Tournament Reports
March 13, 2010
Bay 101 in San Jose, California, is one of the most exciting stops on each season’s World Poker Tour schedule. Not only is the card room a friendly one that brings numerous fans to the rail to cheer for their favorite players, but the Shooting Stars aspect of it offers a twist that most other tournaments don’t. The Bay 101 events are also famous for some memorable final tables, not the least of which was the 2009 event that saw Kathy Liebert and Steve Brecher, two seasoned pros, battle it out at a final table that set a new record for the most hands played.
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March 8, 2010
It is one of the most exciting events in poker. The very fast structure doesn’t make it so, nor does the invitation-only field that often omits players that many felt deserved the opportunity to play. But the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship brings some of the biggest names in poker to the felt for heads-up battles with a $1.5 million prize pool at stake, all of which is broadcast on NBC Sports.
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March 7, 2010
The tournament was a highly-anticipated one. While the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour had been traveling Europe for six seasons and was no stranger to Germany with its popular Dortmund stop, the addition of Berlin to the line-up in 2010 was one that looked to bring players from all over the country, one that incidentally has seen a tremendous rise in the popularity of poker.
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March 7, 2010
One of the most anticipated poker events of the year is the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. For the sixth year running, the three-day series of heads-up tournaments was announced with its $1.5 million prize pool and exciting list of attendees. What is most fun for poker fans paying attention to the events is the bracket-style playdown of the heads-up matches, which started with random picks from the March 4 drawing party at PURE Nightclub at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, as bets are made and favorites are picked to take down the $500K first place prize.
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March 6, 2010
The L.A. Poker Classic is held each year at Commerce Casino, and with Tournament Director Matt Savage at the helm, the entire series of tournaments has seen a spike in attendance in recent years. Players come from all over the world to compete in the games that range from Chinese poker to $10K heads-up, and more than a month of poker tournaments, not to mention cash games of all shapes and sizes, that keep players on the West Coast for the entire month of February. But the big draw each year is the Main Event with the World Poker Tour.In 2009, the WPT L.A.
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March 4, 2010
The format for the 2010 WPT Celebrity Invitational was a bit different than in years past, as the first two days of action were set to play out on the weekend of February 20 but the final table would not take place until March 3. But what remained the same was the plethora of poker and Hollywood stars playing in an exciting freeroll tournament at Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, with charity at the fore of the event.The World Poker Tour partnered with Chrysalis for the 2010 poker tournament. The non-profit organization that helps disadvantaged or homeless people in the L.A.
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February 28, 2010
The third season of the PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour kicked off in November with a tournament in Costa Rica. It was there that Amer Sulaiman defeated the rest of the 259-player field to take home $172,095 for winning the LAPT Playa Conchal event. The three-month hiatus that followed left players to tend to the holidays before resuming action in February, this time at the Punta del Este Resort in Uruguay.
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