Posted in TV, Tournaments, WPT on Apr 27th, 2007
The final table for the $25,000 buy-in WPT Championship and the $3,970,415 first prize is set and will begin tonight. Former WSOP and WPT Champion Carlos Mortensen will enter the final 6, 2nd in chips with 6,501,000. He’ll be chasing the chip leader Paul Lee, who came out of nowhere to win Event Number #2 [...]
Posted in Live Poker, Seabrook, Tournaments on Apr 26th, 2007
So after my miserable experience with Limit Hold’em I was really looking forward to playing in this tournament. We started off with 2,500 in chips and the blinds went up every 20 minutes. There was a good number of players playing in the tournament, definitely a lot more than I had expected. I sat down [...]
Posted in Cash Games, Live Poker, Seabrook on Apr 20th, 2007
So with classes now over, my friend Josh and I decided to try out a card room that I had seen an ad for in the newspaper. It was about 45 minutes away from Boston at the Seabrook Greyhound Park in New Hampshire. The place was a lot better than I was expecting (still obviously [...]
Posted in Online Poker, Tournaments on Apr 9th, 2007
A player by the name of IBluffUOut4 remarkably made the final table of both major online site’s major online tournaments of the week: the Pokerstars Sunday Million and the Full Tilt $400,000 Guaranteed. Obviously under immense pressure of playing for thousands of dollars on TWO different sites simultaneously, he ended up coming in 3rd in [...]
Posted in Pro Circuit, TV, Tournaments, WPT on Apr 6th, 2007
World Poker Tour broadcasts will be joining the popular cash game show High Stakes Poker beginning next season. GSN has agreed to pay $300,000 an episode and has the option of picking up the WPT for two more seasons if it chooses to. It will premiere on GSN in January 2008. The move is a [...]