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2012 WSOP Event 1 Casino Employees World Championship First Bracelet Winner
Chiab Saechao has become the 2012 World Series of Poker’s first bracelet winner, taking the honor for the Casino Employees World Championship.
Event #1 is pretty self-explanatory. It’s for casino employees only, but is not inclusive to just those working in Vegas. Saechao is, in fact, a California blackjack dealer.
Tom Marchese Wins the WPT Super High Roller
Poker pro Tom Marchese has won the 2012 World Poker Tour Super High Roller event.
Marchese also won the more than $1.3 million that came with the WPT Super High Roller first place honor.
Coming into this event, the US-based player had won just over $770,000 in live tournaments to date.
Still All In at 2012 WPT World Championship Super High Roller: Daniel Perper, Andrew Robl
The 2012 WPT World Championship Super High Roller event was down to 6 by 7:30 pm EST Friday.
Leading the pack was Daniel Perper, followed closely by Andrew Robl. Justin Bonomo, who had led much of the way into Friday, was 4th in terms of chip count.
Marvin Rettenmaier Enjoys Comfortable Lead at 2012 World Poker Tour Championship
Poker pro Marvin Rettenmaier had 6,715,000 chips to lead at this year’s World Poker Tour Championship. His count was 2-and-a-half times greater than that of the second biggest chip leader, Michael Mizrachi.
Justin Bonomo Leads at 2012 World Poker Tour $100 Buy-In Super High Roller
Poker ace Justin Bonomo was leading the 2012 World Poker Tour $100 Buy-In Super High Roller coming into Thursday. 27 big name players were taking part in the event, which will yield $1,282,905 to the winner and $822,375 for 2nd place.
Justin Bonomo, Andrew Robl, Dan Smith, Phil Galfond, Daniel Perper, Tom Marchese, Sam Trickett, Roger Sippl, Bill Klein, Isaac Haxton, David Sands, Cary Katz, Jason Mercier, John Juanda, Brian Hastings, Justin Smith, Clemenceau Calixto, Sorel Mizzi, Jean Noel Thorel, Dan Shak and last year’s champion Erik Seidel.
Poker Brat Phil Hellmuth Launches New Website
So what do you really think of Phil Hellmuth? The self-proclaimed “Poker Brat” wants to know and you can now chime in at his newly launched website www.philhellmuth.com.
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Hellmuth, who is currently the World Series of Poker record bracelet holder, debuted the new site this week.
Daniel Acevedo Wins Big at Heartland Poker Tour Majestic Star Casinos Circuit Event
When his kids are grown, 39-year-old Daniel Acevedo has aspirations of leaving his career as a product developer to play poker professionally. With one son in college and another in high school, it’s time for the small stakes player to get serious. Well on his way, he invested $300 in a WSOP Circuit event last year and Final Tabled for $30k. Over the weekend in Gary, Indiana, he invested just $360 in the Heartland Poker Tour event at Majestic Star Casinos and took down the tournament for the $133,081 win.
Shaun Deeb Incredible Poker Feat: Wins Unprecedented 5th SCOOP Title
Never before has PokerStars, and maybe even the online poker world, witnessed such domination by one player in an online tournament series. Shaun Deeb has now won four High stakes events in SCOOP 2012 – 10-H, 19-H, 26-H and 38-H – to put him on a record five SCOOP titles in total. His stats for this series now read: 25 cashes, 8 final tables, 4 wins, $236,951.39 – and there’s still two more events to come. What price on Deeb going deep in today’s Main Event? You wouldn’t bet against it.
Poker Pro Brian Hastings Blasts The Cosmopolitan Poker Room in Vegas
Brian Hastings, a popular poker player who has enjoyed great success online, is not exactly thrilled with The Cosmopolitan poker room in Las Vegas.
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Last year, Vegas Inc. suggested the Cosmopolitan was “too big to fail”.
Hastings pushed the “fail” button this weekend following play with the likes of Doyle Brunson, who snapped the accompanying photo of Brian.
He tweeted:
Shaun Deeb Wins Record 4 SCOOP Titles
US player Shaun Deeb had won this 4th PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) series title this week. It is the first time a single individual has won this many SCOOP titles.
From OnlinePoker.net:
Poker Pro Michael Mizrachi to Continue Representation of Breeders Cup
One of the biggest names in poker, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, will continue to represent the Breeders Cup for a second year.
The Breeders Cup announced the extension of its partnership with Mizrachi, which includes various promotional activities throughout the rest of the year.
Comrade Poker Pro Dusty Schmidt Longs for the Cold Way Days
During the Cold War era, Communist propagandists in the Soviet Union were notorious for rewriting history--purging people and events as if they'd never occurred and teaching this altered version of reality in Soviet schools.
Shawn Cunix Wins the Jacksonville Bestbet Open 2012 (Video)
Shawn Cunix has won the first ever WPT Jacksonvill BestBet Open.
Shawn Cunix has enjoyed some success with over $700,000 in live winnings to date.
His success included the following:
Festa Al Lago Classic / WPT Season 8
WPT No Limit Hold'em Championship 6th $168,970 Oct 21, 2009
Borgata Poker Open / WPT Season 7
Barry Denson to Try and Break Phil Laak’s Record for ‘Longest Poker Marathon’
UK poker player Barry Denson is looking to beat Phil “The Unabomber” Laak’s record for the longest poker session by a single player. Laak holds the current record at 115 hours (nearly 5 days), which is pretty sick if you ask those of us here at Gambling911.com.
Denson is doing this for a good cause, and we certainly will be rooting for him. It’s to raise money for Help For Heroes charity.
Daniel Negreanu Beat at EPT Grand Final, Will Take on ‘rUaBOT’ at Limit Holdem Challenge
Poker pro Daniel Negreanu has been beaten by Igor Kurganov of Russia at the 2012 EPT Grand Final €25,000 High Roller. As such, Negreanu lost out on a cool €1,080,000.
Now he moves forward to take on Internet poker player with the handle “rUaBOT”, a well-known limit hold’em specialist, according to PokerNews.com.
Both will play 1250 hands across two tables. Whomever has the most chips at the conclusion will win the event.
Ondrej Vinklarek Named EPT Season 8 Player of the Year
Czech poker pro Ondrej Vinklarek has been named EPT Season 8 Player of the Year. Vinklarek receives a trophy and automatic entry into EPT Barcelona, the debut event for EPT Season 9.
Vinklarek, 28, from Kolin, is often dubbed “the Czech Chris Moorman”. He’s also a Chess Candidate Master and WCOOP champion.
21 of 320 All In at World Poker Tour Jacksonville BestBet Open
Peter Campo was chip leader towards the end of Day 3 at the 2012 WPT Jacksonville BestBet Open.
The Waterford, Connecticut resident has enjoyed some success on the live poker circuit with 40 cashes and over $330,000 in winnings.
Naz Al Scores Largest Poker Victory in Minnesota History
Just a week from earning his MBA in organizational management, Naz Al woke at 5 am Monday to take an online test, then drove to Canterbury Park Card Casino in Shakopee to test his poker skills at Heartland Poker Tour’s nationally-televised Final Table. His future looks bright. “There are things you learn in poker that you can take with you to real life,” he said. The 29-year-old student from Mankato, Minnesota passed the test, winning $118,482. The first-place money is the biggest prize ever awarded in Minnesota in a poker tournament.
Mohsin Charania Wins €1,350,000 Million at EPT Grand Final 2012
PokerStars qualifier Mohsin "Chicagocards1" Charania has won the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final Main Event for a massive €1,350,000.
Charania, 27, from Chicago, Illinois, beat fellow qualifier Lucille Cailly heads-up to take the title. Cailly, 29, from Paris, was the first woman ever to make the final of the EPT Grand Final and took €1,050,000 for her runner-up finish.
WSOP Champ Jamie Gold Reveals Ghost Fetish (Video)
Jamie Gold's greatest fear is that his dead grandmother's ghost will see him naked!
Gold, winner of the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event, has stared down some of the toughest card sharks in the world, and gone all-in with the best of them.
He's endured the pressure that comes with the WSOP Main Event televised final table, earning pro poker's largest-ever cash prize--$12 million.
But when it comes to spooks, spirits, ghosts, ghouls or poltergeists, he's ready to fold every time.
Locals Recount Amarillo Slim as ‘Nice Man’: Once Asked Newspaper Boy to Change $100 Bill
Sunday’s sad news of poker legend Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston Jr.’s passing spread through his home town of just under 200,000. Amarillo is the 14th largest city in Texas, but by that state’s standards, it’s more akin to a village where many of the locals know one another.
Lucille Cailly Makes Final Table of EPT Grand Final Season 8
French female poker player Lucille Cailly has made the final table of the EPT Grand Final Season 8.
Cailly has excelled mostly online. From the Poker Stars blog:
Remembering Poker Legend Amarillo Slim (Video)
Poker legend Amarillo Slim (real name Thomas Preston) passed away early Sunday morning at the age of 83 with family at his side.
Preston had been in a hospice near his Amarillo, Texas home for the past few weeks.
Poker Icon Amarillo Slim Passes Away
Poker legend Amarillo Slim, whose real name was Thomas Austin Preston, Jr., passed away early Sunday morning (April 23, 2012) at the age of 83.
Gambling911.com had been reporting on Preston’s declining health over the past two weeks.
Doyle Brunson Kicks Phil Hellmuth’s A** at Tiger Woods Poker Night
The Texas Dolly proved he still has what it takes to beat arguably one of today’s best poker players, Phil Hellmuth. Doyle Brunson beat the World Series of Poker record bracelet holder at Friday night’s Tiger Woods.
Poker Night, an event to help raise money for Tiger’s charity foundation.
Classic Find: Disgraced Poker Pro Howard Lederer on Business Ethics (Video)
Credit a poster from the CardChat Poker Forum with finding this rare jewel: Poker pro Howard Lederer on “Business Ethics”.
Considering what we know today, this is pretty sad watching.
Lederer is accused by the US Justice Department of running an elaborate ponzi scheme as a stakeholder in Full Tilt Poker.
Poker Tournament News: Max Martinez, Eric Seidel Top EPT Grand Final Main Event Day 2
He’s one of the newer additions to Team PokerStars and poker pro Max Martinez is set to enter Day 3 of the EPT Grand Final Main Event in Monte Carlo as the chip leader.
Former medical student Martinez from Italy, who also won the PokerStar’s Italian Poker Tour $2k Main Event in Nova Gorica, has 456,300. He is one of 130 players have made it through Day 2.
Amarillo Slim at Death’s Door: Has Just Hours to Live
Gambling911.com has learned that legendary poker pro Amarillo Slim is in his final hours and was expected to pass very shortly. Fellow poker pro Doyle Brunson broke the sad news on his Twitter page.
High Court to Hear Arguments in Poker Pro Phil Ivey Divorce Case
A Nevada high court is set to hear arguments in the ongoing saga of poker pro Phil Ivey’s divorce to wife Luciaetta.
In an order filed Wednesday, Chief Justice Nancy Saitta directed the court clerk to schedule this matter for the “next available calendar”.
"Based on our preliminary review of the record and the briefs, we have determined that oral argument would be of assistance in resolving the issues presented by the appeal," according to the order.
Justin Bonomo Wins €100K Super High Roller for €1,640,000
Justin Bonomo won the €100k Super High Roller at the Poker Stars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final for €1,640,000. The young American beat EPT6 Grand Final High Roller winner Tobias Reinkemeier to take down the biggest buy-in event ever held in Europe. The tourney attracted some of the best players in the world, including Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Dan Shak, Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier, Jonathan Duhamel and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, plus Isaac Haxton and Dan Cates.
