As I left late yesterday two Legends Eskimo Clark and Mike Laing were sat on a bench outside the Bike. I arrived before Noon today Eskimo was still in the same seat.
Vinny Vinh and Zach Hyman were late eliminations yesterday leaving 60 trying for one of the 45 payouts. Ted Lawson, Chris Moore,Oleg Osadtchi,Eric Yilmaz [...]
Monday Legends + IPPA
August 23rd, 2010Sunday Day2
August 22nd, 2010The main ladies are out. Thuy Doan, Lynda Tran, Jennifer Tilly and Kristy Gazes all made early exits today.Ray Dolan and Manuel Reyes are still amongst the chip leaders. Over in Cyprus L.A. players Chris K and Kelly Kim are in pole position.
Dinner break approaches. It appears over 100 hungry mouths will be fed. The [...]
Day1b at the Legends
August 21st, 2010The numbers are in: 462 players played. The winner will take home $750k with the bubble being in 46th place.
Entering the “Last Woman Standing’ side comp are Jenny Tran, Jennifer Tilly,JJ Liu, Erica Schoenberg and Kathy Liebert.Estrella Baltazar was building her stack throughout the day.
Still not too many names although Negreanu,Hellmuth and Hachem are here [...]
Legends of Poker Day1a
August 21st, 2010The big day has arrived at the Bike. The buy in has been halved from last years $10k. 185 played today and close to a hundred have already signed up for tomorrow. I am assured tomorrows players will include a higher percentage of recognizable players. The satellites were busy tonight including Tong Le who has [...]
Tuesday Legends update
August 18th, 2010The Legends is on hold for the day as the annual Buss/Mariani was held in the event center tonight. Scott Diamond informed me that this used to be a big deal with top poker pros mingling with Laker players and Hollywood celebs. No more. The closest I was to a greatness was Thor Hansen who [...]
Phuong Tran one to watch
August 16th, 2010For the third consecutive weekend Phuong Tran cashed in a Legends tournament. Today she actually made the FT and was certainly the most popular player with the railbirds judging by how many asked for me to take her photo. Phuong finished seventh for a $3.5k payday.
Young Phan was the star in the returning field of [...]
Wednesday Legends news
August 12th, 2010Two final tables tonight. The $335 Badugi attracted 36 players with four places being paid.Trying not to be the bubble are:
Will Skip Peregud 3rd $1.5k
Eddie Ng
Dan Halpern 4th $1k
Kamer Bicakei 1st $5k
Lawrence Berg
Kendall Fukumoto 2nd $2.6k
The $545 $150k guarantee players returned at 4pm and FT play started at 8pm. This final was in the capable [...]
Latest from the Legends
August 10th, 2010The Bike $150k guarantee had a pool of $185k proving my point that a $200k guarantee would have been easy to offer.No gamble in the casino owners anymore. The winner was Cau Nguyen who was fifth in chips at the start of the FT. Brian Patrick had $2.1m of the $5m in play and finished [...]
After Rehab its Detox at the Hard Rock
August 8th, 2010Matt Savage can’t wait until September for his next paycheck so the hippest TD has a gig at the hippest casino, the Hard Rock.The Detox series runs from the 13th to the 22nd of August when Matt has to utilise his room at the Crowne Plaza in L.A. for his WPT gig.
This tournament will be [...]
So easy for Soheil
August 6th, 2010ess than ten hours after winning the PLO8 event,at the Legends, Soheil Shamseddin entered the LO8 tournie and with twenty of the original 89 entries left Soheil is the chip leader.He is winning as effortlessly as Zenyatta.
Also playing Little RonnieMcMillan, Michael Mead, Ryan Lumin, Marshall Ragir and Brent Carter who like TD Mo Fathipour was [...]
Home
