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The 2019 World Series of Poker is complete. Over the course of almost two months, 90 WSOP gold bracelets were awarded in a wide variety of games and buy-in levels.
Hossein Ensan closed out the series by winning the $10,000 buy-in WSOP main event, taking home a custom diamond-encrusted bracelet and the $10 million first-place prize.
Number in parenthesis ( ) indicates total career WSOP bracelets.
2019 WSOP main event recap
Event 1: $500 Casino Employees Event
Final table results:
1. Nicholas Haynes - $62,248(1)
2. Isaac Hanson - $38,447
3. Jorge Ruiz - $26,642
4. Jesse Kertland - $18,758
5. Adam Lamers - $13,421
6. Jeffrey Fast - $9,761
7. Christopher Bowen - $7,219
8. Joseph Appler - $5,430
9. Travis Williams - $4,155
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Event 2: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty
Final table results:
1. Brian Green - $345,669 (1)
2. Ali Imsirovic - $213,644
3. Asher Conniff - $145,097
4. Loren Klein - $100,775
5. Ping Liu - $71,614
6. Daniel Negreanu - $52,099
7. Martijn Gerrits - $38,823
8. Zach Clark - $29,650
9. Cary Katz - $23,224
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Event 3: Big 50 - $500 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Femi Fashakin - $1,147,449 (1)
2. Paul Cullen - $709,183
3. Rafi Elharar - $534,574
4. Nicholas Chow - $405,132
5. Walter Atwood - $308,071
6. Danny Ghobrial - $236,508
7. Adrian Curry - $182,192
8. Morten Christensen - $141,126
9. David Rasmussen - $109,922
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Event 4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-lo 8 or Better
Final table results:
1. Derek McMaster - $228,228 (1)
2. Jason Berilgen - $141,007
3. John Esposito - $98,807
4. David Halpern - $70,231
5. Joe Aronesty - $50,646
6. Tom McCormick - $37,063
7. Ben Yu - $27,530
8. Shannon Shorr - $20,760
9. Patrick Leonard - $15,897
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Event 5: $50,000 High Roller No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Ben Heath - $1,484,085 (1)
2. Andrew Lichtenberger - $917,232
3. Sam Soverel - $640,924
4. Dmitry Yurasov - $458,138
5. Nick Petrangelo - $335,181
6. Chance Kornuth - $251,128
7. Elio Fox - $192,794
8. Cary Katz - $151,755
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Event 6: $2,500 Limit Mixed Triple Draw
Final table results:
1. Daniel Zack - $160,447(1)
2. Sumir Mathur - $99,153
3. Brayden Gazlay - $65,217
4. Jon Turner - $43,984
5. Jesse Hampton - $30,437
6. Jake Schwartz - $21,625
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Event 7: $400 Online No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Yong 'LuckySpewy1' Kwon - $165,263(1)
2. Gabor 'MeatisMurder' Szabo - $99,361
3. Scott 'merrick' Eskenazi - $73,021
4. Frederic 'LeakStain' Roetker - $53,494
5. Phil 'lumestackin' Hellmuth - $39,460
6. Phillip 'DjPhiLWiLL' Raetz - $29,493
7. Dan 'MeatJustice' O'Brien - $22,374
8. Steve 'FlatcallSPC' Cicak - $17,086
9. Samuel 'Roopert' Uhlmann - $13,199
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Event 8: $10,000 Short Deck No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Alex Epstein - $296,227 (1)
2. Thai Ha - $183,081
3. Yan Shing Tsang - $130,482
4. Chance Kornuth - $93,593
5. Rene Van Krevelen - $67,566
6. Yong Wang - $49,095
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Event 9: $600 No-limit Hold'em Deepstack
Final table results:
1. Jeremy Pekarek - $398,281(1)
2. Dan Kuntzman - $245, 881
3. Juan Hernandez - $182,173
4. Benjamin Underwood - $135,959
5. Noomis Jones - $102,216
6. Tan Nguyen - $77,418
7. Paul Jain - $59,075
8. John Skrovan - $45,418
9. David Elet - $35,183
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Event 10: $1,500 Dealer's Choice
Final table results:
1. Scott Clements - $144,957(3)
2. Timothy McDermott - $89,567
3. Michael Ross - $58,718
4. Naoya Kihara - $39,377
5. David Self - $27,027
6. Benny Glaser - $18,996
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Event 11: $5,000 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Daniel Strelitz - $442,385 (1)
2. Shannon Shorr - $273,416
3. Ognjen Sekularac - $186,050
4. Ali Imsirovic - $129,018
5. Maria Ho - $91,211
6. Arsenii Karmatckii - $65,764
7. Maria Mcalpin - $48,377
8. Pauli Ayras - $36,323
9. Michael O'Grady - $27,848
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Event 12: $1,000 No-limit Hold'em Super Turbo Bounty
Final table results:
1. Daniel Park - $226,243 (1)
2. Erik Cajelais - $139,731
3. Jennifer Dennis - $102,010
4. Emil Tiller - $75,149
5. Marcelo Giordano Mendes - $55,869
6. John Yelaney - $41,920
7. Travis Sargent - $31,748
8. Lian Liu - $24,271
9. Ferit Bulutoglu - $18,731
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Event 13: $1,500 No-limit 2-7 Lowball Draw
Final table results:
1. Yuval Bronshtein - $96,278 (1)
2. Ajay Chabra - $59,491
3. Jerry Wong - $39,986
4. Steven Tabb - $27,477
5. Michael Sortino - $19,313
6. Bjorn Geissert - $13,892
7. Craig Chait - $10,232
8. Frank Kassela - $7,722
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Event 14: $1,500 HORSE
Final table results:
1. Murilo Souza - $207,003(1)
2. Jason Stockfish - $127,932
3. Gary Kosakowski - $89,730
4. Phillip Hui - $63,860
5. Chris Klodnicki - $46,127
6. Alex Dovzhenko - $33,822
7. Joe Aronesty - $25,181
8. Danny Woolard - $19,040
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Event 15: $10,000 Heads-up No-limit Hold'em
1. Sean Swingruber - $186,356 (1)
2. Ben Yu - $115,174
3. Cord Garcia - $73,333
3. Keith Lehr - $73,333
5. Jimmy D'Ambrosio - $31,151
5. Jake Schindler - $31,151
5. Kristen Bicknell - $31,151
5. Matthias Eibinger - $31,151
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Event 16: $1,500 Six-handed No-limit Hold'em
1. Isaac Baron - $407,739 (1)
2. Ong Dingxiang - $251,937
3. Stephen Graner - $177,085
4. James Hughes - $126,011
5. Richard Hasnip - $90,791
6. Cameron Marshall - $66,243
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Event 17: $1,500 No-limit Hold'em Shootout
Final table results:
1. Brett Apter - $238,824(1)
2. Anatolii Zyrin - $147,594
3. Tommy Nguyen - $106,351
4. Adrian Scarpa - $77,591
5. Manuel Afonso Soares Ruivo - $57,326
6. Cary Katz - $42,897
7. Shintaro Baba - $32,517
8. Michael O'Grady - $24,973
9. Kenna James - $19,436
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Event 18: $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better
Final table results:
1. Frankie O'Dell - $443,641 (3)
2. Owais Ahmed - $274,192
3. Robert Mizrachi - $194,850
4. Nick Guagenti - $140,522
5. Robert Campbell - $102,868
6. Jake Schwartz - $76,456
7. David Benyaine - $57,709
8. Edmond Vartughian - $44,245
9. Shaun Deeb - $34,467
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Event 19: Millionaire Maker - $1,500 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. John Gorsuch - $1,344,930(1)
2. Kazuki Ikeuchi - $830,783
3. Lokesh Garg - $619,017
4. Vincas Tamasauskas - $464,375
5. Joshua Thibodaux - $350,758
6. Cory ALbertson - $266,771
7. Bob Shao - $204,306
8. Fabian Guma - $157,565
9. Joshua Reichard - $122,375
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Event 20: $1,500 Seven-card Stud
Final table results:
1. Eli Elezra - $93,766(4)
2. Anthony Zinno - $57,951
3. Valentin Vornicu - $39,830
4. Tab Thiptinnakon - $27,933
5. Rep Porter - $19,996
6. David Singer - $14,619
7. Joshua Mountain - $10,920
8. Scott Seiver - $8,337
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Event 21: $10,000 No-limit 2-7 Lowball Draw
Final table results:
1. Jim Bechtel - $253,817 (2)
2. Vincent Musso - $156,872
3. Darren Elias - $109,738
4. Prahlad Friedman - $78,157
5. Jean-Robert Bellande - $56,693
6. Pedro Bromfman - $41,897
7. Paul Folpe - $31,556
8. Galen Hall - $24,232
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Event 22: $1,000 Double Stack No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Jorden Fox - $420,693 (1)
2. Jayachandra Gangaiah - $259,834
3. Jeffrey Smith - $191,789
4. Simon Legat - $142,648
5. Marco Aurelio - $106,917
6. Ryan Teves - $80,760
7. Scott Vener - $61,480
8. Andrew Glauberg - $47,173
9. Christopher Andler - $36,484
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Event 23: $1,500 Eight Game Mix
Final table results:
1. Rami Boukai - $177,294(2)
2. John Evans - $109,553
3. Chris Klodnicki - $72,933
4. Philip Long - $49,531
5. Allen Kessler - $34,329
6. Donny Rubinstein - $24,292
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Event 24: $600 Online Six-handed Pot-limit Omaha
Final table results:
1. Josh 'loofa' Pollock - $139,740 (2)
2. Jason 'TheBigGift' - $85,560
3. Jared 'jebronlames1' Bleznick - $59,163
4. Martin 'BathroomLine' Zamani - $41,565
5. Phil 'HeyGuys' Galfond - $29,680
6. Chris 'babycow' Back - $21,538
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Event 25: $600 Pot-limit Omaha Deepstack
Final table results:
1. Andrew Donabedian - $205,605 (1)
2. Todd Dreyer - $126,948
3. Robert Valden - $92,672
4. Corey Wright - $68,258
5. Mihai Niste - $50,732
6. Alexandru Ivan - $38,051
7. Tom Franklin - $28,803
8. Florian Fuchs - $22,006
9. Alexander Condon - $16,971
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Event 26: $2,620 No-limit Hold'em Marathon
Final table results:
1. Roman Korenev - $477,401(1)
2. Jared Koppel - $295,008
3. Dong Sheng Peng - $208,726
4. Francis Anderson - $149,605
5. Joe Curcio - $108,646
6. Joseph Liberta - $79,957
7. Matt Russell - $59,642
8. Gustavo Darosamuniz - $45,100
9. Peter Hong - $34,580
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Event 27: $1,500 Seven-card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
Final table results:
1. Michael Mizrach - $142,801 (5)
2. Robert Gray - $88,254
3. Michael Sopko - $60,330
4. Elias Hourani - $42,014
5. Jan Stein - $29,818
6. Jose Paz-Gutierrez - $21,575
7. Martin Sawtell - $15,921
8. Matthew Schultz - $11,986
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Event 28: $1,000 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Steven Song - $341,854 (1)
2. Scot Masters - $211,177
3. Ryan Laplante - $154,268
4. Renato Kaneoya - $113,712
5. Sevak Mikaiel - $84,581
6. Dominic Coombe - $63,491
7. Pedro Ingles - $48,101
8. Vegard Ropstad - $36,783
9. Yosef Lider - $28,394
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Event 29: $10,000 HORSE
Final table results:
1. Greg Mueller - $425,347 (3)
2. Daniel Ospina - $262,882
3. Dario Sammartino - $184,854
4. Scott Clements - $132,268
5. Craig Chait - $96,378
6. Mikhail Semin - 71,505
7. Matthew Gonzales - $54,043
8. Phil Galfond - $41,625
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Event 30: $1,000 Pot-limit Omaha
Final table results:
1. Luis Zedan - $236,673(1)
2. Thida Lin - $146,196
3. Sam Razavi - $104,888
4. Ryan Robinson - $76,101
5. Ryan Goindoo - $55,845
6. Gregory Donatelli - $41,453
7. Chris Conrad - $31,130
8. Stanislav Parkhomenko - $23,654
9. Erik Wilcke - $18,188
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Event 31: $3,000 Six-handed No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Thomas Cazayous - $414,766(1)
2. Nicholas Howard - $256,314
3. Upeshka De Silva - $172,658
4. Wojciech Barzantny - $118,421
5. Angel Guillen - $82,726
6. Raul Martinez - $58,881
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Event 32: $1,000 Seniors No-limit Hold'em Championship
Final table results:
1. Howard Mash - $662,594(1)
2. Jean Fontaine - $409,249
3. James Mcnurlan - $303,705
4. Adam Richardson - $226,996
5. Donald Matusow - $170,887
6. Farhad Jamasi - $129,582
7. Samir Husaynue - $98,981
8. Mike Lisanti - $76,165
9. Mansour Alipourfard - $59,044
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Event 33: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw
Final table results:
1. Robert Campbell - $144,027(1)
2. David Bach - $88,995
3. Jared Bleznick - $58,343
4. Kyle Miaso - $39,126
5. Jesse Hampton - $26,855
6. Aron Dermer - $18,875
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Event 34: $1,000 Double Stack No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Joseph Cheong - $687,782(1)
2. David Ivers - $424, 791
3. Zinan Xu - $314,876
4. Andrea Buonocore - $235,099
5. Arianna Son - $176,820
6. Ido Ashkenazi - $133,970
7. David Guay - $102,258
8. Ivan Deyra - $78,638
9. Brock Wilson - $60,930
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Event 35: $10,000 Dealer's Choice
Final table results:
1. Adam Friedman - $312,417 (3)
2. Shaun Deeb - $193,090
3. Matt Glantz - $139,126
4. David Moskowitz - $100,440
5. Michael McKenna - $72,653
6. Nick Schulman - $52,656
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Event 36: $3,000 No-limit Hold'em Shootout
Final table results:
1. David Lambard - $207,193 (1)
2. Johan Guilbert - $128,042
3. Weiyi Zhang - $92,625
4. Andrew Lichtenberger - $67,706
5. Jan Lakota - $50,016
6. Ben Farrell - $37,342
7. Alexandru Papazian - $28,182
8. Adrien Delmas - $21,501
9. Martin Zamani - $16,586
10. Justin Bonomo - $12,937
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Event 37: $800 No-limit Hold'em Deepstack
Final table results:
1. Robert Mitchell - $297,537(1)
2. Marco Bognanni - $183,742
3. Axel Hallay - $134,817
4. Francois Evard - $99,752
5. Benjamin Underwood - $74,435
6. Kamel Mokhammad - $56,019
7. Benjamin Moon - $42,524
8. Zachary Mullennix - $32,561
9. Nick Jivkov - $25,152
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Event 38: $600 Online No-limit Hold'em Knockout Bounty
Final table results:
1. Upeshka 'gomezhamburg' De Silva - $98,262.72(3)
2. Dave 'Dave419' Nodes - $60,092.28
3. David 'davidas777' Fhima - $42,962.40)
4. 'Pretabotones' - $31,065.12
5. Renato 'Turko' Ribeiro - $22,748.04
6. Yotam 'P. Bateman' Shmuelov - $16,854.48
7. Chris 'johnsonck' Johnson - $12,688.40
8. Joseph 'B3ndTheKnee' Liberta - $9,583.92
9. Steven 'BoatyBoatz8A' Bordonaro - $7,380.72
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Event 39: $1,000 Super Seniors No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Michael Blake - $359, 863(1)
2. Barry Shulman - $222,295
3. Cary Marshall - $162,536
4. Timothy Joseph - $119,888
5. Rick Austin - $89,217
6. Kanajett Hathaitham - $66,987
7. Jeffrey Miller - $50,751
8. Bruce Treitman - $38,802
9. Miles Harris - $29,939
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Event 40: $1,500 Pot-limit Omaha
Final table results:
1. Ismael Bojang - $298,507 (1)
2. James Little - $184,424
3. Ben Zamani - $131,335
4. Johannes Tobbe - $94,669
5. Denis Bagdasarov - $69,082
6. Mihai Niste - $51,041
7. Richard Tuhrim - $38,189
8. Glen Cressman - $28,940
9. Matthew Mueller - $22,215
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Event 41: $10,000 Seven-card Stud
Final table results:
1. John Hennigan - $245,451(6)
2. Daniel Negreanu - $151,700
3. David (ODB) Baker - $104,416
4. Mikhail Semin - $73,810
5. David Singer - $53,621
6. Chris Tryba - $40,066
7. Frank Kassela - $30,817
8. Frankie O'Dell - $24,419
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Event 42: $600 Mixed No-limit Hold'em/Pot-limit Omaha Deepstack
Final table results:
1. Aristeidis Moschonas - $194,759(1)
2. Dan Matsuzuki - $120,374
3. Raghav Bansal - $88,410
4. Rainer Kempe - $65,482
5. Ashish Ahuja - $48,914
6. Stephen Ma - $36,852
7. Adam Lamphere - $28,006
8. Daniel Moravec - $21,469
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Event 43: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet
Final table results:
1. Loren Klein - $127,808(4)
2. Ryan Hughes - $78,985
3. Phillip Hui - $51,346
4. Arthur Morris - $34,328
5. Joseph Couden - $23,622
6. Jonathan Depa - $16,746
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Event 44: $1,500 No-limit Hold'em Bounty
Final table results:
1. Asi Moshe - $253,933(1)
2. Damjan Radanov - $156,875
3. Tonio Roder - $113,360
4. Patrick Truong - $82,764
5. Vitalijs Zavorotnijs - $61,058
6. Andrew Hills - $45,521
7. Timothy Stephens - $34,300
8. Harrison Gimbel - $26,125
9. Bastian Fischer - $20,115
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Event 45: $25,000 Pot-limit Omaha High Roller
Final table results:
1. Stephen Chidwick - $1,618,417(1)
2. James Chen - $1,000,253
3. Matthew Gonzales - $699,364
4. Robert Mizrachi - $497,112
5. Alex Epstein - $359,320
6. Erik Seidel - $264,186
7. Wasim Korkis - $197,637
8. Ka Kwan Lau - $150,483
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Event 46: $500 Online Turbo Deepstack No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Dan 'centrefieldr' Lupo - $145,273.90(1)
2. David 'DTC13' Clarke - $89,692.92
3. Chris 'johnsonck' Johnson - $63,771.03
4. 'JSTRIZZA' - $45,959.67
5. 'staeks' - $33,475.82
6. 'MisterKK' - $24,729.16
7. 'jnutz' - $18,526.99
8. 'TonyStarsGFK' - $13.994.64
9. 'HITRII999' - $10,734.52
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Event 47: $1,000 Ladies No-limit Hold'em Championship
Final table results:
1. Ji young Kim - $167,308(1)
2. Nancy Matson - $103,350
3. Sandrine Phan - $72,821
4. Stephanie Dao - $52,007
5. Lyly Vo - $37,654
6. Lexy Gavin - $27,643
7. Raylene Celaya - $20,582
8. Stephanie Hubbard - $15,544
9. Barbara Blechinger - $11,911
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Event 48: $2,500 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Ari Engel - $427,399(1)
2. Pablo Melogno - $264,104
3. Wilbern Hoffman - $186,392
4. Ben Keeline - $133,306
5. David 'Bakes' Baker - $96,632
6. James Hughes - $71,010
7. Truyen Nguyen - $52,909
8. Ryan Olisar - $39,980
9. Josh Arieh - $30,643
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Event 49: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw
Final table results:
1. Luke Schwartz - $273,336 (1)
2. George Wolff - $168,936
3. Johannes Becker - $116,236
4. Mark Gergorich - $81,635
5. Yueqi Zhu - $58,547
6. Calvin Anderson - $2,898
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Event 50: Monster Stack - $1,500 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Kainalu McCue-Unciano - $1,008,850 (1)
2. Vincent Chauve - $623,211
3. Gregory Katayama - $461,369
4. Bart Hanson - $344,079
5. Benjamin Ector - $258,516
6. Igor Yaroshevskyy - $195,687
7. Bryan Kim - $149,247
8. Andre Haneberg - $114,694
9. Javier Zarco - $88,817
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Event 51: $2,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo & Seven-card Stud Hi-Lo
Final table results:
1. Yuri Dzivielevski - $213,750(1)
2. Michael Thompson - $132,113
3. Denis Strebkov - $89,744
4. Andrey Zaichenko - $62,176
5. Daniel Zack - $43,950
6. Philip Long - $31,710
7. Alex Livingston - $23,362
8. Daniel Ratigan - $17,584
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Event 52: Eight-handed $10,000 Pot-limit Omaha
Final table results:
1. Dash Dudley - $1,086,967(1)
2. James Park - $671,802
3. Joel Feldman - $463,814
4. Jeremy Ausmus - $325,693
5. Kyle Montgomery - $232,680
6. Eoghan O'Dea - $169,173
7. Andrei Razov - $125,215
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Event 53: $800 Eight-handed No-limit Hold'em Deepstack
Final table results:
1. Santiago Soriano - $371,203(1)
2. Amir Lehavot - $229,410
3. Benjamin Underwood - $168,960
4. Nick Blackburn - $125,432
5. Joao Barrosovalli - $93,866
6. Samuel Gagnon - $70,813
7. Daniele Dangelo - $53,858
8. Ori Hasson - $41,300
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Event 54: $1,500 Razz
Final table results:
1. Kevin Gerhart - $119,054 (1)
2. Sergio Braga - $73,577
3. Joseph Hoffman - $49,762
4. Andres Norbe Korn - $34,352
5. Jean Said - $24,216
6. Scott Clements - $17,440
7. Robert Campbell - $12,837
8. Grzegorz Wyraz - $9,663
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Event 55: $1,000 Online No-limit Hold'em Double Stack
Final table results:
1. Jason 'TheBigGift' Gooch - $241,492.94(1)
2. Brian 'Pure__Reason' Wood - $148,542.85
3. Anthony 'Scrotile' Augstino - $104,980.41
4. Dario 'Sirio87' Sammartino - $75,094.85
5. Timothy 'Stucksoomuch' Wong - $54,453.05
6. Ran 'Margarete' Koller - $40,143.29
7. Gianluca 'InMyHouse' Speranza - $29,885.86
8. Justin 'KingFortune' Liberto - $22,451.03
9. Max 'MaxSparrow' Pescatori - $17,348.99
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Event 56: $1,500 No-limit Hold'em Super Turbo Bounty
Final table results:
1. Jonas Lauck- $260,335(1)
2. Robert Bickley - $160,820
3. Fernando Viana da Costa - $116,426
4. Markus Gonsalves - $85,141
5. Anil Jivani - $62,901
6. Aaron Pinson - $46,951
7. Arron Woodcock - $35,412
8. Aaron Johnson - $26,992
9. Edward Courage - $20,793
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Event 57: $1,000 Tag Team No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Ohad Geiger, Daniel Dayan, and Barak Wisbrod - $168,395 (1)
2. Jerod Smith, Matthew Moreno, and Lawrence Chan - $104,025
3. Anthony Zinno and John Hinds - $73,329
4. Timothy Jurkiewicz and Zach Gruneberg - $52,390
5. Fabio Coppola and Richard Washinsky - $37,944
6. Danny Wong, Steve Sung, Chahn Jung, and Aaron Motoyama - $27,864
7. Daniel Marder, Michael Marder, and Paul Steinberg - $20,750
8. Steven van Zadelhoff and Kenny Hallaert - $15,674
9. Jie Xu and Shaotong Chang - $12,011
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Event 58: $50,000 Poker Players Championship
Final table results:
1. Phillip Hui - $1,099,311 (1)
2. Josh Arieh - $679,426
3. John Esposito - $466,407
4. Bryce Yockey - $325,989
5. Shaun Deeb - $232,058
6. Dan Cates - $168,305
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Event 59: $600 No-limit Hold'em Deepstack Championship
Final table results:
1. Joe Foresman - $397,903 (1)
2. Will Givens - $245,606
3. Steffen Logen - $181,953
4. Jeff Hakim - $135,783
5. Jlib Kovtunov - $102,077
6. Mrityunjay Jha - $77,308
7. David Goodman - $58,988
8. Jean Alexandre - $45,348
9. Linda Huard - $35,128
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Event 60: $1,500 Pot-limit Omaha 8 or Better
Final table results:
1. Anthony Zinno - $279,920 (2)
2. Rodney Burt - $172,932
3. Thomas Schropfer - $122,555
4. Jon Turner - $87,967
5. Scott Abrams - $63,961
6. Jordan Spurlin - $47,118
7. Connor Drinan - $35,173
8. Kyle Miaso - $26,611
9. Erik Seidel - $20,410
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Event 61: Colossus - $400 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Sejin Park - $451,272 (1)
2. Georgios Kapalas - $278,881
3. Ryan Depaulo - $208,643
4. Juan Lopez - $157,106
5. Andrew Barber - $119,072
6. Norson Saho - $90,838
7. Patrick Miller - $69,757
8. Maksim Kalman - $53,925
9. Diego Lima - $41,965
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Event 62: $10,000 Razz
Final table results:
1. Scott Seiver - $301,421 (3)
2. Andrey Zhigalov - $186,293
3. Chris Ferguson - $131,194
4. Daniel Zack - $94,305
5. Daniel Negreanu - $69,223
6. Andre Akkari - $51,911
7. David Bach - $39,788
8. George Alexander - $31,185
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Event 63: $1,500 Omaha Mix
Final table results:
1. Anatolii Zyrin - $199,838 (1)
2. Yueqi Zhu - $123,466
3. James Van Alstyne - $84,106
4. Mesbah Guerfi - $58,289
5. Aron Dermer - $41,112
6. Iori Yogo - $29,518
7. Alan Sternberg - $21,582
8. Ivo Donev - $16,075
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Event 64: Crazy Eights - $888 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Rick Alvarado - $888,888 (1)
2. Mark Radoja - $548,888
3. Thomas Drivas - $409,888
4. Vivian Saliba - $308,888
5. Aleksandras Rusinovas - $233,888
6. Patrick Clarke - $177,888
7. Vlad Darie - $136,888
8. Mario Hofler - $105,888
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Event 65: $10,000 Pot-limit Omaha Hi-Lo
Final table results:
1. Nick Schulman - $463,670(3)
2. Brian Hastings - $286,570
3. Joe Hachem - $201,041
4. Denis Strebkov - $143,700
5. Christopher Vitch - $104,688
6. Corey Hochman - $77,763
7. Michael McKenna - $58,918
8. Bryce Yockey - $45,551
9. Ryan Miller - $35,950
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Event 66: $1,500 Limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. David (ODB) Baker - $161,139 (2)
2. Brian Kim - $99,564
3. Dominzo Love - $68,353
4. Ruiko Mamiya - $47,747
5. Chris Ferguson - $33,948
6. Chicong Nguyen - $24,574
7. Kenneth Donoghue - $18,118
8. Danny Woolard - $13,609
9. Greg Mueller - $10,418
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Event 67: $10,000 Seven-card Stud Hi-Lo
Final table results:
1. Robert Campbell - $385,763 (2)
2. Yueqi Zhu - $238,420
3. Mike Wattel - $164,647
4. Mike Matusow - $116,255
5. Ryan Hughes - $83,971
6. Qinghai Pan - $62,079
7. Andrey Zhigalov - $46,999
8. Steven Wolansky - $36,460
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Event 68: $1,000 Online No-limit Hold'em Championship
Final table results:
1. Nicholas 'Illari' Baris - $303,738.75 (1)
2. Tara 'bertperton' Cain - $187,530
3. William 'TheBurrSir' Lamb - $113,332.50
4. David 'YoungPitts' Baker - $96,092.50
5. Jason 'LuckDuck' Lawhun - $69,991.25
6. Jack 'Mr. Yang' Maskill - $51,703.75
7. Chris 'Camdi' Ferguson - $38,736.25
8. Ryan 'PlzCumAgain' Jones - $29,260
9. Antonio 'karma007' Guerrero - $22,443.75
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Event 69: Mini Main Event - $1,000 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Jeremy Saderne - $628,654 (1)
2. Lula Taylor - $388,284
3. Andres Korn - $287,219
4. Yi Ma - $214,047
5. Koji Takagi - $160,715
6. Stefan Widmer - $121,586
7. Philip Gildea - $92,686
8. Ben Alloggio - $71,199
9. James Stewart - $55,118
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Event 70: $5,000 Six-handed No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Joao Vieira - $758,011 (1)
2. Joe Cada - $468,488
3. Jamie O'Connor - $317,956
4. Pierre Calamusa - $219,468
5. Olivier Busquet - $154,112
6. Barry Hutter - $110,127
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Event 71: Salute to Warriors - $500 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Susan Faber - $121,161 (1)
2. Rob Stark - $74,785
3. Dean Yoon - $53,887
4. Christopher Canan - $39,248
5. Taylor Carroll - $28,897
6. Jordan Knackstedt - $21,510
7. Jose Annaloro - $16,190
8. Kulwant Singh - $12,323
9. Taehyung Kim - $9,486
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Event 72: $10,000 Limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Juha Helppi - $306,622 (1)
2. Mike Lancaster - $189,505
3. Tommy Hang - $133,718
4. Anthony Marsico - $96,272
5. Kevin Song - $70,750
6. Josh Arieh - $53,095
7. Kyle Ray - $40,709
8. Qinghai Pan - $31,902
9. Robert Como - $25,566
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Event 73: $10,000 Main Event
Final table results:
1. Hossein Ensan - $10 million (1)
2. Dario Sammartino - $6 million
3. Alex Livingston - $4 million
4. Garry Gates - $3 million
5. Kevin Maahs - $2.2 million
6. Zhen Cai - $1.85 million
7. Nick Marchington - $1.525 million
8. Timothy Su - $1.25 million
9. Milos Skrbic - $1 million
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Event 74: $3,200 Online No-limit Hold'em High Roller
Final table results:
1. Brandon 'DrOctagon' Adams - $411,561 (1)
2. Nabil Mohamed Abdien 'thebrownbear' Cardoso - $253,643
3. Vladimir 'Stuey_Haxton' Alexandrov - $173,241
4. Calvin 'projector52' Anderson - $120,422
5. Michael 'VinnyV' Vanier - $85,449
6. Norbert 'BALKAN500' Szecsi - $61,653
7. 'kanginlee' - $34,071
8. 'DelightedTHC' - $26,139
9. 'lowrider711' - $20,371
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Event 75: Little One for One Drop - $1,111 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. James Anderson - $690,686 (1)
2. Fernando Pfeiffer - $426,543
3. Marco Guibert - $316,233
4. Liran Betito - $236,151
5. Shalom Elharar - $177,639
6. Nils Tolpingrud - $134,608
7. Mark Strodl - $102,757
8. Ying Fu - $79,029
9. Robert Mather - $61,238
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Event 76: $800 Online Six-handed No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Shawn 'Bucky21' Buchanan - $223,119 (1)
2. David 'YoungPitts' Baker - $137,241
3. Hunter 'Ibinkustink' Gebron - $96,993
4. Alexandre 'Apalexpex' Moreira - $69,831
5. Luigi Andrea 'Bananasplit' Shehadeh - $50,310
6. Jeremy 'Gimmiehaveit' Brown - $37,089
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Event 77: $3,000 Six-handed Limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Stephanie Dao - $133,189 (1)
2. Alain Alinat - $82,312
3. Ian O'Hara - $55,749
4. Chad Eveslage - $38,561
5. Jan Suchanek - $27,251
6. Oleg Chebotarev - $19,687
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Event 90*: $50,000 'Final Fifty' No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Danny Tang - $1,608,406(1)
2. Sam Soverel - $994,072
3. Michael Addamo - $697,375
4. Brandon Adams - $500,282
5. Adrian Mateos - $367,186
6. Keith Tilston - $275,874
7. Ali Imsirovic - 212,292
8. Seth Davies - $167,420
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Event 78: $1,500 Pot-limit Omaha Bounty
Final table results:
1. Maximilian Klostermeier - $177,823 (1)
2. David Callaghan - $109,844
3. Bryce Yockey - $77,893
4. Ryan Lenaghan - $55,939
5. Jason Stockfish - $40,691
6. Tim Seidensticker - $29,987
7. Scott Sharpe - $22,391
8. Heng Zhang - $16,944
9. Joseph Liberta - $12,996
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Event 79: $3,000 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Ivan Deyra - $380,090 (1)
2. David Gonzalez - $234,882
3. Guillaume Nolet - $162,575
4. Patrick Leonard - $114,347
5. David Dibernardi - $81,749
6. David Weinstein - $59,421
7. Andras Nemeth - $43,925
8. Dennis Brand - $33,032
9. Diego Zeiter - $25,278
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Event 80: $1,500 Mixed No-limit Hold'em/Pot-limit Omaha
Final table results:
1. Jerry Odeen - $304,793 (1)
2. Peter Linton - $188,368
3. Adam Demersseman - $135,093
4. Lucas Greenwood - $98,027
5. Ayaz Mahmood - $71,979
6. Eddie Blumenthal - $53,490
7. Jeremy Kottler - $40,236
8. Gary Bolden - $30,640
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Event 81: 50th Annual WSOP's 'Bracelet Winners Only' event - $1,500 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Shankar Pillai - $71,580 (2)
2. Michael Gagliano - $44,232
3. Tommy Nguyen - $31,176
4. Brett Apter - $22,349
5. Kevin Gerhart - $16,299
6. Andreas Klatt - $12,097
7. Thom Werthmann - $9,140
8. Scott Bohlman - $7,032
9. Haixia Zhang - $5,512
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Event 82: $1,500 No-limit Hold'em Double Stack
Final table results:
1. Tom Koral - $530,164 (2)
2. Freek Scholten - $327,563
3. Barry Shulman - $239,187
4. Philip Scaletta - $176,219
5. Adam Hendrix - $131,001
6. Darren Rabinowitz - $98,274
7. Kunal Punjwani - $74,401
8. Kalyan Cheekuri - $56,850
9. Pablo Fernandez Campo - $43,847
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Event 83: High Roller - $100,000 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Keith Tilston - $2,792,406 (1)
2. Daniel Negreanu - $1,725,838
3. Nick Schulman - $1,187,802
4. Igor Kurganov - $840,183
5. Brandon Adams - $611,258
6. Dominik Nitsche - $457,772
7. Sergi Reixach - $353,202
8. Christoph Vogelsang - $281,025
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Event 84: The Closer - $1,500 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Abhinav Iyer - $565,346 (1)
2. Sammy Lafleur - $349,417
3. Sergio Martiaguilar - $256,298
4. Carlos Chang - $189,584
5. Patrick Eskandar - $144,860
6. Adam Johnson - $106,418
7. Shaun Deeeb - $80,766
8. Steve Yea - $61,834
9. Jason Reels - $47,758
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Event 85: $3,000 Six-handed Pot-limit Omaha
Final table results:
1. Alan Sternberg - $448,392 (1)
2. Evangelos Kokkalis - $277,087
3. John Richards - $187,670
4. Millard Hale - $129,313
5. Ka Lau - $90,674
6. Joseph Cheong - $64,722
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Event 86: $10,000 Six-handed No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Anuj Agarwal - $630,747 (1)
2. Kahle Burns - $389,832
3. Gal Yifrach - $257,533
4. Leonard Maue - $174,252
5. Dong Chen - $120,828
6. Benjamin Heath - $85,915
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Event 87: $3,000 HORSE
Final table results:
1. Denis Strebkov - $606,562 (1)
2. Paul Tedeschi - $374,886
3. Nick Guagenti - $259,533
4. Brian Hastings - $182,575
5. Andrey Zaichenko - $130,544
6. Konstantin Puchkov - $94,899
7. Jim Collopy - $70,156
8. Paul Volpe - $52,760
9. Albert Shim - $40,374
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Event 88: $500 Online No-limit Hold'em 'Summer Saver'
Final table results:
1. Taylor 'Galactar' Paur - $149,241 (2)
2. Francois '4EverRekt' Evard - $91,268
3. Satish 'Jfksbh' Surapaneni - $65,251
4. John 'SquatCobbler' Parker - $47,181
5. Jason 'JadedJames' James - $34,550
6. David 'SobBaget' Liebeman - $25,598
7. Joseph 'Obamacare' Hanrahan - $19,241
8. Timothy 'Truthbetold7' Rutherford - $14,556
9. Brian 'Penny6' Mancilla - $11,210
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Event 89: $5,000 No-limit Hold'em
Final table results:
1. Carl Shaw - $606,562 (2)
2. Tony Dunst - $374,886
3. Luke Graham - $259,533
4. Jordan Cristos - $182,575
5. Lars Kamphues - $130,544
6. Phil Hellmuth - $94,899
7. Rami Mornel - $70,156
8. Caufman Talley - $52,760
9. Kevin Eyster - $40,374
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This month, via the social sharing platform Reddit, a poker dealer and former player started telling his story. However, this was no ordinary story. Over the past fortnight, Julius - not his real name - has started to reveal all about the illegal underground poker games in New York that he played or dealt in over the past fifteen years.
Feedback from the poker community has been overwhelmingly positive, with hundreds of poker players, dealers, and fans rushing to request more chapters. It’s the latest poker binge and we caught up with the creator.
“I was really nervous when I made the first post,” says Julius, clearly shocked by the popularity of his story-telling. ‘I thought I was going to get a ton of crap for it. I’d been browsing the sub-Reddit on poker for a while and looking through the content I couldn’t find anything that was remotely similar.”
'I’d been browsing the subreddit on poker for a while and looking through the content I couldn’t find anything that was remotely similar.'
Julius is, as you might expect, deeply entrenched in the poker world, and currently resides in Vegas; the ‘gambling capital of the world’. Having left New York some time ago, he feels like he has sufficient distance from the subject matter to tell all about working in underground poker rooms. The kind of places the creators of Rounders visited to research the 1998 movie.
“I work for a few different poker rooms in Vegas and the most common thing people ask me is ‘Where are you from?’ Eighty percent of the time, the next question is ‘Did you play poker in New York?’ When I tell that I played and dealt in underground clubs, they want me to tell them the crazy stories or if I saw cheating.”
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That’s how the Reddit story started. One night, Julius left his last table and got home fuelled with an impulse to write about when he first visited a poker club when he was a 16-year-old. The next thing he knew, it was three hours later, and he’d created the first chapter.
“I have no formal training in writing and I’m sure that’s evident. But I’ve always enjoyed being articulate in my life. I’ve never done anything even remotely similar to this. I have no idea where this came from.”
The impulse has taken him to eight chapters to date, with plenty more to come. The one-time computer programmer, who was born in California but then moved to the East Coast and New York, loved the perks in New York, and money was the root of it.
“I had a pretty good job at a software company but always dealt poker on the side at nights or weekends, because the money was fantastic, and it was cash.”
Julius became drawn into the poker world more and more. It came to a point where he was making a lot more money in the poker games than he was in his regular job.
“I was happier doing it. I love the game and the industry. It brings me a lot of joy.”
That joy runs right through his story, and despite having to change a few names and clubs (‘Out of respect and not to blow a spot’), Julius may have protected people’s names but he lays the tale out there as honestly as it comes. This is the truth of what dealing to poker players or playing poker underground is really like. Julius believes dealing has made him a better player, but that’s not something he thinks applies to everyone.
'I had a pretty good job at a software company but always dealt poker on the side at nights or weekends, because the money was fantastic, and it was cash.'
“My favorite book is the myth of poker talent by Alex Fitzgerald. The best players in the world put in the most time and work the hardest.”
As a dealer, Julius thinks he and his fellow dealers have the opportunity to pick up poker skills to pay the bills. It all comes down to that hard work element.
“We get to observe tens of thousands of hands on a daily basis eight hours a day. If you study the game and pay attention to the hands you’re dealing, you can learn quite a bit.”
Julius believes most dealers have an advantage - but only if they pay attention to players they deal to and embrace the study sign of the game. But he does... so why isn’t he the best poker player in the game?
“I have horrible bankroll management!” he says with a rueful laugh. “I used to play $5/$10 but the game has become extremely nitty. I’ll play $1/$3 in Vegas because it’s so easy. I get the itch for poker two or three times a week, but I deal every other day; I work seven days a week.”
Despite his obvious love for the game, Julius, now nearing 30 years old, has no desire to turn professional in poker. But he does love mixed games and says that mixing it up helped his No-Limit Hold’em game immensely. Some stories will come up in future chapters that explore that... along with police raids, crazy poker hands, and getting out of New York just as Julius’ luck was running out.
“Because I titled it ‘Inside Underground NY Poker’, I guess it’ll end when I made the move to Las Vegas. In my life, that was a new chapter for me, but I’m only up to 2007 right now, so I’ve got some time to go through before I leave.”
Now Vegas-based, Julius’s adventures have continued above board with a dealer’s license. He loves being in the gambling capital of the world. He made the decision to move to Vegas because he’d had enough of dealing underground illegally. It was only a matter of time before something bad happened in New York. But hey, if you’re reading his adventures, you’ll know that danger is on 5th Street waiting for him.
Read it yet? If not, you can find all the chapters right here. Here at PokerNews, we’re hooked.
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With Julius' permission, an excerpt of one of his stories. This bit comes from the opening post; Part 1.
“When you rang the bell, they’d ask you who you were, you’d tell them how and who invited you, and in a minute or two you’d be buzzed in through the first steel door. After entering, you’d come to a second steel door with another camera positioned in front, which only opened from the inside.
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'you’d come to a second steel door with another camera positioned in front, which only opened from the inside.'
When you finally entered the room, it was gorgeous — clean, large, comfortable, and was equipped with everything you wanted in a club. A full-sized kitchen, multiple clean bathrooms (one even had a shower), a lounge area, a high limit room, waitresses, a bunch of large flat screen TV’s, and a smoking room among other things. The first thing you’d notice was that they had 6 high-quality poker tables paired with executive chairs, not including the one in the high-limit room. This club was spacious.
As you walked in, a valet would ask for your keys and he would go fetch your vehicle and park it in an organized fashion amongst the others. You’d then make your way over to the podium and tell the floor which game you wanted to play — they usually had at least several games going — $1/$3, $2/$5, and $5/$10 NL and higher when it ran, but the much higher games were much more private.
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Strapped with $1,000 in cash on me, I request a seat in the $1/$3 game and eventually make my way onto the table. The max buy-in was $500, which I opted for because most stacks at the table were deep. It didn’t really matter anyway — this was my first time playing in an underground poker club and I was nervous as hell.”
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