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Phil Hellmuth Final Tables WPT Bay 101

by Wicked Chops Entity on March 12, 2010 TweetThis

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We expect Phil Hellmuth to be very humble if he wins his first WPT title.

Phil Hellmuth continued his good run at the WPT Bay 101, making the final table second in chips, stacked at 1,433,000. Hellmuth has never won a WPT title…until…dare we predict…today?

Hellmuth only trails the doubley-first-named Andy Seth with 2,164,000. In fifth overall is Hasan Habib, who is actually still alive, with 455,000.

Special mention of Scotty Nguyen, who finished 8th and cashed for $58,600. Take a quick look at his track record…it’s pretty sick and remarkably consistent.

Get full final table chip counts here.

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Phil Hellmuth Gunning for First WPT Title

by Wicked Chops Entity on March 11, 2010 TweetThis

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Phil Hellmuth is in contention for that ever-elusive(TM) first WPT title.

While Phil Hellmuth may have 11 WSOP bracelets and a NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship title to his credit, he’s still never one a World Poker Tour event.

Maybe that changes this week. Could the re-evaluation of his game that Daniel Negreanu tweeted about last week be working this quickly?

With 27 players remaining, Hellmuth is the chip leader at the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star, stacked at 550,000. He’s followed by Hasan Habib, who is still alive, with 496,000.

Other notables remaining include Nick Schulman (381,500), a near shoe-in for WPT Player of the Year now Faraz Jaka (332,500), Chau Giang (307,500), and NAPT Venetian winner Thomas Marchese (117,500).

Get full chip counts here.

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Annie Duke, A Woman, Wins NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship

by Wicked Chops Entity on March 7, 2010 TweetThis

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Annie Duke probably looked something like this when she defeated Erik Seidel for the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

Annie Duke probably looked something like this when she defeated Erik Seidel for the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

Annie Duke, a woman, has won the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

The woman Duke defeated long-time friend Erik Seidel 2-1 for the title. She banks $500,000 for the win, boosting her career tourney earnings to over $2.1M. That number of course doesn’t include the $2M she took home for winning another made-for-TV event, the initial WSOP Tournament of Champions back in 2004.

For a recap of the match, go here.

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LeRon Washington Wins WPT Celebrity Invitational

by Wicked Chops Entity on March 4, 2010 TweetThis

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Seen Above: ClubWPT.com qualifier LeRon Washington contemplating how he qualified for the WPT Celebrity Invitational by qualifying on ClubWPT.com.

In possibly the best possible advertisement for ClubWPT.com imaginable, LeRon Washington, an online qualifier through ClubWPT.com (people really play that huh), won the WPT Celebrity Invitational.

For the win, LeRon, who qualified on ClubWPT.com, banks $100,000 and a seat into the $25,000 WPT championship in April. All that just for qualifying at ClubWPT.com.

Sean Urban, who did not qualify on ClubWPT.com, finished second for $50,000. Another non- ClubWPT.com qualifier, Trishelle Canatella, placed third for $20,000.

Read all about the ClubWPT.com qualifiers win here.

In related news, follow the WPT LA Poker Classic final table, where six non-ClubWPT.com qualifiers vie for a $1.7M first place prize, starting at 4pm PST here.

ClubWPT.com.

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Mark Newhouse Charges to Top of WPT LAPC Leaderboard

by Wicked Chops Entity on March 1, 2010 TweetThis

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Lauren Kling is among, get this, SIX women remaining in the WPT LAPC Main Event.

We’re not sure if Mark Newhouse so much charged 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.

Get full chip counts here.

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Daniel Negreanu Leading 2010 WPT LAPC

by Wicked Chops Entity on February 28, 2010 TweetThis

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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.

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