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by on October 27, 2009 TweetThis
On Tuesday ESPN airs the first part (Day 8 will be dragged out for two weeks). This is the day we broke Jeff Shulman’s plans if he won the Main Event bracelet and Dennis Phillilps‘ agenting, among other things. A Part I recap:
Jeff Shulman to Renounce WSOP Main Event Bracelet
Worst Final Table Ever if Ivey Busts?
Leo Margets One Last Time
Sarah from UB Brings You Dinner Break News
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by on October 6, 2009 TweetThis
Watch Leo Margets Busts in 27th in the 2009 WSOP Main Event on RawVegas.tv
While we have no doubt that Matt Maranz (ah-hem, ah-hem) and 441 crew will broadcast it’s presentation next year, this year it didn’t make the cut.
So in honor of inaugural winner Leo Margets, above is her discussing winning the cup. Go here for her thoughts before winning the cup. Below is a gallery of her being presented the cup.
Also Day 6 was one of our most fun days of the Main Event. Some recap posts:
Who Is This Guy?
2009 WSOP Main Event Shirt of the Day
Peter Eastgate Had a Bad Day
Sarah from UB Makes for a Good Post
Last Woman Standing Cup Photo Dump
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by on July 15, 2009 TweetThis
Watch Leo Margets Busts in 27th in the 2009 WSOP Main Event on RawVegas.tv
We caught up one last time with Barcelona’s super cute, super cool Leo Margets soon after her exit from the 2009 WSOP Main Event. While she’s definitely disappointed to see her run come to an end, Leo tells us that it’s starting to sink in how big her achievement is, especially back home in Spain where, as our friend Francisco from Poqeur Red puts it, “poker is still in diapers.”
Leo also shares with us that she’s been sleeping with the Last Woman Standing CupTM we gave her the other night and that she’s planning on playing the WSOP Europe this September.
Watch the full interview above, and if you know more than “taco,” “hola” and “Corona” in Spanish, check out Spain-based poker sites Poquer Red and PokerPoquer for more on Leo.
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by on July 15, 2009 TweetThis
Damn.
Our Last Woman Standing TM at the 2009 WSOP Main Event Leonor “Leo” Margets, a woman, is the first to go today. Shortstacked at the start of play, she pushed pre-flop with A-7 and got called by Warren Zackey with A-10. The board missed and she’s out in 27th place, earning $352,832*.
From what we’ve seen, Leo Margets has already garnered a lot of mainstream media coverage in Spain, and just for playing the WSOP Ladies Event earlier in the series. Her deep run in the 2009 WSOP Main Event should bring tons more, which is definitely Good for PokerTM in Spain and good for us if it has a Moneymaker-like EffectTM of getting more cute Spanish girls into poker.
Related, apparently cheating on Spanish exams all through high school wasn’t a good way to learn the language because we haven’t a clue what Leo is saying in the video above. We still watched the whole thing anyway because damn that accent. Could listen to girls from Spain talk all day, especially cute, poker playing, marathon running ones.
Also:
:: Leo Margets Is The Last Woman Standing (TM)
:: Leo Margets Takes The Last Woman Standing Cup(TM) – Photo Dump
:: Leo Margets Is Almost the Last Woman Standing
* Just realized that Leo Marget’s $352,832 is the biggest cash in a WSOP Main Event by a woman ever (or at least since Tiffany “Crazy Bitch” Williamson, a woman, won $400,000 for finishing 15th in the 2005 WSOP Main Event). Last year’s Last Woman StandingTM Tiffany Michelle, a woman, took home $334,534 for 17th place.
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by on July 15, 2009 TweetThis
Leo Margets on Day 7 of the 2009 WSOP Main Event
One more day until we know the November NineTM.
Day 7 wrapped at the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Like year’s past, the majority of “name” pros exited stage left before the final day, leaving us with only a few marquee names for the N9: Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari, and Leo Margets, a woman.
Of those, only Ivey right now is in a good position to make the final table. He’s fifth overall in chips with 11,350,000. Ivey has been on the cusp of making the final table before, taking a bad beat by Chris Moneymaker to finish 10th in 2003 and making a questionable call with pocket Jacks against Aaron Kantor in 2005 to finish 20th. He also finished 23rd in 2002, but that was before the boom which means it was like a tree falling in the woods that nobody heard.
Esfandiari was short-stacked during the final minutes of play, but managed to chip up to 4,470,000 before the end of the night. And Margets will enter play as one of the short-stacks with 1,530,000.
The chip leader going into Day 8 is Darvin Moon with 20,160,000. Darvin, who lives in Oakland, Maryland, won his seat into the ME through a tournament in a casino in Wheeling, West Virginia. He owns a small logging company with his family.
In second overall is Billy Kopp with 15,970,000. Jeff Shulman is eighth with 10,170,000.
Should be an interesting day. Lots of short-stacks who may go home quickly then a slow grind to the final nine.
Get full chip counts here.
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by on July 14, 2009 TweetThis
The Last Woman Standing Cup(TM) is not officially recognized by Harrah's or the WSOP. Yet.
Get a closer look at the Last Woman Standing CupTM in the photos below. Photos of Leo Margets, a woman, accepting the Cup last night here.
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