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PokerStars Sunday Million

PokerStars had 2,617 entrants for this weekends Sunday Million producing a prize pool of $1,308,500. PokerStars awarded first place winner ‘SlippyJacks’ $240,633. PokerStars ended up paying 414 places were paid. ‘SlippyJacks’ is really Chris Vaughn who as ‘BluffMagCV’ won the FullTilt $1,000,000 Guarantee last weekend. Quite an accomplishment for Chris two straight wins in one million guarantees. ‘SlippyJacks’ beat ‘blanconegro’ heads up when he hit a flush on the turn on the final hand. ‘blanconegro’ needed one more diamond on the River and he would have hit the nut flush. Here is what the Final Table looked like:

1st: SlippyJacks — $240,633.15
2nd: blanconegro — $122,344.75
3rd: forcewithme9 — $80,996.15
4th: PerPer — $66,733.50
5th: yeamanyeaman — $53,648.50
6th: LuckyLady519 — $40,563.50
7th: domingo32 — $28,525.30
8th: MrKorvOla — $18,057.30
9th: Hasn82 — $10,468

FullTilt $750,000 Guaranteed

FullTilt had 3,734 players so they came up short of the Guaranteed prize pool and had to contribute $3,200 to the pool. First Place winner received $132,787 of the prize pool. FullTilt paid 522 places of the tournament. Heads up came down to  ’mSobeJim’ and ‘moneytree09′ going head to head. ‘mSobeJim’ outlasted ‘moneytree09′ to take home the $132,787 in prize money. FullTilt sponsored players included Ram Vaswani finishing 192nd, Chip Jett 233rd, Karina Jett 295 and Chris Ferguson 399th. The FullTilt Final Table looked like this:

1st: mSobeJim — $132,787.50
2nd: moneytree09 — $80,250
3rd: FastEddie267 — $52,500
4th: rash123 — $41,400
5th: OneOfTheseDays — 31,050
6th: tsarrast — $23,025
7th: Dasassassin — $17,250
8th: NewSeptember — $13,500
9th: Frenchie64 — $10,050

PartyPoker $300,000 Guaranteed

PartyPoker had 1,483 players this weekend and had to provide $3,400 to get the prize pool to $300,000. First Place was awarded $60,000 and PartyPoker paid 200 places. Two players, ‘bagetak’ and ‘tibzen’ chopped 1st and 2nd place with ‘bagetak’ getting 1st place in the standings. Here is how the Final Table looked:

1st: bagetak — $46,842.25
2nd: tibzen — $46,157.76
3rd: tipexmum — $20,700
4th: ISplashFunds — $16,350
5th: connieoffski — $13,800
6th: CatenaccioMS — $10,350
7th: Mariatik — $7,950
8th: Ananasbrus — $5,250
9th: lullipoker — $4,050
10th: redragon63 — $2,850

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• Jean Robert Bellande Survivor
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Just thought Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger would get you an update on the Survivor pursuits of Jean Robert Bellande. Earlier I posted this Story about Jean Robert on Survivor. As of the broadcast on Thursday Jean Robert is still playing the same way. He is trusting his reads on people to get him farther in the game. This episode for a period of time it seemed like it would be Jean Robert that would be voted off the island. Jean Robert made it through ‘tribal council’ by a couple votes and lives to play another day. One of the other Survivors, Courtney had some unkind words for Jean Robert during the reward part of the show. Courtney said things like, and I am paraphrasing here:

• I tried my best to be away from Jean Robert in the bathtub as I could possible be, he was at the one far end and I took the one at the other far end
• He is kind of gross, every single part of me wants to see Jean Robert go, I just don’t like him
• He’s a horrible person

It looked real bad for Jean Robert after his tribe lost the immunity challenge. Lots of his tribe members were discussing getting rid of Jean Robert. Lots of items were discussed about who to vote off here are a few snippets.

• That would require talking to him and you know I don’t do that
• I am going to vote for Jean Robert
• I hate him
• Well unless we vote for Jean Robert
• I think we should vote for Jean Robert tonight
• My gut says Jean Robert

Even Jean Robert wasn’t trusting his feel for the game. He admitted being uneasy and something didn’t feel right. At tribal council Jean Robert drew some very critical comments from two of the women of his tribe after he called himself the ‘bad boy’. Here are a few of the comments:

• Little do you know they don’t like you
• Bad Boy not quite the term I would have selected
• Bad Boy cause you play poker or something?
• Do you have a Harley we don’t know about?
• We don’t get along, we don’t like each other, he talks alot, his jokes aren’t funny, lots of judgements of other people, he has lots of self righteousness
• He is just a crappy person

But Jean Robert, once again when it seemed he was All-In, caught Runner Runner to stick around for at least another hand…..er episode. So far his plan, as published in Bluff Magazine, to be the biggest jerk possible without being voted off is working. He is at the final table so to speak with only 10 survivors remaining.

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• Absolute Poker Hacking - More to the Story

The online world is full of so much about the recent story regarding the hacking of Absolute Poker by a high ranking ‘Consultant’ of Absolute Poker. One prominent Internet rumour is that the Absolute Poker situation has been ongoing for three years. The same Internet posting says the amount of money stolen could be as much a $7 million. Another posting says that Absolute Poker security suspected trouble but was informed it was the owners testing the system and to ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’. Ok so I stole that from the Wizard of Oz but the concept is the same. Everywhere you look are stories about AJ Green and Scott Tom. Pictures of Gambling911.com reporter Jenny Woo with AJ Green the suspected Potripper back in 2005. Jenny felt the need to come out and apologize in this post. I have seen Internet posts calling this Absolute Poker situation the biggest scandal ever to hit the Online Poker Industry. Reportedly ESPN is doing a major expose on the Absolute Poker hacking. ‘Pokergate’ is on so many forums and blogs you could spent way too much time just searching for information on the scandal. The statement sent out earlier this week by Absolute Poker discussed the investigations that are ongoing. Audits are being completed to determine exactly how much money was won by Potripper and any additional suspects. Absolute Poker has promised refunds plus interest to all players victimized by the scandal and the offered $500 voucher if their name was disclosed inappropriately. Again reportedly Absolute Poker is still bringing in $1.5 and $2.0 million a day in gross revenues. The story seems to just keep on going and going with the Online Player community. Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger saw all the rumours for the last month but couldn’t believe it. Here are my posts regarding the Absolute Poker trouble.

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• Absolute Poker Releases Statement

Owner of Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG, which controls 100% of Absolute Poker, Joe Norton sent out a statement regarding the Hacking of Absolute Poker. Norton informs the recipients of the notice of a ‘Internal Security Breach for a limited period of time’. The breach according to Norton was committed by a high ranking trusted consultant with extraordinary access to security systems of Absolute Poker. Norton continues with the notice to AP customers by telling them that the consultant was immediately terminated.  Norton promises all players that were cheated by the hacker will be repaid for all losses that are traced to the cheating account. Payment to the AP players who lost money will be done after a complete audit by Gaming Associates and a separate audit by Kahnawake Gaming Commission. Finally the statement implies that Absolute Poker will be cooperation with any and all investigations in the future by regulatory bodies.

Reportedly Absolute Poker has already begun two activities related with the release of the xcel spreadsheet with all the players that played in the September 12th tournament IP addresses and email addresses. Absolute Poker has issued $500 payments to any watcher of the tournament that had their email in the spreadsheet. Second all players that cashed will be moved up 1 spot on the final standings and receive the additional prize money. 96 of the 98 players that participated in the tournament will receive a refund of their entry amount and fee for the tournament. Also included will be about 1% interest.  Potripper the id that won the tournament and Graycat another suspect account are not to receive refunds according to Absolute Poker.

Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger wonders what will happen to people like Mark Seif who has been a player for Absolute Poker for a long time. The web is full of many stories and discussions regarding the AP situation. I will keep an eye and ear open to this story and keep you posted. Here are the two previous posts I had on this event. 1. Absolute Poker is Hacked by Employee  2. Absolute Poker Hacking - More Details Surface

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PokerStars Sunday Million
PokerStars had 6,524 players this weekend and a prize-pool of $1,304,800. 900 Players made the money. Hevad ‘RaiNKhAN’ Khan, who finished at the final table in the WSOP 2007 Main Event, just missed the Final Table and ended up 13th. Macknot won this weeks PokerStars Sunday Million and $187,630 in prize money. Macknot played heads up with weeminer and had a 4.5 to 1 chip advantage when play started and the match only survived a few minutes. Macknot called when weeminer went All-In and Macknot had Pocket Rockets. weeminer didn’t improve and PokerStars Sunday Million was completed. Here is how the Final Table and Payouts ended up:

1. Macknot — $187,630.24
2. weeminer — $97,729.52
3. Ghost4476 — $70,328.72
4. Dabe8Gavis — $54,801.60
5. Keano7 — $41,884.08
6. juice54 — $31,010.40
7. Cardinal7 — $21,529.20
8. kev_unlimit — $13,048.00
9. Ivey $00 — $8,089.76
 

Fult Tilt $1,000,000 Guaranteed
Fult Tilt had 2,152 players which provided a prize pool of $1,076,000. 306 places were paid with the top prize earning $197,984. ‘BluffMagCV’ won the Fult Tilt $1,000,000 Guaranteed Tournament. The Final Table and payouts looked like this:
1. Chris “BluffMagCV” Vaughn — $197,984
2. Soren “Kongsgaard” Kongsgaard — $121,588
3. tmfd001 — $79,624
4. RGAR18 — $63,484
5. colenel decker — $48,420
6. DutchVinny — $34,647.20
7. JaeMills — $25,286
8. imgrinding — $19,906
9. Gettin Daize — $15,064

PartyPoker $300,000 Guaranteed
PartyPoker had 1,549 players and a prize pool of $306,800. First place received $61,960 and a total of 200 players made the money. The Tournament payouts were determined by a 6 player chop determined by chip counts when the player that finished 7th busted.  Here were the Final Table standings and payouts:
1. lenok07 — $40,301.44
2. LooseHope — $30,565.31
3. peter_AA100 — $27,487.14
4. Stuart “Zpace_man” Taylor — $22,241.79
5. Bayernbua — $22,157.62
6. RAMMS888 — $16,483.92
7. ihmepaisti — $8,209.70
8. Idealic69 — $5,421.50
9. StivenG — $4,128.30
10. Ota_SolGryn $2,943.10

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• Absolute Poker Hacked - More Details

The Online Poker World continues to be abuzz with the Absolute Poker situation. On Friday the story hit the newswires. The story about an Absolute Poker employee that hacked the Absolute Poker system to allow himself to play Hold ‘Em at an online table and see all the other players hole cards. Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger has seen the episode referred to as ‘Pokergate’. This is very interesting because large percentages of the online players are well under the 40 years of age needed to recall ‘Watergate’. Here are some more of the details that have come to light over the weekend.

In September 21 year old Marco Johnson asked Absolute Poker for a hand history of a high stakes tournament he had played previously. Marco felt there were too many weird things happening during the tournament and he felt he had been cheated. Marco finished 2nd in the tournament and was awarded the prize money of $20,000. Turns out that Absolute Poker sent Marco was the complete hand histories of everyone involved in the tournament. The hand histories included hole cards for everyone and every hand, IP addresses and email addresses of all participants within an excel spreadsheet. The winner of the tournament was the online player ‘Potripper’ who won the tournament and the $30,000 1st prize. Johnson turned the spreadsheet over to New York attorney Serge Ravitch a professional poker player who also moderates 2 + 2 Poker Forum.

“In the last hand, he just blew it. He made a gigantic call with 10 high. The chances of winning a hand like that are something like one in 1,000. It was obvious he was cheating,”

Source: ABC News Online

Johnson also provided the excel spreadsheet to a poker blogger Nat Arem who looked at the IP addresses. Arem also discovered that at every table Potripper was at also included another user that other players could not see at the online table. Aren traced the IP address of the observer back to location of the Absolute Poker servers. One last little item and I am not sure of any significance is that Mark Seif was in the hand history provided.

Ravitch the attorney estimated that online players lost between $500,000 and $1,000,000 over a two week period though he informs ABC he can’t be sure when the cheating started.

Absolute Poker has reportedely promised an official statement regarding the hacking and what remedies will be undertaken to reimburse players that were involved. Also Absolute Poker has said that the security glitch in the servers has been closed, though the online community is waiting for the official statement to hear and see the proof. Former Director of Operations at AP AJ Ripper was named in the ABC story as the owner of account Potripper. Additionally an IP address was linked to part owner Scott Tom who AP says has not been involved with the company for over a year. Investigations are continuing to ascertain if these people were involved or if somebody else was using their accounts.

Go to this Just Poker Talk Post to see the recreation of the hand histories and see how easy it was for Potripper to win the high stakes tournament.

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• Absolute Poker is Hacked by Employee

An Absolute Poker Employee hacked the online poker site. The employee modified the site and provided the ability for the employee to play on the site and see the hole cards of the other players. Internet forums had been discussing this possibility for almost a month. Previously Absolute Poker investigated the allegations and reported: 

“The result of our investigation is that we found no evidence that any of Absolute Poker’s redundant and varying levels of game client security were compromised. In other words, we have determined with reasonable certainty that it is impossible for any player or employee to see whole cards as was alleged. There is no part of the technology that allows for a “superuser” account, and there is no way for any person to influence the game software to their advantage.”

Source: MSNBC

New York attorney Serge Ravitch informed Absolute Poker that he felt cheating was going on. Ravitch informed MSNBC that Absolute Poker initially denied any cheating had occurred or was even possible. In fact according to the MSNBC story, Absolute Poker found no evidence that client security having been compromised. Absolute Poker went on to say that with certainty it was impossible for anybody to see other players hole cards. Also they said there was no way to modify the Absolute Poker game software to gain any advantage.

Absolute Poker provided hand histories to one of the players that had reported cheating. The hand histories provided hole cards for all the players and IP addresses as well as email addresses of the competing players. MSNBC requested an independent review of the re-created tournament and expert Ray Cooke, ex-head of security at Planet Poker online site, came away convinced that the hacker can see the hole cards. Here is the recreation provided by YouTube.

This video is one of four videos of the recreations. Here are links for the other three.
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This week a spokesman for Absolute Poker has informed MSNBC on the condition of anonymity that the hacker was an employee of the company who did it to prove it could be done. The spokesman said:

“This is literally a geek trying to prove to senior management that they were wrong and he took it too far,”

Your ‘Dead Money’ bloggers concern with this hacking is that it will make it more difficult to get the UIGEA repealed anytime soon. Also this will provide fuel for the online poker opponents to keep preventing US players from playing online.

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• Markus Lehmann Wins the WPT Spanish Championship 

Markus Lehmann wins the WPT Spanish Championship beating Ludovic Lacay in heads up play. Lehmann started the TV Final Table 5th in chips and outlasted the other 5 players to Win the WPT Spanish Championship at the Casino Barcelona. Markus takes home the WPT Spanish Championship title $786,505 in Prize Money and $25,000 buy-in for the WPT World Championship in April at the Bellagio.

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• Ludovic Lacay Eliminated in 2nd Place $418,505 

Ludovic Lacay pushes All-In after a flop of and is called by Markus Lehmann. Lacay shows  and Lehmann displays . The Turn is the and the River . Lacay is eliminated on the 74th hand of the TV Final Table.

• Christer Johansson Eliminated in 3rd Place $214,073

Christer Johansson re-raises All-In with a Board of and and is called by Markus Lehmann. Johansson shows for top pair and is ahead of Johansson’s qc pair of tens. The River brings the and Christer Johansson is eliminated on the 51st hand of the TV Final Table. Heads up play begins with Ludovic Lacay and Markus Lehmann.

• Steve Sung Eliminated in 4th Place $166,438 

Steve Sung re-raises All-In and Markus Lehmann calls and turns over and Steve shows his . Sung looks beaten when the Flop brings , but when the Turn is he has the lead and is 77% to win. Alas the River is the and Lehmann hits the back door flush and Sung is eliminated on the 41st hand of the TV Final Table.

• Gus Hansen Eliminated in 5th Place $142,621 

Gus Hansen who started the TV Final Table with the Chip Lead. After a Flop of Gus pushes All-In and Ludovic Lacay, who now has the Chip Lead calls right away. Hansen only has and is up against Lacay’s . The Turn is a and when the River brings the Hansen is eliminated in 5th Place on the 36th hand of the day.

• Vladimir Poleschchuk Eliminated in 6th Place $118,945

Vladimir Poleschchuk pushes All-In for about 120,000 and Steve Sung calls. Poleschchuk shows and Sung has . The board brings two pair for Sung and Vladimir Poleschchuk is eliminated in 6th Place on the 14th Hand of the TV Final Table.

• Start of WPT Spanish Championship TV Final Table

Here is how the TV Final Table started with Seat Assignments, Chip Counts and Payouts.

Seat 1 - Vladimir Poleschchuk - 176,000
Seat 2 - Christer Johansson - 855,000
Seat 3 - Steve Sung - 670,000
Seat 4 - Gus Hansen - 962,000
Seat 5 - Ludovic Lacay - 400,000
Seat 6 - Markus Lehmann - 329,000

1st - 554,987 euros ($786,805)
2nd - 295,200 euros ($418,505)
3rd - 151,000 euros ($214,073)
4th - 117,400 euros ($166,438)
5th - 100,600 euros ($142,621)
6th - 83,900 euros ($118,945)
Source: WPT

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PokerStars Sunday Million
PokerStars had 6,366 players this weekend and a prize-pool of $1,273,200. 900 Players made the money. Pairofnothin ended up with the PokerStars title. ClubbedBoat and Pairofnothin were the final two players and decided to split the money and play heads up for the title. The final hand had ClubbedBoat push All-In and Pairofnothin called. ClubbedBoat 10d9h and Pairofnothin showd 10c10s. ClubbeBoat missed a straight on the river and Pairofnothin won the event. Here is how the final table payouts ended up:

1. Pairofnothin — $140,448.84 
2. ClubbedBoat — $138,000
3. McNAbb2 — $68,625.48
4. twin peaks07 — $53,474.40
5. LukeFromB13 — $40,869.72
6. Ralfinator — $29,283.60
7. Crawfdad — $21,007.80
8. canalman — $12,732
9. Binde — $7,893.84

Fult Tilt $750,000 Guaranteed
Fult Tilt brought in 3,806 players which provided a prize pool of $761,200. 522 places were paid with the top prize earning $134,770.46. Mike Matusow finished 115th, Ram Vaswani came in 118th and Lee Watkinson 308th. Gagillionaire won the title and the $134,779.46. The Final Table and payouts looked like this:
1. gagillionaire — $134,770.46
2. Jubbley — $81,448.40
3. Eddits — $53,284
4. phatphat — $42,018.24
5. Mr_BigQueso — $31,513.68
6. gap1974 — $23,368.84
7. Flynn McCaffrey — $17,505.60
8. AmericanTilt — $13,701.60
9. Fire80 — $10,200.08

PartyPoker $300,000 Guaranteed
PartyPoker had 1,529 players and a prize pook of $305,800. First place received $61,600 and a total of 200 players made the money. Dr_Gammon won the PartyPoker title this weekend. Here were the Final Table standings and payouts:
1. Dr_Gammon — $61,160
2. mulchie — $33,638
3. sjukov — $21,100.20
4. mace64 — $16,666.10
5. krisch — $14,066.80
6. Th0mas_p0ker — $10,550.10
7. LaMano87 — $8,103.70
8. Dosenshooter — $5,351.50
9. Pointer2 — $4,128.30
10. TheGayTinTin — $2,905.10

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• WPT Spanish Championship Day 3

Day 3 of the WPT Spanish Championship Day 3 started with 39 players still alive for the WPT Championship. Play continued today until only 6 players remained consisting of the TV Final Table. The money bubble burst around 6:15 pm Barcelona Time when Andrey Zaichenko was crippled by Barny Boatman and knocked out by Gus Hansen on the next hand. Play has finished for the day and the TV Final Table to be played on Tuesday at the Casino Barcelona starting at 5:oo pm Barcelona Time. Here are the Chip Counts at the End of Day 3 with Gus Hansen as the Chip Leader going to the TV Final Table on Tuesday.

• Gus Hansen 950,000
• Christer Johansson 840,000
• Ludovic Lacay 415,000
• Steve Sung 395,000
• Markus Lehman 190,000
• Vladimir Poleshchuk 150,000

• Day 3 Finishes
  • Steven Van Zadelhoff 7th Place 95,161 euros  $135,000 US
  • Erik Seidel 8th Place 71,335 euros $101,100 US 
  • Nick Panopoulos 9th Place 47,510 euros $67,300 US 
  • Jean-Baptiste Tomi 10th Place 28,577 euros $40,500 US  
  • Juha Helppi 11th Place 28,577 euros $40,500 US 
  • Guerfi Mesbah 12th Place 20,150 euros $28,600 US  
  • Robin Larsson 13th Place 13,400 euros $19,000 US 
  • Pasi Heinanen 14th Place 13,400 euros $19,000 US 
  • Pascall Perrault 15th Place 13,400 euros $19,000 US 
  • Mikhail Makarov 16th Place 12,800 euros $18,145 US 
  • Steve Billirakis 17th Place 12,800 euros $18,145 US 
  • Melissa Hayden 18th Place 12,800 euros $18,145 US  
  • Raul Mestre 19th Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Kees Alblas 20th Place 10,500, euros $14,240 US 
  • Barny Boatman 21st Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Mark Teltscher 22nd Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Henrick Gwinner 23rd Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Paul Babise 24th Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Lino Cunha 25th Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Guillame De La Gorce 26th Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Richard Da Silva 27th Place 10,500 euros $14,240 US 
  • Guellermo Garcia
  • Farzad Heuyati
  • Antonio Olivan
  • Santiago Torres
  • Jose Fuentes
  • Eric Hershler
  • Erik Friberg
  • Brandon K Schaefer
  • Ted Lawson
  • Patrick Bruel
  • Lauren Essex
  • Andrey Zaichenko

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• WPT Spanish Championship Day 2

Day 2 begins at the WPT Spanish Championship at the Casino Barcelona with the 151 players that survived Day 1A and Day 1B on Thursday and Friday. The WPT Championship is scheduled to run through the TV Final Table on Tuesday October 16th, 2007. Play is scheduled for today to consist of 7 seventy-five minute levels. The WPT hopes to get down to 27 players remaining which is the number of players that will be paid. Play will continue on Sunday at 5:00 Barcelona time for Day 3. Some big names have made some progress during todays play. Included are Gus Hansen, Erik Seidel, Melissa Hayden, Steve Sung, Juha Helppi. Some big names that were busted today include, Freddy Bonyadi, Allen Cunningham, Bill Elder, Max Pescatori, John Juanda and the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Champion Annette Obrestad.

Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger posted previously about Day 1 of the WPT Spanish Championship.

• Day 2 Chip Leaders
  • Christer Johansson
  • Patrick Bruel
  • Gus Hansen
  • Lauren Essex
  • Erik Seidel
  • Steve Sung
  • Juha Helppi
  • Melissa Hayden
  • Jean Noel Thorel
  • Steve Billirakis
  • Pascal Perrault
  • Maurizio Carra
  • Peter Jepsen
  • Doug Lee
  • Erik Friberg
  • Alex Jacob
  • Ted Lawson
• Day 2 Eliminations
  • Freddy Bonyadi
  • Bill Elder
  • Alexander Kravchenko
  • Nam Le
  • Isabelle Mercier
  • Max Pescatori
  • Fabrice Soulier
  • William Thorson
  • Jim Worth
  • Stephen Zolotow
  • Ozzy Sheikh
  • Per Ummer
  • Ben Grundy
  • Sorel Mizzi
  • Annette Obrestad
  • Yevgeniy Timoshenko
  • Mike McDonald
  • Joseph Elpayaa
  • Carl Hostrup
  • Allen Cunningham

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• WPT Spanish Championship Day 1A and 1B

WPT Spanish Championship is underway at the Casino Barcelona. Unofficially there were 225 entrants into the WPT Spanish Championship. The Tournament runs from October 11, 2007 through the Final TV Table on October 16, 2007. Buy-In was 7,500 euros approximately $10,000 US. Payouts have been announced and here they are:

Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger has posted previously regarding the WPT. Here is how the Day 1A and Day 1B ended up.

• Day 1 Eliminations
  • Chad Brown
  • Joe Beevers
  • Patrik Antonius
  • Ram Vaswani
  • Vanessa Rousso
  • Tom Schneider
  • Kirk Morrison
  • Shannon Shorr
  • Rhynie Campbell
• Chip Leaders at the End of Day 1
  • Maurizio Carra 59,975
  • Carl Hostrup 55,750
  • Piagro Angelo 50,650 
  • Guillaume De la Gorce 50,450
  • Marciano Marc 46,300
  • Fabrice Soulier 45,750
  • Max Pescatori 44,400
  • JC Alvarado 42,075
  • Erik Friberg 40,075
  • Andre Akkari 37.050
  • Freddy Bonyadi 34,300
  • Joseph Elpayaa 34,250
  • Patrick Bruel 34,200
  • Steve Sung 32,300
  • Barny Boatman 32,250
  • Gus Hanson 30,500
  • Eric Hershier 30,350
  • Ozzy Sheikh 30,000
  • William Thorson 29,725
  • Steven Billirakis 27,875
  • Melissa Hayden 26,025
  • Annette Obrestad 24,600
  • Brandon K Schafer 23,500
  • John Juanda 21,675
  • Allen Cunningham 20,625

WPT Spanish Championship will continue tomorrow beginning at 5pm Barcelona time with the remaining players from Day 1A and Day 1B competing on Day 2.

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• Jean Robert Bellande Survivor
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Have you seen Jean Robert Bellande on Survivor China? I posted previously about Jean Robert being part of Survivor China. I have to admit I was a little surprised at the way CBS Survivor has been showing him. And they have been showing a lot of him. Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger should have known that Jean Robert would not make many friends on the Survivor Island. Given the way he plays poker with the tableside manner of Phil Hellmuth and combine that Poker attitude with the lack of food and rest on Survivor, that makes even the most likable people behave horribly, it is no wonder we see the worst of Jean Robert.

On the latest episode CBS Survivor showed him causing much trouble with the sleep arrangements. Not only does it appear that Jean Robert has a bad snoring issue but ‘needs’ to sleep next to the young women of the tribe. The young women of the tribe are shown on CBS Survivor discussing how much they hate sleeping next to Jean Robert and how they avoid it at all costs.

In one very damaging segment to Jean Robert’s fans was when he was discussing strategy with another member of the tribe. Jean Robert got into a discussion about one of the women of their tribe that was very frank and of a sexual nature. That was bad enough but Jean Robert was talking loud enough that the women and another member of the tribe heard the discussion.

Because of Jean Robert’s size and strength he is valuable on the challenges thus far that have mostly been physical in nature. He has helped his tribe win most of the events so far. Jean Robert does not seem to be very popular with his tribe-mates. It seemed during the last episode, after his tribe lost a challenge, he would be voted off the Island, but he survived. Kind of like he went All-In and nobody called. It will be interesting to see how long he can last and how much weight he loses.

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