Event 16 of the WSOP produced a star-studded final table and two of the biggest names of all, John Juanda and Phil Hellmuth, made it all the way to heads-up.

The game was No Limit Deuce Seven Lowball.  A game that Juanda is known to be extremely proficient in.  Hellmuth is no slouch at the game either, particularly in the No Limit format.  However ultimately the cards and possibly skill edge prevailed and Juanda won, denying Hellmth his 12th WSOP bracelet.

1 John Juanda $367,170
2 Phil Hellmuth $226,907
3 Richard Ashby $143,833
4 Steve Sung $97,416
5 Nick Schulman $69,216
6 David “Bakes” Baker $51,485
7 Hasan Habib $40,020
8 Joe Cassidy $32,440
9 Greg “Fossilman” Raymer $27,928
10 Benjamin Parker $27,928
11 Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier $27,928
12 Johnny Chan $24,043
13 Brandon Cantu $24,043
14 Chino Rheem $24,043

On the final hand of the tournament Hellmuth stood on a Queen (Q,T,8,5,2), and Juanda drew one from J,6,3,2,X.  He needed to avoid an Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Six, Three, or Two.  It’s was an eight, and Junada won the pot and the match with J,8,6,3,2.

This year’s EPT Grand Final will take place at the Casino Gran in Madrid, Spain.   The main event will be a 10,000 Euro buy-in and there is expected to be a first prize of around 2 million Euros.  It runs from 7th May until the 12th May and is the finale of the 7th Season of the European Poker Tour.

You can qualify for the main event for as little as 3.33 Euros via satellites at Pokerstars.  You can win a 13,100 Euros package that includes the tournament buy-in, and accomodation, and spending money.

Full Tilt Poker has a new format of tournaments called Rush on Demand.  It is sort of half way between a Sit-and-Go and a Scheduled MTT.    They are available all the time, simply starting when 36 people have registered.  But what makes them unique is that registration then stays open rather than closing as in a SNG.   

People keep registering and the tournament can end up with several hundred entrants, turning them into a reasonable sized MTT.   As it’s a Rush tournament the blind levels are short - just 3 mins.  And late reg stays open for 5 levels.  Mathematicians amongst you will deduce therefore that there are 15 mins of late reg.

There are quite a lot of different buy-in sizes available including $1.10, $4.40, $12, and $24.

So if quick tournaments are your thing, that start very promptly after you register, and get a good field size (aka good prizepool) then they are worth checking out for sure.   If interested sign-up to Full Tilt and receive a $600 bonus.

The main event of the EPT Copenhagen has concluded with Michael Tureniec taking down the 3.7 million kroner first prize.  Here is a list of the top finishers:

1 Michael Tureniec DKK 3,700,000 (~$725,000 USD)
2 Per Linde DKK 2,450,000
3 John Eames DKK 1,400,000
4 Kevin Iacofano DKK 1,000,000
5 Nikolas Liakos DKK 750,000
6 Mudassar Khan DKK 600,000
7 Andrea Dalle Molle DKK 450,000
8 Juha Helppi DKK 296,400
9 Joel Nordkvist DKK 220,000
10 Simon Hanninger DKK 220,000
11 Jens Lauridsen DKK 165,000
12 Simen Johannessen DKK 165,000
13 Johnny Jensen DKK 130,000
14 Lars Krogh  DKK 130,000
15 Daniel Johansson DKK 105,000
16 Ivan Freitez DKK 105,000
17 Helge Rahbek DKK 85,000
18 Jan Sørensen DKK 85,000

To qualify for future EPT Events sign-up to Pokerstars

RCOOP (Regional Championships of Online Poker)

13 regions, 11 events in each championship.

The Regions and Dates:

Russian - Oct 31st - Nov 7th 2010 - $200,000 guaranteed prize pool

Nordic - November 4-14th - $700,000 guaranteed prize pool

Baltics - November 4-14th - $43,000 guaranteed prize pool

USA - November 21-28th - $3,275,000 guaranteed prize pool

Canada - November 21-28th - $580,000 guaranteed prize pool

Germanics - November 21-28th - €828,000 guaranteed prize pool

Asia Pacific - November 21-28th - $100,000 guaranteed prize pool

Mediterranean - November 18-28th - $80,000 guaranteed prize pool 

UK & Ireland - December 5-12th - $512,500 guaranteed prize pool
 
Central and Eastern Europe - December 6-16th - $150,000 guaranteed prize pool
 
Latin America - December 5-12th - $160,000 guaranteed prize pool

Iberian - February 13-20, 2011 - €113,000 guaranteed prize pool
 
Benelux - February 2011 - €235,500 guaranteed prize pool

If you are interested in giving it a shot then join Pokerstars and receive a sign-up bonus of $600

John Juanda is making a bit of a name for himself in London.   He’s already won the WSOPE Main Event previously, and this year he found himself in the final two of the EPT Main Event in London.   Double WCOOP winner Kyle Bowker finished a notable 3rd.

The event attracted a large field of 848 entrants.  Here are the top prize winners:

1 David Vamplew   £900,000
2 John Juanda   £545,000
3 Kyle “kwob20″ Bowker   £300,000
4 Artur Wasek   £240,000
5 Kayvan Payman   £190,000
6 Fernando Brito   £145,000
7 Tom Marchese   £100,000
8 Per Ummer   £66,800
9 John Hall  £45,000

There are some very interesting match ups in the last 64 of the WSOPE £10K Highroller Heads-up event (Event 4). These include Phil Ivey vs Erik Sagstrom, and Ziigmund vs Mike Matusow. Here is the full list:

Ole-Kristain Nergard vs Shaun Buchanan
Joel Nordkvist vs Huck Seed
Ilari Sahamies (Ziigmund) vs Mike “The Mouth” Matusow
Raffaele Gerbi vs Martin Kabrhel
Matt Jarvis vs Brandon Adams
John Racener vs Jim Collopy
Scott Fischman vs Scott Seiver
Sondre Svanevik vs. Joseph Cheong
Sorel Mizzi vs Daniel Steinberg
Yasuhiro Waki vs Kevin Eyster
Ludovic Lacay vs Greg “FBT” Mueller
Justin Adams vs Frank Kassela
Marius Torbergsen vs. Shannon Shorr
Phil Hellmuth vs Ram Vaswani
Will “The Thrill” Fallia vs Yevgeniy Timoshenko (Jovial Gent)
Amit Makhija vs Melanie Weisner
McLean Karr vs Nick Schulman
Neil “Bad Beat” Channing vs Marcello Marigliano
Chris Moorman (Moorman1) vs. Ben Cherif
Faraz Jaka vs Jani Sointula
Erik Sagstrom (DIN_FRU) vs Phil Ivey
Scott Palmer vs Mark Everett
Gus Hansen vs Max Steinburg
Mori Eskandani vs Jussi Nevanlinna
Chris “Jesus” Ferguson vs Andrew Feldman
Saar Wilf vs Nikolay Evdakov
Tom Dwan (Durrrr) vs Talal Shakerchi
Andrew Robl vs Roberto Romanello
John Juanda vs Touko Takala
Brian Powell vs Chance Kornuth
Daniel Negreanu (Kidpoker) vs. Juha Helppi

The event got 103 entrants in total. The prizes are as follows:

1st £288,409
2nd £178,211
3rd-4th £96,212
5th-8th £47,045
9th-16th £22,847

Daniel Negreanu (KidPoker) got paired with Phil Galfond (MrSweets28) in the $25K High-roller Heads-up WCOOP event.   There were a lot of intesting hands (several of which I have posted below) with Galfond eventually emerging the winner.

Top pair and flush draw vs Aces

 PokerStars Game #49863206375: Tournament #2010090039, $25000+$500 USD Hold’em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (30/60) - 2010/09/19 15:36:32 ET
Table ‘2010090039 1′ 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: MrSweets28 (11153 in chips)
Seat 2: KidPoker (8847 in chips)
MrSweets28: posts small blind 30
KidPoker: posts big blind 60
*** HOLE CARDS ***
MrSweets28: raises 84 to 144
KidPoker: calls 84
*** FLOP *** [3d 6d 8s]
KidPoker: checks
MrSweets28: bets 188
KidPoker: raises 352 to 540
MrSweets28: calls 352
*** TURN *** [3d 6d 8s] [7h]
KidPoker: bets 720
MrSweets28: calls 720
*** RIVER *** [3d 6d 8s 7h] [3h]
KidPoker: bets 1500
MrSweets28: calls 1500
*** SHOW DOWN ***
KidPoker: shows [Jd 8d] (two pair, Eights and Threes)
MrSweets28: shows [Ah As] (two pair, Aces and Threes)
MrSweets28 collected 5808 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5808 | Rake 0
Board [3d 6d 8s 7h 3h]
Seat 1: MrSweets28 (button) (small blind) showed [Ah As] and won (5808) with two pair, Aces and Threes
Seat 2: KidPoker (big blind) showed [Jd 8d] and lost with two pair, Eights and Threes

Overbet with a boat

 PokerStars Game #49863895598: Tournament #2010090039, $25000+$500 USD Hold’em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (30/60) - 2010/09/19 15:48:49 ET
Table ‘2010090039 1′ 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: MrSweets28 (12657 in chips)
Seat 2: KidPoker (7343 in chips)
MrSweets28: posts small blind 30
KidPoker: posts big blind 60
*** HOLE CARDS ***
MrSweets28: raises 84 to 144
KidPoker: calls 84
*** FLOP *** [3s 8s 3h]
KidPoker: checks
MrSweets28: bets 144
KidPoker: calls 144
*** TURN *** [3s 8s 3h] [4c]
KidPoker: checks
MrSweets28: bets 366
KidPoker: calls 366
*** RIVER *** [3s 8s 3h 4c] [Ac]
KidPoker: checks
MrSweets28: bets 2544
KidPoker said, “ugh hate that bet”
KidPoker said, “has to have me beat but I cant just fold!”
KidPoker: calls 2544
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MrSweets28: shows [8c 8h] (a full house, Eights full of Threes)
KidPoker: mucks hand
MrSweets28 collected 6396 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6396 | Rake 0
Board [3s 8s 3h 4c Ac]
Seat 1: MrSweets28 (button) (small blind) showed [8c 8h] and won (6396) with a full house, Eights full of Threes
Seat 2: KidPoker (big blind) mucked

Bust hand

PokerStars Game #49865132035: Tournament #2010090039, $25000+$500 USD Hold’em No Limit - Match Round I, Level III (40/80) - 2010/09/19 16:12:23 ET
Table ‘2010090039 1′ 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: MrSweets28 (17409 in chips)
Seat 2: KidPoker (2591 in chips)
KidPoker: posts small blind 40
MrSweets28: posts big blind 80
*** HOLE CARDS ***
KidPoker: raises 80 to 160
MrSweets28: raises 251 to 411
KidPoker: calls 251
*** FLOP *** [3c Kh 6c]
MrSweets28: bets 344
KidPoker: calls 344
*** TURN *** [3c Kh 6c] [4h]
MrSweets28: bets 16654 and is all-in
KidPoker: calls 1836 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (14818) returned to MrSweets28
*** RIVER *** [3c Kh 6c 4h] [4c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MrSweets28: shows [Ad Kd] (two pair, Kings and Fours)
KidPoker: shows [Td Kc] (two pair, Kings and Fours - lower kicker)
KidPoker said, “gg”
MrSweets28 collected 5182 from pot
KidPoker finished the tournament in 20th place
MrSweets28 said, “gg”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5182 | Rake 0
Board [3c Kh 6c 4h 4c]
Seat 1: MrSweets28 (big blind) showed [Ad Kd] and won (5182) with two pair, Kings and Fours
Seat 2: KidPoker (button) (small blind) showed [Td Kc] and lost with two pair, Kings and Fours

The World Series of Poker Europe 2010 is underway at the Empire casino in London.  Many big name pros from around the world are in attendance.  Here is the latest from Event 1:

WSOPE Event 1 - 6-handed NLHE
£2650 Buy-in
244 Entrants

Chip Counts

1 Ilan Rouah 150,000      
2 Andrew Pantling 140,000       
3 Vincent Dalet 133,000       
4 Chris Bjorin 115,000     
5 Eli Heath 95,000       
6 Phil Laak 83,000       
7 Javed Abrahams 80,000       
8 David Peters 79,000       
9 Lawrie Inman 79,000       
10 Chris Moorman 76,000      
11 Peter Wood 72,000       
12 Nathan Lee 72,000      
13 Praz Bansi 65,000      
14 Francois de Quidt 61,000       
15 Tai Tran 60,000      
16 Kayvan Payman 60,000       
17 John Tabatabai 50,000       
18 Daniel Colman 47,000       
19 Ilari Tahkokallio 47,000      
20 Thorsten Schafer 44,500       
21 Manig Loeser 37,000       
22 Nicola Pero 36,500       
23 Liv Boeree 31,000       
24 Arto Loikkanen 26,000       
25 Willie Tann 18,000    

Prizes

1st £170,802
2nd £105,506
3rd £70,473
4th £48,202
5th £33,617
6th £23,900
7th-8th £17,318
9th-10th £12,902
11th-12th £9,608
13th-18th £7,350
19th-24th £5,624

Here are the names and chip counts of the players who made it all the way through to the WSOP Main Event Final Table. The so-called “November Nine” will meet again in November to play it out down to a winner:

1 Jonathan Duhamel  65,975,000
2 John Dolan  46,250,000
3 Joseph Cheong  23,525,000
4 John Racener  19,050,000
5 Matthew Jarvis  16,700,000
6 Filippo Candio  16,400,000
7 Michael Mizrachi  14,450,000
8 Soi Nguyen  9,650,000
9 Jason Senti  7,625,000

Some notable finish positions of others
Adam Levy: 12th
Hasan Habib: 14th
Scott Clements: 18th
William Thorson: 22nd
Johnny Lodden: 27th