Posted in High Stakes, Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WSOP on Jun 13th, 2008
The year of the pro continued yesterday as two of the biggest names in the game took down preliminary events.
It was in Event 18 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball w/Rebuys, that Mike Matusow captured his third WSOP bracelet and the $537,862 first prize. He took home the bracelet defeating a very tough final table which consisted [...]
Posted in High Stakes, Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WSOP on Jun 5th, 2008
The 39th Annual World Series of Poker is well underway and several “name” pros have already won their first bracelets.
Event 1: $10K World Championship of Pot-Limit Hold’em. 2006 WPT Foxwoods winner Nenad Medic took down the $794,112 first prize along with his first bracelet besting a very pro-heavy field including Andy Bloch, Kathy Leibert, Mike [...]
Posted in Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WPT on Mar 16th, 2008
Brandon Cantu now has a WPT title to go along with his WSOP bracelet on his poker resume. Cantu breezed through an impressive final table consisting of poker pros John Phan (6th), Jennifer Harman (3rd), and Steve Sung (2nd) to capture the title and the $1,000,000 first prize.
Posted in Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WPT on Mar 14th, 2008
2006 WSOP bracelet winner Brandon Cantu will enter tonight’s WPT Bay 101 Final Table with a big chip lead after dominating Day 3 of the play. The day started off well for Cantu getting very lucky in a big hand against Joe Hachem.
After a flop of 9c-6d-5d, Hachem bet 20k from the small blind and [...]
Posted in Heads Up, Pro Circuit, TV, Tournaments on Mar 3rd, 2008
In the four year history of the NBC National Heads-Up Championship Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson has made the final two a remarkable three times. The final two play a best of 3 contest and in Jesus’ first two final table appearances he lost in the 3rd and deciding match. First to Phil Hellmuth and then [...]
Posted in Heads Up, Pro Circuit, TV, Tournaments on Mar 1st, 2008
The 2008 NBC Heads-Up Championship event featuring 64 of the best poker stars and celebrities started on Friday and has reached the Elite 8. Tomorrow’s matchups and my predictions for the rest of the tournament look like this:
Jonathan Little vs Chris Ferguson
Little has been tearing up the WPT lately winning the Mirage Poker Showdown last [...]
Posted in Pro Circuit, TV, Tournaments, WPT on Feb 29th, 2008
The 8th time proved to be the charm for Phil Ivey as he captured his first WPT title at his 8th WPT final table.
The day didn’t start well for Ivey. Entering the final table as the chip leader with a little over 4 million in chips, Ivey lost almost half of his chips on [...]
Posted in Pro Circuit, TV, Tournaments, WPT on Feb 28th, 2008
Two of the biggest names in the game Phil Hellmuth and Phil Ivey go into tonight’s final table of the WPT LA Poker Classic with a great chance at winning their first World Poker Tour championship. This will Phil Ivey’s 8th WPT final table and Hellmuth’s 3rd official WPT final table as both look to [...]
Posted in High Stakes, Live Poker, Pro Circuit on Dec 4th, 2007
In unfortunate news, poker legend David “Chip” Reese died last night in his sleep at his home in Las Vegas. Details of his death are still unknown but it is believed that Reese called his doctor around 10pm on Monday complaining of pneumonia syptoms but never went to the hospital and passed away in his [...]
Posted in Golf, High Stakes, Pro Circuit, TV on Oct 20th, 2007
ESPN will air High Stakes Golf featuring a number of well-known poker pros tomorrow (Sunday Oct 21) and also next Sunday starting at 8pm.