It was the final table at the World Poker Tour Belagio Cup IV, part of season seven, and the players were John Pham, Ralph Perry, Luck Staundenmayer, Mike Watson, David Benyamine and one Gabriel Thayler.
Gabe was playing perfect poker and announcer Mike Sexton made sure to say so. In this hand, however, he showed how even perfect poker does not guarantee a win.
Mike had apple jacks:
and raised it to $220k in tourney chips. Gabe called ...
The final hand of the 2009 World Series of Poker main event final table was nearly a foregone conclusion. Ivan Demidov, the young Russian, had $16 million in tourney chips left. Peter Eastgate, the young Dane, had $120 ...
The pressure could not have been higher at the 2009 World Series of Poker main event final table, where only two players were left. Russian pro Ivan Demidov and Dutch pro Peter Eastgate, both very young, both with a raft of ...
There is a lot of wishful thinking in poker, even at the highest levels of professional poker such as the 2009 World Series of Poker main event, where at the final table Ivan Demidov, Dennis Philips and Peter Eastgate were the ...
Many poker players draw connections between the game and some other game or sport, such as Chess. One such player was Ylon Schwartz, who along with Ivan Demidov, Dennis Philips and Peter Eastgate was one of four players remaining ...
The blinds were all the way up to $300,000 and $600,000 at the 2009 World Series of Poker main event final table, but all the players had millions of chips left in front of them. Ivan Demidov, Ylon Schwartz, Dennis Philips and ...
Poker is a lot of fun to play, and can be a lot of fun to watch as well, especially in hands like this one during the 2008 World Series of Poker final table of the main event. Sometimes a player can have a lock on a hand, where ...
There were a lot of great stories during the run of the 2008 World Series of Poker final table of the main event. Players overcoming amazing odds to make it this far, the fact that the November Nine had a months – long break ...
The 2008 World Series of Poker final table of the main event was certainly an international one, with players from Denmark, Russia and Canada as well as the US. In this hand the two Canadian player went into a showdown, with one ...
During the 2008 World Series of Poker main event viewers got a chance to see just how good amateur poker player Dennis Phillips really was. He battled his way through to the final table and held the chip lead, and although he ...