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For two years I’ve said I need a vacation. Good news, I’ve made progress…I’m now saying…I’m about to take a vacation. Which brings to mind the WPT LA Poker Classic because then I can catch most of my friends in the same place at once. Tough to do outside WSOP summer camp.
Despite several tempting Six-Handed Events, I may stick to the coffee shops. Even though I owe a few heads-up challenges.
Looks like there’s some hot players still in the LAPC hoping to catch one of the final six seats. Ladies first… Liz Lieu, Nancy Todd Tyner, Erica Schoenberg, JJ Liu, Maria Ho and Anna Wroblewski (Go Ladies, Go) still have chips and chairs.
As for some men surviving today… Nick “The Second Hottest Guy in Poker” Schulman* and Fabrice Soulier (BJ – update his pic) are two of many, many, many hot guys who may or may not be considered hot by the many, many men who have been eliminated.
Phil Laak is disguised as himself, Shannon Shorr and Jeff Madsen discussing curfews (oh right, they’re barely legal) and of course… Phil Ivey. Phil Ivey needs no comment because the name Phil Ivey is almost like one name… like Madonna or Cher. Or because Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth and Phil Gordon are really all the same person.
Antonio Esfandiari leads in chips but Chris “Sweet Baby Jesus” Ferguson, Greg Mueller and Paul Wasicka are hot on his trail.
Live Updates Here.
*See Amanda Leatherman Feb issue of Bluff Magazine.
It’s Day 4 at the WPT Five Diamond and let’s hope BJ Nemeth is able to get some good WPT poker photos of these players (excluding Mr. Average).
Big names in the game are… Chino Rheem, Nick Schulman, Amnon Felippi – A Stud of Poker, David Benyamine, Robert Mizrachi and Clonie Gowen.
Speaking of Felippi, check out his good times interview with Amanda Leatherman below.
A few notable players surviving Day 3 of the WPT Five Diamond Classic. Not only are these guys notable (or wiiiiilllll be) but they also have the best photos on the live chip count page.
No worries fellas, its hard work keeping up with all the players unless they're showing a lot of skin or acting like a 2 year-old. So, I'm sure you will have a pretty poker pic up soon. Get the live chip counts here, the live blog here and good times with Amanda Leatherman here.
photo courtesy the worldpokertour.com
Turns out I offended Shogun with my WPTL post. I’m not sure if Shogun is a gamer fan or Mauricio Shogun fan but here’s what Shogun had to say:
Are you serious?
The World Poker Tour took 15% out of the prize pool which is generated by player buy-ins and includes no additional money from WPT. So it’s not that the "WPT would be reaching out to help the sick", but rather that WPT was taking money out of the players pockets to make it look like they, and not the players, "would be reaching out to help the sick". The WPT had no intentions of matching the donation, and when combined with the rake, the $25,000 withheld for the WPT Championship seat, and the 3% withheld for the tournament staff it made the tournament economically unplayable.
Second place money: $40,815
Money missing from the prize pool: $39,490The decision was such an obvious mistake that Lyle Berman promised it would never happen again.
Tsk Tsk on fact-checking.
So, let me clarify after the jump.
Tonight’s WPT episode will air the final six ladies of the WPT Ladies Championship on GSN. This event caused a stir when a few players were upset they learned a portion of the buy-in would be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation after they bought in to the tournament (I think they bought in rather early). I guess those ladies wouldn’t have played the event at all had they known the WPT would be reaching out to help the sick. Tsk Tsk.
Donna Varlotto, A.K.A. Steve Wong’s fiance who didn’t learn poker from Steve Wong, will be on briefly and don’t forget Vanessa Selbst, the chick WCP thinks has a hot girlfriend, will be on the show as well. Selbst is also known as that chick who has made several WSOP final tables, won a 2008 WSOP bracelet and is a Yale graduate.
Don’t forget the World Poker Tour will be moving over to FSN soon.
Today is the WPT Legends of Poker Ladies Event. Every year the tournament donates a portion to help fight cancer and the winner of the event will go on to play the WPT Ladies Night. Last year’s winner of Ladies Night was Kristy Gazes. Check out the video below where she talks to WPT’s Kimberly Lansing.
Now that the WSOP is over, poker players will disperse into groups by going to different poker tournaments around the world. Tournaments and (their schedules) coming up are Legends of Poker , the APPT , the EPT, the Borgata Poker Open and the WSOPE.
Looking for less expensive and more fun? There are some charity poker events coming up as well. the Celebrity Poker Tournament, Monte Carlo Night and Jacob Zalewski’s tournament All In for CP.
And if you’re busy or too broke from gambling then be sure to watch the ESPN coverage of the 2008 WSOP starting this Tuesday night.
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