Premier Tour Events

Join us for a night of poker
TUESDAY July 24th, 7pm at
DEACONS Dining & Draughts
1440 Jalna Blvd. (Exeter Rd &
Chalkstone, formerly the Carlow Arms).

Starting July 29th, CHEZ BRUNET
is adding a second night so we'll
be playing poker there every
Wednesday and Sunday.

More location announcements
coming soon !

Premier Poker Tour WINNER

Champion NEIL MILLSON July 18th

2nd Janice Meyer

3rd Mike McIntyre

4th Denzil Lewis

5th Justin Dymond

6th Ray Falconer

7th Gloria Millson

8th Lesli Gladstone

High Stakes Poker IV

One of my favourite shows is returning with
brand new episodes, and a big $ upgrade.

High Stakes Poker which airs on the
Game Show Network (GSN) will unveil
its new season August 27th at 9pm.

The first half of the season will have a
familiar look and feel, as players stake
$100k of their own money to play NLH.
Returning players include Doyle Brunson,
Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow, Jennifer
Harman, Barry Greenstein, Eli Elezra,
Phil Laak, Sammy Farha, and Todd Brunson.
Phil Hellmuth returns after a 2 season absense.

The real excitement begins in the last 7
episodes of season IV. Beginning with the
November 7th episode, High Stakes Poker
could be called 'Really High Stakes Poker',
as the minimum buy in grows to $500,000,
which means that there will be $5 million
in play as the cards fly.
The action on those $500k buy in
episodes is really fast. Rumour has it
that one guy gets stacked, and then almost
stacked again (after he reloaded) within a
span of about 20 minutes.

Needless to say, the person in question
was none too happy about it, and the
table were merciless in bringing the
needles out. It's all in fun, but with the
money so high with the new elevated
buy in, the tensions run kind of high
as well, and that makes for good television.

JERRY YANG WINS

I was tired, and I was only watching
it on tv from my couch !!

Nearly 16 hours after his dominating
final table performance began,
Jerry Yang from Temecula, CA
beat Tuan Lam from Canada to
capture the 2007 World Series of
Poker Main Event Championship.

Yang, who qualified for the Main Event
in a live $225 satellite at the Pechanga
casino, picked up the bracelet, a Corum
watch, and $8.25 million in prize money.

Tuan Lam played patiently and always
seemed to be card dead or waiting
for that one big opportunity to double
up through Yang. It will be interesting
to see the edited down version of the
final table and see if he really was
card dead or playing overly tight.

Canadian WSOP ME Champ ?

Wont be Daniel...or Gavin Smith
or any of the other big name Canucks.
How about TUAN LAM

Keep an eye on Seat 6:

TUAN LAM
Hometown: Mississauga, ON
Online Name: BABYHAN
Chip Count: 21,315,000 (2nd in chips)
Tuan Lam was born in Vietnam on
New Years Day in 1966, during the war.
He eventually immigrated to Canada
at the age of 19. He now lives in the
Toronto area where he plays online
poker professionally. Prior to turning pro,
Lam worked as a general laborer for
a metal company. Then, he learned
how to play poker from friends and
became a professional dealer.
This is his third year to attend the WSOP.
His prior cashes were 46th place in
an event last year and 78th place in a
WSOP tournament held in 2005.
He also earned 2nd in the 2005
PokerStars WCOP 6-handed NL
tournament for a cool $55,000.
He is married with two children.

WSOP ME Final Table

6,358 players started the WSOP
Main Event on July 6th.
Nine days later, 36 players remained
in the field. Sunday's Day 6 required a
grueling 16 hours of play to get from the
36 players down to a final nine, finally
reached when Scotty Nguyen (out 11th)and
Steven Garfinkle (out 10th) exited at the end
of play. Players starting Day Six were
guaranteed a minimum of $285,678.

Here are the seating assignments and
chip counts for Tuesday's final table:
Seat 1: Jon Kalmar – 20,320,000
Seat 2: Lee Childs – 13,240,000
Seat 3: Philip Hilm – 22,070,000
Seat 4: Jerry Yang – 8,450,000
Seat 5: Raymond Rahme – 16,320,000
Seat 6: Tuan Lam – 21,315,000
Seat 7: Alex Kravchenko – 6,570,000
Seat 8: Lee Watkinson – 9,925,000
Seat 9: Hevad Khan – 9,205,000

Looks like it could be a real
exciting final table with no
landslide chip leader.


I think that the blinds will start at
$100,000/$200,000 with an $30,000 ante
...so the short stacks will have about
50 big blinds to work with starting out.


And here's what they're playing for:
1st: $8,250,000
2nd: $4,840,981
3rd: $3,048,025
4th: $1,852,721
5th: $1,255,069
6th: $956,243
7th: $705,229
8th: $585,934
9th: $525,934

Total Prize Pool: $59,784,954

WSOP Day 5

Looks like my predictions are the
KISS OF DEATH...hahaha.

Down to only 36 players going into
day number six. A few well known
pro's are still left including
Scotty Nyguyen, Daniel Alaei,
and Lee Watkinson.

Hevad "Rain" Khan has been a poker
assassin for the last five days
repeatedly knocking out the big
named pro's at his table...
someone to keep an eye for.

(Table 2)
Seat 1: Daniel Alaei 1,995,800
Seat 2: David Tran 10,280,000
Seat 3: Ray Henson 8,250,000
Seat 4: Philip Hilm 9,950,000
Seat 5: Lee Watkinson 3,500,000
Seat 6: Bob Slezak 2,115,000
Seat 7: Jason Welch 2,115,000
Seat 8: Jeff Bryan 2,100,000
Seat 9: Ryan Elson 1,785,000

(Table 3)
Seat 1: Steven Garfinkle 2,115,000
Seat 2: Peter Darvill 2,430,000
Seat 3: Robin Bergren 520,000
Seat 4: Hevad Khan 7,585,000
Seat 5: Allan King 1,000,000
Seat 6: Mikkel Madsen 2,080,000
Seat 7: Roy Winston 1,071,000
Seat 8: Paulo Loureiro 1,645,000
Seat 9: Kevin Kim 610,000

(Table 4)
Seat 1: Jason Koshi 1,175,000
Seat 2: Lee Childs 6,520,000
Seat 3: Jon Kalmar 2,665,000
Seat 4: Stefan Mattsson 3,260,000
Seat 5: Christian Togsverd 2,030,000
Seat 6: Jerry Yang 5,090,000
Seat 7: Kenny Tran 4,955,000
Seat 8: Tuan Lam 3,600,000
Seat 9: Hoa Nguyen 2,205,000


(Table 5)
Seat 1: Ron Kluber 3,070,000
Seat 2: William Spadea 4,575,000
Seat 3: Bill Edler 2,680,000
Seat 4: John Armbrust 2,600,000
Seat 5: Scott Freeman 7,360,000
Seat 6: Kevin Farry 7,400,000
Seat 7: Scotty Nguyen 1,960,000
Seat 8: Alex Kravchenko 1,555,000
Seat 9: Raymond Rahme 3,100,000