Online Casino Transfer: News - WSOP Continues in Vegas

06/25/2010		Online Casino Style: News WSOP Continues in Vegas
Home History Games News Dictionary		The World Series of Poker continues to attract a fair amount of the internet gambling community’s attention, as more events unfold the excitement associated with the world’s most prolific poker tournament. This week, another coveted bracelet was given, this time to the Hungarian poker professional Peter Gelencser. He managed to hold his own through the end of Event 7, lasting out against a record number of entrants to the Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) game, as 290 players vied for the first place win. Gelencser walked away with a fine profit for his $2,500 buy-in, taking with him the first prize of $180,730 in addition to his first World Series of Poker title. A number of names that will be well recognized by the online gambling community included the likes of Eli Elezra, Hoyt Corkins, Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu and Tom Dwan. His heads up was against Raphael Zimmerman. The Triple Draw wasn’t the online game this week to catch big action as the $10,000 buy-in Seven Card Stud World Championship ensured with its hefty price tag that only the most serious of players would try their luck. A player field of 150 poker pros included a who’s who of live circuit poker, with hot names like Annie Duke, David Oppenheim, Chris Ferguson, Scotty Nguyen, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson and Mike Mizrachi keeping the railbirds coming. At the end of the first day for this particular event, the recent champion Mizrachi once again held the lead in the field, hoping to add yet another World Series of Poker award to his docket, having already taken the Players Championship the first week of the series. Close on his tail for the lead is Vladimir Schmelev, along with 87 other survivors of the first elimination round. Meanwhile, the third day of the $5,000 No Limit Hold’Em game came to a conclusion with the final selection of players for the last table. The first place win came quickly to Josh Tieman, who worked against his final two competitors in Stuart Rutter and Neil Channing before taking the $441,691 main prize. The heads up against Channing took only 10 hands, with Tieman up a unconquerable 7.7 million chips. Channing was consoled with his runner-up prize of $273,153.

06/25/2010

Online Casino Style: News
WSOP Continues in Vegas

The World Series of Poker continues to attract a fair amount of the internet gambling community’s attention, as more events unfold the excitement associated with the world’s most prolific poker tournament. This week, another coveted bracelet was given, this time to the Hungarian poker professional Peter Gelencser. He managed to hold his own through the end of Event 7, lasting out against a record number of entrants to the Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) game, as 290 players vied for the first place win.

Gelencser walked away with a fine profit for his $2,500 buy-in, taking with him the first prize of $180,730 in addition to his first World Series of Poker title. A number of names that will be well recognized by the online gambling community included the likes of Eli Elezra, Hoyt Corkins, Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu and Tom Dwan. His heads up was against Raphael Zimmerman.

The Triple Draw wasn’t the online game this week to catch big action as the $10,000 buy-in Seven Card Stud World Championship ensured with its hefty price tag that only the most serious of players would try their luck. A player field of 150 poker pros included a who’s who of live circuit poker, with hot names like Annie Duke, David Oppenheim, Chris Ferguson, Scotty Nguyen, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson and Mike Mizrachi keeping the railbirds coming.

At the end of the first day for this particular event, the recent champion Mizrachi once again held the lead in the field, hoping to add yet another World Series of Poker award to his docket, having already taken the Players Championship the first week of the series. Close on his tail for the lead is Vladimir Schmelev, along with 87 other survivors of the first elimination round.

Meanwhile, the third day of the $5,000 No Limit Hold’Em game came to a conclusion with the final selection of players for the last table. The first place win came quickly to Josh Tieman, who worked against his final two competitors in Stuart Rutter and Neil Channing before taking the $441,691 main prize. The heads up against Channing took only 10 hands, with Tieman up a unconquerable 7.7 million chips. Channing was consoled with his runner-up prize of $273,153.