Tag: WSOP
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2008 WSOP Event #38, $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Day 2: Von Halle Heads Final
Jan Von Halle shot up from near the bottom of the chip count when Day 2 began to become the clear leader going into the final table, sitting on a third more chips than his closest competitor. The German pro, husband of Team Pokerstars... |
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2008 WSOP Event 36 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: Jesper Hougaard Strikes Gold
Event #36 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em, at the World Series of Poker, featured two monumental comebacks, plenty of bad beats, and nine players each seeking their first WSOP title and bracelet. In the end, both valiant rallies came up... |
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2008 WSOP Event #34 $1,500 PLO w/ Rebuys Day 2: Forrest, Flack Chase Kloeckner
48 players returned for Day 2 of Event #34, $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys at the Amazon Room on Wednesday. By the time play halted for the evening, only nine remained, with Kyle Kloeckner leading a field that includes some... |
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World Series of Poker Daily Summary for June 19th, 2008
Two more bracelets were awarded on Thursday in 2008 World Series of Poker action at the Rio, including one in an event where popular player Chris "Jesus" Ferguson fell just short of winning his sixth bracelet. That bracelet... |
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2008 WSOP Event #33 $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low: Ruthenberg Tops Ferguson for Bracelet
Sebastian Ruthenberg came into the final table of Event #33, $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low World Championship, as the chip leader after taking down a huge pot at the end of Day 2. He ended the day the same way he began it, atop... |
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2008 WSOP Event #32, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em: Velador Dominates Final
The final in Event #32, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em, was Jose Luis Velador's from start to finish. He came into the final table with a dominant chip stack and his stack went only went up as the day wore on. At one point, down... |
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2008 WSOP Event #36 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Day 1: Owen 'ocrowe' Crowe Leads
Most of the field in Event 36 No-Limit Hold'em at the World Series of Poker played as if they had somewhere else to be. Evidently, quite a few did, in fact, have other engagements, which led to play featuring constant confrontations... |
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2008 WSOP Event #37, $10,000 Omaha Hi/Low Championship Day 1: Lindgren Chases Shamseddin
With six events simultaneously at play, sometimes it's hard to tell one event from another as one looks out across the vast expanse of the Amazon Room. But in the orange section today, the differences were starkly apparent... |
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2008 WSOP Event #35, $1,500 Seven Card Stud Day 2: Rocco, Barbieri Lead
Michael Rocco will go into the final table with a slim lead over Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri as they and six others battle for the bracelet and the $135,753 first prize in Event #35, $1,500 Seven Card Stud. Rocco hopes to add a first-place... |
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Dr. Pauly at the 2008 WSOP: The Battle for Europe
After covering poker tournaments all over the world, I noticed that Scandinavian players as a whole were among the toughest and most aggressive players in the world. They seem to fit the mold of the perfect poker player... |
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Stars Set to Turn Out for 'Ante Up For Africa' Fundraiser
Several big-name poker pros and celebrities have decided to ante up for a worthy cause. The second annual Ante Up For Africa poker tournament, co-founded by actor Don Cheadle and poker pro Annie Duke, will be played at the 2008 World... |
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2008 WSOP Event #33 $5,000 Stud Hi/Low Day 2: Final Table Reached in Marathon Session
In what may be the longest day of the 2008 World Series of Poker, the final table of Event #33, $5,000 Stud Hi/Low World Championship was set when Sebastian Ruthenberg eliminated Howard Lederer in ninth place. The final elimination... |
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World Series of Poker Daily Summary for June 18th, 2008
A bracelet for a major online star and a marathon final-table bubble were the stories of the day from the World Series of Poker. The major online star was Italy's Dario Minieri, who after teasing WSOP audiences in 2006 and 2007... |
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2008 WSOP Event #31 $2,500 NLHE Six Handed: Minieri Wins Gold
Dario Minieri dominated throughout most of Event 31, $2,500 NLHE Six-Handed, and finally secured his first WSOP bracelet and $528,418 for the win. 1,012 players started this fast-paced event and at the end of the first day Minieri... |
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2008 WSOP Event #35 $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Day 1: Pappas, Barbieri Chase Ebeling
With so much star power in the field, it was a lesser-known German player who led Event #35, $1,500 Seven-Card Stud at the end of Day 1. A field of 381 poker players was winnowed down to 71 after eight levels of play, with Leonardo Ebeling... |
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2008 WSOP Event #34 $1,500 PLO w/ Rebuys Day 1: Vizza Leads, Money Bubble Looms
320 of the wildest poker players in the world buckled in for a bumpy ride in Event #34, $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys. The nature of pot-limit Omaha created plenty of action, and the unlimited rebuys available for the first... |
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2008 WSOP Event #32, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Day 2: Velador Surges into Lead
This was a day of upheaval in Event #32, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. Only one of the nine who would make the final table had been in the top ten in chips going into Day 2. Jose Luis Velador, the dominating chip leader going into... |
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Bodog Poker's Last Chance at the Big Dance!
Bodog Poker launch the 'Last Chance at the Big Dance' promotion inviting US players to take a shot at winning the last $12,000 WSOP Package… |
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World Series of Poker Daily Summary for June 17th, 2008
A couple of well-known poker pros added missing pieces to their respective poker résumés on Tuesday at the 2008 World Series of Poker. Both John "The Razor" Phan and Dutch star Rob Hollink claimed their first gold bracelets... |
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2008 WSOP Event #29 $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em: John Phan Claims First Bracelet
The 'Year of the Pro' continued at the 2008 World Series of Poker as John Phan became the latest pro player to claim his first bracelet. Phan joined the company of Erick Lindgren and David Singer, all highly successful tournament pros... |
