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World Poker Tour Season 5 Results
Below are the results of season five of the World Poker Tour (2006–2007). Following on from his win in the 2001 World Series of Poker Main Event Carlos Mortensen won the 2007 WPT Championship. This meant he became the first player to win both the World Series of Poker Main Event and WPT Championship. Results Mirage Poker Showdown * Casino: The Mirage, Las Vegas * Buy-in: $10,000 * 4-Day Event: May 14, 2006 to May 17, 2006 * Number of Entries: 384 * Total Prize Pool: $3,724,800 * Number of Payouts: 36 * Winning Hand: K-5 Mandalay Bay Poker Championship * Casino: Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas * Buy-in: $10,000 * 5-Day Event: June 4, 2006 to June 8, 2006 * Number of Entries: 349 * Total Prize Pool: $3,385,300 * Number of Payouts: 50 * Winning Hand: Grand Prix de Paris * Casino: Aviation Club de France, Paris * Buy-in: €10,000 * 5-Day Event: June 12, 2006 to June 16, 2006 * Number of Entries: 232 * Total Prize Pool: €2,320,000 ($2,805,856) * Number of Payouts: 27 Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is an internationally televised gaming and entertainment brand. Since 2002, the World Poker Tour has operated a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting playdown and the final table of each tournament. The most prominent of World Poker Tour events belong to the WPT Main Tour. The WPT Main Tour focuses on the buy-in range of $3,500–$25,000, and winners of official WPT Main Tour events are awarded a membership to the World Poker Tour Champions Club, WPT Champions Club. The World Poker Tour Champions Club, WPT Champions Cup is the trophy awarded to all winners of WPT Main Tour events, and champions have their names engraved on the Cup. History The World Poker Tour was started in 2002 in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who served as Chief executive officer, CEO of WPT Enterprises, Inc. (WPTE). Winners on the World Poker Tour are awarded a bracelet, inspired by a World Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 $2,900,000. World Series of Poker bracelets Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Can$
The Canadian dollar (currency symbol, symbol: $; ISO 4217, code: CAD; ) is the currency of Canada. It is abbreviated with the dollar sign $. There is no standard disambiguating form, but the abbreviations Can$, CA$ and C$ are frequently used for distinction from other dollar-denominated currencies (though C$ remains ambiguous with the Nicaraguan córdoba). It is divided into 100 cent (currency), cents (¢). Owing to the image of a common loon on its reverse, the dollar coin, and sometimes the unit of currency itself, may be metonymy, referred to as the ''loonie'' by English-speaking Canadians and foreign exchange traders and analysts. Accounting for approximately two per cent of all global reserves, the Canadian dollar is the fifth-most held reserve currency in the world, behind the United States dollar, US dollar, euro, Japanese yen, yen, and pound sterling, sterling. The Canadian dollar is popular with central banks because of Canada's relative economic soundness, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls is a city in Ontario, Canada, adjacent to, and named after, Niagara Falls. As of the Canada 2021 Census, 2021 census, the city had a population of 94,415. The city is located on the Niagara Peninsula along the western bank of the Niagara River, which forms part of the Canada–United States border, with the other side being the twin city of Niagara Falls, New York. Niagara Falls is within the Regional Municipality of Niagara and a part of the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, St. Catharines - Niagara Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). Tourism is a major part of the city's economy: its skyline consists of multiple high-rise hotels and observation towers that overlook the waterfalls and adjacent parkland. Souvenir shops, arcades, museums, amusement rides, indoor water parks, casinos, theatres and a Niagara Falls Convention Centre, convention centre are located nearby in the city's large tourist area. Other parts of the city include histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Can Kim Hua
Can Kim "CK" Hua is a Vietnamese American professional poker player who is a three-time final tablist at both the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and on the World Poker Tour (WPT) with over $2.7 million in earnings. Career In August 2002, Hua finished fifth at the World Poker Tour season 1 results, World Poker Tour (WPT) first season Legends of Poker. In January 2004, he finished fifth at the World Poker Tour season 2 results, WPT second season World Poker Open. In June 2004, he made a five-way deal to split the money and play for the trophy in a preliminary event at the California State Poker Championship. However, when he saw the trophy, Can Kim liked it so much that he changed his mind. He refused to accept the deal until the other four players agreed to declare him the winner and let him keep the trophy. In October 2006, he finished sixth at the World Poker Tour season 5 results, WPT fifth season Festa Al Lago tournament. At the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
David Baker (poker Player, Born 1972)
David ODB Baker (born July 14, 1972) is an American professional poker player living in Sahuarita, Arizona, who has won four World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets. Baker currently has over $8.3 million in tournament winnings. Baker is an Auburn University alumnus. Career Born in Connecticut, Baker earned a finance degree from Auburn and became a business salesman. , he lived with his wife and daughter Kathy in Texas. He had been introduced to poker in college. By the mid 1990s, he was playing pot limit omaha at casinos in New Orleans and eventually began playing three times a week at underground casinos in Houston. He became a full-time professional poker player in 2004. World Series of Poker Baker currently has 156 WSOP in the money finishes. Highlighted by a 17th-place finish in the main event, his 2010 World Series of Poker performance included seven in the money ''In the Money'' is a 1958 American comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring The Bowery B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bellagio (hotel And Casino)
Bellagio ( ) is a resort, luxury hotel, and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned by Blackstone Inc. and operated by MGM Resorts International. Bellagio was conceived by casino owner Steve Wynn, and was built on the former site of the Dunes hotel-casino. Wynn's company, Mirage Resorts, purchased the Dunes in 1992. Plans were announced in 1994 to replace it with Beau Rivage, a French-themed resort. In 1995, Wynn changed the project plans to instead theme it after the village of Bellagio, near Lake Como. The resort was designed by Jon Jerde. Construction began on November 1, 1995, with Marnell Corrao Associates as general contractor. Bellagio opened on October 15, 1998, with 3,005 rooms in a 36-story tower. Built at a cost of $1.6 billion, it was the world's most expensive resort up to that point. Early revenue was less than expected, and Wynn departed the resort in May 2000, when Mirage Resorts merged with MGM Grand Inc. Profits improved under the ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chris Bell (poker Player)
Christopher Bell (born July 26, 1971, in St. Pauls, North Carolina) is an American professional poker player from Raleigh, North Carolina who won the 2010 World Series of Poker $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event. He has also made three final tables at the World Poker Tour (WPT). World Series of Poker Bell's accolades at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) which includes four final tables with one bracelet. He won his bracelet at the 2010 World Series of Poker in the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event, earning $327,040 after defeating professional poker player Dan Shak during heads-up play, other professionals at the final table included English professional Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott (3rd), Eight time bracelet winner and 1988 World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up 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 Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
David Sklansky
David Sklansky (born December 22, 1947) is an American professional poker player and author. An early writer on poker strategy, he is known for his mathematical approach to the game. His key work ''The Theory of Poker'' presents fundamental principles on which much later analysis is based. Early years Sklansky was born and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he graduated from Teaneck High School in 1966. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, but dropped out before graduation. He returned to Teaneck and passed multiple Society of Actuaries exams by the age of 20, and worked for an actuarial firm. Poker career Sklansky is an authority on gambling. He has written and contributed to fourteen books on poker, blackjack, and general gambling. Sklansky has won three World Series of Poker WSOP bracelet, bracelets, two in 1982 ($800 Mixed Doubles with Dani Kelly, and $1,000 Draw Poker, Draw Hi) and one in 1983 ($1,000 Limit Omaha hold'em, Omaha Hi). He also won the ''Poker By Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mark Newhouse
Mark Newhouse (born March 11, 1985) is an American professional poker player who made back-to-back final tables at the World Series of Poker Main Event in the 2013 and 2014 finishing ninth both times, making him the only player to make the November Nine twice before the format was abandoned. He beat a field of 6,352 and 6,683 respectively, outlasting 13,017 people in the process and was the first player to make back-to-back final tables in the Main Event since Dan Harrington in 2003 and 2004. The probability of Newhouse achieving back-to-back final tables is 1 in 524,079 (assuming all players have an equal chance). Early life Newhouse was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and was a rebellious teenager. He dropped out of Appalachian State University his second year to pursue poker. Poker career After making a $50 deposit on PartyPoker, Newhouse turned it into over $100,000 in one month and won an additional $100,000 the next month. He dropped out of school and began playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Atlantic City
Atlantic City, sometimes referred to by its initials A.C., is a Jersey Shore seaside resort city in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Atlantic City comprises the second half of the Atlantic City- Hammonton metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses those cities and all of Atlantic County for statistical purposes. Both Atlantic City and Hammonton, as well as the surrounding Atlantic County, are culturally tied to Philadelphia and constitute part of the larger Philadelphia metropolitan area or Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest metropolitan area as of 2020. Located in South Jersey on Absecon Island and known for its taxis, casinos, nightlife, boardwalk, and Atlantic Ocean beaches and coastline, the city is prominently known as the "Las Vegas of the East Coast" and inspired the U.S. version of the board game ''Monopoly'', which uses various Atlantic City street names and destinations in the game. New Jersey voters legalized casino gambling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
