Poker news tagged with 'toby lewis'

The 23rd edition of Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) concluded over the weekend after 38 events had been played over 2 weeks. Here's a brief recap on the most prestigous events...

The two-day $2,100 No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry concluded on Sunday with Toby "sexystuff1989" Lewis (picture) defeating Clark "Snake8484" Hamagami, who won PokerStars Million last week, after a heads-up deal. Lewis, who has one European Poker Tour title and $2.6m in live tournament cashes, received $253,063 and his first FTOPS jersey and Hamagami received $223,141 for his second place finish.

Read more » FTOPS XXII: Toby Lewis Wins Event #35!

Day 5 of the World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic saw 18 players return to play. Toby Lewis (2010 EPT Vilamoura Main Event Champion) was the chip leader with 1.8 million and his closets opponents were Paul Klann (1,581,000) and Paul "Paulgees81" Volpe (1,581,000).

Read more » WPT LA Poker Classic: Time For The Final Table

Day 4 of the World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic saw several big names hit the rail, including all 7 Champions Club members: Scott Clements (30th place), Joe Hachem (33rd place), Scott Seiver (52nd place), Phil Laak (54th place), Carlos Mortensen (55th place), John Hennigan (56 place) and recent bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble winner Noah Schwartz (19th place).

Read more » WPT LA Poker Classic: EPT Champ Toby Lewis Leads Final 18

Day 4 of the World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic saw several big names hit the rail, including all 7 Champions Club members: Scott Clements (30th place), Joe Hachem (33rd place), Scott Seiver (52nd place), Phil Laak (54th place), Carlos Mortensen (55th place), John Hennigan (56 place) and recent bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble winner Noah Schwartz (19th place).

Read more » WPT LA Poker Classic: EPT Champ Toby Lewis Leads Final 18

It ended up being Martin Jacobsen (second last in chips when the final table begun but was big chip leader during Day 4 - 441,000) from Sweden and Toby Lewis (chip leader when the final table started - 3,322,000) from UK who were the last 2 men standing on the EPT Vilamoura Final table. Even though Lewis had a big chip lead when they started playing the heads-up, Jabobsen still managed to fight back and brought things back to square after some time. However, when both players had quite equal stacks, it all came to an end after this hand...

Read more » EPT Vilamoura: Toby Lewis takes home the first place prize of €467,835

Ladies and gents, we're only one and a half hour away from the EPT Vilamoura Main Event final table. 384 players who entered the tournament about 5 days ago have became 8. Now these 8 players are about to battle for the first place prize of €467,835.

The swede Martin Jacobson, who had a big chip lead yesterday, has lost most of his chips and is now short stacked compared to 6 of the other finalists. Toby Lewis and Sam Trickett played fantastic poker during Day 4 of the tournament and and they will bring monster stacks with them to the final table today.

Here are the 8 finalists:
Seat 1. Teddy Sheringham - 1,783,000

Seat 2. Toby Lewis - 3,322,000
Seat 3. Martin Jacobson - 441,000

Seat 4. Jason Lee - 1,167,000

Seat 5. Sergio Coutinho - 872,000
Seat 6. Sam Trickett - 3,318,000
Seat 7. Rob Hollink - 259,000

Seat 8. Frederick Jensen - 375,000