I joined multiple tournaments at BetUS Poker playing 4 tournament tables simultaneously. First tourney was the $750 Guaranteed No Limit Hold'em for a $3 +.30 buy-in. 263 players entered with 50 places getting in the money, and the first place prize was a pretty decent $165.69. I played well enough to make ITM at 18th place to win $7.73. Another tourney was the $4,000 Satellite Turbo Rebuy and Add-On Six-Handed for $2 +.20. 22 players, 29 rebuys and 14 add-ons. First three places would win a $33 seat to the $4,000 Bounty Guaranteed. I played really well enough to make the final table, and with four players left the big stack SB pushed all-in to my BB. I was holding AK and made the call. The SB had Pocket Threes, which held up to eliminate me at fourth place, and short of the ticket. Instead, I win $15.30. Next tourney was the $1,500 Guaranteed Bounty No Limit Hold'em with a buy-in of $6 +.60, where $2 would be paid for every player you knock out of the tournament. 249 p...

Event 52 of the 2010 World Series of Poker was a $25,000 buy-in Six-Handed No Limit Hold'em tournament, which netted a prize pool of $4.5 Million. 191 players entered with 18 places getting paid in the money. The biggest winner of all was 21 year old Villanova college student Dan Kelly , who won his first ever WSOP gold bracelet and a whopping $1,315,518. Dan Kelly had been winning online tournaments, and had yet to prove himself in a live tournament, and no better way to do it than with a huge pot at the $25,000 buy-in Six-Handed No Limit Hold'em event. The runner up was poker pro Shawn Buchanan from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, who has now cashed 17 times since 2007, and currently has eight cashes this year with this one paying out $812,941. Two-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Frank Kassela was the third-place finisher, who came close to winning his third bracelet this year.  Had Frank Kassela won, that would have matched the WSOP record for wins in a single ...

568 poker players signed up for Event 32 of the 2010 World Series of Poker , a $5,000 buyin No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed tournament. The prize pool went over $2.6 Million with 54 places paid, and a first prize of over $650K. The big winner was 25 year old Jeffrey Papola , a third year law student from Pace University in White Plains, New York. Jeffrey Papola flew in from New York to Las Vegas, and upon arriving, signed up for Event 26, a $2,500 buyin No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed tournament. In that tournament, he placed second to win $391,068. He got a few hours of sleep, and then signed up again for Event 32, a $5,000 buy-in No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed tournament - similar strcuture, but a bigger buy-in. And this time, he won it - winning his first WSOP gold bracelet and a first place cash prize of $667,433. The 1-2 finish of Jeffrey Papola in Six-Handed events is a first in WSOP history. Overall, Jeffrey Papola now has four WSOP cashes with two of the biggest happening...

1,245 poker players signed up for Event 26 of the 2010 WSOP , a $2,500 buy-in No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed . Instead of having the regular 9 players at a poker table, this variant of poker only goes six-handed. When playing six-handed, the poker game emphasizes short-handed poker skills at play, especially when it comes to post-flop play since most players get to play a wider range of hands from the standard starting-hand requirements. Of the 1,245 players, it was 23 year old poker pro Will Haydon from San Francisco, California, who outlasted everyone to win his first ever WSOP gold bracelet and a first place cash prize of $630,03. Willl Haydon started the final table of six with the smallest stack, and climbed his way up after eight hours of competitive poker to eventually emerge as the winner. The runner up was Jeffrey Papola from New York, New York, who won $391,068, marking his third cash in three straight years at the WSOP . The third-place finisher was Joe Baldwin ...

SIX SIX SIX! A week ago, I won a tournament to claim a seat to the Daily $6,000 Guaranteed Six-Max at BetUS Poker , which was a No Limit Hold'em tournament with 6 players maximum per table. 112 players entered the tournament which guaranteed 20 places paid at least $87 all the way to first place for $1,440. The tourney was played here in Manila at 3AM. I had stayed up to watch the England vs Algeria World Cup match, and decided to play the tournament ticket I won a week ago. The starting stack is 3000 in chips with the blinds at 10/20 in the first level (increasing every 15 minutes), which is a good structure for a long tournament. In the first hand, UTG oddly raises 10x the blinds to 200 with the cutoff calling, and me sitting on the BB with 7c7d calling to see the flop. Three people in the hand, and the flop comes 7s7h2h, and I flop quads!!! I check, UTG overbets 800 probably to protect against the flush-draw, the cutoff raises all-in for 2,800 more, and all I have to do is...

I just received my affiliate commission from BetUS - a sportsbetting and poker site. Long story short, I had $140 to play with. A few ring games moved my bankroll up to $158, and with some extra cash, I decided to spend $11+$1 to buy-in to the $6,000 Guaranteed 6-Max Semi-Final. 28 players registered for an opportunity to grab 4 seats (one seat for every $77 in the pot) to the $6,000 Guaranteed 6-Max Final. I played a good tournament, and was aggressive and trapping all throughout. According to my tournament stats, I won 15 out of 22 showdowns, which was also probably the reason how I came out on top of the chip count just at level 4. And with the huge stack, it was easy to play a lot of mediocre hands I would normally fold if I didn't have the ammo. And some of these mediocre hands like 8-9 and 9-10 suited connectors, or anything K-x suited won me some handsome pots with nut flushes and nut straights against cards like AK, AJ, QQ, 10-10. One would flop a set of 10s, and I would ...