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Are Online Players Taking Over? Poker Player Serial tournament winners like Bertrand Grospellier and Yevgeniy Timoshenko are examples of players who have been able to use their millions of hands of …

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Stout’s $25k WPT Championship Wrap-Up

Day 4 of the Bellagio $25k got off to an extremely slow start for me, which was in no way indicative of how the rest of the day would go.  However, I’ll kick things off with one of the greatest quotes I’ve ever heard at a poker table.

After Yevgeniy Timoshenko and Nikolay Evdakov had been chatting back and forth in Russian a bit at the table (which is not allowed, but we let it go for a few minutes because we were sure it wasn’t malicious/shady), the dealer finally asked them to stop.  

Yevgeniy replied, “It’s OK, we’re just talking about pierogies and snow and shit.”  (NOTE: I have decided that it’s been long enough since “Rounders” jokes were being overused, and are now funny again.  Proceed with caution, though.)

Oh yeah, the poker.  That wasn’t going so well, which is why the comic relief was so crucial.  I lost every pot I played for a few hours.  It got so absurd that my friend Cliff Josephy re-raised me and I decided that I was going to knock down his entire chip stack before folding. =)  He chuckled and showed me the Ace and the King.

I had spread about a third of the chips I’d started the day with around the felt at my first table.  Then I got to a new one with Nikolay Evdakov, Billy Baxter, Brian Lemke, Faraz Jaka, and J.J. Liu.
This presented an opportunity I’d been waiting a long time for.  

For those of you who don’t know, Billy Baxter is an olllllllllllld school poker pro and was the man who convinced the Supreme Court of the United States that poker winnings should qualify as income, not just a gambling win.

What this means is that poker pros are taxed at a much lower (still brutal, but much lower) rate and that they are able to write off buy ins and expenses.  Without Billy’s help I doubt I’d be able to truthfully file my taxes without going broke.  

I’ve always looked forward to the opportunity to thank him for this huge favor he’s done for poker pros, and I took it and got the story of fighting with the Supreme Court straight from the horse’s mouth.

Oh yea, the Bellagio tournament, right.  So anyway, I was down to 630k at 6/12k when I got to that table with 27 players remaining and 18 spots paid.  

Suddenly I decided it was time to go on a superheater.  I coolered and stacked my buddy Brian Lemke with Aces against his Kings for a ~900k pot.  

Then I took a couple pots from my buddy Faraz “thet0ilet” Jaka, one with a flush draw that rivered top pair and one when he tried to bluff the river and I hero called.

Suddenly I went from having a boring day where I was slowly siphoning off chips to having over 2 million and the chip lead with 21 players left and 19.5 million in play.  The blinds were only 8/16k, and I was LOVING my chances at making another WPT final table…

…Then it happened.  Disaster struck.  The toilet flushed.  Well, not really…he made a straight and a boat.  No flushes.

I lost one pot to Faraz when he tried to semi-bluff me on the turn with an open-ended straight draw.  I called with second pair and decided I would also pay him off when he rivered the straight.

Then he was back up to about 2 million and the chip lead, but I wasn’t far behind with a little over 1.5 million.  He raised the cutoff to 40k @ 8/16k, and I called from the small blind with K♣ Q♣.  He led 54k on a T♣ 9♠ 3♦ flop, and I called.  The turn was the J♦, and I check-raised his 150k bet to 380k.  He called, and the river was the J♥.  I checked and called an 800k bet, and he showed me the bad news: J♣ 9♦.

It really sucked going from chip leader with 21 left to being crippled with 20 left, I’ll be honest.  I refused to give up and kept shoving in good spots, which fortunately never got called.  

I managed to squeeze into the money with 18 left and onto Day 5 with a meager ~250k stack at 10/20k.  I got it in with A♦ J♠ against Faraz’s A♥ 5♥ for a ~600k pot, but a Q-9-9-Q-x board chopped that one right up.

A few hands later I shoved the cutoff and got it in with A♣ 7♦ against David Williams’ 6♥ 6♦.  The board by the turn was K-Q-9-9, but David managed to fade everything and bust me for a ~700k pot.

I think it’s pretty clear that this wasn’t how I planned on wrapping up the tournament.  Being 1/21 and finishing 17th sucks.  I’m not losing any sleep over it, though, because I feel that I played my best game and got extremely unlucky.  

I’d be pretty pissed at myself if I’d punted it, but I definitely didn’t feel that I’d punted this stack.  

Once again, “The game is the game.  I’m at peace with my play.”

Matt Stout

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Stout’s WPT $25k Championship Day 2 and 3 Recap

I was just glad that I’m getting a little more patient in my old age and was able to keep playing solid no matter how boring it got. Besides, I figured if I could just make it through to 4/20, I should run great all day.

And that’s EXACTLY how that shit went down! It actually started the night before, when I saw that I had drawn the softest table in the room, and the only soft table in the whole tournament, maybe even in $25k tournament history!

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FRANCIS
WITEK
148400
58
1

KAIED
BARKHO
81300
58
2

MAROUN
JAZZAR
224000
58
3

MIKAEL
THURITZ
83800
58
4

CLYDE
HINTON
182300
58
5

EMELINE
BOICH
45500
58
6

MATTHEW
STOUT
170900
58
7

JUSTIN
YOUNG
296000
58
8

HYON
KIM
187500
58
9

I managed to chip up from 171k to ~330k within the first level … without even going to showdown once. I was in a dreamland, but unfortunately we found out we were second in the table break order. =(

We broke shortly before the first break, much to my chagrin. I was moved to a much tougher table, including David Benyamine, Amit Makhija, Chris Moore, Andrew “luckychewy/RunThisTable” Lichtenberger, and Christian Harder.

Little did I know I was going to run so good at that table it didn’t matter how tough it was. Most importantly, after a ton of failed set mining, I flopped my first set of the tournament.

In a seven-way limped pot, I flopped top set against middle set on a 7♥ 5♣ 3♦. Peter Gould’s son and I turned that limped pot of ~25k into a 700k+ pot by the 9♥ turn, and I faded a single out for a near double up.

Then my rungoodsauce continued when I flopped quad Queens against Amit’s A-K on a K♦ Q♦ Q♠. I won a pretty big pot, but there’s a chance I could have gotten more if I’d played it faster. Either way, I was near a million and third in chips out of ~55 left.

I cruised through the rest of the day and finished 4th in chips with 919,500. We’ll be playing 4/8k with 35 players remaining to start day 4. The average stack is ~560k, 18 places pay, and first is just over $1.5 MIRRRRRRRRION. Check out the full chip counts right here and my table draw for tomorrow below.

1. Yevgeniy Timoshenko – 350,000
2. Matt Stout – 919,500
3. Cliff Josephy – 489,500
4. J.J. Liu – 495,000
5. Nikolay Evdakov – 668,500
6. Robert Rugiero – 453,000
7. Phil Hellmuth – 807,000
8. Billy Baxter – 887,500
9. Scotty Nguyen – 569,500

Happy 4/20 all!

Matt Stout

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Faraz Jaka leads $25k WPT Championship – Bluff Europe Magazine

Faraz Jaka leads $25k WPT Championship Bluff Europe Magazine … for the $1.5m first prize including defending champion Yevgeniy Timoshenko, David Benyamine, Howard Lederer, Brandon Cantu, Brock Parker and Dave Ulliott.

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Top Ten Sickest Online Poker Graphs

10. latouche83

Now I have no idea who latouche83 is but as far as I can tell from his graph he broke even over low stakes sngs/tourneys for around 2,775 games before he luckboxed the sunday million.

He then decided to take some shots at bigger sngs with rather disasterous results.

Somehow, after donking away $140,000+ he finds it in himself to stop playing so high and books around $40k in profit. How he didn’t donk it all away we’ll never know.

9. Isildur1

Yes, the infamous Isildur1. First we have the infamous $5 million upswing (mostly thanks to Tom Dwan) followed by the $6 million downswing (most of it thanks to Brian Hastings).

And last we have his most recent foray into the high stakes cash games. When isildur finally does go completely broke he can charge admission to ride the rollercoaster that is his graph. (Comedy rimshot)

8. Nanonoko

Nanonoko has one of the sickest, seemingly variance free, graphs of all time.

It looks so smooth because the guy puts in more volume than any player in the world. He shipped over a million last year at middle stakes alone!

7. Joe “jcada99″ Cada

Hrmm what do we have here? Some small stakes, some more small stakes, some more small stakes, oooh a tourney bink and Main Event final table!

Cada followed that up with some (failed) shots at bigger games. According to his graph it didn’t work out very well for him.

6. Xblink

Xblink allegedlly turned $11 into just under a million in one month after binking an $11 PLO tourney on UB and then making an improbable run to the highest stakes of PLO on Ultimate bet.

A graph we’d love to call our own.

5. Yvgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko

Yevgeniy Timoshenko aka Jovial Gent was grinding pretty much all of the online tournaments before binking the 2009 WCOOP Main Event for a $1,800,000 score.

He then continued to grind those same online tournaments. Well, that, and he also won the Season 7 World Poker Tour Championship for $2,149,000 (not pictured).

4. Guy Laliberte

The Cirque de Soleil billionaire had a brief and incredibly costly love affair with nosebleed online poker in 2008.

Finding his graph is fairly tough because he hid behind a number of different names, Noatmia, Lady Marmelade and Patatino, to name a few, but most people put the final tally at around minus $10.9 million. Just a drop in the bucket eh Guy?

3. Richierichzh

Richierichzh was a somewhat serious poker player playing random tournaments whenever he found the time, until he shipped the biggest Sunday Million of all time and its $1.1 million first prize.

Richierichzh and his graph became an instant legend.

2. Ben Grundy

Ben Grundy posted his PLO graph, showing the world he’s an almost $8 million winner over just 320,000 hands.

What’s even more surperising is that he’s playing nosebleed PLO and he’s never had a downswing worse then 10bis. AND THATS AT PLO. Boomswitch much!?

1. Brian Hastings vs Isildur1

The biggest win in online poker in a single day belongs to Brian Hastings who, in a 2,900 hand session, took $4.2 million off the Swedish unknown Isildur1.

He managed to completely break Isildur1 who took a couple months off to help ease the pain of running $3 million under equity.

Those are the top ten we’ve found. If you’ve got one that’s even sicker drop a link in the comments below.

 

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Ashton Griffin wins Pokerstars Highroller event – RecentPoker.com

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Ashton Griffin wins Pokerstars Highroller event RecentPoker.com … Annie Duke, Jennifer Tilly, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Joe Sebok, Tony G and Phil Galfond – a veritable who's who of US poker. … 21-year-old wins NAPT Venetian shootoutCasino City Times all 17 news articles »

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