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2009 WSOPE Update: Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan Leads Event #3, Has Hot Girlfriend

by Wicked Chops Entity on 9.24.2009 in Uncategorized | 18 comments

Tom 'durrrr' Dwan (right foreground) is sweated by his if-Tara-Reid-didn't-do-tons-of-drugs-this-is-what-she'd-maybe-look-like-now girlfriend at Event #3 of the 2009 WSOPE.

Tom 'durrrr' Dwan (right foreground) is sweated by his if-Tara-Reid-didn't-do-tons-of-drugs-this-is-what-she'd-maybe-look-like-now girlfriend at Event #3 of the 2009 WSOPE.

Some quick updates from the 2009 WSOP Europe:

:: As we wrote earlier, Erik Cajelais won Event #2 (£2,500 Pot Limit Hold’em/Omaha), banking £104,677. Men “The Master” Nguyen finished fourth. Go to PokerListings here for an interview with The Master where he denies all of the cheating and chip dumping allegations from his past. Don’t know if we’ve seen him talk about that one before.

:: Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan is looking to clear forum rumors about his sexuality capture his first bracelet by bringing his hot-ass girlfriend to sweat him winning Event #3 (£5,000 Pot Limit Omaha). With 26 of the initial 154 starting field remaining, durrrr holds the chip lead. Other big named big stacks include Howard Lederer, Sandra Naujoks (a woman), Robert Williamson III, and Barry Greenstein. Get full reporting here (click the Live Reporting link). Side note: durrrr’s chick has a hot friend with her too…we’ll use her pic for a future update post.

:: And according to this tweet, it looks like Phil Hellmuth gets to make his grand Caesar entrance to the WSOPE Main Event too.

UPDATE: durrrr is crippled. Not like, Jimmy Vulmer crippled, but he lost a big pot after flopping top set. Will probably go out in 14th place after dinner break. Related, Jimmy Vulmer at his best here.

Tagged as: Erik Cajelais, Men "The Master" Nguyen, Phil Hellmuth, Poker News, Tom 'durrrr' Dwan, WSOP Europe

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WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic: Raj Patel, Last Year’s Winner, Leading Day 1

by Wicked Chops Entity on 4.4.2008 in Tournaments,World Poker Tour | no comments

WptlogoWhile this year’s WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic has been swimming in some cold water (only 346 started, 219 remain), there are lots of big names among the early big stacks.

Leading them all after Day 1 is last year’s winner Raj Patel, who may possibly be from India. And unlike a plate of Gosht Vindaloo, something about the Foxwoods Poker Classic must sit well with Raj, who hasn’t done much of anything before or after last year’s win. He’s stacked at 194,000.

Other big named big stacks include Barry Greenstein (152,000), Erik Seidel (98,000), Ted Forrest (97,300), Men "The Master" Nguyen (86,000), Nam Le (85,000), Erick Lindgren (84,000), and "Glum Girl" Svetlana Gromenkova (68,700), who at least is looking a little less glum today.

Get full chip counts from the WPT here.

Tagged as: barry greenstein, Erick Lindgren., Erik Seidel, Foxwoods Poker Classic, Men "The Master" Nguyen, Ted Forrest, World Poker Tour

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Poker Blog Round-Up: Men Caught Cheating, Laak Favorited, Poker Writer Dies Young, Something In Spanish + More

by Wicked Chops Entity on 3.6.2008 in Poker News | no comments

This is the first of our new series of poker blog round-ups at Wicked Chops Poker in which we send people to other blogs to get their poker news fix. Yep, we’re all about link love here at Wicked Chops Poker. Link love and laziness.

Grace_park_04:: Shocking! Men “The Master” Nguyen accused of cheating in LA, this time by none other than Justin Bonomo (Click here)

:: Phil Laak allowed to start WPT Invitational on Day 2, David Singer nits, Shaniac picks (Click here)

:: Gutshot WSOP reporter Barron Vangor Toth, a favorite of ours, sadly dies at age 34, Pokerati Dan obits (Click here)

:: David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth are dumb and dumber, grumps Gary Carson (Click here and here)

:: Phil Ivey channels his inner Yang after big win, bestows Red Bull+Poker (Click here)

:: Las diferentes dimensiones del póquer, escribe David Williams, tacos Poquer-Red (Click here)

The girl in the photo, that’s Grace Park. See more of her here.

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Tagged as: David Singer, David Sklansky, David Williams, Grace Park, Justin Bonomo, Mason Malmuth, Men "The Master" Nguyen, Phil Ivey, Phil Laak

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Men the Master Tilts Erick Lindgren, Takes Lead at WPT World Poker Open

by Wicked Chops Entity on 1.23.2008 in Poker News,Tournaments,World Poker Tour | no comments

Men 'The Master' Nguyen Leads at WPT World Poker OpenDay 3 of the WPT World Poker Open, a non ladies-only event, is underway at the Gold Strike Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, and already the chipleader at the start of the day, Erick Lindgren, has been sent to the rail by an inebriated-ly obnoxious Men "The Master" Nguyen.

Not much more than 30 minutes after the start of play today, the two pros faced off in a big hand after the flop, with Lindgren pushing all-in after Nguyen raised Lindgren’s lead-out bet. With the board showing Qh-4h-3d, Nguyen called and turned over pocket Queens and Lindgren showed Ah-10h for a nut flush draw. The turn and river came up black and blank, and as the WPT live blog reports:

Nguyen gets up from the table and really starts to celebrate, screaming, "Yes!" After a minute of this Lindgren says, "Act like you’ve been there before." To which, Freddy Deeb pipes in with, "We’re not on TV yet." Nguyen counts out his chips and after Lindgren pays him off he holds 80,000.

Full hand details here.

Marginally crippled and visibly irritated, Lindgren then pushed all in with Ad-7d only to be called by Nguyen, who held As-9s. The board would be no help, sending Lindgren to the rail in 24th place ($12,060).

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After 4+ hours of playing Wii Tennis in the midst of writing this post, we see that a few big name players, including John Phan, TJ Cloutier and Barry Greenstein, have been eliminated, but several top pros are still in the hunt with 13 players left including still-the-chipleader Nguyen, a "short AND bald" Freddy Deeb, the certifiably insane Dutch Boyd, Hoyt Corkins and John Spadavecchia.

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UPDATE: Final table is set. Half-man half-amazing Freddy Deeb leads with 1,345,000. He’s followed by Brett Faustman (1,282,000), Gabe Costner (1,181,000), Men Nguyen (729,000), Hoyt Corkins (395,000), and John Spadavecchia (256,000).

For live reports and chip counts from the World Poker Open, go here.

For how to open a beer bottle with a dollar bill, after the jump . . .

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Tagged as: Erick Lindgren., Men "The Master" Nguyen, poker, World Poker Open, World Poker Tour

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