2012 EPT Grand Final super high roller chip counts

Posted by Poker Videos on April 23rd, 2012

2012 EPT Grand Final super high roller
2012 EPT Grand Final super high roller

Govert Metaal 310,000
Eugene Katchalov PokerStars Team Pro 299,800
Talal Shakerchi 272,000
Jason Mercier PokerStars Team Pro 265,100
Bryn Kenney 250,000
Sorel Mizzi 250,000
Will Molson 250,000
Dan Shak 250,000
Tobias Reinkemeier 250,000
Anatoly Gurtovoy 250,000
Dieter Albrecht 250,000
Anton Alleman 250,000
Philipp Gruissem 250,000
Leon Tsoukernik 250,000
David Sands 250,000
Tom Marchese 250,000
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier PokerStars Team Pro 250,000
Phil Ivey 250,000
Isaac Haxton 250,000
Daniel Cates 250,000
Samuel Chartier 250,000
Viktor Blom PokerStars Team Pro 250,000
Artem Litvinov 250,000
Scott Seiver 250,000
Dan Smith 250,000
Masa Kagawa 250,000
Sam Trickett 250,000
Anton Allemann 238,000
Mike McDonald 230,000
Justin Bonomo 230,000
Jonathan Duhamel PokerStars Team Pro 212,000
Vanessa Selbst PokerStars Team Pro 204,900

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2012 Aussie Millions Main Event Chip Counts

Posted by Poker Videos on January 26th, 2012

Phil Ivey is back.

Bjorn Li 2,025,000 45,000
Patrick Healy 1,970,000 -230,000
Lee Nelson 1,896,000 646,000
Kenneth Wong 1,800,000 520,000
Janis Lesinskis 1,790,000 590,000
Matt Turk 1,360,000 -40,000
Yann Dion 1,255,000 35,000
Mohamad Kowssarie 1,170,000 145,000
Oliver Speidel 1,150,000 -255,000
Phil Ivey 1,148,000 -212,000
Daniel Idema 1,140,000 140,000
Karim Jomeen 652,000 257,000
Mile Krstanoski 470,000 -260,000
Joey Lawrence 385,000 -135,000
Minh Nguyen 385,000 -355,000
Grant Levy 318,000 -202,000
Danny Chevalier 300,000 40,000
Slade Fisher 114,000 -66,000

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Epic Poker League’s first Main Event

Posted by Poker Videos on August 10th, 2011

After months of buildup and anticipation, the Epic Poker League ’s first Main Event kicked off on Tuesday from the Palms Casino and Resort in Las Vegas, NV. A total of 137 players turned out for this first $20,000 buy-in rake free Main Event. This was just over half of the players qualified for Season 1. Unlike the Professional Poker Tour, the Epic Poker League is not a freeroll.

Per the league’s design, the field in this Main Event was a who’s who of poker. Among the players in the field on Day 1 of the EPL Main Event were Allen Kessler, Isaac Haxton, Eric Baldwin, Michael Mizrachi, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth, Carlos Mortensen, Robert Mizrachi, Allen Cunningham, Gavin Griffin, Dwyte Pilgrim, Mike Sexton, Erik Seidel, and Ben Lamb.

When registration closed for the event, the prize pool was announced for this first ever Main Event. A total of 18 players will be paid in this event with 18th getting $43,190 and the winner taking home $982,660.

At the end of the day, the leaderboard was giving players flashbacks of the 2011 WSOP. Eugene Katchalov finished Day 1 with the chip lead with 356,300. Ben Lamb continues his dominance this year and finished Day 1 with 287,200. The only multi-bracelet winner this year, Brian Rast, finished with 260,500. Antonio Esfandiari and Noah Schwartz finished the day as the only other players to move over the 200k chip mark.

Over half of the field was eliminated on Day 1, leaving 63 players returning for Day 2 action. By the dinner break, that field had been cut in half, leaving just 30 players in the field. By the dinner break, Brian Rast had moved into the chip lead with 460k, followed by Katchalov in 2nd place. Dan Fleyshman has been making a strong run in this Main Event. He won his seat in the Pro-Am Event that awards Main Event seats to the final table. Fleyshman currently sits 3rd in chips. Sam Trickett, Jason Mercier, and Noah Schwartz are all in the top 10 in chips on Day 2.

The Epic Poker League has aspirations of making itself in “The PGA of Professional Poker.” Players can only play in the Main Event if they meet the league’s qualification guidelines or final table the Pro-Am event. (Pro-Am exemptions are for a single Main Event tournament only.) Qualifications are based on live tournament play and have a strict set of guidelines for each card. Online poker stats do not count, so you will not be seeing players like Sean Deeb or Tom Dwan in the Epic Poker League anytime soon. And you won’t see any players who play free online poker on Zynga and all of a sudden buy into a professional real money poker event.

There will be four tournament series held at the Palms between now and February and players in the Main Event will be attempting to earn a seat into the League Championship on February 13th. The top 27 money winners in the Main Event tournaments will compete in the League Championship freeroll where the top 6 players will split a prize pool of $1 Million. First place will win $500,000 and the League Championship title.

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Phil Hellmuth Looking for his 12th bracelet

Posted by Poker Videos on June 11th, 2011

Phill Hellmuth is around middle stack in Event #16: $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship and looking for his 12th bracelet. However, there are no weak spots left in the tournament.

Richard Ashby 700,000
Joe Cassidy 540,000
David Bakes Baker 492,000
Steve Sung 441,000
Hasan Habib 437,000
Greg Raymer 355,000
Phil Hellmuth 339,000
Nick Schulman 306,000
John Juanda 171,000

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