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Card Player Player of the Year Update
1: Vitaly Lunkin — 4,337
2: Eric Baldwin — 4,300
3: Angel Guillen — 3,492
4: Cornel Cimpan — 3,450
5: Brock Parker — 3,132
6: Mike Leah — 3,052
7: Jeffrey Lisandro — 3,018
8: Poorya Nazari — 3,000
9: Alexandre Gomes — 2,850
10: Jude Ainsworth — 2,840
This Week in Poker
Danny Chevalier Wins PokerStars ANZPT Queenstown Main Event
Danny Chevalier from Melbourne, Australia, had lived in Queenstown, New Zealand, for 11 years before the inaugural stop took place in his current hometown for the PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour. Chevalier beat out a field of 135 players to win the ANZPT Queenstown main event and take home the top prize worth $87,435 (AUD). The event featured a buy-in of $2,500 and garnered a total prize pool of $303,750, with the top 18 players placing in the money.
The three-day poker tournament had 18 players remaining on the final day of competition, and it took just two hours for those final players to reduce to a final table of nine. John Guthrie entered the final table with 888,000 in chips (more than one-third of the chips in play) but his stack soon fell and he was eliminated in sixth place.
This opened the door for Chevalier, who made the most of the opportunity to score his first major tournament victory. The heads-up final lasted just over 30 minutes. On the final hand, Andrew Hinrichsen moved all in preflop, and Chevalier made the call. Their cards:
Chevalier: A
7
Hinrichsen: Q
10
Board: Q 5 4 8
A
Chevalier flopped the nut flush to win the tournament, while Hinrichsen was awarded the runner-up prize of $57,285. The final stop for season one on the ANZPT will take place in Queensland, Australia, and it begins on Aug. 5.
Tony Hachem also solidified his lead in the ANZPT overall points race by cashing in 18th place in Queenstown to take home $3,015. The Team PokerStars Australia member now holds 160 points in the ANZPT Player of the Year race for the lead.
Here are the results from the ANZPT Queenstown final table:
1: Daniel Chevalier — $87,435
2: Andrew Hinrichsen — $57,285
3: Glenn Maiden — $33,165
4: Mark Walker — $27,135
5: Steven Smith — $21,105
6: John Guthrie — $15,075
7: John Pye — $12,060
8: William Mauga — $9,045
9: David Bradford — $6,030
World Series of Poker Circuit 2009-2010 Shcedule Preview
The World Series of Poker Circuit schedule for 2009-2010 will include 11 stops at classic poker tournament locations all over the United States. Popular stops in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and Tunica, Mississippi, are once again a part of the schedule, and there is one new stop on the schedule at the Harrah’s in St. Louis, Missouri. Atlantic City will host two circuit stops, one in December 2009 at the Harrah’s Atlantic City, and the other in March 2010, at the Caesars Atlantic City.
The first event on the schedule will take place at the Horseshoe Hammond in Indiana, and it begins on Oct. 16, 2009. The final stop on the new schedule will take place at the Harrah’s New Orleans and ends on May 19, 2010, just weeks before the 41st-annual WSOP will take place at the Rio in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Here is a look at the 2009/2010 WSOP Circuit schedule:
Oct. 16-25, 2009: Horseshoe Hammond
Oct. 23-Nov. 2, 2009: Horseshoe Southern Indiana
Nov. 5-12, 2009: Harvey’s Lake Tahoe
Dec. 4-20, 2009: Harrah’s Atlantic City
Jan. 20–Feb. 11, 2010: Harrah’s Tunica
Feb. 18-Mar. 2, 2010: Horseshoe Council Bluffs
Mar. 3–14, 2010: Caesars Atlantic City
Mar. 18–31, 2010: Harrah’s Rincon
Apr. 1–14, 2010: Harrah’s St. Louis
Apr. 14–30, 2010: Caesars Palace (Las Vegas)
May 7–19, 2010: Harrah’s New Orleans
Looking Ahead
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World Poker Open
PokerStars ANZPT Queensland
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