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UB.com decided to cancel their Aruba Poker Classic this year. They want to get more involved in other online and live poker events. This was a very crowded event that was offered for many years. In 2002, the first year this tournament was held, Juha Helppi was the winner of the event. Winners of other years include, Erick Lindgren, Eric Brenes, Freddy Deeb, Travis Rice, Matt Brady and last year’s winner Brandon Hall who defeated 475 players and took $753,000 first place prize.
The Caesar’s palace witnessed how the amazing Annie Duke was crowned the first female champion of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker championship on Sunday. Duke, UB.com pro, took home a $500,000 prize after beating her good old friend Erik Seidel, eight time winner of World Series of Poker (WSOP).
Seidel who stayed by Annie’s side tweeted "Ended 2nd to Annie Duke in the NBC Heads Up. She played an outstanding match. Easiest loss of my career, very happy for her."
She had 3 long days with dramatic matches. Her first round was against Andy Bloch. She also had a match with 2007 NBC Heads-Up Poker Champion Paul Wasicka, where she was at risk of elimination.
Duke’s pocket nines in the final hand were enough against Seidel’s A-2. Duke took the main prize and sent Seidel home with a $250,000 consolation prize.
Here were the final payouts:
Place | Name | Prize |
1st | Annie Duke | $500,000 |
2nd | Erik Seidel | $250,000 |
3rd | Scotty Nguyen | $125,000 |
4th | Dennis Phillips | $125,000 |
5th | Jerry Yang | $75,000 |
6th | Doyle Brunson | $75,000 |
7th | Jason Mercier | $75,000 |
8th | Peter Eastgate | $75,000 |
9th | Paul Wasicka | $25,000 |
0th | Eli Elezra | $25,000 |
11th | Annette Obrestad | $25,000 |
12th | Barry Greenstein | $25,000 |
13th | Gabe Kaplan | $25,000 |
14th | Phil Laak | $25,000 |
15th | Chris Moneymaker | $25,000 |
16th | Jamie Gold | $25,000 |
Amazingly, nearly half of them, made it to the top 16. Some of the most remarkable pros that were part of the championship are: Patrik Antonius, Chris Monyemaker, David Williams, Erik Seidel, Phil Ivey, Scotty Nguyen, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Gordon, Doyle Brunson, Chris Ferguson and many more.
NBC’s television coverage will start on April 18th and end up by May 23rd.
Panic was part of the 2010 PokerStars.net European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin this Saturday at approximately 4:00 p.m. local time, when a group of armed men broke into the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Berlin where the tournament is being held. Robbers were apparently after money, but there are still no reports on whether they succeeded
More than 22 players were in the event during the incident, most of them ran when they realized the covered face armed men entered the building; luckily there are no reports of serious injuries.
PokerStars organizers released an official statement - “An armed robbery by six men took place today at EPT Berlin. Nobody was seriously injured. We hope to re-start all events at 4pm local time. A police investigation is underway. If you have video footage or photographs that could help the police, please contact the EPT organizers as soon as possible.”
Side events 1000 Euro NLHE and Ladies Event were cancelled and PokerStars offered all players refunds to the players registered in such events.
Staff will try to restart the tournament by 6 p.m. after they finish the process of verifying chip counts.
Police is asking for photographs and videos of the event that may help them with the investigation.
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