WSOP 2010 Thread. Feed your wild side revisited

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Event 19 $10,000 Lowball result

1     David Baker          294,314
2    Eric Cloutier       181,886
3    George Danzer        115,295
4    John Juanda       78,088
5    Doug Booth       55,483
6    Erik Seidel               41,270
7    Eric Kesselman       32,080
8    Daniel Negreanu      26,004
9    Andy Bloch       22,387
10    John Monnette       22,387
11    Vincent Musso       22,387
12    Yan Chen               19,273
13    Chad Brown        19,273
14    Peter Gould       19,273


Bakes wins, Juanda's third final of this series, Negraneau bubbles the final, Brit Peter Gould cashes

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Event 20 British funk alert

$1,500 PLO

12 LEFT

Nenad Medic       600,000    
Peter Costa       487,000    
Ashkan Razavi       460,000    
John Barch       450,000    
Klinghammer Thibaut    365,000    
Trai Dang               360,000    
Chris Hyong Chang    333,000    
Tyler Patterson       255,000    
Blair Rodman       205,000    
Thomas Redfern       152,000    
Denton Pfister       114,000

$256,000 UP TOP

Tim Flanders cashed 15th, Tom Rutter 79th   

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Event 22 $1,000 Ladies NLH

We saw 1,054 women hit the felt today. It was six fewer than we had last year, but it was an excited and fun bunch. When the clock finally stopped after ten levels of play we were down to just 138 of our original group.

A number of today's participants are well known inside poker and elsewhere. Vanessa Selbst, Vanessa Rousso, Lauren Kling, Erica Schoenberg, Jennifer Tilly, Leo Margets, Veronica Dabul, JJ Liu, Nichoel Peppe, Amanda Thomas, Kristy Arnett, Lynn Gilmartin, Elaine Chaivarlis, Fatima de Melo, Kathy Liebert, Thuy Doan, Tiffany Michelle, Maridu Mayrinck, Cheryl Hines and Shannon Elizabeth all showed up, but none of them would live to see day two.

La Sengphet took the chip lead after about eight levels of play and held onto it through the rest of the night, finishing with around 148,500. However, she has her work cut out for her as 2008 champ Svetlana Gromenkova (70,000) is sitting with 88,000. Evelyn Ng (55,200), Liv Boeree (57,700), Jessica Welman (24,500) and Lacey Jones (17,500) are also in the hunt.

It's a tough field, and they're all going to be gunning for the top prize of $192,232

Top Chip Counts
1    La Sengphet 148,500
2    Svetlana Gromenkova    70,100
3    Linda Johnson    64,400
4    Liv Boeree    57,700
5    Evelyn Ng    55,200
6    Mimi Tran    33,000
7    Wooka Kim 33,000
8    Jessica Welman    24,500
9    Yu Kurita    21,000
10    Maria Ho    20,500

Shaun Deeb busted

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Event 21 $1,500 Seven Card Stud

Top Chip Counts
1    Darren Shebell    230,000
2    Sorel Mizzi    210,000
3    Pat Pezzin    195,000
4    Dan Heimiller    195,000
5    Jon Turner    190,000
6    Richard Ashby    155,000
7    Christine Pietsch    123,000
8    Vorakboth Eam    120,000
9    Raymond Walter    110,000
10    Eric Friedman    92,000


Good luck to Chufty. $140,000 up top

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In Event 23 $2,500 Limit 6 Max

384 legan, 120 odd remain


A high powered top 10

Top Chip Counts
1    JC Tran    55,000
2    Martin Kabrhel    52,000
3    David Baker    40,000 (him again?!)
4    George Lind    38,000
5    David Plastik    37,000
6    Justin Bonomo    36,000
7    Greg Debora    33,000
8    Phil Gordon    32,000
9    Bertrand Grospellier    32,000
10    Tommy Hang    32,000

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Eric Buchman was the winner of the $2,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em tournament at the 2010 World Series of Poker.  It marked his first gold bracelet victory following 13 previous WSOP cashes and three final table appearances dating back to 2006.  Buchman is perhaps best known for finishing fourth in last year’s WSOP Main Event championship.  His “November Nine” feat netted a cool $2.5 million and immortality as a permanent fixture on ESPN’s reel of poker broadcasts.
 
Buchman is 30-years-old.  He lives in Hewlett, NY.  He started out playing poker in underground games and has been a poker pro for several years.

The turnout attracted 476 entries, which was a slight increase in attendance over last year.  The top 45 finishers collected prize money.  The runner up was Brent Courson, from Coopersville, MI.  Several former WSOP gold bracelet finishers cashed in this event, most notably Matt Matros who won his first gold bracelet just four days ago in the $1,500 buy-in Limit Hold’em competition (Event #12).  Matros made a serious run in this event, as well.  He finished ninth.

Another notable name who finished high was Jeff Shulman.  He is the editor of Card Player magazine.  Like Buchman, Shulman final tabled the WSOP Main Event last year, finishing fifth.

It’s also noteworthy that this was the second-youngest final table in WSOP history.  The average age of players was 22.8 years.  Only last year’s No-Limit Hold’em Shootout, with an average age of 22.2 years, was comprised of ayounger group of finalists.

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Event 20 the Omaha

And then there were nine.

Coming into the day it was fair to say that all eyes were on a pair of young guns; Jason Mercier and Steven "pikappraider" Burkholder. Those two final tabled this event last year, but were both eliminated during the day today unable to make a repeat performance.

Experience is still key however as four of our nine remaining players have made deep runs at the World Series. Nenad Medic (1), Blair Rodman (9), Trai Dang (1) and John "Tex" Barch (2) have all made final tables, but Medic and Rodman are the only bracelet owners.

Medic is our chip leader entering Day 3 with 1,504,000 chips and the closest player, Tex Barch, is nearly a million chips behind with 546,000.

Ashkan Razavi, Tyler Patterson, Chris Hyong Chang, Denton Pfister and Klinghammer Thibaut round out our final nine.

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Event 21 Stud

We're Done; Sorel Mizzi Out In Front!
 

That brings an end to a long day of Seven Card Stud action as our field has been whittled down to just eight. For one of the more affordable buy-in tournaments on the schedule, it has certainly produced a world-class final table lineup.

They will be led by online sensation Sorel Mizzi, who despite having limited Stud experience, has proven that he has the instincts to match it with anyone in the world at any poker discipline.

Interestingly, Dan Heimiller and Sorel Mizzi started this tournament two days ago on the very same table, and now, they're going to finish it right where they started.

Here's how they will lineup tomorrow:


Christine Pietsch - 194,000


Richard Ashby - 276,000


Pat Pezzen - 211,000


Dan Heimiller - 241,000


Jon Turner - 83,000


Sorel Mizzi - 435,000


Darren Shebell - 320,000


Owais Ahmed - 78,000

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Event 23 6 Max Limit

One and Done
 

Day 1 of Event #23 is in the books after 384 runners turned up for the $2,500 Limit Hold'em event. After eight surprisingly entertaining levels of poker, we're left with somewhere around 100 of them at night's end.

That's pretty good work for a limit event, and the list of those eliminated reads like a who's-who of the poker world. Through the course of the day, we said goodbye to Vanessa Selbst, Phil Hellmuth (very quickly), Tom Schneider, Carlos Mortensen, Eli Elezra, Marcel Luske, Barry Greenstein, Chris Ferguson, David Sklansky, and Howard Lederer, among more than 200 others.

That leaves us with a handful of relative unknowns atop our leader board heading into tomorrow's moving day. We'll have to wait for the full official chip counts, but we've got David Webb, Richard Li, and Zach Fahmie all up around the 75,000-chip mark. Dave Baker (not to be confused with David "bakes" Baker who won a bracelet tonight) is in the mix as well, and so are the familiar faces of Justin Bonomo, JJ Liu and a few others.

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Event 20 the Omaha


Ashkan Razavi, Tyler Patterson, Chris Hyong Chang, Denton Pfister and Klinghammer Thibaut round out our final nine.

WTF thibaut used to work with me in ey luxembourg and quit for poker

NICE FUCKIN LIFE

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CHUFTY NOW HU FOR A BRACELET.

glglglgl

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Negraneau blogs about Men and the Ladies event


Men Playing in Ladies Events
13 Jun 2010


Poker has come along way from the days it was played in the back of smoke filled pool rooms where the only women you'd see were the cocktail waitress, wives, girlfriends, or even mistresses hanging out.

More and more women have shown an interest in poker, and for many women, the most special day of the year for them has always been playing in the ladies event at the WSOP.

My personal assistant is a perfect example of that. She works hard for me during the WSOP, but her one off day is the ladies event and she looks forward to playing in it every year. She's been able to satellite her way in every year, and I'm always proud of her when she wins her seat! It's pretty cool since she is new to poker.
Patty would never dare play in an open event for that kind of money. No chance. That holds true for many of the women, mostly beginners, who all use that event as a learning experience. Some women may start out playing in the ladies event, and then eventually play in the open events, but a large percentage of them would never have had an opportunity to experience the WSOP had it not been for this very special and historic event.

I mean, you have over 1000 women in that event who love it! Why in the world would we want to spoil their fun in the name of sexual equality? I mean really. Really?? Men have had it pretty good, so whining about sexual equality as a man is a pretty lame excuse to take part in a ladies event. It's beyond lame, it's just plain foolish. You aren't fighting for men's rights, or women's right for that matter, you are just being an ass.

I think there were at least 6 men who played in the event this year, and I'd be willing to bet a pretty penny that their primary motivation was NOT sexual equality, it was equity. It's a juicy, large field event with loads of beginners. I'm not saying that all of them were playing for that specific reason, but I'd bet a lot of money it wasn't a concerted effort to "right the wrong of women having fun at the WSOP in a segregated event."

Women still represent a minuscule percentage of open events. Outside of the ladies event, which has a 1000 player field, there is no way in hell that a total of 1000 women would play in the open events.

I'm not a woman, so I couldn't fully understand the level of intimidation a woman would face when she sits down at a poker table full of men. For some, it's no big deal, but for a large majority, I imagine they are a bit worried about "looking stupid" or being judged. It's human nature.

This event helps put many of the women at ease. They all can learn together and enjoy the experience of playing in the world's most prestigious series, the WSOP. Why do we want to take that away from them? Why do we want to destroy such a unique and special event that is so popular among most women?

Well, Shaun Deeb and Annie Duke think the event should be destroyed. Shaun Deeb and Annie Duke think that Patty should forget about looking forward to the ladies event, because they don't like it. Well screw you!!! Don't play in it if you don't like it, but don't ruin the fun for the 1000 women who do love the event so much.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it, women and men shouldn't be separated in a game that isn't physical, but that's not the case in poker either. Every single bracelet event is an open event. The casino employee's event, ladies event, and seniors event, are all special events catering to a special demographic... and they are popular. None of those bracelets "count" in the totals or stats. If Jennifer Harman wins the ladies event, she'd still have two bracelets... And one ladies event bracelet. Her bracelet count would be 2, not 3.

The WSOP is considering repercussions for men who entered the ladies event. I hope a precedent is set so that we can protect this event and let the ladies have some fun man, seriously... Why be a party pooper? Are there not more important causes to fight than this one? Leave the ladies event be. It DOES bring more women into poker, and the absurd notion that if it didn't exist more women would play in open events is a bunch of bologna.

Why should 1000 women be deprived of having a good experience at the WSOP because Shaun Deeb and Annie Duke don't like it?

Sometimes law gets in the way of logic and that's the case with this event. Legally, you can't shut out the men, because it discriminates based on gender, but if you think about it in terms of history, let's look at who would be discriminated against: MEN. Men have had it pretty damn good. They could always work, vote, or pretty much do whatever they please, while women had to struggle and fight for their rights. Men aren't being deprived here, and the only area you could argue that men get the short end of the stick is in custody battles in divorce court. Let the freaking ladies have a special event for them!

If you are offended by a special event created for women to play poker without having to deal with testosterone at the table, then you need to loosen up a bit and stop being so anal. Go fight a real battle and let the ladies play!

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Tex Barch Wins WSOP Gold Bracelet in Event 20

Texas Poker Pro Wins WSOP Title in Record-Setting Pot-Limit Omaha Battle


John “Tex” Barch was the winner of the $1,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha event at the 2010 World Series of Poker.  This marked his first career WSOP gold bracelet victory.  Barch is perhaps best known for his appearance at the 2005 WSOP Main Event championship final table, where he finished third.  Joe Hachem won the Main Event that year.

Barch lives in McKinney, TX.  This was his sixth time to cash at the WSOP and marked his third final table appearance.  With this victory, his career WSOP earnings crossed the $2.8 million mark. 

Despite Pot-Limit Omaha being one of the most popular forms of poker in Europe, this finale was pretty much an all North American contest – with four Americans versus four Canadians.  The lone European stag was Klinghammer Thibaut, from France.  This was the first time in WSOP history that four Canadians made it to the same final table.  The Canadian players were Nenad Medic, Trai Dang, Ashkan Razavi, and Chris Hyong.

This was the largest Pot-Limit Omaha tournament in WSOP history, with 885 entrants.  The turnout eclipsed last year’s record numbers by almost ten percent.  The top 81 finishers collected prize money.  Former WSOP gold bracelet finishers who cashed in this event included – Nenad Medic (2nd), Blair Rodman (7th), Ted Lawson (37th), Jay Heimowitz (44th), Michael Keiner (47th); Jason Mercier (64th), and Robert Williamson III (77th).  The runner up was Nenad Medic, from Niagara Falls, Ontario who barely missed winning his second WSOP gold bracelet.

Robert Williamson’s cash in this event means he now has ten Pot-Limit Omaha cashes within the past ten years, the most of any player.

Ted Lawson finished in-the-money, which makes him four-for-four in cashes so far this year.  Lawson became the first player at this year’s WSOP to reach four cashes.  There are currently 23 players with three cashes this year.

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Richard Ashby Wins WSOP Gold Bracelet in Event 21

Ashby Becomes Third Englishman to Win Victory at 2010 WSOP


Richard Ashby was the winner of the $1,500 buy-in Seven-Card Stud tournament at the 2010 World Series of Poker.  It marked his first ever gold bracelet victory.  By conquering a tough late-stage lineup which included former WSOP event winners Dan Heimiller and Alexander Kravchenko, Ashby pocketed the top cash prize amounting to $140,467.  More meaningful perhaps, was adding his name to the history books.

Ashby, age 38, is primarily an online cash game specialist.  He lives in Vatford, England.  Ashby has now cashed nine times at the WSOP, dating back to 2003.

Ashby also became the third Englishman to win a gold bracelet at this year’s WSOP.  He followed in the footsteps of previous UK champions, Praz Bansi and James Dempsey.

The second-place finisher was Christine Pietsch who barely missed becoming the 16th woman in history to win an open WSOP event.  She had a big chip lead late when heads up play began, but Ashby proved to be a formidable opponent in the duel, leaving the lady from Orange County, in second palce.  Pietsch would have joined an illustrious group of female champions, including Jennifer Harman, Annette Obrestad, Annue Duke, Kathy Liebert, Cyndy Violette, Nani Dollison, Kayja Thater, Linda Johnson, Jerri Thomas, Maria Stern, Starla Brodie, Vera Richmond, Donna Doman, Barbara Enright, and Vanessa Selbst – which constitutes the grand circle of female gold bracelet winners.  Selbst was the last woman to win the most coveted of all poker jewelry, which took place in Event #19 at the 2008 WSOP.

This year’s Seven-Card Stud tournament attracted 408 entries, a slight increase in attendance over last year.  The top 40 finishers collected prize money.  Four former WSOP gold bracelet finishers cashed in this event, including Dan Heimiller (4th), Alexander Kravchenko (9th), Scott Seiver (19th), and Rod Pardey, Jr. (37th).

Dan Heimiller’s high finish meant becoming only the third player at this year’s WSOP to reach three final tables, to date.  He finished 2nd in Omaha High-Low Split, 9th in the $10,000 buy-in Seven-Card Stud championship, and came in 4th in this event.  The other two players with three final table appearances so far are John Juanda and Vladimir Shchemelev.

The defending champion was Jeffrey Lisandro, from Salerno, Italy.  He entered this year’s tournament, but did not cash.

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 Event #20: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha

Final result 


1    John Barch       256,919
2    Klinghammer Thibaut    158,698
3    Trai Dang               102,306
4    Nenad Medic       74,946
5    Ashkan Razavi       55,711
6    Chris Hyong Chang    41,971
7    Blair Rodman       32,007
8    Tyler Patterson       24,695
9    Denton Pfister       19,259