Former WPT Winner and well-known high stakes pro Freddy Deeb captured the prestigious $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E bracelet. Deeb eliminated Bruno Fitoussi in the final hand playing seven card stud with a pair of fives to capture his second bracelet and the $2,276,832 first prize.
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Posted in Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WSOP on Jun 27th, 2007
The final table is now set. 148 players ponied up $50,000 to test their skills in a variety of poker games and now only 8 remain for a shot at the $2,276,832 first prize and the respect of the poker world by winning one of the most prestigious events. The tournament paid the final 16 [...]
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Posted in Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WSOP on Jun 24th, 2007
One of the most anticipated events of the year for the pros starts today when the $50,000 buy-in WSOP H.O.R.S.E event kicks off this afternoon. Last year’s champ Chip Reese and many other top pros will take their shot at one of the most coveted bracelets of the WSOP playing a mix of all limit: [...]
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Posted in Online Poker, Pokerstars on Jun 22nd, 2007
Just finished playing a $25 double shootout for a seat in the Pokerstars monthly $1000 buy-in tournament and took it home! I decided to unregister and keep the tournament dollars for now and add that to my bankroll…
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Posted in Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WPT on Jun 21st, 2007
Here is what turned out to be the most important and crazy hand of the WPT Bellagio tournament that just aired on the Travel Channel a few weeks ago between Joe Hachem and David Redlin.
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So i played the noon $20 Stars $10,000 guaranteed NLH tourney yesterday afternoon and went pretty deep coming in 27th out of 948..I really like the new 3,000 starting chip tourneys that Stars has started as it puts a lot more play in the tournaments. I never really had a huge stack all tournament was [...]
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Phil Hellmuth Jr. won his record-breaking 11th World Series of Poker bracelet tonight winning Event #15: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em. With the win he broke the three-way tie of 10 WSOP bracelets between himself, Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson…Along with the bracelet Hellmuth took home $637,254…
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Posted in Online Poker, Pokerstars on Jun 11th, 2007
In a shocking and huge move, Pokerstars has landed one of the most marketable and talented poker players in the world today Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu, who recently left his previously affiliated Full Contact Poker, now joins a team including 4 former WSOP Main Event Champions.
The future looks even brighter now for Pokerstars, which is already [...]
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Allen Cunningham won his 5th gold bracelet winning the $5,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em championship late last night. When it got to heads-up there were two top pros that had survived the 389 player field, Cunningham and well-respected pro, Jeff Lisandro. Lisandro was looking for his first bracelet but it wasn’t meant to be..On the very last [...]
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Posted in PLO, Pokerstars on Jun 7th, 2007
Just final tabled a $30 Pot-Limit Omaha tourney and finished in 7th. Came into the final table pretty short stacked and couldn’t really get anything going..Will post hands of interest soon
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