Poker Player Blog

It was quite a week in poker history for the first full week of the WSOP 2010 poker tournament. Here’s a run down of the results.

Praz Bansi from London, England took event 5’s No limit Hold ‘em tournament win home with a pretty new bracelet and over half a million in earnings. Vincent Jacques, the Canadian came in second and Alaska native Calvin Kordus came in third.

The three day No Limit Hold’em  Shootout started on Tuesday and lasted for three days. Maximum number of players was set at 2,000. The $5,000 buy in didn’t stop 358 from participating. This one went to the Americans with Joshua Tieman of Chicago, IL taking home the win with a total of $441,692.000 in his pocket. Second and third place went to the Brits with Neil Channing and Stuart Rutter placing respectively.

Event 7 was the 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball had a $2,500 buy in and had Americans (aka the home team for this blog) placing in all but two of the first 20 slots. Despite gallant efforts by Don Mcnamara who came in third and Raphael Zimmerman who placed second, Peter Gelencser from Budapest Hungary went home with the win and over $180,000 for the effort. Wonder what that is in Hungarian bucks?

Another No Limit Hold em was event number eight with a “low” $1,500 buy in. Pascal LeFrancois from Canada took home the $568,974.00 in first place winnings. Max Steinberg of Oakland, CA came in second and Kevin Howe from Glasgow, Scotland came in third. Quite a mixed bag. But with a quarter million being the third place winnings I wouldn’t really care as long as I placed in the top three right?

Events nine and ten got underway on Thursday June 3. The Pot Limit Hold ‘em three day event had a $1,500 buy in.  British player James Dempsey won this bracelet with Steve Chanthabouasy and JJ Liu from the United States taking second and third place. Event ten was the seven card stud world championship with a hefty $10,000 buy in. This three day event was an American win with Men Nguyen taking first, Brandon Adams of England taken second and Steve Billirakis of Illinois brining up the rear.

On Friday it was events 11 and 12 No Limit and Limit hold’em both with $1,500 buy ins. It was kiwi Simon Watt of New Zealand who took home first place and $614,248.00 in the No-Limit event and Matthew Matros of Brooklyn, NY who put $189,870 as well as a gold bracelet in the bank after the Limit Hold’em game.

Saturday began with another No limit Hold ‘em game with the $1,000 buy in attracting 3,042 players. Steven Gee of Sacramento took home that one. Saturday evening was the 2-7 Draw Lowball no limit tournament with another California Yan Chen winning the bracelet.

The week ended with the seven card stud hi low split 8 world championship taking place Sunday night with a $10,000 buy in. Americans took first, second and third place with Frank Kassela of Memphis coming first, Allen Kessler of Las Vegas coming second and Jennifer Harman of Reno taking third place.