Phil Laak has won his first WSOP bracelet in the opening event of the WSOPE, Laak has achieved almost everything in poker but was lacking a bracelet win. Phil Laak wins WSOPE event, he cashed more than £170,000 for his first place win in the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe event #1 in London beating Andrew Pantling who has chip leader for most of the tournament.

With his arm still in a cast from his recent ATV accident where he almost lost his eye and broke several bones, Laak has a new out look on life since his accident, his red mohawk is something he always wanted to have, he also plans to learn how to play blues on the piano.

Some might think the Unabomber hit his head really hard in the crash or he is going through a midlife crisis one thing is certain it sure has not affected his poker game.

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The PokerStars Big Game week 6 features Andre Capella as the loose cannon play High Stakes Poker cash games against UltimateBet Poker pro Phil Hellmuth, Team PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu, DoylesRoom Brunson 10 team player Dani Stern plus Eugene Katchalov and Prahlad Freidman.

The highly entertaining PokerStars TV show stakes a $100,000 to a loose cannon every week, to play against top poker pros.

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PokerStars The Big Game High Stakes Poker TV Show returns with Week 4 and the latest qualifying Loose Cannon Troy Howard is up against a tough field of Poker pros which include Barry Greenstein, Antonio Esfandiari, Chau Giang, David Peat and Rick Rahim. The Loose Cannon is staked $100k and must survive 150 hands after which any profit made is theirs to keep.

PokerStars are running daily tournaments where players can qualify as a Loose Cannon on The Big Game PokerStars TV Show.

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The WSOP 2010 November Nine is set in stone after a tiresome 5 hours and 45 minutes of play till Brandon Steven was eliminated in 10th place. Play will resume in November with the final table battling it out to determine the 2010 WSOP main event champion.

The WSOP 2010 ESPN TV schedule has been announced and you can watch the main event weekly episodes starting from 10 August 2010 leading up to the final table on 9th November.

The November Nine are Jonathan Duhamel, John Dolan, Joseph Cheong, John Racener, Matthew Jarvis, Filippo Candio, Michael Mizrachi, Soi Nguyen and Jason Senti.

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Phil Ivey wins his 8th WSOP bracelet in the Event #37  H.O.R.S.E. with a field of 478 players entered. Ivey lasted till the final table in which he started out as the short stack when the game changed to 7 Card Stud and then RAZZ he managed to control the table and increased his chips from 100k up to a million and then finally won the event heads-up against Bill Chen.

Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Ivey is now tied 5th with Erik Seidel in all time WSOP bracelet winners with Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson both having earned 10 bracelets and Phil Hellmuth who still leads with 11 World Series of Poker bracelets to his name.
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