Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event summary

Category : Poker News, poker, tournament results

Sorry for the delay, I was covering Durrrr Vs Jungleman12….. Day 2 On Day 2 of the Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event, Manig Loeser finished with the big stack at 337,000 chips. Other players over 200,000 chips at the end of the day included Chris Karagulleyan, Kerem Kiyak, Zsolt Vasvenszki, Bruno Stefanelli, Onder [...]

2010 Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic

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Perica Bukara came out victorious in the $25,000 High Roller Freeze-Out event at the 2010 Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic and walked away with a cool $373,207 in prize money at just past 5:30 a.m. in Cyprus (10:30 p.m. EST). David Benyamine led the Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic High Roller event at [...]

Featured November 9 finalist Filippo Candio

Category : Poker News, Poker Pros, WSOP, WSOP Final Table, World series of Poker, poker, tournament results

Filippo Candio is an Italian born professional poker player, Candio is 26 years old and part of November nine in the 2010 World Series of Poker Championship in Las Vegas. Candio got his start in live tournament action because it’s the only way legally in his country. Filippo Candio is actually considered a villain [...]

Cuong Soi Nguyen of the November Nine

Category : Poker News, Texas Holdem Poker, WSOP, WSOP Final Table, World series of Poker, poker, tournament results

Featured November Nine Player Cuong Soi Nguyen Cuong “Soi” Nguyen is an amateur poker player and the oldest of the November 9 finalist at the 2010 World Series of Poker. The 37 year old native of Santa Ana California has managed to take a seat nobody expected. Nguyen is medical supplies distributor, and has friends [...]

FTOPS XVII coverage

Category : FTOPS, Online Poker, poker, tournament results

This year’s Full Tilt Online Poker Series began August 3, 2010 and has been progressing electrically since. This year’s tournament is the 17th such tournament by the folks at Full Tilt, with the first FTOPS taking place in August 2006, with just eight events and a combined guaranteed prize pool of a little more [...]

2010 World Series of Poker Main Event day 1

Category : Durrrr, Poker News, Poker Pros, WSOP, World series of Poker, poker, tournament results

The 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event kicked off on Monday with the first of four Day 1 starts. Greg Raymer was on hand to give the customary “shuffle up and deal” command and play was underway. Unfortunately for Raymer, his Main Event run would be the shortest of his poker [...]

2010 World Series of Poker Main Event in full effect!

Category : Poker News, Texas Holdem Poker, WSOP, World series of Poker, poker, tournament results

Event #57 No-Limit Hold’em 2010 WSOP Championship of the World kicked off with day 1a of 4 starting days. Michael Mizrachi is 5th in chips after Maria Ho in 4th. Michael Mizrachi won the Players Championship and is looking to add a main event to his spectacular performance this year. [...]

Tom Dwan chip leader in Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship

Category : Omaha Hi, Poker News, Poker Pros, Tom Dwan, WSOP, World series of Poker, poker, tournament results

Tom Dwan screen name durrrr has a nice little chip lead in the 2010 WSOP Event #55: Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship. Tom is going to have to “dodge some bullets” to remain atop these final 33 players. One of those bullets is Phil Hellmuth who is probably foaming at the mouth, trying to [...]

Frank Kassela leads No-Limit Hold’em Six Handed

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Frank Kassela could be a triple bracelet winner if he takes this down. He just overtook Daniel Negreanu for the lead. He already won Event #40: Seven Card Razz and Event #15: Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better World Championship. Frank Kassela is a fierce Pot Limit Omaha player and is [...]

2010 WSOP Update Tournament of Champions and more

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The 2010 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions is a million dollar freeroll for the most respected names in poker. I really don’t understand this payout structure: 1st $500,000 2nd $250,000 3rd $100,000 4th – 9th $25,000 What’s up with the 4-9 $25k prize? I think 1-4 is enough for a freeroll. Anyways, just thought [...]