PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 48 : Mixed Games
June 26-28, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $1,041.900
Entries: 453

Defending Champion: Jerrod Ankenman

2010 FINAL RESULTS
ESKELAND SIGURD - 129
SUNG STEVE - 79
WICE ALEXANDER - 49
YAKOVENKO NIKOLAI - 39
SU STEPHEN - 34
SEIVER SCOTT - 29
JAFFEE JARED - 29
RABSTOV KIRILL - 14
VENGRIN MATTHEW - 14
BRUNSON TODD - 14
KRAVCHENKO ALEXANDER - 14
IGNACIO-BARBERO JOSE - 12
MARTIN JESSE - 12
MINIERI DARIO - 12
SPIEGELBERG ADAM - 12
MORRISON KIRK - 9
D'AGOSTINO JOHN - 9
CHEN WILLIAM - 9

RIGHT BACK AT YA, G-SMITH!

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com

A day after his good friend Gavin Smith scored his first bracelet, poker pro Chris Bell has won his first! This is Bell's second "PTPR Premier Event" victory of the season - Bell won the WPT Southern Poker Championship Main Event back in January. He now sits on the PTPR Top 10.


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 46 : Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low Split
June 25-27, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $5,000
Prizepool: $1,334.800
Entries: 284

Defending Champion: Roland de Wolfe

2010 FINAL RESULTS
BELL CHRIS - 127
SHAK DAN - 77
ULLIOTT DAVE "DEVILFISH" - 47
RITZIE JOE - 37
SEIDEL ERIK - 32
FORCE LEIF - 27
HOLLINK ROB - 27
GREEN PERRY - 12
HARKIN JEREMY - 12
NOWAKOWSKI DAVID - 12
MCKINLEY CAM - 12
CERNUTO JOHN "MIAMI" - 10
WIESNER NATHANIEL - 10
ALTBREGIN SERGEY - 10
BLACK ANDY - 10
HUNT DAVID - 7
GUBITZ FELIX - 7
KESSLER ALLEN "CHAINSAW" - 7



PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 45 : No-Limit Hold'em
June 25-27, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $4,180.950
Entries: 3,097

2010 FINAL RESULTS
ROCKOWITZ JESSE - 155
COBURN RAYMOND - 105
THIAGO NISHIJIMA - 75
O'DELL KEVIN - 65
GOLDFARB MICHAEL - 60
BROWN STEVEN - 55
MALOUGH SHAUN - 55
CONLEY JUSTIN - 40
JAKOBSSON JOHAN - 40
YOO EDWARD - 40
BICHON THOMAS - 40
GORD DOUGLAS - 38
MICHALOWSKI RAFAL - 38
FERGUSON ANDREW - 38
BOYD RUSS "DUTCH" - 38
CROFFUT ADAM - 35
TRICKETT SAM - 35
GAWARECKI TANYA - 35

GOOD OL' G-SMITH!

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com

Congrats to Canadian Gavin Smith, one of the most popular players on tour, for winning his first ever WSOP bracelet - he's been close before, but this was finally "his time".

Smith now sits tied for 10th (5th PTPR "cash" this season) on the PTPR Top 10.

PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 44 : Mixed Hold'em (Limit, No-Limit)
June 24-26, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $1,166.100
Entries: 507

Defending Champion: Bahador Ahmadi

2010 FINAL RESULTS
SMITH GAVIN - 130
HANNAWA DANNY - 80
FINNE TIMOTHY - 50
MICHNIK MICHAEL - 40
ROSEN JAMIE - 35
SOLOMON JARRED - 30
IDEMA DANIEL - 30
PILGRIM DWYTE - 15
SANTORO MIKE - 15
AMENDOLA ALFONSO - 15
KELLY STEVEN - 15
TAMAYO JONATHAN - 13
KWAYSSER VALDEMAR - 13
HSIUNG KENNY - 13
VRABEL LUKE - 13
ZARTMAN KYLE - 10
DOHMEN CYRIEL - 10
WILLIAMS JOVON - 10

GORDON SURVIVES STAR-FILLED TOP 18 TO WIN FIRST BRACELET

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 42 : No-Limit Hold'em
June 23-25, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $3,403.305
Entries: 2,521

2010 FINAL RESULTS
HAMRICK DEAN - 150
O'NEAL THOMAS - 90
WILEY IAN - 70
CARAMATTI NICCOLO - 60
KAISER AARON - 55
HEMMEL RYAN - 50
ROSSKAMM ANDREW - 50
JOHNSON THOMAS - 35
GUSTAVSON AARON - 35
SWICK MICHAEL "QUICK" - 35
BERGERON CRAIG - 35
SCHAAF JAMES - 33
OBADIA JOSE - 33
GRANLUND PETER - 33
BUZGON DANIEL - 33
BRENES HUMBERTO - 30
PRIETO WILLIAM - 30
KO BERNARD - 30



PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 43 : H.O.R.S.E. World Championship
June 23-25, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $2,265.400
Entries: 241

Defending Champion: David Bach

2010 FINAL RESULTS
GORDON IAN - 127
ASHBY RICHARD - 77
KATCHALOV EUGENE - 47
JOHNSON MARCO - 37
GLANTZ MATTHEW - 32
MORTENSEN CARLOS - 27
SCHULMAN NICK "THE TAKEOVER" - 27
TRANIELLO MARCO - 12
FISCHMAN SCOTT - 12
TOWNSEND BRIAN - 12
BILLIRAKIS STEVE - 12
DO CUONG - 10
CHOW MICHAEL - 10
HENNIGAN JOHN ``WORLD`` - 10
YITZHAKI ROMAN - 10
ADAMS BRANDON - 7
MIZRACHI ROBERT - 7
BRUNSON TODD - 7

KASSELA, HARMAN, SHCHEMELEV, ANNETTE - OH MY!

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com


Frank Kassela has won a second bracelet at this year's WSOP - this time, the Seven Card Razz World Championship - Jennifer Harman has another strong finish and Russian revelation Vladimir Shchemelev scores yet another Top 10 finish at this year's WSOP!!

Annette's first deep venture into a WSOP event was a crazy one! Chip swings were aplenty as she tried hard for her first bracelet in the Shootout event - however, after being as high as third - she eventually ended up 11th.



PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 36 : No-Limit Hold'em
June 19-24, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,000
Prizepool: $2,791.800
Entries: 3,102

2010 FINAL RESULTS
MONTGOMERY SCOTT - 155
CARLSON MICHAEL - 105
RICHARDSON ADAM - 75
FUHS DANIEL - 65
ROY SEBASTIEN - 60
DOLAN JOHN - 55
DUFEK PETER - 55
BEEMAN TIMOTHY - 40
MICHNIK MICHAEL - 40
CARBONARI DANIEL - 40
D'ANGELO RYAN - 40
GOLDSTEIN JOSHUA - 38
PITTI JOSEPH - 38
TRAPLY PETER - 38
HATLEY CHARLES - 38
GONZALES RAUL - 35
LEWIS LUTHER - 35
SANCHEZ DAVID - 35



PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 39 : No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
June 21-23, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $1,885.950
Entries: 1,397

Defending Champion: Greg FBT Mueller

2010 FINAL RESULTS
KELLY STEVEN - 138
KING JEFFREY - 88
HAYNIE DERRIC - 58
DIRKSEN DUSTIN - 48
LEMAN REAGAN - 41
SHAFFER BRETT - 38
VARANO PAUL - 38
COOPER MICHAEL - 23
SCOTT JUSTIN - 23
PESEK MICHAEL - 23
OBRESTAD ANNETTE - 23
KITCHENS JOHNNY - 21
TRAN J.C. - 21
KAMUTZKI HEINZ - 21
HOHN STEVE - 21
WADE TRISTAN - 18
CORTELINO LEONARD - 18
DE MELO FATIMA MOREIRA - 18



PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 40 : Seven Card Razz
June 21-23, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $839.500
Entries: 365

Defending Champion: Jeffrey Lisandro

2010 FINAL RESULTS
KASSELA FRANK - 128
TROY MAXWELL - 78
LEWIS GEORGE - 48
SHCHEMELEV VLADIMIR - 38
PISPALA MIKKO - 33
HARMAN JENNIFER - 28
RUTTER STUART - 28
BJORIN CHRIS - 13
TILLER THOMAS - 13
COBB ARTIE - 13
OSPINA DANIEL - 13
PACKER SCOTT - 11
DIANO STEVEN - 11
WOOD BILL - 11
HELM NICK - 11
JOHNSON LINDA - 8
NGUYEN JOHN - 8
KLEVANSKY MORRIS - 8



PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 41 : Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split 8 or Better
June 22-24, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $1,143.450
Entries: 847

Defending Champion: Brandon Cantu

2010 FINAL RESULTS
JELINEK STEVE - 133
GOTTLIEB JOHN - 83
TAYLOR ANDERS - 53
CHAPPUS MICHAEL - 43
LAMB BEN - 38
THOMAS MANDY - 33
HELLMUTH PHIL - 33
KARP RYAN - 18
ETTEDGI JOEL - 18
BAKER JEFFREY - 18
SPRENGERS DARREN - 18
GREENSTEIN BARRY - 16
ANDREWS BRYAN - 16
COUSINEAU TONY - 16
GOTZ IGOR - 16
DOVZHENKO ALEXANDER - 13
CULP CODY - 13
TANNER STEPHEN - 13

KWAYSSER, MARCHESE SHAKE UP PTPR TOP 10

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com


Valdemar Kwaysser has won Event #38 - 10K Pot-Limit Hold'em World Championship - this is "Luigi"'s second PTPR win this season. The win puts him in 5th place on the PTPR Top 10 Board ... a 6th place finish allows Tom Marchese to move back to 3rd place on the PTPR board.

Blair Rodman, Sam Stein, Clement Thuny, Chainsaw Kessler, Sandra Naujoks, Amnon Filippi and Amit Makhija also scored PTPR points in the event.


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 38 : Pot-Limit Hold'em World Championship
June 20-22, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $2,519.200
Entries: 268

Defending Champion: John Kabbaj

2010 FINAL RESULTS
KWAYSSER VALDEMAR - 127
MARAFIOTI MATT - 77
CALDERARO JAMES - 47
BUCHERL KONSTANTIN - 37
STERN DANI - 32
MARCHESE TOM - 27
JETTEN PETER - 27
RODMAN BLAIR - 12
KUZMIN ALEXANDER - 12
STEIN SAM - 12
DOUDNEY NATHAN - 12
THUMY CLEMENT - 10
INIZAN MARC - 10
KESSLER ALLEN "CHAINSAW" - 10
NAUJOKS SANDRA - 10
FIILIPPI AMNON - 7
MAKHIJA AMIT - 7
LANDFISH STEVE - 7

IVEY THE TOP H.O.R.S.E. - WINS 8TH

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com


Phil Ivey has won another bracelet - this time it's the 3K H.O.R.S.E. event ... a star-studded final table wasn't enough to stop Ivey, who was down to a few chips with 12 players left.

Ivey wins his 8th bracelet joining Erik Seidel - he and Seidel now sit two bracelets away from Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan. Phil Hellmuth leads the way with 11.

It's only a matter of time before Ivey becomes the top bracelet winner of all-time, right?

A bunch of high-profile players joined Ivey in the Top 18: Bill Chen, John Juanda, Jeff Lisandro, Dave (not Bakes) Baker, Chad Brown, Dan Makowsky, David Benyamine, Dan Heimiller, Scott Seiver, David Singer and Freddy Bonyadi.


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 37 : H.O.R.S.E.
June 19-21, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $3,000
Prizepool: $1,319.280
Entries: 478

Defending Champion: Zack Fellows

2010 FINAL RESULTS
IVEY PHIL - 129
CHEN BILL - 79
JUANDA JOHN - 49
ALDRIDGE KEN - 39
LISANDRO JEFFREY - 34
BAKER DAVE - 29
HAHN ALBERT - 29
BROWN CHAD - 14
HUGHES RYAN - 14
WHEELER BRENT - 14
MAKOWSKY DANIEL - 14
GUO YUEBIN - 12
RESLOCK MING - 12
BENYAMINE DAVID - 12
HEIMILLER DAN - 12
SEIVER SCOTT - 9
SINGER DAVID - 9
BONYADI FARZAD "FREDDY" - 9



PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 35 : Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship
June 19-21, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $2,406.400
Entries: 256

Defending Champion: Leo Wolpert

2010 FINAL RESULTS
MAHMOOD AYAZ - 127
SCHMEJKAL ERNST - 77
SOMERVILLE JASON - 42
KOSTRITSYN ALEXANDER - 42
ROUSSO VANESSA - 24
JAKA FARAZ - 24
LACAY LUDOVIC - 24
PHAM THANG - 24
SMITH GAVIN - 10
GORDON PHIL - 10
KRAVCHENKO ALEXANDER - 10
GROSPELLIER BERTRAND "elkY" - 10
KABRHEL MARTIN - 10
RAJKUMAR VIVEK - 10
MOORMAN CHRIS - 10
RAST BRIAN - 10

STARS ON THE HUNT...

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com

There are some big names hunting down a WSOP bracelet at the moment ... but first, the point distribution from the WSOP Seniors Event (find out which stars are on the hunt below) ...


PTPR PRELIM EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 34 : Seniors' No Limit Hold'em Championship
June 18-20, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $2,827.800
Entries: 3,142

Defending Champion: Michael T. Davis

2010 FINAL RESULTS
ANGLE HAROLD - 75
MINETTI MICHAEL - 40
WOO JOHN - 25
STEMP ERIC - 15
CAMILLO DANIEL - 10
DERDEN PRESTON - 8
WARD JACK - 5
PIANELLI CARLOS - 5
HONG JAY - 5


Now onto event updates (as of press time: Mon Jun 21 7:14pm ET) ...

Event #35 - Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Ayaz Mahmood leads Ersnt Schmejkal one to zero in the Heads Up final.

Big names that made the Quarters...Alex Kostritsyn, Vanessa Rousso (who played a thrilling marathon match against Schmejkal in the quarters) and Faraz Jaka.


Event #36 - 1K No-Limit Hold'em
Over 350 players still remain - Canuck Scott Montgomery leads the way - Neil Channing is in the Top 10.


Event #37 - 3K H.O.R.S.E.
19 players remain including chip leader John Juanda, Dan Makowsky (of Pokerati), Dave Baker (the Texan, not Bakes), Jeff Lisandro, Bill Chen, Dan Heimiller, David Benyamine, Scott Seiver, David Singer, Chad Brown, Jordan Seigel, Phil Ivey and Farzad Bonyadi ... we're sure in for a thirlling finish to this tournament1


Event #38 - 10K Pot-Limit Hold'em World Championship
Over 100 players still remain but, Tom Marchese is the chip leader - and has the opportunity to totally blow up on the Top 10 PTPR charts. Sirious Jamshidi, Burt Boutin, Ashton Griffin, John Duthie, Noah Boeken and Anthony Lellouche all have over 100K in chips.

PAPOLA TAMES THE MASTER - BOTH ENTER PTPR TOP 10

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com

4-event update!

Starting with Event 32 - the 5k No Limit Hold'em Six Handed Event - where Men Nguyen was heads up for his second bracelet of the Series - making sure no one has forgotten about "The Master". But Jeff Papola, who's had his own successful series so far, beat the Master to the punch.

Papola has scored major points (a first and a second) both in Six Handed events - is he the best six hander out there?

With this result, both Papola and Men the Master enter the PTPR Top 10.

A tip of the cap to notables Erick Lindgren, Christian Harder and Eugene Todd - all three also collected points in this event.


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 32 : No Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
June 17-19, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $5,000
Prizepool: $2,669.600
Entries: 568

Defending Champion: Matthew Hawrilenko

2010 FINAL RESULTS
PAPOLA JEFFREY - 130
NGUYEN MEN "THE MASTER" - 80
RADOJA MARK - 50
LAUNAIS BRUNO - 40
DELACRUZ ORLANDO - 35
LINDGREN ERICK - 30
MCFARLAND TAYLOR - 30
ELIAS DARREN - 15
SHENG PAUL - 15
PANESIS EVAN - 15
ROUX ANTHONY - 15
GREENWOOD LUCAS - 13
PHOMVEHA SAMLANE - 13
HARDER CHRISTIAN - 13
TODD EUGENE - 13
CONKRIGHT JOHN - 10
MOTOROV DMITRY - 10
KENNEY TYLER - 10



The UK's Mike Ellis earns his third "PTPR Cash" of the year, winning his first ever bracelet in Event 30 - No Limit Hold'em. Also "cashing" in the event ... Martin Jacboson, William Kakon, Neil Channing and Jean Gaspard.

PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 30 : No Limit Hold'em
June 16-19, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $3,231.900
Entries: 2,394

2010 FINAL RESULTS
ELLIS MIKE - 148
GONZALEZ CHRISTOPHER - 98
WILKINSON DAVID - 68
JACOBSON MARTIN - 58
GRINER BILLY - 53
KAKON WILLIAM - 48
HALLEE JASON - 48
KASTLER CHRISTOPHER - 33
COHEN JEFF - 33
QUEEN ALEXANDER - 33
CHANNING NEIL - 33
GASPARD JEAN - 31
LEHMANN MARKUS - 31
STERN ALLEN - 31
VANHO KENT - 31
FERRIS ANDREW - 28
GOOSEN STEVEN - 28
SANDS DAVID - 28



Konstantin Puchkov wins Event 31 - H.O.R.S.E. - other notbables with points include: Al Barbieri, Robert Mizrachi, Chip Jett, Chainsaw Kessler and James Van Alstyne

PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 31 : H.O.R.S.E.
June 16-19, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $1,117.800
Entries: 828

Defending Champion: James Van Alstyne

2010 FINAL RESULTS
PUCHKOV KONSTANTIN - 133
BARBIERI AL - 83
LEARY DUSTIN - 53
LENNAARD KEN - 43
AWAD HANI - 38
REVESZ ANDREW - 33
CAHAIL BLAKE - 33
MIZRACHI ROBERT - 18
JETT CHIP - 18
BURLOT REGIS - 18
KALPAKIS DANNY - 18
OSPINA DANIEL - 16
KESSLER ALLAN - 16
VAN ALSTYNE JAMES - 16
RESLOCK MING - 16
STEINDL JOHANNES - 13
HAN KYUNG - 13
DARNABY JAMES - 13



PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 33 : Pot Limit Omaha, Pot Limit Hold'em
June 17-19, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $1,108.800
Entries: 482

Defending Champion: Rami Boukai

2010 FINAL RESULTS
VELADOR JOSE-LUIS - 129
CHIU DAVID - 79
HOLLINK ROB - 49
GRAY CRAIG - 39
MACPHEE KEVIN - 34
RAMDIN ANNAND "VICTOR" - 29
MITCHELL JAMES - 29
COCHRANE GAVIN - 14
STERLING MATT - 14
BOUTIN BERT - 14
TIEMAN JOSHUA - 14
IVEY PHIL - 12
MCDONALD TRISTAN - 12
BUCHERI KONSTANTIN - 12
FLOYD RUSS - 12
GIORGI THOMAS - 9
KABBAJ JOHN - 9
CAVALLA CARMAN - 9

GRINDER GOES DEEP ... AGAIN

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com

5-events to update ... Grinder good for another 11 points, now sits 7th on the PTPR leaderboard ...


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 24 : No Limit Hold'em
June 12-15, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,000
Prizepool: $2,960.100
Entries: 3,289


2010 FINAL RESULTS
TEBBEN JEFFREY - 155
MCNAMARA J.D. - 105
TUAN KIET - 75
MURPHY DENIS - 65
CAI DAVID - 60
KELSO BLAKE - 55
TOLBERT JOHN - 55
POHLER GREG - 40
GROSS MICHAEL - 40
BELANGER LEBEL ALEXIS - 40
DAMORE ANTHONY - 40
JEFFREY JAMES - 38
DELATORRE EDGAR - 38
ROSENTHAL JAYMES - 38
BUSSOT FREDERIC - 38
JOHNSON GORDON - 35
CASTRO EUGENE - 35
MONICA CONRAD - 35



PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 26 : No Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
June 14-16, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $2,863.500
Entries: 1,245

Defending Champion: Brock Parker

2010 FINAL RESULTS
HAYDON WILLIAM - 137
PAPOLA JEFFREY - 87
BALDWIN JOE - 57
SCHARF EDUARD - 47
SOLOMON JARRED - 42
COWLEY STEVE - 37
ETAYO JAVIER - 37
SMITH JUSTIN - 22
ADENIYA MARTINS - 22
WITTEMAN TYLER - 22
DAVIS TAUREAN - 22
IVARSSON ALEXANDER - 20
RICCI PATRICK - 20
DANILYUK ANDREY - 20
CAJELAIS ERIK - 20
NEGREANU DANIEL - 17
VARANO PAUL - 17
THUMY CLEMENT - 17



PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 27 : Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split
June 14-16, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $869.400
Entries: 644

Defending Champion: David J. Halpern

2010 FINAL RESULTS
WARGA DAVID - 131
TROY MAXWELL - 81
LEVI DAVID - 51
JETT KARINA - 41
GEORGE CHRISTOPHER - 36
BASCOM JONATHAN - 31
TRYBA CHRISTOPHER - 31
BARI ALLEN - 16
WAHLBECK TOPIAS - 16
FOTI MICHAEL - 16
TREMBLAY ODETTE - 16
MACPHEE KEVIN - 14
ESTOCK JASON - 14
RODMAN BLAIR - 14
MARSHALL ALLYN - 14
RICHBURG JAMES - 11
CANTU BRANDON - 11
BURLOT REGIS - 11



PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 28 : Pot-Limit Omaha
June 15-17, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $1,370.800
Entries: 596

Defending Champion: J.C. Tran

2010 FINAL RESULTS
PROULX MIGUEL - 130
KLEIN LOREN - 80
GRECO MICHAEL - 50
TAYAR STEPHANE - 40
ENGELS JOERG - 35
GAL KARL - 30
POPE TREVOR - 30
LE TOMMY - 15
HANOTEAU PATRICK - 15
KOVACHEV DILYAN - 15
SEROCK JOSEPH - 15
REED MATTHEW - 13
VALOUEV DMITRII - 13
IACOFANO KEVIN - 13
JUNGLEN ADAM - 13
ANIRUDH SETH - 10
DEPA JONATHAN - 10
ODEA EOGHAN - 10



PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 29 : Limit Hold'em Championship
June 15-17, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $1,607.400
Entries: 171

Defending Champion: Greg "FBT" Mueller

2010 FINAL RESULTS
KEIKOAN MATT - 126
IDEMA DANIEL - 76
RAY KYLE - 46
PAINTER JAMESON - 36
PARKER BROCK - 31
GROYSMAN ZVI - 26
MORRIS SIMON - 26
MIZRACHI MICHAEL - 11
CHIU DAVID - 11
NGUYEN ANH VAN - 11
BAKER DAVE - 11
WOODS DARREN - 9
KLECAN MARK - 9
MINNULLIN ALBERT - 9
WALSH PATRICK - 9
GALLIN MATTHEW - 6
MARCUCCI GIANLUCA - 6
HSIUNG KENNY - 6

RAISY DAISY! FARHA ADDS TO HIS BRACELET COLLECTION

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com

The coolest man in poker, high stakes king Sammy Farha, won his third ever bracelet at the WSOP. Farha, known to provide great television (runner-up to Moneymaker in the "most important WSOP Main of all-time, his fantastic entertainment on High Stakes Poker, and who can forget his masterful destruction of actor (Dawson's Creek) and Goldie Hawn son, Oliver Hudson, on the first hand of 2005 series (see video at bottom of this post for the bloody details) ...

Farha wins his third bracelet - and he had to survive a strong Final 18 to do so ... other notables scoring points: James Dempsey, Michael Chow, Eugene Katchalov, Mike Sexton, Eric Basebaldy Baldwin, David Bakes Baker, Steve Zolotow, Jean-Robert Bellande and John D'Agostino ... finishing in the Top 27 (not receiving points): Chino Rheem, Miami John Cernuto, Jeffrey Lisandro, Huck Seed, Pat Pezzin and Dan Heimiller.

This is the second time that Farha wins this event, The Omaha Hi-Low Split 8 or Better World Championship.

With his strong showing in this event, James Dempsey moves into the PTPR Top 5 ... Baker's points leaves him in third place.


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 25 : Omaha Hi-Low Split 8+ Championship
June 12-14, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $1,992.800
Entries: 212

Defending Champion: Daniel Alaei

2010 FINAL RESULTS
FARHA SAM - 127
DEMPSEY JAMES - 77
ZHU YUEQI - 47
ALTBREGIN SERGEY - 37
MERKSICK TONY - 32
CHOW MICHAEL - 27
KATCHALOV EUGENE - 27
MOSSERI ABE - 12
WONG STEVE - 12
SEXTON MIKE - 12
BALDWIN ERIC "BASEBALDY" - 12
SHAMARDIN OLEG - 10
THURITZ MIKAEL - 10
NGUYEN TAI - 10
BAKER DAVID "BAKES" - 10
ZOLOTOW STEVE - 7
BELLANDE JEAN-ROBERT - 7
D'AGOSTINO JOHN - 7

OLD DUTCH BACK IN THE WINNERS' CIRCLE

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com

One of the most intersting players year in, year out at the WSOP is Russ "Dutch" Boyd - one of the original members of the crew - well, after going deep in Chris Moneymaker's Main Event win - and then winning a bracelet in 2006 - leave it to good old Dutch to make sure that we haven't forgotten about him - winning WSOP Event 23 - Limit Hold'em / Six Handed.

PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 23 : Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
June 11-13, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $883.200
Entries: 384


2010 FINAL RESULTS
BOYD RUSS "DUTCH" - 128
MEINDERS BRIAN - 78
MINNULLIN ALBERT - 48
PARMANN JULIAN - 38
DENOTARISTEFANI DOMENICO - 33
BARBIERI AL - 28
LIU JOHANNE JJ - 28
LE ANH - 13
NORMAN JEFF - 13
VITCH CHRISTOPHER - 13
KELLSTROM DANA - 13
MIRANDA EDUARDO - 11
DANIELSSON CHARLES - 11
ABRAHAMS JAVED - 11
BORTEH ALEXANDER - 11
FURST RAFE - 8
CHANTHABOUASY STEVE - 8
JURGENS TAD - 8


French woman Vanessa Hellebuyck has won the Ladies' Championship...

PTPR PRELIM EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker
Event 22 : No Limit Hold'em, Ladies only
June 11-13, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,000
Prizepool: $948.600
Entries: 117

2009 Winner: Lisa Hamilton


2010 FINAL RESULTS
HELLEBUYCK VANESSA - 75
BOESEN SIDSEL - 40
DEROSA TIMMI - 25
WHALEN ALLISON - 15
CHISOLM KAMI - 10
HODGE HOLLY - 8
SENGPHET LA - 5
OVERFIELD BONNIE - 5
WATTERWORTH LOREN - 5

RACE HEATS UP: BAKES WINS, SOREL FINALLY "CASHES"

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com

5 events to update today!

Jason DeWitt picks up his first bracelet - Event 17, 5K No-Limit Hold'em - DeWitt had a second place and a third place finish at last year's series.

Online star David "Raptor" Benefield scored a 6th place finish, his second ever Top-10 finish at the WSOP.

Other notables receiving PTPR points include: Amit Makhija, Perry Friedman, Antonio Esfandiari ... just missing out on points: Eugene Todd, Vivek Rajkumar, Josh Arieh, Amnon Filippi and Isaac Baron.

2010 World Series of Poker
Event 17 : No Limit Hold'em
June 8-10, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $5,000
Prizepool: $3,722.400
Entries: 792

2009 Winner: Brian Lemke


2010 FINAL RESULTS
DEWITT JASON - 132
TRICKETT SAM - 82
WILLIAMS JEFF - 52
GILMORE PETER - 42
MAKHIJA AMIT - 37
BENEFIELD DAVID "RAPTOR" - 32
CARROLL JAMES - 32
FOLTYN PAUL - 17
MINAYA MANELIC - 17
FRIEDMAN PERRY - 17
CHINNI JESSE - 17
ESFANDIARI ANTONIO - 15
BEHLING NICO - 15
GARGANO ANTHONY - 15
COOPER JOSHUA - 15
GALIC DRAGAN - 12
DUNN VERONICA - 12
MACCIELLO JOSHUA - 12



2009 November 9 particant Eric Buchman wins his first bracelet - Event 18, Limit Hold'em - Matthew Matros scores his second Limit Hold'em cash of the series ... Jeff Shulman and Shannon Shorr also make the Top 18.

2010 World Series of Poker
Event 18 : Limit Hold'em
June 10-12, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $2,000
Prizepool: $866.320
Entries: 476

2009 Winner: Marc Naalden


2010 FINAL RESULTS
BUCHMAN ERIC - 129
COURSON BRENT - 79
HUSTOFT STEVEN - 49
FERRARI FLAVIO - 39
CHU HANSU - 34
JENSEN WILLIAM - 29
GRAPENTHIEN MATT - 29
BOGDANSKI GARY - 14
MATROS MATTHEW - 14
QUACH DANIEL - 14
LEE DUKE - 14
GRYGLIK MARK - 12
SHULMAN JEFF - 12
LAPIN NORMAN - 12
DICKENSON KEN - 12
BRUSSARD ANDREW - 9
SHORR SHANNON - 9
MERVIS JEFFREY - 9



David "Bakes" Baker has moved into the PTPR Top 3 - due to his winning the Deuce to Seven Draw Lowball No-Limit World Championship - The internet pro has been hot at the WSOP - four cashes (three that qualified for PTPR points) ...

John Juanda scored his second Top 5 finish in less than a week ... Erik Seidel, Daniel Negreanu, Andy Bloch, Yan Chen and Chad Brown also scored points in this event.

2010 World Series of Poker
Event 19 : 2-7 Draw Lowball World Championship (No Limit)
June 9-12, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $949.400
Entries: 101

2009 Winner: Nick "The Takeover" Schulman


2010 FINAL RESULTS
BAKER DAVID - 126
CLOUTIER ERIC - 76
DANZER GEORGE - 46
JUANDA JOHN - 36
BOOTH DOUG - 31
SEIDEL ERIK - 26
KESSELMAN ERIC - 26
NEGREANU DANIEL - 11
BLOCH ANDY - 11
MONNETTE JOHN - 11
MUSSO VINCENT - 11
CHEN YAN - 9
BROWN CHAD - 9
GOULD PETER - 9



Former WSOP Main Event Final Table participant Tex Barch (Joe Hachem's WSOP win) won Event 20 - Pot Limit Omaha. This is Barch's fifth WSOP cash, his first since 2008. Canadian pro and bracelet winner Nenad Medic finished fourth in this event - Blair Rodman and Nick Binger has finished in the Top 18.

2010 World Series of Poker
Event 20 : Pot Limit Omaha
June 10-13, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $1,194.750
Entries: 885

2009 Winner: Jason Mercier


2010 FINAL RESULTS
BARCH JON "TEX" - 133
THIBAUT KLINGHAMMER - 83
DANG TRAI - 53
MEDIC NENAD - 43
RAZAVI ASHKAN - 38
HYONG CHAN CHRIS - 33
RODMAN BLAIR - 33
PATTERSON TYLER - 18
PFISTER DENTON - 18
COSTA PETER - 18
HARDER CHRISTIAN - 18
REDFERN THOMAS - 16
MIXER MICHAEL - 16
STEELY CHASA - 16
FLANDERS TIMOTHY - 16
BINGER NICK - 13
VIOX CHRIS - 13
GABER OLIVER GILL - 13



Richard Ashby picks up his first bracelet by winning Event 21 - Seven Card Stud. Dan Heimiller continues his impressive mixed-games ability - this is his third non-hold'em Top 10 finish of the series already.

Sorel Mizzi was able to pickup his first points of the series, cracking the 300 point mark overall for the season. Mizzi needed the points as Bakes is hot on his heels.

Pat Pezzin, Jon "Pearljammer" Turner and Alex Kravchenko also made it into the Top 18.

2010 World Series of Poker
Event 21 : Seven-Card Stud
June 10-12, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $550.800
Entries: 408

2009 Winner: Jeffrey Lisandro


2010 FINAL RESULTS
ASHBY RICHARD - 129
PIETSCH CHRISTINE - 79
SHEBELL DARREN - 49
HEIMILLER DAN - 39
AHMED OWAIS - 34
MIZZI SOREL - 29
PEZZIN PAT - 29
TURNER JON "PEARLJAMMER" - 14
KRAVECHNKO ALEXANDER - 14
WALTER RAYMOND - 14
EAM VORAKBOTH - 14
FRIEDMAN ERIC - 12
JOHNSON DAVID - 12
ALBINI STEVEN - 12
HEROLD JULIAN - 12
ELSANAFIRI SAID - 9
REGAN JOHN - 9
LAIRD JAMES - 9

CARTER PHILLIPS WINS, MOVES INTO PTPR TOP 10

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com

Carter Phillips has joined an elite group. The 2008 EPT Barcelona Champion has added another major title, winning Event 16 - the Six-Handed No Limit Hold'em 1.5K buy-in event - becoming one of only a few players to hold both a EPT and WSOP title.

This is Phillips' third PTPR "cash" of the season - placing him 8th on the PTPR Player of the Year Leaderboard.



2010 World Series of Poker
Event 16 : No Limit Hold'em Six Handed
June 7-9, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $2,245.050
Entries: 1663

2009 Winner: Ken Aldridge


2010 FINAL RESULTS
PHILLIPS CARTER - 141
GERBER SAMUEL - 91
BERGERON CRAIG - 61
PEREZ HUGO - 51
THOMAS RUSSELL - 46
DIAZ DAVID - 41
TRAN THONG - 41
LAKHITOV MIKHAIL - 26
WILSON ALEXANDER - 26
FLOWERS MARK - 26
EZROL MATTHEW - 26
IACOFANO KEVIN - 24
ZOOROB MATT - 24
MONICA CONRAD - 24
MEYERS MICHAEL - 24
MARTIN JESSE - 21
SNICKLES RYAN - 21
TABB STEVEN - 21

HARMAN, CHAINSAW COME CLOSE

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com

Jennifer Harman and Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler came dangerously close to a bracelet in the 10K Seven Card Stud World Championship last night ... unfortunately, they will have to settle for silver (Kessler) and bronze (Harman).

Harman caught fire with 14 players left sky-rocketing to the Top 3 in chips ... Kessler was actually the guy with a chip and a chair with 13 players left - yet, he buzzed his way up to second ... quite an impressive performance by both players for sure.

And what else can be said about Vladimir Shchemelev? Yet another final table performance - he's showing the world that he now one of the most dominant mixed games players in the world.

There were a bunch of other big names that made the Final 16 ... Steve Zolotow, John Juanda, Dario Minieri, Blair Rodman and Toto Leonidas.


2010 World Series of Poker
Event 15 : Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split 8+ World Championship
June 6-8, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $1,598.000
Entries: 170

2009 Winner: Jeffrey Lisandro


2010 FINAL RESULTS
KASSELA FRANK - 126
KESSLER ALLEN "CHAINSAW" - 76
HARMAN JENNIFER - 46
ZOLOTOW STEVE - 36
JUANDA JOHN - 31
RABTSOV KIRILL - 26
SHCHEMELEV VLADIMIR - 26
MINIERI DARIO - 11
BENSON GARY - 11
LIND GEORGE - 11
ALTBREGIN SERGEY - 11
ISAIA ALESSIO - 9
JOHNSON MARCO - 9
GEORGE CHRISTOPHER - 9
RODMAN BLAIR - 9
LEONIDAS TOTO - 6

CHEN SURVIVES THUNDERING HEARD

CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com

Yan Chen is your latest bracelet winner. Chen won Event 14 - 1.5K Deuce to Seven Draw Lowball (No Limit). Chen had one heck of a Final 18 to go through in order to win the event - others in the Top 18 included: Nick Binger, Alexander Kravchenko, Chino Rheem, Scott Seiver, Erik Seidel, Charles Lehr Keith, Tad Jurgens and Chris Viox.

Phil Ivey contends that Chen (who is a part-time poker player) was his toughest competition when he (Ivey) won the 2.5K buy-in event last year.


2010 World Series of Poker
Event 14 : Deuce-to-Seven Draw Lowball (No Limit)
June 5-7, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $337.500
Entries: 250


2010 FINAL RESULTS
CHEN YAN - 127
WATTEL MIKE - 77
BINGER NICK - 47
HAYNIE DERRIC - 37
THUAN BUI TODD - 32
BORD JAMES - 27
KRAVCHENKO ALEXANDER - 27
NICEWANDER DANIEL - 12
RHEEM DAVID "CHINO" - 12
SNYDER SEAN - 12
MICON BRYAN - 12
SEIVER SCOTT - 10
BJORIN CHRIS - 10
SEIDEL ERIK - 10
TRAN JUSTIN - 10
LEHR KEITH CHARLES - 7
JURGENS TAD - 7
VIOX CHRIS - 7

DURRR COMES UP SHORT

Durrr will have to wait another day for his first WSOP bracelet - the chip leader heading into the final day of his tournament, Tom Dwan couldn't seal the deal - still, a very respectable second place finsih for Dwan.

In the end, New Zealand Simon Watt outlasted Dwan, one of the best poker players in the world today. In 2009, Watt (who's a software developer by day) won the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Main Event in his hometown of Auckland. He becomes the first ever New Zealander to win a bracelet at the WSOP.


2010 World Series of Poker
Event 11 : No Limit Hold'em
June 4-6, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $3,460.050
Entries: 2563

2009 Champion: Mike Eise

2010 FINAL RESULTS
WATT SIMON - 145
DWAN TOM "DURRR" - 95
RANDALL DAVID - 65
MCCORMICK AUSTIN - 55
YOUNG JASON - 50
SMITH MICHAEL - 45
RETTENMAIER MARVIN - 45
WINTER KYLE - 30
LADNY ERIC - 30
PHILLIPS NICHOLAS - 30
GUPTA VENKATESH - 30
SANGHA HARKSUKPAUL - 28
BOLOTIN ALEX - 28
JULIUS KYLE - 28
FENDELET JEREMY - 28
HAMILTON SCOTT - 25
TAUS JASON - 25
FERNANDEZ JACOBO - 25


Poker Pro, poker book author and math wiz Matt Matros has won his first WSOP bracelet - 6 years after cashing for the first time ...

2010 World Series of Poker
Event 12 : Limit Hold'em
June 4-6, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $843.750
Entries: 625

2009 Champion: Thomas Alenius

2010 FINAL RESULTS
MATROS MATTHEW - 131
ABGHARI AHMAD - 81
CHAN TERRENCE - 51
KAPALAS GEORGIOS - 41
DRESEL-VELASQUEZ ADRIAN - 36
POTTER JASON - 31
PAINTER JAMESON - 31
TRUIJERS ROBERTO - 16
BURFORD MARK - 16
KASSELA FRANK - 16
LAMB BEN - 16
BANKS KIRK - 14
TRAN DEAN - 14
SRI AMNUEY - 14
SHEYN ILYA - 14
GALLAGHER PATRICIA - 11
NEEMAN JEFFREY - 11
STEVANOVSKI ROBERT - 11

GRINDER, SCHMELEV FINAL TABLE AGAIN, MEN THE MASTER CONQUERS

Men The Master has won his seventh bracelet (first since 2003) in the 10K Seven-Card Stud World Championship. Both "The Grinder" Michael Mizrachi and Vladimir Schmelev made a second final table in less than a week - both were the final two standing at the 50K The Poker Players Championship, the third PTPR Grand Slam Event of the season.

Some other well-known poker pros were part of the Final 16: High-stakes cash game player Brandon Adams, Steve Billirakis, Joe Cassidy, Sirious Jamshidi, Dan Heimiller, Todd Barlow, Eric Buchman (who finished 4th in this event last season), Pat Pezzin and Yuval Bronshtein.


2010 World Series of Poker
Event 10 : Seven Card Stud World Championship
June 3-5, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $1,410.000
Entries: 150

2009 Champion: Freddie Ellis

2010 FINAL RESULTS
NGUYEN MEN "THE MASTER" - 126
ADAMS BRANDON - 76
BILLIRAKIS STEVE - 46
EVDAKOV NIKOLAY - 36
CASSIDY JOE - 31
MIZRACHI MICHAEL "THE GRINDER" - 26
SCHMELEV VLADIMIR - 26
JAMSHIDI SIRIOUS - 11
HEIMILLER DANEIL - 11
BARLOW TODD - 11
DEHKHARGHANI RAY - 11
BUCHMAN ERIC - 9
DOUGLAS SHANE - 9
PEZZIN PAT - 9
BRONSHTEIN YUVAL - 9
MIGNOT BONNEFOUS EDOUARD - 6



The UK's James Dempsey scooped up the 1.5K Pot-Limit Hold'em event ... of note, three women finished in the Top 13 - a first in WSOP history. Colorful J.J. Liu finished third in the event, scoring her 15th WSOP cash but, failing to win her first bracelet.

2010 World Series of Poker
Event 9 : Pot-Limit Hold'em
June 3-5, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $877.500
Entries: 650

2009 Champion: John-Paul Kelly

2010 FINAL RESULTS
DEMPSEY JAMES - 131
CHANTHABOUASY STEVE - 81
LIU J.J. - 51
BABEKOV MARK - 41
HARADEN SCOTT - 36
KARA ARMEN - 31
WILLIAMS JOSEPH - 31
BROGDON EDWARD - 16
WILKERSON GREGG - 16
FARKAS JULIE - 16
LEWIS JAMES - 16
SEROCK JOSEPH - 14
HAYDEN MELISSA - 14
PELTON CHAN - 14
GOTLIEB JOE - 14
SIMM STEPHEN - 11
KROUNER KENNETH - 11
ALVAREZ JASON - 11

FRENCH CANADIAN GOES TOPLESS!

Montreal native Pascal Lefrancois won his first bracelet on Friday - and decided to go shirtless for the famous "first photo" - Lefrancois becomes the second Canadian to win a bracelet at this year's World Series.

Phil Hellmuth fell short of acquiring his 12th bracelet - still, a respectacle 13th place finish for the poker superstar.



2010 World Series of Poker
Event 8 : No Limit Hold'em
June 2-4, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $3,160.350
Entries: 2341

2010 FINAL RESULTS
LEFRANCOIS PASCAL - 145
STEINBERG MAX - 95
HOWE KEVIN - 65
WJUNISKI DANIEL - 55
AUE DAVID - 50
ANDERSEN JIM - 45
DIESSA KURT - 45
BRIKIS JOSHUA - 30
WILF SAAR - 30
GATMAITAN JOE - 30
EZROL MATTHEW - 30
UTLEY DARIN - 28
VENER SCOTT - 28
LEHR KEITH CHARLES - 28
HELLMUTH PHIL - 28
LOONEY DEVIN - 25
MICHELIZZI JARED - 25
FRAZIER DAVID - 25



Joseph Tieman won Event #6 - the No-Limit Hold'em Shootout. A star-studded field entered the Final 18 ... Neil Channing, Stuart Rutter, Nicolas Levi, Eugene Katchalov, David "Chino" Rheem and John Duthie were all in contention.

2010 World Series of Poker
Event 6 : No Limit Hold'em Shootout
June 1-3, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $5,000
Prizepool: $1,682.600
Entries: 358

2009 Champion: Peter Traply

2010 FINAL RESULTS
TIEMAN JOSEPH - 128
CHANNING NEIL - 78
RUTTER STUART - 48
ELPAYAA JOSEPH - 38
LEVI NICOLAS - 33
HANKS BRENT - 28
KATZ CARY - 28
NUIJTEN JULIEN - 13
ESTES DANNY - 13
MAY BENJAMIN - 13
KATCHALOV EUGENE - 13
HINKLE BLAIR - 11
RHEEM DAVID "CHINO" - 11
MERCER HEATHER - 11
STAMMEN KEVEN - 11
DUTHIE JOHN - 8
MOORE CHRIS - 8
MONRO JOSEPH - 8



Hungarian Peter Gelenscer wins Event #7 - Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Lowball. Notable Top 18 finishers included: Former WPT Tour Championship Winner David Chiu, Freddy Bonyadi, Ted Forrest, Eli Elezra and Allen Chainsaw Kessler ...

2010 World Series of Poker
Event 8 : 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit)
June 1-3, 2010

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $669.300
Entries: 291

2010 FINAL RESULTS
GELENCSER PETER - 127
ZIMMERMAN RAPHAEL - 77
MCNAMARA DON - 47
CHIU DAVID - 37
PAINTER JAMESON - 32
MARTIN LEONARD - 27
UCHIDA SHUNJIRO - 27
JURGENS TAD - 12
BONYADI FARZAD "FREDDY" - 12
POELS PAT - 12
BAKER DAVID - 12
FORREST TED - 10
MCLOUGHLIN STEVEN - 10
FARGIS CHRISTOPHER - 10
ELEZRA ELI - 10
SIEGEL JORDAN - 7
KESSLER ALLEN "CHAINSAW" - 7
BALANDIN ALEX - 7

BANSI EARNS A SECOND BRACELET

Four year after winning his first ever bracelet (2006 WSOP - 1K NLH Event 40) London UK Poker Pro Praz Bansi has won his second one - and another NLH Hold'em event at that!

The win also moves Bansi into the Top 10 on the PTPR Poker Rankings.


2010 World Series of Poker
Event 5 : No Limit Hold'em

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $2,824.200
Entries: 2092

2010 FINAL RESULTS
BANSI PRAZ - 145
JACQUES VINCENT - 95
KORDUS CALVIN - 65
TUTHILL DAVID - 55
BERDA TOMER - 50
OFFORD DONALD - 45
BELL HUGH - 45
SANDS DAVID - 30
KNECHT KYLE - 30
NADAL SANTIAGO - 30
HAMADE TYLER - 30
BRONSHTEIN YUVAL - 28
PIRKOPF KARL - 28
KLEYMAN BENJAMIN - 28
GIBSON JOSHUA - 28
FAZZONE JASON - 25
MYUNG JOHN - 25
SIDONI JOHN - 25



Canadian Aadam Daya scored his second PTPR "cash" of the season ...

2010 World Series of Poker
Event 3 : No Limit Hold'em

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,000
Prizepool: $3,910.500
Entries: 4345

2009 Champion: Travis Johnson

2010 FINAL RESULTS
DAYA AADAM - 145
BHATTI DEEPAK - 95
COSTNER GABE - 65
DAVIS WILLIAM MARK - 55
MITCHELL NICHOLAS - 50
BROWN CORY - 45
SETTLE ISAAC - 45
DUDLEY DASH - 30
RICE RICH - 30
RICE IRVING - 30
GROMOV DMITRY - 30
ROBERTS JOSH - 28
PAOLINI SAMUEL - 28
LAVINE ASHIRA - 28
BALDWIN ERIC - 28
DEGREEF JEREMIAH - 25
WILKINS MATT - 25
NGUYEN TAI TAN - 25

GRINDHOUSE

Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi starts his 2010 WSOP journey in style - by winning a PTPR Major Championship - the 50K Players' Championship!!!


2010 World Series of Poker
Event 2 : 50k 8-game The Poker Players Championship

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $50,000
Prizepool: $5,568.000
Entries: 116

2009 Champion: David Baker

2010 FINAL RESULTS
MIZRACHI MICHAEL "THE GRINDER" - 151
SCHMELEV VLADIMIR - 91
OPPENHEIM DAVID - 76
JUANDA JOHN - 66
MIZRACHI ROBERT - 61
BAKER DAVID - 56
ALAEI DANIEL - 51
THURITZ MIKAEL - 46
SCHULMAN NICK "THE TAKEOVER" - 36
KOSTRITSYN ALEXANDER - 26
MOSSERI ABE - 21
BERMAN LYLE - 19
RICHEY BRETT - 19
BARI ALLEN - 19
BULYCHEV ILYA - 16
BLOCH ANDY - 16



In other results, Michael Chow has won Event 4 - Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better while some pretty big names (Heimiller, Schwartz, Madsen and Seed) cash for the first time at the 2010 WSOP ...

2010 World Series of Poker
Event 4 : Omaha Hi-Lo Split-8 or Better

Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $1,104.300
Entries: 818

2009 Champion: Thang T. Luu

2010 FINAL RESULTS
CHOW MICHAEL - 133
HEIMILLER DANIEL - 83
SCHWARTZ YLON - 53
KOUBI FRED - 43
EPSTEIN SCOTT - 38
CIPOLLA MICHAEL - 33
ROSEWOOD SASHA - 33
LEIBMAN JOE - 18
BARLOW TODD - 18
MCWORTER JAMES - 18
SU STEPHEN - 18
MADSEN JEFF - 16
SALARI HAMID - 16
VIOX CHRIS - 16
FERDINAND ROBERT - 16
KRAUSE ANDREAS - 13
PUSKARICH MIKE - 13
SEED HUCKLEBERRY - 13