Joe Cada

Joe Cada started playing poker just six years ago. He stated that the Moneymaker effect had him and his friends playing a lot of poker and he and some friends would regularly discuss their games. Cada started his poker playing career playing in $2-$4 Limit games on Party Poker.

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Annette Obrestad Wins WSOPE and 2 million dollars or 1 million euros!

Annette Obrestad wins WSOPE Main Event. Annette was the best online MTT Player in the world until today, but now she has made the transition to live play! Shes is only 19 and has beaten one of the toughest fields in the history of the WSOP winning herself a cool one million euros! I had ask the question a couple months ago if she was the best poker player in the world, today she is.

Sorel Mizzi 2007 WSOP interview

Jerry Yang wins 2007 WSOP MAIN EVENT!

Jerry Yang wins WSOP 2007 main event after eliminating a field of 6,358 players!
Event #55
World Poker Championship
No-Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $10,000
Number of Entries: 6,358
Total Prize Money: $59,784,954
Date of Tournament: June 6-17, 2007
Winner of Event #55 in the WSOP is
Jerry Yang wins bracelet in WSOP main EVENT!

Chip leader in 2007 WSOP Dag Martin Mikkelsen gets Royal Flush

After Mikkelsen raised in middle position Lovelace came over the top for the last of his 389,000. Mikkelsen called with {A-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds} and was in a race against Lovelace's pocket Eights.

The flop came {10-Diamonds}{J-Diamonds}{J-Hearts}, giving Mikkelsen a flush and gutshot draw, and on the turn Dag hit the {6-Diamonds} to make his flush. Lovelace still had outs, he could win with a Jack or Eight, but the river brought the {Q-Diamonds}, giving Mikkelsen a Royal Flush and knocking Lovelace out.

2007 WSOP (who is left)

Dag Martin Mikkelsen 3350000 50000
Richard Harris 2700000 200000
Avi Cohen 2450000
Stefan Mattsson 2350000 540000
Hevad "Rain" Khan 2300000 100000
Josh Evans 2300000 225000
Paul Spitzberg 2300000 200000
Alex Kravchenko 2250000
Jeff Tunkel 2100000 100000
Ryan Elson 2050000 50000
Philip Yeh 1950000 200000
Sven Heinecker 1950000 650000
Kevin Farry 1900000 280000
Raymond Rahume 1900000 860000
Tuan Lam 1900000 20000
Lee Watkinson 1800000 100000
Markus Gonsalves 1800000 121000
Julian Gardner 1726000 876000
Gus Hansen 1700000 250000
Ron Kluber 1600000
Rep Porter 1575000 95000
Cody Slaubaugh 1500000 500000
Hoa Nguyen 1500000
Huckleberry Seed 1500000 100000
John Spadavecchia 1500000 410000
Lee Childs 1500000 525000
Matt Keikoan 1500000 100000
Roy Winston 1460000 210000
Cory Carroll 1450000
Alan Keating 1400000 300000
Dario Minieri 1400000 140000
Jeff "Mr. Rain" Banghart 1400000 630000
Kirk Morrison 1400000 100000
Scott Freeman 1350000 100000
David Tran 1300000 20000
Floyd Clark 1300000 220000
Nicolas Atlan 1300000 100000
Paulo Loureiro 1300000 200000
Francis Cagney 1250000 300000
Humberto Brenes 1200000
Richard Murnick 1200000 120000
Willie Tann 1170000 70000
John Bird 1150000 50000
Jon Kalmar 1140000 1030000
Michael Zinna 1110000 590000
Adam White 1100000 1650000
Jerry Yang 1100000 110000
Ray Henson 1100000 440000
Ronald Kluber 1100000 229000
Ryan Lawrence 1100000 100000
Scotty Nguyen 1100000 140000
John Armbrust 1050000 396000
Team PokerNews Player Ed De Haas 1045000 195000
Warren Karp 1040000 190000
William Spadea 1020000 10000
Billy Willis 1000000 100000
Charis Anastasiou 1000000 500000
Justin Sadauskas 1000000 250000
Philip Hilm 1000000 375000
Stig Tap Rasmussen 1000000 300000
Maria Ho 990000 30000
Jimmy Blevins 970000 200000
Allan W. King 950000 125000
Tommy Le 950000 250000
Tom Peterson 920000 280000
Kenny Tran 900000 409000
Lamar Wilkinson 900000 500000
Jeff Bryan 890000 360000
Christian Togsverd 870000 20000
Pete de Best 860000 440000
Kelly Jo McGlothlin 850000 20000
Mark Ellerbe 840000 115000
Kevin Kim 815000 185000
Daniel Alaei 810000 235000
Bob Slezak 800000 160000
Chad Brown 800000 300000
Diego Cortez 800000
Thierry van den Berg 800000 30000
Zhuang Han 780000 197000
Robin Bergren 764000 1000
Diego Cordovez 760000 20000
Hyon Kim 760000 205000
Team PokerNews Player Mikkel Madsen 760000 640000
Isaac Haxton 750000 70000
Steven Garfinkle 720000 390000
Francois Safieddine 715000 185000
Paul Kershaw 700000
Steven Garfinkle 690000 410000
Naseem Salem 630000 370000
Jason Welch 610000 10000
Reagan Silber 600000 30000
Joe Shield 570000 70000
Alan Levin 510000 50000
Ayaz Mahmood 500000 35000
Bjorn-Erik Glenne 500000 400000
Brian Tracy 500000 250000
Senovio Ramirez, III 500000 185000
Brandon Adams 495000 305000
Richard Crowell 480000 150000
Bill Edler 475000 50000
Dennis Perry 460000 40000
Jason Koshi 460000 10000
Kenneth Smith 450000 50000
Jared Hamby 440000 90000
David Names 435000 45000
Thomas Koo 420000 45000
Leonard Pruzansky 400000 50000
Peter Darvill 400000 5000
Travis Belles 400000 200000
Mickey Seagle 340000 50000
Andrew Gunderson 325000 45000
Chris Lovelace 325000 35000
Luis Velador 325000 65000
David Wells 255000 66000
Andreas Krause 80000 420000

Tom Schneider Takes down two bracelets so far in WSOP

Tom Schneider Wins 2 Bracelets this year! He also finished 4rth in $2500.00 H.O.R.S.E. Event!
He has a great new poker book out called Oops! I won too Much Money. His Hi low games are obviously strong:
Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better (Event 46) FIRST PLACE
H.O.R.S.E. (Event 16) FOURTH PLACE
Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better (Event 5) FIRST PLACE


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Freddy Deeb wins the 2007 50k H.O.R.S.E. Event!

Freddy Deeb battled all night and won the prestigious 2007 50K H.O.R.S.E. event. Bruno Fitoussi had an 8 million chip lead but bled his chips off. John Hanson finished in third place. All three were exchanging the chip lead throughout the final table. I stayed up until 5 am and just couldn't do it any longer. Freddy Deeb once again proves he is one of the greatest players in the world.

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Vinny Vinh on drugs? Eskimo Clark on Wings?

Katja Thater became first woman since Annie Duke (in 2004) to win WSOP Bracelet. She won the $1500 Razz event in the WSOP. At the final table, Paul "Eskimo" Clark was said to have had a "mini" stroke.

He refused to leave the Rio after collapsing and getting treatment by paramedics. He instead self medicated himself with some smokes and some wings.

Eskimo Clark's Medication:




Paul Clark was nicknamed "Eskimo" because he looks like Alask Airlines logo of an Eskimo. He actually used to be a medic himself and also served in the Vietnam War.

He was also chip leader before all the happened to him at the final table. Stu Ungar missed a final table do to a drug overdose. Also this year in the WSOP, Vinny Vinh missed a whole day and was blinded out. He was 2nd in chips and didn't show up the next day. His backer said he knew where he was and had done this before. Rumors are spreading that he has a drug addiction.

Lets hope that was truly not Eskimo Clark's "Final" table.....

Phil Hellmuth Wins his 11th Bracelet!

Phil Hellmuth is on cloud9 after winning his 11th bracelet. He now holds the record for most cashes and most bracelets in WSOP! Phil Hellmuth bested a field of 2,628 players to become the WSOP record holder.

Phil Hellmuth heads up for his 11th bracelet in WSOP!

Phil Hellmuth is heads up vs Andy Philachack for his 11th bracelet in WSOP!

Imper1um leading WSOP event 8 NL Holdem

1. Sorel Mizzi $240,000
2. Michael Binger $186,700
3. Amir Vahedi $183,100
4. Gavin Griffin $154,200
5. Alex Melnikow $151,300
6. Marc Waacden $136,400
7. Joe Simmons $133,000
8. Michael Gracz $130,100
9. Roger Teska $121,800
10. David Strot $110,300
11. Eric Haber $107,900
12. Matt Sterling $107,700
13. Michael Melkersen $106,400
14. Shane Schleger $101,800
15. Steve Billirakis $101,600
16. Jon Ferraro $95,000
17. Jerrod Ankenman $95,000
18. Kyle Barker $94,000
19. Todd Wittles $88,300

Carlos Mortensen Wins WPT Championship!

It looks like I have to rewrite The TOP TEN Greatest Poker Accomplishments to now include Carlos Mortensen! He is now the only player in the world to win a WSOP Main Event, WPT, and World Poker Tour Championship! Surely this is one of the Top Ten Greatest Poker accomplishments of all time! Not to mention that Phil Hellmuth (who is at the top of my previous rankings was at the final table (not the top 6 but top 9) but was knocked out in 7th place.

******Correction- I belive Phil was knocked out in 18th rather than 7th.

TOP TEN Greatest Poker Accomplishments of All Time

1) Phil Hellmuth - Phil Hellmuth has a number of accomplishments. He has 10 WSOP bracelets (all in Texas Holdem). He has 58 money finishes in the WSOP, and that is more than any other player. He won the first annual NBC Heads up Championships against the best of the best. His 2006 WSOP results were just sick!

2) Stu Ungar - Stu Ungar won 3 WSOP main events, 2 back to back, and 5 Bracelets before his early death from an overdose. In the 12th annual WSOP he won 2 bracelets. In the 14th annual WSOP he won a seven card stud event and had a 2nd place in another 7card stud event. He won 3 Main events but made 4 final tables in the Main event. In the 21rst annual WSOP Main Event he made it to the Final table, but was blinded out becuase he overdosed and was in the hospital. Had he lived longer, he may have been ahead of Chan, Hellmuth, and Brunson for most Bracelets.


3) Johnny Chan - Johnny Chan is tied at this point in time with Phil Hellmuth and Doyle Brunson for most WSOP bracelets with 10. He won 2 back to back. Whats amazing is that the year after those he almost won his 3rd but lost to our number 1 spot Phil Hellmuth.


4) Doyle Brunson - Doyle also is tied with ten WSOP bracelets. What is amazing about Doyle is the fact that he is still playing at the highest level of poker in his seventies! He plays $4000/8000 blinds in the biggest cash game in the world. He also has a title in the WPT. He wrote the bible of poker Super System. In 2004 he ended a bad cash game year by taking down a 667 entry WPT event to win over 1 Million. In Dec. 2005 he Finished 3rd while getting into heated battle with the new face of Poker Patrik Antonius. To top it off, he made a Professional Poker Tour final table earlier in 2005!

5) Greg Raymer - In 2004 beat a field of 2576 entries to win $5,000,000. The following year, he made a miraculous deep run to 25th place of 5619 entries. What is amazing is that he had the chip lead and was going to surely make it to the Final Table, but Aaron Kanter (who has never been ahead in a hand in his life) sucked out on Greg's KK by calling with his flush draw for all his chips.

6) T.J. Cloutier- 6 Bracelets. He has $8,752,000 in all time tournament winings 7th on the all time WSOP money list. Thats incredible considering the 12 mil$ prizes people are cashing today. He is 4rth all the all time poker tournament winnings list. He was #1 until the prizes went through the roof. I counted 38 WSOP Final tables!

7) Joseph Hachem - Joseph Hachem has proved to be one of the top players in the world. He makes our top ten list by acomplishing incredible results in tournament poker. In in 2005 WSOP main event, he placed first place winning $7,500,000.
He did that in a field of 5618 players. The reason he is on this top ten list is not that but what he has done in addition to that. In the 10k championship event WSOP curcuit in november after the WSOP he finished 5th. In the 2006 WSOP he made 2 more final tables and took huge bad beats when he lost. He finished 4 times in the money in 2006 WSOP. Then to follow it p he won $2,200,000 by winning a 583 entry WPT event!


8) Phil Ivey - Too many too mention! In the 2002 WSOP, Phil Ivey won 3 bracelets and made 5 Final tables. In addition he had 2 more high money finishes that WSOP season. He has 6 WPT final tables since then combined with more bracelets and deep runs into the WSOP main event. In the 2003 Main event, Chris Moneymaker rivered him to top his 9's full and Chris made q's full!

9) Allen Cunningham - In 2001 WSOP Allen Cunningham had 1 Bracelet, and 2 more Final tables, and one more cash. In 2002 WSOP, he had 1 Bracelet, 2 more final tables, and 2 more cashes. In 2003 he had a 2nd place in WSOP 2-7 Draw, and a tenth place. In 2005 he was WSOP player of the year, 1 bracelet, and 3 more final tables. In 2006, he won yet another bracelet, and 2 more final tables, one of which was 4rth place in a field of 8773 players winning 3.6mil. Unreal!

10) Chris "Jesus" Ferguson - In the last five years Chris "Jesus" Ferguson has made it to more final tables, cashed (a whopping 24times), and won more events than any other player has in the last 10!

Notable Mention: Dan Harrington- In 1995 he won the WSOP main event and won one other bracelet. In 2003 and 2004 he finished 3rd of 839 and in 2004 he placed 4th of 2576 in the WSOP main event!

Notable Mention: Chris Bigler - Back to back 2nd places in the Profesional Poker Tour. What makes this great is that he had to beat "qualified entries" to do this. To gather chips in this tourny you have to take them from the best players in the world unlike WSOP or WPT tournies where anyone can enter!

Notable Mention: John Juanda - John Juanda has an amazing 8 WPT final tables, One Braclet, and one Professional Poker Tour Title! Keep in mind just becuase he wasn't on TV for some WPT's does't mean he didn't make the final table since only the top 6 are on TV.

Notable Mention: Gus Hansen - Gus Hansen's WPT results are remarkable. He has 6 Final tables, 3 First Place WPT (not including the bad boys of poker), and in Jan. 2007 he took down a Auzzie Millions winning over 1 Mil. US.

Notable Mention: Jeff Madsen - At just 21 years old Jeff Madsen won 2 WSOP bracelets and made a total of 4 final tables in the 2006 WSOP. Hes not a one time wonder either, he finished 8th in 2007 in a WPT event earning him 100k.

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