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A lack of bracelets fails to stop Hellmuth taking the lead in the Player-of-the-Year rankings. He is yet to win an event but Phil Hellmuth’s consistency at reaching the final table is paying off. He heads up the WSOP Player-of-the-Year leaderboard in front of bracelet winning players. Sam Stein is in second place and only trails Hellmuth by eight points. John Juanda may have beaten Hellmuth for a win in the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Championship but two second place finishes for the The Poker Brat mean that he is ahead of Juanda, who is in third, by nearly 64  [ Read More ]

Jason Mercier simply won’t stop winning. The 24-year-old Floridian poker pro outlasted a field of 507 players in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Six-Max event to take down $619,575 and a second WSOP bracelet early Thursday morning. “This bracelet feels way better than the first one,” he said. As expected the $5k PLO attracted one of the most talent-heavy fields of the 2011 WSOP and Mercier had to cut through a final table that included big name pros David Chiu and Michael McDonald. Mercier then had to beat fellow Floridian Hans Winzeler to secure his second bracelet. Although he had the  [ Read More ]

As far as we can tell the internet is used primarily for two things, pictures of naked people and snap judgments based on very little real information. This article deals with the latter. Welcome to this week’s WSOP In and Out List. WSOP In List – June 11-17 Geriatri-donks: In Old people who play poker are in this week because they managed to assemble the biggest one-day field in WSOP tournament history. The $1,000 Seniors Championship attracted 3,752 players, filling the room with the chatter of early-bird specials and making the many bathrooms here at the Rio all but inaccessible.  [ Read More ]

The PKR Community is taking over this summer’s biggest music festivals PKR.com is spreading its social wings and taking over four of the summer’s biggest music festivals. The PKR Social: Summer of Music brings PKR players together to experience PKR’s famous hospitality. Daniel Grant, Community Manager commented, ‘PKR Socials have been a great success since their introduction earlier this year and we look forward to introducing the PKR Social concept to France and Sweden. Players can get their hands on tickets from just £21 which includes complimentary drinks during the day. The four festivals are: Hard Rock Calling – London,  [ Read More ]

The $300/$600 PLO games were firing on Full Tilt last night and Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond burned his opponents for nearly $350k. Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond Galfond played a total of 1,459 hands last night, the majority recorded in a 6-Max $300/$600 PLO session against Rui Cao, URnotINdanger2, skjervoy, gavz101, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Gus Hansen. It was stiff competition, even for Galfond, but the Maryland-native seemed to be a step ahead of everyone. In one of his biggest hands of the night Galfond flopped a set of aces and then rivered quad aces to scoop a $134k monster from gavz101. Galfond  [ Read More ]

Russian Dmitry Gromov went wire-to-wire at the final table to capture the WPT Vienna title Tuesday. WPT Vienna champ Dmitry Gromov. Although the €447,840 first-place prize marked his biggest career score, Gromov is no stranger to the winner’s circle, having posted a first-place finish at the PokerStars Russian Poker Series Kiev Grand Final last December for $201,363 and at the 2010 Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza III in Las Vegas last July for $316,759. He now has well over $1 million in career live tournament earnings. WPT Vienna drew 555 Players creating a €1,776,000 prizepool and breaking the record for entrants  [ Read More ]

Rochdale youngster to square off against Gus Hansen We’re less than a week into the 2011 World Series of Poker and already we could be looking at our first British winner of the year. Jake Cody is a WSOP rookie, but that hasn’t stopped the WPT, EPT and recent SCOOP champ from grinding his way to the semi-finals of the revamped $25k Heads-Up Championship. With a Triple Crown now in his sights, Cody must fight off none other than the Gus ‘The Great Dane’ Hansen to be in with a shout of his first bracelet and the $851,192 prize, with all four  [ Read More ]

Local pro grabs $1.6m first prize With more than $2m in tournament winnings, a WSOP bracelet and six long years in the game, it’s surprising that Scott Seiver is still a name many of you will have never heard of. Well, scratch that. This weekend the Las Vegas native bagged his first WPT title and the $1,618,334 first prize in a dramatic WPT Championship. Before the first cards were even dealt, the $10,000 buy-in event was mired in controversy, as alleged cheat Ali Tekintamgac was allowed to take his seat. Pros reacted furiously to Tekintamgac’s presence, arguing that organisers should  [ Read More ]

Paddypowerpoker confirmed a number of big name pros will take part in the Irish Open 2011 this week. WSOP bracelet holders Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, Alan Smurfit and Dan Harrington have joined EPT winners Julian Thew and Roberto Romanello in confirming their attendance. Football legend Tony Cascarino and Snooker World Champion Ken Doherty are also planning to play, alongside previous Irish Open winners Marty Smyth and Neil Channing. The €3200+€300 Irish Open will take place April 22-25 in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin. Article Source: Pokerlistings.com

Taylor Von Kriegenbergh took down the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown in Hollywood, Florida Monday. Coming of a big start to 2011 where he final tabled The Big Event at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles and cashed in the both the NAPT Mohegan Sun main event and Bounty Shootout, Von Kriegenbergh came into the final table with close to twice the chips of anyone near him. Although he fell out of the lead in a lengthy three-handed battle with three-time WPT finalist Curt Kohlberg and Floridian Justin Zaki, he cracked Zaki’s aces in a miracle hand to  [ Read More ]