Congrats to Andrew Lichtenberger who finished in 2nd in the @EpicPoker event for $514,480. @LuckyChewy is having one hell of a December, this near-victory comes just one week after finishing 4th in the WPT’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event!!
Bryan "Devo" Devonshire battled 6,865 players in the 2011 WSOP Main Event $10,000 buy-in and finished a very impressive 12th place! The well-deserved paycheck of $607,882 was his largest single tournament payday ever and his knock out was only three places shy of the prestigious November Nine. Amazing job and congrats Devo!!
High stakes online player Andrew "LuckyChewy" Lichtenberger, who finished 18th in the 2009 World Series Main Event, has won the EPT Grand Final €5,250 for €70,000. Lichtenberger's route to the final - where he beat fellow American Brian Hastings took him up against Yevgeni Timoshenko, Andreas Johansson, Christer Johansson and Pieter de Vries. Congrats "Chewy"!
Suited Connections pros Olivier Busquet and Adam Geyer bagged very healthy chipstacks on day 3 of the 2011 NAPT at Mohegan Sun today. Adam will return to the felt on day 4 with 803k in chips, sitting in 5th place and not far behind is Olivier in 13th position and a 356k stack. Both look to maneuver their way toward the televised NAPT final table and $450,000 1st place prize.
Congrats to Andrew "luckychewy" Lichtenberger who had a monster day yesterday. Lichtenberger recorded a 2nd place finish in the Pokerstars Sunday Warmup for $107,972!
Be sure to check out Suited Connections pros Andrew "luckychewy" Lichtenberger and Melanie "Callisto" Weisner as they appear on NBC's Poker After Dark this week!
Christian Harder had a positive Sunday yesterday, finishing 2nd in a Pokerstars $109 Rebuy for $28,582 and 7th in the Turbo Multi-Hundo on Full Tilt for $6,429!
An unfortunate bad beat this afternoon for Zach Clark - his JJ lost to an opponents KJ - and he is out of the WPT Bay 101 in 19th place earning $25,800.
Already in the money at the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star, Zach (@CrazyZachary) Clark enters Day 3 with 238k in chips and St Patty's Day hopes to continue his run at making the six-handed final table tonight as 24 players remain and over $1 Million being awarded to the winner.
Suited Connection Team Pros had a monster sunday yesterday with many major final tables. Jason "JaspudUF" Lee final tabled both the Pokerstars Sunday 2nd Chance and UBOC #1 with 7th place finishes in each for $8,638 and $11,620. Stephen "PiKappRaider" Burkholder also final tabled a UBOC event finishing 3rd in UBOC #3 for $14,790. Finally Melanie "Callisto" Weisner made it to the Full Tilt $200K Guarantee (Rebuy) final table where she came in 4th for $24,937!
Adam "csimmsux" Geyer is still in the hunt for the PCA Main Event title as Day 3 concluded with 48 players yesterday. Geyer is looking to best his 15th place finish that he had in the same event from 2008.
Steven "Pikappraider" Burkholder is still alive with a solid chipstack in the PCA Main Event. However, Adam "csimmsux" Geyer will lead the rest of the 173 players into Day 3 as chipleader with 909,000 in chips. Both will return tommorow and look to manuever their way towards the PCA table and the $2.3 million 1st place prize.
Daniel "Jungleman12" Cates just missed out on making day 3 of the $100K PCA High Roller event. However, Andrew "luckychewy" Lichtenberger will enter the final table with the 7th place chip stack. Tommorow he will be playing for the title and the $1.5 million dollar first place prize.
Daniel "Jungleman12" Cates continues to build his lead in the Durrrr Challenge over Tom Dwan. After the last session Cates ended up a $319,000 winner on the day, and has extended his overall lead to $819,000!
Pokernews recently announced Daniel "Jungleman12" Cates as the winningest online player of 2010. Daniel managed to rack up over $4.9 million dollars in profit over the course of 2010!
Congrats to Adam "Roothlus" Levy on a big Sunday! Adam had a 5th place finish in the Pokerstars $109 rebuy for $9,559 as well as an outright win in a $109 freezeout for $32,158!
Daniel "Jungleman12" Cates continued to build his lead against Tom Dwan this week in the 2nd installment of the Durrr Challenge. Cates notched a win in a short session with Dwan this week in which he won $110,037.
Daniel "Jungleman12" Cates was just named a Reader's Choice Nominee for Bluff Magazine's "Breakout Performance of the Year!" Congratulations to Daniel on his nomination as well as the impressive results he's put together this year.
Matt "Ch0ppy" Kay recently added another accolade to his already impressive resume. This week, Matt captured a Triple Crown by winning 3 seperate tournaments on 3 different sites. Congrats Matt!
John "JRD312" Dolan, a member of the 2010 WSOP November Nine, just missed out on final tabling the Pokerstars Sunday Million. However, John still recieved a solid score of $9,172 for his efforts.
Congratulations to Doyle's Room Sponsored Pro Zach "CrazyZachary" Clark on his 2nd place finish in Ultimate Bet's $500 buyin Sunday 100K Guaranteed Tournament for $17,670!
Jamie "LeoEleven" Rosen final tabled the Full Tilt $1K Monday last night, coming up just short of the win with a 3rd place finish but increasing his bankroll with $37,800.
Congrats to Suited Connections and Full Tilt Poker Pro John Dolan for an incredible 2010 WSOP Main Event and a 6th place finish and $1,772,959! Final Table photos available @ www.dolanpoker.com
The day we've been waiting for is finally upon us, the WSOP Final Table begins today. Expect to see some outstanding poker action as the November Nine battle it out to become 2010 WSOP Main Event Champion!
Suited Connections and Full Tilt Pro John Dolan, is just about to take his seat - at 12:00pm PST - with 46.2 million in chips! It's been an unbelievable run so far, good luck John, let's finish it off and take it down!!!
Melanie Weisner (@melanieweisner) and Andrew Lichtenberger (@luckychewy) are both playing and filming a Poker After Dark episode tonight. Be sure to watch early next year on NBC to find out the results!
The WPT World Poker Finals Main Event at Foxwoods Casino kicks off today with Suited Connections pros; Steven Burkholder, John Dolan, Christian Harder, Adam Levy in attendance to play and take a shot at winning the next prestigious WPT title.
With one of the largest WSOP Circuit fields in history, Adam "Roothlus" Levy's run came to an end yesterday when he was eliminated in 21st place, earning $22,678 in prize money for his finish.
Adam Levy enters Day 3 of the 10K WSOPC Hammond with 146,000 in chips. Keep an eye on his progress on Twitter as @Roothlus battles his way toward the final table!
After taking a horrible beat Bryan "Devo" Devonshire finished in 7th place, earning $37,047 and coming up just short of capturing his 2nd WSOPC Main Event title.
Best of run-good luck to Suited Connections and UB pro Bryan Devonshire, who is playing the WSOP Circuit - Horseshoe Hammond and going for his second WSOPC Main Event title!
Check out an interview with John Dolan this week on ESPN Inside Deal coming at you from the World Poker Finals at Foxwoods Casino: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMKvjYIMkpk
It was another profitable Sunday online for Suited pros with Patrolman35 and Roothlus taking 4th and 11th respectively in the PokerStars $215+Rebuy. Melanie "Callisto 5" Weisner also had a final table appearance in the PokerStars Sunday 500 with a 7th place showing good for $14,236.
Check out a great article written by Gary Wise of ESPN.com about Daniel "Jungleman12" Cates and his recent success in the Durrrr Challenge - Read the Article »
Congrats to Melanie Weisner on her in 2nd place finish this past weekend in the Partouche Poker Tour Championship head's up match cashing for €23,000. Check out her Video Interview!
Jason "JaspudUF" Lee continues to shine after finishing 3rd in the EPT Vilamoura, this time on the virtual felt, taking down the PokerStars $109 NLHE event for $41,549.
Zach "nofingclue11" Clark enjoyed a profitable Sunday, cashing in 4 events and finishing 21st in the WCOOP Event #2 - NL Hold'em [High Roller] 10K for $23,475.
Congrats to Jason Lee on a solid run at the 2010 EPT Vilamoura, finishing in 3rd Place and earning a €186,240 paycheck, his largest live tournament cash to date. Well played Jason!
Suited Connections newest pro Jason "JaspudUF" Lee made the 2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura final table - currently sitting 2nd in chips with 1,800,00 and only 5 players remaining.
The 2nd session of the durrrr Challenge 2 was played yesterday afternoon with Suited Connections own, Jungleman12 raking in another $173,000 in 958 hands played.
This latest session extends Dan's lead to $692,400 after 6,820 total hands played.
Suited Connections Pro - Daniel "Jungleman12" Cates - will be the next player to take part in the second installment of the Tom "durrrr" Dwan Million Dollar Challenge, which kicked off on Thursday night on Full Tilt Poker. At the end of the first session of play (nearly 13 hours), Jungleman12 was up a staggering $518,000 over durrrr. A total of 5,862 hands of the minimum 50,000 were played thus far.
Adam Levy, after battling the dreaded 'card dead' bug for the last few days, ended up taking 12th place in the 2010 WSOP Event #57 NLH Championship $10,000 buy-in (7,319 entries) for $635,011. This was Adam's fourth cash of the series for a 2010 WSOP series total of $653,523. Great job Adam!
Day 8 is upon us and with only 27 players remaining expect to see some hardcore grinding as they all battle to become one of the "November Nine!" Each player today is guaranteed a minimum payout of $317,161.
Adam 'Roothlus' Levy, the sole remaining Suited Connections player, will take his seat at 12:00pm PST with 4,745,000 in chips.
Here we are, Day 7 of the 2010 WSOP Event #57 NLH Championship (Main Event), with only 78 of 7319 players remaining who are each guaranteed a minimum payout of $94,942.
By the end of today's play, which begins at 12:00pm PST, we will be left with only 27 players who will return tomorrow seeking to take a seat at the Final Table in November.
Adam 'Roothlus' Levy is the sole remaining Suited Connections player with a 1,685,000 chip count. Good Luck Adam!!
Christian Harder completed his 2010 WSOP play, with a very impressive SEVEN cashes, by finishing 100th in Event #57 NLH Championship $10,000 buy-in (7,319 entries) for $57,102.
At the conclusion of Day 5 of the 2010 WSOP Event #57 NLH Championship (Main Event), just 205 players remain in the hunt for their quest to fill 1 of 9 seats to become a member of the November Nine!
Today's action begins at 12:00pm PST, with a minimum payout of $48,847 guaranteed to the remaining 205 players, and is expected to play down to 81 players. Below are the Suited Connections players and their chip counts as they enter Day 6.
Christian Harder - 1,363,000 chips Adam Levy - 1,147,000 chips
Zach Clark finished 235th in the 2010 WSOP Event #57 NLH Championship $10,000 buy-in (7,319 entries) for $48,847. This was his second cash of the 2010 WSOP series. Nice job Zach!
Steven Burkholder finished 360th in the 2010 WSOP Event #57 NLH Championship $10,000 buy-in (7,319 entries) for $36,463. This was his fifth cash of the 2010 WSOP series. Well done Steven!
Last night brought us to the end of Day 4 of the 2010 WSOP Event #57 NLH Championship (Main Event) with 574 players remaining, a number much lower than anticipated at this level.
Today's action begins at 12:00pm PST with a minimum payout of $24,079 guaranteed to the remaining 574 players. Below are the Suited Connections players and their chip counts as they enter Day 5.
Adam Levy - 1,054,000 chips Christian Harder - 730,000 chips Steven Burkholder - 356,000 chips Zach Clark - 278,000 chips
Amit Makhija finished 740th in the 2010 WSOP Event #57 NLH Championship $10,000 buy-in (7,319 entries) for $19,263. This was his third cash of the series for a 2010 WSOP series total of $226,411. Great job Amit!
The 2010 WSOP Event #57 NLH Championship (Main Event) started with 7,319 entries for a total prize pool of $68,798,600 with 1st Place earning $8,944,138 and the coveted ME Gold Bracelet.
Today begins with the remaining 1,203 players which we anticipate will play down to the money at 747. Below are the Suited Connections players and their chip counts as they enter Day 4.
Steven Burkholder - 427,500 chips Adam Levy - 323,700 chips Amit Makhija - 276,200 chips Zach Clark - 114,800 chips Christian Harder - 82,100 chips Matt Graham - 52,500 chips
Day 3 of the 2010 WSOP Event #57 NLH Championship (Main Event) begins today at 12:00pm PST. Listed below are the current Suited Connections players still in the hunt to become this years Champion!
Billy Kopp - 198,300 chips Amit Makhija - 185,700 chips Adam Levy - 130,600 chips Zach Clark - 129,000 chips Steven Burkholder - 117,600 chips Matt Graham - 110,100 chips Alex Bolotin - 87,700 chips Christian Harder - 29,500 chips
With the 2010 WSOP Event #57 NLH Championship (Main Event) Day 1a/b/c/d officially in the books, the following Suited Connections players are headed to Day 2a/b:
Billy Kopp - 107,800 chips Daniel Kelly - 70,700 chips Alex Bolotin - 64,250 chips Christian Harder - 61,200 chips Matt Graham - 58,450 chips Adam Levy - 54,425 chips Matt Kay - 38,950 chips Zach Clark - 37,875 chips Amit Makhija - 37,200 chips Jamie Rosen - 37,150 chips Melanie Weisner - 35,675 chips Steven Burkholder - 25,900 chips Bryan Devonshire - 19,725 chips Andrew Robl - 18,350 chips Trishelle Cannatella - 14,200 chips Andrew Lichtenberger - 8,330 chips
Suited Connections is very pleased to announce yet another signing as Melanie Weisner has officially become Full Tilt Poker's newest Pro. Congratulations Melanie!!
CONGRATULATIONS to Daniel 'djk123' Kelly for taking down Event #52 NLH/Six Handed $25,000 buy-in (191 entries) for $1,315,518 and a 2010 WSOP Gold Bracelet!!! Way to go Daniel!!!!!
At the conclusion of Day 3, the WSOP Event #52 NLH/Six Handed $25,000 buy-in (191 entries) is down to the Final Table. Sitting atop the leader board with a commanding chip lead is our very own Daniel 'djk123' Kelly.
With the Final Table set, play resumes today at 5:30pm ET and you can catch all the action streaming LIVE on ESPN3. Best of luck, Daniel!!
As the 2010 WSOP winds down, Suited pros are still making waves, this time Jamie Rosen taking 5th in Event #44 Mixed Hold'em $2,500 buy-in (507 entries) and pocketing $61,441.
Also, Christian Harder continues to roll as he took 33rd place in Event #50 PLO $5,000 buy-in (460 entries) for $12,561. This was his sixth cash of the series.
Congrats to Jamie Rosen for making the final table in Event #44 Mixed Hold'em $2,500 buy-in (507 entries) of the 2010 WSOP. Good luck and take it down Jamie!
As Day 1 of Event #39 NLH Shootout $1,500 buy-in (1,400 entries) comes to an end we find Steven Burkholder, Bryan Devonshire, Matt Kay, Daniel Kelly and Adam Levy all returning tomorrow with a minimum guaranteed cash of $5,632 each. Good luck tomorrow!
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With the 2010 WSOP just past the halfway mark, Christian Harder continues to impress by picking up his fifth cash of the series finishing 14th in Event #32 NLH/Six Handed $5,000 buy-in (568 entries) for $26,188.
Also cashing in this event was Matt Graham who finished 26th for $17,325 and Andrew Robl who finished 40th for $12,653, which was the second cash of the series for both.
With both players picking up their second cashes of the series; Adam 'Roothlus' Levy placed 98th for $4,363 and Daniel 'djk123' Kelly finished 33rd for $13,541 in the 2010 WSOP Event #30 NLH $1,500 buy-in (2,394 entries).
Also cashing in Event #30 was Steven 'PiKappRaider' Burkholder who finished in 103rd for $3,878. This was Steven's third cash of the series.
Christian Harder continues to dominate the felt while picking up his forth cash of the series in Event #28 PLO $2,500 buy-in (596 entries) finishing in 26th place for $9,842.
2010 WSOP Event #26 NLH/Six Handed $2,500 buy-in (1,245 entries) brought both Andrew Robl and Matt Graham their first cash of the series. Andrew took 47th for $9,105 while Matt finished in 67th for $6,156.
Christian 'charder30' Harder continues to shine, picking up his third cash of the series, by placing 11th in Event #20 PLO $1,500 buy-in (885 entries) for $15,197.
Also cashing in Event #20; Steven 'PiKappRaider' Burkholder finished 20th for $8,064, his second cash of the series and Daniel 'djk123' Kelly finishing 62nd for $3,930.
Amit 'amak316' Makhija captured his first cash of the 2010 series in Event #17 NLH $5,000 buy-in (792 entries) placing 5th for $179,866. Great job Amit!
The 2010 WSOP Event #17 NLH $5,000 buy-in (792 entries) brought Alex 'Diesel' Bolotin his second cash of the series with his 35th place finish for $20,845.
Also cashing in Event #17 was Steven 'PiKappRaider' Burkholder who finished 36th for $20,845.
With 18 players remaining, Amit 'amak316' Makhija is 3rd in chips as play resumes today at 2:30pm PST. Good Luck Amit!
While taking a day off at the WSOP, Adam 'Roothlus' Levy entered the Full Tilt 750k GTD and finished in 2nd for a huge $102,018 score. Great job Roothlus!
With the 2010 WSOP just underway, Ultimate Bet Pro Bryan Devonshire finished in 340th place for $2,150 in Event #3 NLH $1,000 buy-in (4,345 entries).
In Event #5 NLH $1,500 buy-in (2,092 entries) Full Tilt Pro Andrew 'luckychewy' Lichtenberger finished in 133rd for $3,516 and Ultimate Bet Pro Adam 'Roothlus' Levy finished in 51st for $8,529.
Sunday was a productive day for DoylesRoom Pro Zach 'CrazyZachary' Clark who took down the Ultimate Bet 150K GTD for $39,000 and followed that up with a 3rd place finish in the PokerStars SCOOP Event #37-M for $110,597.
Following up yesterday's cash, DoylesRoom Pro Amit 'amak316' Makhija not only took 18th in the PokerStars SCOOP HB-R Event #28 for $10,600; he also placed 3rd in the Ultimate Bet 150K GTD for $22,000.
Check out this week's WSOP Rookie Roundup on PokerNews, highlighting Dan Kelly and the possible chances he’ll be leaving the Series with some new jewelry.
Melanie Weisner made a final table at the EPT San Remo ladies event, finishing 6th and then went on to win the EPT Grand Final ladies event for $33,000.
Matt "Ch0ppy" Kay crushed the 2010 PokerStars EPT in Monte Carlo, taking down the No Limit 6 Max for $30,800 and finishing in the money in the No Limit Main Event earning $26,795.
Melanie “Callisto 5″ Weisner started off as one of the early chip leaders of the 2010 EPT Monte Carlo Main Event and finished in 71st place, earning $33,282.
Congrats to Andrew "luckychewy" Lichtenberger on a hard-fought, 5+ hour heads-up victory in the 2010 WSOP Circuit event at Caesars last night, earning him a Gold Ring, WSOP Main Event seat and $190,137!
UB.com poker pro Adam 'Roothlus' Levy has been tearing up the online scene the past few days. Roothlus took down two 1st place finishes in the Full Tilt Main Event Shootout & $60K Guarantee for $12,000 & $18,038 respectively, then finished 2nd in the PokerStars $109+ rebuy for another $14,250.
It was another successful Sunday for Suited Connections pros:
» Ultimate Bet Pro Adam 'Roothlus' Levy took 3rd in the UB.net $200k guarantee for $18,500.
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» DoylesRoom Pro Amit “amak316” Makhija took 6th at the mulligan final table and earned roughly $28,000, as well as a win in the Sunday fifty fifty with a 1st place finish and $19,660.
Bryan Devonshire took down the 2010 Harrah's Rincon WSOP Circuit No Limit Hold'em Championship, winning $114,975 and his first WSOP gold and diamond ring. He was also presented with a $10,000 seat into the WSOP Main Event. Congrats Devo!