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2005 World Series Of Poker
The 2005 World Series of Poker opened play on June 2, continuing through the Main Event No Limit World Championship starting on July 7. The conclusion of the Main Event on July 15 marked the close of play, and the largest prize in sports and/or television history at the time ($7,500,000) was awarded to the winner. ESPN's broadcast began July 19th with coverage of WSOP Circuit Tournaments, and coverage of the Main Event began October 11th and ended November 15th. All events were held at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino with the exception of the final 2 days of the Main Event which were held at Binion's Horseshoe. This marked the last time the Main Event final table was held at Binion's Horseshoe. Events There were 42 preliminary events that awarded bracelets in the 2005 WSOP. Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan both broke their tie with Johnny Moss and Phil Hellmuth to become the first players to win ten career bracelets. Main Event There were 5,619 entrants to the main event. Eac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio All-Suite Hotel And Casino
The Rio is a hotel and casino near the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, Paradise, Nevada, United States. It is owned and operated by Dreamscape Companies LLC. It includes a casino and 2,520 suites. It features a Brazilian theme based on Rio Carnival. The Rio opened on January 15, 1990, with a casino and 424 suites. It was the first all-suite hotel in the Las Vegas Valley. It was owned by Anthony Marnell and built by Marnell Corrao Associates. The property struggled during its first two years because of its off-Strip location, but it would eventually thrive. The Rio's success prompted a number of hotel expansions in the 1990s. The hotel includes the three-wing Ipanema Tower, which stands at 20 stories. A 1997 renovation added Masquerade Village, a two-story retail and restaurant complex which also featured the ''Masquerade Show in the Sky''. The 41-story Masquerade Tower was added as well. In 1999, Marnell sold the Rio to Harrah's Entertainment for $766 million. The propert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Froehlich
Eric Froehlich (born February 9, 1984, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American professional poker player, professional Magic: The Gathering player, and member of the Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, with his wife, Magic: The Gathering streamer Athena Huey. As of 2023, Froehlich's total live poker tournament winnings exceed $2,682,733. His 48 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,930,090 of those winnings. Early life Froehlich attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Froehlich began playing poker in high school and got involved in online poker at the age of 18. He dropped out of the University of Virginia around April 2005 to become a professional poker player. World Series of Poker He entered a World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournament in 2005; Froehlich won a bracelet in the $1,500 limit Texas hold 'em event, making $303,908. At the time, this made him the youngest player to ever win a bracelet. Froehlich won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Seif
Mark Seif (born October 4, 1967) is an American poker player, California attorney, and TV show host. Personal life Seif was born in Cairo, Egypt before moving with his family at the age of two, to Southern California. Seif attended LaSalle High School in Pasadena, California, and graduated in 1985. He then received a bachelor's degree in Economics from UCLA in 1991 and a Juris Doctor in 1997 from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. Seif worked for the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office from 1994 to 1996 as a California Supreme Court certified law student practitioner, and assisted in the prosecution of the O. J. Simpson case. Subsequently, in 1997, Seif joined the national labor and employment law firm of Fisher & Phillips in their Newport Beach, California office. There he represented management exclusively in several high-profile sex harassment lawsuits. Seif left the firm in 1999 to become General Counsel of Preferred Capital Corporation, a business financial se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Ferguson
Christopher Philip Ferguson (born April 11, 1963) is an American professional poker player. He has won six World Series of Poker events, including the 2000 WSOP Main Event, and the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Ferguson is a computer scientist by training and education. On September 20, 2011, the U.S. Justice Department filed a motion to amend a civil complaint, with the belief that Ferguson and three other directors for the popular poker client Full Tilt Poker were running a Ponzi scheme that paid out $444 million of customer money to themselves and the firm's owners. Early life and education Ferguson was born in Los Angeles, California. Both Ferguson's parents have doctoral degrees in mathematics and his father, Thomas S. Ferguson, teaches game theory and theoretical probability at UCLA. Ferguson attended UCLA, where he earned a Ph.D. in computer science (focusing on virtual network algorithms) in 1999 after five years as an undergraduate and 13 ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Arieh
Josh Arieh (born September 26, 1974, in Rochester, New York) is an American professional poker player. Arieh has been competing in poker competitions since 1999. Tournament history Arieh finished in third place for $2,500,000 in the 2004 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. He has a World Series of Poker title in Limit Texas hold 'em in 1999 and a 2nd-place finish at the 2000 World Series of Poker Pot Limit Omaha event to Johnny Chan. At the 2005 World Series of Poker, he won his second bracelet by defeating Chris Ferguson in a Pot Limit Omaha event. Arieh finished runner-up in the 2014 World Series of Poker $5,000 No Limit Hold'em - Eight Handed (Event #35). At 2021 World Series of Poker, Arieh won two bracelets to give him four for his career. He finished ahead of Phil Hellmuth to earn the WSOP Player of the Year honors. At the 2023 WSOP, Arieh won two bracelets in the $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship Event and the $25,000 H.O.R.S.E. Event. As of 2023, Arieh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto Leonidas
Alfredo C. "Toto" Leonidas (born October 10, 1960 in Bacolod, Philippines) is an American poker player with over $3,500,000 in live tournament lifetime winnings as of 2023. His 24 WSOP cashes account for $812,218 of those winnings. In the 2003 World Series of Poker, Leonidas won a World Series of Poker bracelet for $98,760 in a seven-card stud event. He also won the United States Poker Championship that same year at a final table that contained the likes of Erik Seidel, Phil Hellmuth and John Hennigan. In 2009, Leonidas made it to his first final table on the World Poker Tour, at the Bicycle Casino Legends of Poker Event. He finished in fourth place, earning $144,600 in the tournament won by Prahlad Friedman. Leonidas currently resides in Glendale, California Glendale is a city located primarily in the Verdugo Mountains region, with a small portion in the San Fernando Valley, of Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is located about north of downtown Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyndy Violette
Cyndy Violette (born August 19, 1959, in Queens, New York) is an American professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2004. Background Violette often played poker with family members as a child. Her family relocated to Las Vegas when she was 12 years old; Violette took to playing casino poker once she reached the legal age of 21. She spent a short time as a casino employee, working as a blackjack and poker dealer. Career In 1985, Violette took the top prize of $75,000 at a seven-card stud tournament at the Golden Nugget; at the time this was the biggest tournament prize ever won by a woman. Shortly thereafter, she married her second husband, and took a two-year hiatus from poker. In 1990, Violette returned to the poker scene by winning $62,000 in a tournament at Caesars Palace. She maintained her residence in Washington state but split time between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. In 1993, Violette divorced her husband and relocated to Atlantic City. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Seidel
Erik Seidel (born November 6, 1959) is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, who has won ten World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title. In 2010, he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. Early life Seidel was born in New York City. He played professional backgammon in his youth. He eventually became a trader on the American stock exchange stock market and later moved on to poker. Seidel was one of the group of now famous players from the former Mayfair Club in New York City, including Stu Ungar, Jay Heimowitz, Mickey Appleman, Howard Lederer, Jason Lester, Steve Zolotow, Paul Magriel, and Dan Harrington. Poker career World Series of Poker In his first major poker tournament, Seidel was runner-up in the 1988 World Series of Poker Main Event to Johnny Chan. This final hand was featured in the 1998 movie ''Rounders (film), Rounders''. Seidel made the WSOP Main Event final table again in 1999, finishing in fourth pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirill Gerasimov
Kirill Gerasimov (, born 5 June 1971, in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian professional poker player. Personal life Gerasimov was mentored in poker by professional Marcel Lüske. Gerasimov himself went on to mentor former tennis professional Yevgeny Kafelnikov in poker as well as fellow professional Mikhail Lakhitov. Poker career World Poker Tour The Paradise Poker website backed Gerasimov in the World Poker Tour season 1 $25,000 championship event, where he finished runner-up to Alan Goehring to take home a $506,625 prize. World Heads-Up Poker Championship In June 2002, he won the second World Heads-Up Poker Championship in Vienna, winning the €60,000 grand prize. World Series of Poker In May 2003, Gerasimov made his first World Series of Poker - WSOP final table, finishing in 6th place in the $1,500 No Limit Hold-Em event and receiving a $24,000 prize. Other finalists in the tournament included eventual winner Amir Vahedi and other professionals T. J. Cloutier, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Josephy
Cliff D. Josephy is an American professional poker player from Muttontown, New York. At the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Josephy won a bracelet in the $1,500 seven-card stud event, defeating fellow professional Kirill Gerasimov in the final heads-up confrontation. He has also finished in the money in several World Poker Tour (WPT) events. At the 2013 World Series of Poker, Josephy won the $3,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout to win his second bracelet. Josephy has earned a level of success in live events that his real name is fairly well known, but he is still known by the screen name "JohnnyBax" on the Internet. At different times, he has been the number one ranked online poker Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible for a huge increase in the number of poker players worldwide. Christiansen Capital Advisors stated online poker revenues grew from $82.7 million in 2001 t ... tournament player on PocketFives.com. Josephy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven-Card Stud
Seven-card stud, also known as Seven-Toed Pete or Down-The-River, is a variant of stud poker. Before the 2000s surge of popularity of Texas hold 'em, seven-card stud was one of the most widely played poker variants in home games across the United States and in casinos in the eastern part of the country. Although seven-card stud is not as common in casinos today, it is still played online. The game is commonly played with two to eight players; however, eight may require special rules for the last cards dealt if no players fold. Playing with nine players is possible. In casino play, it is common to use a small ante and bring-in. In home games, using only an ante is typical. Seven-card stud is the "S" game in HORSE and similar mixed game formats. The early development of the 7-card pack is not fully known, although it is thought to have evolved from the 5-card pack sometime in the mid-19th century by adding two more cards to make the game more interesting. Five-card Stud was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Gracz
Maciek ("Michael" or "Mike") Gracz (pronounced Grahtz) (born 23 October 1980, in Warsaw) is a Polish professional poker player, based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Gracz learned poker from his father and played regularly whilst studying at North Carolina State University. Gracz's first major victory was in the $5,000 no limit hold'em championship event in the 2004 Trump Classic in Atlantic City. He won over the field of 155 entrants to take home the $295,275 first prize. On 19 March 2005, he won the World Poker Tour (WPT) PartyPoker.com Million IV Cruise event (the largest limit hold'em tournament in history) and the $1,500,000 first prize, defeating a final table that included Paul Darden. Three months later, he won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the $1,000 no limit hold'em w/ rebuys event, scooping the first prize of $594,460. As of 2019, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,100,000. His 15 cashes at the WSOP account for $833,968 of those winnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
