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Antonio Esfandiari Wins WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic


In Antonio Esfandiari's hands: how much he's going to spend on bottle service tonight.

Not a bad way to spend your 32nd birthday.

Antonio Esfandiari captured his second World Poker Tour title (and first in over six years) by winning the Five Diamond World Poker Classic.

For the win, the birthday boy banked $870,124. Esfandiari almost led the tournament wire-to-wire, giving one of the more consistent and impressive performances of his career.

Fellow Victory Poker pro Andrew Robl (donning a much-cooler-than-Bill-Belichick-style hoodie) finished second, earning $549,003. Vanessa Rousso, a woman, who went to Duke, failed to become the WPT’s first open event female winner, finishing third for $359,964.

John Racener finished fourth ($232,271), Kirk Morrison fifth ($168,924), and Ted Lawson (who was the only person at the table sans patch) sixth ($126,693).

Get a full final table recap here.

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Antonio Esfandiari, Chris Moneymaker on Entourage


Entourage gets more hate than Phil Hellmuth these days. You’d get less shit admitting you like The Bachelorette (can you believe Rated R had a girlfriend back home???!!!) than Entourage.

Regardless of the lame plots, Ari Gold is still worth the price of admission. Just for lines like this.

Anyway, Antonio Esfandiari and Chris Moneymaker had brief (and we mean brief) cameos in the season premiere this weekend. You won’t see them in the above clip, but if you blinked you probably didn’t see them in the actual episode either. In short, there’s a poker game taking place on set of Vince’s latest movie, and you get a quick shot of Moneymaker’s PokerStars patch and Esfandiari saying, “I’m all in.”

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This Week in Poker: Episode 2


Second Episode of This Week In Poker Now Up and Archived

Guests last week included Daniel Negreanu, Antonio Esfandiari and 2007 Playboy Playmate and Victory Poker sponsored poker player Sara Jean Underwood. If you missed it, watch it above or go to the official This Week In Poker page here.

This week’s guests scheduled to appear include Phil Hellmuth, Jason Lee, The Maven and Harrah’s/WSOP VP Ty Stewart.

Thanks again to our sponsor, Victory Poker

Victory Poker

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Reminder: This Week in Poker at 4pm PT / 7pm ET


Our second episode of This Week in Poker moves to its new/permanent time of 4pm PT/7pm ET today.

The move “enables” us to book more pros for the show during the 4pm WSOP break and figure out what the hell, in general, we’re doing.

Confirmed guests for today include Antonio Esfandiari, 2007 Playmate of the Year Sara Underwood (above), and Daniel Negreanu.

Tune in here or here at 4pm PT/7pm ET. If you have any q’s now for Antonio, Sara, or Daniel for the show, submit them via Twitter here, our Facebook page here or to wickedchopspoker @ gmail.

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BREAKING: Antonio Esfandiari Cashes in WSOP Event; H.O.R.S.E. Final Table Set


Antonio Esfandiari at the 2009 WSOP

Antonio Esfandiari (right, foreground) has seen better days on the tournament circuit.

The past few years of tournament poker haven’t been pretty for Antonio Esfandiari.

As you can see here, it’s almost been four full years since he’s even cashed in a tournament. He’s been running as cold as Kate Gosselin.

But with around 30 remaining in Event #52 ($3,000 NLH), Esfandiari is still alive, stacked at 135,000. Jason DeWitt is the chip leader with 375,000. Also remaining are Isaac Barron (180,000), and seriously really is this for real GTFO Mike Caro (90,000). Get full chip counts here.

Elsewhere, the $50k H.O.R.S.E. is down to its final eight: Erik Sagstrom, David Bach, Vitaly Lunkin, John Hanson, Huck Seed, Ville Wahlbeck, Erik Seidel and Chau Giang. Gus Hansen went out in 9th. Follow the action starting 2pm PT tomorrow here.

Finally, Daniel Negreanu must’ve have already forgotten about the nearly flawless Brittany Bowman, as he seems over the 2009 WSOP.

Watch Don’t Lose Hope Negreanu! on RawVegas.tv

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