Poker professional and Rake Tracker player Tom Luts wrote part 2 of the Victory Poker launch party weekend on the Rake Tracker blog.

Victory Poker Launch Weekend Trip Report

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Rob Hollink won event No. 30, $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold’em:

Here were the chip counts and seat assignments for the final table:

Seat 1): Andy Block- $370,000

Seat 2) Rob Hollink- $893,000

Seat 3) Tommy Hang- $578,000

Seat 4) Cy Jassinowsky- $231,000

Seat 5) Jerrod Ankeman- 441,000

Seat 6) Chris Vitch- $201,000

Seat 7) Brock Parker- $166,000

Seat J.C. Tran- $247,000

Seat 9) Aaron Katz-… Continue reading

John Phan is not a new face to the realm of poker. He’s finished runner-up twice previously at WSOP, but never has he walked away with a bracelet until this year. Phan won $434,789 and his long sought after gold bracelet.

Here were the chip counts and seat assignments starting the final table:

Seat 1) Sebastian Segovia- $128,500

Seat 2) Alex Bolotin- $534,000

Seat 3) David Singer- $334,000

Seat… Continue reading

The chips counts and seat assignments went as follows:

Seat 1) John Juanda- $694,800

Seat 2) Phil Hellmuth- $119, 000

Seat 3) David Benyamine- $1,014,000

Seat 4) Gerasimov Kirill- $558,000

Seat 5) Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond- $1,393,000

Seat 6) Daniel Negreanu- $460,000

Seat 7) Brian Rast- $1,176,000

Seat Adam Hourani- $300,000

Seat 9) Johnny Chan- $624,000

Brian Rast showed some serious unlucky streaks during this final table… Continue reading

Vitaly Lunkin wins event No. 27, $1,500 No-Limit Hold

Chip counts for the final table:

PhilipYeh- $1,360,000

Jeffrey Brown- $310,000

Vitaly Lunkin- $1,030,000

Trevor Donaldson- $265,000

Barry Schultz- $1,340,000

Kenneth Terrell- $650,000

Richard Alm- $500,000

Bobby Firestone- $920,000

Brett Kimes- 1,500,000

Yeh opened the hand by going all-in preflop and Vitaly Lunkin called him. Their cards:

Yeh: As 9d

Lunkin: Ac Jh

Board: Qs… Continue reading

Barry Greenstein wins event #26: $1,500 Razz

Barry Greenstein has been a fixture at the WSOP in recent years, and has been cashing in events since 1992. His third cash of 2008 would bring him the third bracelet of his career, after he topped a field of 453 players.

Seats, players and chip totals for the final table were as follows:

1 Chris Viox-359,500

8 Barry… Continue reading

Kenny Tran wins event No. 25, $10,000 World Championship Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em:

Here were the final four competitors:

-Vanessa Selbst

-Alec Torelli

-Kenny Tran

-Jonathan Jaffe

Jaffe vs. Tran:

After some vicious playing tactics and some chip lead swaps, Jaffe finally got eliminated. Jaffe raised to $60,000 and Tran re-raised to 210,000. Jaffe swiftly moved all in, and Tran made the call showing pocket… Continue reading

The starting chip counts for the final table were as follows:

Kyle Kloeckner- $494,000

Allen Cunningham- $484,000

Lennart Holtkamp- $253,000

Max Pescatori- $212,000

Kyle Hegeman-$198,000

Greg Hurst- $197,000

Jonathan Depa- $185,000

Minh Ly- $177,400

John-Paul Kelly-$79,000

Kelly was the first to get eliminated. Kloeckner raised to 25,000 and Kelly went all in for 64,000. Kloeckner called and their hands were shown:

Kloeckner: Ad Ts

Kelly: Kh Jh… Continue reading

Blair Hinkle wins event No. 23, $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em:

This was an historic event. Blair Hinkle won his first WSOP bracelet and $507, 563 in prize money, an impressive achievement but not historic. Grant Hinkle, Blair’s older brother won Event No. 2 this summer. That makes the Hinkle brothers the first brothers in the history of the WSOP to ever win bracelets in the first year.

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Event #22, $3,000 H.O.R.S.E, is won by Jens Voertmann

A total of 414 players vied to win a tournament that rewards players with skill in the four most popular games in poker: hold’em, Omaha, razz and stud. First time bracelet winner Jens Voertmann was able to out last final table superstars Jennifer Harman and Marcel Luske in his victory.

Final table players, their chip totals and seats:

Seat 1… Continue reading

Scott Seiver won event #21, $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em:

The chip count information were as follows:

Scott Seiver- $2,512,000

Rejesh Vohra- $1,040,000

Jacobo Fernandez- $848,000

Dave Seidman- $653,000

Adam Geyer- $645,000

Ben Sprengers- $441,000

Chuck Sklar- $439,000

Scott “SCTrojans” Freeman- $423,000

Anders Henriksson- $311,000

Scott Freeman was the first to go on just the second hand of play. He moved all-in preflop and Scott Seiver made the call.… Continue reading

Daniel Negreanu wins Event #20: $2,000 Limit Hold’em

Six of the final nine players were sitting at their first WSOP final table, giving a huge edge to Negreanu, who had won three previous WSOP bracelets over all.

The final nine players with their seats and chip totals starting the day were as follows:

Seat 1: David Baker — 409,000

Seat 2: Jeremy Kottler — 47,000
Seat 3: Hien Tran… Continue reading

Vanessa Selbst wins Event #19 Pot Limit Omaha

Selbst became the 12th woman to win an open event at the WSOP, when she outlasted a field of 758 competitors.

Seat 1: Jamie Pickering — 329,000
Seat 2: Eugene Todd — 127,000
Seat 3: Mel Randolph — 117,000
Seat 4: Jamie Robbins — 70,000
Seat 5: Vanessa Selbst — 1,047,000
Seat 6: Stanley Statkiewicz Jr — 318,000
Seat 7: Ken Lairson — 16,900
Seat 8: Craig Natte… Continue reading

“The Mouth” wins event #18, No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball

One of poker’s most vocal players, Mike Matusow, won his third WSOP bracelet, beating the 84 other entries in this smallest of WSOP events. The seven players in the final table held a combined total of 8 WSOP bracelets. The players, seats and chip counts starting the 12 hours of final table play were:

Seat 1: Jeffrey Lisandro 461,000
Seat… Continue reading

Jason Young wins WSOP event #17, $1,500 No-limit Hold’em Shootout

Seat 1: Casey Coleman
Seat 2: Matthew Giannetti
Seat 3: Thomas West
Seat 4: Rory Monahan
Seat 5: Kyle Bowker
Seat 6: John Strzemp III
Seat 7: Mike Schwartz
Seat 8: Sergey Rybachenko
Seat 9: Jason Young
Seat 10: Alexander Triner

Each player started out with 300,000 chips.

Casey Coleman was the first to get eliminated from the final table. After losing a huge chunk of his… Continue reading

WSOP event #16, Limit Omaha Hi/Lo goes to Andrew Brown

This year’s #16 event may best be remembered for the player who came in 3rd. Jim Pechac started the final day with 2,000 in chips; less than 1% of the chip leader Soheil Shamseddin, but battled his way back to a final table finish.

Final Table chip counts were as follows:

Scott Clements: 397,000
Andrew Brown: 344,000
Ralph Perry: 340,000
Ted Forrest… Continue reading

Svetlana Gromenkova wins event #15, $1,000 Ladies No-Limit World Championships:

The tournament started off full of warm welcomes and smiling faces. But all that was gone as the number of opponents dwindled . This was not Le’s first to walk away in second place, she also finished second to Jennifer Tilly in the 2005 WSOP.

The seat assignments and chip counts for the final table were as follows:… Continue reading

Jimmy Schultz wins event #12, $1,500 Limit Hold’em

The chip counts for the final table started as follows:

Jimmy Shultz- $830,000
Ali Eslami- $400,000
Zach Fellows- $320,000
Brendan Taylor- $280,000
Markus Golser- $235,000
Vinny Vinh- $150,000
Teddy “Iceman” Monroe- $130,000
Chung Law- $90,000
Christoph Niesert: $80,000

The first to get eliminated in event #12 of the WSOP was Chung Law after he got all his… Continue reading

The 2008 World Championship Seven Card Stud event crowned a new champion, who won $418,856 but left with only the bracelet on his wrist. 

Final table seats and chip counts are as follows: