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Home court advantage is everything in poker. Just ask Robert Pisano, the 23rd place finisher in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in Las Vegas. Pisano, who calls Sin City home, made a deep run in the 2010 installment of the prestigious poker tournament and will recorded his largest cash to date… Read more »
Jason “PBJaxx” Senti is an instructor at the popular poker training site BlueFire Poker. The former electrical engineer turned poker pro recorded a deep run in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and currently plays $5/$10 to $50/$100 No Limit Hold’em online. He took seventh in the WSOP Main Event for $1,356,720.… Read more »
One of the “x-factors” in this year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event is Wichita, Kansas native Brandon Steven. Steven has been able to keep a level head about his deep run in the WSOP Main Event and was the final table’s bubble boy. In a report from his hometown newspaper, the Wichita Eagle,… Read more »
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements took 18th in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and collected $396,000. Clements started his career as one of the most feared online players in the world before moving on to become just as respected in the live arena. While he is in contention for the most cherished prize… Read more »
Theo Jorgensen landed in 30th in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. After Day 6 of the $10,000 buy-in tournament, the Copenhagen, Denmark, poker professional – who has been playing the game since the early 1990s – held nearly a two million chip lead over the field. He boosted the GDP of… Read more »
While he may not be well known in the United States, Jorpeland, Norway’s Johnny Lodden has been a terror in the online world for several years and, most recently, in the European live poker arena. Lodden took 27th in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, falling one day short of the November… Read more »
Jonathan Duhamel chipped up during the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and made the most of his arsenal, playing big stack poker to the best of his ability. He became the first ever WSOP Main Event champ from Canada and earned $8.9 million. Duhamel took 15th in a $2,500 No Limit Hold’em… Read more »
On Day 7 of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, Wisconsin native Benjamin Statz rumbled through the competition in the $10,000 buy-in feature tournament. After a 4bet pre-flop shove with Q-10 of spades, Statz was up against the A-K of UB.com qualifier Christopher Bolt. The flop came 7-6-2 with one spade, leaving… Read more »
In 2003, a little-known Tennessee accountant with a crafty last name – Chris Moneymaker – took down the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, igniting the modern poker boom. In 2010, Brentwood, Tennessee’s Matthew Bucaric was looking to recreate history. Bucaric made waves on Day 7 of the 2010 WSOP Main Event, sending Gary… Read more »
Canadian poker player Pascal LeFrancois finished 11th in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and cashed for $635,000. He entered Day 1, when play brought the field of 78 down to 27, with a middle-of-the-road stack, but a tough table draw alongside Johnny Lodden, Matt “mcmatto” Affleck, and Hasan Habib didn’t faze… Read more »
A longtime online poker player, Jerry “sandler1860” Payne took 42nd in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event for $206,000. The Centerville, Ohio native will log his first Las Vegas WSOP cash as a result after turning in four in the money finishes in Circuit Events. Payne’s big break came in March 2010,… Read more »
Canadians have been a force in poker ever since the game exploded in North America in 2003. Players like Daniel Negreanu, Nenad Medic, and 2010 bracelet winner Gavin Smith have carried the banner for Canada, which is fresh off hosting the Winter Olympics. Calling Brampton, Ontario home is Mike Wywrot, who plays under the screen… Read more »
Long Beach, New York’s Bryn Kenney, who goes by the moniker “BrynKenney” on PokerStars, took 28th in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event for $255,000. He turned in an impressive WSOP performance prior to his run in the Main Event, bubbling the final table of the inaugural $25,000 No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed… Read more »
In one of the most impressive feats we’ve seen from a poker player in recent years, Matt “mcmatto” Affleck scored big in back-to-back runs in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. In 2009, Affleck (no relation to actor Ben Affleck) went busto on Day 6 of the Main Event and cashed in 80th… Read more »
One of the liveliest virtual rails of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) went to Joseph Cheong, who can be found perusing the virtual felts of the world’s largest online poker sites under the screen name “subiime.” Cheong hails from La Mirada, California and took down a Mini Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS)… Read more »
Finishing 22nd in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event for $317,000, William Thorson was one of two Swedes remaining when Day 7 began on Friday, July 16th (Niklas Toorell was the other). Thorson has dominated the PokerStars-sponsored European Poker Tour (EPT), turning in a third place in the 2006 Irish Masters in… Read more »
*** Poker News Daily caught up with John Racener right after the 2010 November Nine were set for an exclusive video interview. *** John Racener, who goes by the moniker “$JMONEY$” to many in the online poker world, played second fiddle to Jonathan Duhamel in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. He… Read more »
Originally from Vancouver, Washington, Brandon Cantu is a professional poker player who now makes his home in Las Vegas, Nevada. When people pick up the game of poker, they usually dream of the success and fortune that’s associated with the game’s best players, even if very few of them every actually achieve those goals. Brandon… Read more »
Brian Townsend, who currently resides in Santa Barbara, California, is a professional poker player known for his dominance of Full Tilt Poker’s No Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha short-handed games. He’s been successful enough to earn TV appearances on shows like GSN’s High Stakes Poker and NBC’s Poker After Dark, on which he won $120K… Read more »
Brian Hastings, known as LucLongley and Stinger885, is an online poker prodigy. He got his start playing low-limit ring games and eventually worked his way up. Before long, Brian was a regular winner in $50/$100 and $200/$400, some of the highest staked games available. Currently, Brian is one of the most feared online players in… Read more »
Hailing from St. Petersburg, Russia, Vladimir Schmelev is a former chess stalwart and banker who has been playing poker as a hobby for 15 years. He honed his skills in the Golden Ring Club in Moscow, which is widely known as the biggest underground game in Europe. After building a sufficient bankroll, Schmelev began traveling… Read more »
Hailing from London, England, Praz Bansi found poker in 2005 after watching a friend win $50K in one sitting. Working as a recruitment consultant at the time, he downloaded poker software on his office computer and started teaching himself the game. In 2006, with enough money and the confidence to go with it, Bansi headed… Read more »
Originally hailing from Kansas City, Samantha Ryan is an adult film star and avid poker player. After attending the University of Kansas, Ryan picked up poker when she was in real estate. A few of her co-workers were blackjack players who frequented Las Vegas, and after tagging along with them numerous times, she eventually discovered… Read more »
Hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, Software Engineer Simon Watt arrived at the 2010 World Series of Poker with nothing but winning a bracelet on his mind. Despite playing poker only part time, the 27 year-old Kiwi had an impressive run in late 2009 when he won the Asia Pacific Poker Tour event in his hometown… Read more »
To put it lightly, Chris “Moorman1” Moorman is an online poker phenom. Born in Brighton, UK, he attended Essex University, where he began playing poker in home games with his friends. Before long he found online poker and, since winning $70 in a freeroll tournament, he hasn’t looked back. Initially a mid-stakes cash game player,… Read more »
