A London poker prodigy was celebrating winning €220,280 at the first ever World Poker Tour event to be held on the shores of Ireland this weekend.David Shallow, 29, defeated over 330 competitors to take home the WPT Dublin title in the Texas Hold’em event that was held at the Citywest Hotel in the Irish capital.The cockney poker professional had to endure over 12 hours of poker action a day since Thursday and took home the first place prize from a prize pool that exceeded the €800,000 mark.Shallow secured his title at a final table that saw the action thick and fast with a total playing time of only 3 hours for all of the final table action to be wrapped up and concluded. Shall Read further…
One of the sickest things about Mini-UBOC is the chance to crush some seriously big poker pros. Yeah, the tens of thousands in guaranteed prize money offered in each event is definitely not worth ignoring. But the bragging rights rightfully earned with a pro takedown makes the series that much more killer.
And it’s not just a chip-shipping ego boost that comes with a pro elimination. Each and every Mini-UBOC event features bounties on all Team UB pros. Take down a pro, win your buy-in back in Event Dollars. It’s that easy.
Easy, of course, unless you happened to be seated in Mini-UBOC Event #12 where Bryan Devonshire refused to take any kind of Pot Limit Omaha beating.
The Team UB pro stormed through the PLO 6-Max $10k Guarantee, blowing through the field of 367 to ultimately find himself in a final table showdown with TEPEN69 that just wouldn’t end. Holdi
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More than 6,800 Main Event entries began their pursuit of first place cash totaling $8.71 million Sunday as World Series of Poker sponsors and executives put the spotlight on the fact that the 75,672 entries in 58 different tournaments makes this year’s WSOP the biggest ever.
But is that what really matters? It’s what those entries did while they were in Las Vegas besides play poker that keeps those sponsors coming back for more and rooting for the eventual legalization of Internet poker.
The figures also provide one more opportunity for Caesars Entertainment bosses to remind themselves that the $30 million spent by the company in 2004 to acquire rights to the World Series was one of the company’s best buys ever.
Those were the days when the casino business was full of blue skies and sunshine that looked like it might go on forever. It di
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This article is number 12 in a series covering the most important tournaments in the 2011 WSOP.
Jul 7 Event #58: Main Event No-Limit Holdem Championship $10,000 buyin If you are new to poker, you may have only known the most easy and simple poker variation, the No-Limit Hold’em. After all, you may be surprised to know that there are over 50 poker variations out there. That only shows that poker has come a long way since its humble beginnings of just a game of card played within the family. Besides, the internet has greatly contributed to the popularity of poker games most especially upon the availability of free online poker games and tutorials. B
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