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2022 PokerGO Tour
The 2022 PokerGO Tour was the second season of the PokerGO Tour. The season runs for 2022 with the first event beginning on January 5. Unlike the 2021 season where the top three finishers were awarded prize money, the 2022 season of the PokerGO Tour would culminate with a winner-take-all PGT Championship. Following the conclusion of the all qualifying PokerGO Tour tournaments, the top 21 players will compete in the PGT Championship where starting chips will be based on PokerGO Tour points and the winner will win the $500,000 first-place prize. The PGT Championship began on December 21, 2022, with 15 of the 21 eligible players participating. Jason Koon defeated Sean Winter heads-up to win the $500,000 first-place prize to be crowned the PGT Championship winner. Leaderboard The top 21 players following the conclusion of all qualifying PokerGO Tour tournaments will be invited to play in the season-ending PGT Championship. Players will have their starting chips based on how many p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Chidwick
Stephen James Chidwick (born 10 May 1989) is an English professional poker player from Deal, Kent. Chidwick led the Global Poker Index (GPI) from April 18 to October 9, 2018. Poker Chidwick began playing live poker tournaments in 2008. He plays online under the alias "stevie444" and "TylersDad64" on various online poker cardrooms. In 2009, Chidwick finished runner-up in the Full Tilt FTOPS Event #17 winning $142,155.30. In 2010, Chidwick made his first cash in World Series of Poker, cashing in three events. In 2015, Chidwick made two final tables finishing runner-up in the $10,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low Championship, winning $180,529 in the process. In 2018, Chidwick finished 3rd in the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona €10,300 main event winning $1,240,000. He finished 4th in the Card Player Poker Tour Venetian DeepStack Championship Poker Series $5,000 main event, winning $177,091. For 2018, Chidwick made the second most final tables in live poker tournamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, also known as The Guitar Hotel, due to its tower constructed to resemble a Gibson Les Paul guitar, is a hotel and casino resort near Hollywood, Florida, United States, located on of the Hollywood Reservation of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The property currently has three hotel towers, a casino, large poker room, a lagoon-style pool facility with a center bar and many private restaurants, shops, spa, cabanas, bars and nightclubs, and the Hard Rock Event Center. A large expansion was completed in October 2019. Hotel The resort currently has a 12-story "classic Hard Rock Hotel" with 469 guest rooms and suites. Guests are greeted by a tall signature Hard Rock guitar, (based on a Gibson electric guitar model) at the entrance of the hotel, along with a massive LED advertising screen at the front of the main parking garage. The resort has of meeting space, including a exhibit hall. The Hard Rock's $1.3 billion property expansion p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Altman (poker Player)
Brian Altman (born 1988) is an American professional poker player from Longmeadow, Massachusetts. He has won three titles on the World Poker Tour (WPT). Poker career Altman earned a doctorate in 2012 from the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Albany, New York. He began playing poker with his friends in high school after watching Chris Moneymaker win the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event, and moved to Montreal, Quebec after college to play online poker full-time. Altman's first WPT title came at the Lucky Hearts Poker Open in February 2015, where he outlasted a field of 1,027 and earned $723,000. In January 2020, he won the tournament again, this time against a field of 843. He became the first player in WPT history to win the same event twice. Altman won his third title at the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa in June 2021 against a field of 1,165, becoming the seventh player to win three WPT titles. He has made another three final tables, including two third-place f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Adams (poker Player)
} Timothy Adams (born June 4, 1986) is a Canadian professional poker player from Burlington, Ontario who focuses on poker tournaments. He is currently the second biggest Canadian tournament winner in poker behind Daniel Negreanu. Career Adams began playing poker when in was 18. He played online under the alias "Tim0thee" and earned approximately $530,000 on Full Tilt Poker and nearly $2,000,000 on PokerStars in online tournaments. His first WSOP was in 2007. He earned approximately $400,000 at the 2012 WSOP and won his first bracelet in the $2,500 No Limit Hold'em - Four Handed event. In March 2019, Adams won the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Jeju HKD 2,000,000 Main Event winning $3,536,550. Later that year, he successfully executed a huge bluff against Mikita Badziakouski at the WSOPE €250K Super High Roller, but did not cash. From January to June 2020, Adams cashed in tournaments for approximately $5.9 million. Adams won the Super High Roller Bowl a second time a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Lichtenberger
Andrew Lichtenberger (born September 20, 1987) is an American poker player from East Northport, New York (state), New York. He is also known by his online alias LuckyChewy. He is the champion of the 2010 World Series of Poker Circuit event in Caesars Palace, Las Vegas in April 2010. Lichtenberger has made five World Series of Poker final tables and won a WSOP bracelet in 2016. Early years Lichtenberger was born in 1987 in East Northport, New York. He began playing poker at the age of 18, mainly online. After playing in cash games Andrew switched to Poker tournament, multi-table tournaments and was successful. He first stepped in the live tournament arena in 2007. Lichtenberger had five WSOP cashes in his first two years playing. Poker career Lichtenberger is formerly sponsored by Ivey League, Ivey Poker until Ivey Poker shut down. World Series of Poker Lichtenberger's WSOP cashes exceed $2,000,000. He has one World Series of Poker Circuit, circuit ring from the Caesars Palace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Cyprus
Northern Cyprus ( tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs), officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC; tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti, ''KKTC''), is a ''de facto'' state that comprises the northeastern portion of the Geography of Cyprus, island of Cyprus. List of states with limited recognition, Recognised only by Turkey, Northern Cyprus is considered by the international community to be part of the Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus. Northern Cyprus extends from Cape Apostolos Andreas, the tip of the Karpass Peninsula in the northeast to Morphou Bay, Cape Kormakitis and its westernmost point, the Kokkina exclave in the west. Its southernmost point is the village of Louroujina. A United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus, buffer zone under the control of the United Nations stretches between Northern Cyprus and the rest of the island and divides Nicosia, the island's largest city and capital of both sides. A 1974 Cypriot coup d'état, coup d'état in 1974, performed as part of an attempt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Seidel
Erik Seidel (born November 6, 1959) is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, who has won nine World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title. In 2010, he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. Early life Seidel was born in New York City. He played professional backgammon in his youth. He eventually became a trader on the American stock exchange stock market, and then moved on to poker. Seidel was one of the group of now famous players from the former Mayfair Club in New York City, including Stu Ungar, Jay Heimowitz, Mickey Appleman, Howard Lederer, Jason Lester, Steve Zolotow, Paul Magriel, and Dan Harrington. Poker career World Series of Poker In his first major poker tournament, Seidel was runner-up in the 1988 World Series of Poker Main Event to Johnny Chan. This final hand was featured in the 1998 movie ''Rounders''. Seidel made the WSOP Main Event final table again in 1999, finishing in fourth place in the event won by Noel Furlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chino Rheem
David Y. "Chino" Rheem (born April 15, 1980) is a poker player from Los Angeles, California. In November 2008, Rheem finished in seventh place at the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, cashing for $1,772,650. He went out of this event on to Peter Eastgate's with Eastgate flopping a pair of queens on a board of . He is also the winner of the World Poker Tour's Season VII Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic, earning $1,538,730. Rheem had five previous WSOP cashes, his best result being a runner-up finish to Allen Cunningham in a $1,000 no limit Texas hold 'em with rebuys event in 2006. He cashed in the 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event, finishing 193rd place. He also made a final table earlier in 2008, finishing in fifth place in the $5,000 Mixed Hold'em event. In August 2011, Rheem won the $20,000 buy-in 6-Max No Limit Hold'em tournament at the inaugural Epic Poker League earning $1,000,000. One week later his membership in the league was placed on probation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon Shorr
Shannon Shorr (born June 7, 1985, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a professional poker player from Birmingham, Alabama. Shorr was a baseball player at Shades Valley High School. Shorr is notable for his success in poker tournaments, much of which occurred before his 21st birthday. Because 21 is the minimum legal age for gambling in almost all jurisdictions in the United States, Shorr was forced to go abroad to compete, where he cashed in several tournaments. He scored his first major payday with a fourth-place finish at the 2006 Aussie Millions tournament in Melbourne, Australia, where he won more than $200,000. During much of this time, Shorr was a civil engineering student at the University of Alabama The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, or Bama) is a Public university, public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is the oldest and la .... Poker In December 2013, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wynn Las Vegas
Wynn Las Vegas, often simply referred to as Wynn, is a luxury resort and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. It is owned and operated by Wynn Resorts, and was built on the former site of the Desert Inn resort, which opened in 1950. Casino developer Steve Wynn purchased and closed the Desert Inn during 2000, with plans to build a new resort on the site. The design phase lasted two and a half years, and construction began on October 31, 2002, with Marnell Corrao Associates as general contractor. At a cost of $2.7 billion, Wynn Las Vegas was the most expensive resort ever built, beating out Wynn's $1.6 billion Bellagio, which opened on the Strip in 1998. Wynn Las Vegas opened on April 28, 2005, with 2,716 rooms and a casino. At the time, its 45-story hotel tower was the tallest building in Nevada. A sister property, Encore Las Vegas, was opened by Wynn Resorts in December 2008. Located directly north of the resort, Encore added a second hotel t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cary Katz
Cary Steven Katz (born January 29, 1970) is an American businessman and poker player. Career Katz graduated from University of Georgia with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. In 1999, he founded the College Loan Corporation, where he was CEO for 15 years. The company was the seventh largest student loan company in the United States providing $19 billion in loans. Katz started the conservative media website CRTV in 2014. In October 2015, Katz founded the website Poker Central which launched subscription-based streaming service PokerGO. Katz also created high roller tournaments including Super High Roller Bowl, Poker Masters, and the U.S. Poker Open. Katz has also been accredited with inventing the big blind ante, which is now the preferred option in poker tournament structures worldwide. He currently serves as president of the St. Gabriel Catholic School and as chairman of the non-profit organization Stop Child Predators. Katz is married to Jackie Katz and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
