Except, it has become a day that high rollers look forward to thanks to partypoker and the High Roller Club.
This Tuesday, there was only one change in the top five spots on the High Roller Club Leaderboard, but it was a significant one.
Rok Gostisa now leads the race after taking down the 28-entrant, $2,600, $75k GTD event, beating Jans Arends in heads-up action. The Slovenian holds an 82-point lead over Alex Foxen after the American failed to make the money in successive High Roller Club nights of action.
Another player who continues to challenge at the top is Artur Martirosian. The Russian finished runner-up to Julius Schamberg in the $5k and finished eighth in the $530 game.
Schamberg had a sterling evening, winning both the $5k and $1k events. Thomas Muehloecker also faired well, finishing third in the $5k, $2.5k and the $530 game. Raul Martinez Gallego also had a fabulous night finishing second in the $1k and $530 games.
The ventilation around Alex Foxen’s airspace at the top of partypoker’s High Roller Leaderboard became a little frosty on Sunday night. The partypoker High Roller Leaderboard leader failed to feature in the final stages of any of the three games that took place on the day where God slipped a pipe into his mouth and donned those fluffy bunny rabbit slippers.
Foxen’s lack of partisanship with the in the money (ITM) finishes allowed Rok Gostisa to close the gap at the top after finishing sixth in the $10k, an event that Stephen Chidwick won for $176,000, the first sighting of the UK All-Time Money Leader at the top of a podium since lockdown.
Russia’s finest, Artur Martirosian, made things a little cramped in the top three after finishing third in the $25k, and fourth in the $530 event. Wiktor Malinowski sits in fourth after a fifth-place finish in the $10k, and after winning the $25k, Ali Imsirovic moves into fifth place.
Here are the results in full.
$25,500, $750k GTD Main Event
38-entrants
Results
Ali Imsirovic – $387,125
Rob Yong – $251,750
Artur Martirosian – $156,750
Michael Addamo – $95,000
Daniel Dvoress – $59,375
$10,300, $300k GTD Mix-Max 2nd Chance
44-entrants
Results
Stephen Chidwick – $176,000
Dan Shak – $112,615.80
Jake Schindler – $57,200
Timothy Adams – $39,600
Wiktor Malinowski – $30,800
Rok Gostisa – $23,784.20
$530, $50k GTD 6-Max Turbo Knockout
114-entrants
Results
Raul Martinez Gallego – $7,847.66+$5,459.38
Jelle Moene – $1,261.72+$5,453.60
Georgios Zisimopoulos – $1,460.94+$5,453.60
Artur Martirosian – $1,375+$2,728.22
Sergei Denisov – $1,062.50+$2,006.04
Miguel Seoane Iglesias – $2,523.44+$1,332.01
Tyler Goatcher – $312.50+$897.50
Chad Eveslage – $897.75
Leaderboard
Alex Foxen – 1531
Rok Gostisa – 1458
Artur Martorisian – 1296
Wiktor Malinowski – 1235
Ali Imsirovic – 1081
When you think of the cast members that have made the World Series of Poker (WSOP) such an epic story, the name Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow, is towards the top of the IMDB Cast List. Every incredible narrative needs an equally incredible bad guy, and few have played the role more perfect than Matusow.
Matusow joined the 854-entrant field in Event #5: $1,000 No-Limit Hold ’em, when he looked down to see AQ in the big blind, facing a raise from ‘wolverine17’ from the small blind. Matusow three-bet, ‘wolverine17’ made the call, and did the same when Matusow shoved a ten-high flop.
The Hugh Jackman pseudonym won the hand with pocket aces, sending Matusow for an early bath, cue eruption. Matusow, who was streaming his play live at the time, didn’t realise he was playing in a freezeout. Coupled with ‘wolverine17’s’ 15-second tank-call on the flop, Matusow corrupted the airwaves with a series of foul expletives.
“This motherfucker,” said Matusow. “I’m gonna fuck him right in his fucking ass, man. Mark that name down, ‘wolverine17’. What the fuck is wrong with these fucking people?”
Matusow continued to describe in elucidatory fashion how he was going to track ‘wolverine17’ down and cause some grievous bodily harm, even volunteering to pay his tribe to track down ‘wolverine17’s’ true identity.
Whoops.
It turns out that the man that Matusow had promised to fuck in the arse was a woman after the WSOP released her name (Megan Milburn) after finishing 38th.
“I won’t hit no woman, I’ll just call her a c*** that she is when I see her,” said Matusow.
After the poker world ran with the story, Matusow decided against abdicating responsibility, reaching out to Milburn privately to apologise for his outburst.
“Lol, it wasn’t intentional!” Tweeted Milburn. “The next one might be though.”
“I am an idiot you all know that.” Said Matusow.
Bad.
Guy.
Material.
Given the current climate, one would assume that the promise of sexual and physical abuse after losing a hand wouldn’t go down well within the corridors of the WSOP.
PocketFives’ top man, Lance Bradley, reached out to the WSOP for a reaction to the Mouth’s outburst, and it seems he will escape a reprimand.
“We take prevention of abusive behavior at WSOP tournaments or on the WSOP.COM platform extremely seriously. We have a number of preventive measures online including recently disabling our chat entirely,” Ty Stewart, Executive Director of the WSOP told PocketFives. “But the regulation of content on our customer’s personal streams and social media accounts is a slippery slope, particularly as each of these third-party platforms have their own escalation procedures. We reserve the right to suspend the account of any individual going forward, but in this case, it appears the player had the perfect response to resolve the situation herself.”
The Results
Event #3: $400 No Limit Hold ’em
Event #3 attracted 2,091 entrants, and Robert’ bustinballs’ Kuhn captured the bracelet and $115,850 first prize. Kuhn is a gold ring winner, taking down a 370-entrant World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Main Event in Atlantic City for $122,098, back in 2016.
Daniel’ DNegs’ Negreanu finished 210th, and the reigning WSOP All-Time Casher, Roland Israelishvili cashed for the second time this series.
Results
Robert ‘ bustinballs’ Kuhn – $115,850
Ronald ‘rlksaces’ Keren – $71,587
Richard ‘Doc33’ Federico – $52,242
Theodore ‘klubot’ Lui – $38,466
Max ‘ndirish50’ Huster – $28,605
Evan ‘Escott121181’ Scott – $21,454
Chris ‘pokerher2014’ Fuchs – $16,184
Roland ‘prngis12’ Israelashvili – $12,345
Andre ‘AndreFreund’ Freund – $9,560
Event #4: $500 No Limit Hold ’em Super Turbo
Matt’ Bodeyster’ Bode conquered the field of 1,179-entrants in a six-hour asthma attack of an event that made him $97,091 the richer. Bode’s first bracelet came a month after declaring on Twitter his intention to turn into an online grinder and ship a bracelet. The former World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event winner, Kevin MacPhee finished fifth.
Results
Matt’ Bodeyster’ Bode – $97.091
Brian ‘XcrazylegsX’ Frasca – $59,952
Caitlin ‘KTUUUH’ Dillon – $42,603
Frank ‘spaghetti’ Marasco – $30,772
Kevin ‘ImaLuckSac’ MacPhee – $22,389
David ‘DrJayTrotter’Bernsen – $16,500
Ryan’ Whosyourdodd’ Dodd – $12,362
Shawn’ Saygoodnight- Daniels – 9,338
Jason’ Daluxxx’ Luxenberg – $7,162
Event #5: $1,000 No Limit Hold ’em Freezeout
Allen’ Acnyc718′ Chang won the $161,286 first prize in the game that contained the Matusow outburst.
Results
Allen ‘Acnyc718’ Chang – $161,286
Philip ‘tomte’ Yeh – $99,709.
Felipe ‘McBain’ Leme – $69,772
Andrew ‘Iseefoodtuna’ Campbell – $49,750
Tim ‘married’ Begley – $35,697
Alex ‘ShadowFiend1’ Condon – $26,124
John. ’Slapshot1085’ Forlenza – $19,390
Josh ‘charliefrog’ Greenberg – $14,603
Quintin ‘AA_QTIP_KK’ Trammell – $11,196
The 2020 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has started, and it’s unlike anything the world has ever seen. The irresistible interlocutors of the live realm have to make to do with a comfortable chair, banging playlist and a box full of Pot Noodles as the WSOP moves wholly online. The first quotidian bracelet events are in the bag, and two of the biggest names in WSOP history enjoyed deep, deep runs.
We start with the man who has won more bracelets than anyone breathing or not, Mr Phil Hellmuth Jr. Playing under the pseudonym ‘Lumestackin’ (an anagram of ‘Luckiest Man’), Hellmuth came close to bracelet #16, with an 11th place finish in Event #1: $500 No-Limit Hold’em. It’s a feat worthy of an affectionate salute given that Hellmuth had to compete in a field of 1,715 runners.
Hellmuth wasn’t the only recognisable pro to come close to turning their palm readers into bona fide psychics. The World Poker Tour (WPT) commentator, Tony Dunst finished third, and Taylor Von Kriegenbergh finished ninth.
Here are those results.
Event #1: $500 No-Limit Hold’em
1,715 entrants
Results
Jonathan ‘Art.Vandelay’ Dokler – $130,426
Justin ‘MadTitan’ Turner – $80,416
Tony ‘Panoramic’ Dunst – $57,881
Shawn ‘SayGoodNight’Daniels – $42,060
Michael ‘DDSpade’ Balan – $30,947
Kyle ‘ChefShap’ Shappelle – $22,998
Daniel ‘djp1006’ Park – $17,287
Mark ‘ NostraDonkus’ Liedtke – $13,120
Taylor ‘ZeroTo100’ Von Kriegenbergh – $10,110
Daniel Negreanu Runs Deep in Event #2 $1,000 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack 8-Max
The man with the most publicised side action in the WSOP enjoyed a deep run in the second event. Daniel Negreanu has offered the world dibs on a $1m+ array of bracelet action, and he nearly closed the book, early.
Negreanu, who is grinding from his Las Vegas pad, finished 18th from 919-entrants in the first $1k event of the series. The man who put poker streaming on the map, Jason Somerville, finished sixth, and Roland Israelishvili extended his WSOP in the money (ITM) record with 225 cashes (bracelet & ring events).
Here are those results.
Event #2: $1,000 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack 8-Max
919-entrants
Results
Louis ‘PokeThese’ Lynch – $168,586
Ryan ‘KOVID19’ Ko – $104,242
Kevin ‘GoneBananas’ Garosshen – $73,424
Daniel ‘IntoTheRiver’ Fischer – $52,38
Sean ‘bahbababa’ Prendiville – $37,890
Jason ‘haderade’ Somerville – $27,763
Jon ‘jonnyg93’ Gisler – $20,691
Matthew ‘Michmeister’ Mich – $15,628
WSOP All-Time Cashes Leaderboard (Rings and Bracelets)
Roland Israelishvili – 225
Douglas Carli – 196
Allen Kessler – 177
Phil Hellmuth – 154
Chris Ferguson – 150
Maurice Hawkins – 144
Ari Engel – 142
Chris Conrad – 141
Daniel Negreanu – 133
Vincent Moscati – 130
Alex Foxen
If he keeps this up, we will be adding the words ‘Alex Fioxen’ into sentences containing the word ‘divination.’
Foxen won two more High Roller Club titles during Thursday night’s squabbles on partypoker. Included in his haul was the title in the $10k Main Event for $163,400, and the win in a $1k for another $20,000. Foxen also bubbled the $530, $25k GTD Mix-Max Turbo Knockout.
Rok Gostica started the day as the only other player to earn 1,000+ points on the High Roller leaderboard, and the best the Slovenian could do in response was a fourth-place finish in the $10k.
Sticking with the Top 5, and neither Timothy Adams nor Luke Reeves featured in the money (ITM) during Thursday night’s events, but Artur Martirosian did, finishing sixth in the $5k, and fourth and second in the two $1k games.
It was also a superb night for Roberto Romanello and Ali Imsirovic. Romanello finished runner-up to Foxen in the $10k and finished third in the $1k. Imsirovic came second to Wiktor Malinowski in the $5k and won the $1k. Malinowski continued his decent showing finishing third in the $10k.
Here are the results in full.
$10,300, $400k GTD Main Event
43-entrants
Results
Alex Foxen – $163,400
Roberto Romanello – $107,500
Wiktor Malinowski – $68,500
Rok Gostisa – $38,700
Daniel Dvoress – $30,100
Vyacheslav Buldygin – $21,500
$5,200, $150k GTD 6-Max 2nd Chance
38-entrants
Results
Wiktor Malinowski – $76,000
Ali Imsirovic – $48,629.55
Mikita Badziakouski – $24,700
Sami Kelopuro – $17,100
Sam Greenwood – $13,300
Artur Martirosian – $10,270.45
$1,050 6-Max Warm-Up
48-entrants
Results
Alex Foxen – $20,000
Artur Martirosian – $12,797.25
Tyler Goatcher – $6,500
Rob Yong – $4,500
Teun Mulder – $3,500
Raul Martinez Gallego – $2,702.75
$1,050, $50k GTD Mix-Max Knockout
41-entrants
Results
Ali Imsirovic – $8,218.75+$8,824.08
Barry Hutter – $2,781.25+$8,818.15
Roberto Romanello – $875+$4,480.42
Artur Martirosian – $1,375+$3,101.83
Georgios Zisimipoulos – $1,437.50+$2,412.53
Niklas Astedt – $1,562.50+$1,862.99
$530, $25k GTD Mix-Max Turbo Knockout
49-entrants
Results
Benjamin Kopp – $6,718.75+$3,813.81
Mateusz Hajman – $437.50+$3,811.23
Alexander Harty – $625+$1,936.45
Kwansoo Lee – $343.75+$1,340.62
Patrick Truschkowski – $125+$1,042.70
Aleksejs Meless – $625+$805.19
Alex Foxen
partypoker’s High Roller Club continued unabated on Tuesday night, and once again the Global Poker Index (GPI) World #1, glued his perpetual perfection onto the results page.
Alex Foxen took down the 49-entrant $1,050, $50k GTD Mix-Max Warm-Up for $20,000, and finished runner-up to Andras Nemeth in the $1,050 6-Max Knockout.
Only one other player exceeds the 1,000 point mark on the leaderboard. Rok Gostisa finished fifth in the $1,050 Mix-Max, fourth in the $2,600 Mix-Max, and sixth in the $530 6-Max Turbo Knockout. The Slovenian trails Foxen by 39-points.
Breaking into the top five is Artur Martirosian, winning the 40-entrant $5,000, $200k GTD Main Event for $81,500, beating Rob Yong, heads-up. The Russian also featured on the final table of the $1,050 Mix-Mix, finishing third.
Here are the results in full.
$5,000, $200k GTD Main Event
40-entrants
Results
Artur Martirosian – $81,500
Rob Yong – $53,000
Joao Vieira – $33,000
Timothy Adams – $20,000
Jans Arends – $12,500
$2,600, $75k GTD Mix-Max 2nd Chance
32-entrants
Results
Vyacheslav Buldygin – $36,000
Ali Imsirovic – $23,578.88
Niklas Astedt – $12,000
Rok Gostisa – $8,421.12
$1,050, $50k GTD 6-Max Knockout
50-entrants
Results
Andras Nemeth – $12,812.50+$7,478.03
Alex Foxen – $250+$7,473
Alejandro Muriel – $1,687.50+$3,796.97
Ivan Gabrieli – $750+$2,628.67
Jans Arends – $1,187.50+$2,044.52
Simon Mattsson – $1,625+$1,578.81
$1,050, $50k GTD Mix-Max Warm-Up
49-entrants
Results
Alex Foxen – $20,000
Barry Hutter – $12,797.25
Artur Martirosian – $6,500
Mark Davis – $4,500
Rok Gostisa – $3,500
Tuen Mulder – $2,702.75
$530, $25k GTD 6-Max Turbo Knockout
44-entrants
Results
Tyler Goatcher – $4,312.50+$4,187.71
Arsenii Karmatckii – $2,312.50+$4,184.88
Preben Stokkan – $1,125+$2,126.30
Sergii Denisov – $625+$1,472.05
Guillermo Gordo – $1,125+$1,144.93
Rok Gostisa – $250+$884.13
Leaderboard
Alex Foxen – 1197
Rok Gostisa – 1158
Timothy Adams – 922
Luke Reeves – 899
Artur Martirosian – 885
I could be watching a Russian ballet, preparing for Triton’s return to London, the site of the world’s most expensive poker tournament, or standing in a park stocked full of strangers watching submarine shaped clouds fire fluffy torpedos at the sun.
Alas, I have been at home for 3-months, afraid of joining the 40,000 people who catch Covid-19 daily in the United States.
So, I for one am so utterly grateful for the work carried out by ‘1Day Sooner,’ an organisation seeking volunteers to become exposed to the virus in a bid to increase the search for a vaccine.
To date, ‘1Day Sooner’ has found 30,108 volunteers from 140-countries, each willing to take on the virus to save more lives, and the number of lives saved if the world’s medical experts can find a vaccine is insane.
Speeding up a vaccine by…
1 day saves 7,120 lives
1 week saves 55,000 lives
1 month saves 220,000 lives
3 months saves over half a million lives
One of the challenges that ‘1Day Sooner’ has is marketing, and the World Poker Tour (WPT) and partypoker are willing to help with that.
Introducing the WPT Shooting Stars For Charity Event
As part of the WPT World Online Championships, there will be a $1,100 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em event with a $500,000 guarantee. The $100 registration fee goes straight into the ‘1Day Sooner’ coffers, and the players get the opportunity to earn an additional $500 for every player with a bounty on their head that they barge into the rail.
High stakes bounties include partypoker ambassador, Sam Trickett, Raising for Effective Giving (REG) founder, Igor Kurganov, and the former World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion, Ryan Riess (Kurganov has agreed to donate 100% of his winnings to 1Day Sooner).
Organisers have also drafted in the celebrities with former Manchester United stars Wes Brown and John O’Shea in the mix as well as actress, Aylar Lie, and the Argentinian rap star, Alejandro “Papo MC’ Lococo.
The event takes place across two days starting Wed July 29, and you can watch the final table live on Twitch, YouTube and other partypoker and WPT partner channels.
The WPT Online Championships with $100m in guarantees runs on partypoker from July 17 to September 8.
The story isn’t new.
Paul Phua, Rob and Richard Yong decided over a few tumblers of too-expensive whiskey to organise the most expensive buy-in and most expensive first prize in poker’s history.
The tv show is.
Even the misers, moaners and misanthropes will make merry in the magic of ten episodes of the Triton Million: A Helping Hand For Charity when it airs on Canada’s The Sports Network (TSN).
The first of ten exalted hourly episodes begins on Friday, 3 July at 7 pm (GMT-4), and continues until someone walks away with the top prize of £19m and change on Thursday 30 July.
The Triton Million: A Helping Hand For Charity broke numerous records when it attacked our limbic system close to 12-months ago. The £1.05m buy-in, the 54-entrants, and the £19m first prize were all record-breakers.
The event also raised £2.7m for charity, with the likes of Raising for Effective Giving (REG), Bahamas Relief Effort and One Drop all benefitting.
It was a unique time, with an equally unique format, as the businessmen and women competed separately to the pros for the early part of the tournament – a brave move, a ballsy move, and a brilliant move.
The production of the event was world-class, and that continues with the TV series, with never before seen testimonies from the competing players and hand-for-hand analysis of the significant moments from commentators Daniel Negreanu and Ali Nejad.
It’s the perfect tonic, for people embittered around the cancellation of Triton’s return to London town due to the continued Covid-19 pandemic. While Triton can’t bring you a live event, they can lavish you with the best TV poker content in the business.
To get a taste of what’s to come, check out the after-movie, here.
If you live in Finland, then you’re going to have to deal with the snow from November through to May. So, if you’re, Ellis Parssinen, you could do with a new fur jacket, not a purple one.
Luckily, for Parssinen, its June, and that allows him to slip those arms into the sleeves of his new purple jacket courtesy of his stunning performance at the Poker Masters Online Pot Limit Omaha Series on partypoker.
In the end, the battle for the title and purple jacket went right to the wire. Andras Nemeth and Jens Kyllonen both finished strongly with Nemeth picking up two wins, and Kyllonen picking up his third. Nemeth led until the penultimate event when Parssinen finished runner-up to Chance Kornuth to beat Nemeth by a single point.
The series hasn’t ended.
The two-day Main Event ends today, with Isaac Haxton leading, but nobody at the final table can surpass Parssinen at the top.
Main Event Final Table Chip Counts
Isaac Haxton – 2,804,854 Grazvydas Kontautas – 847,705 Chris Kruk – 838,621 Andre Santos – 830,621 Aku Joentausta – 477,840
Here are the results in full.
Event #9: $25,000
Results
Andras Nemeth – $430,000
Gavin Cochrane – $275,141
Viktor Blom – $139,750
Aku Joentausta – $96,750
Joao Vieira – $75,250
George Wolff – $58,109
Event #10: $10,000
Sami Kelopuro – $208,000
Isaac Haxton – $133,091
Joao Vieira – $67,600
Bengt Sonnert – $46,800
Mark Davis – $36,400
Laszlo Bujtas – $28,109
Event #11: $10,000
Aku Joentausta – $200,000
Espen Myrmo – $127,973
Sami Kelopuro – $65,000
Viktor Blom – $45,000
Henrik Eide – $35,000
Niklas Astedt – $27,028
Event #12: $5,000
Andras Nemeth – $100,000
Andrew Pantling – $63,986
Eelis Parssinen – $32,50
Matthew Wood – $22,500
Viktor Blom – $17,500
Dimitrios Michailidis – $13,514
Event #13: $10,000
Jens Kyllonen – $200,000
Matthew Wood – $127,973
Espen Myrmo – $65,000
Stephen Chidwick – $45,000
Niklas Astedt – $35,000
Ludovic Geilich – $27,028
Event #14: $5,000
Chance Kornuth – $100,000
Eelis Parssinen – $63,986
Matthew Wood – $32,500
Simon Trumper – $22,500
Andras Nemeth – $17,500
Espen Myrmo – $13,514
Leaderboard
Eelis Parssinen – 625 pts, $735,359 in earnings through 6 cashes
Andras Nemeth – 624 pts, $674,186 in earnings through 4 cashes
Jens Kyllonen – 612 pts, $612,000 in earnings through 3 cashes
Gavin Cochrane – 549 pts, $754,094 in earnings through 5 cashes
Aku Joentasuta – 452 pts, $507,643 in earnings through 6 cashes
You won’t find the name of the man who leads partypoker’s High Roller Leaderboard in any of the soon-to-be reported results. Luckily, for Alex Foxen, none of his pursuers took full advantage of his absence.
Three of the top five did gain ground on Foxen on Sunday.
Rok Gostisa closed the gap at the top to ten points after finishing third in a $1k for $9,750, and Juan Pardo Dominguez and Timothy Adams also inched closer with a third and a fourth-place finish in the $10k Mix-Max. Luke Reeves, who rounds out the top five, didn’t feature in the money (ITM) in Sunday’s events.
Nick Petrangelo was one of the biggest winners on the day taking down the 31-entrant $25,500 Main Event for $356,500. Michael Addamo, Christoph Vogelsang and Jake Schindler also finished ITM with Adrian Mateos bubbling.
Other Sunday High Roller winners include Isaac Haxton, Joel Nystedt, Aleksejs Ponakovs, and Andrea Panarese.
