Internet Texas Holdem

Something people have come to expect and love about the World Poker Tour is that they are creating new tournaments all the time in different parts of the world. WPT Amneville is a great example of this, and it was hosted by the Seven Casino d’Amnéville in France.

The buy-in for the event was €3.5k, and 379 players put together a total prize pool of €1,164,288. The resulting first place prize was an impressive €310,633. Have you ever seen a prize this huge on the Titan Poker download?

The final table was so close but so far for a couple big name pros. Joseph Cheong came up just short in 11th place for €11,926, and Arnaud Mattern busted a little before that in 14th place.

The 6-max final table started on Day 5 with Scott Baumstein in the chip lead, a lead that he’d had since Day 2. This is a pretty impressive feat! When cards were finally dealt at he final table, Baumstein showed how he had kept the chip lead for so long: he loved to give action and play plenty of pots.

Even though so many pots were played, it was almost 2.5 hours…

This year it’s seemed like there’s no stopping Full Tilt Poker Download Pro, Erik Seidel. The tournament veteran has an incredible record in 2011. His winnings since January total over $4 million and include victory at the NBC National Heads-Up Championship.

So when he entered the final table of Wednesday’s WPT Hollywood Poker Open in 3rd place, it seemed only natural that he would take the title. Apparently, we railbirds hadn’t bargained Mike Scarborough. The Cincinnati man bettered Seidel in a short heads up battle that concluded a lengthy final table.

As is the custom with the World Poker Tour, only the last six players are featured on poker video TV. Here are their stacks as play began yesterday evening:

Seat 1. Andy Whetstone – 80,500
Seat 2. Erik Seidel – 645,000
Seat 3. Ali Eslami – 213,000
Seat 4. Tom Marchese – 175,000
Seat 5. Mike Scarborough – 654,500
Seat 6. William Reynolds – 1,169,000

It took only three hands to oust the first player. Ali Eslami, part of the duo that defeated poker computer Polaris back in 2007, exited the event in 6th. With the board reading J-7-7-A he pushed his…

Mike Sexton’s has the best possible excuse for being absent during the TV coverage of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star. The legendary poker ambassador has made the final table, leaving Vince Van Patton all on his lonesome in the commentary box.

Mike’s run is all the more impressive when you consider that he has had a $10,000 bounty on his head the whole way down. As one of the many ‘Shooting Stars’ in the tournament, anyone who busts him gets a chunk of cash and signed T-shirt. Mike surely will have had hundreds of money poker sites qualifiers gunning for him.

Another player at the table, chip leader Steven Kelly, will be bidding to become the player with the most pro scalps. Layne Flack, a Star himself, currently ties Steven for the title, but he exited the tournament on the bubble a couple of days ago. If Steven eliminates Sexton he’ll be a happy man, but there’s another bounty Mike at the table who he might have more trouble gunning for

Mike Matusow is currently third in chips, with 2.1 million to Sexton’s 363,000. The Mouth was visibly thrilled to make it into the final six and thus…