You’ve read his column in BLUFF Magazine and heard all about the work he’s doing with some of the biggest names in professional poker. Now poker players will have the chance to sit with poker mindset guru Sam Chauhan as part of a WSOP Academy event in Las Vegas.
The one day seminar will run Friday [...]
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Portugal’s Antonio Matias displays his winning hand from EPT Vilamoura. (Photo courtesy PokerStars)
Home cooking must serve Portugese businessman Antonio Matias well. The 54 year old outlasted a field of 322 players to win the European Poker Tour stop in his home country, €404,793 and a seat in the EPT Grand Final.
“I like to think of [...]
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Apparently bubbling on European Poker Tour final table once was one time too many for Jeff Sarwer and Pierre Neuville. After both recently bubbling EPT final tables they’ve made the jump at EPT Vilamoura and will beat the final table on Sunday.
They will both be chasing current chipleader Antonio Matias though. The 54 year old [...]
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Poker programming on mainstream television has always been a two-hour final table broadcast, cash game action or more recently a game show mash-up. However Wednesday night marks a new direction for poker on TV with the debut of Poker2Nite on Fox Sports Net.
Hosted by Joe Sebok and Scott Huff, the 30 minute show will cover [...]
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Seven days ago Joe Cada sat across from Darvin Moon in pursuit of a world championship at the WSOP Main Event. Monday night he sat ringside at Madison Square Garden for World Wrestling Entertainment’s Monday Night Raw along with his agent Dan Frank and fellow Team PokerStars member Dennis Phillips for a Main Event of a different [...]
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Jeffrey Pollack’s run as World Series of Poker Commissioner is over after four years.
Pollack first joined Harrah’s in 2005 and set about to increase the global awareness of the brand. Under his watch the WSOP added events in Europe, partnered with Annie Duke and Don Cheadle to build a top flight celebrity poker event and [...]
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Cornel Cimpan erased a nearly 4-1 chip defecit to eliminate Soheil Shamseddin heads-up Tuesday night at Foxwoods to take down the World Poker Tour World Poker Finals and collect his second WPT title of 2009.
Cimpan’s share of the prizepool was $910,058 – slightly more than half of the $1,686,760 he won in February for winning the LA Poker Classic. [...]
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Joe Cada becomes youngest WSOP ME Champ in history.
Peter Eastgate, step aside. Joe Cada rode a roller coaster of a chip stack and emotions late Monday night into Tuesday morning to defeat Maryland logger Darvin Moon to win the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event. In the process the 21 year old Cada – [...]
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The poker world’s attention might be focused on the World Series of Poker Main Event finale in Las Vegas but there is a World Poker Tour event that also has a final table worth getting excited over.
Leading the way at the WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals is Cornel Cimpan with 3,691,000 of the 10,588,000 chips [...]
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Darvin Moon started the day with the chip lead. Joe Cada started the day with a chip and a chair. After an 18 hour day Saturday the two Americans are the final two players in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event.
Play will resume Monday night at 10:00 pm PT with Cada holding the [...]
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Antoine Saout’s roller coaster at the WSOP Main Event Final Table has come to an end. Saout was eliminated on the final hand of the night by Joe Cada.
Saout entered the day 8th in chips and after what seemed like an endless string of double-ups found himself with the chip lead when three-handed play began. [...]
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Eric Buchman was in control of the 2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table for most of the day Saturday, but early Sunday morning things took a turn for the worse.
In what was at the time the biggest pot of the tournament Buchman button raised to 2,500,000, Antoine Saout reraised to 9,000,000 and Buchman moved all-in. [...]
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Jeff Shulman’s run at a WSOP Main Event title is over. Shulman was eliminated by Antoine Saout in fifth place just after 3 am PT Sunday morning.
Shortstacked for the better part of four hours Shulman found himself all-in after Antoine Saout raised to 5,400,000 from the small blind. Shulman called all-in from the big blind [...]
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Steven Begleiter made the same mistake Phil Ivey made only minutes earlier. He tangled with Darvin Moon and watched as the best hand preflop fell to the wayside.
Begleiter raised t0 1,600,000 and Moon responded by moving all-in. Begleiter called instantly and tabled Q Q while Moon showed A Q. The flop came 8 7 4 giving [...]
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Phil Ivey will have to wait another year for a shot at the one bracelet he desires the most. Ivey, shortstacked at 6,350,000, moved all-in on the first hand back from a break and found a caller in Darvin Moon. The resulting bad beat ended his 2009 WSOP Main Event run with a 7th place [...]
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Kevin Schaffel got all his money in with the hand most poker players dream of; pocket aces versus pocket kings. Only the hand turned into a nightmare in a hurry.
Schaffel opened the betting with a raise to 1,250,000, Steven Begleiter called from the cutoff and Eric Buchman re-raised to 5,750,000. Schaffel moved all-in for 17,000,000 [...]
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It took longer than expected and included a roller coaster ride but James Akenhead was eliminated in 9th place at the WSOP Main Event Final Table.
The 26 year old Englishman started the day as the short stack with only 6,800,000 but found himself moving up the chip counts thanks to a timely triple up with [...]
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This time next week poker fans will know who the 2009 World Champion is. But before poker fans get to the last player standing there is the little matter of meeting the November Nine. Tuesday night’s ESPN broadcast will help them do just that.
The final broadcast from the summer’s action at the 2009 World Series of [...]
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The coming week might seem a little bit Christmas for many poker fans and now BLUFF Media is hoping to play the part of Santa Claus.
With the World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table set to get underway this Saturday BLUFF is proud to announce they will be broadcasting live audio from the first [...]
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Poker’s latest reality TV stars saw their run at fame – and a half million dollars – end Sunday night. Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho were eliminated from CBS’ The Amazing Race after being unable to complete a challenge in the Netherlands.
Michelle and Ho outlasted five of the 12 teams on the show. Had they gone [...]
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