2010 June 05 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Fresh off the start of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Brandon Cantu has re-signed with the online poker site UB.com for one year. The Las Vegas resident owns more than $3.6 million in lifetime tournament earnings.
Canadian student Pascal LeFrancois collected his first bracelet and $568,974 by winning the World Series of Poker (WSOP) $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Event #8 on Friday evening. The Montreal, Quebec native took a massive chip lead to the final table and breezed through to add his name to the list of Canadian bracelet winners, joining the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Nenad Medic, and Greg “FBT” Mueller.
With one full week of poker in the books at the World Series of Poker Day 8 saw Pascal LeFrancois take down a WSOP bracelet in Event #8, JJ Liu made the Event #9 final table, and Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi in the hunt for his second WSOP…
The first week of the 2010 World Series of Poker is in the books, eight bracelets have been awarded, and the 58,000 square feet of additional playing space in the Rio Convention Center’s Pavillion Room isn’t the only reason the WSOP feels a…
On Friday, Unabomber Poker pro Phil Laak reached the halfway point of his endurance challenge. On a quest to break the standing record of 78 – yes, 78 – straight hours of poker, Laak is camped out at a $10/$20 table at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. While others are enduring the grind of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio, Laak is experiencing a completely different definition of the word.
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