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Each day a November Nine in detail. Today: Ylon Schwartz – Before playing poker, Schwartz was a ranked chess player, and entered his first WSOP in 2005. So far, the final table is his twelfth success at the World Series.
The WSOP Main Event Final Table kicks off on Saturday after 110 days of hiatus. Who is in, who has the best chances? Read on to get filled in on all things November Nine and the final table.
This week's edition of the PokerStars Sunday Million had METZMAGNY as winner, who took the first place trophy along with $147,822.
Only 18 players are left at the start of this week's episodes. By the end of them, the identities of the November Nine who will return to play for the nine million dollar prize next week, will be revealed.
Jeff Forrest emerged as the winner of the just concluded $10,000 Foxwoods World Poker Finals Main Event to take home $548,752 and his first WPT bracelet. He also earned a $25,500 seat in the WPT World Championship.
The Dane Albert Iversen placed himself on top of the chip count on Day 2 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Budapest.
The final 27 players returned to the tables, all looking to get a seat at the WSOP Main Event final table. Watch the videos below to see the how the action ran on Day 8 and which players made it through.
Team PokerStrategy.com player Simon1989 was having a good run in the EPT Main Event in Vienna, before he lost a major part of his stack to Team PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu in a decisive hand. Read on to find out more!
PartyPoker will now have anonymous heads-up tables after their latest software update. Players will also now be able to rabbit hunt and to choose to have either one or both their hole cards shown.
The relationship between female and male poker players is still a topic that receives regular attention. The latest comments on the issue come from poker pro Maria Ho, who thinks that women are still scared of men at the poker tables.
One of the best-known poker pros coming from Denmark, Theo Jorgensen, has just joined Team PokerStars Pro. The 38-year-old pro, who made almost $2.5 million in live tournaments so far, said he was delighted to be signed with PokerStars.
On Day 1A of the PokerStars EPT Vienna Main Event, the two Team PokerStrategy.com players BongBob and Nazgul joined the race and successfully completed the first tournament day. BongBob currently ranks 93rd in the chip counts, while Nazgul made it to rank 33.
Season 7 of High Stakes Poker has just been announced by GSN. The popular TV poker show will once again gather top players from across the world. The taping of the new season is set to take place between 18th and 20th of November.
A Florida resident, Scott Crespo, is suing six online poker players from Illinois to recover "illegal poker gambling losses". Crespo is seeking triple the amount lost to those players as well as the court costs and "any other relief that the Court deems just".
A well known French poker pro and a former StarCraft: Brood War pro gamer, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, is now considering playing StarCraft 2 competitively. ElkY has recently been interviewed on this topic, revealing his plans for SC 2 and whether he can balance his poker career with it or not.
The final 48 players made their return to the Main Event tables, including the likes of Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, William Thorson, Theo Jorgensen and Matt Affleck. The play continued until only 27 were left and the videos are here.
Randal Flowers defeated Michael Benvenuti in the WPT Festa al Lago Main Event to secure himself the $831,500 first place prize. This feat has also made the 22 year-old player become the youngest to ever to win two WPT titles.
The Poker Hall of Fame committee has selected the newest inductees: eight WSOP bracelet holder Erik Seidel and WSOP 1995 Main Event champion Dan Harrington. The two pros will be officially added to poker's most prestigious group on November 8 at Rio Casino in Las Vegas.
The hand was played out on Poker After Dark's $150k cash game and it was worth $561,800. To find out how the action developed, watch the video that we have embedded in the news.
Just last week, a $400 deep stack tournament in the Foxwoods World Poker Final ended in an astonishing 23 way chop. While originally the winner was supposed to go away with $68,000, John Agelakis only got $12,011 after the chop.
