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David Chiu takes the championship
David Chiu was the surprise winner of this week’s World Poker Tour World Championship, held at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. He took first place in the championship and an impressive $3,389,140 million, defeating Gus Hansen in the process. Hansen is one of the best poker players worldwide and started the game as chip leader, yet Chiu still managed to take him down. Hansen took $1,714,800 for second place.
Other players at the final table were Cory Carroll, Jeff King and John Roveto.
Hansen knocked out the other four players in record time, leaving Chiu at a 5-1 chip disadvantage. It looked like a sure thing, but somehow, Chiu managed to make a massive comeback. With a little luck, Chiu showed his true poker colours, and claimed the trophy.
David Chiu shot to fame when he won the World Series of Poker limit hold’em event in 1996, scooping almost $400,000 and his first WSOP bracelet. He went on to win three more WSOP bracelets in 1998, 2000 and 2005, taking his poker earnings to over $2 million.
Chiu got his first taste of poker when he took a second job as a dealer to pay the bills. Having previously owned a restaurant, Chiu discovered a taste and skill for the game and decided to make it his career.
The World Poker Tour has been going since 2002 and is now in its sixth season. Games are held in Barcelona, Niagara Falls, Connecticut, Atlantic City, Las Vegas and various locations in California. Broadcast live on television, the WPT attracts wide audiences from around the world. Previous WPT World Championships have been won by Carlos Mortensen, Joe Bartholdi, Tuan Le, Nartin De Knijff and Alan Goehring.
The last few years have seen slower participation at the World poker Tour, in part due to several big players boycotting the event due to a pending lawsuit. Pros Annie Duke, Howard Lederer, Andy Block and Chris Ferguson were some of the players who refused to play in the WPT due to the obligatory release form. They claim that WPT used pictures of the players without their consent. After a long drawn out process, the players have finally come to a settlement with WPT and will again be taking part in the annual tournament.
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An exciting poker game is due to take place in the coming weeks, pitting the new against the old, the classic against the modern, the young internet poker player against a poker legend.
Doyle Brunson will face Patrik Antonius across the poker table in a heads-up tournament. Brunson allegedly challenged to play anyone for any stake at any variety of poker and Antonius – always in for a heads-up - decided to take up the challenge.
Doyle Brunson, also known as Texas Dolly, is seventy-five years old and has been around the poker block. Characterised by his famous cowboy hat, Brunson hails from Texas and has been playing poker professionally for over fifty years. The first player to ever earn $1 million in poker tournaments, Brunson holds 10 World Series of Poker bracelets. He is also the author of one of the most widely read poker books, ‘Super/System: How I made a million dollars playing poker’. This long-time champion has kept up his game with continual success from his 1976 and 1977 WSOP Main Event wins, until the present day. He has proved that age is no barrier, and still plays successfully in many cash games, as well as live tournaments. He also runs his very own poker website. Doyle’s poker earnings top $5 million.
Patrik Antonius is just 28, with a string of internet wins behind him. One of the growing number of Finnish professional poker players, Antonius’ wins include the 2005 European Poker Tour Baden event, and 2nd place in the 2005 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas, winning over a million dollars. In all, Patrik has won approximately $2.6 million in live tournaments. He has been called the best Limit Hold’em player on the internet.
Patrik has received mentoring from poker pros Jennifer Harman and Marcel Luske. He is well-known up for his love of heads-up games and agreed to the Doyle Brunson challenge after meeting and playing against the big man.
It remains to be seen whether experience or innovation will win this battle of the titans. Brunson seemingly has the weight of experience on his side, with over 50 years of poker under his belt. He began his career when poker games were run by the mafia, whereas Patrik Antonius cut his teeth in the far cleaner and safer internet age. Antonius began playing in live games, and later turned to online poker where he made much of his money.
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