by James
21. July 2010 08:38
by James
20. July 2010 06:32
There always has to be one at every WSOP and unfortunately it was Tim.
Tim McDonald, an American fisherman bubbled out of the WSOP Main event after four days on high intensity poker in Vegas when his pair of ladies met Erkenovs Aces and Two’s
It was inevitable though. When 7,319 people knew they were going to enter the event, there was always going to be the 748th player who is the last unpaid place.
As a result, McDonald walked away with nothing. If he had hung on another minute or so, he would have won a minimum of $19,263.
To make things a hell of a lot worse, as McDonalds world crashed around him, the remaining 747 all stood up and hugged each other as they knew they would all be going home $10,000 richer.
A shattered McDonald said afterwards: “I felt like I could sit there and go ahead and grind out a check, but I was trying to play good poker no matter short-stacked or otherwise.”
by James
19. July 2010 08:10
After two weeks of play we are down to nine players for the November Nine. After a marathon 18 hour sessions, the event has come to the final table and the clock is set. Finally at around 6am, Brandon Steven was eliminated in seventh place leaving nine players battling for the final $8.94m final prize when the Event reconvenes in November
Jonathan Duhamel ended the night/morning with the chip lead after eliminating the November Nine bubble boy Brandon Steven in 10th place just before 6 a.m. Duhamel holds 65,975,000, much of which he accumulated during the nearly six-hour period of play on the November Nine bubble that put an exclamation point on a 17-hour day of poker.
From the 7,319 starters we are left with just the following nine:
Seat 1: Jason Senti (7,625,000)
Seat 2: Joseph Cheong (23,525,000)
Seat 3: John Dolan (46,250,000)
Seat 4: Jonathan Duhamel (65,975,000)
Seat 5: Michael Mizrachi (14,450,000)
Seat 6: Matthew Jarvis (16,700,000)
Seat 7: John Racener (19,050,000)
Seat 8: Filippo Candio (16,400,000)
Seat 9: Soi Nguyen (9,650,000)
by James
16. July 2010 09:45
The world has had its spectacle. South Africa hosted a fantastic world cup, bar the vuvuzela’s but now it’s over. Journalists are writing their last words about the beautiful game and everything is about to round down. This seems to happen after almost every single multi-million dollar sporting event... but does it happen to the WSOP?
But on the other side of the spectrum are the fans. Are you feeling something is missing from your life? Is there a void that that needs to be filled? Actually doing work at work? This might be the start of World Cup withdrawal for some..
As many as 40 percent of British soccer fans, their days no longer filled with World Cup matches, are at risk of Post Tournament Depression (PTD), according to a survey done a couple of days ago by a British website.
The reality of having to wait more than a month for the new soccer season and until 2014 for the next World Cup has left many fans feeling flat, bored, and unsure what to do with their days.
Now the question is, does this happen to the poker players? Do we as well suffer from of Post Tournament Depression? To a degree I’m sure; but we are not as showy truth be told. There are no posters of Helmuth adorning buildings in downtown Vegas. No Phil Ivey themed poker shoes and no stadiums built for us (though this is not necessarily true)
But it comes down to this, we have to have 1 year to be get our WSOP fix. But we’ve also got a WSOPE, the EPT, the APPT and event the Aussie Millions. We’ve got our fix, and even if we did get PTD, we’d put on a poker face.