Ivey on the road to Hall of Fame?

As you could have guessed, all the nominees are familiar names. The actual inductees will be chosen by the 16 alive Hall of Fame Members and 17 media delegates. The chosen inductees will be presented at the November Nine weekend, just before the closing moments of WSOP Main Event.

Hall of Fame 2010 nominees are:

Chris Ferguson
Barry Greenstein
Jennifer Harman
Dan Harrington
Phil Ivey
Linda Johnson
Tom McEvoy
Daniel Negreanu
Scotty Nguyen
Erik Seidel

Source: PokerNewsDaily

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Poker Hall of Fame 2010 nominees

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Richard “Chufty” Ashby (above) grinded the second biggest stack in the end. He has a healthy 229k stack for Day 2.

There might be some familiar names joining the tournament as EPT Vilamoura is being played at the same time and WPT organizers announced that players can register until the end of level 8 (which is the first level of Day 2).

Some stacks from Day 1B:

235,000 – de Mel, Priyan
229,800 – Ashby, Richard
140,000 – Safina, Giovanni
139,200 – Shook, Tyler
134,400 – Field, Joshua
117,400 – Chau, Christopher
104,100 – Khosa, Sandiep
101,000 – Choraria, Kamal
99,500 – Adda, Ariel
92,000 – Martin, William
78,900 – Aston, Adrian
78,200 – Shulman, Allyn
77,800 – Guitteau, Gerome
71,000 – Boatman, Ross
70,800 – Deeb, Freddy
67,200 – Fitoussi, Bruno
65,800 – Gavatin, Mats
59,900 – Clark, David
59,100 – Maurer, Niklas
54,400 – Miah, Ashique
54,200 – Wong, Nicholas
51,000 – Winkler, Sebastian
47,200 – Gouga, Tony
40,800 – Greco, Michael
37,700 – Limbert, Karl
32,500 – Schultz, Jorg
31,500 – Teng, Andrew
27,200 – Tazelaar, Justin
24,100 – Kajaria, Rishi
16,400 – Serhan, Fuad
9,500 – Sunar, Surinder

Source: PartyPokerBlog

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Day 1B over at WPT London - Richard “Chufty” Ashby near the lead

Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey, the poker pals

Ivey won a staggering 2,06 million dollars and Cates eventually earned $1,1 million. Ivey’s performance made people talk that if he had some side bet going on as he was giving a lot of action.

Apparently this wasn’t the case at all:

deprimiert: hey do u have any probbets goin on? ur grinding all the day
Phil Ivey: nope just feel like playing
Phil Ivey: gg play later
deprimiert: haha cool
deprimiert: gg

Other big winners were Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond (+$904k), Tom “durrrr” Dwan (+$737k) and Jared “harrington25″ Bleznick (+$730k). Dwan made good profit even though he had a bad start in his challenge against Daniel Cates.

Once again the biggest losses were made by Gus Hansen, who lost almost 2,9 million dollars. Patrik Antonius lost $815k and his great month was over within few sessions.

Source: Highstakesdb

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Ivey, Cates and Galfond the biggest winners in August - Gus Hansen went down almost $3 million

There was a huge list of familiar names playing on the day 1A, and after the play was over for the day, Erik Seidel had the biggest stack on his 100th WPT tournament. Erik ended up having a 226,200 chip stack.

Also Phil Ivey played strong and ended up fourth with 146,200 chips.

Here are the stacks from 1A:

226,200 Seidel, Erik
188,600 Shakerchi, Talal
149,800 Atkinson, Bruce
146,200 Ivey, Phil
124,300 Kurgandu, Igor
120,300 Mumtaz, Asim
112,000 Mattsson Saarisilta, Nichlas
110,700 O’Leary, Kevin
108,300 Bansi, Pramesh
103,500 Schmejkal, Ernst
100,800 Boich, Emeline
96,800 Mohammed, Barkatul
93,400 Seed, Huckleberry
91,400 Lukashaugen, Tore
82,400 Schwartz , Luke
80,000 Ilyukhin, Victor Victorovich
72,300 Inman, Lawrie
70,000 Bartha, Ferenc
69,900 Henke, Ramin
68,800 Tafur, Daniel
65,600 Boich, Wayne
62,700 Beevers, Joseph
59,300 Baxter, Derek M
48,100 Cao, Yongfu
46,300 Teatum, Gareth
46,200 Woodley, Ian
44,900 Ramos, Felipe
39,500 Patrick, Philip
38,900 Gray, Jason
38,000 Sullivan, James
37,300 Robl, Andrew

Day 1B is currently played in London and we’ll keep you updated later on.

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Erik Seidel leads WPT London

Ziigmund

Miss Finland, Viivi Pumpanen

The Finnish tabloid magazine Seiska tells that Viivi Pumpanen had a breakup with her former boyfriend and shortly after Ziigmund came along. Viivi has been seen riding in Ziigmund’s Mercedes-Benz few times.

Pumpanen has denied the relationship, but Ziigmund asked the journalists: “You haven’t got any pictures, haven’t you?”

Rumors or not - Ziigmund’s taste seems to be great.

Source: Seiska (in Finnish)

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Ziigmund and Miss Finland, Viivi Pumpanen on a date!

Most of his last night’s losses came from $2k/$4k Omaha Hi/lo and 7-Game against Phil Ivey (+$576k) and Cole South (+$493k).

Hansen’s losses in online poker are now over 9,2 million dollars and we just wonder if he can manage to climb back up… ever.

Source: Highstakesdb

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Gus Hansen’s latest session: Down $1,158,699

Their first sessions were full of action and the railbirds are not excpecting anything less from the sessions to come. We’ll hope to see this being over within amonth or two, if everything goes well.

“Jungleman12″ is up $518,000 on Dwan after about 5,900 hands.

Dwan’s Challenge with Antonius is on hold with only 11k hands to go. Antonius is down roughly $2 million.

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Tom Dwan vs Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates - The durrrr Challenge

There’s an IM chat between Mizzi and Steve “thorladen” Weinstein posted on the 2+2 ,which clearly shows how Mizzi was/is planning to do some ghosting by using Windows Remote Desktop program. Here’s an excerpt from the original post:

Sorel- Toronto says:
you can control someones PC while on your own
thor says:
yeh
Sorel- Toronto says:
and you can control multiple peoples PC’s
thor says:
didint know that
Sorel- Toronto says:
and you can watch multiple screens
thor says:
didnt kow thaqt either
Sorel- Toronto says:
it revolutionizes teaching/ghosting in poker
Sorel- Toronto says:
it can also be used for multiaccounting
thor says:
yeh i was using beam my screan for teaching
Sorel- Toronto says:
im surprised no ones ever brought this up on the forums
Sorel- Toronto says:
like someone could play 6 + accounts at once
Sorel- Toronto says:
in the same tournament
thor says:
yeh i can see th m;/a advantages
Sorel- Toronto says:
and it would be untraceable
thor says:
i wanted to set one up in canada at boykee moms house
thor says:
the vpn
Sorel- Toronto says:
man
Sorel- Toronto says:
its so quick and easy its sick
thor says:
yeh i know insane to not have it
Sorel- Toronto says:
like i could watch ur screen right now if u logged in and added your computer
thor says:
while im certainly interested in whatever u thinking
thor says:
if u want me in

Mizzi is now answering the accusation and tells that he has been blackmailed and he refused to pay the blackmailer, so the blackmailer posted the chat on 2+2. Mizzi also adds that the chat has been compiled from different chat sessions during 2008-2009.

Mizzi also criticizes the whole 2+2 community and says that Shaun Deeb is just a gossipmonger.

You can read Mizzi’s answere here.

Source: 2+2, aintluck.com and PokerNewsDaily

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Sorel Mizzi tells that he was being blackmailed

Just recently Ivey and “IHateJuice” had a session in $2k/$4k Limit Hold’em. The session ended in Ivey’s small $10k loss, but the chat during the play was interesting:

IHateJuice: do u always just play 1 table?
Phil Ivey: not always
IHateJuice: but?
Phil Ivey: do u always play limit holdem?
IHateJuice: lhe is way better for multitabling than omaha or nl
IHateJuice: yes
IHateJuice: well right now im learning stud
IHateJuice: sure i wanna play mixed games one day
Phil Ivey: im playing the game you specialize in and it’s not enough?
Phil Ivey: u should thank me everytime i ante up
IHateJuice: u are the biggest winner in LHE history
IHateJuice: by far
IHateJuice: i think ur as specialized there
Phil Ivey: who is better right now?
IHateJuice: i cant tell on that sample. i play ur name
Phil Ivey: i think we both know u are better than me at this game
Phil Ivey: but i play anyway so u should be thankful
Phil Ivey: if u played me horse i would b thankful
IHateJuice: i def will
IHateJuice: will take me a year or two though

It’s unclear if Ivey only wants more action, or is he really admitting that someone is better than him. Although “IHateJuice” has been winning from Ivey earlier, so…

Anyway, “IHateJuice” gets some great recognition from one of the greatest, so it will look really good on his CV if he ever applies some sponsorship deal.

Source: 2+2 and highstakesdb

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Ivey admits: “IHateJuice” is better in Limit Hold’em