World Series of Poker Europe WSOPE 2008 Final Table-Part 11

Ivan Demidov Video Rating: 4 / 5

LOCAL WINS CROATIAN POKER

The Eureka Poker Tour blocked off at Golden Sun Casino in the Croatian city of Zagreb. The championship of € 1100 buy-in was attended by 178 poker players bringing forth a prize pool of € 178000. The final and last table of 8 was arranged last Saturday and just after the meeting, Alija Filipovic snatched the win topped by a € 42700 premium.

On the final table, each participant had all the skills to play quite aggressively. It is, indeed, with this kind of play which the Croatian player Dragan Galic, chip leader along with 699000 chips as well as favorite of the last and the final table, got his countryman Karolj Kis out. The latter fell for 8th spot by winning a sum of € 5910.

After the 1st place, Galic affirmed his lead spot. Then Verdan Premuzic and Ruud Van de Goor left the game before the period that Filipovic got Ivan Brkicic out at the fifth spot that allowed him to increase his deal.

The trouble started for Galic who experienced his chip count going down gradually. Following a strike of the Hungarian Mate Mecs; Galic had to cede after the exit of Nikolay Bibov of Bulgaria for the fourth spot. Therefore, the local poker player got the 3rd place along with a prize of € 16400.

After that Mecs and Filipovic started the final duel. At the beginning, Filipovic lead along with a deal of 1850000 chips against 750000 for Mecs and in a logical manner, the party was not quite well equilibrized. Finally, Filipovic win the trophy.

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WHEN POKER TURNS BAD

Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem tuned ugly on Thursday night after a poker player had to be led out of the poker pit kicking and screaming by police after he got enraged at a dealer.

At around 10:20 pm, Manuel Chang, 49, of Newark N J started using vulgar language at the dealer after he lost a poker hand which he thought he should have won. When the dealer called for pit manager Gina Bellamy, Chang began to shout at Bellamy’s face and then he became violent when a couple of security supervisors started taking him away.

According to police, trooper Mark Shutkufski witnessed Chang in the security office and a strong alcohol smell was coming from his mouth. Chang’s speech was also slurred and his actions were quite rough. Shutkufski aimed to arrest Chang, but he was led to the Gaming Enforcement Office, Chang offered resistance by screaming and thrashing his shoulders and legs. Chang was sent to Northampton County prison and he was kept under prison under a bail of $20,000.

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DEMIDOV A CONTENDER

On 25th January, 2012, the ACF (Aviation Club de France) will host the award ceremony for the best players and poker actors in Europe. This ceremony will be clashing with the European Finals of Poker. The organizers of the ceremony have already disclosed the names of those who has stipulated for the awards to be presented.

Players, who merited winning an award thanks to their brilliant performances, are Pius Heinz, the winner of the Super High Roller at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Jake Cody who was capable of going up the places of the holders of Triple Crown, the world champion of poker 2011, Andrey Pateychuk who grabs a World Poker Tour championship and an European Poker Tour championship in the year of 2011, Sam Trickett, the star of High Roller tournaments and Bertrand Grospellier, the French No. 1.
The specified for the award of best performance in tournament are Pius Heinz, Jake Cody, Benny Splinder, Fabrice Soulier and Sam Trickett. The award for the Newcomer of the Year is challenged by Pius Heinz, Adrian Allain, Oleskii Kovalchuk, Sam Holden and Andrey Pateychuk. As for the award for the best player of the year, Victoria Coren,  Liv Boeree, Cecilia Pescaglini, Natalia Nikitina, Barbara Martinez and Nesrine Kourdourli  are among the disputed.

The jury will decide among Warren Lush, Nicola Fraioli, Kirsty Thompson Edgar Stuchly and Simon Trumper, for the award of poker Employee of the year.The Rob Gardner title for the personality of the Year will be awarded to Neil Channing, Barny Boatman, Tony Guoga or Jesse May, Bertrand Grospellier. Among the professional players of online poker Victor Blom, Jude Ainsworth, Chris Moorman, Rui Cao, and Ilari Sahamies are disputed for the award for the Internet Player of the year.
The title for the best European tournament of the year will be contested by the International Poker Open of Dublin, the final of the Partouche Poker Tour, the EPT London, WSOPE Cannes and the WPT Grand Prix de Paris.