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2010 World Series of Poker Final Table Set

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7,319 poker players each paid the $10,000 buy-in for the 2010 World Series of Poker World Championship, a $10,000 buy-in, No Limit Hold'em tournament.747 places were paid with the top winner guaranteed an astonishing first place prize of $8,944,138, and of course a very prestigious WSOP gold bracelet. The final table for the 2010 WSOP World Championship will be played out on November 9, 2010. The top 9 players who comprise the final table include: Seat No. 1: Jason Sentl , a 25 year-old poker pro from St. Louis Park, Minnesota, who will mark his first time to cash at the WSOP. Jason Sentl has a chip stack of 7,625,000. Seat No. 2: Joseph Cheong , a 24 year-old poker pro from Li Marada, California, who sits at a chip stack of 23,525,000. Seat No. 3: John Dolan , a 24 year-old poker pro from Bonita Springs, Florida, who has six WSOP cashes including three in this year's WSOP. John Dolan has a chip stack of 46,250,000. Seat No. 4: Joanthan Duhamel , a 24 year-old poke...

Off To Play $1,000 Guaranteed Limit Hold'em

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In just a few minute, I will be playing a $1,000 Guaranteed Limit Hold'em tournament at Full Tilt Poker. I won my seat courtesy of the success of Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi , who placed 8th in the Limit Hold'em Championship in the 2010 World Series of Poker . Thank you, Michael Mizrachi , for not failing me in my Fantasy Poker picks. Hopefully, I will get to carry on the same success as you did in this event at the 2010 World Series of Poker, and maybe I can walk away with the top prize of $235. It's not much, but it certainly could go a long way.

2010 WSOP: Matt Keiokan Wins Event 29 Limt Hold'em Championship

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171 top poker players each put $10,000 to compete for the 2010 World Series Of Poker Limit Hold'em Championship to create a prize pool of $1,607,400. Only the top 18 would get a piece of the prize pool with the first placer winning a WSOP gold bracelet and $425,969 to go along with it. With a lot of top poker pros and big poker names playing the 2010 WSOP Limit Hold'em Championship, it was 42 year old poker pro Matt Keikoan of San Rafael, Califronia, who emerged as the winner after over 12 hours at the final table. Matt Keiokan won his second WSOP gold braceletwas the winner of the $10,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker. This marked his second career WSOP gold bracelet, winning previously in 2008 for a $2,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event. Matt Keikoan now has in excess of $3.2 million in overall career tournament winnings. The runner up was 27 year old poker pro Dan Idema from Vancouver, Canada, who won $263,243 for his effort...

2010 WSOP: Men "The Master" Nguyen Wins Event #10 $10,000 buy-in Seven Card Stud World Championship

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Men "The Master" Nguyen outlasted 150 players to win his seventh WSOP bracelet and first place prize of $394K, making his WSOP career winnings to $3 Million. It was his fourth time winning a WSOP bracelet for a Seven-Card Stud event. The runner-up of Event #10 was Harvard PhD hopeful Brandon Adams , who collected $243K for his win. Third place wen to Steve Billirakis from Genoa, Illinois, a former WSOP bracelet winner, who took down $152K. Fourth place finisher was Nikolay Evdakov from Moscow, Russia, who earned $110K. Evdakov holds the all-time WSOP record for most cashed in a single year with 10. This cash is his 17th in three years at the WSOP, more than any other player in that time span. Fifth place finisher was Joe Cassidy from Costa Mesa, California, earning $86K, and marking his 12th time to cash at the WSOP. Sixth place finisher was Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi , who won $68K. Michael Mizrachi currently holds the top spot in the 2010 WSOP P...

2010 WSOP: Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi Wins The Poker Players Championship

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Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi outlasted the 116 top poker players who bought in for $50K to win The Pokers Players Championship in the 2010 World Series of Poker . They call it the Pokers Players Championship because it includes a variety of poker games - Seven Card Stud, Razz, 2-7 Triple Draw Low Ball, Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo, Pot Limit Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Limit Hold'em and No Limit Hold'em - and certainly you have to be a poker master to play this tournament. Michael Mizrachi wins his first WSOP Bracelet, and $1.55 Million. Vladimir Schemelev of Russia was the runner-up and earned $963,375. David Oppenheim came in at third with $603,348 to his winnings. John Juanda finished fourth and earned $436,865. Robert Mizrachi, the older brother of Mike, finished at fifth and earned $341,429. David Baker finished sixth and won $272,275. Daniel Alaei finished seventh and won $221,105. Mikael Thuritz finished at eighth and won $182,463. Nick Schulman finished ninth and too...

2010 WSOP: Final Table Set For The Poker Players Championship

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Event # 2 of the 2010 World Series of Poker is called The Poker Players Championship , and has an impressive buy-in of $50,000. 116 entrants joined the event, which featured several types of poker games - Seven Card Razz, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball , Limit Hold'em, No Limit Hold'em, Pot limit Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8 or better, Seven Card Stud, and Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or better. Sounds confusing to you? Well, that's the reason why they call it The Poker Players Championship because only the real true poker players who are experts in these games have the balls and talent to play, especially with a $50K buyin. If you're going to sit in this event, then you better be a master of 8 kinds of poker games. Of the 116 entrants, 16 players made it into the money with the final table of the remaining 8 players to be played on 3PM June 2, 2010 PST at the Rio in Las Vegas for a first prize of $1.55 Million, the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy and a WSOP bracelet. Of the 8 hop...