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WSOP Announces Made-for-TV Rematches of Heads-Up Battles

by Wicked Chops Entity on 4.6.2011 in Poker News | 2 comments

Payback is a bitch, Johnny Chan.

Have to hand it to the poker world for coming up with some innovative TV concepts recently.

It started last year with the PokerStars Big Game. Then last month, Full Tilt introduced the ONYX Cup. And today, the World Series of Poker announced a made-for-TV program pitting past Main Event heads-up matches against each other once again.

The first battle is between Chris Moneymaker and Sammy Farha. Recreating the 2003 WSOP Main Event final table, Moneymaker and Farha will compete in a best out of three rematch. Game one will have them compete with their same starting stacks. Game two will reverse the stacks. And game three will be at even stacks.

Then, the 1989 Main Event gets revisited, as Johnny Chan will go up against Phil Hellmuth in a single match with even stacks.

Finally, fans get to vote on a third (re)match between the following:

- Johnny Chan vs. Erik Seidel – i.e. the shoe-in
- Greg Raymer vs. David Williams
- Jamie Gold vs. Paul Wascika
- Duhamel vs. John Racener

The rematches will air on ESPN on July 26, 2011.

Read more about the rematches here. To vote [for Chan vs. Seidel] go to the WSOP Facebook page here.

Tagged as: Chris Moneymaker, Erik Seidel, Johnny Chan, sammy farha, world series of poker, WSOP

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Poker Player Johnny Chan on Survivor?

by Wicked Chops Entity on 10.18.2010 in Poker News | 1 comment

Johnny Chan will be eating a lot of bananas if he's on Survivor 22 in Nicaragua.

Some rumors circulating on this one so let’s just get the SEO train going: is Johnny Chan going to be on the next season of Survivor?

Really, that’s all we got. Some forum chatter on a poker player perhaps being on the cast of Season 22. And then Johnny Chan didn’t update his twitter page for awhile (read July 29th and then Oct 3). So obviously it’s true.

In reality, Johnny Chan on Survivor rumors ultimately just gives us another reason to post the above photo and take a break from consecutive World Poker Tour posts.

So yeah, read more here.

Tagged as: Johnny Chan, Survivor

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2010 WSOP Main Event: Tony ‘Bond18′ Dunst, OMGClayAiken, Chan Lead

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.14.2010 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

Johnny Chan is going really, really deep in the 2010 WSOP Main Event.

As expected, it was a bloodbath after the money bubble burst at the 2010 WSOP Main Event, as the field went from 747 to 575 in under two hours. Among the departed min-or-near-min cashers included Gavin Smith, Patrik Antonius, Allen Cunningham, and likely Player of the Year, Frank Kassela.

Ending the day as chip leader is noted online player and suit wearer Tony ‘Bond18′ Dunst with 1,546,000. He’s followed by Duy Le with 1,460,000.

In fifth overall is even more noted online player and non-suit wearer Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond with 1,392,000. And somehow, against all logic and reason, Johnny Chan remains, stacked at 1,159,000.

Other notables remaining include but are certainly to Adam Levy (1,054,000), the amazingly still alive Hasan Habib (875,000), Jesper Hougaard (871,000), The Intense Stare of Scott Clements (828,000), Johnny Lodden (766,000), Praz Bansi (660,000), Imari Love (653,000), Scotty Nguyen (632,000), Jason Somerville (606,000), Hoyt Corkins (572,000), Dragan Galic* (569,000), Eric Baldwin (506,000), Allie Prescott (504,000), David Ass-ouline (500,000), Bruce Buffer (450,000), Jean-Robert Bellande (356,000), David Benyamine (329,000), Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi (241,000), and Alex Jacob (138,000).

Will the Last Woman Standing CupTM be awarded today? There are approximately 6 women remaining. They are Shannon Shorr (482,000), Vanessa Selbst (397,000), Evelyn Ng (156,000), Barbara Martinez (148,000), Karina Jett (80,000), and Lauren Kling (68,000).

Get full chip counts here.

* Not a real dragon

Tagged as: 2010 WSOP, 2010 WSOP Main Event, Johnny Chan, OMGClayAiken, Tony 'Bond18' Dunst

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2010 WSOP Main Event Day 1C: Johnny Chan Chip Leader?

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.8.2010 in Poker Tournaments | 4 comments

Johnny Chan ended WSOP Main Event Day 1C as top banana...

As noted in an earlier post, Day 1C of the 2010 WSOP Main Event registered an impressive 2,314 players, with 1,489 surviving play.

With a total field of over 7,000 seeming to be a lock, first place will pay out around $10M at least. We’ve learned that if first gets close-but-not-quite to the $10M figure (say, it’s short by around $100,000), Harrah’s may juice the top prize. #insiderinfo

Anyway, with Day 1C in the books, chip leaders are (French) Canada’s Mathieu Sauriol (169,900) and…Johnny Chan (163,700).

We give Chan plenty of crap. There are more well-like players among his/her peers and in the industry in general. However, the masses don’t really know/care about all of the Chan back-stories, so from a mainstream level, Chan going deep in this year’s ME (similar to what he’s doing to the above banana) would probably qualify as a Good for PokerTM entry.

Plenty of other big/interesting names among the Day 1C chip leaders, including but certainly not limited to Lauren Kling (149,650), Hoyt Corkins (129,150), Carter Phillips (128,225), David Williams (112,125), Billy Kopp (107,800), and Lex Veldhuis (91,925).

Among the departed are Phil Hellmuth, Huck Seed, Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan, and Jerry Yang.

Get full Day 1C chip counts here.

Tagged as: 2010 WSOP, 2010 WSOP Main Event, Johnny Chan, Lauren Kling

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Phil Ivey: Player of the Decade

by Wicked Chops Entity on 12.26.2009 in Poker News | 5 comments

Meet your Player of the Decade: Phil Ivey

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(Editor’s Note: Portions of the following post appear in our January column in Bluff Magazine)

In the January issue of Bluff Magazine, we named our Player of the Decade for each 10 year span of the modern poker era (so starting in the 1970′s). The criteria was simple: what player had the greatest success and most impact on the game in each decade of the modern poker era?

While some decades, like the 80′s, were tight, it was pretty clear for the aughts/zeros/Ohs who the best player was. Below is an excerpt from our column. Go below the fold for excerpts from our 70′s, 80′s, and 90′s Player of the Decades.

Player of the Decade – 2000’s: Phil Ivey
Honorable Mentions: Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Chris Moneymaker

Phil Ivey first really came onto the scene in 2000, winning a Jack Binion World Poker Open event. Since then, he’s amassed over $11 million in tournament earnings and established himself as the best live and online cash game player in the world.

A WSOP Main Event final table appearance in 2009 cemented his status. And even Honorable Mentions for this decade, Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth, openly admit that Ivey is the best player in the world. Well, Negreanu does at least.

2009′s final table appearance also provided a push for Ivey in the publicity department, something almost solely dominated by the likes of Negranu and Hellmuth until then. He appeared on an ESPN The Magazine cover and countless major media features.

We expect Ivey (and Negreanu and Hellmuth) to be contenders for this title in 10 years as well.

(Buy the January issue in stores for the full column version…)

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Tagged as: Doyle Brunson, featured, Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey

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