Posted by pokerguru on June 29, 2009
As predicted, we are seeing a lot of movement on the leader board at the $50k H.O.R.S.E. Championship Event. Some of the recent eliminations include Doyle Brunson, Eric Lindgren, Phil Ivey, Barry Greenstein and Daniel Alaei. Hasan Habib has slipped all the way down to one of the short stacks and Erik Sagstrom has taken [...]
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Brandon Cantu was absolutely running away with the Pot Limit Omaha Split Tournament when it seemed as though time started standing still. He chip stack did not grow for hours as he watched the rest of the field eat up his massive chip lead and pass him by. However, he managed to do the important [...]
Posted by pokerguru on June 27, 2009
The mixed holdem event is always a fun one to watch as you have two totally different styles of poker going on at the same time. There are few players that can master both limit and no limit poker and the winner of this event can truly call themselves a great poker player. The final [...]
Posted by pokerguru on June 25, 2009
If anyone would like to make an argument against Jeff Lisandro being the greatest stud player on the planet, I would like to hear it. Lisandro captured his third WSOP bracelet on Wednesday night and has now achieved the remarkable feat of earning a bracelet in all three disciplines of 7 Card Stud. While they [...]
Posted by pokerguru on June 24, 2009
While we continue to see no name players dominate the small buy in events, the World Championship events and larger buy ins continue to be the professionals playground. While there are some amateurs getting into them, they are not lasting as long because of the talent factor. When they sit down at one of these [...]
Posted by pokerguru on June 23, 2009
At one point, it looked like some of the bigger names in poker were going to take over this tourney, but they all fell off on one quick rush and it was left up the lesser known players to grab all of the glory. Claiming to be a limit specialist, Naalden more or less dominate [...]
Posted by pokerguru on June 22, 2009
Jeff Lisandro is arguably having the best WSOP of any player in the field so far this season. The funniest thing is that he is doing it in every game other than NL Hold’em. His name is showing up regularly in just about every other game. He continued his dominance on Saturday night by taking [...]
