Jeff Papola

Student Jeff Papola wins Event 32, the $5,000 six-handed no-limit hold ‘em. He cashed out when he came second the previous week in Event 26 and then he decided to have a go at Event 32.

He beat perennial poker player Men Nguyen after 4 hours and now finds himself in the position where he has to decide whethter he wants to continue being a student or go for the glory of full time poker player.

Another young player ripping up the WSOP 2010, is there any room for the oldies…

Event 32: six-handed no-limit hold ‘em
Buy-in: $5,000
Entries: 568
Prize pool: $2,669,600
Players in the money: 54

1. Jeffrey Papola ($667,433)
2. Men Nguyen ($412,746)
3. Mark Radoja ($262,902)
4. Bruno Launais ($173,123)
5. Orlando Delacruz ($117,595)
6. Erick Lindgren ($82,303)
7. Taylor McFarland ($59,291)
8. Darren Elias ($59,291)
9. Paul Sheng ($43,941)
10. Evan Panesis ($43,941)
11. Anthony Roux ($33,476)
12. Lucas Greenwood ($33,476)
13. Samlane Phomveha ($26,188)
14. Christian Harder ($26,188)
15. Eugene Todd ($26,188)
16. John Conkright ($26,188)
17. Dmitry Motorov ($26,188)
18. Tyler Kenney ($26,188)
19. David Ulliott ($21,036)
20. Javier Martinez ($21,036)
21. Matt Brady ($21,036)
22. Oscar Erixon ($21,036)
23. Matthias Neu ($21,036)
24. Thomas Marchese ($21,036)
25. Anthony Spinella ($17,325)
26. Matthew Graham ($17,325)
27. Ryan D’Angelo ($17,325)
28. Tony Dunst ($17,325)
29. Sanghyon Cheong ($17,325)
30. Xavier Jacquet ($17,325)
31. William Dorey ($14,629)
32. Chris Bell ($14,629)
33. Shannon Shorr ($14,629)
34. Keith Ferrera ($14,629)
35. Russell Weatherford ($14,629)
36. Ryan Thurlow ($14,629)
37. Nico Behling ($12,653)
38. David Jaoui ($12,653)
39. Jose De Paz ($12,653)
40. Andrew Robl ($12,653)
41. Helen Ellis ($12,653)
42. Matthew Schwarmann ($12,653)
43. Joseph Ebanks ($11,345)
44. Michael Hauptman ($11,345)
45. Benjamin Spindler ($11,345)
46. Toto Leonidas ($11,345)
47. Mclean Karr ($11,345)
48. Thomas Laumer ($11,345)
49. Isaac Haxton ($10,171)
50. Eric Baldwin ($10,171)
51. Christian Iacobellis ($10,171)
52. Rodney Pennington ($10,171)
53. Shawn Buchanan ($10,171)
54. Craig Marquis ($10,171)

David Baker

Young poker player David Baker (23) has been ripping up the WSOP finisihing regular in the money and recently taking another payday wage when he won the No Limit Deuce to Seven.

At this rate he is fast traking to be the next superstar on the poker tables and once again seem to prove that poker should be regarded as a sport since you have to be young to win it.

In fact he has only started playing low ball poker four months ago which shows two things:

1. If they are good at online poker and have acquired the skills needed to win then this is transferable to live games.

2. The old guard better get used to it, the youngsters are fast learners.

Event 19: 2-7 draw lowball world championship
Buy-in: $10,000
Entries: 101
Prize pool: $949,400
Players in the money: 14

1. David Baker ($294,314)
2. Eric Cloutier ($181,886)
3. George Danzer ($115,295)
4. John Juanda ($78,088)
5. Doug Booth ($55,483)
6. Erik Seidel ($41,270)
7. Eric Kesselman ($32,080)
8. Daniel Negreanu ($26,004)
9. Andy Bloch ($22,387)
10. John Monnette ($22,387)
11. Vincent Musso ($22,387)
12. Yan Chen ($19,273)
13. Chad Brown ($19,273)
14. Peter Gould ($19,273)

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Carter Phillips

Further evidence that poker is more like sport, the final table of the World Series Of Poker Event 16 had an average age of 22.8. As in normal sporting endeavour the younger you are the more supple you are and consequently the better player you are.

So poker is following the model of sporting acheivement. Undoubtedly older people can do well but in the end I would rather back someone like Nadal than McEnroe.

The winner of this event was Carter Phillips aho has only being playing full time for 18 months and has now amassed an amazing $1.8 million world wide, averaging roughly $100,000 every month – nice living doncha think!

Event 16: six-handed no-limit hold ‘em
Buy-in: $1,500
Entries: 1,663
Prize pool: $2,245,050
Players in the money: 162

1. Carter Phillips ($482,774)
2. Samuel Gerber ($298,726
3. Craig Bergeron ($189,661)
4. Hugo Perez ($124,690)
5. Russell Thomas ($84,256)
6. David Diaz ($58,483)
7. Thong Tran ($41,645)
8. Mikhail Lakhitov ($41,645)
9. Alexander Wilson ($30,420)
10. Mark Flowers ($30,420)
11. Matthew Ezrol ($22,787)
12. Kevin Iacofano ($22,787)
13. Matt Zoorob ($17,488)
14. Conrad Monica ($17,488)
15. Michael Meyers ($17,488)
16. Jesse Martin ($17,488)
17. Ryan Snickles ($17,488)
18. Steven Tabb ($17,488)
19. Daniel Johnson ($13,739)
20. Steven Fenic ($13,739)
21. Feming Chan ($13,739)
22. Matthew Schulte ($13,739)
23. Eric Bolinder ($13,739)
24. Sanghyon Cheong ($13,739)
25. Dennis Wong ($11,045)
26. Ray Henson ($11,045)
27. Milad Jorshari ($11,045)
28. Nicholas Davies ($11,045)
29. Bryan Micon ($11,045)
30. Jordan Morgan ($11,045)
31. Blake Slade ($9,070)
32. Vladimir Kochelaevskiy ($9,070)
33. Lee Childs ($9,070)
34. Dorlan Schick ($9,070)
35. Mark Seif ($9,070)
36. Stuart Barclay ($9,070)
37. Roger Teska ($7,610)
38. Chris Viox ($7,610)
39. Wesley Clark ($7,610)
40. JP Kelly ($7,610)
41. Michael Downey ($7,610)
42. Dash Dudley ($7,610)
43. Robert Williamson ($6,533)
44. Chris Bjorin ($6,533)
45. Jorge Arias ($6,533)
46. David Sands ($6,533)
47. Matthew Mercurio ($6,533)
48. Simon Nguyen ($6,533)
49. Timothy Adams ($5,724)
50. Jonathan Duhamel ($5,724)
51. Darren Elias ($5,724)
52. Kevin Boudreau ($5,724)
53. David Olson ($5,724)
54. Steven Kelly ($5,724)
55. Jeffrey Chu ($5,118)
56. William Lin ($5,118)
57. Anthony Lessel ($5,118)
58. Cort Kibler-Melby ($5,118)
59. Kenneth Terrell ($5,118)
60. Chad Layne ($5,118)
61. Joseph Stefan ($4,669)
62. Anthony Licastro ($4,669)
63. Rui Cao ($4,669)
64. Rio Gralnick ($4,669)
65. Matthew Waxman ($4,669)
66. Tyler Netter ($4,669)
67. Gabriels Lepore ($4,288)
68. Angus Lynn ($4,288)
69. Steven Rice ($4,288)
70. Vincent Vanderfluit ($4,288)
71. Dustin Bailey ($4,288)
72. Scott Barrows ($4,288)
73. Daniel Quinn ($4,288)
74. Per Alexander Hildebrand ($4,288)
75. Ralph Ratchford ($4,288)
76. Simon Charette ($4,288)
77. Julien Nuijten ($4,288)
78. Allan Silberstang ($4,288)
79. Marc-Pierre Chadi ($3,951)
80. Steven McNally ($3,951)
81. Michael Kucinski ($3,951)
82. Tristan Wade ($3,951)
83. Christopher Lindh ($3,951)
84. Evgeniy Zaytsev ($3,951)
85. Stefan Rapp ($3,951)
86. Tyler Witteman ($3,951)
87. Arun Chugani ($3,951)
88. Stephen Moss ($3,951)
89. Nathan Huvelle ($3,951)
90. Lance Harris ($3,951)
91. James Guinther ($3,636)
92. Neil Tyler ($3,636)
93. Eric Buchman ($3,636)
94. Eduard Scharf ($3,636)
95. Ronald Grauer ($3,636)
96. Jerry Yang ($3,636)
97. Aaron Mermelstein ($3,636)
98. Tyler Chung ($3,636)
99. Derek Christensen ($3,636)
100. Chris Wafula ($3,636)
101. Samuel Bernstein ($3,636)
102. Francois Billard ($3,636)
103. Benjamin Roberts ($3,636)
104. Andre Akkari ($3,636)
105. Jamie McCarrel ($3,636)
106. James Herndon ($3,636)
107. Jamal Clark ($3,636)
108. Ronald Lee ($3,636)
109. Robert Lipkin ($3,345)
110. David Pederson ($3,345)
111. Kevin Haw ($3,345)
112. Al Barbieri ($3,345)
113. Aaron Steury ($3,345)
114. Bruce Seaquist ($3,345)
115. Manish Patel ($3,345)
116. Judson Dymond ($3,345)
117. Donald Rubinstein ($3,345)
118. Francois Balmigere ($3,345)
119. Justin Filtz ($3,345)
120. Carl Johnson ($3,345)
121. Jan Skampa ($3,345)
122. Jeffrey Palarino ($3,345)
123. Michael Darling ($3,345)
124. Steve Yea ($3,345)
125. Paul Whiting ($3,345)
126. Basile Blancpain ($3,345)
127. Brook Whisenant ($3,075)
128. Richard Robinson ($3,075)
129. Matthew Hawrilenko ($3,075)
130. Jeffrey Levine ($3,075)
131. Hoyt Corkins ($3,075)
132. James Goldstein ($3,075)
133. Andrew Dyonisio ($3,075)
134. Nicholas Petrangelo ($3,075)
135. Anthony Spinella ($3,075)
136. Brian Kennish ($3,075)
137. Ryan Thurlow ($3,075)
138. Ted Lawson ($3,075)
139. Andrew Mullens ($3,075)
140. Joeph Kustosz ($3,075)
141. Mikhael Saakian ($3,075)
142. Dominik Kulicki ($3,075)
143. Steven Dibari ($3,075)
144. Chad Thomsen ($3,075)
145. Steven Schartner ($2,828)
146. Dennis Marinack ($2,828)
147. Felipa Ramos ($2,828)
148. Antonio Girardi ($2,828)
149. Ryhan Hughes ($2,828)
150. Kevin Kansler ($2,828)
151. Cyril Jassinowsky ($2,828)
152. William Mikolay ($2,828)
153. Rodrigo Sirichuk ($2,828)
154. Lance Schuchard ($2,828)
155. Elizabeth Indig ($2,828)
156. Nabih Zaczac ($2,828)
157. Christopher Kassela ($2,828)
158. Thomas Manzella ($2,828)
159. Marc Davis ($2,828)
160. Michael Glasser ($2,828)
161. James St Hilaire ($2,828)
162. Mark Kohner ($2,828)

The next poker superstar

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The ultimate aim is to help create the next superstar poker players online and live.

How it works

Put simply we stake poker players in return for a share of any winnings.

Beyond staking we also providing coaching, performance training and media management to ensure maximum profits for both The Card Stable and our players.

2010 Goals

Final Table Finish at the WSOP
Final Table Finish at the WCOOP
Final Table FInish at the ECOOP
100 MTT Event Wins
At least one player in Online Top 100 Players
10 players in the Online Top 1000 Players

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The November Nine 2009

We are looking for the next WSOP Champion. To do this we will be prepared to back all bloggers who contribute to this website and are willing to keep us updated with their progress.

Our backing will be financial and we will expect a split (70:30 in favour of the player).  Obviously we are taking a risk and therefore we will need people with the mental capacity to grind out a place like last years third Antoine Saout who was our pick when he was a massive 18/1.

More updates of this new and special scheme when we get them watch this space.

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Joseph Cada - Champion

Joeseph Cada is WSOP Champion 2009. His pair of 9′s held up for him to walk away with $ 8,546,435.

Altough I didn’t have a penny on him it does make me feel better that this was the guy who knocked out our pick Saout.

Antoine Saout

Our boy played a brilliant game fighting from 6th place to become chip leader, however, he succumbed to losing to a pair of deuces which reduced his chips significantly and finally getting rivered by a King, both to the same player Joe Cada.

From a betting point o view it was unfortunate but at least we had a good run for our money and quite frankly I would love to get 18/1′s like Antoine Saout. Still he did collect $3,479,670 for his time.

damn deuces

Antoine Saout

The big event on Saturday is set to start 12 noon (Pacific Time) and I have been given a surprise tip by Magical Tipser – it is Antoine Saout.

He is the 25 year old Frenchman who is the surprise package in this years final and subsequently he is a big price (18/1 on Betfair). As the rank outsider he is expected to be one of the first to be knocked out, however, do not be surprised if he stays in a lot longer than most people think.

Apparently he has been practicing very hard by playing in all sorts of tournaments and seems to have a lot of stamina which is needed for such competition.

James Akenhead – come into the calculations as another big price (15/1) but he is also short stacked and he too will need a miracle, but sometimes miracles do happen.

Our very own Über Poker Totty Christina Lindley has just announced that she is bound for the World Series of Poker and is being sponsored to do this by Dirty Pretty Things the jewelry firm.

This is exciting news and as you can see from the press release below, all thoseinvolved are looking for  Christina to give a bold showing on the poker tables.

Obviously, on behalf of PokerKnave.com and The Poker Totty’s we wish her the best of luck and you will be able to she her online via the exclusive PKR live online webcast.

Dirty Pretty Things teams up with Maxim Model and Actress Christina Lindley to go ALL IN at the 2009 World Series of Poker

Maxim, Playboy, Stuff, FHM, People and many more magazines have revealed the sexy and smart Christina Lindley. Dirty Pretty Things jewelry (DPT) is excited to partner with her to represent this daring new jewelry line and sponsor her play at the World Series of Poker.

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