The third day at the World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic came to a close with 60 players and Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari as the chip leader (918,500). Esfandiari won this tournament 2 years ago and finished 6th last year. Now he has about 300k chips more than his closest opponent, Freddy Deeb, and more than 3 times the average stack. In other words, he has a fantastic chance of[...] Read more » WPT: "The Magician" Leads the Final 60 At Bellagio
It is pity, this big tournament is in same time as Prague one. It could be super interesting, when the players from both tournaments play togaher. Anyway, The Magican showed us agine, why is he The Magican.
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"The Magician"’s curricula must already be scaring some of his closest opponents, who know what he’s capable of. It won’t be easy to win him. And, even if some other player gets to the lead, as it would be normal considering there are still 60 with chips and winning to one or two can be enough to take that lead, what matters is when they get to the final table and then to the final HU. That’s where champions born, or reborn...
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i think magician will run out of aces in his sleeves his biggest win came in "the drop" or whatever that was called, other that that he doesn't seem to be very good at taking top spot, yes he is solid enough player to make it to the money, maybe even the last table, but usually he doesn't win, so i guess it would be a good lay bet to win the tourney
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In the main event Antonio Esfandiari is still on course to make the final table in this event for the third time in a row, as he held onto his day 3 chip lead on day 4 and was the first player over the million mark. 22 players remain in the main event and they will be playing down to a final table of six tonight. st Antonio Esfandiari 1,597,000 2nd Shawn Buchanan 1,290,000 3rd Thomas Winters 1,250,000 4th Andrew Lichtenberger 1,107,000 5th Arthur Morris 863,000 6th Jeremy Kottler851,000 7th Jonathan Aguiar 732,000 8th Yevgeniy Timoshenko 716,000 9th Ravi Raghavan 693,000 10th Noah Schwartz 656,000...
- Theo Tran 656,000 - Scott Clements 570,000 - Freddy Deeb 557,000 - Greg Mueller 459,000 - Andrew Robl 429,000 - Brian Rast 385,000 - Jeremy Ausmus 346,000 - Jason Somerville 252,000
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I remember him from some poker TV show (something like biggame) but I didnt know his name. I think he also commenting some big events for TV.. So Antonio Esfandiari good to know Definitively I will watch final table
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US player Ravi Raghavan overcomes a short stack and a star-studded final table to win the $1.2 million prize.Raghavan had been among the top chip stacks for the entire tournament and overcame one of the strongest fields ever assembled in a WPT event. He eliminated long-time chip leader Antonio Esfandiari in 4th place before eventually defeating Shawn Buchanan heads-up for the title
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I watched it but only few hands, because it started 1:30AM central european time Esfandiari was still chipleader with almost 5 000 000 chips when I switched it off.. too bad he finished 4th when he was chipleader all tournament long..
his biggest win came in "the drop" or whatever that was called, other that that he doesn't seem to be very good at taking top spot, yes he is solid enough player to make it to the money, maybe even the last table, but usually he doesn't win, so i guess it would be a good lay bet to win the tourney
Definitively I will watch final table
