17 June 2011
WSOP 2011 – Mike Sexton heads up with Chris Viox in $1.5k Stud 8
The relatively-uncool $1,500 Stud 8 final table garnered quite a lot of attention last night as Mike Sexton featured, passing the million dollar milestone in WSOP earnings and going for his second career bracelet as well as the $200,459.
WSOP 2011 – Mark Radoja wins $5,000 NL Shootout event
Mark Radoja has beaten four tables of world-class players (and probably a few fish too) in order to capture his first bracelet in the $5,000 NL Shootout event; he beat Jeffrey Gross heads-up to secure the title and a first prize of $436,568 alongside the wristwear.
WSOP 2011 – Daniel Idema leads $10,000 Limit Hold ‘em Day 2
Not ten minutes after writing the above headline, Matthew Gallin took the chip lead at the $10,000 Limit Hold ‘em Championship. However, since Daniel Idema is the brother of the Two Plus Two Pokercast’s Adam Schwartz (shame about the Canucks) we’ll keep him as the headliner. Alongside Gallin he’s still one of only two players to have crossed the half-million chip milestone.
16 June 2011
WSOP 2011 – Daniel Negreanu leads $10k Limit Hold ‘em
The $10,000 Limit Hold ‘em Championship is one of the toughest fields at the World Series of Poker. This year, 152 Limit Hold ‘em specialists put up $10,000 to compete creating a prize pool of over $1.42m with the winner set to take home $378,642.
WSOP 2011 – Jean-Robert Bellande leading $2.5k 6-max field.
If you’re not following @BrokeLivingJRB on Twitter then you should be. Aria Poker Room ambassador and constantly broke-then-staked-then-broke-again roll-on-the-table mixed games player Jean-Robert Bellande is always Tweeting about the huge swings in his bankroll. He’s in line for a big upswing if he keeps this up as he is second place in the 189-strong field in Event #26.
WSOP 2011 – US players filling up final table of $5k Shootout
Despite a strong UK presence in the final 40 we’ve conceded this event to the Yanks with James Dempsey, Toby Lewis, JP Kelly and James Akenhead busting short of the final ten. Adam Junglen and Tom Marchese lead the online contingent while Todd Terry joins them in a US-dominated final table.
WSOP 2011 – Elie Payan wins second French bracelet in PLO
The French are now just one behind our bracelet total for the 2011 WSOP, though we consider it quite unfair that they have ElkY. Elie Payan has won the $1,500 PLO event to give France their second bracelet in as many days plus a tasty first prize touching $300k.
15 June 2011
WSOP 2011 – ElkY wins $10k Stud and the Triple Crown
Sacre Bleu! It’s not just British players winning Triple Crowns at the 2011 WSOP; Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier has joined Jake Cody after winning the similarly-tough $10,000 Stud Championship to give him his first WSOP bracelet along with his EPT and WPT titles. And SCOOP titles. And WCOOP titles.
WSOP 2011 – $5,000 NL Shootout round one concludes – 40 left
Another increased field size for the 2011 World Series of Poker came in one of the most highly-anticipated events for players, the $5,000 No Limit Hold ‘em Shootout event. A total of 387 players entered the 2011 edition, up 29 from last year albeit with a reduced first prize.
WSOP 2011 – Jason Somerville wins $1,000 No Limit Hold ‘em
Daniel Negreanu might not have won his fifth bracelet yet – though mysterious Tweets about invoking an ancient source of luck give him hope for the $10k Limit Hold ‘em tomorrow – but he lived vicariously through his friend and PokerVT colleague Jason Somerville who beat Yashar Darian heads-up to win the $1,000 No Limit Hold ‘em title and almost $500k.