had either a flush or a full house. _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #140020 - 07/10/08 01:09 AM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online The top prize at the main event of the World Series of Poker will be $9.12 million this year, and 666 players will get some piece of a $64.3 million prize pool, tournament officials said Sunday. More than one-third of the tournament's entrants entered the no-limit Texas hold 'em tournament Sunday, the last day players were able to register. The 2,461 players pushed the total field to 6,844 players. This year had nearly 500 more players than last year but far fewer than 2006, when a record 8,773 players entered, with Jamie Gold winning $12 million. The top prize of $9,119,517 is the second-largest in the main event's history. Last year, California psychologist Jerry Yang emerged from a field of 6,358 players to win a top prize of $8.25 million. Tournament spokesman Seth Palansky said the number of entrants was what tournament officials were expecting, about equal to the event's average for the past five years. Participation dipped sharply in 2007, nine months after President Bush signed a law that cracked down on Internet gambling in the United States. The law was blamed for the decline because it meant that fewer U.S. players could qualify for the main event through online satellite tournaments. "It's inevitable when you play on the global stage that we're on ... that you're going to be subject to different fluctuations at different times," World Series of Poker Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack said. "The fact that we broke all of the records we set last year is terrific, but there may be years where we're up, years where we're down. Bottom line is that we're here for the long term, and we're not going anywhere, and I don't know many poker properties that can say that." On Sunday, stragglers headed to the booths outside the main tournament room with $10,000, mostly in cash or casino chips, to register, get their seats and start playing. Paul Gourlay of Newcastle, England, said he was delayed in getting the money to pay the steep entry fee. He registered with about 20 minutes left in the first level of play. "I just had to collect a loan from a friend," said Gourlay, 33. _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #140021 - 07/10/08 01:10 AM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online BIG NEWS: The top prize at the main event of the World Series of Poker will be $9.12 million this year, and 666 players will get some piece of a $64.3 million prize pool, tournament officials said Sunday. More than one-third of the tournament's entrants entered the no-limit Texas Hold 'em tournament Sunday, the last day players were able to register. The 2,461 players pushed the total field to 6,844 players. There were nearly 500 more players than last year but far fewer than 2006, when a record 8,773 players entered and Jamie Gold won $12 million. The top prize of $9,119,517 is the second largest in the main event's history. Tardy stragglers headed to the booths outside the main tournament room with $10,000 — mostly in cash or live casino chips — to register, get their seats and start playing. When they started play, they faced a field of some of poker's most elite players, including Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Phil Ivey, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Phil Hellmuth, Howard Lederer, Annie Duke, Gus Hansen, Phil Gordon and Men Nguyen. STUD OF THE DAY: Donald Hobbs, 24, of Pineville, Ky., who suffered burns over more than 70 percent of his body and multiple leg fractures in a car accident in 2007, but rehabilitated enough to enter the main event on Sunday. Hobbs' injuries were worsened because he has hemophilia, a rare genetic bleeding disorder, but during his rehabilitation his therapist learned that Hobbs enjoyed playing and watching poker. She got word to 2003 champ Chris Moneymaker, who visited him and promised to fly him to the main event this year if he got better. He did, and Moneymaker's sponsor, online poker site PokerStars, flew Hobbs to Las Vegas and entered him in the main event. "I'm holding in there," Hobbs said as Moneymaker watched him play at the start of the day. "I'm just going to ride it out and see how it goes." BUSTED OUT: Mixed martial arts fighter Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell, poker pros Phil Ivey, David Williams, Annie Duke and Andy Bloch, actress and poker pro Jennifer Tilly. UP NEXT: Players have an off day Monday and those who survived the first two opening days will join together and start a second session of action on Tuesday. POKER TALK: Floating the flop: when a player calls with no hand on the flop, with the intention of bluffing an opponent out of the pot on the turn. Poker professional Phil Laak, known as an aggressive player willing to take chances with marginal hands, said Sunday that he was able to float flops against the other players at his table who were unwilling to invest in the pot without a made hand. HE SAID WHAT?: "On a scale of one to 10 I thought it was going to look like a nine and a half. It's like an eight. But if they see something's funny they don't know it's me, so it's huge." — Phil "The Unabomber" Laak, explaining the disguise he used to keep opponents from recognizing him. Instead of donning his usual sunglasses and hooded sweat shirt, Laak spent all morning with a makeup artist who used a latex mask, paint and a fake mustache and beard to make the player look completely different. _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #140022 - 07/10/08 01:15 AM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online It took four days to eliminate nearly half of the competition in the World Series of Poker's main event. Sometime early Thursday morning, between 1,800 and 2,000 poker players will be left in the running for the top prize of $9.12 million. A field of 6,844 players entered the $10,000 buy-in No Limit World Championship at the Rio on Thursday. By the time play ended Sunday, 3,663 players remained. The field will be cut to the final table of nine players early Tuesday morning. Those players will return to the Rio in November to determine the champion. After a day off Monday, players who survived the opening round of play returned to the Rio for two more days of elimination. Among the competitors left was 2007 champion Jerry Yang, but 1998 champion Scotty Nguyen busted out. Nguyen collected nearly $2 million a week ago for winning the $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. world championship. Yang, who won $8.25 million a year ago in beating a field of 6,358 players, survived play Sunday and will return to the tournament today. World Series of Poker spokesman Nolan Dalla said the size of the field requires using two makeshift poker rooms at the Rio and multiple first days of elimination. The goal, he said, is to have the field in one room by Thursday. In addition to Yang, several other former world poker champions are still alive in the tournament, including Johnny Chan (1987 and 1988) and Phil Hellmuth (1989), who between them have won 21 World Series of Poker titles. Other former champions still in the running are Brad Dougherty (1991), Carlos Mortensen (2001), Chris Moneymaker (2003), and Joe Hachem (2005). Robert Varkonyi, who won the main event in 2002, survived the opening days but was eliminated Tuesday afternoon. Other notable poker professionals still playing include Phil Gordon, Steve Dannemann, Jennifer Harman, Erik Seidel, Howard Lederer, David Singer, Mike Matusow, Sammy Farha, Rhett Butler and Allen Cunningham. The majority of the main event field includes lesser-known professionals, amateurs, and Hollywood and sports celebrities. A handful of major celebrities survived the first round, including actress Shannon Elizabeth of "American Pie" fame, and actor Ray Romano, who began play Tuesday with a little more than $61,000 in chips. This was the second straight year the star of "Everybody Loves Raymond" has played in the main event. Romano confided to Dalla that he reread poker legend Doyle Brunson's classic book, "Super/System," the night before he played. Sully Erna, the lead singer for Godsmack, who cashed in the two previous main events, will play today, although he is low on chips. Some of the celebrities whose $10,000 investment didn't carry very far included former Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Tilly and "Seinfeld" star Jason Alexander, who played several days into the tournament a year ago. Sports celebrities eliminated early included former UFC champion Chuck Liddell, UFC Light Heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin, as well as several former Major League Baseball stars, including Orel Hershiser, Jose Canseco and David Wells. Professional golfer Paul Azinger, who is also captain of the 2008 Ryder Cup Team, made the cut and will play today. Russian poker player Nikolay Evdakov, who set a record at this year's World Series of Poker for the most times finishing in the money in a single year with 10, survived his opening round and will play Wednesday. Evdakov has won more than $210,000 at this year's tournament, with his highest finish being 12th place in the tournament's first event. _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #140037 - 07/10/08 09:10 PM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online BIG NEWS: Tournament officials said registration for World Series of Poker was up 8 percent from last year, driven mostly by international growth of the game. Tournament spokesman Seth Palansky said Wednesday that the series attracted more players from other countries than ever before this year, giving it a boost despite a weak U.S. economy. Scattered in the 6,844 total participants in the $10,000 buy-in main event were players from 72 different countries, each hoping to win the $9.12 million top prize in the no-limit Texas Hold 'em tournament to be awarded Nov. 11. STUD OF THE DAY: Brian Schaedlich, a 22-year-old special education teacher from Cleveland, who will start play Thursday with 801,000 in chips, more than 400,000 ahead of the next closest player from Tuesday. With the possibility of play reaching the money round Thursday, Schaedlich conceivably could have enough chips to cover minimum bets and antes even if he folded every hand without playing. BUSTED OUT: Defending champion Jerry Yang, actress and poker player Shannon Elizabeth, H.O.R.S.E. runner-up Michael DeMichele, poker pro John Juanda. UP NEXT: Thursday, the 466 players who made it through Tuesday will join the players remaining from Wednesday, putting all entrants at the tables at the same time for the first time since the main event started. POKER TALK: Overbet: Betting more than the size of the pot, in hopes of enticing other players to fold. Defending champion Jerry Yang bet 10,500 into a pot with a jack, four and five on the board. When all other players folded, he turned over pocket threes and told the table that the next time he overbet, he would be holding a big hand. HE SAID WHAT?: "As far as quitting the job to do the poker life, I think I'd miss teaching too much." — Brian Schaedlich, who ended play Tuesday with a huge stack of 801,000 chips, more than twice his next closest competitor. _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #140056 - 07/12/08 02:07 AM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online DAY: 7 (Officially known as Day 3). BIG NEWS: An excruciatingly slow hand-for-hand crawl at the World Series of Poker ended Thursday when a Hong Kong banker became a hero to the 666 remaining players, busting out of the main event and bringing everyone left prize money. Steve Chung, 45, needed an eight to show up in five community cards to give him a third and crack the pocket kings of his opponent in the no-limit Texas Hold 'em tournament, but it never came and Chung was eliminated in 667th place. The final 666 players represent the top 9.7 percent of a field of 6,844, all gunning for a chance at the title and the $9.12 million top prize. STUD OF THE DAY: Poker pro Vanessa "Lady Maverick" Rousso, who found several good spots to go all-in and improve her short chip stack. At one point, she pushed in all her chips while holding pocket jacks with a two, four and six showing on the board. An opponent called with a suited 7-4 but did not improve, and Rousso moved up to 78,000 chips. BUSTED OUT: 2003 champion Chris Moneymaker, eight-time gold bracelet winner Erik Seidel, two-time bracelet winner Jennifer Harman-Traniello. UP NEXT: The remaining field of players will play 10 hours of poker Friday to try to position themselves toward the final table, having already guaranteed themselves money in the tournament. POKER TALK: Monster: A very big hand or a player who has accumulated an enormous amount of chips in a tournament. Brian Schaedlich began Thursday as a chip monster, with 801,000 in chips and a 270,000 chip lead over the next closest player. But he lost more than 306,000 chips when Jeff Kimber turned over a monster hand, pocket queens for three queens on a board showing a queen, three and five. Schaedlich lost holding a pair of aces. HE SAID WHAT?: "I know he's got nothing and I've got nothing. Those cards are going right there." _ Barry Leventhal, 44, of New York, who went all-in during the first level of play Thursday for 35,200 in chips, and began a long monologue directed at the player seated next to him, who took several minutes before folding. _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #140161 - 07/14/08 10:46 PM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online DAY: 8 (Officially known as Day 4). BIG NEWS: Card by card, pot by pot, the World Series of Poker pressed on Friday, with prize money already a certainty for the players who remained, but the effects of a grueling play schedule creeping in. Players were given an extra hour off before resuming play after a long session in which they burst through the money bubble. Survivors established themselves in the top 9.7 percent of the field _ winners of some piece of a $64.3 million pie in the no-limit Hold 'em tournament that attracted 6,844 entrants. Play started Friday with 464 players, and two hours later, 114 had been eliminated. Tournament officials expected play to slow as more people are eliminated and the average number of chips each player holds increase. STUD OF THE DAY: Jenna Phillips was assured a spot at the tournament's final table Friday when she won the series' dealer of the year award. Phillips won the award over hundreds of others who tournament officials say are carefully vetted each year to deal cards at the event. Phillips began the day with the traditional "Shuffle up and deal" announcement, and was told that she had been hired to deal cards at the final table in November. BUSTED OUT: "Survivor: China" contestant and nightclub owner Jean-Robert Bellande, 2007 pot-limit Omaha champion Robert Mizrachi, special education teacher Brian Schaedlich, who lost more than 800,000 in chips in less than 11 hours of play Thursday and Friday. UP NEXT: Remaining players will resume Saturday until 50 to 100 players are left. POKER TALK: Go into the tank: When a player pauses to think about what to do next during a big situation, reviewing the hand and deciding whether to call, fold or raise. With a board showing a queen, eight and three, all diamonds, Jason Su, a poker player from Houston, went into the tank after betting 60,000 and being raised 219,000 by Alberto Font, once the tournament's chip leader. After a few minutes, Su re-raised all-in and Font called. Su made three eights to beat Font's three threes, and Font was eliminated. HE SAID WHAT?: "Phil (Hellmuth), please don't send me home with a 10-9. Dealer, please don't send me home with a 10-9. Don't do it to me." _ Jean-Robert Bellande, a 37-year-old former "Survivor: China" contestant from Las Vegas who was all-in with an ace and a queen against the 10-9 of Sarkis Akopyan of Moscow. Bellande erupted with excitement when an ace hit on the flop to pair his cards, but his face blanched two cards later when Akopyan hit a six and a seven to make a straight. _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #140162 - 07/14/08 10:50 PM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online DAY: 9 (Officially known as Day 5). BIG NEWS: Play slowed considerably at the World Series of Poker on Saturday, as the top tier of the field held powerful chip stacks and enough rounders had been eliminated to let players be more picky about their hands. Some players used the breathing room to tighten their play and only play pots with good starting hands. Others used the extra chips to play more hands, driving up action and leading to big pots for players holding less-than-stellar hands. After more than four and a half hours of play Saturday, 70 players had been eliminated, leaving 119 players competing and allowing the average stack to creep over 1 million chips. STUD OF THE DAY: Barry Leventhal, 44, of New York, who got 11-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth to fold an open-ended straight and flush draw on the flop by moving all-in for 399,000 chips. Hellmuth took several minutes to make his decision, because with both draws, there was a good chance he would have at least made the straight. Hellmuth folded his hand face-up, drawing groans and second guesses from other players at the table and nearby spectators. Leventhal was later eliminated. BUSTED OUT: Tournament professional Gus Hansen, two-time gold bracelet winner Hoyt Corkins UP NEXT: On Sunday, about 80 to 100 players will play down to 27 players, the final three tables, in preparation for the last day of play Monday before the final table in November. POKER TALK: Stealing blinds: Raising a pot in hopes that all opponents will fold, giving the raiser a small pot consisting of the blinds and antes. As play started Saturday, Cristian Dragomir of Bucharest, Romania, was in third place and raised a pot from the dealer spot to 50,000 chips. At that point, each player had a required ante of 1,000 chips, the small blind was 5,000 and the big blind was 10,000 chips. This meant there was already 24,000 in the pot, which Dragomir stole by raising and forcing everyone else to fold. HE SAID WHAT?: "In life, cards have brains. I didn't know this until about four months ago. ... If you've got the positive energy, it may take a little while, but the cards will come." _ Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, after doubling his chip stack to about 740,000 chips on a pair of queens. _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #140163 - 07/14/08 10:56 PM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online DAY: 10 (Officially known as Day 6). BIG NEWS: Phil Hellmuth was eliminated from the World Series of Poker main event on Sunday, ensuring that the no-limit Texas Hold 'em tournament will have a new champion. Hellmuth, who won the main event in 1989 and has won a record 11 events at the world series, pushed in his last 405,000 chips with an ace and a queen but found himself up against the jacks of New York poker player Andrew Rosskamm. Hellmuth had an ace-high flush draw after the turn, the fourth community card. But a two of spades fell on the river, and Hellmuth was eliminated in 45th place. He won $154,400. STUD OF THE DAY: Tiffany Michelle, an actress and poker player from Los Angeles, who started the day in fifth place and won pot after pot on Sunday, building a stack of more than 5 million chips. Michelle was one of two women remaining in the tournament at the start of play Sunday. The other, Lisa Parsons of Franklin, Tenn., quickly busted out. Tournament officials estimate that 209 women played in the main event this year. The last time a woman made the final table was in 1995, when Barbara Enright finished fifth of 273 players, winning $114,180. BUSTED OUT: 11-time gold bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, H.O.R.S.E. final table player Victor Ramdin, 2004 gold bracelet winner Thomas "Thunder" Keller, onetime chip leader Jeremy Joseph. UP NEXT: On Monday, the 27 players remaining will play as long as it takes to determine the main event's final table. POKER TALK: Check in the dark: When a player announces he will make no bet to start the round as the dealer turns over the flop, turn or river. Checking in the dark can confuse opponents about the strength of a player's hand. David Saab of Melbourne, Australia, checked in the dark as the dealer turned over an ace, king and eight on the flop. Joe Bishop of Cincinnati also checked, and called bets by Saab on the turn and river. Bishop won the hand with an ace-queen for a pair of aces. HE SAID WHAT?: "This could be it, honey. ... Really scary stuff, but I'm not giving up." — Phil Hellmuth, complaining to his wife that each time he picked up a hand Sunday, an opponent hit a larger hand when they should have folded before seeing the flop. _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #140164 - 07/14/08 11:10 PM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online Phil Hellmuth was eliminated from the World Series of Poker main event on Sunday, ensuring that the no-limit Texas Hold 'em tournament will see a new person crowned champion in November. Hellmuth, who won the main event in 1989 and has won a record 11 events at the world series, pushed in his last 405,000 chips on Sunday with an ace and a queen and found himself against the jacks of New York poker player Andrew Rosskamm. Hellmuth, who was a slight underdog in the hand, had an ace-high flush draw after the turn, the fourth community card. But a two of spades fell on the river, and Hellmuth was eliminated in 45th place. He won US$154,400. "I never win a coin flip at the world series," said Hellmuth, the last remaining main event winner in the tournament field. "And I don't play coin flips because I'm the best." "That's the first time I've been (all-in) in like two days," Hellmuth said. Play started Sunday with 79 players remaining from a starting field of 6,844 players. Four hours into play, 35 rounders had been eliminated. Tournament spokesman Seth Palansky said the field would be whittled down to 27 by the end of the day. Only two Canadians remained in the hunt with the field whittled down to 37 players. Scott Montgomery of Perth, Ont., led the way, sitting seventh overall with 5.65 million chips. Darus Suharto of Toronto boasted 1.9 million chips, giving him one of the smaller stacks among the remaining players. Three other Canadians cashed out in the top 50. Mauro Lupo of Barrie, Ont., and Jonathan Plens of Toronto finished 40th and 42nd overall, respectively, and each earned $154,400. Aaron Keay of Vancouver cashed out $135,100 for a 49th-place finish. On Monday, the 27 remaining entrants would play down to the final nine. A champion won't be crowned until November, as the tournament planned to take a four month break before playing the final table. The title was worth $9.12 million, and the top eight players will win at least $1.28 million. Players paid $10,000 to enter the tournament. Hellmuth spent much of his day short-stacked at his table, but was able to get up to 1.6 million in chips within the first hour of play. Hellmuth complained that each time he picked up a hand, an opponent who should have folded earlier hit a larger hand once the community cards came out. "Really scary stuff, but I'm not giving up," he said. Hellmuth, nicknamed "Poker Brat," met with tournament director Jack Effel and commissioner Jeffrey Pollack before play began Sunday after he blew up at another player for calling Hellmuth's raise with a bad starting hand. Hellmuth was assessed a one-orbit penalty, meaning he would have had to sit out play Sunday for the first round of action around the table. But tournament officials decided the penalty was too excessive and gave Hellmuth a warning instead. "In this instance, the punishment did not fit the crime," Pollack said. "Phil has now been warned and put on notice in a way that he has never been." _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #140177 - 07/16/08 09:31 PM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online Tiffany Michelle spent the past three years as part of the large contingent of poker media covering the World Series of Poker. This year she decided to get into the game. Michelle didn't achieve her goal of becoming the first woman to ever win the World Series of Poker's main event, the $10,000 buy-in No Limit Texas Hold'em World championship at the Rio. But the 24-year-old aspiring actress from Los Angeles still made poker history on Monday. Michelle busted out in 17th place, winning $334,534, the most money a woman has ever won in what is considered poker's signature event. Michelle started Monday in third place in the chip count and the only woman out of the field's remaining 27 players. Contenders were vying for one of nine seats at the main event's final table, which will be played in November at the Rio. The winner will take home $9.12 million. Michelle was attempting to become the highest female finisher in the main event since Annie Duke's 10th-place finish in 2000, which was worth $52,160. In 1999, Susie Isaacs also finished in 10th place. The best finish ever by a woman in the tournament's main event was by Barbara Enright, who finished fifth in 1995, winning $140,180. Michelle said a sponsor paid her $10,000 entry fee. "Someone asked me if I wanted to play," Michelle said. "I thought it was a great opportunity. I know my game was on par with everyone else. I was just hoping for an opportunity." Michelle is well-known on the poker circuit. She worked as a media representative covering the tournament for various outlets. Last year, Michelle was the on-camera poker hostess for PokerNews.com, interviewing players. As an actress, her most recent role this year was as a ballgirl in "Semi-Pro," a movie about the American Basketball Association that starred Will Ferrell. Her parents, Richard and Merry Graham of Santa Clarita, Calif., watched their daughter wager several million dollars in tournament chips. Michelle's mother said being center stage at the World Series of Poker might be her daughter's ticket to stardom. "Life has a way of finding a direction," Merry Graham said. "Poker could lead her to her ultimate destination. We're here to support her." The main event started on July 3 with 6,844 players. Women accounted for almost 210 players, roughly 3 percent of the total field. Michelle started out Monday on ESPN's secondary feature table. By 3:45 p.m., when the field had been whittled to 18 players -- two tables of nine -- Michelle was moved to ESPN's main feature table. However, she lost about 1.6 million of her tournament chip total on two quick hands. A few hands after a 20-minute break, Michelle pushed her $3.8 million in chips all in with an ace of diamonds, nine of clubs and 10 of hearts showing on the table. Peter Eastgate of Denmark called and showed a pair of aces. She turned over an ace of spades and jack of diamonds and was drawing dead after a five hearts came on the turn. "I was short stacked so I've been playing somewhat cautious," Michelle said during the break. "I have good reads on people, and I think I have a pretty good control over my emotions." As a poker player, Michelle had never cashed in a World Series of Poker event. However, she had made several appearances in various charity and celebrity appearances. According to her Web site, earlier this year she placed first in an event at The Orleans, eighth in a celebrity-charity tournament hosted by poker standout Jennifer Harmon, and first at the Velvet Margarita Annual Celebrity Charity Tournament in May. "I play a lot online and in cash games," Michelle said. "People didn't really know much about me." Lisa Parsons, a Franklin, Tenn., poker player, was the last remaining woman in the field with Michelle on Sunday before busting out in 76th place, winning $77,200. She came back Monday to root for Michelle, even though she didn't know her and never played against her. "Of course I want to see her win," Parsons said. "It would be great for poker." Michelle said she found support not only from her parents, but a small group of friends and her boyfriend, "Hollywood" Dave Stann, a constant figure on the rail with his heavily moused orange hair. She said a lot of the male professional players gave her moral support. She also was in contact with Duke, with whom she has become friends. "She told me to play a cool game," Michelle said. "She was very encouraging." By 7 p.m., the main event was down to 14 players. The only remaining World Series of Poker bracelet winners who were still in the event on Monday were quickly eliminated, Phi Nguyen in 26th place and Brandon Cantu in 20th place. The 2008 World Series of Poker is officially the largest and richest in the tournament's 39 years. A record 58,720 entries -- an 8 percent increase from 2007 -- were taken for the 55-event, 47-day poker tournament at the Rio. The total prize pool was a record $180.7 million, a $20.8 million increase from a year ago. The final table was to be determined early this morning. Players will return to the Rio on Nov. 9 and pare down to the final two players, who will play head-to-head starting late Nov. 10. The winner will be determined in the early morning hours of Nov. 11, and ESPN will broadcast the final table in a two-hour special that evening. _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #140178 - 07/16/08 09:32 PM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online DAY: 11 (Officially known as Day 6). BIG NEWS: Every move Monday at the World Series of Poker brought players closer to a ticket to the tournament's final table and the $9.12 million payday that goes with the title. The winner -- to be decided in November after the no-limit Texas Hold 'em main event takes a four-month break -- will have never won a world series tournament before. The last two gold bracelet winners, Phi Nguyen and Brandon Cantu, were eliminated Monday after the cards fell in favor of opponents. STUD OF THE DAY: Dean Hamrick, 25, of East Lansing, Mich., who started the day with one of the lowest stacks at the three remaining tables but was third in chips after six hours of play, with 12 million chips and 15 players remaining. BUSTED OUT: Gold bracelet winners Brandon Cantu and Phi Nguyen, actress and poker player Tiffany Michelle. UP NEXT: The tournament takes a four-month hiatus before the nine players remaining return to Las Vegas for the final table Nov. 9. POKER TALK: Sent to the rail: When a player is eliminated from a tournament by an opponent. Being sent to the rail refers to a player moving from the table to the spectators' area. Albert Kim, a 26-year-old professional poker player from Staten Island, N.Y., lost all his chips with an unsuited ace-king when the community cards didn't improve his ace high. Chris Klodnicki, 23, of Voorhees, N.J., won with a pair of nines, sending Kim to the rail in 19th place. HE SAID WHAT?: "That's a super call." -- Joe Bishop, who won a 5 million-chip pot with a pair of fives after calling a bet of 1.4 million chips by 22-year-old Peter Eastgate on the turn with a board showing an ace, five, four and two. The final community card was a 10, meaning Bishop would have been beat if Eastgate held, among other cards, a three, 10 or ace. Bishop, a 35-year-old salesman from Cincinnati, won entry into the main event by winning a series of events at his hometown poker club. _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #140179 - 07/16/08 09:35 PM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online Seats were re-drawn on three separate occasions. When the 27-player mark, 18-player mark, and 10-player mark were reached, survivors were reconfigured into different tables and seats. Play was consolidated from three tables down to two about mid-way through the second level of the day (or just three hours into Day Seven). The rate of bust outs was much quicker than had been anticipated. · Late on Day Seven, although ten players actually sat at a single table, only the nine surviving players constitute the official "final table," in standard poker reporting and official WSOP records. · The tenth-place money spot is now referred to as the "TV bubble." This is because the player will not partake in the three-month publicity built-up to the final table, nor the actual play of the November Nine," which will be shown on ESPN. Dean Hamrick ended up as the tenth-place finisher. His sorrows will be soothed somewhat by collecting $591,869 in prize money. · When play resumes, the finalists are scheduled to play from nine down to two on November 9th, and two down to a single winner on November 10th. · The nine finalists are to be paid 9th-place prize money at this time ($900,670). That will leave approximately $24 million up for grabs in November. Since the interest in $24 million for a 117-day period is substantial, Harrahs Entertainment will place the prize money into an interest-bearing account. The additional funds earned from the account will be added to the prize pool amongst the remaining nine players. Hence, each player is expected to collect a bit more in prize money than the figures which have previously been announced. · When play resumes, Level 33 will continue with blinds set at 120,000-240,000 and antes at 30,000. · An interesting side note: The tournament has now reached the point where a single ante represents 1.5 player buy-ins for the Main Event. Players started this tournament with 20,000 in chips. Antes are now 30,000. · ESPN's broadcasts of this year's WSOP begin on July 22nd from 8-10 pm EST. New programs of various tournaments, including the Main Event, will debut each week. · ESPN will broadcast the final table on November 10th and 11th, just hours after play is expected to end on the previous days/nights. · The final table will be played just five days after the conclusion of the U.S. presidential election. · Players who have made it to the "November Nine" have now played a total of 65.5 tournament hours, not counting breaks or end of day recesses. · In the 39-year history of the WSOP, champions were citizens of the following nations at the time of victory: United States (35), England (1), Ireland (1), Australia (1), Spain (1) · Past WSOP champions were born in the following nations: United States (31), Iran (2), Ireland (1), Lebanon (1), Ecuador (1), Laos (1), Vietnam (1), and China (1) · This is the largest World Series of Poker in history. A grand total of 58,720 players entered into 55 gold bracelet events surpassed last year's number of entries, which was 54,288. These figures represent an 8 percent increase over 2007. · This was the richest World Series of Poker in history. A grand total of $180,676,248 in prize money awarded in 2008 makes this the richest event in all of sports. Note: This figure does not include the upcoming four events to be played at WSOP-Europe. These figures represent an increase of 13 percent over 2007. · This ranks as the second-largest live poker tournament in history. This year's turnout surpassed 2007 attendance (6,358) by 7.4 percent. Only the 2006 WSOP Main Event was larger than this tournament -- with 8,773 entrants. · This is the second-largest tournament prize pool in history. The total prize pool amounts to $64,333,600. The top 666 finishers collected prize money. · There were at least 118 different nations and territories represented by all players who entered the 2008 Main Event. By contrast, there were 87 different countries present last year. This represents a 36 percent increase in international participation. · The 2008 WSOP Main Event winner will collect $9,119,517 in prize money. · The number of players who started Day Seven was 27. Play continued until 18 players were eliminated, and the final nine players were determined. · The average stack at the start of the day was 5,070,000 in chips. · The average stack at the end of the day was 15.1 million in chips. · The chip leader at the start of Day Seven was Dennis Phillips (St. Louis, MO). He maintained his chip lead and now has the biggest stack going into the final table. · Craig Marquis (Arlington, TX) started the day in second place. He made it to the final table, but is now ranked eighth in chips. · Scott Montgomery (Perth, Ontario – Canada) made the greatest move up the chip ladder during the course of the day. He started off in 16th place and rocketed up to 4th place by day's end. · Tiffany Michelle (Los Angeles, CA) suffered the greatest setback of any player of the final 27. She started the day ranked third in chips but ended up busting out in 17th place. · Day Seven started with only one female player still alive in the tournament. Tiffany Michelle came in ranked third in the chip count. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to establish the momentum necessary to propel her to the final table. She ended up finishing in 17th place, worth $334,534 in prize money. Michelle's performance is the best by a female in the Main Event since Annie Duke's 10th-place showing in 2000. The year before, Susie Isaacs also finished in 10th place. The best finish ever by a woman in the WSOP Main Event was by Barbara Enright, who finished 5th in 1995. Michelle's earnings – at slightly more than one-third of a million dollars – is the most ever won by a female in the WSOP Main Event. · Only two former WSOP gold bracelet winners were still in contention when play resumed, including – Phi Nguyen and Brandon Cantu. Both former champions were eliminated early in the day. · Two-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Phi Nguyen (Hawaiian Gardens, CA) finished in 26th place. This was his second time to cash in the Main Event (164th place in 2006) and 14th career in-the-money finish at the WSOP. · Former WSOP gold bracelet winner Brandon Cantu finished in 20th place. Cantu was expected to be a wild card in the group, since he has a reputation for playing hyper-aggressive poker. One fellow poker pro predicted that Cantu would either bust out early or would end up at the final table as the chip leader. Unfortunately, he had to settle for the former – which meant the last of the former champions was gone. · All players who started play on Day Seven were guaranteed at least $257,334 in prize money. All players who made it to the final table are now guaranteed at least $900,670. Players are to be paid the guaranteed prize money on July 15th, which is the day after the November Nine had been determined. · Tim Loecke, from Highland Park, IL ended up as the 22nd-place finisher. Most interesting is the fact that this was Loecke's first-ever live poker tournament. He qualified to play in this event by winning a $63 satellite. His win amounted to $257,334. · Nations still alive in the Main Event include: United States (5 players), Canada (2), Denmark (1), and Russia (1). · A Russian poker player has now made it to the final table in each of the last two years. Ivan Demidov follows in the footsteps of Alex Kravchenko, who finished in fourth place last year. · A Canadian poker player has now made it to the final table in each of the last two years. Two Canadians, Darus Suharto and Scott Montgomery follow in the footsteps of Tuan Lam, who finished in second place last year. · Players from several different nations were represented in the top 100 of the Main Event for the first time ever. Brazil enjoyed its highest world championship finish ever as Rafael Caiaffa, from Belo Horizonte, Brazil took 55th place. · Argentina enjoyed its highest world championship finish ever in this event as Jose Barbero, from Buenos Aires, Argentina took 89th place. · Venezuela enjoyed its highest world championship finish ever in this event as Jamal Kunbuz from Valencia, Venezuela took 33rd place. · Romania enjoyed its highest world championship finish ever in this event as Toni Judet was Bucharest, Romania took 22nd place. Note: Judet had previously been misidentified as "Judet Toni Cristian. It should be noted that he prefers to be called "Toni" and his last name is "Judet." · Play was suspended with 21:50 remaining in Level 33. Day Seven concluded at 3:29 am PST, about 15 hours after play began. · Day Eight begins Sunday, November 9th at 10:00 am. The final table will be played at the Rio Las Vegas. The venue will be announced later. · This is one of the younger final table fields in WSOP history. The youngest player remaining is 22. The oldest player remaining is 53. The average age of the surviving players is 31.8 years. Five of the final nine are in their 20s. · When Phil Hellmuth won the WSOP in 1989, he was the youngest world champion in history – at age 24 years, 10 months, and 5 days. Should either Peter Eastgate or Craig Marquis win this year's Main Event, the record for youngest champion would be broken. _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. Top #140180 - 07/16/08 09:45 PM Re: Main Event News [Re: FREAK] FREAK FREAK 2007 Bad Man Champion Owner Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 45050 Loc: Time to play the Game Online If Dennis Phillips had his way, he would have retreated to his hotel room early Tuesday morning and caught a few hours of sleep. The 53-year-old commercial trucking company manager would have then got up, put on a clean shirt, returned to the Rio and sat back down in his seat behind a growing stack of tournament chips at the World Series of Poker's final table. Instead, Phillips is heading home to St. Louis. The tournament's current chip leader has about four months to contemplate his next hand. The World Series of Poker's main event, the $10,000 buy-in no limit Texas Hold'em World Championship, cut the initial field of 6,844 to nine players early Tuesday morning after six rounds of competition, including some 131/2 hours Monday and Tuesday, which included a 90-minute dinner break and several 20-minute rests. The 10th competitor busted out shortly before 3:30 a.m. Now, the nine finalists, a collection of mostly unknown amateur poker players and little-known professionals, will return to their respective lives until the second week of November, when the eventual champion claims a $9.12 million payday. Until that time, the players -- five Americans, two Canadians, a Russian and a Dane -- are free to cut deals with prospective sponsors and promote themselves. The can also better their poker skills by engaging a coach, studying their play as it is televised over the summer and fall by ESPN, and play in some additional low-level poker tournaments and events. The nine players will be promoted extensively over the coming months by Harrah's Entertainment, which owns the World Series of Poker. The gaming company changed the format for the main event's final table earlier this year so ESPN can televise the results in a two-hour prime time special on a same-day taped coverage basis. The champion will be determined in the early morning hours of Nov. 11. ESPN is also planning to air a one-hour special on the nine final table participants on Nov. 4. In other words, the final nine won't be unknown for long and their bank accounts could be a bit fuller. "This year, all nine players who made the final table will become household names, and are guaranteed life-changing prize money to go with their fame and place in poker history," said World Series of Poker Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack. Poker insiders said the players near the top of the chip count might earn endorsement deals that, combined, could entail a six-figure payday. Internet gambling sites, energy drinks and other gambling related products are already lining up to find space on the players' clothing, which could amount to some valuable hours on cable television. But the question is will the four-month hiatus disrupt any kind of rhythm in the competitors' play? Most of the remaining players questioned early Tuesday morning said they would have preferred to continue on as the tournament had in the past, with a day off followed by the final table. "I'll evaluate my play, but I think I'm just going to find a hammock, a beach and a good bottle of tequila," said Ylon Schwartz, 38, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who is currently fifth in the chip count. He has the most World Series of Poker experience of any of the final table competitors, with 11 event cashes since 2005. "Sure, I would have liked get back at it, but that's the format," Schwartz said. Phillips, who has almost 26.3 million tournament chips, would have also liked to keep the play going. "I'm hyped up, I'm on a roll and I'm ready to go," Phillips said. "I would love to get back out there today, but I understand the format. Everybody is talking about getting coaches, but I've never had one. I think I'll just sit and watch the (ESPN coverage) and memorize every play. There are some pretty good players left in the field." Phillips, who is the oldest player remaining, may also be the least experienced. He's been playing poker for four years and earned his way into the main event by winning a $200 buy-in satellite tournament at Harrah's casino in St. Louis. He entered the event's sixth day of play Monday as chip leader. By early Tuesday morning he was still on top after an up-and-down ride that saw him sink no lower than fifth in the chip standings. The St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap Phillips wore during the tournament was adorned with autographs from some of the game's biggest names. His newfound fame may allow him to add his own signature to the hat. On a break early Tuesday morning, he was stopped by some of the crowd watching the play inside the Rio and was asked to pose for pictures. Phillips, who was already wearing endorsement logos from several sponsors, including Internet gambling sites, said he hadn't thought yet about other potential lucrative endorsement possibilities. "It's just amazing to make it to the final table," Phillips said. Craig Marquis, a 23-year-old college student from Arlington, Texas, does have his eye on the future. He was one of the few players willing to take a risk during the nearly three hours it took to bust out the 10th player. Twice he either called or went all-in with 10th place finisher Dan Hamrick of East Lansing, Mich., finally busting him out with a pair of queens. He's trailing Phillips by about $16 million in chips. Still, Marquis is excited about the earnings potential over the next four months. "Everybody was scared about not making the final table," Marquis said. "I was willing to take some risks. I'll do some things that will make me a better player. This is just such a tremendous opportunity. I don't mind the time off. I might be able to better my game." The difference between payouts for the final table and 10th place was dramatic. Hamrick won $591,869 for his effort. Ninth place will pay $900,670 while all other finishers will win more than $1 million, in addition to the potential endorsement opportunities. Kelly Kim of Whitter, Calif., entered the round of 10 players at 12:30 a.m. in 10th position with 4.3 million tournament chips. He will enter the final table extremely short-stacked, $2.6 million and trailing his nearest competition by almost 8 million tournament chips. During the three hours of 10-handed poker, Kim protected his dwindling stack of chips, playing just two hands. He went all-in twice without being called, once with a pair of jacks and the other time with a ace-king off-suit. Still, he's happy to be part of the final table and the hoopla that it will entail. "My goal was to finish ninth, and I can't believe I'm still alive to play another day," Kim said. "I'm a realist. Based on the chip count, things don't look good, but I'm just happy to be part of the final table." _________________________ Be an active member of the community. Make some posts daily. 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