Posted in Live Poker, Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WSOP on Jun 29th, 2007
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.
Posted in Live Poker, Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WSOP on Jun 11th, 2007
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…
Posted in Live Poker, Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WSOP on Jun 11th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Live Poker, Tournaments, WSOP on Jun 7th, 2007
The 2007 World Series of Poker began last Friday and history was already made on the very first event, the $5,000 World Championship of Mixed Hold’em (Limit/No-Limit). Steve ‘MrSmokey1′ Billirakis became the youngest bracelet winner ever at 21 years and 10 days of age topping Jeff Madsen’s record from last year. Billirakis is one of [...]
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 Cash, Live Poker on Mar 6th, 2007
The following video is from a cash game with Clonie Gowen and Vanessa Rousso. Take a look at Clonie’s face at the end of the hand…
Posted in Cash, Foxwoods, Live Poker on Jan 2nd, 2007
After spending a long and tiring Thanksgiving day with my family (cue the dozens of screaming ten-year-olds) and with the girlfriend out of town, it was given that I would spend a good amount of the rest of my holiday weekend at a place that is truly dear to my heart; a place [...]