BORD WINS WSOPE MAIN...

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOPPhotos.com


Congrats to the UK's James Bord - the winner of the WSOP Europe. It was a star-studded tournament including the names de Wolfe, Levi, Boatman, Corking, Blom, Ivey, Bichon, Mueller, Greenstein, Timoshenko and Deeb all placing in the Top 30.

This was Bord's second "cash" this year in PTPR events ... he sits 48th overall ... David Peters' 13-point effort moves him at 14 on the PRPT list.

PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker Europe
Event 5 : NLH Main Event
September 25-29, 2010

Casino at the Empire
London, UK

Buy-in: $14,796
Prizepool: $5,470,592
Entries: 346

2010 FINAL RESULTS
BORD JAMES - 128
BALDASSARI FABRIZIO - 78
LEE RONALD - 48
de WOLFE ROLAND - 38
LEVI NICOLAS - 33
STEINBERG DANIEL - 28
FLEYSHMAN DAN - 28
POWELL BRIAN - 13
INIZAN MARC - 13
PETERS DAVID - 13
PANTLING ANDREW - 13
MATTERN ARNAUD - 11
BOATMAN BARNY - 11
COFFEE CLINT - 11
CORKING HOYT - 11
BLOM VIKTOR - 8
GELDOVIC BOJAN - 8
NEWMAN ANTHONY - 8

NOT SO FAST! DON'T WRITE OFF GUS HANSEN JUST YET!

PHOTO CREDIT: POKERNEWS


It's been a tough year for Gus Hansen. Things have not gone as planned on line and many were ready to kiss his career goodbye - suggesting that the game that he helped propel to new levels had passed him by.

Well, not so fast. Hansen wrapped up a marathon three match session at the WSOPE High Roller Head's Up with a win, winning his first bracelet!

The first two matches lasted so long that both players and tournament officials agreed to move the third match to earlier today. Hansen was down by a ton early but, he was able to crawl his way back into the match to win it all. Thumbs up to Hansen's opponent, Jim Collopy, for a fine effort.

Ram Vaswani, Andrew Feldman, Daniel Negreanu, Huck Seed and Neil Channing were among the other players scoring points in this event.


PTPR TIER 3 EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker Europe
Event 4 : High Rollers Heads Up NLH Championship
September 23-26, 2010

Casino at the Empire
London, UK

Buy-in: $16,367
Prizepool: $1,628,842
Entries: 103

2010 FINAL RESULTS
HANSEN GUS - 101
COLLOPY JIM - 61
VASWANI RAM - 31
FELDMAN ANDREW - 31
NEGREANU DANIEL - 11
EYSTER KEVIN - 11
SEED HUCKLEBERRY - 11
CHANNING NEIL - 11

LAAK, LISANDRO WIN WSOPE PRELIMS

PHOTO CREDIT: WSOP.com


The 2010 World Series of Poker Europe is well underway - with the Main Event down to 60-some players - there are two big names that have picked up bracelets in the three completed prelim events ... and one who's been involved in a two-day heads up battle!

Popular player Phil Laak captured his first bracelet in the opening event of the tournament. The Unabomber was the winner in the 244-player Six-Handed NLH event.

2009 WSOP Player of the Year Jeffrey Lisandro earned his fifth bracelet by winning Event 2 - Pot-Limit Omaha.

The UK's Scott Shelley won Event 3 - NLH ... amazingly, this is the first live result ever posted by Shelley.

In other news, Gus Hansen is back on the map - he's involved in a bitter battle in the High Stakes Heads Up event ... tied at one round a piece. The final best-of-three matchup was pushed to Sunday - as the first two games lasted over 12 hours.

On the Main Event side of things, big names like Ivey, Negreanu, Blohm, Levi, Timoshenko, Baker (not Bakes), Greenstein, Mueller, Schulman, Corkins, de Wolfe and Deeb are still alive.


PTPR PRELIM EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker Europe
Event 1 : No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed
September 14-16, 2010

Casino at the Empire
London, UK

Buy-in: $3,698
Prizepool: $941,040
Entries: 244

2010 FINAL RESULTS
LAAK PHIL - 75
PANTLING ANDREW - 40
BJORIN CHRIS - 25
PETERS DAVID - 15
ROUAH ILAN - 10
TANN WILLIE - 8
TABATABAI JOHN - 5
DALET VINCENT - 5
LOESER MANIG - 5


PTPR TIER 3 EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker Europe
Event 2 : Pot-Limit Omaha
September 16-18, 2010

Casino at the Empire
London, UK

Defending Champion: Jani Vilmunem

Buy-in: $7,395
Prizepool: $925,611
Entries: 120

2010 FINAL RESULTS
LISANDRO JEFFREY - 101
SEROCK JOSEPH - 61
TANN WILLIE - 36
MADSEN JEFF - 26
RACENER JOHN - 19
MAHRENHOLZ KARL - 11
RAMOS FELIPE - 9
KIMBER JEFF - 6
BJORIN CHRIS - 6


PTPR PRELIM EVENT
2010 World Series of Poker Europe
Event 3 : No-Limit Hold'em
September 17-21, 2010

Casino at the Empire
London, UK

Defending Champion: J.P. Kelly

Buy-in: $1,479
Prizepool: $897,843
Entries: 582

2010 FINAL RESULTS
SHELLEY SCOTT - 74
KELLY J.P. - 40
BISGAARD JEPPE - 25
PITCHFORD PAUL - 15
PAYMAN KAVEH - 10
SENHAJI MEHDI - 8
LYMAN JACK - 5
JOMEEN KARIM - 5
KATZ NICKY - 5

DWYTE PILGRIM - MINOR LEAGUER NO MORE

PHOTO CREDIT: WPT.com


Dwyte Pilgrim rose to stardom on the "minor league" circuit playing lights out poker on the WSOP Circuit tour for the past year. Pilgrim has dominated US events outside of Vegas. Well, it's not Vegas, but, it's a WPT Tour title at Borgata for Pilgrim - putting him on the pro-circuit map and propelling him into the PPTR Top 10 for the first time!

Pokerati's Dan Makowsky (5th), Jeffrey Papola (7th) and John D'Agostino (14th) are other notables that scored points in the event.

This event was a major success for the re-surging World Poker Tour - 1,042 players attended the event, making it the largest field ever in World Poker Tour history. Sure looks like the WPT is back on track!


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open
WPT Main Event : No-Limit Hold'em
September 18-23, 2010

Borgata Hotel Casino
Atlantic City, New Jersey

Defending Champion: Olivier Busquet

Buy-in: $3,500
Prizepool: $3,438,600
Entries: 1,042

2010 FINAL RESULTS
PILGRIM DWYTE - 135
MOHAJERI KIANOOSH - 85
MOR OFIR - 55
NOVENA BRANDON - 45
MAKOWSKY DANIEL - 40
KLIER BENJAMIN - 35
PAPOLA JEFFREY - 35
YOUNGBLOOD ANDREW - 20
CHILDS WILLIAM - 20
IACOBELLIS CHRISTIAN - 20
NOLAN SEAN - 20
SIPRAJIM VICHIEN - 18
BORDIAN RICK - 18
D'AGOSTINO JOHN - 18
GRANA DAVID - 18
BEAVER KENT - 15
SIMHAI MICHAEL - 15
ALABSI MICHAEL - 15