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Leo Margets One Last Time

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.15.2009 in Uncategorized | no comments

Watch Leo Margets Busts in 27th in the 2009 WSOP Main Event on RawVegas.tv

We caught up one last time with Barcelona’s super cute, super cool Leo Margets soon after her exit from the 2009 WSOP Main Event. While she’s definitely disappointed to see her run come to an end, Leo tells us that it’s starting to sink in how big her achievement is, especially back home in Spain where, as our friend Francisco from Poqeur Red puts it, “poker is still in diapers.”

Leo also shares with us that she’s been sleeping with the Last Woman Standing CupTM we gave her the other night and that she’s planning on playing the WSOP Europe this September.

Watch the full interview above, and if you know more than “taco,” “hola” and “Corona” in Spanish, check out Spain-based poker sites Poquer Red and PokerPoquer for more on Leo.

Tagged as: 2009 WSOP, 2009 WSOP Main Event, Last Woman Standing, Leo Margets

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BREAKING: Jeff Shulman to Renounce WSOP Bracelet If He Wins

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.15.2009 in Uncategorized | 41 comments

Jeff Shulman - 2009 WSOP Main Event

Jeff Shulman's age = take a guess, then subtract 15.

CardPlayer editor Jeff Shulman, 34, plans to throw the WSOP Main Event bracelet “in the garbage” if he makes and wins the November NineTM final table.

We had been hearing from multiple sources for days that Shulman is saying that if he were to win the 2009 WSOP Main Event, he’d renounce the bracelet as he believes that Harrah‘s has treated his magazine unfairly in recent years. We just asked Shulman on the first break if this was true, to which he replied, “If by renounce it you mean throw it in the garbage, then yes.”

Shulman reportedly believes the selling of WSOP media rights is unfair and that the coverage now is unacceptable. Coming from CardPlayer, which is a great read if you care about how to bet the turn in PLO cash games but whose WSOP tournament coverage left us with this, this, this, this, this, this, and this (and actually just go here to read a bunch more), it’s an interesting argument. Of course, parents always think their kids are smarter and cuter than they really are, we get that, but this is ridiculous.

We’re all about the righteous “Eff You,” and we understand why Shulman would feel scorned. But if you truly care about the game of poker, why would you possibly do this? What good does this do for the game, or bringing more people to it? And if you’re the Editor of one of the two major poker publications, isn’t one of your goals to bring more people to the game?

If Shulman does make the N9, which is a distinct possibility as he currently sits fifth overall with 12M in chips, it’ll be interesting to see if he maintains this stance or if he actually changes his mind, realizing he should act in the best interest of the game and not for just his magazine.

Safe to say where Shulman will fall in our Good for PokerTM, Bad for PokerTM, Meh for PokerTM post later today.

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Tagged as: 2009 WSOP, 2009 WSOP Main Event, Jeff Shulman

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Leo Margets Out Of WSOP Main Event In 27th Place

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.15.2009 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

Damn.

Our Last Woman Standing TM at the 2009 WSOP Main Event Leonor “Leo” Margets, a woman, is the first to go today. Shortstacked at the start of play, she pushed pre-flop with A-7 and got called by Warren Zackey with A-10. The board missed and she’s out in 27th place, earning $352,832*.

From what we’ve seen, Leo Margets has already garnered a lot of mainstream media coverage in Spain, and just for playing the WSOP Ladies Event earlier in the series. Her deep run in the 2009 WSOP Main Event should bring tons more, which is definitely Good for PokerTM in Spain and good for us if it has a Moneymaker-like EffectTM of getting more cute Spanish girls into poker.

Related, apparently cheating on Spanish exams all through high school wasn’t a good way to learn the language because we haven’t a clue what Leo is saying in the video above. We still watched the whole thing anyway because damn that accent. Could listen to girls from Spain talk all day, especially cute, poker playing, marathon running ones.

Also:
:: Leo Margets Is The Last Woman Standing (TM)
:: Leo Margets Takes The Last Woman Standing Cup(TM) – Photo Dump
:: Leo Margets Is Almost the Last Woman Standing

* Just realized that Leo Marget’s $352,832 is the biggest cash in a WSOP Main Event by a woman ever (or at least since Tiffany “Crazy Bitch” Williamson, a woman, won $400,000 for finishing 15th in the 2005 WSOP Main Event). Last year’s Last Woman StandingTM Tiffany Michelle, a woman, took home $334,534 for 17th place.

Tagged as: 2009 WSOP, 2009 WSOP Main Event, Last Woman Standing, Leo Margets

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Darvin Moon Still Leads, Phil Ivey Still Lurks, Leo Margets Still In

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.15.2009 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

Leo Margets on Day 7 of the 2009 WSOP Main Event

Leo Margets on Day 7 of the 2009 WSOP Main Event

One more day until we know the November NineTM.

Day 7 wrapped at the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Like year’s past, the majority of “name” pros exited stage left before the final day, leaving us with only a few marquee names for the N9: Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari, and Leo Margets, a woman.

Of those, only Ivey right now is in a good position to make the final table. He’s fifth overall in chips with 11,350,000. Ivey has been on the cusp of making the final table before, taking a bad beat by Chris Moneymaker to finish 10th in 2003 and making a questionable call with pocket Jacks against Aaron Kantor in 2005 to finish 20th. He also finished 23rd in 2002, but that was before the boom which means it was like a tree falling in the woods that nobody heard.

Esfandiari was short-stacked during the final minutes of play, but managed to chip up to 4,470,000 before the end of the night. And Margets will enter play as one of the short-stacks with 1,530,000.

The chip leader going into Day 8 is Darvin Moon with 20,160,000. Darvin, who lives in Oakland, Maryland, won his seat into the ME through a tournament in a casino in Wheeling, West Virginia. He owns a small logging company with his family.

In second overall is Billy Kopp with 15,970,000. Jeff Shulman is eighth with 10,170,000.

Should be an interesting day. Lots of short-stacks who may go home quickly then a slow grind to the final nine.

Get full chip counts here.

Tagged as: 2009 WSOP, 2009 WSOP Main Event, Darvin Moon, Leo Margets, Phil Ivey

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Leo Margets Running Buena on Day 6 of the 2009 WSOP Main Event

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.13.2009 in Uncategorized | no comments

Spain's Leo Margets has taken command in the Last Woman Standing race at the 2009 WSOP Main Event.

Apparently Leo Margets (above) runs marathons when she isn't playing poker, which explains a lot, and by a lot we mean her legs.

This could go til tomorrow.

Most of the day it looked like Nichoel Peppe, a woman, was gonna run away with the Last Woman Standing CupTM at the 2009 WSOP Main Event. But Barcelona’s super cute Leo Margets, a woman, has fought back from being down to around a half a mil or so and has just surged to 3.41 million in chips. Peppe meanwhile is heading in the other direction, currently stacked just below a million.

Watch our interview with Leo Margets at the end of yesterday and get to know her better/become her Facebook fan here.

One more level to go today. Some recents bust outs include Salty Joe Hachem, the bedazzled Noah Boeken, Kenny Tran and this guy.

Tagged as: 2009 WSOP, 2009 WSOP Main Event, Leo Margets, Nichoel Peppe

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