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Day 5 of World Championship Of Online Poker was a busy day. Event 11 took place at Pokerstars with a buy-in of $500+$30 and a total prize pool of $3,109,500. There were 6219 players attending from the start but at monday there was only 214 left to battle for the bracelet. When it was time for the final table in event 11 Daryl “aaaaaaaa” Jace hade the chip lead and was playing really good. Until a really bad 4-handed. And when he had Q-Q and big pre-plop raises he stood against the new chip leaders K-K. This hand could have been the final key for the final table. No help can for Daryl Jace and he was out in 4th place. This was a really great hand for the chip leader Hiren “Hustla16″ Patel who came up with a really big stack of chips. After this it didn´t took long until Patel had taken down the tournament and 1st prize money of $446,533.73.
This was the final table standings when the tournament was finished:

1  Hiren “hustla16” Patel = $446,533.73
2  Juancesan = $270,000
3  colonelkosta = $355,000
4  Daryl “aaaaaaaa” Jace = $171,022.51
5  fabstinho = $130,599.01
6  CONOW = $99,504.01
7  GypsieChris = $68,409.01
8  kidwhowon = $37,314.01
9 Shazmeister = $24,098.63

There was 2 more braclets dealt out at this busy monday worth mention. In event 12 with a buy in of $200+$15, “lebordelaii” won first prize money $111,457.69. This was a No limit game.
The third bracelet wa in event 13, stud poker. Winner at this event was “yhcaep” who won $33,814.50. At this event 668 players was attending.

At sunday it was time for the 2009 World championship of online poker high roller event. The buy-in for this event was $10,300 and there were 299 players attending. The total prize pool was fantastic $2,990,000 and big names was to be found at the final table.
Among the nine players at the final table we could find names like Mike “Sowerss” Sowers, Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman, Peter “Belabacsi” Traply and Kevin “BeLOWaBOVe” Saul.
The players “sumpas”, Mike Sowers and Kevin Saul was the last three players at the table and Kevin Saul ended up at 3rd place.
Heads up between “sumpas” and Mike Sowers with sumpas in a big chip lead. “sumpas” won the event and $611,455 in first prize money. Sowers ended up 2nd with $448,500 in prize money.

This was the final table and the ending places:

1  Sumpas = $611,455
2  Mike “Sowerss” Sowers = $448,500
3  Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul = $337,870
4  Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman = $254,150
5  Peter “Belabacsi” Traply = $173,420
6  Kevin “KevBoyStar” Stani = $134,550
7  Matias “Festivuss” Gabrenja = $104,650
8  John Duthie = $74,750
9  Dustin “DDBeast” Dorrance Bowman = $56,810

Also congratulations to the player “ternoplayer” who came in 1st place in the WCOOP event 9 and won $303,876.31 in first prize money.

After three days the Lebanese Poker Championship was over, with Nabil Matta as a winner with $606,000 in first prize money. 207 players started the tournament and when the third day started there was only 28 left. 21 of them were guarateed prize money. It didn´t took long util they came to the bubble. Unfortunallty for Mark Demirjian he went out of the tournament on the last non-paid place.

When it was time for final table the stacks looked like this:

Seat 1 Fadi Kamar - 449,000
Seat 2 Chadi Ojeil - 747,000
Seat 3 Nabil Matta - 818,000
Seat 4 Imad Saab - 711,000
Seat 5 Omar Geadah - 452,000
Seat 6 Kamal Bejjani - 308,000
Seat 7 Walid Rizkallah - 559,000
Seat 8 Henry B. - 989,000
Seat 9 Nicolas Zakhem - 1,186,000

When it was time for heads up it was between Nadil Matta and Omar Geadah but it was shown that Matta´s stack was to big for Geadah and it was over pretty fast.
In the last hand Geadah was moving all in pre-flop with J-5. After some thinking Matta called with 9-8. Flop came 9-A-8. Turn was J and a little hope for  Geadah but the river was a 3 and Matta won the tournament
and $606,000 in prize money. This was the biggest prize money in the Lebanese Poker history.

Now WSOP 2008 is over and winner of the event was Peter Eastgate from Odense, Denmark. He is 22 years old and he is the youngest player ever to win World Series of Poker Main event. Phil Hellmuth was the previous record holder, he was 24 years old when he won WSOP. Peter Eastgate won the first prize of $9,1 million. The heads up was between Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov from Russia. Eastgate was the chipleader when the heads up begun, but Demidov was playing very well at first and doubled up and was up to 50/50 in chips. After 208 hands of the final table Demidov raised for 1,95 million in chips and a call from Eastgate. Flop came 9-7-6. After flop Demidov bets over 3,6 millions and after some time Eastgate called.Turn Was J. After turn it was check-check. River was Q and Demidov bet 7 millions. Call by Eastgate and Demidov had A-10, a bluff, and winner of the pot was Eastgate with his J-8, got a pair of Jacks.
Eastgate was the first Dane who won the WSOP main event and the second bracelet winner after Jesper Hougaard.

This is the results of the Final table of WSOP 2008:

1: Peter Eastgate $9,152,416
2: Ivan Demidov $5,809,595
3: Dennis Philipps $4,517,773
4: Ylon Schwartz $3,774,974
5: Scott Mongomery $3,096,768
6: Darus Suharto $2,418,562
7: David Rheem $1,772,650
8: Kelly Kim $1,288,217
9: Craig Marquis $900,670

Congratulations to Peter Eastgate for the first prize at the WSOP 2008.

On Thursday WPT annonuced that they had sign a sponsorship with Fulltiltpoker.net. This site is an ecducational site and this site is is being run by Full Tilt Poker.
Full Tilt will be a big sponsor when World Poker Tour is aired at Fox Sports for season 7. This will be 26 episodes.
Big Poker companys had sponsored a WPT event this season. Pokerstars had Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure. Party Poker had the event The Party Poker Million and Ultimate bet had an event called Ultimate bet Aruba Poker classic.

On Full Tilt you can play with the poker pros, including Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Jennifer Harman and many more. You can also chat with them and ask them about what ever you want poker related.
There is still no times for when tro air the WPT season 7 but it will be annonced before 2008 is over.

Now the first EPT Budapest is finished and the last man standing was a pokerstars players Will Fry. Will is from Nottingham in UK and won $595,839 in first prize money. He also won a seat to the EPT grand final in Monte Carlo. This was Will Fry´s first big live event and he ended up winning it. He was up against Ciprian Hrisca from Romania heads up. The last hand of the tournament came after about 5 hours play and lookeed like this:
The put all the chips in before the flop and they showed the cards, Fry had J-J and Hrisca had A-6. The flop was 10-Q-6 and there was a little hope for Hrisca. But nohing came and J-J won the hand, means that Will Fry won the EPT Event. Pokerstars player Johnny Lodden who is from Norway by the way, was out at 8^th place winning $53,200. On place seven was the hungarian player Zoltan Toth with a winning of $78,736.
The swede at the final table, Martin Jacobson finished 3^rd. He ended up winning $197,904.
In EPT Budapest there were 532 poker players attending, and the Buy-in was $4000+$350. This event was held in Sofitel Hotel in Budapest. Next EPT event is in Warsaw and is from 15-19 November.

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.