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Biggest Poker Sites for Americans/Europeans

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:10:56 +0000

The amount of player traffic a site gets can be very important. At the end of the day biggest is often the best in the online poker world, because more action means more money and more game choice. With that in mind here are the biggest poker sites/networks for European and American players.

4 biggest poker sites for European Players

PokerStars
Full Tilt
Party Poker
iPoker Network (eg Titan Poker)

4 biggest poker sites for American Players

Pokerstars
Full Tilt
Cereus Network (eg Ultimate Poker)
Cake Network (eg Cake Poker and Doyles Room)

Duhamel, Dolan, Cheong, and Racener lead out the November Nine

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:04:40 +0000

Here are the names and chip counts of the players who made it all the way through to the WSOP Main Event Final Table. The so-called “November Nine” will meet again in November to play it out down to a winner:

1 Jonathan Duhamel 65,975,000
2 John Dolan 46,250,000
3 Joseph Cheong 23,525,000
4 John Racener 19,050,000
5 Matthew Jarvis 16,700,000
6 Filippo Candio 16,400,000
7 Michael Mizrachi 14,450,000
8 Soi Nguyen 9,650,000
9 Jason Senti 7,625,000

Some notable finish positions of others
Adam Levy: 12th
Hasan Habib: 14th
Scott Clements: 18th
William Thorson: 22nd
Johnny Lodden: 27th

Jorgensen and Mizrachi leading the charge

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:35:01 +0000

After 6 days of play of the WSOP Main Event there are just 78 players left. Out of those there are plenty of notables still left in, including:

Michael Mizrachi on 7,535,000
William Thorson on 6,525,000
Alexander Kostritsyn on 5,715,000
Eric Baldwin on 2,135,000
Johnny Lodden on 2,105,000
David Assouline on 1,710,000
Adam Levy on 1,685,000
Tony Dunst on 1,550,000
David Benyamine on 1,540,000
Hasan Habib on 1,165,000
Scott Clements on 1,085,000
Jean-Robert Bellande on 700,000

Here is the full list of all 78 players in order:

Theo Jorgensen   9,300,000
Michael Mizrachi   7,535,000
John Racener   7,200,000
Jonathan Driscoll 6,570,000
William Thorson   6,525,000
Matthew Jarvis   6,125,000
Edward Ochana 5,950,000
Alexander Kostritsyn   5,715,000
Cuong Nguyen   5,650,000
Joseph Cheong   5,555,000
Patrick Eskandar   5,540,000
Matthew Berkey   5,450,000
Filippo Candio   5,385,000
Matt Affleck 5,315,000
Evgeny Shnayder   4,790,000
Gabe Costner   4,635,000
Bill Melvin   4,515,000
Jonathan Duhamel   4,295,000
Duy Le    4,100,000
Bryn Kenney    3,830,000
Michal Wywrot   3,815,000
Robert Pisano    3,735,000
Matthew Bucaric   3,595,000
John Dolan   3,470,000
John Armbrust   3,295,000
James Fennell 3,225,000
Michael Skender    2,980,000
Benjamin Statz   2,910,000
Evan Lamprea 2,910,000
Jerry Payne 2,765,000
Meenaskshi Subramaniam   2,690,000
Corey Emery   2,640,000
Brandon Steven   2,330,000
Gianni Direnzo   2,280,000
Rudy Miller   2,250,000
Redmond Lee    2,220,000
Michiel Sijpkens    2,160,000
Denis Pisarev   2,140,000
Eric Baldwin   2,135,000
Johnny Lodden    2,105,000
Mads Wissing 2,025,000
Jakob Toestesen   2,010,000
Pascal LeFrancois   1,950,000
Niklas Toorell   1,945,000
Damien Luis   1,850,000
Mark Meloche    1,780,000
David Assouline    1,710,000
Christopher Bolt   1,690,000
Adam Levy   1,685,000
Richard Morgan   1,680,000
David Baker   1,635,000
Josh Brikis   1,610,000
Jim McCrink   1,600,000
Tony Dunst   1,550,000
David Benyamine   1,540,000
Ismail Erkenov   1,530,000
Dag Palovic   1,375,000
Jared Ingles    1,370,000
Ronnie Bardah   1,265,000
James Manning    1,265,000
Nicolas Babel     1,220,000
Eduardo Parras    1,220,000
Hasan Habib   1,165,000
Brock Bourne   1,150,000
Gabriel Nassif   1,125,000
Scott Clements   1,085,000
Marcel Cole   1,075,000
Habib Khanis     1,065,000
Sergey Rybachenko   1,010,000
Jason Senti    970,000
Matt Harris   965,000
Gary Dishongh   800,000
Adam Etter     765,000
Jacobo Fernandez   705,000
Jean-Robert Bellande     700,000
Peter Jetten    675,000
Pierre Canali   655,000
Jeff Banghart   645,000

Here are the top prizes they are all competing for:

1   $8,944,138
2   $5,545,855
3   $4,129,979
4   $3,092,497
5   $2,332,960
6   $1,772,939
7   $1,356,708
8   $1,045,738
9   $811,823

All 78 players are guaranteed at least $94,942

Bond18 leads WSOP Main Event after Day 4

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:25:04 +0000

After 4 days of play the WSOP Main Event is down to just 574 players, and they are all in the money.

Bond18 leads the way. Here is the top 10 chip counts:

1 Tony Dunst   1546000 (Bond18)
2 Duy Le   1460000
3 Garrett Adelstein   1440000
4 Matt Affleck   1395000
5 Phil Galfond   1392000
6 Matthew Jarvis   1373000
7 Theo Jorgensen   1343000
8 Benjamin Statz   1283000
9 Bryan Pellegrino   1240000
10 Matthew Brown   1203000

Plenty of notable others stil in, lead by 10-time bracelet winner Johnny Chan, and Adam “Roothlus” Levy:

13 Johnny Chan   1159000
20 Adam Levy   1054000
35 Hasan Habib   875000
36 Jesper Hougaard   871000
42 Scott Clements   828000
52 Johnny Lodden 766000
75 Juha Helppi   693000
85 Praz Bansi   660000
94 Scotty Nguyen   632000
115 Hoyt Corkins   572000
160 Shannon Shorr   482000
194 Danny Mizrachi   437000
220 Matt Matros   405000
227 Steve Billirakis   400000
229 Jason Mercier 398000
231 Vanessa Selbst 397000
239 Robert Mizrachi   381000
246 Sammy Farha   377000
261 Jean-Robert Bellande   356000
275 David Benyamine   329000
345 Isaac Baron   256000
364 Michael Mizrachi   241000
367 Todd Witteles   239000
409 Brandon Cantu   196000
423 Padraig Parkinson   185000
444 Cole South   164000
455 Evelyn Ng   156000
489 Vitaly Lunkin   130000
524 Yevgeniy Timoshenko   102000
548 Karina Jett   80000

Johnny Lodden and Johnny Chan lead the way

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:41:58 +0000

Johnny Lodden and Johnny Chan are in the lead pack after Day 3 of the WSOP Main Event.

Here is the official top 10:

1 James Carroll   803000
2 Imari Love   741100
3 Gerasimos Deres   733700
4 Filippo Candio   727300
5 Max Casal   687200
6 Arie Kliper   666200
7 Andrew Brown   657700
8 Johnny Lodden 656400
9 Johnny Chan   636000
10 Josh Brikis   616900

There are 1203 players left overall (out of 7319). Here are some notable names we will be keeping an eye of for the rest of the Main Event:

Position - Name - Chip count

37 Jesper Hougaard   480500
40 Cole South   478600
48 Scott Clements   459900
88 Shannon Shorr   401500
144 Robert Mizrachi   342800
164 Vanessa Selbst 331500
169 Praz Bansi   328700
184 Steve Billirakis   318400
216 Isaac Baron   298700
225 Sammy Farha   289100
227 Brandon Cantu   287000
247 Karina Jett   273700
260 Matt Matros   265200
271 David Benyamine   259300
276 Barry Shulman   257400
307 Phil Galfond   244300
329 Juha Helppi   231200
331 Frank Kassela   229800
349 Padraig Parkinson   221700
377 Corwin Cole   212500
392 Humberto Brenes 204600
515 Hasan Habib   166200
534 Jason Mercier 160300
540 Hoyt Corkins   159300
554 Robert Varkonyi   156500
576 Todd Witteles   152400
585 Dan Harrington   151200
691 Danny Mizrachi   128600
698 Erica Schoenberg   127700
774 Jean-Robert Bellande   113900
775 Annie Duke   113800
820 Yevgeniy Timoshenko   105400
867 Eric Mizrachi   95800
888 Allen Cunningham   91900
890 Michael Mizrachi   91700
897 Kyle Bowker   90400
904 Dewey Tomko   89300
926 Barry Greenstein 83200
942 Vitaly Lunkin   80600
951 David Colclough   79000
997 Evelyn Ng   70000
1049 Barny Boatman   60500
1089 Blair Rodman   52400
1117 Scotty Nguyen   47800
1141 Kathy Liebert   43000
1143 Gavin Smith   42500

Corwin Cole leads WSOP Main Event

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:37:20 +0000

The WSOP Main Event attrated 7319 entrants this year, the second highest ever in it’s history. After the conclusion of Day 1, Corwin Cole leads the way with 228K chips. Big names amongst the chip leaders include Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billiraki, and Johnny Chan.

Here are the chip leaders in order:

Corwin Cole   228,200
James Danielson   201,050
Dwyen Ringbauer   191,125
Steve Billirakis   187,150
Khamsy Nuanmanee   170,525
Steven Tabb   170,275
Mathieu Sauriol   169,900
Filippo Candio   167,300
Julien Foussard   166,175
Johnny Chan   163,700
Nestor Martinez   158,825
Roger Pruzansky   155,700
Andrew Liporace   155,350
Robert Miller   155,225
Josef Monro   153,350
Daniel Springfield   150,100

Here are the chip counts of some selected big names:

Barny Boatman   144,050
Michael Mizrachi   142,650
David Benyamine   130,800
Hoyt Corkins   129,150
Vanessa Rousso 111,050
Chris Moneymaker 107,425
Josh Arieh   103,650
Roland De Wolfe   96,600
Lex Veldhuis 91,925
Jason Mercier 90,525
Robert Mizrachi   89,400
Frank Kassela   87,000
Kyle Bowker   81,150
Kenny Tran   80,425
Darvin Moon   78,400
Bill Chen 72,600
Brandon Cantu   65,025
Johnny Lodden 64,475
Humberto Brenes 64,200
Jon Turner   63,825
Gavin Smith   62,275
Freddy Deeb   54,850
Barry Greenstein 53,625
Doyle Brunson   52,425
Vanessa Selbst 52,275
Dewey Tomko   50,725
Ryan Daut   45,050
Ross Boatman   44,675
J.C. Tran   44,650
Phil Ivey   27,875
Daniel Negreanu 24,475

WSOP Summary: Mizrachi, The Master, Farha, and Ivey all win bracelets

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:11:35 +0000

With 43 events gone at this year’s WSOP it’s time for a bit of a summary so far.

It has largely been the year of the unknown players with several notable exceptions. Some of the more familiar names to win bracelets are:

Event 2: Michael Mizrachi
Event 5: Praz Bansi
Event 10: Men “The Master” Nguyen
Event 11: Matt Matros
Event 21: Richard Ashby
Event 23: Dutch Boyd
Event 24: Sammy Farha
Event 37: Phil Ivey
Event 38: Scott Montgomery

Some of the guys have gone close include Neil Channing (2nd in Event 6), Brandon Adams (2nd in Event 10), Tom Dwan (2nd in Event 11), Men Nguyen (2nd in Event 32), Bill Chen (2nd in Event 37), Richard Ashby (2nd in Event 43)

With 14 events left to play let us see if any other big names can hit a big score.

Phil Laak World Record

Mon, 31 May 2010 20:12:57 +0000

Phil Laak is going to attempt to break the World Record for a continuous poker session. The current record is held by Paul Zimbler and stands at 78 hours. When Zimbler got that record he ended the 78 hours as a hallucinogenic zombie, so god knows how Laak will be looking if he gets to his targeted 80 hours.

The attempt is going to start on the 2nd June at the Bellagio Poker Room in Las Vegas. Good luck Phil, you nutter.

ECOOP $1.5 million guaranteed

Mon, 31 May 2010 20:02:17 +0000

There are 6 events of the European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) remaining. The Main Event takes on the 6th June and has a guaranteed prizepool of $1.5 million dollars! Not bad.

If you are interested in taking a shot at this tournament then join Titan Poker and receive a bonus up to $525.00

toetagU wins Pokerstars SCOOP Main Events

Tue, 18 May 2010 02:16:32 +0000

615 entrants paid the $10,300 entry fee to play the SCOOP Main Event on Pokerstars. The winner was toetagU who won over one million dollars

1st toetagU $1,162,350
2nd Sumpas $851,775
3rd BradL $627,300
4th DuckU $473,550
5th cpfactor $332,100
6th BongBob $261,375
7th siola $199,875
8th jpmetalman $138,375
9th delaney_kid $94,095

After DuckU busted there was some discussion about a possible deal. At first toetagU was reluctant to even see the numbers. Then when they did agree to see the numbers it was actually Sumpas (in 3rd place in chips at the time) who refused to accept them and wanted to play on. After a long 3 way battle, and a long heads-up battle toetagU eventually emerged the winner.

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