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Faraz ‘The-Toilet’ Jaka Leads On Day Whatever Of Bellagio Cup V


Miranda Kerr's new Victoria's Secret photos have little to nothing to do with poker, which means they have something in common with our brains after six-plus weeks at the WSOP.

Miranda Kerr's new Victoria's Secret photos have little to nothing to do with poker, which means they have something in common with our brains after six-plus weeks at the WSOP.

We ain’t gonna lie, we’re nowhere near the Bellagio right now, and after a month and a half of covering the 2009 WSOP, we’re beat. But we’ll feign at least some interest in the WPT Bellagio Cup V, which is going on right now and drew a ridiculously low, Season 6 Tunica-like 268 players. 

And by feign interest we mean copy and paste the current chipleaders from the WPT site. There are ten remaining. They play down to the TV final table, which takes place tomorrow. Faraz Jaka, who we’ll add to the list of names we wouldn’t want to see on an airline passenger manifesto (new WCP club in the works?), has had the chip lead the past couple days. 

Here they are: Faraz Jaka (3,299,000), Justin Smith (2,620,000), Alec Torelli (1,919,000), Erik Seidel (1,799,000), Alexandre Gomes (1,713,000), Ray Taylor (1,085,000), Christopher Sonesson (786,000), Mimi Tran (690,000), Sam Stein (666,000), Pavel Reshetov (507,000).

Follow the action at the Bellagio Cup VI here. View more of Miranda Kerr’s new Victoria’s Secret photos here.

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Let’s Not Forget About the WPT Bellagio Cup IV


WptlogoRight down the street from the Rio, the new WPT season is getting underway with the Bellagio Cup IV. In speaking with WPT decision-makers*, they said** the Bellagio Cup IV will be the greatest "IV" in the history of "IV’s," better than the year IV (no cars yet, no Internets, no toilet paper…bad times), Rocky IV (although the "I can change…" speech nearly gave it the edge), and Toto IV (and that says a lot, since it won 6 Grammys and had "Rosanna" on it).

The Bellagio Cup IV offers a new structure and buy-in that could best be described as "pro-proTM." As in, the buy-in is more ($15,000) and structure is favorable to good play (triple the old starting stack, giving players 450 big blinds).

Despite this, some of the big name pros of the 107 who bought in yesterday didn’t make it through, including Amnon Fillipi, Antonio Esfandiari, Beth Shak (a woman), Clonie Gowen (a woman), David Williams (bangs a lot of women), David Singer, Jonathan Little, and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi.

Marco Johnson ended Day 1A (there are three Day 1′s) big stacked with 240,250. Other big named big stacks include Lee Markholt/Lee Watkinson (138,750), Barry Greenstein (134,450), and Eric Froehlich (96,500).

Be sure to check out their new live team (headed by Amanda Leatherman) and tourney updates (lots of video, very cool) here. And get full chip counts here.

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