Busy Weekend - Ivey and JP Kelly making the news

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Phil Ivey is making the POY look really interesting this year and 2009 could well be his year after winning his second bracelet. A breakthrough year for JP Kelly is long overdue and he is a proud wearer of the bracelet from his pot limit holdem event.

All the UK boys at the WSOP including Chris Moorman and James Dempsey celebrated his success which has been quite a lean one so far for the UK poker community.





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JP Kelly chipleader for final table Pot-Limit Hold'em (Event 20)

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Erik Seidel is the only player out of the 9 that has a bracelet on his resume. Of the other 8 players only chip leader, John-Paul Kelly, has a WSOP final table appearance when he finished 9th at a 2008 $2,500 pot limit Omaha event.

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Marc Tschirch - 268,000
Erik Seidel - 337,000
Jason Dewitt - 476,000
Kyle Carlston - 320,000
Andrew Radel - 250,000
John-Paul Kelly - 627,000 chip leader
Ravi Raghavan - 145,000
Kirk Steward - 231,000
Aaron Virchis - 191,000

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Brock Parker Wins Event #19 - $2,500 Six-handed No Limit Hold'em ($552,745)

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Days after winning Event #14, Brock 'T soprano' Parker did it all again to win his second bracelet within a week beating 1,067 players during this 3-day tournament. He entered the final table in a distant second place behind monster chipleader Joe Serock. Serock and Parker got heads up and Parker managed to get the advantage early on. Serock did battle back but Parker won crucial pots and finally finished off his opponent for a famous victory. Brock Parker now leaps to the top of the POY standings being the first double bracelet winner of 2009.

1 Brock Parker
2 Joseph Serock
3 Russell Crane
4 Jesse Rios
5 Alexander Wilson
6 Clayton Newman


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Brock Parker (t soprano) running well at the WSOP.

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After winning a bracelet at the Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (Event 14)Brock Parker is now looking to try and peg back a large lead held by Joe Serok to win his 2nd bracelet inside a week. He is currently in second place at the final table of the No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (Event 19) - If Parker wins this he will be leading the POY standings at this year's WSOP.

Joseph Serock -- 3.396 million
Brock Parker -- 1.477 million
Alex Wilson -- 1.305 million
Jesse Rios -- 1.095 million
Russell Crane -- 472,000
Clayton Newman -- 266,000

James Sudworth (England)unfortunately bubbled the final table.



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Finnish player leads way on the WSOP POY (Player of the Year) standings...

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Villie Wahlbeck earned his first gold bracelet Sunday morning when he won the $10,000 World Championship Mixed tournament and finished 3rd in Event 6 ($10,000 World Championship Seven-card Stud). Villie now has 160 points in the WSOP POY standings and two cashes for a total of $645,289 so far this summer.

Jason Mercier (USA) and Phil Ivey (USA) are also near the top of the board, each having won a bracelet this year, and have 125 and 120 points, respectively.

Vitaly Lunkin (Russia), has won the most money of anyone at this year’s tournament with the first place pay out of $1.89 m at the 40th anniversary tournament and has had another small cash in Event 12. He is fourth in the POY standings with 110 points.

Bracelet winners Rami Boukai and Anthony Harb, who have each cashed in another event this year, are tied for 5h with 105 points.

Daniel Negreanu, Jim Geary, Steve Sung, Thang Luu, Brock Parker, Ken Aldridge, Keven Stammen, Freddie Ellis and Travis Johnson all have 100 points.

Later in the week we will do an update on the POY standings.


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WSOP Event 9 Winner - Ken Aldridge.

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Ken 'teach' Aldridge outlasted 1458 other players to win his first bracelet.
He beat Carmen Cavella heads up in a decent heads up battle which last over 3 hours -Aldridge tended to have the upper hand and should have put Cavella away earlier in the battle but choose the tactic of chipping away at Cavella using small ball tactics which ended up being the winning strategy.


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2009 40th Annual World Series of Poker
No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed (Event 9)
Wednesday, June 03, 2009 to Friday, June 05, 2009
Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $1,991,535
Entries: 1,459

Currently down to the heads up battle between Ken Aldridge and Carman Cavella. The only previous bracelet winner was Praz Bansi in the final 7 so when Praz busted in 7th place the WSOP would see a new player win their inaugural bracelet.

Praz is at the WSOP with other Hitsquad members including Karl Mahrenholz and James Akenhead.

Ken Aldridge
Carman Cavella

Peter Gould -3rd
Bryce Yockey -4th
Charles Furey - 5th
Manny Minaya -6th
Praz Bansi -7th
Bryn Kenny - 8th

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Each team will feature eight top players, with the Americas team captained by poker professional Daniel Negreanu and the Europeans skippered by Betfair-sponsored sensation Annette Obrestad.

The two 8-player teams will then face each other in a series of Heads Up and Doubles matches played at WSOP Europe in London on September 25th. The tournaments will be staged for television in the feature table area of the main casino floor

Phil Ivey wins Event 8 thus securing his 6th bracelet.

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Phil Ivey increased his poker god credentials by winning event 8 at the 2009 WSOP.
Deuce to Seven Draw Lowball (No-Limit) was the variant for event 8 and many believe this is the purest form of poker due to its great bluffing capabilities.

Ivey beat John Monnette in a see-saw battle which saw Ivey chip away at Monnette only for John to come rushing back with 2 big double ups.

147 players entered in what was quite a tough field predominantly full of pro's.
Ivey's profile hasn't been done on here as yet but will be done later this week.

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Congratulations to Jason Mercier - Event 5 WSOP

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Jason Mercier - has won the PLO Event 5 after beating Steve Burkholder heads up - to take his first bracelet at the WSOP this year. He already had an EPT title to his name when he took down the EPT San Remo event back in April 2008 for a cool $1.3m USD.

Keep an eye out for him in other events during the series.
Money and final table placings are listed below.

1st Jason Mercier $237,462
2nd Steve Burkholder $146,748
3rd Kevin Iacofano $96,128
4th Matthew Giannetti $66,544
5th Chris Biondino $48,533
6th Jonathan Tare $37,192
7th Dario Alioto $29,881
8th An 'The Boss' Tran $25,122



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Rule 96 Invoked at the WSOP - Event 6 Seven Card Stud

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The $10k Seven-Card Stud World Championship Day 2 was supposed to play down to the final 8 from a starting field of 101 players.That plan went a bit awry when 11 players were still alive at 3am.

The late hour triggered an application of Rule 96 from the 2009 World Series of Poker Tournament Rules.

Rule 96 states that no Day 2 will be required to play past 3am unless the final table is to be broadcast on television or the internet.

So as 7 card stud isn't one of the ESPN broadcasted events the last 11 players were sent to bed last night without knowing which eight would be seated at the final table.
They'll return today on two tables, ready to play all the way down to a champion.

Daniel Negreanu managed to nurse a depleted stack of 9,000 chips 4 hours into the day yesterday and rode it all the way back to 191k chips with a chance to make the final 8.

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WSOP Event 5 - Omaha - Down to 9 players

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Here are the players and seating assignments for Event 5 - $1500 Omaha.

Seat 1 - An Tran (445,000)
Seat 2 - Jason Mercier (384,400)
Seat 3 - Chris Biondino (182,000)
Seat 4 - Matt Giannetti (311,000)
Seat 5 - Kevin Iacofano (770,000)
Seat 6 - Jonathan Tare (639,000)
Seat 7 - Dario Alioto (315,000)
Seat 8 - Vic Park (341,000)
Seat 9 - Steven Burkholder (263,000)

Some good players still left in the tournament.
Will update more later.
Good luck Jason and Dario.



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71 Jason Mercier (USA)

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One of the new breed of up and coming players who has done well on the EPT in particular. Won his first bracelet 2009.

Started Playing Live:Ripe ol age of 15 - 2001
Year Turned Pro:2007
Favourite Games: NL Hold Em,Omaha
Style: LAG - TAG late.
Biggest Win:EPT San Remo €869k 1st place - beating Anthony Lellouche (France) heads up.
PokerProfiler Notes:Playing at the 2009 WSOP - has already made a Final Table at the $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Event 5. Has recorded 4 previous cashes at the WSOP
Winnings $3.2m (updated 4/Jun/09)
Nickname:J-Merc

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70 Thang Luu (USA) WSOP (2 titles O8hi/lo)

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Back to Back winner of the Omaha Hi/Lo event at the WSOP. Great feat after making the final table 3 years in a row. He came 2nd the year he was not the winner losing out to Frankie O'Dell. So that is a 2nd , 1st and 1st in three consecutive years - very impressive indeed.

Started Playing Live:2004
Year Turned Pro: Omaha 8 Hi/Lo specialist
Favourite Games: NL Hold Em,Omaha Hi/lo.
Style: Rock
Biggest Win:Back to Back Bracelets 2008 , 2009 Omaha Hi/Lo.
PokerProfiler Notes:An ex casino employee - he came 3rd in 2005 at the casino employees event at the end of the WSOP. Has turned his talents from dealing to playing.
Winnings $700k USD+
Nickname:Not Known

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