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2018 WSOP
The 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the 49th annual tournament, and took place from May 30 to July 17 at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. There was a record 78 bracelet events. The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 2 and concluded on July 15. The Main Event, as well as the Big One for One Drop, were again streamed in their entirety on ESPN and Poker Central. The 2018 World Series of Poker featured the announced retirement of ten-time bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Fame member Doyle Brunson from tournament poker, an announcement that came after he registered for the $10,000 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship (Event 23). Brunson made the final table of the event and finished in sixth place. Schedule changes The World Series of Poker introduced the Big Blind Ante to eight events. This format made the big blind pay the ante for the entire table. It was utilized for events 13, 20, 45, 54, 74, 77 and 78. Event schedule Source: Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio All-Suite Hotel And Casino
The Rio is a hotel and casino near the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, Paradise, Nevada, United States. It is owned by Dreamscape Companies LLC and operated by Eldorado Resorts, Caesars Entertainment. It includes a casino and 2,520 suites. It features a Brazilian theme based on Rio Carnival. The Rio opened on January 15, 1990, with a casino and 424 suites. It was the first all-suite hotel in the Las Vegas Valley. It was owned by Anthony Marnell and built by Marnell Corrao Associates. The property struggled during its first two years because of its off-Strip location, but it would eventually thrive. The Rio's success prompted a number of hotel expansions in the 1990s. The hotel includes the three-wing Ipanema Tower, which stands at 20 stories. A 1997 renovation added Masquerade Village, a two-story retail and restaurant complex which also featured the ''Masquerade Show in the Sky''. The 41-story Masquerade Tower was added as well. In 1999, Marnell sold the Rio to Harrah's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Seiver
Scott Seiver (born April 14, 1985 in Columbus, Ohio) is a professional poker player from Cold Spring Harbor, New York, now residing in Las Vegas, Nevada who won the 2008 World Series of Poker $5,000 No Limit Hold'em event and is the winner of the $25,100 buy-in High Roller event at the 2010 L.A. Poker Classic. On April 29, 2015 Seiver became the 9th player in GPI history to be ranked #1. Live poker Seiver, with twelve cashes at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), won his first bracelet in the 2008 WSOP $5,000 No Limit Hold'em event earning $755,891. Seiver's other poker accomplishments include springing to fame by appearing on Pokerstars' the Big Game, showcasing his unique mouth-covering method of hiding mouth-breathing tells, as well as winning the $25,100 buy-in High Roller event at the 2010 L.A. Poker Classic earning $425,330 in a final table that included runner-up Daniel Alaei, Jason Mercier (3rd), Lee Markholt (4th), Tommy Vedes (5th) and Will Molson (6th). In 2009 he fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Mizrachi
Michael David Mizrachi (born January 5, 1981) is an American professional poker player who won the 2010, 2012 and 2018 World Series of Poker $50,000 Players Championship. Mizrachi also has two World Poker Tour titles, and he finished 5th in the Main Event of the 2010 World Series of Poker. In January 2013, Mizrachi signed on as a team pro member with Lock Poker. Personal life Mizrachi was born in Miami, Florida. He is the younger brother of Robert Mizrachi who has numerous World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour finishes to his own name. He has a twin brother Eric Mizrachi (also a poker player) and a younger brother, Daniel Jay Mizrachi, who is a professional DJ also known as DJ Mizrachi. Mizrachi is fluent in Hebrew, as his father is of Iraqi Jewish origin Ezra Mizrachi. Growing up, Mizrachi wanted to become a doctor but dropped out of college to play poker full-time. Mizrachi has three children: Paul William (named after his grandfather), Julie and Joseph Mizrachi. He liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Poker Players Championship
The Poker Players Championship is a $50,000 buy-in event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Added in the 2010, it replaced the former $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship as the highest-stakes mixed-games event. It is considered among the most prestigious events on offer at the WSOP. History In 2006, the inaugural event was called the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship and was the largest buy-in tournament at the World Series of Poker until the introduction of the $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop in 2012. Chip Reese defeated Andy Bloch heads-up the in the 2006 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship to win $1,784,640 and the event's first title. In 2007, professional poker player Freddy Deeb defeated Bruno Fitoussi after 17 hours of final table play to win $2,276,832 and his second bracelet. Chip Reese died in December 2007; efforts were made in 2008 to honor Reese by the WSOP which created the Chip Reese memorial trophy that each champion can hold for one year. Scotty Nguyen won t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Lisandro
Jeffrey Lisandro (born in Perth) is an Italo-Australian professional poker player, now residing in Salerno, Italy. Lisandro is known as a cash game specialist, but he also plays often in the poker tournament circuit and is regarded as one of the premier Seven Card Stud players in the world. At the 2009 World Series of Poker, he became the first person to win a World Series title in all three seven-card stud disciplines in the same year, when he won tournaments in Stud High, Stud High-Low, and Razz, earning him the Player of the Year title. Poker career Growing up near Salerno, Italy, Lisandro's mother taught him how to play poker at the age of five. Lisandro made his first final table appearance in a World Series of Poker event in 1997, in the $3,000 pot limit hold'em event won by Phil Hellmuth Jr. He has made eleven WSOP final tables since then, in Omaha, seven card stud and 2 to 7 lowball events and has won five bracelets, two in Seven Card Stud, one in Seven Card St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Albini
Steve Albini (pronounced ; born July 22, 1962) is an American musician, record producer, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman and Flour, and is a member of Shellac. He is the founder, owner and principal engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex in Chicago. In 2018, Albini estimated that he had worked on several thousand albums over his career. He has worked with acts such as Nirvana, Pixies, the Breeders, PJ Harvey, and former Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Albini is also known for his outspoken views on the music industry, having stated repeatedly that it financially exploits artists and homogenizes their sound. Nearly alone among well-known producers and musicians, Albini refuses to take ongoing royalties from other bands recording in his studio, feeling that a producer's job is to record the music to the band's desires, and that paying producers as if they had contributed artistically to an album is u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Mackey
James Corwin Mackey (born February 25, 1986) is an American professional poker player. He attended the University of Missouri before dropping out of a pre-med program to pursue a career in professional poker. In 2007, at 21 years and 4 months, Mackey became the third youngest poker player at the time to ever win a World Series of Poker bracelet, when he won the $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event, behind Steve Billirakis (won a bracelet in the first event of the 2007 tournament) and Jeff Madsen (won a bracelet in the 2006 tournament). Early career James Mackey started playing poker online in 2005 when he invested $75 in an online account. He turned that initial investment into $20,000 and decided to pursue a career professionally. World Series of Poker success Mackey's near-record setting win (third youngest to win a bracelet), in the 2007 $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event, came against a final table that included two players from the 2005 and 2006 Main Event, as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David "Bakes" Baker
David Bakes Baker (born October 17, 1986) is an American professional poker player who has won a World Series of Poker bracelet and appeared at four World Series of Poker final tables. He also has a Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) championship. Baker currently has over US$2 million in tournament winnings. In order to avoid confusion with David "ODB" Baker, he is listed in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) database by the name "David Bakes Baker" and listed at ''Bluff Magazine'' as "David (Bakes) Baker". Baker, who is from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, attended Michigan State University before taking up poker. Career Hailing from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Baker began playing poker in high school. During his freshman year at Michigan State, he played small-stakes games with future WSOP bracelet winners Justin Scott and Dean Hamrick. He spent two years at Michigan State. After getting distracted from classwork by poker, he began to play online and moved to Miami to enro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hennigan (poker Player)
John Hennigan (born August 10, 1970) is an American professional poker player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who, in his career, has won six World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour (WPT) title. Daniel Negreanu and Gavin Smith have stated in interviews that they consider Hennigan to be the best player they have faced. Hennigan is nicknamed "Johnny World" because he is willing to bet on anything in the world. Before specializing in poker, he was also a professional pool player. World Series of Poker Hennigan finished 19th in the 1999 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limit hold'em main event. In April 2002 he made the final table of the WSOP $1,500 seven-card stud event and won his first bracelet just four days later in the $2,000 H.O.R.S.E. event, taking home the $117,320 first prize after defeating a final table including Men Nguyen and Phil Ivey. In 2004, he won his second WSOP bracelet in the $5,000 limit hold'em event, defeating a final table th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Addamo
Michael Addamo (born 1994) is an Australian professional poker player from Melbourne. He is a four-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner. Addamo was a chess player as a teenager and reached a career-high rating of 1930 in 2013. He studied to be an actuary. Addamo began playing poker in 2012. His first WSOP cashes came in 2016, including a third-place finish in a $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event. He won his first bracelet at the 2018 WSOP in the $2,620 Marathon No Limit Hold'em event, defeating a field of 1,637 players for $653,000. Later that year, he added another bracelet at the WSOP Europe, winning the €25,500 Super High Roller for €848,000. Addamo won two more bracelets at the 2021 WSOP. First, he won the $50,000 No Limit Hold'em High Roller for $1,132,968. He then won another bracelet in the $100,000 No Limit Hold'em High Roller on the final day of the series, earning $1,958,569. Playing under the name ''imluckbox'', Addamo won a World Championship of Onlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Rast
Brian Rast (born November 8, 1981) is a professional poker player living in Las Vegas, Nevada. Early personal life Rast was born in Denver, Colorado but raised in Poway, California, where he graduated as valedictorian from Poway High School in 2000. He attended Stanford University before dropping out in order to pursue a career as a full-time poker professional in 2004. In 2011, Rast married his wife, Juliana Karla Carlos da Silva. Online poker In the online poker world, Rast is known as tsarrast on both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars. Rast was primarily a cash game player online and played very few poker tournaments. He has very limited tournament results, playing a small volume in 2007 and again in 2016, and barely any in between. Despite the small volume, Rast has some impressive online tournament results which include finishing 3rd in Full Tilt Poker's FTOPS III Main Event in 2007 for $114,203.50., finishing 3rd in PokerStars Sunday Million in 2008 for $73,490 and finish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Bonomo
Justin Bonomo (born September 30, 1985) (known online as ZeeJustin) is an American high-stakes professional poker player, and a former ''Magic the Gathering'' competitor. He became the youngest player to be featured at a televised final table on February 19, 2005, when he placed fourth during the inaugural year of the EPT at the French Open in Deauville, France. He was 19 at the time. As of July 2022 he has live tournament earnings of $57,283,047. this total makes him the highest-earning live tournament player of all time. At the World Series of Poker, Bonomo has 55 cashes, made 19 final tables, and won 3 bracelets and 1 circuit ring for $14,292,554 in winnings. His first bracelet came in 2014 in Event #11: No-Limit Hold'em Six Handed, earning $449,980. He came in second in the previous event in which he played, Event #5: Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball. This was his third runner-up finish after which he lamented on Twitter, “Always a bride’s maid, never a bride.” At the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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