This Week in Poker: November 5 – 11

This Week in Poker
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In the PokerGuru feature ‘This Week in Poker’ we bring to you the weekly round up of the biggest online scores by Indian MTT players along with the top stories from both the live and online poker circuit.

Here are this week`s top stories

Just as ACOP ended, the November Niner`s resumed the WSOP Main Event Final table action today. The months of excitement saw the day end with just 3 players remaining in contention for the most prestigious title in poker. Jorryt Van Hoof who began the day as the chip leader further consolidated his lead with a stack of 89.625 million.

‘Indiandurr‘ is our ‘PokerGuru Star of the Week’, though many other regulars have raked in great scores this past week. With ACOP 2014 now in the books, the coming weeks should see more action on the virtual felts with the return of the Indian pros from Macau. The next major Asian stop this year will be the APT Asian Series Manila from Dec 3-10, so safe to say that live tournament action will be a little dull this entire month.

This ACOP has been a memorable one for Team India and many of our challengers have left their marks at the series. The WPT Caribbean Main Event saw winner Darren Elias make history for taking the trophy and back-to-back wins this season. Finally, Yahoo jumps into the poker market with a play money Texas Hold’em site, positioned cleverly to capitalize on legalization, as it happens!

Read on to get the full details…

 

Online Railbird Report

With the Indian contingent back from its Macau sojourn, the online action should accelerate this coming week, as the next major tournament stop is a good 3 weeks away.

The APT-RWM Poker Finale 2014 will roll at the Resorts World Manila, Pasay City, Philippines. The series will feature 14 events and satellites from Dec 3 to 10.

It has been an eventful week for Indian`s both live and online. While several Indian players hit big scores at ACOP 2014, numerous Indian`s made a mark on the virtual felts too. Armaan Kochhar, Shyam Sahani, Young Gun Karan Radia and Shashank Jain have all notched up some impressive scores this week.

However, our ‘PokerGuru Star of the Week‘ is “Indiandurr” who bagged the biggest online score this past week. The online player whose real name is a mystery to us, finished 2nd in the PokerStars ‘The Hotter $11 [Turbo], $70K GTD’ for $11,071 on Sunday.

The other major online news has been the ongoing MicroMillions series on PokerStars that began on Nov 6 and is exactly half way through it`s schedule with event 50 scheduled to kick off later tonight.

Notable Scores of the Week:

– Andhra Pradesh based ‘indiandurr’ won $11,070.06 for 2nd place in the PokerStars ‘The Hotter $11 [Turbo], $70K GTD’.

Armaan ‘armaan007’ Kochhar won $1,286.25 for 2nd place in the PokerStars ‘$77 NL Hold’em [6-Max, Turbo], $6K GTD and $3,649.47 for 2nd place in the PokerStars ‘$52.50 NL Hold’em [Hyper-Turbo], $12K GTD’.

Shyam ‘shyam9000’ Shahani won $1,100.75 for 4th place in the PokerStars $109 NL Hold’em [Turbo], $10K GTD’ and $2,355.57 for 1st place in the PokerStars ‘$82 NL Hold’em [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo], $7.5K GTD’.

Karan ‘Don Radia’ Radia won $2,877.23 for 1st place in the PokerStars ‘$27 NL Hold’em [Progressive Super-Knockout], $25K GTD’.

Sahil ‘antiloG’ Agarwal won $1,046.60 for 11th place in the 888poker ‘$100,000 Sunday Challenge 1R’.

 

WSOP 2014 Main Event Final Table – Day 8

The megalith of poker tournaments is back for the finale. The WSOP Main Event returned to crown its Main Event champion early today and played down till only three players were left. Hot favorite, back-to-back final tablist Mark Newhouse made history again, though not for celebratory reasons. Newhouse once again went out at 9th place.

Bruno Politano and Dan Sindelar followed at 8th and 7th places respectively. Andoni Larrabe and Billy Pappas were next to go. This left 4 players and after quite some time William Tonking finally busted at 4th place.

Jorryt Van Hoof held the chip advantage throughout, though he lost some big pots to Martin Jacobsen. Van Hoof leads with 89,625,000. Jacobsen is next with 64,750,000 and Felix Stephensen follows with 46,100,000.

These three will converge tomorrow to decide who takes the prized $10 Million top prize and the biggest prize in tournament poker – WSOP Main Event bracelet!

Read the complete story here.

 

ACOP 2014 Tournament Recap

This ACOP has been a memorable one for India, with our challengers taking 2 Spadies in the first two events itself.

Mumbai based banker, Kunal Patni led the Indian brigade, when he won the inaugural Spadie EventHK$2,500 Rebuy Championship for HK$176,000. Kunal made two more impressive cashes in the series, first at Event 2, making HK$32,800 for a 13th place finish and then in Event 5 for HK$98,400 at a 4th place.

Anju Abrol, another banking professional from Delhi claimed the next Spadie in Event 2 taking home HK$401,400. The lady followed this up with another final table finish in the Ladies Championship, with HK$25,200 for a 4th place finish.

Shashank Jain was the lone Indian who cashed in the Main Event with his 28th place finish for HK$202,000.

Shilpa Bhagat and Apoorva Goel, both cashed in Event 6, making HK$38,400 for 15th place and HK$15,000 at 46th place, respectively.

Aditya Sushant made 17th place in Event 8 Warm Up for HK$77,200.

Sushant and Kavish Kukreja then went on to partner in the Teams Event, making HK$13,400 for a 5th place finish, among 48 entries.

Individually, Kavish followed it up with a cash of HK$94,900 for 7th place in Event 13.

Amit Jain made a 7th place finish at the Turbo side event for HK$4,800.

Jaideep Sajwan made it to the series on a qualifier and cashed HK$4800 in the HK$2000 Deepstack for 13th place.

 

Indians Who Cashed at ACOP 2014

The HK$500,000 MBP Super High Roller witnessed a huge player field of 52, amounting to a prize pool of HK$48.47 million. US based Irishman Steve O’Dwyer won the event, taking home two trophies presented by poker legend Bobby Baldwin, besides the winner’s prize of HK$14,050,000.

Read the complete story here.

The HK$100,000 Main Event with its HK$15 million prize pool guarantee saw 291 runners, with only 31 to make the money.

Gabriel Le Jossec of Canada emerged unexpected winner and took home HK$6,300,000 for 1st place in this event. Amateur Jossec overcame notables, such as Sunny Jung, Ami Barer and Joseph Cheong to make history.

Gabriel Le Jossec
Gabriel Le Jossec

Germany’s Fabian Quoss won the HK$250,000 ‘MBP’ High Roller for HK$5,271,000. 83 players participated in the 2-day event, which had global poker stalwarts.

Fabian Quoss
Fabian Quoss

 

Darren Elias Wins WPT Caribbean Main Event

The 2014 World Poker Tour Caribbean 4-day Main Event had a thrilling climax, where Darren Elias beat opponent Christophe Rosso, in spite of a four-to-one chip disadvantage.

The Main event had a prize pool of $366,272, with 118 entries and only top 15 players making money.

Elias took home $127,680, besides joining the likes of Daniel Negreanu and Tuan Lee for making back-to-back wins at the WPT Main Events, in a single season.

Prior to this, Elias won $843,744 in September at the WPT Borgata Poker Open.

The final hand saw Rosso’s seven six stalled by Elias’ ace pair, with the board churning out []s5[. Rosso made $64,900 for his 2nd place finish.

Darren Elias
Darren Elias

2014 WPT Caribbean Main Event Final Table Results

PositionPlayerPrize
1stDarren Elias$127,680
2ndChristophe Rosso$64,900
3rdGeorge Griffith$42,100
4thMike Linster$28,950
5thZiga Jamnikar$22,280
6thDan Murariu$17,370

Read the complete story here.

 

Yahoo Launches Play Money Poker Site

While, nationally and internationally, the debate about poker continues, the popularity of the game rises in equal proportion.

This was seen this past week as international portal giant Yahoo launched a platform to provide a cashless form of Texas Hold’em poker. Yahoo has ascertained that its new offering remains within the legal ambit of US laws. However, it has positioned itself cleverly, as it can easily monetize this poker site, should the current laws go in favor of poker.

Yahoo already has a strong fantasy game player base and is taking full advantage of this, by advertising the new poker site on its fantasy game pages. With its strong net presence and established huge user clients, Yahoo comes in as a competitor to existing poker giants, such as 888 Holdings, Amaya and Ceasar’s Holdings.

Poker players rejoiced at the new entrant, with many taking to forums voicing their joy and ire at Amaya for its recent rake increases.

Read the complete story here.

That wraps up this eventful week and we will be back again next Tuesday with all the poker-moments, so stay tuned in at PokerGuru!

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