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Ivey Golden For 8th Time

Railbird — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:41:23 +0000

Phil Ivey Capures His 8th WSOP Bracelet

Phil Ivey has won his 8th WSOP bracelet in Event #37: the $3k H.O.R.S.E event. Phil battled William”the poker mathematician” Chen heads up for the victory. Mr. Ivey took home just a little over 329k (chump change)for his victory. That now puts him ahead of Daniel Negreanu for all time tournament earnings with 13,182,309.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-4gLoNKZts

Phil Ivey’s WSOP Wins

2000    $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha ($195.000)
2002    $2,500 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo ($118.440)
2002    $2,000 S.H.O.E. ($107.540)
2002    $1,500 7 Card Stud ($132.000)
2005    $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha ($635.603)
2009    $2,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball ($96.367)
2009    $2,500 Omaha Hi/Lo / 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo ($220.538)
2010   $3.000 H.O.R.S.E. ($329.840)

Mike Matusow Bangs Scotty Nguyen

Railbird — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:44:23 +0000

No.. Not that kind of bangin you sickos.. Yesterday Matusow crashed his car into Scotty Nguyen’s 150,000.00 Jaguar outside the Rio parking lot.. Supposedly Mikey got a phone call and text message @ the same time.. I knew Matusow played like a woman..but I didn’t know he drove like one too..

Mike Matusow can't multi-task

Watch Mike Matusow Crashes into Scotty Nguyens Jaguar on RawVegas.tv

Main Event Day 1A Over – Yang Busted- Costanza Alive

Railbird — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:22:52 +0000

The World Series of Poker Main Event began with 1,116 players making their way to the Rio poker room for day 1A of play.

In the chip lead currently is Eric Cloutier with 150k. Some notables who fared well are the actor Jason “George Costanza” Alexander, Lex Veldhuis, Eli Elezra, WSOP Player of the Year 2007 Tom Schneider.

Some of the players who won’t be coming back for Day 2: John “Razor” Phan, Freddy Deeb, Allen Cunningham, Men “The Master” Nguyen, and the 2007 World Champion Jerry Yang.

2007 WSOP champ Jerry Yang BUSTED

Jason Alexander aka George Costanza with 89k after day 1

2009 Main Event Schedule

July 3,2009 12:00 PM         Day 1A
July 4,2009 12:00 PM        Day 1B
July 5,2009 12:00 PM        Day 1C
July 6,2009 12:00 PM        Day 1D
July 7,2009 12:00 PM        Day 2A (Days 1A+1B)
July 8,2009 12:00 PM        Day 2B (Days 1C+1D)
July 9,2009 12:00 PM        Break
July 10,2009 12:00 PM        Day 3
July 11,2009 12:00 PM        Day 4
July 12,2009 12:00 PM        Day 5
July 13,2009 12:00 PM        Day 6
July 14,2009 12:00 PM        Day 7
July 15,2009 12:00 PM        Day 8
November 7-10,2009 TBD        FINAL TABLE

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyHxiVDXCL0

Ivey Is Golden For 6th Time

Railbird — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:34:47 +0000

I wanna be like Ivey….not Jordan…not Tiger… Not Lebron…Just Phil Ivey for 1 day.. PLEASE JUST ONE TIMEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Winner of Event 8 – $2,500 No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw

Phil Ivey bested a field of 147 entrants that included some of the biggest names in poker to win his sixth bracelet and further cement his name in poker history. Phil was the crowd favorite and received an outstanding round of applause when it was all said and done. The win netted Ivey $96,361 in prize money and likely earned him a little extra pocket change from sidebets. Congratulations, Phil, on bracelet number six!

pokernews.com

Vitaly Lunkin Is Golden

Railbird — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:34:52 +0000

Vitaly Lunkin is now 1.89 million richer

Russian Vitaly Lunkin won the largest non-main event World Series of Poker jackpot ever early Monday morning, taking the top prize in the tournament’s special $40,000 buy-in no-limt hold’em event.

Lunkin, from Moscow, won more than $1.89 million, outlasting a field of 201 players over four days of play at the Rio. Issac Haxton of Las Vegas finished second and won $1.16 million.

The event was held to mark the 40th anniversary of the World Series of Poker.

The win marked Lunkin’s second World Series of Poker gold bracelet, signifying an individual event champion, in as many years. In 2008, he won more than $628,000 in a $1,500 buy-in hold’em event.

2004 World Series of Poker champion Greg Raymer finished third in the special event, taking home $774,927.

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Final Table Payouts

1	Vitaly Lunkin	$1,891,012
2	Isaac Haxton	$1,168,566
3	Greg Raymer	$774,927
4	Dani Stern	$548,315
5	Justin Bonomo	$413,166
6	Alec Torelli	$329,730
7	Lex Veldhuis	$277,940
8	Noah Schwartz	$246,834
9	Ted Forrest	$230,317

The Rio Heats Up

Railbird — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:41:12 +0000

Home of the 2009 wsop

Day 1 Concludes, 89 to return tomorrow at 2 p.m.

pokernews.com Of the 201 players that ponied up the forty dime buy-in, 89 will move on to Day 2. Currently, Bruno Fitoussi leads the field with 812,500 in chips while 2003 Main Event champion Chris Moneymaker is right behind him with 805,000. Also sporting healthy stacks are Michael DeMichele, Lex “RaSZi” Veldhuis, Emil “whitelime” Patel, Brian Townsend and Justin Bonomo.

In a field of greats, the greats must fall and we saw just that with the departures of bracelet winners Howard Lederer, Phil Hellmuth, John Juanda, Daniel Negreanu, Annie Duke, Jennifer Harman, Kathy Liebert, Johnny Chan, Barry Greenstein, and Chris Ferguson. Also making a Day 1 exit were the top three finishers in the 2008 Main Event (Peter Eastgate, Ivan Demidov, and Dennis Phillips),Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Isaac Baron, Jonathan Little, David Benyamine, Eric Liu, Aaron Been, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Erick Lindgren and Gavin Griffin.

Top 10 @fter Day 1

Bruno Fitoussi		812500
Chris Moneymaker		805000
Emil “whitelime” Patel		615000
Lex ‘RaSZi’ Veldhuis		606500
Justin Bonomo		570000
Michael DeMichele		550000
Kyle ‘krisqueen’ Wilson		520000
Brian Townsend		512000
Alan Sass		440000
Matthew “adz124″ Marafioti		415000