Edward Sabat winner of APPT 2 Macau 2008
Saturday, September 6th, 2008 | Tournaments | No Comments
Edward Sabat won the final table of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) 2 Macau 2008. At the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino in Macau he defeated Charles Chua in the heads-up with K♦ J♦ against Q♠ 3♣. The flop was Q♦ 6♦ 6♣. The Turn was A♣ and the river 2♦, so his king high flush beated the two pair of Charles Chua.
Edward Sabat is a american poker player from Lancaster, California. He is not a unknown person in the poker scene since he won the $5,000 buy-in Main Event of a World Series of Poker Circuit Event for over $70,000.
Here are the results and the payouts of the final table:
| Position | Name | Country | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edward Sabat | USA | $453.851,28 |
| 2 | Charles Chua | Malaysia | $291.761,54 |
| 3 | Diwei Huang | Singapore | $153.984,62 |
| 4 | Mikael Rosen | Sweden | $108.600,00 |
| 5 | Jeppe Drivsholm | Denmark | $81.044,87 |
| 6 | Kuok Wai Will Cheong | Macau | $56.730,77 |
| 7 | Tian Chen | USA | $42.143,59 |
| 8 | Javed Abrahams | UK | $30.797,44 |
| 9 | So Myung Sim | South Korea | $22.692,31 |
The former chipleader André HoRRoR Wagner ended up on 28th place with $8.104. The next APPT poker event takes place on September 26-28, 2008 in Seoul (Korea).
WCOOP 2008: $30.000.000 guaranteed
Friday, September 5th, 2008 | Tournaments | No Comments
The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is an online poker tournament series sponsored by PokerStars. This year PokerStars guarantees an overall prize pool of $30.000.000. There are 33 different events in total, covering a wide range of poker variants, including Hold’em, Stud, Razz, Omaha, HORSE, 2-7 Draw and 8-Game-Mixed.
In addition to the guaranteed prize, the winner of a WCOOP event receives a 14 karat gold bracelet.
Here is the schedule of the 2008 WCOOP:
| Event No. | Date | Buy-In | Event | Guaranteed prize pool |
| 1 | Sep 5 | $215 | NL Hold’em [6-max] | $1.000.000 |
| 2 | Sep 5 | $215 | PL 5-Card Draw | $100.000 |
| 3 | Sep 6 | $215 | Limit Hold’em | $300.000 |
| 4 | Sep 6 | $215 | 2-7 Triple Draw | $100.000 |
| 5 | Sep 7 | $10.300 | High-Roller NL Hold’em | $2.000000 |
| 6 | Sep 7 | $530 | NL Hold’em | $3.000.000 |
| 7 | Sep 8 | $215 | PL Omaha [6-max] | $300.000 |
| 8 | Sep 8 | $320 | 8-game Mixed Event | $200.000 |
| 9 | Sep 9 | $215 | NL Hold’em [4-max] | $400.000 |
| 10 | Sep 9 | $215 | Razz | $100.000 |
| 11 | Sep 10 | $320 | PL Omaha Hi/Lo | $300.000 |
| 12 | Sep 10 | $320 | Mixed Hold’em [6-max] | $300.000 |
| 13 | Sep 11 | $215 | NL Hold’em w/Rebuys | $1.000.000 |
| 14 | Sep 11 | $320 | 7-Card Stud | $100.000 |
| 15 | Sep 12 | $320 | NL Hold’em [Heads-Up] | $500.000 |
| 16 | Sep 12 | $215 | PL Omaha [1R1A] | $300.000 |
| 17 | Sep 13 | $530 | PL Hold’em [6-max] | $400.000 |
| 18 | Sep 13 | $215 | HORSE | $300.000 |
| 19 | Sep 14 | $25.500 | High-Roller HU NL Hold’em | $1.600.000 |
| 20 | Sep 14 | $1.050 | NL Hold’em | $3.000.000 |
| 21 | Sep 15 | $530 | 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo | $200.000 |
| 22 | Sep 15 | $530 | Mixed Omaha Hi/Lo [6-max] | $200.000 |
| 23 | Sep 16 | $530 | NL Hold’em [1R1A] | $500.000 |
| 24 | Sep 16 | $530 | NL 2-7 Single Draw | $200.000 |
| 25 | Sep 17 | $320 | PL Omaha w/rebuys | $500.000 |
| 26 | Sep 17 | $320 | NL Hold’em [6-max] | $500.000 |
| 27 | Sep 18 | $530 | NL Hold’em Triple Shootout | $300.000 |
| 28 | Sep 18 | $530 | Limit Omaha Hi/Lo | $400.000 |
| 29 | Sep 19 | $530 | NLHE w/Rebuys [6-max] | $400.000 |
| 30 | Sep 19 | $1.050 | PL Omaha | $500.000 |
| 31 | Sep 20 | $1.050 | Limit Hold’em [6-max] | $500.000 |
| 32 | Sep 20 | $10.300 | HORSE | $500.000 |
| 33 | Sep 21 | $5.200 | NL Hold’em Main Event | $10.000.000 |
APPT Macau: André Wagner still chipleader
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 | Tournaments | 1 Comment
After day 1c of the APPT Macau Main Event André Wagner is still the chipleader with 109.700 chips. Overall 538 players played at the three starting days. 208 of them will return at day 2, including the Team-PokerStars-Pros Isabelle Mercier (8.200 chips), Lee Nelson (29.900 chips) and Joe Hachem (5.500 chips).
Here the top 20 chipcounts after the three starting days:
| Name | Country | Chipcount |
| Andre Wagner | Germany | 109.700 |
| Mark Walsh | Ireland | 95.000 |
| David Paul Steicke | Hong Kong | 87.700 |
| Quinn Do | Korea | 83.600 |
| Kofi Farkye | USA | 78.700 |
| Dennis Waterman | USA | 75.800 |
| Daisy Cupino Wain | USA | 70.100 |
| Ole Johan Steinvik | Norway | 68.900 |
| Tian Chen | China | 62.500 |
| Steven Djingga | Indonesia | 62.400 |
| Kevin Macphee | USA | 61.900 |
| Kenneth Hicks | 60.100 | |
| Steffan Van Khoa Da | Denmark | 59.300 |
| Yongseok Choi | Korea | 56.600 |
| Andrew Pantling | Canada | 54.800 |
| Jeppe Drivsholm | Denmark | 54.800 |
| Bill Copeland | USA | 54.600 |
| Guray Turkay | Turkey | 54.300 |
| Mikael Rosen | Sweden | 54.000 |
| Xinzheng Xu | China | 52.800 |
A different kind of congratulation: F*cking Erick Lindgren
Monday, September 1st, 2008 | Miscellaneous | No Comments
In July Erick Lindgren was named WSOP player of the year 2008. The other poker pros congratulate him on a special way. Daniel Negreanu, Forrest Griffin, Phil Hellmuth, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Jason Alexander, Annie Duke, Patrik Antonius, Gavin Smith, Barry Greenstein, Joe Sebok and TJ Cookie made a videofilm named “F*cking Erick Lindgren” to honor him.
Have fun with the video!!
APPT Macau: André Wagner chipleader
Monday, September 1st, 2008 | Tournaments | No Comments
After day 1a of the APPT Macau, the german André “HoRRoR ” Wagner is the chipleader. He elimates Anthony Rivera in the last played hand of the day. André Wagner was holding pocket tens and Anthony Rivera A♠ K♣ going all in. André Wager called and get his set on a 8♠ 10♣ 6♥ flop. The turn was J♦ making Anthony Rivera a straight draw. But the expected queen didn’t come and therefore with the 6♣ Andrè Wagner get his full house and take the lead with 109.700 chips followed by Kofi Farkye with 78.700 chips and Daisy Cupino Wain with 70.100 chips.
Here the top ten chipcounts after day 1a:
| Name | Country | Chipcount |
| Andre Wagner | Germany | 109.700 |
| Kofi Farkye | USA | 78.700 |
| Daisy Cupino Wain | USA | 70.100 |
| Steven Djingga | Indonesia | 62.400 |
| Guray Turkay | Turkey | 54.300 |
| Xinzheng Xu | China | 52.800 |
| Yadong Liu | China | 51.500 |
| Tyrone Kerrigan | Great Britain | 49.400 |
| Chong Yiu Charles Lam | Hong Kong | 41.000 |
| Yinh Chieh Chen | 40.700 |
Poker Variant Badugi new at pokerstars.com
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | Poker rooms | 1 Comment
Badugi is a draw poker variant similar to triple draw, But instead of five cards the hands contain only four cards. There are three drawing rounds, where every player can trade zero to four cards from his hand.
The hand ranking of badugi differs a little bit from the “normal poker”. At the showdown certain cards must be removed to construct a one, two, three or four card badugi hand. All Players must discard one of any two suited cards and one of any paired cards from the four hole cards. A badugi hand with more cards beats a hand with fewer cards, e.g a three card badugi hand beats a two card badugi hand,
If two badugi hands containing the same number of cards the hand, the hand with the lower card is superior. As in lowball the ace is the lowest card. Therefore the badugi hand A 2 3 4 5 rainbow is the best possible hand.
You can find the poker variant badugi in the PokerStars-Software in the tab “Other Games”. Until now there is only an announcement that badugi is coming soon.
Poker Tracker 3 Review
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 | Poker software | 3 Comments
Finding your online card room and game of choice has never been easier than it is today. You can easily open an account and practice your cash game or play a tournament. But if you want to make money with online-poker you have to analyze your play and the play of your opponents. Most online card rooms offer the option of keeping hand histories stored on your hard drive, allowing you to analyze and improve your play. To analyze your play manually is very time-consuming and difficult. The easier way is to use an analyzing software.
One of the most popular analyzing software is Poker Tracker 3. Before you can begin you have to import your hand history files. There are two ways to do this:
- Poker Tracker can import your hand history files directly off your hard drive as you play
- For poker-sites that can’t be imported directly you can manually import them in the Poker Tracker database from hand history files you request by e-mail from the site.
You can automaticly import hand histories from PartyPoker, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Everest Poker
You can view how loose, aggressive or tight you’ve been playing and keep track of how much money you’ve won. All of this information can also be broken down by individual session, individual month or day allowing you to find times when you’ve played particularly well or made big mistakes that cost you a lot of money. You also can analyzing your positional statistics. Do you fold your blinds too often to steal attempts or are you playing to many hands? You can easily find out these things with Poker Tracker.
You can also track how often you hit different poker hands and how often they are the winning hand, giving you a wider knowledge of how the game works if you’re just getting started with poker. If you have a question about any facet of your game, Poker Tracker can help you answer it.
One of the most useful functions of Poker Tracker is its ability to track your opponents’ play and show the statistics in realtime as a HUD-overlay at the table. Every player who ever sits at your table will tracked and stored in your Poker Tracker database, with all the same information available to you that you have on your own play. Poker Tracker will identify the maniacs, the bullys, the sharks, the calling stations, the rocks and the fish for you. You can individually choose which statistics will be displayed.
A fully functional 30-days trial-version of Poker Tracker is available at the official homepage. If you decide that the program is useful enough to you, the registration fee to unlock Poker Tracker is only $89.99.
At the beginning there where few problems with the HUD-Display and the hand history import, but in the latest release this problems are nearly resolved. The tool will be continually being updated. So, buying Poker Tracker will help you fixing leaks in your bankroll and as times goes by will help you to grow your bankroll and play higher limits.
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