Online Poker News » Main Event http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 05 May 2011 06:37:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 November Nine Face Off Tuesday: 2009 WSOP Final Table On ESPN http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com/november-nine-face-off-tuesday-2009-wsop-final-table-on-espn/ http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com/november-nine-face-off-tuesday-2009-wsop-final-table-on-espn/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:44:31 +0000 PokerNews http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com/november-nine-face-off-tuesday-2009-wsop-final-table-on-espn/ It’s almost time for the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event winner to be determined. ESPN has been running taped broadcasts of the main event leading up to the final table – exciting for sure, but we’ve already known the identity of the November Nine for several months now. What we want to see is them sit down at the felt and play it out. And that is coming up this coming Tuesday night, 9-11 pm ET.

To recap, those chosen few up for the $10 million grand prize and poker immortality are:

  • * Davin Moon
    * Steven Begleiter
    * Joe Cada
    * Eric Buchman
    * Antoine Saout
    * James Akenhead
    * Kevin Schaffel
    * Jeff Shulman
    * Phil Ivey

Jeff and Phil are the pros at the table, but amateur Davin has 1/3 of the chips at the table. If recent year’s Chris Moneymaker through Peter Eastgate are any indication, then it may go to the youth, like Eric, the online qualifiers, like Antoine, or both, like Joe.

]]> http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com/november-nine-face-off-tuesday-2009-wsop-final-table-on-espn/feed/ 0 PokerStars WCOOP High-Rollers Winner Last Year’s Main Event Final Tabler http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com/pokerstars-wcoop-high-rollers-winner-last-years-main-event-final-tabler/ http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com/pokerstars-wcoop-high-rollers-winner-last-years-main-event-final-tabler/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:56:57 +0000 PokerNews http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com/pokerstars-wcoop-high-rollers-winner-last-years-main-event-final-tabler/ The big winner at PokerStars 2009 WCOOP this past weekend was a player that goes by the name of Sumpas, who took down the high-rollers event. The event, which had a $10,000 buy-in and a $2 million guaranteed prize pool, awarded Sumpas as first prize winner $611,455. Once the 299 entrants were registered, the total prize pool jumped to $2.99 million.

This is not Sumpas’ first big win at Poker Stars, nor at a PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker either, as in the 2008 WCOOP Main Event, he finished in 6th place for a $415,150 prize.

No one knows Sumpas’ real name (at least not yet) but we do know that he hails from Linkoping, Sweden.

The $10,000 High-Rollers event final table included the likes of World Poker Tour (WPT) champ Kevin “BeL0WaB0Ve” Saul, European Poker Tour (EPT) founder John Duthie, Scott Freeman, and Mike “Sowerss” Sowers.

Sowerss took second place for $448,500 and BeL0WaB0Ve took third place for $337,870.

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