WHUPC: The Draw

May 16 - 24, May 2005

Hello all from Barcelona! Updating you from Hotel Marina. Later today is the draw for the heads up tournament.

Last night I checked out the Casino Barcelona where the Party Poker WHUP Championship will be held. The first person I met there was Rolf "Ace" Slotboom, I introduced myself and we chatted for a bit. There were a few games of poker going on; some 20/40 LHE and 5/10 PLO. The Omaha game seemed the most interesting as there were some people playing really trash hands - but what do I know? Omaha high isn't really my game - yet! ;)

A couple of TV screens were showing re-runs from last year's WHUPC. I have to say that it looks easier on the telly than it really is. Having said that, I believe that even someone who loses in Round 1 would have had a significant chance to win in the final. Luck plays an important in heads-up - whether it is getting good cards, hitting flops or drawing out. It's the deciding factor between 2 opponents of similar skill.



128 Players, 4 brackets, 7 Rounds, the draw for the Championship:

BRACKET 1:

Angel Blanco v Jonathan Sullivan

Ivo Donev v Carlos Lopez

Pascal Perrault v Rumit Somaya

Roy Brindley v Luke Smith

Carlos Muntan v Xuyen Pham

Dave Ulliott v Alex Leviev

Boudet Patrice v Stephen Pearce

Carlo Citrone v Daniel Larsson

Luca Pagano v Albert Ashamn

Charles Mailhot v Simon Trumper

Martin Cedercrantz v Jean Postmus

Ross Boatman v Ram Vaswani

Peter Gunnardon v Frank Blumlein

Paul Hersleth v Tom Brady

John Kabbaj v Marco Monica

Mickey Wernick V Michael Hewitt

BRACKET 2:

Mark Bannin v Dave Colclough

Paul Zimber v Noah Boeken

Josep Talens v Bruce Atkinson

Juan Sastre v Makus Lehman

Raul Paez Corral v Ben Battle

Alexander Kravchenko v Vladimir Troyanovsky

Willie Tan v John Huckle

Phil Shaw v Barny Boatman

Woody Deck v Sargon Ruya

Mark Bartlog v Richardo Gryco

Jim Britton v Pouya Majd

Colin Gerrard v Jamie Sharrat

Nicu Simcelescu v Manuel Garcia

Dan Simcelescu v Dave Gardner

Mathias Wilkens v Henry Bull

Andreas Hagan v Peter Troejborg

BRACKET3:

Rob Hollink v Derek Baxter

David Slowik v Daniel Steine

David Leigh v DaMatrix

Rino Mathis v Jeff Kimbler

Paul King v Hans Eskilsson

Gary Collins v Ben Grundy

Chris Sokrati v Michael Keiner

Sean MacMahon v Jac Arama

Christian Engblom v Peter Eichardt

Isabelle Mercier v Steve Vladar

Brian Benedon v Frej Rutenskold

Howard Plant v Bengt Sonnert

Santiago Terrazas v Chen Guosen

Padraig Parkinson v Joe Beevers

John Falconer v Kevin O'Connel

Anthony Lelouche v Romain Feriolo

BRACKET4:

Bruno Fitoussi v Santiago Planas

Jin Cai Lin v Erik Forsberg

Cui Guogun v John Cunningham

Gary Chatterton v Ali Osman

Peter Abela v Rosa Massimiliano

Julian Thew v Per-Werner Svenson

Jatinder Singh v Paul Gamhart

Robert Binelli v David Mahmood

Jim Goodwin v Mark MacMahon

Zhang Luzhe v Chris Evans

Bill Edler v Michael Thuretz

Paul Jackson v Maurice O'Connor

Lothar Landauer v Mattias Backstrom

Simon Nowab v Khayam Ezzat

Mark Foster v Kate Szeremeta

Rory Liffey v Andrew Kinsmann




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