Derek Raymond is your Omaha 8-or-better winner.  The event was a $2,500 buy-in resulting in $229,192 in prize winnings.  Mark Tenner finished second.
John Kabbaj won the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold’em World Championship in a field of 275 for a $633,335 payday.
Elder statesmen Michael Davis was also a bracelet winner, taking the $1,000 Seniors World Championship for $437,358.
As the WSOP winds down, heads will now tun to the $50,000 Horse event which Scotty Nguyen embarrassingly but entertainingly won last year.
Here is the video of shame for Scotty’s legacy. He has since apologized and acknowledged that he drank too …read more

I know who he is. You know who he is. But does he play good poker? I suspect he does since he is coined a poker pro, but from the clips I’ve seen on tv he’s more “chark” than he is shark. In the dated clip below, Scotty Nguyen – who yearns for the attention of parsed crowds all over casino floors – bluffs Brenes off a decent hand and then makes sure to soak up all the glory he possibly can out of his 83 by showing everyone.

If you’re Brenes here, you probably let this …read more

For today, I scrounged up a nice assortment of poker clips from YouTube.
This video is from the infamous tournament of champions where Annie Duke took over Phil Hellmuth. The clip exemplifies how good Annie was running. I thought Phil played his cards with a lot of discipline, but in the end Annie caught the kitchen sink and Hellmuth’s cards never materialized. Phil ranted about this one for a long time and he was right in the sense Annie caught a lot of cards, but she still won so you can’t take that away.

This next clip is when …read more