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After playing at several WSOP final tables, John Monnette won the $2,500 8-Game event, defeating Eric Buchman heads-up. Canadian poker pro Mark Radoja took down Event #24 $5,000 NLHE Shootout for $436,568.
French poker pro Bertand ’ElkY’ Grospellier won WSOP $10,000 Seven Card Stud (Event #21), making it to the Triple Crown with a WPT and an EPT title. Victory in $1,500 PLO (Event #22) was Elie Payan’s, another French player who won his first live event championship ever.
PokerStars has introduced the Saturday Line-Up, a new set of tournaments kicking off on 25th June. The Line-Up includes seven new, weekly events that range from $2.22 to $55 in buy-ins. All tourneys have at least $20,000 guaranteed prize pools.
Darren Woods won WSOP Event #19 $2,500 Limit Hold’em, which makes him the third British player to win a bracelet in this year’s championship. Event #20 $1,000 NLHE was taken down by Jason Somerville, who single-handedly (pun intended) defeated Yashar Darian heads-up.
American online pro Aaron Steury won the $1, 500 HORSE (WSOP #17) event, defeating Michael Chow heads-up. The $1,500 NLHE (WSOP #18) title went to Foster Hays, who earned his first live tournament victory ever.
As the two players agreed in January, Brandon Adams and Patrik Antonius indeed played their prop bet tennis match in Las Vegas. Brandon Adams didn't have a chance of winning, Antonius defeated him 6-0, 6-1.
Brian ‘tsarrast‘ Rast won WSOP Event #15 $1,500 PLH, defeating Allen ‘Chainsaw’ Kessler heads-up. Event #16 $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball was taken down by John Juanda, who managed to turn the tide in the HU against Phil Hellmuth.
PokerStars has released the European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 8 schedule for the 2011 events. As regards the rest of the stops in 2012, further details are expected later.
Online poker pro Andrew ‘southrnctowl’ Badecker won the WSOP $1,500 NLHE Shootout (Event #13), besting a field that included Vitaly Lunkin, David Pham and Dan Kelly, among others. Event #14 $3,000 Limit Holdem was taken down by Tyler Bonkowski, defeating Brandon Demes heads-up.
Chipleader George Lind, Steve Billirakis and Viacheslav Zhukov returned from the total 9 final table players on Day 4 of the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Event; Zhukov took home the $465,216 first prize. The $1,500 Triple Chance NLHE was won by David Diaz, who bested the likes of initial chipleader Nicholas Rampone and two-time WSOP champion Bill Chen.
Geffrey Klein made it almost accidentally to the heads-up of the WSOP $1,500 NLHE 6-max event final table as shortstack, starting 1:10 behind Eddie Blumenthal who kept rivering flushes throughout the session. Turning the tide, however, Klein won the $544,388 first prize.
Maria Ho earned $540,000 with her second finish in the $5,000 NLHE Event of this year’s World Series of Poker; this is the greatest amount ever to be won by a female at a world championship.
The young British player, Matt Perrins took down the main prize of the WSOP $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball event very confidently, he has beaten Chris Bjorin in the heads-up.
The newest poker documentary we already informed you about, "BOOM: The Incredible True Story of Online Poker" created by Jay Rosenkrantz and Taylor Caby is growing even bigger. Now they released the first trailer, which looks rather promising. It is coming out in 2012.