When you win your first bracelet in the WSOP sometimes the only thing left to do is make some noise in the Main Event.
Jason “JMaster130″ Dewitt seems to have taken that to heart on Day 2b as he’s fought his way into the top 10 chip counts as of the dinner break with over 200k.
“I’m feeling really good,” he said.
When it comes to poker, women have been forging their way to the head of the collective conscious for many years. Today there’s no shortage of women proving their merit on the felt, both in online tournaments and renowned events around the globe. Two young female players who have exploded onto the poker scene are Evelyn “Evybabee” Ng and Amanda “Manderbutt” Musumeci—the dynamic duo that makes up Team Bodog Poker.
Musumeci is the newest addition to the Bodog Team. She hails from Philadelphia and began playing poker shortly before starting college at Kutztown University. While in school, she took a job as a waitress to pay off her debts, but she continued to play poker online. She develop Read the full post …
It was the last of the 56 preliminary events at the 2010 World Series of Poker, and it didn’t fail to impress. The $2,500 NLHE event caught the attention of players arriving in Las Vegas, as well as pros looking for one last chance to cash before the Main Event. No matter the reason for playing, the WSOP gold bracelet was at the center of it all – the heart and soul of the seven weeks of the Series.
There were 1,942 players to start the event, which resulted in a $4,466,600 prize pool. Day 1 thinned the field to 502 players, and in the midst of Day 2, it was whittled down far enough to burst the money bubble and allow the last 198 players to cash. D Read the full post …
It was the last championship event, the last PLO tournament, and one of the last bracelet events of the 2010 WSOP. Despite its prohibitive $10K buy-in for many players, there were plenty looking to take advantage of it and take their chances in the tournament. Not only was it set to attract some of the biggest and best bankrolled players in poker, but many 2010 bracelet winners and big cashers were also looking to add to their summer success.
There were 346 players listed as participating in the tournament, which made for a sizable prize pool of $3,252,400 with $780,599 set aside for the winner. Read the full post …
All online poker players know what makes PokerStars the leading online poker site – fantastic promotions. And as summer heats up, so do the sizzling hot promotions on PokerStars! Check out all of these fantastic deals taking place this month, but don't delay because these promotions will fizzle out soon!
July is MicroMania month on PokerStars where small stakes players reign supreme! During the whole month of July you don't have to have a fat bankroll to take advantage of deposit bonuses, cash games, MTTs, Sit n Go’s and live event qualifiers. This MicroMania promotion is going on now and is rewarding players just like you big rewards – for small stakes! T Read the full post …
Poker is a game of peaks and valleys. Nobody understands this more than Chris Bell and Gavin Smith – two players currently at the top of the poker mountaintop.
Bell and Smith each notched their first ever WSOP victories over the weekend, Smith in No-Limit Hold’em and Bell in Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low Split.
The first time bracelet wins are especially satisfying for the two friends as both have spent years on the professional circuit with mixed success waiting for their breakthrough WSOP moment.
“You don’t realize how important it is until you win it,” Bell said. “
Who would have thought ten years ago that poker would be such a global phenomenon in 2010? If not for the online revolution and the ‘Chris Moneymaker effect’ poker could still largely be an underground game, played in sticky-floored cardrooms and only be a select group of pros and wealthy amateurs.
How times have changed. During the past decade poker has become a mainstream pursuit, played my millions of people across the world every day, broadcast several nights a week on TV, and creating a global industry worth billions. Poker has taken over the world – this much we know.
It is almost that time again, for the biggest and best fantastic live poker event ever held in paradise – the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure!
Starting now at PokerStars, you can play for your chance to travel to one of the most exciting live tournament series of events of the year, staged in one of the most beautiful setting in the world – the white sand beaches of the Bahamas!
The action will be hotter than ever and the prize pools even bigger when the world’s best players land in paradise in January, which is quite a feat since the 2010 series proved to be the biggest ever. Last J Read the full post …
PokerStars continues to offer stops on the North American Poker Tour to go along with its other sixty bazillion tournament tours.
This one's a stretch.
PokerStars will take you to Los Angeles for its newest stop from Nov. 12-17.
I know. Poker in California. Who'd thunk it?
This stop is at the Bicycle, which has hosted World Poker Tour events and has a rich history of top-ranked local players. You'll most likely see them as well as the top pros you've come to expect from this tour, including, of course, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Barry Greenstein and Greg Raymer.
The five-day event features a $5,000 buy-in and exciting side events.
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Add David “Bakes” Baker to the list of early contenders for the 2010 WSOP Player of the Year award.
The 23-year-old American won his first WSOP bracelet Friday, taking down the $10k Deuce-to-Seven Draw (No-Limit) Championship and adding to an already impressive 2010 WSOP performance.
Baker had to topple a table of world-class foes at the final table to come away with the first-place finish and $294,321 cash prize.
Despite his youth, Baker turned away John Juanda, Erik Seidel and Eric Kesselman at the final table before defeating Eric Cloutier heads-up for the bracelet.
Daniel Negreanu finished one spot short of the final table in eighth place, and yet another former bracelet winner, Yan Chen, finished 12th.
For Baker, who just recently took up Deuce-to-Seven, it was quite a showing against poker’s best.
“It makes me feel pretty good that I could develop basically a world-class Deuce game in five months,” Baker said.
“Those names – I never thought I’d be playing with them, so it is kind of cool.”
Bakes also finished strong in the $50k Players Championship earlier in the 2010 WSOP, placing sixth.
While it’s still early in the WSOP, Baker is in contention for Player of the Year honors, and the weight of Friday’s accomplishment wasn’t lost on the champion.
“This is the ultimate poker achievement,” Baker said.
“It’s a great feeling. There is not really anything better than this, except multiple gold bracelets.”
Other early POY contenders include Juanda, who finished fourth for $78,088 and made his third final table of the WSOP.
The 2010 WSOP continues through July 17.
