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Steve O’Dwyer Wins EPT Grand Final, Besting Best Final Table…Ever?

by Wicked Chops Entity on 5.14.2013 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

This win can pay for a lotta grilled cheese sandwiches.

This win can pay for a lotta grilled cheese sandwiches.

Sure, Steve O’Dwyer may look like the Southern fraternity brother we had in the ’90′s who liked acid, weed, devil sticks, and Phish a liiiiiiiiiiitttttttttle too much, but fuckina he’s tearing up the poker circuit.

O’Dwyer, 31, defeated what many are calling one of the best naturally conceived final tables in modern poker history at the EPT Grand Final.

The line-up was ridiculous: Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier, Johnny Lodden, Jake Cody, Andrew Pantling (Matchbook.com exec), Noah Schwartz.

O’Dwyer conquered the field of 531, earning €1,224,000. He defeated the aforementioned Pantling (€842,000) heads-up for the title.

Daniel Negreanu finished fourth, earning €321,000. The cash puts Negreanu third all-time on the poker tournament career money list–or first all-time if you knock-out the OneDrop event.

Back to O’Dwyer, check out his year-by-year stats here. It’s like he visited Adrian Peterson’s doctor and went on poker PEDs in 2011.

Get full EPT Grand Final results here.

* Photo Credit PokerStarsBlog.

Tagged as: Daniel Negreanu, EPT Grand Final, featured, Poker News, PokerStars, Steve O'Dwyer

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Daniel Negreanu Wins 2013 WSOP Asia Pacific Main Event

by Wicked Chops Entity on 4.15.2013 in Poker Tournaments | 2 comments

'I just came in my pants.' 'Me too.'

‘I just came in my pants.’ ‘Me too.’

If dude’s in their upper 30′s still had wet dreams, WSOP commish Ty Stewart just blasted a massive load in his jammies.

In just over six months, the game’s two biggest names–Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu–have won the WSOP “expansion” Main Events.  Solid shot in the arm for those event’s credibility.

In related news if you haven’t figured it out yet, Daniel Negreanu dominated final table play on route to the inaugural WSOP Asia Pacific Main Event crown. This marks Negreanu’s fifth bracelet. For the win, he banked just over $1M AUD.

Sure to be discussed at length within the poker community is Negreanu’s involvement with the Choice Center for his recent surge. To that point, Negreanu credited the aforementioned Choice Center for a role in the victory, telling WSOP.com:

“I went to do these personal growth courses and the biggest thing I got out of that was confidence and self-trust. I trust myself and I trust myself to make the right decisions. Antonio [Esfandiari] also went to the same thing and he won a couple bracelets, made a couple of final tables, and came ninth here. I just graduated myself and I’ve come fourth and first. People can hate all they want. I’m not in a cult, they’re nuts, and I would never be in one. I went through a course, I’ve done the course, and I am so happy I did it.”

Australia’s Daniel Morton finished second for $637,911 AUD. Macau big game leader Winfred Yu came in third for $423,225 AUD. Benny Spindler, who held the chip leader at the start of final table play, flamed out in sixth for $146,205 AUD.

Get a full recap and results here.

Hear what Gavin Smith said about Choice on our podcast here.

Tagged as: 2013 WSOP Asia Pacific, Daniel Negreanu, featured, Poker News, WSOP Asia Pacific

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Daniel Negreanu Goes for WSOP Asia Pacific Main Event Title

by Wicked Chops Entity on 4.14.2013 in Poker Tournaments | 1 comment

Is it Negreau's time THIS time?

Is it Negreau’s time THIS time?

The final table is set for the inaugural WSOP Asia Pacific Main Event.

Among the big stacks is poker’s biggest name.

Daniel Negreanu enters final table play as the second big stack with 2,437,000. Negreanu missed out on bracelet #5 earlier in the week to Phil Ivey. He only trails Germany’s Benny Spindler, who is the big stack with 2,931,000.

Joining them at the final table is last year’s November Niner Russell Thomas with 490,000.

Also making the final table as short-stack is the man responsible for putting together some of Macau’s highest stake games, Winfred Yu, with 367,000.

Just bubbling the TV final table was Antonio Esfandiari. He banks $65,408 for his ninth place finish.

Somewhere, deep within the bowels of Choice Center, their cabalish leadership is going, “Wassup, bitches!”*

Follow the final table action starting at 12am ET on Monday here.

* Kidding kidding don’t exercise us from the poker community. 

Tagged as: 2013 WSOP Asia Pacific, Daniel Negreanu, Poker News, WSOP Asia Pacific

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Ivey, Negreanu Battle for WSOP Asia Pacific Bracelet

by Wicked Chops Entity on 4.9.2013 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

Let's just say Barry Greenstein has been waiting for the WSOP to add an Asian Pacific event to the calendar since he learned how to talk.

Let’s just say Barry Greenstein has been waiting for the WSOP to add an Asian Pacific event to the calendar since he learned how to talk.

The first WSOP Asia Pacific has netted its first marquee final table.

Event #3 ($2,200 Mixed Event) sees 2/3 of the Holy TriumvirateTM as the two big stacks. Phil Ivey leads the six-handed final table, stacked at 144,300. Ivey is going for his ninth all-time bracelet.* He’s closely followed by Daniel Negreanu with 129,000. This would be Negreanu’s fifth bracelet and first since 2008.

First will bank just over $51,000.

Some other guys you care significantly less about round out the final table. Follow the action here.

In related WSOP AP news, U.S. American Bryan Piccioli won Event #1 ($1,110 Hold’em Accumulator), earning $211,575. Jonathan Duhamel (ahem) finished fourth ($71,870) and Jeremy Ausmus came in fifth ($54,337). Get full results here.

Event #2 ($1,650 PLO) was captured by U.S. American Jim Collopy ($69,662). Get full results here.

* Ivey is the all-time bracelet leader among African-Americans. He currently has 8 more bracelets than Elix Powers. 

Tagged as: 2013 WSOP Asia Pacific, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Poker News

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Wicked Chops and Gavin Smith Podcast with Daniel Negreanu

by Wicked Chops Entity on 2.24.2013 in Poker News | 1 comment

Gavin-Smith-Lacey-Jones-Maria-Ho

This is one good-looking podcast.

Here we go–first Wicked Chops & Gavin Podcast (working title).

We kick things off at the very impressive iGaming North America (iGNA) conference from Vegas last week.

Most of this podcast is breaking down the 2013 BLUFF Power 20. Who deserves to be on, who doesn’t. We talk some online poker legislation. Unfortunately, we didn’t know at the time that Nevada was minutes away from passing a bill. But whatever.

Daniel Negreanu stops by to discuss his iGNA panel, Choice Center, and his St. Jude’s fundraiser.

Give it a whirl.

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Tagged as: BLUFF Power 20, Daniel Negreanu, featured, gavin smith, Podcast, Poker News

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