The $10,000 pot-limit Omaha tournament at the 2009 Festa al Lago Classic concluded on Saturday, Oct. 17, and Ted Lawson (pictured right) topped the field to walk away with the $62,080 top prize and a Bellagio championship Rolex. Players that he surpassed on the way to winning the tournament included Matt Glantz, Pat Walsh, Justin Young, and Erik Cajelais on day 1, and Chris Bjorin, Ben Lamb, Jim Egerer, David ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott, and Jason Mercier at the final table. Lawson now holds $2,234,717 in career winnings. This tournament win was his second pot-limit Omaha tournament title. His first came when he won the $5,000 pot-limit Omaha event at the 2004 World Series of Poker.
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The tournament dates for the PartyPoker.com World Open V have been released on August 27th, 2009. The event will start on October 11th, 2009 and will end on October 15th, 2009 at the Palm Beach Casino in London, England and some of the best poker players in the world will be participating in the event for a piece of the $480,000 cash pool.
Those already confirmed for the forty-eight person playing field include Mike Sexton, Tom’Durrr’ Dwan, Luke’Fullflush’ Schwartz, J.C. Tran, 2009 WSOP Main Event November 9 member James Akenhead, Steve Sung, Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Marty Smyth, Scott Fischman, Neil Channing and Andy Black.
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Vanessa Rousso will not be replacing A.J. Benza as the new co-host of High Stakes Poker. Vanessa told LaunchPoker.com that “I’m not co-hosting HSP, not sure where this rumor started.”
Keep visiting LaunchPoker.com for news about who will be taking over as the co-host of High Stakes Poker.
Patrik Antonius took on Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies on Full Tilt’s high-stakes Pot-Limit Omaha tables last night, beating his fellow Finn out of $468k. It was almost a perfect session for Antonius, making money everywhere he sat.In fact, on top of the $468k he won playing heads-up with Sahamies, Antonius took another $80k off Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond and more than $200k playing mixed games with the likes of Gus Hansen. In total, poker’s most famous Finn made over $741k on the night. Even though Sahamies and Antonius were also playing $500/$1,000, the highest stakes PLO available online, the largest pot of the night, worth $276k, actually came from a $300/$600 PLO table.
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The latest European Poker Tour event has wrapped, and EPT London has its winner. The victor is one Aaron Gustavson, an online qualifier from poker room PokerStars, who defeated current World Series of Poker main event champion Peter Eastgate in a heads up battle. The winner is an American poker player who picked up an EPT title and the £850,000 first prize. Eastgate gave him a run for his money, but the 23 year old Gustavson managed to pull out the win, describing it as a dream come true.
Our highest new entry this month is Essex’s Dave Gregory, who put in a fine performance in the EPT’s Barcelona leg, the first stop of Season 3. The former market trader made it to third spot out of a heaving 480-strong field and deservedly took away $233,483, eclipsing his previous high of $24,603.
As ever, the fight for the top spot is becoming increasingly tight.
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Pro limit
Fighting limit’s corner is Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi, runaway contender for player of the year stateside with over $2m in tournament winnings from this year alone
Limit is more of a grind but there’s definitely a lot of skill to it. I prefer limit cash games to no-limit. I play pretty tight in these type of games – totally the opposite to the way that I play in tournaments. In my opinion there’s more dead money in limit cash games. Lots of people make stupid calls in no-limit cash games. People don’t like limit because you have to have more patience than in no-limit – there, you can be impatient and get lucky.
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A regular in Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio and the biggest cash games in the world, American Matt Glantz came to London a high roller. But he will leave London the 2009 PokerStars London EPT High Roller champion.Glantz, who hails from Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, outlasted a field of 75 elite players to grab the title and £542,000 first-place prize Friday.”There were tons of great players,” Glantz said.
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The WSOPE Main Event final table has been set and it looks like being one of the most exciting in years. Here’s the rundown on the nine players remaining;
Seat 1: Barry Shulman, USA, 1,090,000 chips
Barry Shulman is the publisher of an American poker magazine and the father of November Nine member Jeff Shulman. He already has a WSOP bracelet in Seven-card Stud Eight-or-Better won in 2001.
Seat 2: Jason Mercier, USA, 3,198,000 chips
Jason Mercier has been on an absolute tear throughout the tournament poker world in the last two years.
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The winner of the first Ironman Poker Tournament at the Commerce Casino is Brett Radin. Radin beat out the playing field of 64 players, each of whom bought in for $1,600, for a prize of $51k. The Commerce Casino, in celebration of the new event, added $10k to the event prize pool, which reached $103,000. The event was called an Ironman tournament because there were no breaks allowed. Any player that needed to leave the table for the bathroom or any other reason had to miss hands to do so.
