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David Baker (poker Player, Born 1986)
David Bakes Baker (born October 17, 1986) is an American professional poker player who has won a World Series of Poker bracelet and appeared at four World Series of Poker final tables. He also has a Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) championship. Baker currently has over US$2 million in tournament winnings. In order to avoid confusion with David "ODB" Baker, he is listed in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) database by the name "David Bakes Baker" and listed at '' Bluff Magazine'' as "David (Bakes) Baker". Baker, who is from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, attended Michigan State University before taking up poker. Career Hailing from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Baker began playing poker in high school. During his freshman year at Michigan State, he played small-stakes games with future WSOP bracelet winners Justin Scott and Dean Hamrick. He spent two years at Michigan State. After getting distracted from classwork by poker, he began to play online and moved to Miami to en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Bloomfield Hills is a city in Oakland County, Michigan, Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A northern Metro Detroit, suburb of Detroit on the Woodward Corridor, Bloomfield Hills is located roughly northwest of downtown Detroit, and is surrounded on most sides by Bloomfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan, Bloomfield Township. As of the 2020 United States census, the city had a population of 4,460. History On June 28, 1820, Oakland County was divided into two townships: Pontiac Township, Michigan, Pontiac Township and Bloomfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan, Bloomfield Township, the latter covering the southern part of the county that would include West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, West Bloomfield Township, Royal Oak, Michigan, Royal Oak and Southfield, Michigan, Southfield. What is now Bloomfield Hills was a farming area until the turn of the 20th century when wealthy Detroit residents bought up the land. The settlement became a village in 1927, and in 1932 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pot Limit
In the game of poker, the play largely centers on the act of betting, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed up play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing. Different games are played using different types of bets, and small variations in etiquette exist between cardrooms, but for the most part the following rules and protocol are observed by the majority of poker players. Procedure Players in a poker game act in turn, in clockwise rotation (acting out of turn can negatively affect other players). When it is a player's turn to act, the first verbal declaration or action they take binds them to their choice of action; this rule prevents a player from changing their action after seeing how other players react to their initial action. Until the first bet is made each player in turn may "check", which is to not place a bet, or "open", which is to make the first bet. After the first bet each player may "fold", which is to drop out of the hand losing any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 World Series Of Poker
The 2008 World Series of Poker was the 39th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). Held in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, the series began on May 30, 2008, and featured 55 poker championships in List of poker variants, several variants. All events but the $10,000 World Championship No Limit Texas hold 'em Main Event, the most prestigious of the WSOP events, ended by July 15th. As has been the WSOP custom since 1976, each of the event winners received a World Series of Poker bracelet, championship bracelet in addition to that event's prize money, which (after the Rake (poker), casino's rake) ranged from $87,929 to $9,119,517. Highlights of the 2008 series include the selection of Erick Lindgren, who won a bracelet and made three final tables, as recipient of the "Player of the Year Award". Nikolay Evdakov led all players with a record 10 money finishes, and Phil Hellmuth set a WSOP record of 41 career final tables. The Main Event, which began with 6,844 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie O'Dell
Frankie O'Dell is an American professional poker player residing in Long Beach, California. He has won three World Series of Poker bracelets in Omaha Hi-Lo Split. His first win came in the 2003 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 event, his second in the $2,000 event in 2007, and the third in the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship in 2019. O'Dell is the only player to have won three WSOP Omaha Hi-Lo events. At the $9,700 World Poker Tour Championship Event at the ''2006 Legends of Poker'', O'Dell finished runner-up to Joe Pelton, earning $776,385. He also finished second in the $1,500 Dealers Choice event at the 2018 WSOP The 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the 49th annual tournament, and took place from May 30 to July 17 at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. There was a record 78 bracelet events. The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event .... As of 2019, O'Dell has tournament winnings that exceed $2,900,000. World Series of Poker bracelets Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Yoon
Brian Yoon is a professional poker player and trainee economist (UCLA) from Los Angeles, California. Poker career Yoon's first major live cash came in the 2011 World Series of Poker 2011 World Series of Poker#Main Event, Main Event, finishing 58th among 6,865 players for $130,997. Yoon won his first WSOP bracelet in the 2013 $1,111 No Limit Hold'em - Little One Drop for $663,727. In the next WSOP, Yoon won his second bracelet in the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em - Eight Handed Event for $633,341. In the 2017 WSOP, Yoon earned his third bracelet and largest live cash to date in the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em - Monster Stack Event. He bested 6,716 entries for $1,094,349. In the 2021 WSOP, he won the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship for $240,341 and his fourth bracelet. In the 2023 WSOP, he won his fifth bracelet in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship Event for $311,433. As of 2024, Yoon's total live poker tournament winnings exceed $6,500,000. World Series of Poker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 World Series Of Poker
The 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was the 52nd edition of the event. It took place from September 30 – November 23 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. A full schedule of 88 live events (plus 11 online events) was held after the 2020 World Series of Poker, 2020 WSOP was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on November 4, with the champion being determined on November 17. New events included a $1,000 Flip and Go No Limit Hold'em Tournament, where each player was automatically all-in on the first hand and the winners of the hand will proceed into the money and a traditional tournament structure. There was also a Poker Hall of Famers Bounty tournament. Each member of the Poker Hall of Fame was invited to play as a freeroll and had a bounty placed on them, with the buy-in for other players $1,979 in honor of the Hall of Fame opening in 1979. The WSOP also held another version of the 2021 World Series of Pok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Kelly (poker Player)
Daniel J. Kelly (born March 10, 1989, in Fairfax, Virginia) is an American professional poker player from Potomac, Maryland, who won his first bracelet at the 2010 World Series of Poker in the $25,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed event, earning $1,315,518. his second came at the 2014 WSOP in the $1,500 Limit Hold'em event. Kelly graduated from Villanova University in 2011 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was also a sponsored professional poker player as one of Doyle's 10 at the online card-room Doyles Room. World Series of Poker At the 2010 World Series of Poker, Kelly won his first WSOP bracelet in the $25,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed event, collecting $1,315,518 in prizemoney. He defeated Shawn Buchanan in a heads up battle after surviving a final table which included Frank Kassela (3rd), Jason Somerville (4th), Mikael Thuritz (5th) and Eugene Katchalov (6th). Kelly also has three other cashes at the 2010 World Series of Poker in the first year he was of legal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abe Mosseri
Abraham Mosseri (born June 21, 1974, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American professional backgammon and poker player from New York City, New York, who won the 2009 World Series of Poker $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball event. Poker career Primarily known as a high-stakes cash game specialist, Mosseri has played with Doyle Brunson, Barry Greenstein, and Jennifer Harman in the Big Game at the Bellagio with stakes as high as $4,000/$8,000. Online, Mosseri played high-stakes cash games at Full Tilt Poker under the screen name EazyPeazy. Mosseri has appeared in televised poker games, including on the PokerStars.net Big Game (Season 1, Weeks 2 and 12). World Series Poker In the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Mosseri won the $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball event, earning $165,521. He also made final tables at the 2009 WSOP $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event, finishing 7th, and the 2010 World Series of Poker $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Ivey
Phillip Dennis Ivey Jr. (born February 1, 1977) is an American professional poker player who has won eleven World Series of Poker bracelets, one World Poker Tour title, and appeared at nine World Poker Tour final tables. Ivey is regarded by numerous poker observers and contemporaries as the best all-around player in the world. In 2017, he was elected to the Poker Hall of Fame. Background Ivey first began to develop his poker skills by playing against co-workers at a New Brunswick, New Jersey, telemarketing firm in the late 1990s. He was introduced to the game by playing five-card stud with his grandfather as a child. One of his nicknames, "No Home Jerome", stems from the fake ID card he secured to play poker in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in his teenage years. He was given the nickname "The Phenom". His other nickname is "the Tiger Woods of Poker". Poker Live poker World Series of Poker Ivey's first breakthrough at the WSOP came in 2000, when he won a Pot Limit Omaha event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Hellmuth
Phillip Jerome Hellmuth Jr. (born July 16, 1964) is an American professional poker player who has won a record seventeen World Series of Poker bracelets, the majority in no-limit hold'em. He is the winner of the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the Main Event of the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE), and he is a 2007 inductee of the WSOP's Poker Hall of Fame. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest tournament players in history. Personal life Hellmuth was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and attended Madison West High School. He had trouble with grades and friends during school and said at the time he was the "ugly duckling" of his family. He moved on to the University of Wisconsin–Madison for three years, where he dropped out to become a full-time poker player. Since 1992, he has lived in Palo Alto, California, with his wife, Katherine Sanborn, who is a psychiatrist at Stanford University, and their two sons, Phillip III and Nicholas. Hell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Monnette
John Edward Monnette (born February 16, 1982) is an American mixed-game specialist professional poker player from Palmdale, California and is a five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner. World Series of Poker At the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Monnette won the $2,500 8-Game Mix event earning $278,144, defeating bracelet winner and 2009 Main Event November Nine fourth-place finisher Eric Buchman during heads-up play. The following year at the 2012 World Series of Poker, he won his second bracelet in the $5,000 Seven Card Stud event, earning $190,826. Also, at the 2012 WSOP, Monnette finished runner-up to bracelet winner David "Bakes" Baker in the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. for $279,206. Monnette won his third WSOP bracelet at the 2017 World Series of Poker when he won the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship for $256,610. At the 2021 World Series of Poker, Monnette won his fourth WSOP bracelet when he won the $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship for $245,680. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 World Series Of Poker
The 2012 World Series of Poker was the 43rd annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). It was held at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada, between May 27 and July 16, 2012, with the final table of the Main Event delayed until late October. There were 61 bracelet events, culminating in the $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event beginning on July 7. From 2008 through 2011, Main Event final tables were delayed until November. However, due to the 2012 U.S. presidential election, this year's final table was delayed until October 29, with heads-up play commencing the following day. New tournament formats introduced in the 2012 WSOP included a re-entry tournament, an ante only tournament, a mixed max tournament (in which the number of players per table changes at set times during the tournament), and a four-handed tournament. Event schedule Event 55: The Big One for One Drop The 2012 WSOP also hosted an event with the largest buy-in in poker history, a $1 million tourname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
