Poker news tagged with 'vitaly lunkin'

On Saturday, Fabrice Soulier laid hands on the €10,300 High Roller at EPT Vienna (Austria) title and 392,900 Euro in prize money. The Frenchman, who has been a regular on the EPT since Season 1 and has over $5m in tournament earnings, was overwhelmed by the win even though it wasn't in his top three cashes.

"It really means a lot," Soulier told PokerStars blog. "I am getting so emotional. When I arrived in Vienna, I thought something was great here...Now I am one of the lucky ones with a title."

Read more » EPT Vienna: Fabrice Soulier Wins The High Roller (€392,900)

After that Erik "Erik123" Sagström got kicked out on a third place, it came to be a very long heads-up between David Bach and John Hanson. But after many hours of playing it came to be David Bach who took down the tournament. For the win he received the first prize of $1,276,802 and a gold bracelet. But that's not all, he also received the Chip Reese Trophy - something that is almost more invaluable than a bracelet.

Read more » WSOP H.O.R.S.E: David Bach takes home the tournament

In the lead of Event #49 - H.O.R.S.E we find no one less than the Swedish poker pro Erik "Erik123" Sagström with over three and a half million chips. There are now only 8 players left who will play tomorrow's televised final table, a final table which includes some of the best players in the world at H.O.R.S.E.

Read more » WSOP Event #49 H.O.R.S.E: Swedish poker pro Erik "Erik123" Sagström in the lead

WSOP 2009 started on the 26th of May and has now been going on for 30 days. Lots of tournaments and cash games have been played day as night during this time and hundreds/millions of dollars has been won by pros and non pros. But who's has been the most successful poker player so far in WSOP 2009? And who has won the most money?

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The Omaha Pot-Limit event in 2009's World Series of Poker attracted not less than 295 players who paid the buy-in of $10,000. Matt Graham came to be the last man standing after knocking out Vitaly Lunkin. For the win Graham received $679,379 and a well deserved WSOP bracelet.

Read more » WSOP: Matt Graham wins the Omaha Pot-Limit event

After 3 hours of heads-up play Vitaly Lunkin from Russia managed to beat Isaac Haxton and take down the epic $40K buy in Event #4.

This is the second WSOP bracelet that Lunkin have won. The first prize in this tournament was $1.891.012.Read more » WSOP Event #2 Recap

Vitaly Lunkin won RPT (Russian Poker Tour) in Moscow after surviving a starting field of 206 players. It wasn't an easy fight for Vitaly when he finally made it to the final table, because there he had to face players like Alexander Kravchenko and Ivan Demidov in the battle of the first prize close to half a million dollars.

Read more » Russian Poker Tour: The winner is Vitaly Lunkin