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2022 Poker Masters
The 2022 Poker Masters was the seventh season of the Poker Masters. It took place from September 21 to October 3, 2022, from the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. There were 10 events on the schedule including nine No-Limit Hold'em, two Pot-Limit Omaha, and one 8-Game event. Buy-ins ranged from $10,000 to the $50,000 Main Event. Final tables were streamed on PokerGO. Sean Winter cashed twice including winning Event #9 to earn the Purple Jacket as the series champion. Schedule The schedule for the 2022 Poker Masters included seven No-Limit Hold'em tournaments, two Pot-Limit Omaha tournaments, and an 8-Game event. 8-Game is a rotation of H.O.R.S.E., No-Limit Hold'em, Pot-Limit Omaha, and 2-7 Triple Draw. Purple Jacket standings The 2022 Poker Masters awarded the Purple Jacket and a $50,000 championship bonus to the player that accumulated the most PokerGO Tour The PokerGO Tour (PGT) is the official tour and ranking system for the world's top pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PokerGO
PokerGO is an over-the-top content platform based in Las Vegas, Nevada. PokerGO was launched in 2017 as a subscription-based streaming service offering poker centric online streaming. The content offered on PokerGO includes poker tournaments, along with cash game-orientated shows. As of February 2021, PokerGO's library of content includes over 2,400 videos totaling over 3,800 continuous hours. Content The content of PokerGO includes shows, tournament replays, and cash games. Other media includes episodes, live streams, and recap videos, and events that were streamed live become on-demand videos afterward. Poker tournaments and cash games High Stakes Poker High Stakes Poker is a cash game poker television program that sees a mix of professional and amateur poker players playing high stakes No-Limit Hold’em with buy-ins ranging from $100,000 to $500,000. The show debuted in January 2006 and ran for seven seasons until May 2011. In February 2020, PokerGO announced th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nate Silver
Nathaniel Read Silver (born January 13, 1978) is an American statistician, writer, and poker player who analyzes baseball (see sabermetrics), basketball, and elections (see psephology). He is the founder and editor-in-chief of ''FiveThirtyEight'' and a Special Correspondent for ABC News. Silver first gained public recognition for developing PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players, which he sold to and then managed for Baseball Prospectus from 2003 to 2009. Silver was named one of Time 100, The World's 100 Most Influential People by ''Time (magazine), Time'' in 2009 after an election forecasting system he developed successfully predicted the outcomes in 49 of the 50 states in the 2008 United States presidential election, 2008 U.S. Presidential election. In the 2012 United States presidential election, the forecasting system correctly predicted the winner of all 50 states and the Washington, D.C., District of Columbi ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
Steve Zolotow
Steve Zolotow (born March 30, 1945) is an American businessman and professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada. He has won two bracelets at the World Series of Poker. He was one of the regulars at the famed Mayfair Club while he lived in New York City. New York Years Zolotow was born on March 30, 1945, in New York City. He lived in New York City for many years before becoming a professional poker player and moving to Las Vegas. He worked as a businessman, and owns several bars and restaurants in New York City. He also discovered poker while living in New York and became a regular player at the Mayfair club along with now well-known poker professionals like Howard Lederer, Dan Harrington, Jay Heimowitz, and Erik Seidel, among others. Poker career Zolotow has been on the poker circuit since 1988, when he finished in 5th place in that year's World Series of Poker $2500 Pot Limit Omaha tournament. In the years to come, he would earn bracelets for winning the 1995 Chinese P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xuan Liu (poker Player)
Liu Xuan (born June 25, 1985, Tianjin, China) is a professional poker player whose winnings put her in the top 20 women at nearly $2 million in winnings. She is also the only woman to be at the final table at the PCA main event. Education Xuan attended University of Waterloo, a hotbed of live poker games, studying social development studies and political science. She played throughout her time at university, even hosting games with other known poker players such as Glen Chorny, Steve Paul Stephen Neal Paul (April 28, 1941 October 21, 2012) was an American talent manager and nightclub owner. Paul was the one-time manager of Johnny Winter, among other related performers, as well as being the owner of The Scene, a popular New York ... and Michael McDonald. Poker career Xuan started focusing on live tournaments in early 2011. Her 2011 events included third place at the European Poker Tournament San Remo. The placement at the final table got her a win of just over half a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Shak
Daniel Shak (born May 7, 1959) is an American semi-professional poker player and hedge fund manager known for his accomplishments in high buy-in poker events. Poker career Prior to poker, Shak was a trader on the New York Mercantile and Commodities Exchange (COMEX). In 2002, Shak established SHK Asset Management, a hedge fund focused on gold futures. He began seriously focusing on poker in 2004. In 2005, he had his first World Series of Poker cash totaling $45,000. He has been active on the circuit since and came close to winning his first WSOP bracelet in 2010 when he came in second to Chris Bell at the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better event. Shak has participated in the World Poker Tour, though he has been less successful. He cashed for $70,000 at the 2007 North American Poker Championships in Ontario. Shak has been most successful at the Aussie Millions where he scored his biggest cash for $1,107,553 at 2010 $100,000 buy in event. In March 2013, Shak won ... [...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] |
PokerGO Tour
The PokerGO Tour (PGT) is the official tour and ranking system for the world's top professional poker players that play in high roller poker tournaments with a minimum $10,000 Buying in (poker), buy-in. The PGT celebrates the most elite professional poker players by awarding points based on prize money won in approximately 150 tournaments around the globe. History Launched in April, 2021, the PokerGO Tour was created to reward poker players that played in high roller poker tournaments around the world. The top three finishers would share in $175,000 in prize money, and when Mortgage loan, residential mortgage company Guaranteed Rate was announced as the presenting sponsor in September, the prize money was increased to $350,000; $200,000 and the Guaranteed Rate Cup for the points leader, $100,000 for second place, and $50,000 for third place. Following the conclusion of all qualifying PokerGO Tour tournaments for the 2022 PokerGO Tour, 2022 season, the top 21 players on the Poker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrián Mateos
Adrián Mateos Díaz (born 1 July 1994) is a Spanish professional poker player. At the age of 19, he won the 2013 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event for €1,000,000. He also won an event on the Estrellas Poker Tour in Madrid in January 2013 for €103,000. In May 2015, Mateos won the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo, earning €1,082,000. With the win, he became the first Spanish EPT champion. At 22 years old, he became the youngest player to ever win three WSOP bracelets. As of January 2024, his total live tournament winnings exceed $39 million. World Series of Poker bracelets The World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet is considered the most coveted non-monetary prize a poker player can win. Since 1976, a bracelet has been awarded to the winner of every event at the annual WSOP. Even if the victory occurred before 1 ... An "E" following a year denotes bracelet(s) won during the World Series of Poker Europe References External links *Adrian Mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Livingston
Alex Livingston is a Canadian poker player. In 2019 he placed 3rd in the World Series of Poker Main Event. He also finished 13th at the Main Event in 2013. Livingston was raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is also a chess player and studied economics at Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. .... Away from the tables Alex is an avid skier, golfer and writer. References Canadian poker players Canadian chess players Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
