James Bord bested a field of 346 players to take down this year’s WSOPE Main Event. He joins an illustrious list of Annette Obrestad, John Juanda, and Jeff Shulman to take down the highly attractive deep stacked event. Bord has previously only cropped up with some smaller cashes in the last few years of the WSOP, but now he definitely has the bankroll to continue to make more of a mark on the poker world. He is the final result:

1 James Bord £830,401
2 Fabrizio Baldassari £513,049
3 Ronald Lee £376,829
4 Roland “Last Big Name” De Wolfe £278,945
5 Nicolas Levi £208,119
6 Daniel Steinberg £156,530
7 Dan Fleyshman £118,643
8 Brian Powell £90,617
9 Marc Inizan £69,754
10 David Peters £54,114
11 Andrew Pantling £54,114
12 Arnaud Mattern £54,114
13 Barny “Hendon Mob” Boatman £42,454
14 Clint Coffee £42,454
15 Hoyt “Doyles Room” Corkins £42,454
16 Viktor “I wont confirm I’m Isildur1″ Blom £33,285
17 Bojan Gledovic £33,285
18 Anthony Newman £33,285
19 Phil “Probably the Best Player since Sliced Bread” Ivey £26,400
20 Thomas Bichon £26,400
21 Jani Sointula £26,400
22 Greg “FBT” Mueller £26,400
23 Barry “The Bear” Greenstein £26,400
24 Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko £26,400
25 Hoi Cheung £26,400
26 Alex Keating £26,400
27 John Eames £26,400
28 Michael Benvenuti £21,106
29 Bryn “I go deep in everything this week” Kenney £21,106
30 Freddy Deeb £21,106
31 James Mitchell £21,106
32 Jean Paul Seatelli £21,106
33 Matthew Waxman £21,106
34 Magnus Persson £21,106
35 Darren Woods £21,106
36 Mark Thurgood £21,106

Gus Hansen has just won his first WSOP bracelet, in the $10K Heads-up Highroller event at the WSOP Europe in London. Hansen triumphed in an epic 3-part heads-up batttle to secure the long awaited wrist bling.

1 Gus Hansen £288,409
2 Jim Collopy £178,211
3 Ram Vaswani £96,212
4 Andrew Feldman £96,212
5 Daniel Negreanu £47,045
6 Kevin Eyster £47,045
7 Huck Seed £47,045
8 Neil Channing £47,045
9 Howard Lederer £22,847
10 Martin Kabrhel £22,847
11 McLean Karr £22,847
12 Saar Wilf £22,847
13 Andrew Robl £22,847
14 Phil Ivey £22,847
15 Marius Skoglund Torbergsen £22,847
16 Sondre Svanevik £22,847

Day 3 of the WSOPE has concluded and Viktor Blom is stil leading it out. Phil Ivey and many other big names are in hot pursuit.

Chip leaders

1 Viktor Blom 443,200
2 Bojan Gledovic 442,300
3 Darren Woods 372,500
4 Andrew Pantling 344,000
5 David Peters 309,300
6 Phil Ivey 289,300
7 Arnaud Mattern 280,900
8 Nicolas Levi 272,300
9 Dan Fleyshman 269,000
10 Brian Powell 266,100
11 Daniel Steinberg 265,700
12 Thomas Bichon 257,700
13 Yevgeniy Timoshenko 222,900
14 Dan Shak 214,800
15 David Baker 207,000
16 Magnus Persson 197,200
17 James Bord 195,000
18 Nick Schulman 190,000
19 Rob Akery 176,900
20 Barry Greenstein 175,300

Notables Others

Roland de Wolfe 166K
Huck Seed 147K
Daniel Negreanu 142K
Eli Elezra 117K
Barny Boatman 110K
Freddy Deeb 107K

There were 346 entrants in total, of which 69 players remain. 36 players get paid. The top prizes are:

1st £830,401 ($1.3 million)
2nd £513,049
3rd £376,829
4th £278,945
5th £208,119
6th £156,530
7th £118,643
8th £90,617
9th £69,754

At the conclusion of Day 1B of the 2010 WSOPE Main Event many big names have emerged with very good stacks. Former winner Barry Shulamn has 94K. Massive WPT winner Carlos Mortensen has 99K. Event 1 winner Phil Laak has 80K, and his other half Jennifer Tilly has 91K, and his good friend The Magician has 130K. The player with the highest lifetime winnings of all time, Phil Ivey, has 94K. Viktor Blom has slipped a little but is still well placed with 90K. High Stakes Poker regular Eli Elezra has 100K.

1 James Mitchell 178,850
2 John Dolan 173,700
3 Antonio Esfandiari 130,000
4 Brian Powell 111,000
5 Yann Dion 110,000
6 Eli Elezra 100,000
7 Carlos Mortensen 99,000
8 Phil Ivey 94,350
9 Barry Shulman 94,000
10 David Peters 92,000
11 Jennifer Tilly 91,000
12 Viktor Blom 90,000
13 John Racener 90,000
14 Sam Trickett 84,000
15 Dan Shak 83,000
16 Dag Palovic 81,000
17 Phil Laak 80,000
18 Andrew Pantling 80,000
19 Marc Inizan 80,000
20 Steven van Zadelhoff 78,000

Swedish pro Viktor Blom (highly suspected to be the infamous Isidur1) is leading the WSOPE Main Event in London. Here are the latest chip counts:

1 Viktor Blom 132,000
2 Antonio Esfandiari 130,000
3 Yann Dion 110,000
4 Phil Laak 103,000
5 Sam Trickett 97,000
6 JP Kelly 96,000
7 Carlos Mortensen 93,000
8 Brian Powell 90,000
9 John Dolan 85,000
10 Ludovic Lacay 80,000

Event 1
Tuesday Sep 14th 12:00 PM BST 3-Day Event   
Six Handed No Limit Hold’em
£2,650 Buy-in

Event 2
Thursday Sep 16th 5:00 PM BST 3-Day Event
Pot Limit Omaha
£5,250 Buy-in 

Event 3
Friday Sep 17th 12:00 PM BST 5-Day Event
No Limit Hold’em
£1,075 Buy-in

Event 4
Tueday Sep 21st 5:00 PM BST 3-Day Event
No Limit Holdem High Roller Heads-Up
£10,350 Buy-in

Event 5  
Thursday Sep 23rd 12:00 PM BST 6-Day Event
WSOPE Main Event - No Limit Holdem
£10,350 Buy-in

All events times are local time in London. The buy-ins are in pounds sterling. The venue is The Empire Casino at Leicester Square, London. Closest tube Leicester Square. Loads of hotels within walking distance.

The Pokerstars EPT Season 7 has kicked off, with the first event at Tallinn in Estonia. This is the first time Tallinn has been a destination on the tour. It was won by online qualifier Kevin Stani.

The Result

1 Kevin Stani 400,000 Euros
2 Konstantin Bilyauer 250,000 Euros
3 Arnaud Mattern 160,000 Euros
4 Dmitry Vitkind 120,000 Euros
5 Mikko Jaatinen 80,000 Euros
6 Steven van Zadelhoff 63,000 Euros
7 Nicolo Calia 47,000 Euros
8 Bassam Elnajjar 32,000 Euros
9 Jonathan Weekes 25,000 Euros
10 Vallo Maidla 25,000 Euros
11 Igor Ivashkiv 18,000 Euros
12 Toni Ojala 18,000 Euros
13 Oscar Teran 14,000 Euros
14 Perica Bukara 14,000 Euros
15 Johan Storakers 12,000 Euros
16 Javed Abrahams 12,000 Euros
17 Simone Falorni 10,000 Euros
18 Anatoli Jevtejev 10,000 Euros

If you fancy taking a shot at any of the other 12 events events in EPT Season 7 then qualify online at Pokerstars

The European Poker Tour (EPT) has been running for several years now.  They are very well run events and have produced many millionaires.  Here is a list of all the winners:

2010 EPT Grand Final (Monte Carlo) Apr 2010  Nicolas Chouity €1,700,000
2010 EPT San Remo Apr 2010  Liv Boeree €1,250,000
2010 EPT Snowfest Mar 2010  Allan Bække €445,000
2010 EPT Berlin Mar 2010 Kevin MacPhee €1,000,000
2010 EPT Copenhagen Feb 2010  Anton Wigg DKK3,675,000
2010 EPT Deauville Jan 2010  Jake Cody €847,000
2009 EPT Prague Dec 2009 Jan Skampa €682,000
2009 EPT Vilamoura Nov 2009  Antonio Matias €404,793 
2009 EPT Warsaw Oct 2009  Christophe Benzimra PLN1,493,170
2009 EPT London Oct 2009  Aaron Gustavson £850,000
WSOP Main Event Winner Peter Eastgate was runner-up in the event above
2009 EPT Barcelona Sept 2009  Carter Phillips €850,000
2009 EPT Kyiv Aug 2009  Maxim Lykov €330,000
2009 EPT Grand Final (Monte Carlo) Apr 2009  Pieter De Korver €2,300,000
2009 EPT San Remo Apr 2009  Constant Rijkenberg €1,508,000 
2008 EPT Prague Dec 2008  Salvatore Bonavena €774,000
2008 EPT Warsaw Nov 2008  Joao Barbosa €367,141
2008 EPT Budapest Oct 2008  Will Fry €595,839 
2008 EPT London £1m Showdown Oct 2008  Jason Mercier £516,000 
2008 EPT London Oct 2008  Michael Martin £1,000,000
2008 EPT Barcelona Open Sept 2008  Sebastian Ruthenberg €1,361,000
2008 EPT Grand Final (Monte Carlo) Apr 2008  Glen Chorny $3,198,500
2008 EPT San Remo Apr 2008 Jason Mercier $1,340,867
2008 EPT Polish Open Mar 11-15, 2008  Michael Schulze $946,269 
2008 EPT Copenhagen Feb 2008  Tim Vance $1,236,095 
2008 EPT Germany Jan 2008  Mike McDonald €933,600
2007 EPT Prague Dec 2007 Arnaud Mattern €708,400
2007 EPT Dublin Oct 2007 Reuben Peters €532,620
WSOPE Main Event Winner Annette Obrestad was runner-up in the event above
2007 EPT Baden Oct 2007  Julian Thew €670,800
2007 EPT London Sept 2007 Joseph Mouawad £611,520
2007 EPT Barcelona Aug 2007  Sander Lylloff €1,170,700
2007 EPT Grand Final (Monte Carlo) Mar 2007  Gavin Griffin €1,825,010
2007 EPT Warsaw Mar 2007  Peter Jepsen PLN1,266,711
2007 EPT Germany Mar 2007  Andreas Hoivold $881,398  

To qualify for an EPT event play satellites at Pokerstars.  Sign up and receive a bonus of $600

Annette Obrestad and Doyle Brunson had an interesting little spat recently.  It all started with Annette talking in a magazine article that she would much rather play against Doyle rather than an internet pro, implying (if not exactly directly saying) that the 10 time bracelet winner was a has-been and a softer player.   When Mr Brunson caught ear of this he was less than impressed shall we say and suggested it must have been Annette’s time of the month and that she was welcome to come along to Bobby’s Room any time, he was there every day.   Naturally Annette didnt take up the challenge as she would have been severely outmatched, not only in terms of cash game ability, but in terms of bankroll too.  

Actually it is suprising for Annette to see Doyle as anything other than an extremely tough opponent considering the 3 times they have met heads-up Doyle has won every time.

Of course the comments got a bit played up in the media, and I am sure Annette does have respect for Doyle’s accomplishments and game, but you cant help but secretly hope she’s pops into Bobby’s Room some day soon.   Doyle, ever the gentlemen, was quick to apologise about the time of the month comments even when they were merely responsive to the implied slur on his game.

It would appear Daniel Negreanu got carjacked the other day in Los Angeles.  His car and money was (allegedly) stolen by a group of guys when he stopped to ask for directions.

The car itself was a rental Dodge, and the money was said to be around $10K.   Daniel seems in comparitive good spirits following the event, although no doubt a little shaken up and annoyed by the whole experience.  We wish him well.