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Card Player Player of the Year Update
1: Poorya Nazari — 3,000
2: Jude Ainsworth — 2,840
3: Cornel Cimpan — 2,730
4: Anthony Gregg — 2,500
5: Yevgeniy Timoshenko — 2,448
5: Vitaly Lunkin — 2,448
7: Pieter de Korver — 2,400
7: Constant Rijkenberg — 2,400
9: Martin Jacobson — 2,368
10: Steve Brecher — 2,340
POY Movement:
Vitaly Lunkin won event No. 2 ($40,000 no-limit hold’em) at the 2009 World Series of Poker this past weekend and he took home $1,891,012 for the win. Lunkin also scored 1,440 Card Player Player of the Year points to bring his current total to 2,448, which puts him in a fifth-place tie with Yevgeniy Timoshenko. Lunkin’s other POY points for 2009 were earned when he won the PokerStars Russian Poker Tour Moscow main event in May and took home 1,008 points.
This Week in Poker
World Series of Poker
Event No. 8 — Phil Ivey Wins his Sixth Gold Bracelet
Author’s Note: Tournament report courtesy of Julio Rodriguez
The dry spell is over, and Phil Ivey has taken down his sixth career World Series of Poker bracelet. Ivey came into the final table of the $2,500 deuce-to-seven event sitting in second-to-last on the leader board and even bought into the 5 p.m., $10,000 mixed world championship tournament, fearing he might not have a long stay ahead of him. Instead, Ivey proceeded to double up several times, taking out a few players along the way, and put himself back into contention.
A few hours later, Ivey had his heads-up opponent, John Monnette, on the ropes. But his 9-2 chip lead wasn’t safe, and Monnette doubled up twice to take the lead. Then, after grinding his way back to a small advantage, the final hand came down that gave Ivey the win.
The tournament drew a field of 147 entrants and boasted some of the best players in the world. Notables to cash in the event included Barry Greenstein, Vanessa Rousso, Erick Lindgren, Freddy Deeb, David Grey, and Layne Flack.
Relatively speaking, $96,361 isn’t a lot of money, at least not to Ivey, who regularly plays in cash games so high that the amount he won in event no. 8 would barely cover the buy-in for one of his online tables. But it’s no secret that Ivey had more riding on this bracelet than the original prize pool. Thanks to side-bets with numerous regulars from Bobby’s Room at Bellagio, among others, Ivey is rumored to have made much more for winning this bracelet, and late during his final table broadcast, he was overheard mentioning the number, $3 million, to Monnette. Whether that was what he earned or wagered hasn’t been confirmed.
Here are the official final table results:
1. Phil Ivey — $96,361
2. John Monnette — $59,587
3. Yan Chen — $38,892
4. Eric Kesselman — $26,757
5. Rodeen Talebi — $19,346
6. Raphael Zimmerman — $14,663
7. Elia Ahmadian — $11,627
Top WSOP Headlines
Event No. 1 Andrew Cohen Winner Story
Event No. 2 Vitaly Lunkin Winner Story
Event No. 3 Thang Luu Winner Story
Event No. 4 Steve Sung Winner Story
Event No. 5 Jason Mercier Winner Story
Event No. 6 Freddie Ellis Winner Story
Event No. 7 Travis Johnson Winner Story
Tom McEvoy Wins the WSOP Champions Invitational
Looking Ahead
40th Annual World Series of Poker
Binion’s Poker Classic
Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza III
Caesars Mega Stack Series
Borgata Summer Open
Golden Nugget Grand Poker Series
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