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Yesterday the ETP Budapest started and this is the first time there is a EPT event in Hungary. There is 532 poker players in the event and they play for the prizepool of $2,128,000 and the first prize will be $595,839. The buy in is $4000+$350 and will last for four days, from October 28 til November 1st. The event takes place at Las Vegas Casino at Sofitel Hotel in Budapest.
The 1st day (Day 1a) there was 262 poker players starting and 88 players survived the first day and will be back at Day 2. Day 1b has just started today and here will many big names show up, especially from the Pokerstars Pro team. We can follow names like Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, and he has just come back from Las Vegas where he won the WPT Festa al Lago and a first prize for over $1,4 million. Other names on day 1b is William Thorson, Alex Kravchenko, Dario Minieri and a big star on the ETP scene, Sebastian Ruthenberg who won EPT Barcelona, the first EPT event this year.
We will come back to pronounce the winner of this event and a little highlights from the final table.

Bertrand ”ElkY” Grospellier won World Poker tour Festa al Lago yesterday, and won the first prize money of $1,4 million. This final table only took five hours to play, and then all five other players were eliminated by the Team Pokerstars pro Grospellier.
Heads up Grospellier were up against Nam Le, who is a very good player that have great results in World Poker Tour events. But this time he would not win. Grospellier had a 15 to 1 lead when it was time for heads up. The last hand of the tournament was when Grospellier had 10-10 and Le had A-Q. Grospelliers 10-10 held and he was the winner of $1.4 million. Nam Le got a second prize of $943,215.

This was the final standings in the WPT Festa al Lago:

1: Bertrand ”ElkY” Grospellier - $1,4 million
2: Nam Le - $943,215
3: Oddie Dardon - $506,245
4: Nenad Medic - $$373,010
5: Adam Levy - $266,445
6: William Mietz - $186,510

Next World Poker Tour event is Foxwoods World Poker finals in Connecticut between 5-11 of November.

9 Players left. November 9 is the date. Do not foget it. It´s finally time for World Series Of Poker Main Event 2008, and nine players is going to battle for the first prize of over $9 million. The chip leader at this table is Dennis Phillips that have 26,295,000 in chips at final table start. Dennis is from Illinois, USA and has only played poker for 4 years. He won his seat by playing a $200 quailyfier at a casino in Illinois. Dennis is 53 years old.
Second in chips at the final table will be Ivan Demidov, a poker player from Moscow, Russia. He is 27 years old and he is a online player, and call himself a Semiprofessional poker player. He will be starting the tournament with 24,400,000 in chips.
Number 3 in chips is Scott Montgomery with 19,690,000. He is from Ontario, Canada and is 26 years old. He is a poker pro and has been that since 2006. Scott is one of the favorites to win this WSOP 2008, and earlier this year he became 5^th at the Los Angeles Poker Classics, and cashed out $300,000.
On place 4 we have a Danish player and his name is Peter Eastgate. He start the game with 18,375,000 in chips. Peter is 22 years old and if he wins, he will be the youngest player to ever have won a WSOP main event.
In place number 5 we find Ylon Schwartz from Brooklyn, New York, USA. He will also be a favorite in this final table though he has cashed in 11 WSOP events since 2005. Ylon is 38 years old and has been gambling for 25 years, he told pokerlistings.com in an interview. He will be starting with 12,525,000 in chips.
At 6^th place we have a Canadian from Toronto. His name is Darus Suharto and have 12,520,000 in chips at the table start. He was qualified by a $80 satellite and played a couple of satellites to get to the main event.
At 7^th place we find David Rheem that is a 28 year old player who lives in California, USA. David has won the most tournament money of all the players at the final table. He is from Miami but has moved to California. He will start the final table with 10,230,000 in chips.
Number 8 at the final table is Craig Marquis from Texas, USA. He is 23 years old and will start the final table with 10,210,000 in chips.
At the 9^th and last place is Kelly Kim from USA. He is 31 years old and is a professional poker player. He will be short stacked with only 2,620,000 in chips.

The Final table of WSOP Main Event will be played at Rio Casino in Las Vegas November 9. We will come back with the results right after the final table ends.

Daniel Negreanu was born in Toronto, Canada in 1974 and was learning to play poker at 15. He moved to Las Vegas when he was 21 years old and when he built up his bankroll. It didn´t went that well for Daniel and he had to move back to Toronto, Canada to rebuild his bankroll.
In 1997 Daniel Negreanu won 2 events at World Poker finals. He was also named the best all around player. His winning here was $55,064.

The year after he was the youngest player to win a bracelet in World Series of Poker, when he won the $2000 Pot Limit event. In the years to come he won 2 World Poker Tour events and 3 more bracelets in WSOP. He was very successfull in many tournaments. When the Wynn Casino opened in Las Vegas they took Daniel Negreanu as their Poker ambassador. But this lasted not very long, and in 2007 Daniel Negreanu signed with PokerStars. Now he is in Team Pokerstars with other poker pros like Chis Moneymaker, Joe Hachem and many more big poker names. At the Card Players Magazine´s Player of the year award he was named the Favorite Poker Player, this was in 2006.
Daniel Negreanu have total 4 bracelets in WSOP and have made över $10 millions in tournament winnings.
His favorite hockey team is, ofcourse, Toronto Maple Leafs, and you can often see him wear Toronto match jersey.

There is a new cool tournament at Full Tilt Poker called the Matrix. In this tournament you play 4 Sit & Go at the same time against 8 other players. And it´s the same players you play against in all four Sit & Go´s. This tournament is like nothing you seen before, and you can only find it at Full Tilt.
In the tournament there is a Sit & Go prize pool just like ordinary Sit & Go´s, but there is also a Matrix prize pool that goes to the player that earned most Matrix Points. You get the Points by knock out a player (Knockout Points). If you do a Knockout you will get two points, and for every player you outlast you get one point. This points is called Survival Points.
If you get in a tournament that is a buy-in of $10, the prize for every tables would be like this, 1st get $9, 2nd get $5,40 and 3rd get $3,60. You can follow your points live in the tournament schedule, to see how many point you and your opponents have so far.
If you will all four tables you become the Dominatrix. This means you get all first prizes at all four tables, and also win the entire Matrix prize pool!

Go to Full Tilt Poker and check it out. Use Referall Code PAW1017 when register, to get a bonus when you deposit.

Glen Witmer won the WTP North American Poker Championship that was played at Fallsview Casino Resort in Ontario. This was Glen Witmers first big tournament win and he can now cash out $1,090,589 in first prize money. Witmer was the chipleader when the final table began, but not many people though he would win. But he did.

Here is the chip count at the start of the Final table:

Glen Witmer – 3,710,000
James Trenholm – 1,365,000
Kathy Liebert – 1,620,000
Gavin Smith – 2,815,000
Ryan Fisler – 2,285,000
Marc Karam – 1,850,000

Here was 3 poker pros in Kathy Liebert, Gavin Smith and Marc Karam, and they were the favorites to win this event. First to leave the final table was James Trenholm when he had 7-7 and Smith had J-J, Smith won the pot and it was goodbye to Trenholm.

Heads up was between Glen Witmer and Gavin Smith. The final hand Witmer had  A-K and Smith went all in with his 5-5. The flop was Q-J-2. Turn was J and Smith was close to win the hand. Witmer could still win if he hit Ace, King or 10 for straight. The river came Ace and Glen Witmer won the World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship.

Here is the final results and prize moneyin US dollars:

1, Glen Witmer                           $1,090,589
2, Gavin Smith                            $532,545
3, Kathy Liebert                          $277,684
4, Ryan Fisler                              $228,234
5, Marc Karam                            $171,175
6, James Trenholm                     $133,137

Next World Poker Tour event is Festa Al Lago in October 20-26. This event is played at the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas.

Phil Ivey, that many peolpe claims to be the best poker player in the world, was born in California but his family moved to Roselle in New Jersey when he was just 3 months old. He was starting playing cards with his co workers at a telemarketing company where he used to work. He started his career in Atlantic City and became a poker pro.
His first World Series of Poker title he won when he was 23 years old and this was in the year 2000, winning the title by beating Phil Hellmuth and Amarillo Slim. This was in the Pot Limit Omaha event.

2002 was a good year for Phil Ivey, and at the World Series Of Poker he won three braclets and this is very unusual. The three events he won at WSOP 2002 was 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo, SHOE event and the $1,500 7 Card Stud. He also came in the final table at WTP, and won two tournaments at the Bellagio, and was the winner in World Poker Open Tournament.
2005 he really dominated the poker world. He was on the final table twice at WPT, cam second at the WSOP Circuit event, won $1 million in prize money when winning Monte Carlo Millions tournament, and only 24 hour after this first place in MCM, he won the FullTiltPoker.net Invitational Live from Monte Carlo and a first prize of $600,000.
In 2006 Phil Ivey was The Player of the year by All In Magazine, Bluff Magazine and at the UK gaming awards. In 2008 Phil won his first WPT event, winning the Los Angeles Poker Classic. This was his 8th appearance at the World Poker Tour final tables, and this is a record hold by Phil Ivey.

Other things about Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey now lives in Las Vegas with his wife Luciaetta and he loves to play golf. He was in the tornament World Series of Golf where he finished 3rd. This tournament is a cross between golf and poker. He is also a big fan of Basketball, with favorite teams Los Angeles Lakers and Houston rockets.
He is well known as “Tiger Woods of Poker”.   
When you read all this information about Phil Ivey, no wonder that many people calls him the best player in the world!

Soon it´s time for Full Tilt Online Poker Series X (FTOPS X) to go off with over $15 million in guaranteed prize money. This FTOPS is 25 different events that will take place from November 5th to November 16th, with a final Main event with a guaranteed prize pool of $2,5 million. Each event is hosted by a Poker Pro from Full Tilt. A cool thing about FTOPS X is the 2-day event with a buy-in of $5000+$200 and a guaranteed prize pool of at least $2 million. There will be max 6 players at every table and the first day ending at level 17 or when it´s down to the final 2 tables.
All players that reach the final table in a FTOPS X event will receive a limited edition Full Tilt Jacket, and if you win the event you get the jacket plus a gold jersey and a special designed avatar with a gold jersey to use at the Full Tilt tables.

Of course you can get to this events by satellites at Full Tilt Poker. For very little money you can get to the big tables at an FTOPS X event. You can also go to Full Tilt site and watch the final tables afterwards, this is a great way to see the action.
Last FTOPS was the FTOPS IX and the winner of the main event was “dubbeemin” and the 2-day event was won by user “hAAydon”.

Is it your turn to win this year?

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Here comes some news from the Asia Pacific Poker Tour. They have just ended the tournament APPT Auckland in New Zealand. This tournament was the largest Poker tornament in New Zealands history with 306 poker players attending at the Sky City Hotel & Casino in Auckland. The winner of the tournament was Daniel Craker, winning NZD $257,040 and he also got an entry to the APPT Grand Final in Sydney. On day 3 there was only 11 players left, and 9 of them would be around the final table. It did´nt took long until both Edward Holdcroft and Eric Mutrie was out and it was time for Final table.

At the final table start the chips count was like this:

Daniel Craker 447,000
Nathanael Seet 348,000
Wai Yuen 162,000
Michael Mariakis 262,000
Dan Sing 198,000
Jani Karke 49,000
Luke Stanford 860,000
Wang Jung 373,000
Matthew Konnecke 80,000

This heads-up only took 2 hands and was between Daniel Craker and Matthew Konnecke. Third place finisher was Wang Jung with $85,680 in prize money.

Last hand in tournament:

Matthew had A-9 and Re-raised pre flop and Daniel went all in with his 2-2. Matthew was thinking for a while and then went all in for his tournament living. The flop showed K-10-6 and was no help to Matthew´s A-9. Turn was turned over and it was 5 of spades. No help again. On the river a Q came up and this was no help either, and Matthew Konnecke finished 2^nd with $162,791 in prize money. Daniel Craker won this tournament and won $257,040 in first prize money.