Sunday, June 13, 2010

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


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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

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