09 June 2009
Top names confirmed for $1m English Poker Open
11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth and European Ladies champ Liv Boeree (left) are the latest big names to confirm that they will be playing in the inaugural English Poker Open. The event, which promises to be the ideal precursor for the WSOPE, takes place from 15th to 17th September at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham with a $1m prize pool guaranteed.
Jeff Lisandro Wins Second Bracelet at Stud
The final table of the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud tournament, Event #16 in the WSOP, featured two notable names at the final table. Joining eventual winner Jeff Lisandro after battling through a field of 359 players was current WSOP Europe Main Event champion John Juanda.
iPoker network launches celebrity bounty
Players on the iPoker network can bang heads with some of the biggest names in the game and bag a bounty or two while they’re at it. Qualifiers for the Celebrity Bounty Bash will take their seats in a star studded line up which is set to include former World Champions Scotty Nguyen and Jamie Gold, WSOP bracelet winner Marty Smith plus Tony G, Neil Channing and Montell Williams.
Kevin Stammen Wins WSOP Event #13, $2.5k NLHE
Phil Ivey has already made bracelet number six in this year’s WSOP but when his name was part of the final 20 out of 655 players in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold ‘em event, it looked hopeful that he would win his seventh.
08 June 2009
Travis Johnson Wins WSOP Event #7 - $1,500 NLHE
Travis Johnson has become the newest addition to the list of World Series of Poker bracelet-winners after taking down Event #7, the $1,500 No-Limit Hold ‘em.
Online Player “t soprano” Bests Negreanu for Bracelet in WSOP Event #14
Eleven players remained in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold ‘em event after three days of action-packed poker. Of these, some famous names lurked – Daniel Negreanu, four-time WSOP bracelet-winner was the most recognisable.
Anthony Harb Wins WSOP Event #11, $2k NLHE
"It hasn't even sunk in that I've won over half a million dollars, man, it's all about the bracelet."
Rami ‘arabiankinight’ Boukai wins WSOP Event #10
Saudi born American Rami Boukai outlasted a field of 453-runners to claim the $2,500 Pot Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha event and with it prize money of $244,862. The 26-year-old battled his way through a final table lasting nine and a half hours before finally seeing off Najib Bennani to seal his first bracelet win.
Ken Aldridge wins WSOP Event #9
1,459 runners bought in to $1,500 No Limit Hold Em Six-Handed Event but in the end it was American Ken Aldridge who claimed his first WSOP bracelet. Aldridge, known as Teach, won an epic heads up battle with Carmen Cavella to take the first prize of $428,259.
05 June 2009
Ryder Cup style event set for WSOP Europe
The Ryder Cup has provided some of the most memorable moments in sport in recent years and now poker has its chance to emulate them. The Casino at the Empire in Leicester Square will be the venue for the inaugural Caesars Cup on 25th September 2009 where Europe’s best players will face their counterparts from the Americas in a unique team event.