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Vivek Rajkumar Leads WPT LAPC With 18 Left, Erik Seidel Wins Another High Roller Event

by Wicked Chops Entity on 3.1.2011 in Poker Tournaments | 6 comments


The 2011 WPT LA Poker Classic is down to just two tables stacked sickly with a slew of notable online players who give our quotation mark key a workout and a couple of the game’s best live tournament pros.

Leading the way into Day 5 is 12-year old poker wunderkind and 1-time WPT title winner Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkuma, who starts the day stacked at 3,231,000 in chips. He’s followed by online pros Gregory “mynameizgreg” Brooks (2.33 mil), Jason “TheMasterJ33″ Dewitt and Matt “berkey11″ Berkey (1.6 mil)

Among the remaining 18 are big name, big-time live tournament pros Carlos Mortensen (1.47 mil), who’s gunning for his 4th WPT title, Allen Cunningham (1.08 mil), who’s still looking for his first WPT title, and Kathy Liebert, a woman, (304k), who has her work cut out for her if she’s going to be the first ever female WPT winner.

Other notables still in include James “croll103″ Carroll (1.27 mil), Steve “gboro780″ Gross (964k), David “Bakes” Baker (736k), Shannon Shorr (690k), Darryll “Dfish” Fish (584k) and 2010 November NinerTM Jason “PBJaxx” Senti (533k).

In other news at the LAPC, Erik Seidel continues to fuck 2011′s mouth by picking up another high roller win, this time taking down LAPC Event #54 ($25,100 High Roller) after a 3-way deal that included Betrand “Elky” Grospellier. Seidel’s win here comes on the heels of his $2.5 mil AUD high roller victory at the Aussie Millions as well as fourth place finish in the PCA High Rollers ($295,960) and third in the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge ($523,881).

Follow the action on Day 5 here.

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Our Hopes for an All Asian Final Table Crushed, Although Tran Back as Leader at WPT LAPC

by Wicked Chops Entity on 2.28.2007 in Tournaments | no comments

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From what we can tell, of the 18 players remaining at the WPT LAPC, only four of them are Asian, ruining what we’d hope would be an all Asian final table.

But before we continue, let’s quickly get this out of the way: we’re a little prejudiced. When we see an Asian at a poker table, we automatically assume he/she is a force to be reckoned with. We stay out of pots with him/her unless we absolutely must. Why? 1) Look at the damn leaderboards at tournaments. It’s typically got more Nguyen’s and Chan’s than a Chinese (or Vietnamese) phone book. And 2) There’s a 99% chance that he/she was trained by Men the Master. Which is fine by us, since Men is a renown anti-communist, making him more red-blooded American than half the pussies in this country. End tangent.

All of this exposition of course leads us to our tournament leader, J.C. Tran, who continues to just kill the online and live tournament circuit. Tran, who built his chip lead by sucking out on Joe Sebok, is lapping the field, stacked at 3,461,000. In second overall is an “American” from South Florida who doesn’t speak a lick of English named Jacobo Fernandez with 1,334,000.

Yesterday’s chip leader, Bill Edler, is fourth overall with 1,160,000. Other notables remaining include Chau Giang, Paul Wasicka, and Kristy Gazes, who is a woman.

Suk Sung was eliminated in 21st place.

Get full reports at Poker News.

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Bill Edler Leads WPT LAPC; Suk Sung Doesn’t Suck

by Wicked Chops Entity on 2.27.2007 in Online Poker,Tournaments | no comments

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Three days into the WPT LAPC and here’s five things we’ve learned:

1) Nothing causes a stir quite like a last longer ass tattoo prop bet (get Gavin and Joe’s thoughts on it in yesterday’s Raw Vegas Daily News)
2) Suk Sung has our new favorite name. Mildly obsessed with it.
3) This Isaac Haxton kid is freaking good, man. Although it totally suk sungs that he’s stuck 800k in Neteller.
4)  As much as we hate to admit it, that dork Ted Lawson has some wicked poker chops. Ire ire.
5) That LA Poker Classic logo would’ve been awesome in 1991.

Chip leaders after Day 3 are: Bill Edler (696,000), Jason Strasser (677,000), Suk Sung (668,000), and J.C. Tran (636,000). Other notables still alive include Paul Wasicka, whose name looks too much like swastika for our liking, Nick Schulman, Jeff Cabanillas, Isaac Haxton, Kristy Gazes (a woman), Joe Awada, Chau Giang, Nam Le, and Ted Lawson.

Personally, we here at Wicked Chops Poker are rooting for an all Asian final table consisting of: Suk Sung, Chau Giang, Sung Yi, Shan Jing, Nhut Tran, and Can Kim Hua. Try that on for size, Mike Sexton!

Get full reports at Poker News.

Tagged as: LA poker classic, wpt lapc

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