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	PokerNews Named Title Sponsor of The Sports Legends Challenge Two worlds will collide in the Bahamas in September. For four days, twenty-five of the greatest sports legends of our time along side twenty-five of the world’s top poker professionals will take over the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort in the Bahamas... GULF COAST POKER CHAMPIONSHIP AND BIG SLICK POKER BOOT CAMP POKER STARS VANESSA ROUSSO AND CHAD BROWN HOST GULF COAST POKER CHAMPIONSHIP AND BIG SLICK POKER BOOT CAMP $5,000 Buy-In Main Event Brings Top Players to Biloxi for Labor Day Weekend 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table is Now Set! The 2009 WSOP Main Event continued with the play and conclusion of Day 8. The day played all the way down from 27 initial survivors to the final nine players, which has become popularly known as the “November Nine." World Series of Poker Continues – Down to 27 Players in the Main Event On the Eighth Day – Darvin Moon Retains His Chip LeadSeven-Time Gold Bracelet Winner Phil Ivey (Las Vegas, NV) Currently in Fourth Place WSOP Main Event Continues - Darvin Moon is the New Chip Leader Going into Day Seven Players who survived Day 6 will return to continue their quest for the 2009 world poker championship gold bracelet and $8.5 million in prize money on July 14th, starting at noon. Seven-Time Gold Bracelet Winner Phil Ivey (Las Vegas, NV) Currently in Third Place WSOP Main Even Day 5 Tom Schneider, Phil Ivey, Fabrice Soulier, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, Blair Hinkle, Jeff Shulman, Antonio Esfandiari, Dennis Phillips, Peter Eastgate, Joe Sebok, Blair Rodman, David Benyamine, J.C. Tran, Kenny Tran, Prahlad Friedman, Chris Bjorin, and Joe Hachem Still Alive! WSOP In The Money Finishers on Day 4 Payouts for places 408-648 of the World Series of Poker Main Event. Up to date chip counts will be sent out around 10 PM PT. Play began today with 789 players. Play concluded at the end of level 17 with 407 players returning on Sunday, July 12 at 12 noon to continue their quest for the poker world championship. Play on Sunday is expected to go through level 21 or 22. WSOP Main Event Continues on Day 4 The 2009 WSOP Main Event continued with the play and conclusion of Day 4. The day was most notable for reaching the threshold at which participants break into the money. After nine days and more than 30 hours of tournament play, all in-the-money finishers were guaranteed at least $21,365 in prize money. 2009 WSOP Main Event Continues - Day 3 France’s Bertrand Grospellier (a.k.a. “Elky”) is the Current Chip Leader Stayin' Alive at the WSOP! Some of your favorite actors athletes and musicians are stayin’ alive at this years main event – and some well – have fallen by the way side... WSOP Main Event - Day 2B Day 2-B started with a field of 2,922 players and ended with 1,436 survivors. This means only 49 percent of starters survived past the second day. WSOP Main Event End of Day 2-A The 2009 WSOP Main Event continued with the first of two flights of the second round, which are jointly designated as “Day Two.” Day One was played over the initial four days of the tournament, which began on July 3rd. Day 2-A and 2-B (Day Two) are played July 7-8. WSOP Main Event 1-D! The Main Event continued with the opening festivities for Day 1-D. WSOP President and Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack welcomed journeymen ESPN poker commentators Lon Mceachern and Norman Chad onto the stage, who performed a short routine... WSOP Main event top prize set at over $8.5 million The prize pool is now set - and the top 9 nine places will becoming millionaires - before Uncle Sam gets his cut of course - and those finishing 63rd or better will be earning at least six figures! WSOP Main Event 1-C! 1989 world champion and 11-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth made another grand entrance into the Main Event. Last year, Hellmuth came adorned as WW2 General George S. Patton. He rolled into the Rio parking lot atop an army tank. This year, the media-shy “Poker Brat” was carted into the Rio while sprawled out across a special platform carried by several centurions. The 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event has begun! The first player eliminated at the 2009 WSOP was Rafael Zimmerman, from Oneonta, NY. He was interviewed shortly after busting out, which occurred about ten minutes into play. “It’s one thing to bust out because of a bad beat,” Zimmerman said about his misfortune. “But going broke after being drawn out on by the worst hand is different. I consider it an honor to bust out with the best hand.” The 2009 WSOP $5,000 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em champion is Matt Hawrilenko Prior to becoming a poker pro, Hawrilenko was an options trader. He worked for the Susquehanna Financial Group, which has fueled a number of highly-skilled former WSOP gold bracelet winners, including Bill Chen, Jay Sipelstein, Eric Brooks, Jerrod Ankenman, Matt Glanz, and Rep Porter. The fourth annual “Ante Up For Africa” Charity Poker Tournament champion is Aleksandr Bolotin ESPN filmed the tournament for later broadcast. Given the high number of celebrities and poker pros in the field – all playing for a good cause – the event is sure to be watched by millions on television. List of Participant in the fourth annual “Ante Up For Africa” The fourth annual “Ante Up For Africa” Charity Poker Tournament attracted the following participants (with hometowns listed)... The 2009 WSOP $2,500 buy-in Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) champion is Abe Mosseri** When heads-up play began, Mosseri and the eventual runner-up finisher MasaYoshi Tanaka were about even in chips. It took Mosseri about an hour to defeat his final foe and win his first WSOP title. << prev next >>