pokernewsdaily.com - 7/26/2009
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At the recent Poker Players Alliance (PPA) charity tournament benefiting the USO of Metropolitan Washington, talk show host Montel Williams was among those in attendance. A former chip leader of the World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) Main Event in years past, Williams has a wealth of poker experience under his belt on the world’s biggest stage.
Montel Williams is the principal face behind his own MS Foundation after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. As a result, he is passionate ...
Look Out: Jeff Williams
cardplayer.com 7/1/2009 — Card Player TV catches up with Jeff "Yellowsub86" Williams, a player to look out for at this year's series.
Joe Cada Interview with Poker News Daily
pokernewsdaily.com 7/29/2009 — Poker News Daily: After being the victim of a one-outer against Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier , it has to feel good to be a member of the World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) November Nine. Tell us about your emotions a few weeks after the fact.
Cada: I’m still really excited. It’s definitely hit me now that I’m back in Michigan since everyone is talking about it. It’s kind of weird and I’m not used to it.
PND: What are people asking you?
Cada: They tell me congratulations, ask me ...
Heartland Poker Tour Founders Interview With Poker News Daily
pokernewsdaily.com 3/11/2009 — Most serious poker players hope to capture a tournament championship on one of the tours that exist today, but many of them cannot travel or afford to buy into the World Poker Tour or World Series of Poker events. These players seem to have found a home in the Heartland Poker Tour.
Created in 2005 by Todd Anderson and Greg Lang, the Heartland Poker Tour is the preeminent “minor league” poker tour in the United States today, but it is anything but minor in what it does. In its four years of ...
Joe Hachem Interview with Poker News Daily
pokernewsdaily.com 7/13/2009 — The 2009 World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) Main Event rages on in Las Vegas, as players fight through a field of more than 6,400 players for their right to claim the $8.5 million first place prize. Joe Hachem won the event in 2005 and was took a few minutes to answer questions from Poker News Daily about the Main Event, the current legal climate of poker, and his worldwide fame.
Poker News Daily: Now that the World Series of Poker Main Event has once again started, what are your thoughts on ...
Steve Sung Interview with Poker News Daily
pokernewsdaily.com 6/9/2009 — Poker pro Steve Sung took home the victory in the $1,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Stimulus Special during the 2009 World Series of Poker ( WSOP ). He banked $771,000 from the 6,012 player field, the largest ever assembled for a tournament outside of the Main Event and the fourth biggest of all-time. The talented final nine included Panayote Vilandos (second for $473,282), James Matz (third for $313,826), Larry Sidebotham (fourth for $227,253), Nathaniel Mullen (fifth for $175,851), Dan ...
Bernard Lee at the 2009 WSOP
pokernewsdaily.com 7/16/2009 — The 2009 World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) is underway. Already, most of this year’s 57 WSOP bracelets have been awarded. If you have never been to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino during the summer, you owe it to yourself to attend one year to witness the spectacle that is the WSOP. Table after table jam-packed with poker players. A symphony of shuffling chips permeates through air. A room overflowing with hopes and dreams of becoming the next WSOP bracelet winner. Does it get any ...
WSOP Bracelet Winner Brian Lemke Interview with Poker News Daily
pokernewsdaily.com 6/11/2009 — Poker News Daily: Is this your first World Series of Poker ( WSOP )?
Lemke: This is my first year. I had played in a Circuit Event in Atlantic City, but this is my first WSOP.
PND: You just took down the $5,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament (Event #15) for your first WSOP bracelet. Was that the first event you played?
Lemke: No. I played in two other events, but went 0-2. Now, I am 1-3.
PND: The $5,000 buy-in tournament featured a pretty strong field. What motivated you to play ...
Brandon Cantu Interview with Poker News Daily
pokernewsdaily.com 4/10/2009 — Poker News Daily: You’re a World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) bracelet holder and also made a deep run in the 2008 Main Event. In your mind, what’s your biggest poker accomplishment?
Cantu: It has to be my WSOP bracelet win. It meant so much. At the time, I went through the largest non-Main Event field in history to win it. It wasn’t as long as the World Poker Tour events, though. Those are five, six, or seven day tournaments. The WSOP event was three 13 or 14 hour days in a row.
PND: ...
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