Mississippi Grind Trailer Now Available
Here's something to look forward to. Last week a trailer for the upcoming movie Mississippi Grind (involving high-stakes tournament poker) was uploaded to youtube.
The movie, which was shown for the first time at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is about a gambler, Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn), on a losing streak who teams up with a younger charismatic poker player, Curtis (Ryan Reynolds), in an attempt change his luck. The two hit the road together and travel from town to town, casino to casino with the vision of winning back what has been lost.
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Guilherme "VinceVegaMFR" Cheveau Captures Second Sunday Million Title!
A big congratulations to Guilherme "VinceVegaMFR" Cheveau, the winner of the most recent Sunday Million on PokerStars! It was the Brazilian pro's second Sunday Million title after topping a field of over 8,000 players in the same tournament in February last year ($161,879).
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Canadian Poker Pro Dies in Plane Crash
On Monday, it was reported that Canadian poker pro and 2011 CPT Player of that Year Norman Overdijk, 54, had died in an tragic accident on July 18th, 2015. According to PokerNews, Overdijk and a 26-year-old passenger crashed shortly after takeoff in a two-seater paraplane somwhere in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
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Laurent Polito Wins Fourth WPT National Main Event!
On Sunday, July 19, Laurent Polito took home his fourth WPT National Main Event title after besting a field of 428 entries in the WPT National Brussels Main Event. The French poker pro is the first player ever to win four WPT National Main Events. Even more impressively is that all 4 titles have been won in two years!
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ESPN Broadcast of the 2015 WSOP and November Nine
This year's final table (November Nine) broadcast will expand from two to three days. Coverage starts on Sunday, November 8th at 5:30 pm PST and continues until four players remain.
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2015 WSOP: Anthony Spinella Wins Event #64: WSOP Online No-Limit Hold'em
The premier of this online-live event drew 905 entries who created a $859,750 prize pool. The initial 905 participants played down to a final table of six players online on July 2. The final day took place two days later at the Rio in Las Vegas (live poker).
The final table only took three hours to complete with Anthony Spinella being crowned the winner after dominating the final stages of the tournament. Spinella, who has won $4.6 million playing online poker, took home his first gold bracelet and $197,743 in prize money.
"It feels good to win this," Spinella said of the gold bracelet victory. "I've been playing for a long time now and always want to win one, so this really feels great."
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2015 WSOP: Andrew Barber Wins Event #63: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E Championship
The $10,000 H.O.R.S.E Championship, one of poker's most prestigious tournaments, attracted a star-studded field of 204 entries this time, which generated a prize pool of $1,917,000.
Among the top 10 finishers were six gold bracelet winners (and 8 bracelet winners in the top 12), but at the end of it all it was a newcomer who stood tall as the champion, Andrew Barber.
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2015 WSOP: Jack Duong Wins Event #62: $1,500 Bounty No-Limit Hold'em
Jack Duong, 26, topped a field of 2,178 entries to win the first-ever WSOP bounty tournament, Event #62: $1,500 Bounty No-Limit Hold'em. In this tournament each bounty was worth $500, and the remaining prize pool was distributed like in any other tournament.
Duong eliminated 11 players and received $6,000 (including his own bounty). In addition, he received his first gold bracelet and $333,351. He told WSOP reporters that he didn't enter the tournament until Level 6, which means that he could have gotten more bounties (some players gathered 18 bounties).
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2015 WSOP: Paul Hoefer Wins Event #61: $1,111 The Little One for One Drop
It took four days of play for a field of 4,555 entrants to be narrowed down to a single player, Paul Hoefer from Germany. The 24-year-old college student and part-time poker player collected his first bracelet and $645,969 for winning the tournament.
There were 2 former bracelet winners on the final table of this event: Brett Shaffer, a two-time champ went out first of all finalists in ninth place for $53,088 and John Reading, who won this year's Hyper Hold'em title, finished 4th place for $212,559.
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2015 WSOP: Alex Lindop Wins Event #59: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
All eyes were on Jamie Gold when the final table kicked off on Day 3 of Event #59: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. The 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event winner played good but was eventually knocked out in 5th place. It was his deepest run since his Main Event win.
The tournament originally had three days - but an extra day (Day 4) was required once there were four remaining players. The final day lasted for four hours and saw 25-year-old British poker pro Alex Lindop take home the prestigious gold bracelet and $531,037 first-place prize. It was Lindop's 4th cash at the WSOP and his first final table appearance.
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