Reno, Nevada will be host to the 1st Annual State of Nevada Poker Championships. The inaugural poker tournament will be hosted at the Grand Sierra Resort and will run from September 25th through October 5th. The thirty-two event series will have three events played each day at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Included in the events will be eleven State Championships Read more…
APT Macau Woos Olympian Great - Michael Phelps.
In his spare time (apparently he does have some!), Olympic US swimmer Michael Phelps can be found playing online poker. With his reign as Olympic Champion Gold Medal world record breaker, his next goal is to compete in a World Series of Poker Championship someday.
Before heading back to the States from Beijing, he might be making his first live poker appearance by making a stop in Macau for the Asian Poker Tour (APT). Phelps has been offered Read more…
Congratulations to fellow Southern Californian Kelly Kim of Whittier, who will be competing in the World Series of Poker, 2008 as part of the “November Nine” in November. 6,844 poker players competed for the chance to be one of the coveted nine players for the chance at the elusive title of the next WSOP poker champ.
This year’s televised 2008 WSOP in November will undoubtedly create television’s nine newest stars; especially with all the hype and media attention that will be given to the main event.
Kelly Kim began playing Read more…
With a cash prize of $34,920 along with the coveted World Series of Poker Championship gold ring, Daphne Turner won the 11th event at the 2008 Bayou Poker Challenge $500 buy-in No-Limit Hold Em.
This was quite an accomplishment for this Texas gal as she became the first women poker player to ever win an open WSOP Circuit Tournament in the Bayou Poker Challenge; and one of six women to ever bring home a WSOP Championship ring.
Never playing in anything like this before or for this amount of cash, she almost didn’t participate in the Harrah’s New Orleans WSOPC event. Turner said, “I got in the car and I only had the clothes on my back. I did not a bother to pack. My husband told me that if I play poker that I better come home with some money. Now, I’ve cashed for $35,000.”
The 15 hour event was played over two days and Turner played stupendously at the three hour final table. The elimination of 215 players culminated into power-house poker play with Turner knocking out eight of nine opponents during final table play. The final table also included Christy Williams who came to the table with 20K in chips. However, Williams, a real-estate broker from Louisiana was the first player that had to bid adieu. Daphne Turner went head to head for the win against seasoned Vegas poker player David Scarano. Going into heads-up play her 85K chip lead was slightly ahead of his 70K chip count.
On the final hand, Scarano made an ill-timed shove into his opponent Turner. Holding rags, Scarano ran into the trip tens of Turner, who flopped a set holding T 9 off suit. The turn and river bricked out and gave the win to the 39-year old bill collector and poker novice!
Congratulations Daphne for your amazing physical and mental prowess!
