From Cologne, Germany Pius Heinz is 22 years and the first German to reach the final table. All his interviews depict him as cool, cam and confident. Well, for now…
Pius spent the summer moving to Vienna rather than paying in many tournaments. The few he did enter didn’t go so well. Well officially…side games proved lucrative. This year’s Main Event was Pius’ first so like his Ukrainian opponent luck really seemed to be on his side. That’s not saying he didn’t play well.
Heinz is better known for his online pay where he works under the handle MastaP89. Here’s some recent results:
Jan 8th, 2011 $320 NL Hold’em [$150K Guaranteed], on PokerStars. 1st place for $29,648.55
May 18th, 2011 SCOOP-28-L: $11+R NL Hold’em on PokerStars. 3rd place for $19,920.24
May 10th, 2011 SCOOP-08-L: $11 NL Hold’em on PokerStars. 2nd place for $15,641.37
$11+R NL Hold’em [$70K Gtd] PokerStars Oct 16th, 2011 Position-15 Won—$ 466.74
$215 Sunday Million [$1M Gtd] [...]
22 year old Brit Sam Holden is a favorite to win this year’s WSOP. He is making the transition from online to offline play and apparently doing it quite well.
Holden went from a successful online player to the sweetheart poker player of the UK. He was a big player on PokerStars and Full Tilt like so many other pros. His online name is “SamDMND.” Holden has only played poker in a professional capacity for one year. Talk about a great way to start out.Here are some recent stats:
Apr 17th, 2011 Sunday Million [$1M Guaranteed], on PokerStars. 5th place for $54,390.00
The Big $109 [NLHE, $50K Guaranteed], on PokerStars. 2nd place for $11,205.0$7,200.00
May 2nd, 2011 $45,000 Guarantee, on Full Tilt Poker. 2nd place for $7,200.00
No Limit Hold’em PokerStars Oct 9th, 2011 4:45 PM $ 44,000.00 $ 22 53 $ 198.0019.37
The Bigger $55 [$200K Gtd] PokerStars Oct 9th, 2011 3:00 PM $ 266,700.00 $ 55 656 $ [...]
21 year old Anton Makiievskyi hails from the Ukraine and is considered the long shot in this year’s final table. He has the second to last smallest chip count out of the nine. Four Ukrainian poker players won gold bracelets during this year’s main event but Anton is the only one ever to reach the final table.
This year’s main event was Anton’s first visit to the United States. He came to live out his poker dream by paying in the world series of poker. I’m pretty sure he didn’t think he’d hit the final table first time out. In interviews with Anton he has spoken about which of his fellow players he thinks will win suggesting not too much confidence in his own abilities. Did he reach the final table by chance? His poker profile is pretty slim compared to his opponents:
WSOP 2011: Final Table
2011 WSOP Europe Event #4: No-Limit Hold’em Shootout for Position—19 [...]
Better known to poker fans by his online handle USCphildo 27 year old Phil Collins is not new to the world of professional poker and is quite a recognized opponents among his fellow players. And yes, his mom did name him after the famous singer from Genesis.
A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Phil currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has over $3 million in earnings most of which comes from online play. He comes from South Carolina and is ranked 1320 in the world of poker. As he used to pay most of his games on the former Big Three poker sites you have to wonder if he started live tournaments for something to do.
Here are some of Phil’s recent online stats:
$1K Monday Million Full Tilt Poker Apr 12th, 2011 Won— $ 1,800.00 Position—76
$1,500,000 Guarantee Full Tilt Poker Apr 10th, 2011 Position— 882 Won—$ 422.9311.85
$23,500 Guarantee Full [...]
Another 26 year old Eoghan O Dea hails from the emerald isle but resides in Australia. His poker claim to fame is that he came first in his first ever professional tournament. Oh yeah and his dad won a bracelet already. Talk about motivated.
Eoghan is known online as intruder123 and has enjoyed cash finishes both on and off the net. He has over $700K in earnings and five WSOP cashes.
World Series of Poker Europe
Pot Limit Omaha 9th $30,442 Oct 10, 2011
42nd World Series of Poker 2011
WSOP No Limit Hold’em 207th $3,296 Jun 28, 2011
42nd World Series of Poker 2011
WSOP No Limit Hold’em 155th $3,375 Jun 16, 2011
Aussie Millions
No Limit Hold’em 3rd $48,412 Jan 21, 2011
41st World Series of Poker 2010
Event #28 – WSOP Pot Limit Omaha 18th $12,296 Jun 15, 2010
WPT Marrakech/WPT Season 8
WPT Main Event – No Limit Hold’em 2nd $378,227 Oct 16, 2009
Ladbrokes Poker Million VII FINAL
No Limit Hold’em 2nd $250,000 [...]
Badih Bounahra is a record breaking final table player being the only person from Belize ever to play in the ESOP November Nine. Oldest member of the table at 49 years old, Badih Bounahra is not a ful time poker player but a poker room manager down in Belize City. He was born in Lebanon but Fort Lauderdale, FL is his hometown. Online Badih Bounahra is known by LEB_BEL.
Unike most of the other November Nine Badih hasn’t been actively pursuing a poker career and therefore online has five events listed in the poker databses:
Aruba Classic 2009
No Limit Hold’em 2nd $11,000 Oct 8, 2009
Deep Stack Extravaganza
No Limit Hold’em 11th $3,150 Jul 4, 2009
Friday No Limit Hold’em Tournament
No Limit Hold’em 9th $4,840 Jun 20, 2008
39th World Series of Poker 2008
Event #23 – WSOP No Limit Hold’em 51st $7,583 Jun 12, 2008
Aruba Classic 2007
Event #4 – No Limit Hold’em Championship Aruba Classic 50th $7,975 Oct [...]
The weekend has arrived and poker fans the world over are in a state of anticipatory excitement. On Saturday the final table of the 2011 WSOP Main Event will take place. I thought this was a good time to remind ourselves about all the contenders, their backgrounds and poker profiles. So here goes.
This year’s November Nine finalists are as follows:
Seat One: Matt Giannetti—24, 750,000 chips
Matt is from New York and currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is 26 years old and studied computer engineering at the University of Texas. His professional poker career began back in 2006 and although he’s had no big wins to his name, he has been moderately successful since. To date he has just over $1,5 million in poker earnings and 24 cash wins. Giannetti has enjoyed six final table moments in his five years of professional poker.
In a recent interview with the WSOP folk, [...]
Well its time to look at the stats again. Its never a better time to look over the world’s top poker players before a big game. And we all know the WSOP final table is finally only days away. Its great to see my favorite player still holding on to the top spot. Seidel’s year has been one for the record books. But there has been a little movement among the scores.
As reported by GPI:
#1 Erik Seidel 2586.96
#2 Eugene Katchalov 2518.15
#3 Jason Mercier 2437.94
#4 Bertrand Grospellier 2425.51
#5 Sorel Mizzi 2344.31
#6 Shawn Buchanan 2331.45
#7 Fabrice Soulier 2231.63
#8 Thomas Marchese 2058.11
#9 Juha Helppi 2031.39
#10 Matt Waxman 2010.63
Jason Mercier moved into third place this week after sitting at number four for quite a number of weeks. This is due to his final table appearance at the Mixed NLHE. Mercier is having quite a year himself.
Matt Waxman reached the top ten this week for the first time. He won this year’s [...]
Out of the three poker sites to suffer on Black Friday PokerStars has managed to bounce back quite well. This was partly due to their cooperation with the US Department back in April when they volunteered to stop offering play to American players. They lost a lot of advertising and missed a few media drenched tournaments but seemed to have fared quite well. Only now the government is noticing that American players are still active on the PokerStars site.
Those professional or dedicated players with long records on PokerStars actually relocated out of the U.S. to continue playing on the site. And some players said they did. Seems a number of poker fans are playing from their home computers in the good Ole’ U S of A.
So how is this possible? Well whoever said poker players were smart. The avid fans have been using re-routers to disguise the ISP signature and actual location. Those players discovered [...]
With the negative tone of poker news lately (can’t say I’m innocent of that) its great to hear about someone laying down a good old fashioned poker challenge to try and stir up some excitement in the world of poker. World famous poker player and recent opponent of Tom Dwan, Daniel Cates aka jungleman has put out a challenge for this year’s Prague poker festival.
Jungleman is offering to play anyone who thinks they can beat him with some pretty high stakes. The minimum buy in will be 100, 000 Euros. This will be a live event streamed online with just a 15 minute delay. Its sounds like quite a fun challenge that some big names could certainly get behind. And what about a mystery new poker genius on the European stage?
Most folks are thinking that Tom Dwan will accept the challenge as a rematch of their previous game. Jungleman on the other hand seems happy [...]
