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World Poker Tour Season 1 Results
Below are the results of season 1 of the World Poker Tour (2002–2003). Results Five Diamond World Poker Classic * Casino: Bellagio, Paradise, Nevada * Buy-in: $10,000 * 5-Day Event: May 27, 2002 to June 1, 2002 * Number of Entries: 146 * Total Prize Pool: $1,391,180 * Number of Payouts: 18 * Winning Hand: K-K Legends of Poker * Casino: Bicycle Casino, Los Angeles * Buy-in: $5,000 * 2-Day Event: August 30, 2002 to August 31, 2002 * Number of Entries: 134 * Total Prize Pool: $583,380 * Number of Payouts: 10 * Winning Hand: Q-Q Ultimate Poker Classic * Casino: Palm Beach, Aruba * Buy-in: * 2-Day Event: October 9, 2002 * Number of Entries: 100 * Total Prize Pool: $74,400 * Number of Payouts:4 * Winning Hand: Costa Rica Classic * Casino: Casinos Europa, San José * Buy-in: $500 w/ $500 Re-buys * 1-Day Event: October 19, 2002 * Number of Entries: 134 * Total Prize Pool: $234,858 * Number of Payouts: 10 Gold Rush * Casino: Lucky Chances Casino, Colma, California * Buy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is an internationally televised gaming and entertainment brand. Since 2002, the World Poker Tour has operated a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting playdown and the final table of each tournament. The most prominent of World Poker Tour events belong to the WPT Main Tour. The WPT Main Tour focuses on the buy-in range of $3,500-$25,000, and winners of official WPT Main Tour events are awarded a membership to the WPT Champions Club. The WPT Champions Cup is the trophy awarded to all winners of WPT Main Tour events, and champions have their names engraved on the Cup. Business The World Poker Tour was started in 2002 in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who served as CEO of WPT Enterprises, Inc. (WPTE). In November 2009, PartyGaming announced its acquisition of the World Poker Tour for $12.3 million. In 2011, PartyGaming merged with bwin to form bwin.Party Digital Entert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Vilandos
Peter Vilandos is a Greek-American professional poker player. He was born in Greece and now resides in Houston, Texas. He has won three bracelets at the World Series of Poker. He first cashed in a poker tournament in 1990, and since that time has cashed in dozens of tournaments. Vilandos had his first cash in the WSOP in 1993, and won his first WSOP bracelet in 1995 in the $1,500 Pot Limit Holdem event. He had his highest WSOP Main Event finish the following year, busting out in 21st place, for a prize of $19,500. Vilandos has also cashed in two World Poker Tour (WPT) $10,000 events. His first cash was in 2002 at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic, finishing in 15th place. He cashed again in 2003 at the World Poker Open in Tunica, Mississippi, finishing in 21st place. Vilandos won his second bracelet at the 2009 WSOP, winning a $1,500 No Limit Holdem event and a prize of $607,256. Earlier in the series, Vilandos had a second-place finish in the $1,000 No Limit Hold'em e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palm Beach, Aruba
Palm Beach is a tourism district about 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) northwest of Oranjestad, the capital of Aruba. A number of high rise hotels are located there, such as Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort & Casino, Aruba Marriott Resort, The Barceló, Holiday Inn SunSpree Resort, Ritz Carlton Resort, and RIU palace Aruba. A shopping district adjacent to the hotels was finished in 2009 and includes two large malls called Paseo Herencia and Palm Beach Plaza Mall. Little North of Palm Beach is Malmok Beach, a small sandy strip running all the way until the northern tip of Aruba. Smaller apartment complexes and luxurious holiday homes are located along this dead-end Boulevard. Hadicurari Beach (kiting), Arashi Beach and Boca Catalina (snorkeling) are popular locations. History Palm Beach is the name of a region in the district of Noord. Its adjacent shoreline beach was officially registered under the same name in 1960. The name "Palm Beach" is derived from the name of the coconut plantation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Zibits
Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and writer *Pope Paul (other), multiple Popes of the Roman Catholic Church *Saint Paul (other), multiple other people and locations named "Saint Paul" Roman and Byzantine empire *Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (c. 229 BC – 160 BC), Roman general *Julius Paulus Prudentissimus (), Roman jurist *Paulus Catena (died 362), Roman notary *Paulus Alexandrinus (4th century), Hellenistic astrologer *Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (625–690), Greek surgeon Royals *Paul I of Russia (1754–1801), Tsar of Russia *Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece Other people *Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus (c. 720 – c. 799), Italian Benedictine monk *Paul (father of Maurice), the father of Maurice, Byzan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Brayerr
Scott may refer to: Places Canada * Scott, Quebec, municipality in the Nouvelle-Beauce regional municipality in Quebec * Scott, Saskatchewan, a town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake No. 380 * Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98, Saskatchewan United States * Scott, Arkansas * Scott, Georgia * Scott, Indiana * Scott, Louisiana * Scott, Missouri * Scott, New York * Scott, Ohio * Scott, Wisconsin (other) (several places) * Fort Scott, Kansas * Great Scott Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota * Scott Air Force Base, Illinois * Scott City, Kansas * Scott City, Missouri * Scott County (other) (various states) * Scott Mountain, a mountain in Oregon * Scott River, in California * Scott Township (other) (several places) Elsewhere * 876 Scott, minor planet orbiting the Sun * Scott (crater), a lunar impact crater near the south pole of the Moon *Scott Conservation Park, a protected area in South Australia People * Scott (surname), including a list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Hellmuth Jr
Phillip Jerome Hellmuth Jr. (born July 16, 1964) is an American professional poker player who has won a record sixteen World Series of Poker bracelets. He is the winner of the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the Main Event of the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE), and he is a 2007 inductee of the WSOP's Poker Hall of Fame. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest tournament players of all time. Personal life Hellmuth was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and attended Madison West High School. He had trouble with grades and friends during school and said at the time he was the "ugly duckling" of his family. He then moved on to the University of Wisconsin–Madison for three years, where he dropped out to become a full-time poker player. Since 1992, he has lived in Palo Alto, California, with his wife, Katherine Sanborn, who is a psychiatrist at Stanford University, and their two sons, Phillip III and Nicholas. Poker career He is ranked 19th on the al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Darden
Paul Darden, Jr. (born October 27, 1968) is an American professional poker player, rap music promoter, and night club owner from New Haven, Connecticut. Early years He was accused of murder at the age of 15, due to mistaken identity but was acquitted. Poker was Darden's way of turning his life around, and he was helped in this by his mentor, Phil Ivey. Poker career Originally, he was best known as a seven-card stud player, where he had several notable tournament finishes in 2000 prior to winning the World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet in 2001 for the $2,500 seven-card stud event, defeating Tom Franklin heads-up. In 2002, Darden won a World Poker Tour (WPT) title in the $3,000 main event of the Gold Rush tournament. He would later finish in 2nd place behind Gus Hansen Gustav Hansen (born 13 February 1974) is a Danish professional poker player from Copenhagen, Denmark who has lived in Monaco since 2003. In his poker career, Hansen has won three World Poker Tour ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Liebert
Kathleen H. Liebert (born October 1, 1967 in Tennessee) is an American professional poker player. Poker Liebert started her professional poker career as a prop player in Colorado. She would later go on to enter tournaments and she won the first Party Poker Million event in 2002, the first limit poker tournament with a $1 million prize. She has made six World Poker Tour (WPT) final tables, including a third-place finish in the 2005 Borgata Poker Open, making her the highest finishing woman on the WPT until a runner-up finish by J. J. Liu in the 2007 Bay 101 Shooting Stars tournament. Liebert went on to tie the record at the 2009 Shooting Stars tournament, placing second to Steve Brecher in the longest final table in WPT history. Her record was broken on March 5, 2008, when Van Nguyen became the first woman to win a televised WPT mixed event at the WPT Invitational in Commerce, California. At the 2004 World Series of Poker, Liebert won a gold bracelet in a $1,500 Limit Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can Kim Hua
Can Kim "CK" Hua is a Vietnamese American professional poker player who is a three-time final tablist at both the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and on the World Poker Tour (WPT) with over $2.7 million in earnings. Career Can Kim Hua is one of the most active players in professional poker today, and in the last six years he has finished "in the money" in more than 100 events. In August 2002 he finished fifth at the World Poker Tour (WPT) first season Legends of Poker. In January 2004, he finished fifth at the WPT second season World Poker Open. In June 2004, he made a five-way deal to split the money and play for the trophy in a preliminary event at the California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ... State Poker Championship. However, when he saw the trophy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Seif
Mark Seif (born October 4, 1977) is an American poker player, California attorney, and TV show host. Personal life Seif was born in Cairo, Egypt before moving with his family at the age of two, to Southern California. Seif attended LaSalle High School in Pasadena, California, and graduated in 1985. He then received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from UCLA in 1991 and a Juris Doctor in 1997 from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. Seif worked for the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office from 1994-1996 as a California Supreme Court certified law student practitioner, and assisted in the prosecution of the O. J. Simpson case. Subsequently, in 1997, Seif joined the national labor and employment law firm of Fisher & Phillips in their Newport Beach, California office. There he represented management exclusively in several high-profile sex harassment lawsuits. Seif left the firm in 1999 to become General Counsel of Preferred Capital Corporation, a business financial se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Karagulleyan
Chris Karagulleyan (born 1968 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a professional gambler now living in Glendale, California, United States. Before becoming a gambler, he worked as a taxi driver and as a baker. Biography Karagulleyan broke onto the poker scene by winning the World Poker Tour $5,000 No Limit Hold-Em tournament at the 2002 Legends of Poker, to earn a $258,000 first prize. Several finishes continued on from this, including winning the $62,700 first prize in the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold-Em tournament at the 2003 LA Poker Classic. However, Karagulleyan took all the winnings and bet it at a blackjack table, losing all his winnings from the event. Karagulleyan won both his first pot and last pot at the 2002 Legends of Poker World Poker Tour final table while holding pocket Queens. Knocking out both Kathy Liebert and later on, Hon Le to win the tournament. Karagulleyan eliminated Liebert from the final table of the 2002 Legends of Poker World Poker Tour tournament on only the second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bicycle Casino
The Bicycle Hotel & Casino (commonly, "The Bike") is a poker cardroom in California. Founded by George Hardie Sr. in 1984, located in Bell Gardens, California, The Bicycle Casino offers a selection of poker games and Asian games, with a wide range of limits. The casino features games including: Blackjack, Texas Hold 'Em, Seven Card Stud, Omaha hold 'em, Mexican Poker, Pai Gow Poker, Three Card Poker and Baccarat (card game). Financing to build the original Bicycle Club casino was provided by Sam Gilbert, who allegedly used money partially obtained from laundering drug money.GLENN F. BUNTING and TINA GRIEGO Miami Trial Gives Startling New Portrait of Sam Gilbert.Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1990 The casino is home to the ''Legends of Poker'', a tournament series established in 1995 that now includes a stop on the World Poker Tour. Prior to the Legends, the casino's main tournament series was called the ''Diamond Jim Brady''. Seizure and indictment In 1987, Sam Gilbert was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
