VC Poker Cup 2005: The Draw

The draw for the VC Poker Cup 2005 has been made. I will be playing on Day 1: Monday 1st August.

A reduction in numbers from the original 124 planned to 96 confirmed means that there will be 12 tables of 8 now, with the semi final being 2 tables of 6. Players' table and seat allocation will be redrawn before the start of play on each day. Some names also in the Day 1 draw mix include Gus Hansen, David Benyamine, Rob Hollink, Scott Fischman, Jon Shoreman and Tony G.

Full draw will be posted below. Incomplete draw details:

DAY 1

Table 1: Rob Hollink, David Benyamine, Stuart Fox, Tino Lenchik Tony G....

Table 2: ....., ......, ......, ........, ........., ......., Robert Cooper and Steve Vladar

Table 3: ....., ......, Darrell "Gigabet" Dicken, ....., ......, Rolf Inge Kavik, DaMatrix and Jon Shoreman

Table 4: Scott Fischman, Gus Hansen, .....

DAY 2

TV Table: Marbella Kid, Sean Murphy, Tony Bloom, Teddy Sheringham,

Table 1: Tony Palester, Harry Demetriou, Michael Greco, Ben Roberts, ......, Brian Wilson.

Table 3: Bad Girl, David Colclough, John McCririck,....


Bad Girl

Table: Noah Boeken, Simon Trumper, ....., ....., Lee Nelson

DAY 3

TV Table: John Kabbaj, Devilfish, Ken Doherty, Garry Bush, ...., Andreas Hagen, ..... and ..

Table: Martin De Knijff, Jan Sjavik, Phillipa ....., Surinder Sunar, Marcel Luske, Mel Judah, .... and ......


Day 3 Table

Table: Kevin O'Leary, ....


Kevin O'Leary (centre)

Table: ........, Ken Lennaard, Victor Chander ...., Richard Holmes


Victor Chandler (wearing spectacles)


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VC Poker Cup 2005: Preview

The VC Poker Cup 2005 kicks off on the 1st of August. I played in last year's £5,000 Victor Poker Cup 2004 double shootout tournament after qualifying for just £5 in a VC Poker satellite on my first attempt. This year, I qualified for free after winning the Maxim King of Poker.

Information below is from the VC Poker Cup 2005 microsite (updated here after a decrease in runners):

Format
This years event will feature twelve qualifying tables of eight players, with the winner of each progressing to the second round. The second round will consist of two tables of 6, the final 3 players on each carrying forward their stack to the final table.

Schedule
1st August: Tables 1-4 played to a conclusion

2nd August: Tables 5-8 played to a conclusion

3rd August: Tables 9-12 played to a conclusion

4th August: 2 Semi Final tables of 6 players, top 3 go through.

5th August: Final table.

The start time of each days play will be mid-afternoon to allow for a pre-midnight finish.



Player numbers
96 players contested the 2005 VC Poker Cup.

Buy-in
The buy-in for the 2005 VC Poker Cup is £5,000 sterling. There are no entry fees or administrative charges.

The draw
Table and seat allocation for the qualifying stages will be made via a free, random draw prior to the event. The draw for the semi final tables will take place prior to play on the 4th August.

Payout structure (to be updated after reduction in participants)
In addition to the following anticipated cash prizes, the top three finishers in the 2005 VC Poker Cup will receive free entry to the 2006 event. This entry will be for a minimum value of £5,000.

1st £200,000
2nd £100,000
3rd £50,000
4th £35,000
5th £25,000
6th £16,000
7th £11,000
8th £11,000
9th £9,000
10th £9,000
11th £7,000
12th £7,000



Television Coverage:
The 2005 VC Poker Cup will be broadcast around the world to an audience of millions, building upon the success of last year's programme.

This year's tournament will be shown as a series of 7 x 1 hour programmes on a major UK satellite station this autumn. This ten-part format will allow for a greater amount of poker shown together with the use of interviews, talking heads and pen portraits to build player profile and support. Negotiations with a range of other international broadcasters are ongoing.

Two tables each night will be identified as featured tables, and will be filmed in their entirety. Other tables will be filmed by roving cameramen to capture key events.

The number of players at each table has also been reduced to eight to ensure that each player receives greater TV coverage.




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WSOP 2005 Results

1 Joseph Hachem $7,500,000

2 Steven Dannenmann $4,250,000

3 John Barch $2,500,000

4 Aaron Kanter $2,000,000

5 Andrew Black $1,750,000

6 Scott Lazar $1,500,000

7 Daniel Bergsdorf $1,300,000

8 Brad Kondracki $1,150,000

9 Mike Matusow $1,000,000

Full WSOP 2005 Event results: Hendon Mob Database: 36th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2005

Seeing Red

Went to the British Grand Prix yesterday. It was one hell of a hot day and 100,000 people had made it to Silverstone for a brilliant day of racing.



Up since 7am, after only having slept 5 hours, nearly 10 hours in the sun was almost too much for DaMatrix to handle if it wasn't for my PokerStars cap!



Returning from Silverstone sunburt, sore and sleepy - I was in perfect condition for some poker! Had been blinded off in the Bet365 Poker monthly $30k Freeroll but got back in time to play the 32Red Poker London 2012 Freeroll in which I finished 5th out of 429. Was chip leader with 6 left, but a bad beat against the second largest chip stack crippled me, otherwise a victory would have been a formality ;)

Paradise Poker: A - Z

The A-Z of Who's Who on Paradise Poker

Following my "A-Z of Who's Who on PokerStars" (newly updated!), here are some Paradise Poker players:

AlexisPayton - John Cook
cman69 - Sunny Camper
divingduck - Matthew Englander
GASBOY - Jack Eachus
Gorpos - Gordon Posner
Haligon - Josh Ewing
j_zman - Jason Zimmerman
jmljml - John McLaughlin
JOEYTHEB - Joseph Brooks
Jules5533 - Julian Jiggins
Len99 - Matt Lenton
money11b - Jason Ball
muchaka - Corey Cheresnick
Musky_Andy - Andy Goepfert
NSXT2 - Todd Arnold
omalley - Thomas Madsen
papamoon - Randy Barrett/Ronald Heater/Mehrdad Yousefzadeh
paushter - Evan Paushter
poker ho - Mark Kroon
Riddick18 - Johnathan Cuevas
Rockrigo - Paul Rodrigues
roundabout11 - Michael Finnigan
Shakhtoor2 - Samir Shakhtoor
slappybug - David Arnold
THE BORT - Robert Bortner

Pic of the Day

Luck of the Irish

Paddy Power Poker pissed me off today!

Opened an account a couple of days ago and I've had nothing but trouble since day one. First I couldn't enable a real money account - so I had to phone them up. Then I had to register new card and had to send a couple of emails before I could do that. The promo code that was due to expire that day had already lapsed. So anyway, I deposited a little whilst a waited for them to give out a new promo code. Played in my first MTT and finished 2nd. Lots of Irish players playing - no wonder I nearly won it ;)

Today, I decided to play some ring games to work off the bonus I managed to get. Everything was going all right; I was up, the bonus was almost unlocked and was looking forward to playing in a tournament later. Then, suddenly, I couldn't access the cashier!

So had to stop my session and figure out what was wrong. Got an email from them saying they couldn't verify my address so they froze my account. Great! It was only after several emails and hours later that, as I type this, they finally unfroze it.

In the meantime, I've been on tilt at other websites playing like a muppet on steroids with a craving for nicotine. I'll just have to finish off the wagering for the bonus and withdraw I guess - I've gone off the Irish.

I login to do just that but all my money has disappeared from my account! More emails...FFS! This BS is almost as bad as Virgin Poker. Here's the explanation they gave me a day later:

"On very rare occasions, money gets stuck in the network, and it has to manually unstuck."

They finally managed to sort it out and I got my money back. Went to the tables and tripled it in about one hour. Problem is that you have to wait about 3 days before you can withdraw any profit... grrrr!

If you're looking for somewhere simple to deposit your hard earned money head straight for Party Poker. Existing accounts are entiled to 20% reload bonus using BONUSJUL til Wednesday 6th of July. That's where Paddy's money is going.

Luck O' the Irish!

July Poker Car

Won $300k online this year?

Withdraw and buy the new Porsche Carrera 4S for £70,000. If I win the VC Poker Cup next month I might just get one! ;)


MSN Cars - First Drive: Porsche 911 Carrera 4S