Lauren Kling is among, get this, SIX women remaining in the WPT LAPC Main Event.
We’re not sure if Mark Newhouse so muchcharged to the top of the WPT LA Poker Classic Main Event leaderboard as he did climb or ascend to it, but charged was a strong adjective for us on a Monday morning, so we went with it.
Newhouse ended Day 3 as chipleader, stacked at 498,000. He’s followed by Chris Moore, a ginger, with 489,000. In third overall is Japanese motorcycle Masaaki Kagawa with 432,000.
In all, 72 players remain (and they’re all in the money). Day 2 chipleader Daniel Negreanu is still alive, although he stacked ‘em offTM. His chip count dipped to 222,500, which is still above average.
Other notables remaining include but are certainly not limited to Annie Duke, a woman (321,000), Johnny Chan, wait, Johnny Johnny Chan? Yep Johnny Chan (218,000), Prahlad Friedman (208,000), Hoyt Corkins (206,500), Erica Schoenberg, a woman (189,000), Vivek Rajkumar (157,500), Vanessa Rousso, a woman (46,000), Lauren Kling, a woman (44,000), and Jon Turner, a ginger (31,500).
More from a few months ago when we said Kling had potential here.
We'll give you the LAPC, we'll take the gold in hockey today. Fair trade.
Lots of big names among the leaders at the 2010 WPT LA Poker Classic.
At the top of the leaderboard is arguably poker’s biggest name, Daniel Negreanu. With 188 remaining, Negreanu is stacked at 316,500. He’s followed by Eugene Katchalov 290,000. In third overall is Duke grad Vanessa Rousso, a woman, who went to Duke, with 225,000.
Lisa Hamilton, a woman, Erica Schoenberg, a woman, Annie Duke, a woman, Dee Leuong, a woman, Jennifer Tilly, a woman, Christina Lindley, a woman, and JJ Liu, a woman, also remain, although none of them went to Duke.
That’s about all of the poker for us today. Time to focus on the U-S-A vs. Canada gold medal hockey game this afternoon. Time to pay back our northern neighbors for 10 years of Nickelback. While we give the Canucks some shit from time to time, we do love them. But…we will never, ever, EVER forgive them for Nickelback. Pay back is a bitch.
Pictured: Daniel Negreanu not at the PPPL4, cause we haven't been there yet.
Ok, we still haven’t had a chance to head down to the M Resort in Las Vegas to watch the PartyPoker Premier League IV. That’s on us. Our bad. We want to, but as Hootie once sang, “Tiiiiiime, why you punish me.”
No time.
Anyway, needing a win and a win only to stay alive for the final table, Daniel Negreanu won the final heat of the PPPL4TM on Wednesday. However, he’s still not guaranteed a spot at the final table (seems like if you win a heat you should be allowed in, but whatever). Instead, he now has to play the spectacularly-breasted J.C. Tran in a best two-out-of-three heads-up match, winner advancing to the final table.
Wtf, right?
Roland de Wolfe and Ian Frazier have to play the same heads-up match format with the winner advancing as well.
Ok, we just don’t get it. But if they’re happy, we’re happy. Locked into the final table and not requiring a sudden-death heads-up match are Phil Laak, David Benyamine, Giovanni Safina, and Luke Schwartz. They’ll be competing for a first place prize of we have no idea.
With a second place finish at the 2010 Aussie Millions $100,000 buy-in event, Phil Ivey has inched past Daniel Negreanu as poker’s all-time tournament money winner.
Ivey banked $600,000 in the event, giving him just shy of $13M in earnings. This puts him ahead of Negreanu by around math math math $413,000 or so.
Dan Shak, who for his sake we hope has finalized his divorce from Beth, won the tourney, banking $1,200,000. He finished fourth in the same event last year.
In related Daniel Negreanu news, he’s doing well at the WPT Southern Poker Championship, which is currently on Day 2. He’ll need to finish math math math around 1st place to overtake Ivey again. Get full WPT chip counts here.
And in related Aussie Millions news, Day 1B of the Main Event has wrapped and a guy with a funny last name is the chip leader. Get Day 1B chip counts here.
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event has turned into…dare we say…a marquee event on the tournament circuit?
This year’s edition brought out 669 players for Day 1A yesterday, setting up what should be around a $3M first-place prize when registration closes today.
Day 1A chip leader was Wayne Bentley, stacked at 335,000. He’s followed by some big names, including but not limited to Kevin Saul (170,000), Eric Froehlich (165,000), Vivek Rajkumar (112,000), James Mackey, a ginger (104,000), Barry Greenstein (98,000), Daniel Negreanu (91,500), Dennis Phillips (90,000), and last year’s winner Poorya Nazari (78,000).
Above is Negreanu talking about his Day 1A. We’ll get to posting hot girls in bikinis on the beach for the rest of these PCA posts starting tomorrow.
Michelle Nunes PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge
PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge wraps this weekend (Dec. 27 after the NFL on FOX) on a high-note.
Mike Kosowski, a 21-year vet of the NYPD and first responder to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, defeated Daniel Negreanu heads-up for $1,000,000.
Kosowski’s story was chronicled in the book “Never Forget: The Oral History of September 11.” Kosowski was among the first NYPD to enter the World Trade Center after the Government terrorists flew planes in to them. We’ll let the PokerStars press release tell the story after that:
From there, getting pelted with glass and debris, he hustled to World Financial Center, in hopes of helping make sure that building was clear. Inside, he found eight people trapped. Determined to bring them to safety, Kosowski was leading the group through a back exit when an explosion rippled through the area, launching Kosowski 10 feet through the air. He slammed into a wall. Though adrenaline kept him from feeling the full force of the pain, that impact herniated three discs in his neck, two in his back and left him with pain in his legs.
Kosowski spent the rest of the day, and the better part of the next few months, searching the debris at Ground Zero and on the Staten Island landfills for human remains. He was given the Medal of Valor for his actions that day.
This week’s episode may be the most watched poker broadcast of all-time…although Madsen probably thinks it was all a highly choreographed Government conspiracy designed to take down Full Tilt and filmed in the same bunker where they filmed the moon landing.
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