Joe Cada WSOP 2009 Poker Main Event Champion

Phil Ivey finished in 7th place, Jeff Shulman in 5th and 21-year old Joe Cada wins the main event a WSOP bracelet and $8,546,435.
Here are final results:

#1.  Joseph Cada
$8,546,435.00

#2.  Darvin Moon
$5,182,601.00

#3.  Antoine  Saout
$3,479,485.00

#4.  Eric Buchman
$2,502,787.00

#5.  Jeff Shulman
$1,953,395.00

#6.  Steven Begleiter
$1,587,133.00

#7.  Phil Ivey
$1,404,002.00

#8.  Kevin Schaffel
$1,300,228.00

#9.  James Akenhead
$1,263,602.00

 
The total prize pool for the event was $61,043,600 and [...]

Phil Ivey – King of Poker

Phil Ivey has proven beyond any doubt this year that he is the best poker player in the world. All the poker pros have said he’s the best in the past. This year he’s on the final table of the WSOP Main Event – a tournament with 6500 entrants. He’s also already won 2 WSOP [...]

Peter Eastgate wins $9.15 million in WSOP 2008 Main Event

I’ve never heard of the guy before. Hope he spends his money well.
If you sign up to any poker sites through my blog I will donate all the proceeds to charity.

WSOP Update: World Series Of Poker 2008 Final Table: We’re down to 9!

It’s disappointing that there are no superstars left in the event, nonetheless it should be a great final table.
The most notable name at the table is David “Chino” Rheem. Rheem had many professionals supporting him on his way to the final table including J.C. Tran, Nam and Tommy Le, Greg Mueller, Quinn Do, Tommy Hang, [...]

More WSOP 2008 Main Event Updates. Hellmuth and Matusow out

Day 6 is over and we’re down to the last 3 tables with only 27 players left.
All the big names left in the tournament were knocked out today. Here are the eliminations:

64th place: Victor Ramdin — $96,500
45th place: Phil Hellmuth — $154,401
30th place: Mike “The Mouth” Matusow — $193,000

I really wanted to see either Hellmuth [...]

WSOP 2008 Main Event Update

The $10,000 WSOP Main Event started off with 6,844 players, a prize pool of $64,333,600 and a first place prize of $9,119,338.
We’re now down to the final 79 players. Play has finished for the day.
Some of the notable players still left in the event are: Phil Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, Victor Ramdin and Matt Matros.
Here are [...]

WSOP Main Event – Online players in control

Dario Minieri is the current chip leader with close to double as many chips as 2nd place. Dario is a young online pro.
Hevad “RaiNKhAN” Khan is currently in 4th. RaiNKhAN is also an online pro. He multi-tables 24 tables at a time on PokerStars.
A lot of the players at Stars complained that RaiNKhAN was a [...]

2007 World Series of Poker update

The WSOP is coming to close with only the main event still  left. A superstars won bracelets this week:
Bill Edler won Event 45, No-Limit Hold’em/Six Handed.
Event 48, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) w/Re-buys was won by Rafi Amit (another Israeli/Jew!).
Robert Mizrachi won the $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha event – the third most prestigious event [...]

WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E.

This is the real WSOP Main Event. Whoever wins this will be considered a true champion of poker.The current chip leaders:

John Hanson: $650,000
Eli Elezra: $568,000
Toto Leonidas: $560,000
Allen Cunningham: $526,000
Kenny Tran: $510,000
A lot of good players still left in it. Phil Ivey and Chip Reese are some of the big names still in it, but this tournament is packed with stars.
Elezra [...]

WSOP Day 21 Summary

It was another busy day down at the 2007 WSOP. Poker players literally spilled into the hallways and all the way to the Rio’s diminutive poker room on the opposite side of the hotel. Day 21 also saw the first heads-up bracelet awarded. Plus long-time professional but first time bracelet winner Jeffrey Lisandro was finally [...]