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PokerStars Sunday Million

PokerStars had 2,617 entrants for this weekends Sunday Million producing a prize pool of $1,308,500. PokerStars awarded first place winner ‘SlippyJacks’ $240,633. PokerStars ended up paying 414 places were paid. ‘SlippyJacks’ is really Chris Vaughn who as ‘BluffMagCV’ won the FullTilt $1,000,000 Guarantee last weekend. Quite an accomplishment for Chris two straight wins in one million guarantees. ‘SlippyJacks’ beat ‘blanconegro’ heads up when he hit a flush on the turn on the final hand. ‘blanconegro’ needed one more diamond on the River and he would have hit the nut flush. Here is what the Final Table looked like:

1st: SlippyJacks — $240,633.15
2nd: blanconegro — $122,344.75
3rd: forcewithme9 — $80,996.15
4th: PerPer — $66,733.50
5th: yeamanyeaman — $53,648.50
6th: LuckyLady519 — $40,563.50
7th: domingo32 — $28,525.30
8th: MrKorvOla — $18,057.30
9th: Hasn82 — $10,468

FullTilt $750,000 Guaranteed

FullTilt had 3,734 players so they came up short of the Guaranteed prize pool and had to contribute $3,200 to the pool. First Place winner received $132,787 of the prize pool. FullTilt paid 522 places of the tournament. Heads up came down to  ’mSobeJim’ and ‘moneytree09′ going head to head. ‘mSobeJim’ outlasted ‘moneytree09′ to take home the $132,787 in prize money. FullTilt sponsored players included Ram Vaswani finishing 192nd, Chip Jett 233rd, Karina Jett 295 and Chris Ferguson 399th. The FullTilt Final Table looked like this:

1st: mSobeJim — $132,787.50
2nd: moneytree09 — $80,250
3rd: FastEddie267 — $52,500
4th: rash123 — $41,400
5th: OneOfTheseDays — 31,050
6th: tsarrast — $23,025
7th: Dasassassin — $17,250
8th: NewSeptember — $13,500
9th: Frenchie64 — $10,050

PartyPoker $300,000 Guaranteed

PartyPoker had 1,483 players this weekend and had to provide $3,400 to get the prize pool to $300,000. First Place was awarded $60,000 and PartyPoker paid 200 places. Two players, ‘bagetak’ and ‘tibzen’ chopped 1st and 2nd place with ‘bagetak’ getting 1st place in the standings. Here is how the Final Table looked:

1st: bagetak — $46,842.25
2nd: tibzen — $46,157.76
3rd: tipexmum — $20,700
4th: ISplashFunds — $16,350
5th: connieoffski — $13,800
6th: CatenaccioMS — $10,350
7th: Mariatik — $7,950
8th: Ananasbrus — $5,250
9th: lullipoker — $4,050
10th: redragon63 — $2,850

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• Jean Robert Bellande Survivor
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Just thought Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger would get you an update on the Survivor pursuits of Jean Robert Bellande. Earlier I posted this Story about Jean Robert on Survivor. As of the broadcast on Thursday Jean Robert is still playing the same way. He is trusting his reads on people to get him farther in the game. This episode for a period of time it seemed like it would be Jean Robert that would be voted off the island. Jean Robert made it through ‘tribal council’ by a couple votes and lives to play another day. One of the other Survivors, Courtney had some unkind words for Jean Robert during the reward part of the show. Courtney said things like, and I am paraphrasing here:

• I tried my best to be away from Jean Robert in the bathtub as I could possible be, he was at the one far end and I took the one at the other far end
• He is kind of gross, every single part of me wants to see Jean Robert go, I just don’t like him
• He’s a horrible person

It looked real bad for Jean Robert after his tribe lost the immunity challenge. Lots of his tribe members were discussing getting rid of Jean Robert. Lots of items were discussed about who to vote off here are a few snippets.

• That would require talking to him and you know I don’t do that
• I am going to vote for Jean Robert
• I hate him
• Well unless we vote for Jean Robert
• I think we should vote for Jean Robert tonight
• My gut says Jean Robert

Even Jean Robert wasn’t trusting his feel for the game. He admitted being uneasy and something didn’t feel right. At tribal council Jean Robert drew some very critical comments from two of the women of his tribe after he called himself the ‘bad boy’. Here are a few of the comments:

• Little do you know they don’t like you
• Bad Boy not quite the term I would have selected
• Bad Boy cause you play poker or something?
• Do you have a Harley we don’t know about?
• We don’t get along, we don’t like each other, he talks alot, his jokes aren’t funny, lots of judgements of other people, he has lots of self righteousness
• He is just a crappy person

But Jean Robert, once again when it seemed he was All-In, caught Runner Runner to stick around for at least another hand…..er episode. So far his plan, as published in Bluff Magazine, to be the biggest jerk possible without being voted off is working. He is at the final table so to speak with only 10 survivors remaining.

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• Absolute Poker Hacking - More to the Story

The online world is full of so much about the recent story regarding the hacking of Absolute Poker by a high ranking ‘Consultant’ of Absolute Poker. One prominent Internet rumour is that the Absolute Poker situation has been ongoing for three years. The same Internet posting says the amount of money stolen could be as much a $7 million. Another posting says that Absolute Poker security suspected trouble but was informed it was the owners testing the system and to ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’. Ok so I stole that from the Wizard of Oz but the concept is the same. Everywhere you look are stories about AJ Green and Scott Tom. Pictures of Gambling911.com reporter Jenny Woo with AJ Green the suspected Potripper back in 2005. Jenny felt the need to come out and apologize in this post. I have seen Internet posts calling this Absolute Poker situation the biggest scandal ever to hit the Online Poker Industry. Reportedly ESPN is doing a major expose on the Absolute Poker hacking. ‘Pokergate’ is on so many forums and blogs you could spent way too much time just searching for information on the scandal. The statement sent out earlier this week by Absolute Poker discussed the investigations that are ongoing. Audits are being completed to determine exactly how much money was won by Potripper and any additional suspects. Absolute Poker has promised refunds plus interest to all players victimized by the scandal and the offered $500 voucher if their name was disclosed inappropriately. Again reportedly Absolute Poker is still bringing in $1.5 and $2.0 million a day in gross revenues. The story seems to just keep on going and going with the Online Player community. Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger saw all the rumours for the last month but couldn’t believe it. Here are my posts regarding the Absolute Poker trouble.

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• Absolute Poker Releases Statement

Owner of Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG, which controls 100% of Absolute Poker, Joe Norton sent out a statement regarding the Hacking of Absolute Poker. Norton informs the recipients of the notice of a ‘Internal Security Breach for a limited period of time’. The breach according to Norton was committed by a high ranking trusted consultant with extraordinary access to security systems of Absolute Poker. Norton continues with the notice to AP customers by telling them that the consultant was immediately terminated.  Norton promises all players that were cheated by the hacker will be repaid for all losses that are traced to the cheating account. Payment to the AP players who lost money will be done after a complete audit by Gaming Associates and a separate audit by Kahnawake Gaming Commission. Finally the statement implies that Absolute Poker will be cooperation with any and all investigations in the future by regulatory bodies.

Reportedly Absolute Poker has already begun two activities related with the release of the xcel spreadsheet with all the players that played in the September 12th tournament IP addresses and email addresses. Absolute Poker has issued $500 payments to any watcher of the tournament that had their email in the spreadsheet. Second all players that cashed will be moved up 1 spot on the final standings and receive the additional prize money. 96 of the 98 players that participated in the tournament will receive a refund of their entry amount and fee for the tournament. Also included will be about 1% interest.  Potripper the id that won the tournament and Graycat another suspect account are not to receive refunds according to Absolute Poker.

Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger wonders what will happen to people like Mark Seif who has been a player for Absolute Poker for a long time. The web is full of many stories and discussions regarding the AP situation. I will keep an eye and ear open to this story and keep you posted. Here are the two previous posts I had on this event. 1. Absolute Poker is Hacked by Employee  2. Absolute Poker Hacking - More Details Surface

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PokerStars Sunday Million
PokerStars had 6,524 players this weekend and a prize-pool of $1,304,800. 900 Players made the money. Hevad ‘RaiNKhAN’ Khan, who finished at the final table in the WSOP 2007 Main Event, just missed the Final Table and ended up 13th. Macknot won this weeks PokerStars Sunday Million and $187,630 in prize money. Macknot played heads up with weeminer and had a 4.5 to 1 chip advantage when play started and the match only survived a few minutes. Macknot called when weeminer went All-In and Macknot had Pocket Rockets. weeminer didn’t improve and PokerStars Sunday Million was completed. Here is how the Final Table and Payouts ended up:

1. Macknot — $187,630.24
2. weeminer — $97,729.52
3. Ghost4476 — $70,328.72
4. Dabe8Gavis — $54,801.60
5. Keano7 — $41,884.08
6. juice54 — $31,010.40
7. Cardinal7 — $21,529.20
8. kev_unlimit — $13,048.00
9. Ivey $00 — $8,089.76
 

Fult Tilt $1,000,000 Guaranteed
Fult Tilt had 2,152 players which provided a prize pool of $1,076,000. 306 places were paid with the top prize earning $197,984. ‘BluffMagCV’ won the Fult Tilt $1,000,000 Guaranteed Tournament. The Final Table and payouts looked like this:
1. Chris “BluffMagCV” Vaughn — $197,984
2. Soren “Kongsgaard” Kongsgaard — $121,588
3. tmfd001 — $79,624
4. RGAR18 — $63,484
5. colenel decker — $48,420
6. DutchVinny — $34,647.20
7. JaeMills — $25,286
8. imgrinding — $19,906
9. Gettin Daize — $15,064

PartyPoker $300,000 Guaranteed
PartyPoker had 1,549 players and a prize pool of $306,800. First place received $61,960 and a total of 200 players made the money. The Tournament payouts were determined by a 6 player chop determined by chip counts when the player that finished 7th busted.  Here were the Final Table standings and payouts:
1. lenok07 — $40,301.44
2. LooseHope — $30,565.31
3. peter_AA100 — $27,487.14
4. Stuart “Zpace_man” Taylor — $22,241.79
5. Bayernbua — $22,157.62
6. RAMMS888 — $16,483.92
7. ihmepaisti — $8,209.70
8. Idealic69 — $5,421.50
9. StivenG — $4,128.30
10. Ota_SolGryn $2,943.10

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• Absolute Poker Hacked - More Details

The Online Poker World continues to be abuzz with the Absolute Poker situation. On Friday the story hit the newswires. The story about an Absolute Poker employee that hacked the Absolute Poker system to allow himself to play Hold ‘Em at an online table and see all the other players hole cards. Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger has seen the episode referred to as ‘Pokergate’. This is very interesting because large percentages of the online players are well under the 40 years of age needed to recall ‘Watergate’. Here are some more of the details that have come to light over the weekend.

In September 21 year old Marco Johnson asked Absolute Poker for a hand history of a high stakes tournament he had played previously. Marco felt there were too many weird things happening during the tournament and he felt he had been cheated. Marco finished 2nd in the tournament and was awarded the prize money of $20,000. Turns out that Absolute Poker sent Marco was the complete hand histories of everyone involved in the tournament. The hand histories included hole cards for everyone and every hand, IP addresses and email addresses of all participants within an excel spreadsheet. The winner of the tournament was the online player ‘Potripper’ who won the tournament and the $30,000 1st prize. Johnson turned the spreadsheet over to New York attorney Serge Ravitch a professional poker player who also moderates 2 + 2 Poker Forum.

“In the last hand, he just blew it. He made a gigantic call with 10 high. The chances of winning a hand like that are something like one in 1,000. It was obvious he was cheating,”

Source: ABC News Online

Johnson also provided the excel spreadsheet to a poker blogger Nat Arem who looked at the IP addresses. Arem also discovered that at every table Potripper was at also included another user that other players could not see at the online table. Aren traced the IP address of the observer back to location of the Absolute Poker servers. One last little item and I am not sure of any significance is that Mark Seif was in the hand history provided.

Ravitch the attorney estimated that online players lost between $500,000 and $1,000,000 over a two week period though he informs ABC he can’t be sure when the cheating started.

Absolute Poker has reportedely promised an official statement regarding the hacking and what remedies will be undertaken to reimburse players that were involved. Also Absolute Poker has said that the security glitch in the servers has been closed, though the online community is waiting for the official statement to hear and see the proof. Former Director of Operations at AP AJ Ripper was named in the ABC story as the owner of account Potripper. Additionally an IP address was linked to part owner Scott Tom who AP says has not been involved with the company for over a year. Investigations are continuing to ascertain if these people were involved or if somebody else was using their accounts.

Go to this Just Poker Talk Post to see the recreation of the hand histories and see how easy it was for Potripper to win the high stakes tournament.

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• Absolute Poker is Hacked by Employee

An Absolute Poker Employee hacked the online poker site. The employee modified the site and provided the ability for the employee to play on the site and see the hole cards of the other players. Internet forums had been discussing this possibility for almost a month. Previously Absolute Poker investigated the allegations and reported: 

“The result of our investigation is that we found no evidence that any of Absolute Poker’s redundant and varying levels of game client security were compromised. In other words, we have determined with reasonable certainty that it is impossible for any player or employee to see whole cards as was alleged. There is no part of the technology that allows for a “superuser� account, and there is no way for any person to influence the game software to their advantage.�

Source: MSNBC

New York attorney Serge Ravitch informed Absolute Poker that he felt cheating was going on. Ravitch informed MSNBC that Absolute Poker initially denied any cheating had occurred or was even possible. In fact according to the MSNBC story, Absolute Poker found no evidence that client security having been compromised. Absolute Poker went on to say that with certainty it was impossible for anybody to see other players hole cards. Also they said there was no way to modify the Absolute Poker game software to gain any advantage.

Absolute Poker provided hand histories to one of the players that had reported cheating. The hand histories provided hole cards for all the players and IP addresses as well as email addresses of the competing players. MSNBC requested an independent review of the re-created tournament and expert Ray Cooke, ex-head of security at Planet Poker online site, came away convinced that the hacker can see the hole cards. Here is the recreation provided by YouTube.

This video is one of four videos of the recreations. Here are links for the other three.
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This week a spokesman for Absolute Poker has informed MSNBC on the condition of anonymity that the hacker was an employee of the company who did it to prove it could be done. The spokesman said:

“This is literally a geek trying to prove to senior management that they were wrong and he took it too far,�

Your ‘Dead Money’ bloggers concern with this hacking is that it will make it more difficult to get the UIGEA repealed anytime soon. Also this will provide fuel for the online poker opponents to keep preventing US players from playing online.

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• WSOP H.O.R.S.E. on ESPN Starring Phil Hellmuth’s Behavior - Part Two

Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger is continuing yesterday’s post regarding ‘The Poker Brats’ behavior at the WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Tournament. Today’s post details ESPN’s 2nd hour of the broadcast. If you didn’t read yesterday’s post the underlying opinion I put forth is that ESPN got off track and chose to show too much bad behavior instead of good poker. ESPN had the chance to show great poker in 5 different games but instead highlighted Hellmuth’s Tableside manner at every opportunity. Here are the behavior items ESPN edited into the one hour show:

• Just seven minutes into the broadcast ESPN analyst Norman Chad gets a little dig in on Phil while talking about Eli Elezra and Barry Greenstein being part of the ‘Big Game’ he says ‘Hellmuth is not part of the Big Game he is part of the Big Ego, the Big Game players don’t have a whole lot of respect for Phil Hellmuth’. Chad goes on to say ‘the Big Game keeps a light on for Phil anytime’.
• 13 Minutes in while playing Hold ‘Em Phil says ‘raise it up boys’. Chad once again gives the needle to Hellmuth by saying ‘it definitely bothers Phil that he hasn’t won a bracelet outside of Hold ‘Em and he doesn’t have the respect of the Big Game players. When Barry Greenstein hits a flush and beats Phil, the talking starts from Phil: ‘I haven’t won one Hold ‘Em pot just cause I checked top pair and then he hits the miracle heart again. Its just sick, nice hand Barry’.
• Then ESPN goes to a taped sit down discussion with Phil and he lets all of us know how good he is when he says things like:
  • A lot of the Great Players underestimate my H.O.R.S.E skills, they say oh Phil just plays Hold ‘Em, but
  • I can play all of the games close to perfect
  • Am I a world class stud player? sure.
  • Omaha 8 or better there’s only probably 4 or 5 that are better than me
  • Razz I just absolutely world class top of the game
  • Hold ‘Em obviously I am at the absolute top of the world
  • They can’t attack my integrity and honor cause that’s perfect
  • They can’t attack my Hold ‘Em cause thats perfect
  • There’s not much left to attack
  • Oh they can always attack my ‘Poker Brat’ behavior
• Phil is back and saying: ‘Barry has beaten me every hand in Hold ‘Em but just wait till it turns around I am going to barbecue him’ then when he loses a hand to another opponent he says ‘the best Hold ‘Em player in the world by far and the guys just beat me and beat me, I won two antes and a tiny pot it is just sick’.
• 35 minutes into the ESPN show and Hellmuth is show standing by himself and talking to nobody and saying ’such an effing joke, these are supposed to be great players? they don’t know anything about Hold ‘Em, so sick, I want to throw up when I watch these people play Hold ‘Em, supposed to be great players, they suck’.
• Forty minutes in and Hellmuth is playing Omaha 8 or better and Phil gets scooped by an opponent when Phil doesn’t have a very good hand. The opponent gets Phil to stop chattering by saying he can overcome the beat he just took. The very next hand that ESPN shows, Phil starts by saying ‘might be a little steam on this one boys’ and Phil doesn’t hit his low hand and for the only time I can remember Phil has nothing to say.
• At last the final opportunity to witness Phil Hellmuth’s Tableside manner at the WSOP this year, unless you watch the encore showings. Phil is All-In playing RAZZ and Phil is beat easily. Phil leaves the table with this parting shot for all: ’so brutal, I am the best player at that table in every game, that’s whats brutal, I got a good table draw and never won a chip’

Another item that I found ironic is: Many times Phil’s commercial for WSOP the video game was shown during the two hours of ESPN coverage. Phil is shown with a black eye and saying the some of the players are taking the ‘Beat the Brat’ theme too far. I mentioned to my sons during the broadcast with all the years that Phil has played and had his Tableside manner that he is probably fortunate nobody has popped him.

I know that it is all an act to get the other players off their game and not play their best. Also to get Phil some more TV time, but it has no place in Poker in my humble opinion. More and more players try and use the same behavior either online or at live games. Probably ESPN contributes to this with all the coverage they give to Hellmuth and others like Mike Matusow. Please stop ESPN.

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• WSOP H.O.R.S.E. on ESPN Starring Phil Hellmuth’s Behavior

ESPN aired the 1st two episodes of six last night of what they are billing as the ‘2007 Players Championship’. You know it is the 2007 WSOP $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. championship. Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger posted many WSOP articles and gave extensive coverage to the H.O.R.S.E. tournament and its eventual winner Freddy Deeb. This post is just to discuss my disappointment with ESPN and the TV time they give to Phil Hellmuth and his Tableside manner. Yes ESPN talked extensively about the ‘Best All Around Player’, the ‘Pros Championship’ when discussing the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Tournament. Daniel Negreanu is shown stating ‘Without a doubt it is the most important tournament in the whole world’ and 2004 Main Event Champion Greg Raymer says ‘it is a small elite field of the greatest players in the world’. ESPN says it is time to settle all arguments about who is best and this is the Bracelet all the ‘Big Game’ players want.

But in your ‘Dead Money’ blogger’s humble opinion ESPN got off track of showing the great players playing great poker in all the disciplines. Instead ESPN seemed to focus way too much TV time on the typical Phil Hellmuth horrible Tableside manner.  Thankfully at the end of the second hour Hellmuth was knocked out of the tournament and for those of us that want to watch the rest of the ESPN H.O.R.S.E. coverage we will not have to see, the great in all the Poker Games according to Phil himself, Phil Hellmuth anymore. Here are some of the examples I saw during the first hour last night. Tomorrow I will detail some more examples that happened during the second hour.

• Just 9 minutes into the Coverage of the 1st hour ESPN cuts to Phil as he rips out his ever present ear piece and tears off his sunglasses and he says: ‘oh this idiot’ and then says ‘you are so bad Bruno you don’t even know it, this is your worse game’ then goes on to say ‘its ridiculous how bad they play’.
• 23 minutes after the beginning of the 1st hour of Coverage ESPN goes back to Hellmuth in time to hear him say: ‘Freakin idiot, so bad’ once again talking about Bruno. Phil goes on to say: ‘it is alright, he is going to blow off all the chips anyway, I just hope I am here’ then he says: ‘its so ridiculous’. Then ESPN shows Mike Matusow coming over to commiserate with Hellmuth as Phil goes on to explain how the idiot called him and then beat him. Phil goes on to say: ‘I read him so easily, he got away with one stud pot, he tried to bluff me in stud and he won’t bluff me all day again’. I do give credit to ESPN analyst Norman Chad who says: ‘Ladies and Gentleman Ugly American Hall of Famers Mike the Mouth and the Poker Brat’.
• 35 minutes in and ESPN is back to Hellmuth who starts with many expletives deleted from the broadcast and then says: ‘you people are the worse players on the planet, I swear to God’ and then ‘oh my God are you kidding me, thats four bad beats they put on me’ once again it is Bruno who did the beating.
• For the last time during the 1st episode ESPN shows Hellmuth who is saying to Barry Greenstein: ‘try and run me over now Barry’ and Mike Matusow comes back to the table and Phil tells Mike ‘they just can’t wait to race their money in against me’.

That is all the ESPN viewers could stand and ESPN did not show anymore of the great Phil Hellmuth’s Tableside manner. Check back tomorrow when I detail the even worse behavior that Phil exhibited during the 2nd hour of the broadcast.

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• Markus Lehmann Wins the WPT Spanish Championship 

Markus Lehmann wins the WPT Spanish Championship beating Ludovic Lacay in heads up play. Lehmann started the TV Final Table 5th in chips and outlasted the other 5 players to Win the WPT Spanish Championship at the Casino Barcelona. Markus takes home the WPT Spanish Championship title $786,505 in Prize Money and $25,000 buy-in for the WPT World Championship in April at the Bellagio.

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• Ludovic Lacay Eliminated in 2nd Place $418,505 

Ludovic Lacay pushes All-In after a flop of and is called by Markus Lehmann. Lacay shows  and Lehmann displays . The Turn is the and the River . Lacay is eliminated on the 74th hand of the TV Final Table.

• Christer Johansson Eliminated in 3rd Place $214,073

Christer Johansson re-raises All-In with a Board of and and is called by Markus Lehmann. Johansson shows for top pair and is ahead of Johansson’s qc pair of tens. The River brings the and Christer Johansson is eliminated on the 51st hand of the TV Final Table. Heads up play begins with Ludovic Lacay and Markus Lehmann.

• Steve Sung Eliminated in 4th Place $166,438 

Steve Sung re-raises All-In and Markus Lehmann calls and turns over and Steve shows his . Sung looks beaten when the Flop brings , but when the Turn is he has the lead and is 77% to win. Alas the River is the and Lehmann hits the back door flush and Sung is eliminated on the 41st hand of the TV Final Table.

• Gus Hansen Eliminated in 5th Place $142,621 

Gus Hansen who started the TV Final Table with the Chip Lead. After a Flop of Gus pushes All-In and Ludovic Lacay, who now has the Chip Lead calls right away. Hansen only has and is up against Lacay’s . The Turn is a and when the River brings the Hansen is eliminated in 5th Place on the 36th hand of the day.

• Vladimir Poleschchuk Eliminated in 6th Place $118,945

Vladimir Poleschchuk pushes All-In for about 120,000 and Steve Sung calls. Poleschchuk shows and Sung has . The board brings two pair for Sung and Vladimir Poleschchuk is eliminated in 6th Place on the 14th Hand of the TV Final Table.

• Start of WPT Spanish Championship TV Final Table

Here is how the TV Final Table started with Seat Assignments, Chip Counts and Payouts.

Seat 1 - Vladimir Poleschchuk - 176,000
Seat 2 - Christer Johansson - 855,000
Seat 3 - Steve Sung - 670,000
Seat 4 - Gus Hansen - 962,000
Seat 5 - Ludovic Lacay - 400,000
Seat 6 - Markus Lehmann - 329,000

1st - 554,987 euros ($786,805)
2nd - 295,200 euros ($418,505)
3rd - 151,000 euros ($214,073)
4th - 117,400 euros ($166,438)
5th - 100,600 euros ($142,621)
6th - 83,900 euros ($118,945)
Source: WPT

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PokerStars Sunday Million
PokerStars had 6,366 players this weekend and a prize-pool of $1,273,200. 900 Players made the money. Pairofnothin ended up with the PokerStars title. ClubbedBoat and Pairofnothin were the final two players and decided to split the money and play heads up for the title.